Ben Katchor Archives

This year Special Guests for the Expo include Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, James Sturm, Charles Burns, Ben Katchor, Raina Telgemeier, and many more. This year, SPX are making a point of getting a full house of attendees, and one strategy for doing that is to support their "Thunderclap" campaign If their Thunderclap campaign receives 250 subscribers[...]

The event is free and open to the public. Presentations will be "A Conversation with Thierry Smolderen" and a panel entitled "Comics in the University" with Ben Katchor (Parsons), Peter Kuper (SVA and Harvard), Jonathan W Gray (John Jay College, CUNY), and Nick Sousanis (Parsons, Teachers College).  To celebrate the publication of the English-language edition of[...]

Ben Katchor (The Cardboard Valise, Hand Drying in America), Miriam Katin (Letting It Go), Ulli Lust (Today Is The Last Day of The Rest of Your Life), and Lisa Hanawalt (My Dirty Dumb Eyes) took to the dais to discuss what makes their work so idiosyncratic The result highlighted the fact that being unashamed about[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history of alternative comics and graphic novels. The roster of guests is literally the Who's Who of[...]