FANTAGRAPHICS AND GIANT ROBOT TEAM-UP FOR THREE MOME EVENTS THIS MARCH AND APRIL
This March and April, Fantagraphics Books and Giant Robot will team-up to put on three cross-country events featuring artists from Fantagraphics’ acclaimed new anthology, MOME. The events will kick off in New York City and culminate in a book signing and after party during the Alternative Press Expo weekend in San Francisco, CA. A full list of events, with participating artists, follows. The third volume of MOME, featuring a new 30-page story by DAVID B. (Epileptic) will debut at the events.
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WHAT: MOME book signing with JONATHAN BENNETT, DAVID HEATLEY, GABRIELLE BELL, SOPHIE CRUMB, R. KIKUO JOHNSON and KURT WOLFGANG
WHEN: Saturday, March 18, 6 to 8PM
WHERE: Giant Robot N.Y., 437 E. Ninth St., New York, NY 10009
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WHAT: MOME book signing with TIM HENSLEY, MARTIN CENDREDA, JOHN PHAM and JORDAN CRANE
WHEN: Saturday, March 25, 6 to 8PM
WHERE: Giant Robot Silverlake, 4017 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
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WHAT: MOME book signing and APE after party with ANDERS NILSEN, JORDAN CRANE, ANDRICE ARP, JEFFREY BROWN and more t.b.a.
WHEN: Saturday, April 8,
WHERE: Giant Robot S.F., 622 Shrader St., San Francisco, CA 90029
The third volume of MOME hits stores nationwide this April and will debut at the Giant Robot events, and we are proud to announce two new additions to its ranks: French cartoonist David B., author of the landmark graphic novel Epileptic, contributes a 36-page complete story, “The Armed Garden,” which appears in English for the first time; also, R. Kikuo Johnson, whose Night Fisher was the most acclaimed graphic novel debut of 2005, debuts his first post-Night Fisher work, a series of comic strips titled “Cher Shimura.”
MOME Winter 2006 also features new contributions from Martin Cendreda, Anders Nilsen, Jonathan Bennett, David Heatley, Kurt Wolfgang, Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, and Jeffrey Brown, as well as an interview with Wolfgang conducted by MOME co-editor Gary Groth. MOME is edited by Groth and Eric Reynolds, with design by Jordan Crane and Adam Grano.
Fantagraphics describes MOME as an accessible, reasonably priced, quarterly anthology that runs approximately 120 pages per volume and spotlights a regular cast of a dozen of today’s most exciting cartoonists. MOME is quickly earning a reputation as the premiere literary anthology in comics. Think of something like The Believer or Granta — especially in regard to iconic design, format, and content — but with comics.
