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SPX
Sep
15
to Sep 16

SPX

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Tongues # 2 will be debuting at SPX 2018, where I will be a featured guest. More info to be released soon.

The Small Press Expo is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons.

The 2018 festival takes place on Saturday September 15 from 11am-7pm and Sunday September 16 from Noon-6pm, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. SPX 2018 will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, and 22 programming slots to entertain, enlighten, and introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics, as well as graphic novels.

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Tongues Book Tour: Minneapolis (Moon Palace)
Oct
28
4:00 PM16:00

Tongues Book Tour: Minneapolis (Moon Palace)

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Join Anders Nilsen at Moon Palace in Minneapolis, MN for a reading and discussion from the first chapter of his new long-form comic Tongues

Set in Modern Central Asia Tongues follows the intertwined stories of an imprisoned god, an East African orphan on an errand of murder and a young American man with a teddy bear, lost on the tattered fringes of the human world. It is a story of adventure and revenge and a meditation on human nature in the fraught present moment.

Tongues is loosely based on a trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, of which two plays are lost and only dimly reconstructed by historians. Key to the story of Tongues is Prometheus’ role as creator and protector of humanity. In flashbacks and in Prometheus’ conversations with the eagle and others, the book will touch on humanity’s deep evolutionary past and its complicated prospects for a future. Tongues is both adventure story and meditation on human nature in our present fraught historical moment.

The full-color, large-format Tongues is Nilsen’s most ambitious work to date and marks a return to something a bit closer to the more traditional comics form he last explored in his multiple award winning Big Questions (Drawn and Quarterly, 2011).

The artist is serializing the book in large-format, full-color comics to be self-published and distributed in conjunction with No Miracles Press over the next few years until the story is complete.

 

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Folding and Unfolding: Graphics, Human Nature and Surprise
Oct
26
7:00 PM19:00

Folding and Unfolding: Graphics, Human Nature and Surprise

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On Thursday, October 26th at 7pm cartoonist Anders Nilsen will be joined in conversation by Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of Sonnenzimmer for the release of two books: Nilsen's Tongues Chapter One and Sonnenzimmer's Café Avatar. The artists will each present their own new works and interview one another about the intersections of graphic design, book-making, human life and expression, and the particular strangeness of getting ideas across with pictures. Nilsen and Sonnenzimmer are each unusual exemplars of their mutual disciplines: both are at once highly respected practitioners in their chosen fields, as well as being noted iconoclasts and experimentalists. The conversation will be structured as a kind of game of reveals, injecting some of the unpredictability and surprise the artists have all fostered in their own work. Doors open at 6:30 pm. This event is free.

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