Events

R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash Shaw: On Rea Irvin’s 'The Smythes' – Zoom event

Date:	Mon, Dec 01, 2025
Time:	7 PM EST
Location:	Zoom (email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register)
Find out more:	New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

Co-editors R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash Shaw will discuss their new collection of The Smythes, an unsung masterpiece of cartooning by Rea Irvin, out from New York Review Comics.

'The Complete C Comics' at Mast Books, NYC

Date:	Thu, Nov 20, 2025
Time:	6 PM
Location:	72 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

Mast Books hosts a discussion and celebration of Joe Brainard's The Complete C Comics

'The Complete C Comics' with Ron Padgett, Bill Kartalopoulos, and John Yau, NYC

Date:	Wed, Dec 10, 2025
Time:	6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location:	8 W 8th St, New York, NY 10011
Find out more:	New York Studio School

Join Ron Padgett, Bill Kartalopoulos, and John Yau for a discussion of Joe Brainard's The Complete C Comics

Gabriele Tergit's 'Effingers': Sophie Duvernoy in conversation with Noah Isenberg, NYC

Date:	Tue, Nov 18, 2025
Time:	6:30 PM
Location:	Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place New York, NY 10003
Find out more:	Goethe-Institut

Sophie Duvernoy and Noah Isenberg discuss Gabriele Tergit's Effingers at Goethe-Institut New York

Mattia Filice, author of 'Driver,' at the French Institute, London

Date:	Thu, Nov 20, 2025
Time:	7:00 PM
Location:	French Institute of the United Kingdom, 17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London SW7 2DT
Find out more:	Institut français du Royaume-Uni

The French Institute of the UK invites you to an evening with Mattia Filice, author of Driver, who will be joined in conversation by translator Ben Faccini

"Making Comics with Poets: Joe Brainard's C Comics," St. Louis

Date:	Wed, Dec 03, 2025
Time:	5:30 PM
Location:	Steinberg Auditorium, 6253 Forsyth Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112
Find out more:	Sam Fox School

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at WashU presents a lecture on Joe Brainard's C Comics by comics historian Bill Kartalopoulos