CCPG will be at Table 029! Stop by !
SI MoCCA Arts Festival will be March 16-17 at @metr opavilion\, with programming mere steps away at @svanyc Flatiron Ga llery. Day and weekend tickets are available for purchase online and in-per son. Student tickets (undergrad and below) are only available for purchase in-person. A valid undergraduate ID must be presented at time of purchase. Tickets grant attendees access to the exhibitors hall and programming. For more information\, click the link in our bio. ⤴️
SI MoCCA Arts Fest 2
024
Saturday\, March 16\, from 11am-7pm
Sunday\, March 17\, from
11am-6pm
Exhibitors Hall located at Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18
th Street)
Programming located at SVA Flatiron Gallery
(141 West
21st Street)
...at The Graduate Center
What is a Draw Jam? It's a gathering of people who like comics\, like to make comics\, like to talk about comics to meet up at CUNY's Graduate Center and hang out\, eat\, talk and draw... like a jam session amongst musicians but at the Draw Jam\, the instruments are pencils\, pens\, paper\, tablets and the art\, the medium is comix!!!
RSVP Here: www.bit.ly /3TIFF3b
Or RSVP Here with our QR Code:
You can show stuff you're working on.
See what other people are working on.
...Sketch. Draw. Write...
Talk about what you're reading.
Or just hang out and meet fellow com
ix readers\, cartoonists\, comix scholars and tell the CCPG what you'd like
to see happen with graphic novels and comics at CUNY!
...Or you can collaborate on one of the Draw Jam's signature giant group drawings like th ese MOCCA 2024 attendees who got together on the Draw Jam table setup at th e CCPG table back on March 16.
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC) GEO:40.748649;-73.984007 ORGANIZER;CN="Sandy Jimenez":MAILTO:sjimenez1@gradcenter.cuny.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/draw-jam-spring-2024 / ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/spring_2024_Draw-Jam-001.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240411T1513Z-1712848400.7801-EO-165923-1@146.96.128.200 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260624T130911Z CREATED:20240409T135844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T135844Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T203000 SUMMARY: CCPG Welcomes Brooklyn College X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC) GEO:40.748649;-73.984007 ORGANIZER;CN="Sandy Jimenez":MAILTO:sjimenez1@gradcenter.cuny.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/ccpg-welcomes-brookl yn-college/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240409T0810Z-1712650223.7205-EO-165842-1@146.96.128.200 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260624T130911Z CREATED:20240409T025421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T130405Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T200000 SUMMARY: Street Noise Books: Graphic Novel Publisher and Author Talk Thursd ay May 16th! DESCRIPTION: Graphic Novels! Graphic Memoir! Save the Date: Thursday May 16 th 2024 at 6pm! Join us for an evening with Graphic Novel creators Bishakh Som and Tracy White\, editor Jisu Kim\, and publisher Liz Frances! Graphic Novel creators and Comics fans—Street Noise Books\, publisher of powerful g raphic novels that are “Unapologetic\, Authentic\, and Politically relevant ” and […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Gr aphic Novels! Graphic Memoir! Save the Date: Thursday May 16th 2 024 at 6pm!
Join us for an evening with Graphic Novel cr eators Bishakh Som and Tracy White\, editor Jisu Kim\, and publisher Liz Fr ances!
Graphic Novel creators and Comics fans—Street Noise Books \, publisher of powerful graphic novels that are “Unapologetic\, Authentic\ , and Politically relevant” and two of its notable authors will be guests o f the Graduate Center at 6pm on May 16th in Room 5414 on the fif th floor.
This special author and publisher talk will offer a unique look into the distinct work and process of graphic novel artists editors\, and writers Katie F ricas\, Jisu Kim\, Bishakh Som and Trac y White in a discussion led by Street Noise publisher and founder Liz F rances.
There will be food and refreshments served after the Q&A.
About our featured guests:
Katie Fricas is a queer cartoonist\, comics edit or\, and library worker in New York City. Katie's non-fiction essay comics have been in The Guardian\, The New York Times\, The LA Review of Books\, a nd The New Yorker. Katie's first graphic novel\, Checked Out will be publis hed by Drawn & Quarterly. Follow her on Instagram @cartoonfricassee
J isu Kim is the deputy director of Triple Canopy. Formerly\, she worked at t he Feminist Press\, where she oversaw marketing\, sales and publicity\, and distribution\, as well as acquired and edited books.
Bishakh Som\, who grew up in N ew York City\, but whose parents were originally from India\, received a ma ster’s degree in architecture from Harvard University and worked for many y ears in that field\, most notably at I.M. Pei’s New York office. Her work h as appeared in The New Yorker\, The Boston Review\, Buzzfeed\, and The Huff ington Post. Bishakh published a collection of stories with The Feminist Pr ess titled Apsara Engine. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Website: bishak h.com Instagram: @biche_bash
Tracy White began publishing her comics for young adults online in 1996. Her autobiographical series TRACED was twice nominated for a best web comic Ignatz\, and became a TV series for Oxygen. Her book How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story was on YALSA’s Great Graphic Nov els for Teens list. She is currently teaching comics at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Liz Frances is the founder and publisher of Street Noise Books. Having wor ked as an art director and book designer in the big publishing houses of Ne w York City\, Frances enjoyed collaborating with many gifted writers\, illu strators\, graphic artists and editors and saw a need for a different kind of publisher to serve the graphic novel and graphic memoir form. In the wak e of the 2016 U.S. presidential election\, she became passionately driven t o advocate for the power of love and compassion in the face of hate and opp ression.
“I am creating Street Noise Books to provide a platform from which truth can be told\, a place to share our stories\, to foster communi ty\, and a means to build a future where all people are free and respected. ” -Liz Frances.
It’s all happening THURSDAY May 16th 2024 at 6pm in Room 5414
Location: The Graduate C enter\, 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016 on the Fifth Floor.
< p>Please RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3PWoLg q
About the CCPG:
The CUNY Comix Programming Group (CCPG) formed in Fall of 2022 in order to propose\, develop\, program and produce resources\, liv e events\, seminars—and suggest courses and instructors at the CUNY Graduat e Center. This programming and development group is committed to supporting BIPOC\, LGBTQIA and under-served persons\, and differently-abled populatio ns’ participation and representation in its development efforts. *The CCPG is a DGSC-chartered group as of May 2023.*
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strong>Eat and Draw! Do you love comics? Do you love comix? Graphic Novels?
Graphic Memoir?
Our Draw Jam series\, begun in Spring of 202
3 is a networking\, group activity (collaborative drawings and individual t
eam ups) and project building series that we have run 5 times (15-20 person
s average attendance.) The Draw Jam’s purpose is to bring our GC-based stud
ent group/committee together along with the 15 supporting members of our CU
NY Commons group and also to invite other students from across CUNY’s over
25 campuses into the Graduate Center.
The CCPG thanks the Biog
raphy and Memoir Department and the DGSC for their ongoing support of these
events.
CCPG Presents its first ever Zine Jam! Gra duate Center students interested in learning how to make their own zine (a miniature pocket magazine) using traditional print DIY methods should come to this get-together and group meet up.
—An evening of graphic biography with father-son duo\, Author Illustrator Eli Neugebor en and Author Jay Neugeboren.
CCPG Presents a Graphic Memoir Author Talk for the New Graphic Memoir "W
hatever Happened to Frankie King\,"
Authors Talk with Presentation\, P
anel with Moderator\, Q&A and Book Signing. A presentation for members of the CCPG and the Graduate Center b
y authors Eli Neugeboren and Jay Neugeboren on the process and method of th
eir non-fiction graphic memoir\, "Whatever Happened to Frankie King" along
with a Q&A.
Happening:
Wednesday March 26\, 2025 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
365 5th Ave\, (@35th Street) N
ew York\, NY 10016
RSVP to sjimenez1@gradcenter.cuny.edu with "
"Frankie K ing was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’ s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparin g Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time\, an d he was recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina. But Frankie dropped out before playing a single game.
This graphic novel follows King’s enigmatic life from its auspicious start in th e limelight to his very reclusive existence in New York City\, where he aut hored more than forty novels\, including a popular series of cozy cat myste ries written under the pseudonym Lydia Adamson. Whatever Happened to Franki e King is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a me ditation on dreams realized\, lost\, and abandoned." — Graphic Mundi - PSU Press
This event is made possible by the DGSC\, BAM\, and The CCPG\, The CU
NY Comix Programming Group.
—Graphic Novels & Graphic Non-Fiction! A panel discussion with historian Debbie-Ann Paige\, writer Timothy Led with and comic book artist N. Steven Harris about the new comics project\, “Standoff on Fairview Avenue” moderated by graphic novelist Sara Gómez Wool ley.*
Today\, 167 Fairview Aven ue is an unremarkable single-family home on a leafy\, quiet street near Sta ten Island’s Clove Lakes Park—but a century ago—it was at the cente r of a terrible conflict between a family trying to live the American Dream and the forces of racism and bigotry.This documentary comic\, a non fictio n illustrated history in graphic novel form that Mr. Ledwith and Mr. Harris are creating: "Standoff on Fairview Avenue\," aims to shed greater light o n this important and neglected chapter in American history.
Join us for an evening of lively discussio
n led by Professor Sara Gómez Woolley and enjoy a presentation about the de
velopment of this special book\, its methodology and a sneak peak at the ve
ry first pages of “Standoff on Fairview Avenue” along with valuable perspec
tives and insights from the historian whose research is critical to the pro
ject\, Debbie-Ann Paige!
“St andoff on Fairview Avenue” developed as part of writer Tim Ledwith’s resear ch and coursework in the Biography and Memoir M.A. Program at The Graduate Center.
Don’t miss Bio graphy and Memoir Illustrated: An Author Talk with Writer Timothy Ledwith\, Comics Artist N. Steven Harris and Historian Debbie-Ann Paige Moderated by Graphic Novelist Sara Gómez Woolley!
RSVP to sjimenez1@gradcenter.cuny.edu with "RSVP 515" in the sub ject line.
*This event is made possible with the generous support and cooperation of The Biography and Memoir M.A. Program\; The Leon Levy Center\, the DGSC\, and The Graduate Center.
Featured images and artwork all by N. Steven Harris\, 2025.
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illustrator\, editor\, and educator\, living in Upper Manhattan. Her comic
s have been seen on MoMA.org\, Medium.com\, The Washington Post\, and in ma
ny anthologies and collections\, including The Strumpet and World War III I
llustrated. Ellen is the author of two graphic novels and is currently work
ing on Lost Diamonds\, a two-time MoCCA Award-winning study of gender rebel
lion in baseball. Her activist art is in the collection of the Smithsonian
Institution\, and she is a two-time LMCC grant winner for her work in comic
s education. Ellen currently teaches in the Design Department at Queens Col
lege (CUNY) and the Communicatin Design Department at City Tech (CUNY).
Website: www.lit
tlewhitebird.com Instagram: @ellenlindna
Lost Diamonds
Come talk the history and future of Baseball with Ell en Lindner\, creator of Lost Diamonds\, a history & nonfiction comic about baseball\, gender\, racism\, sexism\ , and sports.
Cosponsor ed by CUNY Comix Programming Group\, a DGSC Chartered Organization
Ellen Lindner (she/they) is a c artoonist\, illustrator\, editor\, and educator\, living in Upper Manhattan . Her comics have been seen on MoMA.org\, Medium.com\, The Washington Post\ , and in many anthologies and collections\, including The Strumpet and Worl d War III Illustrated. Ellen is the author of two graphic novels and is cur rently working on Lost Diamonds\, a two-time MoCCA Award-winning study of g ender rebellion in baseball. Her activist art is in the collection of the S mithsonian Institution\, and she is a two-time LMCC grant winner for her wo rk in comics education. Ellen currently teaches in the Design Department at Queens College (CUNY) and the Communication Design Department at City Tech (CUNY).
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