Our Comics, Ourselves at the University of Connecticut

June 14, 2016 - August 22, 2016

June 14 – August 22, 2016 The Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut will host the first traveling installment of the exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves co-curated by Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson. The exhibition premiered at Interference Archive in January, and we're really excited to see it move on to new locations. Our Comics, Ourselves features comics from the Interference Archive collection as well as private collections on loan.

Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art

January 21, 2016 - April 17, 2016

January 21 - April 17, 2016 Exhibition opening: January 21, 7-10pm The exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art presents the graphic stories that describe the complexity and diversity of our collective experience, and examines the social and historical contexts within which they emerged. This exhibition includes includes comic books, graphic novels, DIY comics, and various comics paraphernalia primarily from the United States, 1945 to present.

Our Comics, Ourselves Comic Book Club

Saturday, July 14, 2018 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Saturday, July 14, 10am-12pm Do you read comics all the time and have insights you want to share and discuss with a group? Are you a critical thinker, and curious about the genre of comics? Join our Comic Book Club! Each month we’ll select one or two comics or graphic novels to read, and then come together for an exploratory, critical, and spirited discussion. This month we'll discuss: Epileptic, by David B. and Gaylord Phoenix, by Edie Fake

Telling Feminist Histories With Comics

Thursday, March 31, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Thursday, March 31, 2016 7–9pm How is telling feminist histories aided through the use of comix? How do comix as a medium support healing, processing and exploration? This exciting evening will feature a panel of five amazing comic artists, moderated by Our Comics, Ourselves Exhibition co-organizer, Jan Descartes. Each artist, working with histories in different capacities, will present their work and will enter a moderated discussion regarding the power and importance of using comix to tell feminist histories, as opposed to other mediums and genres. This moderated discussion will be followed by a Q&A.

DIY Feminist Comics, Zines and Coffee Workshop

Saturday, April 2, 2016 12–2pm Come to our DIY workshop, sip coffee and learn from our featured artists on how to make your own comics or zines. This 2 hour workshop will consist of 4 comic and zine artists who will present their work in a casual roundtable setting at Interference Archive in Brooklyn. Coffee and vegan snacks will be provided. Featured speakers will talk about their experience as DIY makers and artists- where they sell, create, and distribute. The last hour of the session will be a workshop, where the artists will facilitate comic/zine-making with attendees.

Paper Cuts Zine & Comic Reading

Thursday, March 17, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Thursday, March 17, 2016 7–9pm Paper Cuts, the zine, DIY, and small press reading program on Clocktower Radio, is taking the show on the road with a series of events at bookstores and alternative spaces in the New York City area. Each event will feature writers, zinesters, artists, and performers who typically share their work in print, on paper, and in small editions. Think of it as a traveling micro-art book and zine fair! Come to hear great readers and talk about new work!

Tintin, Tom of Finland and Beyond: How I Came to Comics through Alt Masculinity and Bad Sex

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 7–9pm Join us for a very special presentation by A.K. Summers, who will discuss how alternative comics and queer zines share a common punk/DIY ethos as well as subject matter which often celebrates pulp, the misanthropic, oppositional, outlandish and unnatural. She will connect these and other influences in her work, as well as her own comic zine from the 1990s, Negativa, and eventual long-form graphic novel Pregnant Butch (2014).

Film Screening: Comic Book Confidential (1988)

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 7pm Film Screening: Comic Book Confidential (1988) A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

Featuring Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernadez, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoso, Francaise Mouly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Shelton, Spain, and Art Spiegelman.

Our Comics, Ourselves: Leela Corman Presents

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 7–9pm Join Gainesville-based illustrator, cartoonist, and Middle Eastern dancer, Leela Corman as she talks about her work, from Eisner-nominated graphic novel, Unterzahkn, to her autobiographical comics about grief and healing, and her new collection of comics coming out in 2016 from Retrofit Books. She will also organize a participatory reading of one of her works.

Vulnerable Paper, Loud Speech Bubbles: Free DIY Comics Workshop by Nina Prader

Saturday, January 23, 2016 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Saturday, January 23, 2016 12–2pm

Our Comics, Ourselves Tumblr

The Our Comics, Ourselves exhibition is on Tumblr! Because of such a positive response to the Our Comics, Ourselves exhibition, we expanded its scope to include a curated Tumblr. We invite weekly contributors to post their favorite comics from their personal collections—works by other creators that either ignited their curiosity in the medium, or influenced the work […]