New Yorker Festival

The annual New Yorker Festival is just around the corner! It will be held from October 3rd-5th. Though this year's festival offers many amazing events, these two in particular caught my eye -

Art Spiegelman
“Breakdowns: Comix 101”

Art Spiegelman won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his graphic novel in two parts, “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.” He is the author of “In the Shadow of No Towers” and the children’s book “Open Me . . . I’m a Dog!” With Françoise Mouly, he co-edited several volumes of the comics anthology “Little Lit.” He will publish two new books in October: “Jack and the Box,” a children’s book, and “Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!,” a memoir that includes a selection of his experimental comics from the nineteen-seventies.

4:30 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater, Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th Street

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Worst Nightmares Part 2: “Fear(s) of the Dark”

Following a special screening of the new animated film “Fear(s) of the Dark,” a compendium of animated shorts about phobias, Charles Burns and Lorenzo Mattotti, two of the film’s directors, will talk with Françoise Mouly.

Charles Burns is a cartoonist and illustrator, and a contributor to The New Yorker. His award-winning graphic novel “Black Hole” is being adapted for film by the director David Fincher. His other books include “El Borbah,” “Big Baby,” and “Skin Deep.”

Lorenzo Mattotti is a graphic artist. In 2003, he won an Eisner Award for his comic-book adaptation of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.” His other comic albums include “Fires,” “The Man at the Window,” “Stigmates,” and “Caboto,” which was commissioned by the Spanish government for the quincentennial of Columbus’s voyage to America. He has contributed illustrations and cover art to The New Yorker.

Françoise Mouly is the art editor of The New Yorker and the founder and co-editor of RAW, which first published Charles Burns and Lorenzo Mattotti in the early eighties. She recently launched TOON Books, a new imprint of hardcover comics for beginning readers.

10 p.m. IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue

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Art Spiegelman will also be signing two new books - his memoir, “Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!,” and "Jack and the Box" a children's book - on Sunday, October 5th at 1PM. All signings take place at the festival HQ, which is located on 18th st between 6th and 7th ave.

TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR BOTH EVENTS!!

Hope to see you there : )