Do you like cartoons and buttons and the cheap-ass arts?
Then you will be doing yourself and us all a solid if you go this weekend to the
Saturday-Sunday, July 19-20
County Fair Building at 9th & Lincoln
[the same place where they do the Anarchist Book Fair]
Saturday 11am-8pm, Sunday 11am-7pm
Admission = FREE. Books = NOT FREE. Coolness we will bestow on you = PRICELESS.
I’ll be managing, or trying to manage, two tables. One is little, and it’s me (a.k.a. Hob) and my friend Zac Martin (a.k.a. Persona Non Grata Press) making his chapbook debut. The other is the big nifty table for Global Hobo Comics Distribution, the Bay Area self-published comics outlet that I have somehow ended up running as of this month. Yes, I’m now not just a manufacturer but a pusher; I’m glad to be helping to get some ridiculously good mini-books out into the world, and I’m having fun so far playing store.
Also!
Thursday, July 17, 6-8pm
Oakland Public Library, 125 14th St.
Jason Shiga: Bookhunter
Shiga is a mad genius and a very funny guy, Bookhunter is the only book he’s done so far that you could actually write a high-concept pitch for (“C.S.I. meets book arts in the ’70s”), and he just got nominated for an Eisner Award for it. He’ll be reading along with Trevor Alixopulos and Hellen Jo. Go see this.
Friday, July 18, 7-9pm
Cartoon Art Museum
From the Horse’s Mouth: Comics Read by Their Creators
Readings by Andy Hartzell, Calvin Wong, Lark Pien, Joey Sayers, Justin Hall, MariNaomi, Minty Lewis, Peter Conrad, Rina Ayuyang and Renee French. Good God y’all.