Heather Faye Kahn, Dec. 13, 2022 at 7pm ET

The 348th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 at 7pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Heather Faye Kahn on the versatility & ubiquity of cartoon characters

Since at least the post-modernist 80s, “low brow” & “high brow” symbols have become increasingly interchangeable. Cartoon characters, for example, travel freely between class, social identities, spatial dimensions, & time. Because cartoon characters usually possess expressive faces & bodies similar to ours, they are relatable in a way other symbols are not. What does it feel like to be a cartoon character who can move freely between these dimensions? How do we determine the difference between fine art & an illustration when the symbols being used are the same?

Faye Kahn is based in New York. From 2011-2017 she hosted a weekly music show on WFMU, an independent radio station located in Jersey City, NJ. During this time she also created 2 risograph comic books, one self published & one published by Perfectly Acceptable Press, & made countless animated gifs & illustrations for her Tumblr “Yex.” She still occasionally makes appearances on WFMU.

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Tim Goodyear, Dec. 6th 2022 at 7pm EST

The 347th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022 at 7pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Tim Goodyear on Glyph Flipping and other matters.

Atomized reading

Mad Magazine Syndrome

Relevance of taste

Tim Goodyear loves comic books, since Howard the Duck #6 and only wants to help you find that strange truth and confusion that he did that day.

Cristian Castelo, Nov. 29, 2022 at 7pm EST

Please note: There’s no meeting scheduled for Nov. 22.

The 346th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022 at 7pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Cristian Castelo on AGE OF ANTHOLOGY

Age of the Anthology: Are you tired of feeling like an outcast in a world of outcasts? Tired of feeling bogged down by cool-guy cliques and gatekeeping dicks? Well, it’s time to craft your own lock and key by starting an anthology! In this talk, Cristian Castelo (author of WILD! and co-founder of Freak Comix) discusses the importance of self-publishing and community building through the confusing and seemingly impenetrable world of comics! 

Cristian Castelo is a cartoonist working out of Daly City, California. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published series WILD and co-creator of the comic anthology FREAK. 

Caroline Sury, Nov. 15, 2022 at 7pm ET

PLEASE NOTE: NO EVENT ON NOV. 8TH.

The 345th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 at 7pm ET. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Caroline Sury on the psychoanalytical path that leads to the drawing and construction of the story board of comics.

The French artist Caroline Sury graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1989. Her first collection silkscreened, Scenes of a circus, is published by Maubec editions. In 1993, Caroline Sury became co-founder with Pakito Bolino editions of Marseille Le Dernier Cri. She became one of the spearheads of the vanguard of editorial and graphic 90 years by editing and printing of books by hand in limited edition silkscreen and iconography to rock and roll and by singling this approach craft, openly underground. On this occasion she published her books brought back from Mexico The pen striptease in 1994, Holidays in bloody land in 1996 on London and Glasgow and Frida Gastro in 1997, following a stay … to hospital. Caroline Sury also publishes his comic strips in the Swiss magazine in the magazine and Strapazin, edited by les requins marteaux (Hammerheads) and The Association published 2 albums, Bébé 2000 and Cou tordu (Twisted Neck). Her illustrations appear regularly in The Weekly Marseille until 2006 and in many press titles: Liberation, Le Monde, CQFD. It also participates in numerous group exhibitions. Her latest album Un matin avec mademoiselle Latarte (One morning with miss Pie)published by Le monte en l’air concoure the prize 2020 for international comics festival of Angoulème France.

Walker Mettling, Nov. 1, 2022 at 7pm ET

The 344th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022 at 7pm ET. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Walker Mettling on Covid Winter Desert Diary

Walker wanted to document the weird social confusion and stigmas in the time before the covid vaccine. In early 2021 he started compiling the Covid Winter Desert Diary while staying with his parents for a few months near Joshua Tree as property prices started to soar and everybody continued to lose their minds! He’ll read from CWDD as well as some of the other projects he’s working on!

Walker Mettling is a cartoonist and printmaker in Providence, Rhode Island. 

Since 2010 he’s run the Providence Comics Consortium – a far out intergenerational comics publishing project!

He’s also printed and edited the Providence (sunday) Wipeout anthology since 2016!

Bhanu Pratap, Oct. 25, 2022 at 7pm ET

The 343rd meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022 at 7pm ET. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Bhanu Pratap on An attempt to look at the unfolding folds of the body and gaps produced therein, along with figuring out the process of aiming close enough to your mark while producing work. 

Bhanu Pratap is a cartoonist and painter based out of Kolkata, India. His debut book “Dear Mother And Other Stories” came out in November 2021 from strangers fanzine publishing.

Megan Kelso, Oct. 18, 2022 at 7pm EDT

The 342nd meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 at 7pm EDT. at Unnamable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 and also streamed online. To register for online streaming please email comicssymposium@gmail.com. Free and open to the public. Please note: No meeting will be held on Oct. 11.

Megan Kelso on “Anatomy of a story: Korin Voss.”

KV went through so many iterations; it started out as a 1 page comic, then was a ten page short story, and is now 58 pages. Because it took so long to complete, and there were so many cul de sacs along the way, it works as a lens to talk about the whole process of making “Who Will Make the Pancakes,” what was going on for me personally and artistically over those ten years. I want to talk frankly about how it felt like race entered the story while I wasn’t looking, and how as a White cartoonist, I had tip-toed around race for many years before this. It felt as if events in the life of our country, and in my own life kind of forced my hand. I will end the talk probably about what I’m going through right now, which is I’m making literally last minute changes to the book (it is at the printer right now, at the proof stage!) because I was so shy and scared about finding a sensitivity reader, that I put it off until the last possible moment. I finally enlisted my friend Corvie’s help, and her suggestions were so compelling that I am drawing a new page for the story and it is due this afternoon! Phew.

Following a brief stint at art school, Megan Kelso completed her B.A. at The Evergreen State College in 1991 where she studied history and political science. Inspired by the explosion of zines, bands, and DIY art projects in Olympia, she started her “Girlhero” mini comic which ran for six issues. She was the first woman to receive the Xeric Foundation self publishing grant. In 1998, comics from “Girlhero” were compiled into a book published by Highwater, titled “Queen of the Black Black.” Kelso received two Ignatz awards for her graphic novel “Artichoke Tales.” In 2007, she was invited by The New York Times Magazine to serialize her “Watergate Sue” comic as part of a weekly Funny Pages feature. In 2019 she was selected for a public art commission as part of the Climate Pledge Arena renovation in Seattle Center. The piece, “Crow Commute,” was installed in December 2021. Kelso’s third collection of short stories, “Who Will Make the Pancakes” will debut from Fantagraphics in October, 2022. Kelso currently lives in Seattle.

Bill Kartalopoulos, Oct. 4, 2022 at 7pm EDT

The 341st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 4 2022 at 7pm EDT. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Bill Kartalopoulos on Avant-Garde Histories of Comics: 1970-1990

Kartalopoulos traces points of contact between comics and avant-garde art movements in the post-Pop period. Developments in photography, street art, performance, conceptual art, artists’ books, and serial art contributed to a range of narrative image-making projects across disciplines, often by artists of diverse identities whose stories had rarely been told. 

Bill Kartalopoulos is an internationally recognized comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He served as the Series Editor for the #1 New York Times—bestselling Best American Comics (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) series for six annual volumes, beginning in 2014. He teaches courses about comics at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts. He has curated exhibits about comics across North America and in Greece, Switzerland and France, and currently serves as the programming director for the MoCCA Arts Festival in New York, NY. He is currently writing a history of comics, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. For more information, please visit on-panel.com

Anke Feuchtenberger, Sept. 27, 2022 at 5pm ET

The 340th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 at 5pm ET. (Please note 5 pm ET starting time) ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Anke Feuchtenberger on Ein deutsches Tier im deutschen Wald.”

I would like to speak about my working process on my new book, on which I`m still working. ” Ein deutsches Tier im deutschen Wald.” A german animal in a german forest.”

Anke Feuchtenberger biography

*1963 Berlin, studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin and works since 1989 as an artist. Since 1997 she is professor for drawing at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She is mother and Grandmother.

Her comics and drawings were regularly published in newspapers like „Die Zeit“ Hamburg, „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“, „Strapazin“ Zürich, „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ München, and „Internazionale“ Roma.

Around 30 books with her graphic narration are published in different languages and countries. “W the Whore”, a project with writer Katrin de Vries is published and republished in 5 languages, like also other books, for example “Der Spalt”, “Die Spaziergängerin”,”Somnambule” ; “Superlacrimella”. Her original work was shown in single exhibitions in various international galleries, like Galerie Martel, Paris; Trance Pop Gallery Kyoto; FB69, Münster; Squadro, Galleria/Stamperia, Bologna; or in Museums like Mangamuseum Kyoto; Museum of Art Nanjing; LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Museum Buxtehude; Kunsthalle Rostock. Between other awards 2020 she got the lifetime achievement award at Comicsalon Erlangen. She held Comiclectures in Copenhagen, Poznan, Tel Aviv, London, Hamburg, Dresden, München, Neubrandenburg and her Animationfilm “Somnambule” was shown on different international festivals like in Zagreb, St.Petersburg and Bologna. She lives and works in Vorpommern and Hamburg.

Ines Estrada, Sept. 20, 2022 at 7pm ET

The 339th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 at 7pm ET at Unnamable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 and streamed online. To register for online streaming please email comicssymposium@gmail.com. Free and open to the public.

Ines Estrada on “Cartoon Spirituality”

“Cartoon Spirituality” is an essay zine originally self-published by Inés Estrada in spring 2022 about cartoons, magic, consciousness, faith and fandom, and the ideas in it will be presented and expanded in this talk. An exploration on the power of imagination, the relation in between cartoon characters and religious icons, how drawing has evolved together with human culture and belief since the beginning of time, and how this has brought us to our current era in which spiritual and psychic warfare is being inflicted on us, as the real and the unreal become increasingly inseparable from each other.

Inés Estrada is a cartoonist from Mexico City, where she currently resides. She has been self-publishing her comics since 2006 and has also been published in Sweden, Spain and the US. Her last book, Alienation, a sci-fi/horror graphic novel about a future in which reality and the virtual are indistinguishable, came out in 2019 from Fantagraphics and is currently sold out.