New York Comics &Picture-story Symposium

46th meeting June 3 at 7pm

bkatchor — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:42:33 +0000

The forty-sixth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, June 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. Facilitator: Nick Sousanis.

Scheduled Presentation: Carmine Infantino: a VisuaLecture by Arlen Schumer
In this retrospective/eulogy for legendary comic book artist Carmine Infantino (1925-2013), comic book historian Arlen Schumer (The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) presents an overview of the artist’s work, spotlighting Infantino’s definitive versions of DC Comics’ superheroes The Flash, Adam Strange and Batman.

45th meeting May 20 at 7pm

bkatchor — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:12:34 +0000

The forty-fifth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, room 1104. Free and open to the public. Facilitator: Nick Sousanis.

Scheduled Presentations: Tahneer Oksman will discuss women’s and Jewish identity as depicted in contemporary autobiographical comics. She will focus primarily on works by Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Davis, and Lauren Weinstein.

Victor Kerlow on his new book Everything Takes Forever (Koyama Press).

Images: Vanessa Davis from Make Me a Woman and Victor Kerlow from Everything Takes Forever

44th meeting May 13 at 7pm

bkatchor — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:08:29 +0000

The forty-fourth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, room 1104. Free and open to the public.

Scheduled Presentations: Antony Huchette on his upcoming book Brooklyn Quesadillas and his thoughts about cartooning and Nick Abadzis on his recent work.

images by Antony Huchette and Nick Abadzis

43rd meeting May 6 at 7pm

bkatchor — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:24:54 +0000

The forty-third meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in room 1104. Free and open to the public.

Scheduled Presentations: Andrea Tsurumi on her thesis project, Behold the Killbot and Other Stories. This collection of short stories contains historical brawls, a messed-up bedtime story, and short absurd comics.

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Belgian comics artist Eric Lambé will discuss his work and his new book, Le fils du roi, currently on display at the Center for Book Arts as part of the exhibit “From Bande Dessinée to Artist’s Book: Testing the Limits of Franco-Belgian Comics.”

May 1st Free University event 1:30pm

bkatchor — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:06:50 +0000

Join us at the Free University on May 1st from 10am-3pm at Cooper Square (East 6th St. and Third Ave.)
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium takes place from 1– 2:30pm.

MAY DAY – GENERAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10:00am – 3:00pm: Cooper Union Free University @ Cooper Square

3:00pm: Education Convergence @ Cooper Square

4:00pm: March to Union Square to join the May 1 Coalition rally & march to City Hall

8 or 9 pm: Education Party back @ The Cooper Union

The May-Day Country Mirth: or, The Young Lads and Lasses Innocent Recreation, 1709

42nd meeting April 29 at 7pm

bkatchor — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:10:12 +0000

The forty-second meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in The Bark Room (off lobby). Free and open to the public.

Scheduled Presentation: Peter Kuper on Drawn to New York, an illustrated chronicle of three decades in Manhattan and New York as a subject for artists.

41st meeting April 22 at 7pm

bkatchor — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:07:57 +0000

The forty-first meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, April 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in The Bark Room (off lobby).

Superman at 75. Action Comics #1, which went on sale in April 1938, brought the world the debut of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s SUPERMAN, and the beginning of the superhero phenomenon.The character’s complex legacy—in both fictional and real-world terms—is discussed by Danny Fingeroth (author of Superman on the Couch), Peter Sanderson (comics historian), and Jeff Trexler (comics legal commentator).

40th meeting April 15 at 7pm

bkatchor — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:03:09 +0000

The fortieth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in The Bark Room (off lobby).

Scheduled Presentation: Evan Neely, on “Comics’ Belated Modernism: Missed Conversations between Comics and Gallery Art.”

39th meeting April 8 at 7pm

bkatchor — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:27:54 +0000

The thirty-ninth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in The Bark Room (off lobby).

Scheduled Presentation: Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, on People v. Kirkpatrick a significant 1970 case where two Manhattan bookstore clerks were arrested and convicted of selling obscene material because of comics in Zap #4. Brownstein will recount how work by pioneers including R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Spain, Robert Williams, and others who contributed to this issue was deemed legally obscene in the first ever obscenity conviction for comic book material.

38th meeting April 1 at 7pm

bkatchor — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:01:41 +0000

The thirty-eighth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, April 1, 2013 at 7:00 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in The Bark Room (off lobby).
Scheduled presentation: Artist/writer Ben Katchor in conversation with Gil Roth on the occasion of the publication of Hand-Drying in America (Pantheon Books) — a collection of strips from Metropolis Magazine on the subjects of architecture and design. Join us for this live audience recording of The Virtual Memories Show podcast.