Our next PHILLY COMIX JAM meeting is Wednesday, August 25th at Manny Brown's South Street at 8:00 and will be hosted by Dre and TV's Brett.

SECRET PRISON Comics Tabloid -  RELEASE PARTY
Saturday, April 17th 2010 • 5:00 - 8:00 PM
BRAVE NEW WORLDS
45 North Second Street • Philadelphia
(215) 925-6525

SECRET PRISON is a comics tabloid featuring new work by Philadelphia cartoonists and is free. The first issue will be available at Brave New Worlds on Saturday, April 17.

Announcing the National Liberty Museum's 2010 CARETOON  CONTEST. Students and adults are invited to draw their ideas of  a more peaceful world. Caretoons are  cartoons that promote peace and understanding.

You  don't need to be a professional cartoonist to draw a Caretoon. The Caretoon Contest is open to people of all  ages and artistic ability.

To enter, submit an original drawing that highlights  values which bring people together... honesty,  compassion, courage, forgiveness & more. Be creative!  All ideas  are welcomed.  Makes a perfect class project. Prizes  of $500 each will be awarded in 2 adult categories and 2 student  categories.
 
For an entry  form or additional information, click here.

Lynda Barry
2010 Foundation Lecture
March 23 at 10:30 AM
Tyler School of Art - Room B04
Free

Graphic Novelist Lynda Barry will present the 2010 Foundation Lecture at Tyler School of Art on Tuesday, March 23 at 10:30am. Ms. Barry will discuss her book What It Is, which is based on “Writing the Unthinkable”, her tried and true creative method that is playful, powerful and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember.

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher (and claims to have found them more or less all alike). She is well known for her syndicated strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, as well as her books One!Hundred!Demons!, The!Greatest!of!Marlys! and The Good Times are Killing Me. She also edited the 2008 edition of The Best American Comics.

Hey, Lynda Barry's all that! She's great! If you can go...GO! - Art

The DIY Quick and Dirty PRINTERESTING SWAP!
Saturday, March 20 at 2:00pm
The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street • Philadelphia
(215) 735-6090
Free and open to the public

Bring your prints, posters, photocopy art, zines, comix, buttons, t-shirts, stickers, chapbooks, mail art, broadsides and any other form of multiple that is ripe for distribution. The Swap is intended for creators to trade the stuff they’ve made and embrace the gift economy made possible through mass production. Printeresting began in 2008 as “the thinking person’s favorite online resource for interesting printmaking miscellany.” It was founded by Gallery Store artists Amze Emmons and Jason Urban along with R.L. Tillman.

Space is limited so RSVP here ASAP!

Find out more here,  here, here and here.

Surrealism in American Animation @ The Secret Cinema
Friday, March 12 - 8:00 pm
Moore College of Art & Design
20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia
(215) 965-4099
Admission: $7.00

On Friday, March 12, The Secret Cinema will present the latest in its periodic explorations of cartoons from Hollywood's golden age, with the special program Surrealism in American Animation.

Surrealism in American Animation will offer a sampling of the craziest, most imaginative, and funniest creations from the pens of classic Hollywood animators, with an emphasis on rarely shown films, from studios famous and obscure. These cartoons -- shown using scarce, beautiful prints culled from private archives, many in glorious I.B. Technicolor or shimmering black and white -- display the full range of classic animators' art and craft. Most of these cartoons have never been shown before by the Secret Cinema.

Go here for more info and playlist.

For more info go here.

Our next PHILLY COMIX JAM meeting is Monday, March 8th at Skinners at 8:00 and will be hosted by Ian.

This meeting is for people who have already participated in at least one JAM already. If you want to participate but haven't  so far you are invited to participate at the June 14th JAM.

-Art

POSTCRIPT: Well, that was our last meeting at Skinners. Special thanks to the staff for their hospitality to the PCJ for almost two and a half years. - Art

We had 25 people participating on Monday, February 8th. Participating were Ian, April, Dane, Pat, Jason, Dre, Cyn, Steve P., M. Jacob, Brett, Steve T., Pete, Tommy, Gregory, Box, Suzy, Will, Kyle, new participants: Chris, Kate, Brian, Claire, Kelly, and Andrew and me. The 21 new pages have been posted on the Twenty-Eighth issue page. If you did the cover, let me know and I'll give you credit.  Check it all out why don't you.

- Art

EVERYTHING DIES BY BOX BROWN -  RELEASE PARTY
Friday, March 5th 2010 • 6:00 - 9:00 PM
BRAVE NEW WORLDS
45 North Second Street • Philadelphia
(215) 925-6525

Box Brown's Everything Dies is a big project exploring religion as myth and will stretch out over a few issues.  The first two issues will be available at Brave New Worlds on March 5.  In addition to the signing the Brave New Worlds' gallery space will be filled with original comic art from Everything Dies as well as a number of small illustrations.  The gallery show will remain up for the month of March.

Go here for more info on the event.

The Changing Nature of Comic Art - Professor John Lent
Free Library of Philadelphia - Room 108
1901 Vine Street, 19103
215-686-5322
March 3, 2010 - 7:30 PM
Free

Professor John Lent, editor of the International Journal of Comic Art, will take participants through the ways in which comics have changed over the decades.

filmadelphiaEXPERIENCE focus on ANIMATION

filmadelphiaDOCUMENTARY presents: WALTZ WITH BASHIR
In this animated film, an Israeli director interviews fellow verterans to piece together his time in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, co-presented with One Film.
Wednesday, March 3 - 7:30 at the Prince
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filmadelphiaCLASSICS presents: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?
It's Disney with a noir twist as toon actor Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer) is framed for murder, and only Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective with a reputation for hating toons, can clear his name and save Toon Town!
Wednesday, March 10 - 7:30 at the Prince
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filmadelphiaCLASSICS presents: PERSEPOLIS
The animated feature based on the autobiographical comics of Marjane Satrapi and her youth in a quickly changing Iran. Co-presented with International House and One Book.
Monday, March 15 - 7:00 at International House
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filmadelphiaDOCUMENTARY presents: WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY
This documentary takes a look behind the scenes at the re-birth of Disney animation, followed by a Q&A with director Don Hahn.
Wednesday, March 31 - 7:30 at the Prince

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Super heroes brought to life before your very eyes! Word-for-word staged readings of classic comic books featuring some of Philadelphia’s finest actors. Will Spiderman save the day? Will the Hulk smash? Will this description get you to come to our performances? Find out! With a relaxed atmosphere that includes drinks being served from the neighboring Quig’s Pub, audiences get an opportunity to interact with the artists and embrace their inner (or outer) comic book geek.

All tickets are available one half hour before the performance for which you have tickets. This event takes place at Plays & Players 3rd Floor, and there is limited seating. Please note that the 3rd Floor space does not have elevator or wheelchair accessibility.

For more info go here.

Our next PHILLY COMIX JAM meeting is Monday, February 8th at Skinners at 8:00.

All are welcome. Hope to see you there!

-Art