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Saturday, December 7
 

12:00pm EST

Comics and the Body
Saturday December 7, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Thurman Center Stage
The visual and imaginative qualities of comics make it ideal for communicating feelings about body image that go beyond the literal. From the revealingly honest to the fantastic, these four creators explore how comics can make us understand how another feels in their skin.
Moderators
AD
Exhibitors
avatar for Sophie Margolin - 10A
avatar for Babs New - 27A
avatar for Andy Lindquist - 41B
avatar for Sig Burwash - Table 67, Signing only

Sig Burwash - Table 67, Signing only

Sig Burwash is a visual artist whose practice includes watercolour, collage, ceramics, animation, illustration, and comics. Their work is both imaginative and rooted in their lived experience, including cabin building, forest stewarding, motorcycling and crewing on fishing vessels... Read More →
Saturday December 7, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Thurman Center Stage First Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
  Panel

12:30pm EST

Sequentially Surreal
Saturday December 7, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm EST
Thurman Commons
Surrealism uses the element of fantasy to visually distort reality and comics have long incorporated its techniques for humorous or ominous ends. Explore this carefully crafted chaos with moderator Paul Hanna and four cartoonists as they look at ways this form communicates to us and inspires or eschews story content.
Moderators
PH
Exhibitors
avatar for Paul Kirchner - 50B

Paul Kirchner - 50B

I've been working as a cartoonist and illustrator for over 50 years. I created a long-running strip for Heavy Metal magazine, "the bus," and for High Times, a regular comic about Dope Rider. I've done work for both Marvel and DC. I wrote and drew comics for toy lines like He-Man... Read More →
avatar for CHROME FETUS COMIX - 52A
avatar for Coin-Op Books - 78B
avatar for Jules Kang Sharpe - 83B
Saturday December 7, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm EST
Thurman Commons Second Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
  Panel

1:30pm EST

Finding Friendship: Middle Grade Comics
Saturday December 7, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Thurman Center Stage
The development of friendships are vital to our formative years and are a fundamental theme in Middle Grade comics. How do friendships develop in a storytelling context? How do they start? Where do they struggle? Do they end? Join moderator J. L. Bell and a panel of Middle Grade cartoonists as they explore how this evolution works.
Moderators
JL
Exhibitors
avatar for Debbie Fong (Kid-Friendly) - 59B
avatar for Shaina Lu (Kid-friendly) - 65B

Shaina Lu (Kid-friendly) - 65B

Shaina Lu 呂明穎 (she/her) is a queer Taiwanese-American artist interested in the intersection of art, education, and activism. She creates community art for social change through dialogue and conversation with local youth, residents, and grassroots organizers. Shaina is the author... Read More →
avatar for Emma Hunsinger - 66B

Emma Hunsinger - 66B

Emma Hunsinger started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic How to Draw a Horse appeared in The New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner Award. Her middle grade graphic novel How It All Ends is out now.
avatar for Johnnie Christmas (Kid-friendly) - 69A

Johnnie Christmas (Kid-friendly) - 69A

Johnnie Christmas is a #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novelist and author-illustrator of the critically acclaimed middle grade graphic novel Swim Team, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration, was named a Kirkus... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Porter Square Books
Saturday December 7, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Thurman Center Stage First Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
  Panel

2:00pm EST

City Living, Living City: How Setting Shapes Story
Saturday December 7, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Thurman Commons
The setting of a comic is so profoundly essential to the story that it shapes the characters and the plot. When this setting is a city, its character can create a dynamic energy. Join moderator Kurt Ankeny and five other comics authors as they take a close look at the qualities that give their cities life in this distinctive way.
Moderators
KA
Speakers
KF
Exhibitors
avatar for Karl Christian Krumpholz - 50A

Karl Christian Krumpholz - 50A

Originally from a city on the East Coast, cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz’s work has appeared in many different formats, publications and even animated in a documentary. He is the author of several comics series set in The City including 'In The City', 'The Lighthouse in The... Read More →
avatar for Deena Mohamed - 69B

Deena Mohamed - 69B

DEENA MOHAMED is an Egyptian comics artist and writer. She first began making comics at eighteen when she created the viral webcomic Qahera, a satirical superhero strip starring a visibly Muslim superheroine. She then began working on Shubeik Lubeik, an original Arabic graphic novel... Read More →
avatar for Bob Bergeron - 6A
Saturday December 7, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Thurman Commons Second Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
  Panel

3:30pm EST

Comics Visual Literacy
Saturday December 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Thurman Commons
How do we talk about comics as a visual art form? What are the elements of great visual story-telling? In this signature MICE panel, we once again bring four accomplished cartoonists together to answer these questions, with close readings of comics pages from their own work and from the artists that inspired them.
Moderators
DM
Exhibitors
avatar for Arielle Jovellanos - 36A
avatar for Beth Hetland - 47B

Beth Hetland - 47B

Critically acclaimed cartoonist and award winning educator.
avatar for Gideon Kendall - 78A
avatar for Benjamin A Wilgus - 81A
Saturday December 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Thurman Commons Second Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
  Panel

4:30pm EST

Denis Kitchen: Underground Comics Visionary
Saturday December 7, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Thurman Center Stage
MICE guest Denis Kitchen has been a central figure in independent comics history as long as there have been independent comics - as cartoonist, publisher, agent and advocate. Joel Christian Gill, graphic novelist and director of BU's Graphic Narrative program, sits down with Denis to talk about his illustrious career.
Moderators
JC
Exhibitors
avatar for DENIS KITCHEN - 70B

DENIS KITCHEN - 70B

Denis Kitchen was one of the original “underground” cartoonists in the late 60s, and the Founder/Publisher of Kitchen Sink Press (1969-99). In 1986 he founded the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and chaired for 18 years. He represents numerous artists and estates. He’s co-written... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Massachusetts Center for the Book
Saturday December 7, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Thurman Center Stage First Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
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