When published in France, Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, the story of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution and war with Iraq, garnered comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, and won several prestigious comic book awards.

"You've never seen anything like Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre." - Gloria Steinem

Join us for a feature event in our Graphic Novelists series: a conversation between a new sensation and the master on comic art, its evolution and contemporary meaning.

"Art Spiegelman... to the comics world is a Michelangelo and a Medici both, an influential artist who is also an impresario and an enabler of others." - The New York Times Magazine

"The most versatile and innovative artist the medium has ever known." - Dave Eggers

Political illustrator Peter Kuper, whose graphic novels include Sticks and Stones, The System, and an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, is most widely recognized as the artist behind Mad magazine's legendary "Spy vs. Spy". His latest graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember, is a hilarious and heartbreaking quasi-autobiography about social doubts, the anxiety over fatherhood, and adult friendships.

"An adult book of astonishingly youthful vigor, Stop Forgetting to Remember is one of the great graphic memoirs." - Boston Globe

"Peter Kuper is undoubtedly the modern master whose work has refined the socially relevant comic to the highest point yet achieved." - Newsarama

The gently surreal culture in many of Katchor’s strips includes hucksters, butter-and-egg men, latter-day Kabbalists and merchants living in a wonderland of tin ceilings, illuminated storefronts, and unusual enterprises such as the Senseless Elaboration Parlor and the Mortal Coil Mattress Store. The first cartoonist to win a MacArthur "genius grant," Katchor is the author of The Jew of New York, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise.

Witness the life and times of the Rosenbach brothers, preeminent rare-book and decorative art dealers in the first half of the last century through the eyes of award winning graphic novelist Ben Katchor and composer and singer Mark Mulcahy. Mixing projected animated images with live singers and musicians, the show explores the obsessive nature of collecting, the relation between cultural and commercial pursuits and the men’s significance as owners of some of the world’s greatest literary treasures.

"It is thrilling, charming and altogether a knockout." - Variety.com

Ben Katchor's richly eclectic view of the world will be on display through his exhibition, The Backlit Word, includes watercolors, drawings, and inkjet prints, as well as several set designs from The Rosenbach Company, to be performed on our stage on May 14.

"...the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip." - The New York Times

Participate in a master class with Ariel Schrag to learn the ropes of becoming a graphic novelist.

Ariel Schrag is the author of the autobiographical graphic novels Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High School. Her illustrations and comics have appeared in many publications including The San Francisco Chronicle, Jane, Paper, and The Village Voice. Schrag was a staff writer and story editor of the hit Showtime series The L Word.

Divided into a lecture and a workshop, topics include:

• Beginning a graphic novel
• Narrative options
• Style
• Depicting content through page layout
• Narrative pacing
• Comics vocabulary and materials
• Discussion on major artists such as Marjane Satrapi, Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware
• And much more!

Presented in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts

Join The Hub and Intersection for the Arts as we present a panel featuring four up-and-coming graphic novelists who will discuss their unique visions and share their work.

The panel features:

• Miriam Libicki
• Jaime Cortez
• Keith Knight
• Ariel Schrag

Make your reservations now, as this event will sell out.

$5 - $15 sliding scale
(Audience members' choice)

Presented in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts