Friday June 1st - Another Myself - comic launch and art exhibit

Friday June 1st -7pm
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Come get your comic signed by the creators, meet the artist and writers and see the 60 original oil paintings on display!
Art by Jason Morgado
Text by Radio Free Clear Light

Another Myself is a surreal weave of shifting perspectives that revolves around three distinct experiences of a single moment in time. Another Myself explores the fear of rejection and the longing for acceptance while questioning the nature of identity and ultimately, the subjectivity of reality.
Published by Fourth Way Comics

KARTLOAD OF KOMICS: Sat May 26th - 7PM

Kome kavort with a kwartet of kalifornia's kraftiest kartoonists!
Celebrate the release of Hellen Jo's DEEP CUTS, Fred Noland's INFALLIBLE,
Geoff Vasile's TRACK RABBIT #5 and Calvin Wong's RAMBLE ON #2

Saturday May 26^th - 7pm
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Opening May 11th 7pm: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - game prototypes

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

game prototypes 

Iris Charabi-Berggren

Opening Reception: Friday May 11th - 7pm 
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Iris Charabi-Berggren’s work plays with the 'Drama of the World.' Addressing her fascination with human behavior and power dynamics through specific topics such as: games, relationships, natural disasters/war and mundane activities. Her characters are allegorical, but we can see ourselves in them as they portray the drama, humor and fallacy of real life role-play. They embody life's paradoxes by being funny as well as tragic, violent as well as tender, determined as well as helpless.

In CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Charabi-Berggren considers the subject of role-playing and power dynamics through games. The games invite the viewers to participate physically by punching or playing darts. Although the interactive installations are packed with sensorial fun, a sense of wonderment and visual stimulation the works conceptual underlying references are to the darker side of the human psyche, as seen in famous role playing experiments such as the Stanford prison experiment and the Milgram experiment.
www.iriscb.com

Sat 4/28 1pm - "Gone To Amerkay" book signing with writer Derek McCulloch

Join Mission: Comics and Eisner nominated writer Derek McCulloch in celebrating the release of "Gone To Amerkay," his collaboration with the amazing artist Colleen Doran. This tour-de-force graphic novel is sure to make the "best of 2012" lists!

Saturday April 28th - 1pm
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"This sweeping, century-spanning graphic novel explores the vivid history of Irish émigrés to New York City via three intertwined tales, from a penniless woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slum of 1870, to a struggling young artist drawn to the nascent counterculture of 1960, the year America elected its first Irish-Catholic president.Written by Eisner Award-nominated writer Derek McCulloch (Stagger Lee, Pug), and beautifully illustrated with period detail by Colleen Doran (THE SANDMAN, ORBITER) and color by Jose Villarrubia."

Meet Bizarro Cartoonist DAN PIRARO! Thurs April 26th - 6pm

Meet Bizarro Cartoonist DAN PIRARO!
SEE his stupid mustache!
HEAR his funny voice!
WATCH him sign copies of his new book from Last Gasp comics!

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After the signing- come see Dan Perform a block away at The Dark Room:

"Beauty in Vein" - Opening Friday April 13th 7:30pm

“Beauty in Vein” - new artwork by Joslyn Doerge

Opening reception - Friday April 13th - 7:30pm

Showing: April 13th thru May 7th, 2012
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Drawing on her background as a trained scientific illustrator, Joslyn Doerge explores erotic attraction, conceptions of beauty and the physical body's fleshy meat, by literally pulling the the skin off her subjects and taking a peek at what lies underneath. But rather than falling into butcher house imagery, Doerge's subjects firmly stake claim to the bubblegum innocence of mid-century pin-up models.



I have long been fascinated with the myriad ways in which the human body is represented in visual art. My background is in scientific illustration, which deals with the human form in a pragmatic, even clinical manner. But I am also particularly interested in the pop genre of pin-up art, which is designed to simultaneously entice the viewer and objectify the model, creating a visceral, even carnal, reaction in the beholder. In my latest project, then, I am exploring new possibilities in the established genres of scientific illustration and vintage-style pin-up art. Recently I have started to create large-scale illustrations which combine aspects of both of these genres. I am looking past the surface of the body, going beyond skin-deep, and investigating the substances – the very structures – that actually give a body life; in doing so I want to explore the subtle nuances of what makes a body “beautiful.” By offering a scientific rendering of pin-up art, I aim to challenge the beholder's preconceived notions of beauty – and perhaps, in doing so, “rehumanize” the female models as well. With this approach, I also explore the issues of sex, desire, and attraction by forcing the viewer to come to terms with the sight of a beautiful woman, posed seductively, but with absolutely no skin. In this way I hope to enlighten and educate others about their own humanity and cause them to question their fundamental concept of beauty. - Joslyn Doerge
  
Mission Comics & Art
3520 20th St. Suite B
San Francisco, CA
415.695.1545
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TUESDAY April 3rd 8pm - AVENGERS VS X-MEN #1 Launch Party!

Help celebrate AVENGERS VS X-MEN with a special Tuesday night sale of the epic showdown between the biggest names in the Marvel Universe!

TUESDAY April 3rd 7:30pm

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #1 will go on sale promptly at 8pm.

All Avengers and X-Men related books will be %25 off

And then we'll be geeking out the rest of the night with some cool freebies, snack and drinks!

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