Carousel returns to the Society of Illustrators with a special comics show in conjunction with the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Readings of graphic novels, cartoons, and comics as performed by the writers and artists, with projections. Followed by a book signing.
Featuring:
Ngozi Nwadiogbu
Hosted by R. Sikoryak
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
Monday, Sept. 15 at 7 pm – 9 pm
Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065
$15 general, $12 members, $10 seniors/students
Tickets and details: https://societyillustrators.org/event/carousel-comics-performances/
Bios:
Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY since 1997. He is the co-founder and co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for over four decades and has produced over two dozen books. His latest graphic novels are Insectopolis: A Natural History and Wish We Weren’t Here. Peter teaches cartooning at Harvard University.
Jesse Mechanic is a columnist, essayist, and artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. His work has been published in Mother Jones, In These Times, Huff Post, Truthout, World Post, and The Overgrown, among other publications, and he is author of The Last Time We Spoke (Street Noise Books). Jesse has amassed a large social media following for his in-depth coverage of human rights abuses and systemic inequality (find him at @jessemechanic). He enjoys woodworking, the television show Cheers, and working diligently to dismantle the inequitable, violent, and oppressive systems that define our world. He is also a firm believer that one cannot own “too many records.”
Jamie Mustard is a conceptual artist, artistic director, culturist and writer. He has written extensively about art, imagery and the messaging of ideas. His prose memoir,Child X, was released at the end of July 2025 to critical acclaim. And Jamie’s first graphic novel, HYBRED, which is set in a sci-fi version of the Los Angeles of his youth, where he grew up in severe poverty and illiteracy, will be published by Street Noise in November. This future adjacent world was written, conceived and art directed by Jamie, with images drawn and colored in a little stone town in Southern Italy by artist Francesca Filomena.
Ngozi Nwadiogbu is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and painter exploring questions of memory, grief, digital identity, and spectrality, as ghosts often appear in her work. She graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in cinema studies in 2019. Since then, she has collaborated with several storytelling teams, helping to develop and distribute award-winning projects for organizations such as Cinereach, GKIDS, and Nuotama Bodomo’s hybrid studio, Mothertongue. Her solo work has been published online in Interview Magazine, Immerse, L’Officiel USA, and elsewhere. Her new book is Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel. This foray into Ella Fitzgerald’s historic and influential life marks her official print publishing debut.
K. Wroten is an illustrator and comics artist. They are the author of Cannonball (2019), Eden II (2023), Everyone Sux but You (2025), and many more. Their work has received several honors and awards, including a Lambda Award for Best Graphic Novel, an Ignatz nomination, a SOI Silver Medal, and an Eisner nomination for Best Graphic Album. Their work has also appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Their latest projects are a tarot deck coming out next year through Llewellyn and a new graphic novel slated for publication from Fantagraphics in 2027. They live in Brooklyn, NY, with their cat Mot.
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