Come to our comic book anthology reading with creators Jennifer Camper, Ivan Monforte, Katie Fricas, Jack Waters, Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe. We are celebrating almost 20 years of making underground experimental comics together with the release of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks! Narratives of alien invasions, disaster and monster scenarios reveal our deeper concerns regarding the pandemic, ongoing colonialism and nuclear war.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel
Copies of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks! are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd.
Participants’ bios:
Jennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.
Mike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young. He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.
Katie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel, Checked Out, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.
Iván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race, class, gender, stigma, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower East Side Printshop, Center for Book Arts, and Smack Mellon.
Carlo Quispe is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist, creator of Uranus Comics, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).
Jack Waters is an artist, film maker, performer, and cofounder of Allied Productions, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project
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