PictureBox Books & Desert Island present the The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival celebrating independent publications. Guest artists include Noah Lyon, Peter Saul, Gary Panter, Charles Burns and many

Saturday, December 5th 2009 at

Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Admission is FREE!

Saturday December 5th 2009
11 AM – 7 PM
the first-annual
Brooklyn Comics and
Graphics Festival
presented by
Desert Island and PictureBox
at Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
free admission

with featured guest artists:

Gabrielle Bell
R. O. Blechman
Charles Burns
Anya Davidson
Kim Deitch
C.F.
Carlos Gonzales
Ben Katchor
Nora Krug
Michael Kupperman
Mark Newgarden
Gary Panter
Ron Regé, Jr.
Peter Saul
Dash Shaw
R. Sikoryak
Jillian Tamaki
Matthew Thurber
Lauren Weinstein

Exhibitors:

Tunde Adebimpe
Bodega Distribution
Bries
Closed Caption Comics
Domitille Collardey
Corraini
Drawn and Quarterly
Famous Class
The Fart Party
Forest
Lisa Hanawalt
House of Twelve
Imaginary Product
Important Comics
Le Dernier Cri
Brad Nack
L. Nichols
James McShane
Nieves
Mika Oshima
Paping / Partyka
Mike Reddy
Retard Riot
Jungyeon Roh
David Sandlin
Frank Santoro
Secret Acres
Soundscreen Design
Spark Plug Comic Books
Avi Spivak
Leslie Stein
Joshua Ray Stephens
Adam Suerte
Sundays Anthology
Panayiotis Terzis
James Turek
Jack Turnbull
Jon Vermilyea
Tomi Um
Uninhabitable Mansions
Yeah Dude Comics

Panel and lecture program nearby at Secret Project Robot gallery, down the street at 210 Kent Ave.
This mini-symposium will run from 1 to 6 pm and is being overseen by noted comics
critic Bill Kartalopolous. Also at Secret Project Robot will be an intimate exhibition
of original comic book pages from 1950s romance, western and science fiction comic
books, curated by PictureBox’s Dan Nadel.

Finally, at the end of the day visitors can troop over to Death by Audio at 49 S. 2nd
Street, for an evening of musical performances by cartoonists, organized by Paper
Route, and including performances by Boogie Boarder, Ambergris, Scary Mansion,
Nick Gazin, and many others.