Join us at Atomic Books and SPX 2012 this week...

Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura will be in the DC area this week to promote The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist. Here are the details:

Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura signing the monograph at: 
Atomic Books
Baltimore, MD
Friday, September 14
5:00PM-7:00PM
(sign up for facebook event listing here)

SPX 2012
Bethesda, MD
September 15 & 16

Daniel Clowes is a special guest of SPX 2012. He'll be signing at his various publishers tables as well as the SPX show table and will take part in several panels of the weekend's programming. His art was used for this year's tote bag, available during the weekend from SPX (shown above).


SIGNINGS:


Saturday
1:00PM- 2:00PM at Fantagraphics table
3:00PM - 4:15PM (w/ Alvin Buenaventura) at SPX table

Sunday
12:30PM - 1:30PM (w/ Alvin Buenaventura) at SPX table
3:45PM - 4:45PM at D&Q table

PANELS:

Saturday 12:00PM-1:00PM - Crockett Johnson - White Flint Auditorium

4:30PM - 5:30PM - Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (w/Ken Parille and Alvin Buenaventura) - White Oak Room 

Sunday 2:30PM - 3:30PM - Life After Alternative Comics - White Oak Room

For more details on programming go here.

Chris Ware joins Daniel Clowes for a talk and signing this Friday at the OMCA

In a talk moderated by guest curator Susan Miller and Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware will be speaking at OMCA's James Moore Theater on Friday, July 27, 2012 from 7-8:30pm. Seating will be limited and is expected to fill up quickly. Come early to see the Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes exhibiton at the OMCA which closes in just a few weeks on August 12.

Tickets for the panel discussion are included with Museum admission. Seating in OMCA's James Moore Theater is limited, and is available on a first-come, first served basis the day of the event. The Museum encourages you to come early to stand in line. Doors open at 6:30 pm. 

For more info, go here.

After the talk until about 10pm, Clowes and Ware will be signing their books in the OMCA bookstore along with Alvin Buenaventura signing The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, a monograph that accompanies the exhibition that's currently up at the museum. FYI: We hear that due to the expected turnout the OMCA bookstore will be limiting autographs to books bought in the store that night . The good news is that the OMCA bookstore will also be giving away (yes, free) a special unique promo book that is a "reverse preview" of Ware's upcoming Building Stories, to each customer purchasing one of the cartoonist's books that night, while supplies last. (btw, the BS preview is incredible and will not be included actual book in this format.)

Lastly, I'll have a new, third batch of 100 Mister Jones pins in orange, made just for this event to give out to those who want them (again, while supplies last). Thanks to Niem 'Buttoneers' 
Tran for whipping these up.

Clowes in Chicago, May 17-20: Quimby's signing and Univ. of Chicago

Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura will be at Quimby's in Chicago this Thursday at 7:00pm signing The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist. Please help spread the word and 'share' this post. More info here.

I'll have a new batch of Mister Jones pins in blue to give out to those who want 'em (while supplies last). Thanks to Niem 'Buttoneers' Tran for whipping these up. 

Daniel Clowes is also one of the many stellar guests (including: Crumb, Ware, Barry, Burns, Gloeckner, Tyler, Spiegelman, Panter, etc!) that will be gathering at the Comics: Philosophy & Practice conference taking place at the University of Chicago, May 18-20, 2012. Wotta lineup! Thanks to Hillary Chute for making this possible.

Looking forward to seeing you there! -Alvin Buenaventura

Post-Meltdown Wrap Up: Enid Nite, Photo Report, and Videos.

Timony and Jessica Gao dressed as masked Enid from the movie and as Little Enid the action doll.

Props to the folks at Meltdown Comics for hosting a fun evening. They screened Ghost World in their theater while the 1st annual Enid meet-up took place, followed by a Q+A lead by Mark Frauenfelder that was broadcast live on the webernet, and finished it off with a couple hours of signing!  A great way to celebrate the release of the book. Thanks to everyone that came out! 

You can find a full report along with a gallery of better photographs here. Following are 4 videos from the evening. 2 versions of the Clowes/Frauenfelder interview, a live webcast and multi-camera edited version, and 2 short Meltcast interviews with Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura. 

Lastly, The monograph is now sold out (see previous post) but Meltdown has a handful of autographed copies available here.