COMICS
EVENT SERIES IN NYC STARTING APRIL 10 WITH FRIEDMAN, HASPIEL, SIKORYAK,
ILLIDGE, FINGEROTH, AND MANY MORE
NEW
YORK (March 25, 2013) – Danny Fingeroth and the Soho Gallery for Digital Art are pleased to announce THE
COMIC BOOK ROUND TABLE, a series of five exciting comics-related events on five
consecutive WEDNESDAY NIGHTS, APRIL 10-MAY 8.
Running for five consecutive WEDNESDAYS, starting APRIL
10, the CBRT will feature guests such as AL JAFFEE, DREW FRIEDMAN, DEAN HASPIEL, PETER
KUPER, R. SIKORYAK, DAVID GERROLD, JOE ILLIDGE, PAUL KUPPERBERG, and
moderator/organizer DANNY FINGEROTH, taking on topics of interest to pop culture
lovers in general, and comics devotees in particular. [More incredible guests to be announced over the next
couple of weeks!]
THE
EVENTS:
(1)
WEDS April 10: THE MAN OF STEEL VS. ORSON SCOTT CARD
(2)
WEDS APRIL 17: BLAME IT ON NEW YORK! How The Big Apple Influences Comics
Creators
(3)
WEDS APRIL 24: Old Comics, Old Freaks, Old Jews: DREW FRIEDMAN in conversation
with Danny Fingeroth.
(4)
WEDS MAY 1: Iron Man (and The Avengers) at 50
(5)
WEDS MAY 8: Two one-Act plays: "Last Days of The Brave and the Bold"
and "A People's History of Super-Heroism"
ADMISSION:
Individual
events:
Sign
up in advance: $12
Pay at the door: $17
Great
Deal! 5-for-4: Prepay for all five events: $48 (like getting one event free!):
[5-for-4
offer expires April 10th.]
Events will be held at:
The Soho Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (between Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10014
212-228-2810
DETAILS
ABOUT THE EVENTS:
(1)
WEDS April 10:
THE
MAN OF STEEL VS. ORSON SCOTT CARD
Panelists
DAVID GERROLD (The Trouble With Tribbles) JOSEPH PHILLIP ILLIDGE (Milestone
Media), PAUL KUPPERBERG (Archie’s Kevin), JEFF TREXLER (The Beat), DANNY
FINGEROTH (The Stan Lee Universe) ADAM DEKRAKER (The Young Protectors) discuss
issues surrounding the hiring of ORSON SCOTT CARD, an anti-gay activist, to
write a Superman story.
Tickets
for MAN OF STEEL event:
(2)
WEDS APRIL 17th:
BLAME
IT ON NEW YORK! How The Big Apple Influences Comics Creators
The
Empire City, the City that Never Sleeps, The Big Apple. By any name (including
Gotham City and Metropolis), the variety and diversity of people and places in
New York City has had greater influence on comic book storytelling, both words
and illustrations, than anyplace else on Earth. Our distinguished panel of
NYC-based writers and artists, including AL JAFFEE (MAD Fold-Ins), PETER KUPER (Spy Vs. Spy), DEAN
HASPIEL (Bored to Death), and R. SIKORYAK (Masterpiece Comics), will discuss
with moderator DANNY FINGEROTH
(Disguised as Clark Kent) how the Naked City inspires and permeates
their work.
Tickets
for BLAME IT ON NEW YORK event:
(3)
WEDS APRIL 24:
Old
Comics, Old Freaks, Old Jews: DREW FRIEDMAN in conversation with Danny
Fingeroth.
The
master cartoonist and satirist talks about his life and career, including
previews of NEW, UNSEEN work, including his “Legends of Comic Books” series, in
an interview and visual-presentation extravaganza.
DREW
FRIEDMAN's comics & drawings have appeared in Raw, Weirdo, Heavy Metal,
National Lampoon, SPY, The New York Times, MAD, The New Yorker, BLAB!, The New
York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Field & Stream,
TIME, The Village Voice, etc. His comics and illustrations have been collected
in 5 anthologies, the latest, "TOO SOON?". "Drew Friedman's
Sideshow Freaks" was published by Blast books in 2011. Steven Heller in
The New York Times wrote of his three volumes of portraits of "Old Jewish
Comedians": "A festival of drawing virtuosity and fabulous craggy
faces. Friedman might very well be the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt."
Tickets
for DREW FRIEDMAN event:
(4)
WEDS MAY 1:
Iron
Man (and The Avengers) at 50: A panel of iron Man experts talks about Stark,
Downey Jr., and more!
A mere
two days before the debut of Iron Man 3: The Movie With No Announced
Subtitle,
we celebrate Tony Stark's alter ego's 50th anniversary, as well as that of the
team he co-founded who, as you may have heard, had a pretty popular movie last
year. DANNY FINGEROTH (who's written both Iron Man and Avengers comics)
moderates a panel of Iron Man experts.
Tickets
for IRON MAN event:
(5)
WEDS MAY 8:
Two
one-act plays about comics and superheroes
"Last
Days of The Brave and the Bold"
A
One-Act Play
Words
by Stephen Garcia. Actions by Michael LoPorto
Larry
Greenbush as Fredric Wertham
Steven
Weinblatt as William Moulton Marston
Produced
by Edie Nugent
An
imagined meeting between two titanic real-life figures in the history of
comics! "Last Days of The Brave & Bold" presents what might have
happened in a conversation between Wonder Woman's creator Dr. William
Moulton Marston—possessed
of two cohabiting wives, and a serious promoter of the benefits of BDSM—and Dr.
Frederic Wertham—author
of the 1954 book "Seduction of the Innocent," which claimed sex and
violence were permeating comic books of the period and causing harm to the
children who read them.
Plus
"A
People's History of Super-Heroism."
A short
play that shows how one man reacts to the pressure his super-heroic family puts
on him to continue their legacy of crime-fighting rather than find his own
path.
Tickets
for BRAVE & BOLD event:
Great
Deal! 5-for-4:
Prepay
for all five events: $48 (like getting one event free!):
[5-for-4
offer expires April 10th.]
ABOUT
THE MODERATOR/ORGANIZER:
DANNY
FINGEROTH was a
longtime writer and editor for Marvel Comics and was Senior VP of Education at
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA). He has spoken on comics at venues
including The Smithsonian Institution and The Metropolitan Museum. Fingeroth is
the author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent; and co-editor (with Roy Thomas)
of The Stan Lee Universe, a treasury of interviews, articles, and mementos
relating to the co-creator of the Marvel Universe. Find out more at: www.dannyfingeroth.com
Soho Gallery For Digital Art is a
multi-purpose event space, art gallery and theater.
We are located at 138 Sullivan Street btwn Houston and Prince.
The gallery is 2000 sq. feet on 2 floors with 16 40" digital canvases that
can be customized for any event as well as projector and screen in our 75-seat
theater downstairs.
Centrally located in an iconic NYC neighborhood, SGDA has
hosted all types of events; company parties, corporate meetings, product
launches, film screenings, film shoots, art shows, fashion shows, theatrical
performances and special occasions.
If you can dream it, we can do it.
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