Thursday, October 21 – 3:00PM – 4:30PM<\/strong> October 1, 2010 – January 30, 2011<\/strong> On October 21, the Cartoon Art Museum will host a panel on autobiography in comics featuring several of the featured artists, experts, and the curators. Graphic Details<\/em> is co-curated by Michael Kaminer, a New York journalist and collector whose December 2008 story on confessional comics in the Forward provided the impetus for the show. His co-curator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning fine artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow in Autobiography in Comics.<\/p>\n The Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco Thursday, October 21 7:00PM<\/strong> BOSS HORROR…Darkness on the Edge<\/em> — short stories inspired by the songs of Bruce Springsteen — has been published by PS Publishing and it is an awesome book to behold. It features the story, “The Hungry Heart,” by Mike Arnzen, alongside other Boss tales by Sarah Langan, Gary Braunbeck, Lawrence Connolly, Elizabeth Massie and many more. The signed traycased edition is SWEET, but it’s also available in trade hardcover. Lay down your money and you’ll play your part here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Friday, October 22 – 7:00PM – 8:30PM<\/strong> Saturday, October 23 – 11:00AM<\/strong> Saturday, October 23 – 3:00PM to 5:00PM<\/strong> Saturday, October 23 – 3:00PM \u2013 4:30PM<\/strong> Sunday, October 24 – 10:30AM<\/strong> Sunday, October 24- 5:00PM<\/strong> Sunday, October 24 – 3:00PM – 4:00PM<\/strong> Monday, October 25 – 10:00AM<\/strong> Monday, October 25 – 7:00PM<\/strong> Wednesday, October 27 – 7:30PM<\/strong> Thursday, October 28 – 7:00PM<\/strong> Thursday, October 28 – 7:00PM<\/strong> Thursday, October 28 – 1:00PM<\/strong> Thursday, October 28 – 5:00PM – 9:00PM<\/strong> WIN two tickets to see this event by sending an e-mail with the subject \u201cGhosts and Golden Clouds\u201d to promos@sfbg.com<\/a> by midnight on Tuesday, 10\/26.<\/p>\n Friday, October 29 – 7:00PM<\/strong>
\nPeter Sis – Madlenka Soccer Star
\nHicklebee’s Books – San Jose<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGRAPHIC DETAILS: CONFESSIONAL COMICS BY JEWISH WOMEN
\nWhile the history of women in comics is well-documented, and the Jewish contribution to the art form widely acknowledged, Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women<\/em> will be the first museum exhibit to showcase the singular voices of female Jewish artists whose revealing diaristic and confessional work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades.<\/p>\n
\nDetails and a list of participating artists here<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOur favourite sick and twisted, but absolutely the nicest guy you could want to know, horror writer who lives 3,000 miles away, MIKE ARNZEN<\/a>, is giving his ANNUAL HALLOWEEN READING. He’ll be reading Thursday, October 21, in Morgantown, WV as the featured guest at the Morgantown Poets society at the Monongalia Arts Center, 107 High St. More info about this event here<\/a>. If you can’t make it, the event may be recorded, so watch www.gorelets.com<\/a> or their Facebook<\/a> page for developments.<\/p>\n
\nRick Riordan – The Lost Hero<\/em>
\nHicklebee’s Books – San Jose
\nThis event takes place at Willow Glen Middle School, 2105 Cottle Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
\nPurchase tickets here<\/a>; Tickets: $5.00 ~ Admits One & can be used toward the purchase of The Lost Hero<\/em> – In order to see as many Percy Jackson fans as possible, Mr. Riordan will sign one book per person – choose your favorite!<\/p>\n
\nPeter Sis – Madlenka Soccer Star<\/em>
\nBooks, Inc. – Marina<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLisa Brown – Vampire Boy\u2019s Good Night<\/em> and Hallowe’en Party!
\nWhat we\u2019ll have: a specially-illustrated reading of Vampire Boy\u2019s Good Night<\/em>, mask-making, hauntingly yummy Halloween-y snacks and drinks, a costume contest, a raffle for special prizes, and face-painting! A book signing, of course. And the opportunity for adults to sign up to donate blood!
\nWho should attend: all children ages 3 to 7, and their adults! You\u2019re enthusiastically invited to wear your costumes!
\nThe Booksmith – San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLaurence Rickels – I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick<\/em><\/a>
\nBorderlands Books, San Francisco
\nProfessor Rickels has written a book which corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick\u2019s popular and influential science fiction.” Don’t miss this chance to meet Prof. Rickels and hear his insights on the (in)famous Philip K. Dick!<\/p>\n
\nWordPlay with GAIL CARRIGER, who presents Material Characterization: Peopling Fiction with Objects, Culture & Comedy
\nBooks Inc. – Opera Plaza<\/a><\/p>\n
\nShaenon Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells – Skin Horse, Volume 2<\/em>
\nBorderlands Books – San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRichard Kadrey – author of Sandman Slim<\/em> presents Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel<\/em>
\nBorderlands Books – San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPeter Sis – Madlenka Soccer Star<\/em>
\nBook Passage – Corte Madera<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCharles Burns – X’ed Out<\/em>, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
\nBooks Inc. – Berkeley\/4th Street<\/a><\/p>\n
\nKate Bernheimer – My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales<\/em>
\nBooksmith – San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIan Frazier – Travels in Siberia<\/em> \/ author of Acme Vs. Coyote<\/em>
\nBook Passage – Corte Madera<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNot Your Mother’s Book Club Spooktacular Halloween Party!!!
\nNYMBC Spooktacular Halloween Party!!! Prepare to be scared, with RACHEL CAINE (Morganville Vampire saga), STACEY JAY (You Are So Undead to Me<\/em>) and LINDA JOY SINGLETON (Seer series, Dead Girl Walking series).
\nBooks Inc. – Palo Alto<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIan Frazier – Travels in Siberia<\/em> \/ author of Acme Vs. Coyote<\/em>
\nPresented by the World Affairs Council – http:\/\/www.itsyourworld.org\/<\/a>
\nWorld Affairs Council 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMATCHA: GHOSTS AND GOLDEN CLOUDS<\/a>
\nIn Japanese Noh theatre, ghosts are usually upset females who won’t go peacefully to into the night. This Halloween, get spooked by dramatic and haunting Japanese ghost tales performed by Brenda Wong Aoki with Emmy Award-winning Jazz composer Mark Izu, the taiko drums of Janet Koike & Kathryn Cabunoc, Anthony Brown on multiple percussion, Shoko Hikage on Koto, and Mas Koga on Saxophone and Shakuhachi.
\nMATCHA of the year also includes an art activity, cash bar, docent tours and the exhibition Beyond Golden Clouds, which showcases dozens of large Japanese screens spanning five centuries. These masterpieces are the ideal combination of function and beauty. Admission, $10 (includes entry to Beyond Golden Clouds).
\nThursday, October 28th at 5-9PM @ The Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco.<\/p>\n
\nRichard Kadrey – author of Sandman Slim<\/em> presents Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel<\/em>
\nBooks Inc. – Castro<\/a><\/p>\n