Art and music collective Uninhabitable Mansions will be among the more than fifty exhibitors at Brooklyn festival
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
275 North Eighth St.
Saturday, December 4, free, 12 noon – 9:00 pm
www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com
A mere month after KingCon II, Brooklyn continues its growing love affair with comic books and graphic novels at the second annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, which will take place on December 4 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg, an all-day free event featuring an exciting lineup of exhibitors, panels, and more. Organized and curated by Desert Island, PictureBox, and Bill Kartalopolous, the festival includes such guests as Kate Beaton, Jordan Crane, Jillian Tamaki, Adrian Tomine, and Gabrielle Bell and such exhibitors as Drawn & Quarterly, Uninhabited Mansions, the Jack Kirby Museum, Koyama Press, Doug Allen, and Rabid Rabbit, among many others. The festival has a great lineup of programs, beginning at 1:00 with “Lynda Barry and Charles Burns in Conversation,” followed by “The Art of Editing” with Françoise Mouly and Sammy Harkham (2:00), “Taking Inventory: The Story of Things” with Renée French, James McShane, Jungyeon Roh, and Leanne Shapton (3:00), “Irwin Hasen: When Comic Books Were New” with Irwin Hasen, Evan Dorkin, and Paul Pope (4:00), a Q&A with the great Anders Nilsen (5:00), “How Nancy Is: The Semiotics of the Gag” with Bill Griffith, Mark Newgarden, and Johnny Ryan (6:00), and “Chaos and Pattern” with Brian Chippendale, Jordan Crane, Keith Jones, and Mark Alan Stamaty (7:00). Festival cofounder Kartalopolous will moderate all discussions except for the Irwin Hasen panel, which will be moderated by Dan Nadel.