Event: Marcellus Hall

Thursday, May 24th at 7pm

At

Brickbat Books:

Marcellus Hall

Music & Book Signing

Musician and New Yorker illustrator Marcellus Hall debuts his graphic novel, Kaleidoscope City, with music, q&a, slideshow & books!

Event: Anna McGlynn & Hannah Kaplan Comic Book Release Party

Saturday, April 7th at 7pm

at

Brickbat Books:

Anna McGlynn & Hannah Kaplan

Join Anna McGlynn and Hannah Kaplan for a reading of new comics they wrote together, but separately. Comics and zines for sale! Food and drink served!

Event: Koyama Press: Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle and Noel Freibert Book Signing

Wednesday September 20th at 7pm

at

Brickbat Books: 

A Koyama Press Book Signing

with

Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle and Noel Freibert 

 

CONNOR WILLUMSEN: ANTI-GONE

 

Join an oneiric odyssey through a slacker second life.

Reality’s grip is loosened as Spyda and Lynxa explore a potentially constructed environment that shifts between dystopic future and constructed virtual present. Like a form of multistable perceptual phenomena, Anti-Gone exists in ambiguity.

CONNOR WILLUMSEN is a Montreal-based artist originally from Calgary, AB, where he received a design degree at The Alberta College of Art. He began making comics while attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Since then, he has drawn stories for Marvel, DC and Dynamite and illustrated the covers for Criterion editions of David Cronenberg’s Scanners and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. He has self-published a number of zines and comics and Breakdown Press published volumes one and two of his book Treasure Island in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

PATRICK KYLE: EVERYWHERE DISAPPEARED

Collecting a cornucopia of short comics by one of the medium’s most inventive artists.

A keen observer of the absurd, Patrick Kyle’s stories defamiliarize the machinations of life, work and art with droll dialogue and his angular, humanely geometric drawing and sci-fi settings that recall set design more than satellite images. Kyle’s figures may be foreign, his settings strange, but his stories resonate deeply.

PATRICK KYLE lives and works in Toronto, ON. He is the author of the graphic novels Black Mass (2012), Distance Mover (2014) and Don't Come In Here (2016). At the 2016 Doug Wright Awards, he won the Pigskin Peters Award for New Comics #6 and 7.

NOEL FREIBERT : OLD GROUND

Sam Beckett and Sam Raimi intersect in an outsider art graveyard.

A cemetery so old that the names on the graves have eroded into nothing and no one remembers the dead is razed to make room for a retirement home for folks who’ve also been forgotten. Ambience and slapstick combine as an absurd cast of characters inhabits and haunts the home.

NOEL FREIBERT currently resides in Baltimore, MD. He is the editor of WEIRD Magazine and was a member of the influential comics group Closed Caption Comics. His work has been shown internationally and is featured in the book collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art.

Event: Meghan Turbitt & Beth Heinly Book Signing

Thursday, July 27th 

7-9pm 

at 

Brickbat Books: 

Meghan Turbitt & Beth Heinly

Book Signing

Come celebrate w/ us at our favorite book store!!! We had so much fun last summer debuting CAMP (Beth) & Philadelphia Sketchbook (Meghan) we wanted to do it again ***New*** self-published comics from Meghan Turbitt & Beth Heinly.

Meghan will be debuting a new celebrity advice lifestyle book, "How to Eat Chips" along with some limited edition PRINTS.

Beth will be debuting "The Deaf Neighbors" an autobio inspired murder mystery horror story which parodies True Crime television.
Not done drawing it yet - will be a lengthly read tho for sure.

There will be refreshments and a ~highly curated~ chip buffet for the event + giant bubbles. 

Event: Michael DeForge & Sadie Dupuis

 Thursday, March 23rd at 7pm

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Brickbat Books:

Cartoonist

Michael DeForge

with

Sadie Dupuis

Join Michael DeForge for a live reading and book signing as he introduces the world to Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero. Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world.

Michael will be joined by musician Sadie Dupuis (Sad13, Speedy Ortiz) who will play a solo set following the reading. Come out for a celebratory lo-fi comics night!

Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has been nominated for, or won, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His previous graphic novels with Drawn & Quarterly are Ant Colony, Big Kids, and First Year Healthy. This March he releases Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero.

Sadie Dupuis is a musician, writer and artist who most frequently performs as the frontdemon of the rock group Speedy Ortiz, which has released two critically acclaimed albums for Carpark Records. She also writes politically-geared pop songs under the moniker Sad13. Based in Philadelphia, her writing on music has been published in Spin, New York Magazine, and Nylon, and she earned an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst.