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Thursday, October 25 at 7pm

CHRIS WARE & CHARLES BURNS speaking & signing their new graphic novels Building Stories (Ware) & The Hive (Burns)

Tonight, preeminent graphic artists - two veritable living legends - will share the floor here at BookPeople to talk about their latest work. This event is free to attend. To have anything signed, a copy of one of the two featured books must be purchased from BookPeople.

CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the London Times in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of Building Stories book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.

Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other's company another minute; and the building's landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, Building Stories is a book with no deliberate beginning nor end, the scope, ambition, artistry and emotional prevarication beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.

CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, in an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. Black Hole received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.

The Hive is the second part of a new epic masterpiece of graphic horror in brilliant, vivid color. Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing ex-boyfriend. Doug warily seeks answers in a nightmarish alternate world that is a distorted mirror of our own, where he is a lowly employee that carts supplies around The Hive.

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Building Stories Chris Ware Chris Ware’s graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award, the first time a graphic novel has won a major United Kingdom literary award. Author of the award-winning series The ACME Novelty Library, Ware has exhibited his work internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. Building Stories is a window into the lives of the residents of a Chicago apartment building. The Hive Charles Burns Best known for his masterwork, Black Hole—a multiple Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz Award winner—Charles Burns has illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The Believer, and contributed to MTV’s Liquid Television series based on his character Dog-Boy. The Hive is part two of his planned nightmarish trilogy that began with X’d Out. Batman: Death by Design Chip Kidd An award-winning art director at Alfred A. Knopf and editor-at-large for Pantheon, Chip Kidd is the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Cheese Monkeys, and his nonfiction books include Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Batman Collected, Bat-Manga, and now his first comic book, Batman: Death by Design. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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Gary Panter signs Gary Panter.; Chris Ware; Dan Nadel

Free with museum admission, but space is limited. You may reserve lecture tickets in person at the MCA box office, online, or by calling 312.397.4010. Up to two tickets may be reserved in advance. There is a $3 nonrefundable handling fee for phone and online orders.

Conversation Location: Kanter Meeting Space (1st Floor)

Book Signing: 2:30 PM in MCA Store

Join us to celebrate the release of the definitive volume on Gary Panter's work -- Gary Panter -- from PictureBox Inc. with a talk and book signing directly to follow. Gary Panter has left his mark on every medium he's touched; from his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon Jimbo to his visionary design for Pee-Wee's Playhouse. A three-time Emmy Award-winner and the recipient of the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence, Panter has drawn inspiration from diverse vernacular and traditional art arenas over the course of the past four decades.

Chris Ware, often described as an ‘alternative cartoonist,' is best-known as the creator of the Acme Novelty Library, publications in various formats that feature the adventures of such characters as Quimby the Mouse and Jimmy Corrigan. Not quite comic books, not quite graphic novels, Ware's work mines art history, popular culture, and personal experience, capturing a queasy sense of reality of modern life in a "retro" style distinctly his own.

Dan Nadel is the Director of PictureBox Inc., a Grammy Award-winning art, music, photography, and comics publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2004, PictureBox has specialized in bringing artists visions to print in startling and unexpected ways. Nadel is the author of Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969. (bookjones)… (more)