Autoptic 2021

Find Shira Spector online: insta - https://www.instagram.com/shiraspec/?hl=en twitter - https://twitter.com/shiraspec?lang=en Find Fantagraphics online: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fantagraphics/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fantagraphics Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics/ Shira Spector is a Jewish Canadian lesbian cartoonist whose work has been widely anthologized and exhibited in the Toronto area, where she resides. She has a BFA in Fibres (with Distinction) from Concordia University in Montreal. Her debut graphic memoir, Red Rock Baby Candy, paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil of her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and her recollections of past relationships with her parents and her partner. === We are thrilled to launch the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we are releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd - Jaime Hernandez - Blue Delliquanti - Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th - Weng Pixin - Trung Le Nguyen - Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th - Keiler Roberts - Leomi Sadler - Shira Spector Head over to our Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival Page page to get bios and links for each of these artists: https://www.autoptic.org/2021-digital-festival/ We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Presented in partnership with Thick Lines: https://soundcloud.com/thicklines Find Leomi Sadler online: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/leomi_sadler/?hl=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/leomisadler?lang=en Find Breakdown Press online: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/breakdownpress/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/breakdownpress?lang=en Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/breakdownpressuk/ Leomi Sadler is a member of the Famicon artist group alongside Stef Sadler, GHXYK2 and Kitty Clark, with uncle Jon Chandler. A cult figure in the alternative comics scene for over a decade, with her brother Stef, she runs the critically acclaimed publisher Famicon Express and is co-editor of the Mould Map anthology series alongside Hugh Frost of Landfill Editions. With a core practice of drawing and comics, her artistic tendrils continue to extend into the worlds of fashion and contemporary art. She has exhibited her sculptural works internationally, and has recently collaborated with brands such as Braindead, Gasius, Heresy and Givenchy. Her biggest book so far, Tummy Bugs, was recently published by Breakdown Press, the first in a library series, each one packaging up a unique module of her multifaceted approach to story and image-making. === We are thrilled to announce the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting on Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we'll be releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd Jaime Hernandez Blue Delliquanti Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th Weng Pixin Trung Le Nguyen Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th Keiler Roberts Leomi Sadler Shira Spector We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Find Keiler Roberts online: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/keilerjean/?hl=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/keilerroberts?lang=en Buy My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts from Drawn & Quarterly: https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/keiler-roberts Keiler Roberts makes autobiographical comics. She is the recipient of the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize for Chlorine Gardens and is the author of Powdered Milk, Happy Happy Baby Baby, Miseryland, Rat Time, and Sunburning which was translated into Spanish as Isolada. Also the winner of the Ignatz Award, she teaches comics at The School of The Art Institute in Chicago. === We are thrilled to announce the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting on Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we'll be releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd Jaime Hernandez Blue Delliquanti Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th Weng Pixin Trung Le Nguyen Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th Keiler Roberts Leomi Sadler Shira Spector We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Find Joshua W. Cotter online: https://www.instagram.com/joshuawcotter/ Find Joshua W. Cotter's publisher online: Fantagraphics: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fantagraphics/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fantagraphics Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics/ Joshua W. Cotter's debut graphic novel, Skyscrapers of the Midwest, was nominated for an Ignatz award in 2005. He is currently at work on a multi-volume science fiction epic, Nod Away, which takes place in a near-future alternate reality, that moves back and forth between physical and psychological worlds. The second volume is due out September of 2021. He lives in rural northwest Missouri with his family and cats with an acute sense of impending mortality. They keep him making comics. === We are thrilled to announce the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting on Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we'll be releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd Jaime Hernandez Blue Delliquanti Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th Weng Pixin Trung Le Nguyen Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th Keiler Roberts Leomi Sadler Shira Spector We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Find Trung Le Nguyen online: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/trungles/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/trungles Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/trungles Find Trung Le Nguyen's publisher online: Penguin Random House: https://www.facebook.com/PenguinRandomHouse https://twitter.com/penguinrandom Trung Le Nguyen, also known as Trungles, is a Vietnamese-American comic book artist and storyteller from Minnesota. He was born in a refugee camp somewhere in the Philippine province of Palawan. Trung has contributed work for Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and Image Comics, largely in the romance genre. His first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, is due out October 13, 2020 through Random House Graphic, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Trung currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raises three very spoiled hens. He is particularly fond of fairy tales, kids' cartoons, and rom-coms of all stripes. === We are thrilled to announce the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting on Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we'll be releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd Jaime Hernandez Blue Delliquanti Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th Weng Pixin Trung Le Nguyen Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th Keiler Roberts Leomi Sadler Shira Spector We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Follow Weng Pixin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixmadeobjects/ Pixin (or Pix for short) was born and raised in sunny Singapore. She loves to draw, sew, make comics, tell stories, paint, create and construct using found objects. Pixin grew up listening to stories from her father, who was curious about the way the world works. In turn, when it comes to her art, Pixin loves to create semi-autobiographical comics that reflect her curious nature too. === We are thrilled to announce the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting on Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we'll be releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd Jaime Hernandez Blue Delliquanti Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th Weng Pixin Trung Le Nguyen Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th Keiler Roberts Leomi Sadler Shira Spector We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Buy Rebecca and Lucie In the Case of the Missing Neighbor by Pascal Girard: https://drawnandquarterly.com/rebecca-and-lucie-case-missing-neighbor Pascal Girard was born in Jonquière, QC, in 1981. He began filling his notebook with drawings on his very first day of school and never stopped. Since he was unable to rid himself of this habit, he naturally decided to make it his career. Girard is the award-winning author of Nicolas, Bigfoot, Reunion, and Petty Theft. He lives in Montreal. === We are thrilled to launch the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we are releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd - Jaime Hernandez - Blue Delliquanti - Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th - Weng Pixin - Trung Le Nguyen - Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th - Keiler Roberts - Leomi Sadler - Shira Spector Head over to our Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival Page page to get bios and links for each of these artists: https://www.autoptic.org/2021-digital-festival/ We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis, MN. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal (with Soleil Ho), published through Iron Circus Comics, and The ‘Stan (with David Axe and Kevin Knodell), published through Dead Reckoning. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. === We are thrilled to launch the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we are releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd - Jaime Hernandez - Blue Delliquanti - Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th - Weng Pixin - Trung Le Nguyen - Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th - Keiler Roberts - Leomi Sadler - Shira Spector Head over to our Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival Page page to get bios and links for each of these artists: https://www.autoptic.org/2021-digital-festival/ We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Hosted by The Gutter Boys: https://anchor.fm/gutterboys Buy Queen of the Ring: https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/new-this-month/products/queen-of-the-ring-wrestling-drawings-by-jaime-hernadez Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, co-created the award-winning comic book series Love and Rockets. He is best known for his Locas stories, which follow the exploits (romantic and platonic) of his original characters, Maggie and Hopey. Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning four decades and countless high-water marks in the medium's history. In 2017, Jaime was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, has won innumerable comics awards, and was the 2014 winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His upcoming 2021 book is Queen of the Ring, a collection of his original women's wrestling drawings created over the past 40 years. === We are thrilled to launch the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we are releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd - Jaime Hernandez - Blue Delliquanti - Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th - Weng Pixin - Trung Le Nguyen - Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th - Keiler Roberts - Leomi Sadler - Shira Spector Head over to our Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival Page page to get bios and links for each of these artists: https://www.autoptic.org/2021-digital-festival/ We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Today we are thrilled to announce the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival. Starting on Monday, August 23rd, and in partnership with Gutter Boys and Thick Lines, we'll be releasing a great series of recorded conversations and readings with a roster of fantastic artists, cartoonists, and educators. Check out our full schedule here: Monday, August 23rd - Jaime Hernandez - Blue Delliquanti - Pascal Girard Wednesday, August 25th - Weng Pixin - Trung Le Nguyen - Joshua W. Cotter Friday, August 27th - Keiler Roberts - Leomi Sadler - Shira Spector Head over to our Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival Page page to get bios and links for each of these artists: https://www.autoptic.org/2021-digital-festival/ We'll be releasing all of the Autoptic 2021 Digital Festival content in both audio and video formats via our podcast feed and YouTube channel respectively: Podcast Feed: https://anchor.fm/autoptic-2021 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8t6eDi8f6b86CH1Are1MaA Subscribe to either of our feeds today so that you can listen in on all of these incredible makers discussing their work and process. Also, make sure you subscribe to our partners Gutter Boys and Thick Lines for great comics content all year long!

Alex Mitchell chats with Bob Algeo, Assistant Professor at the Minneapolis College and Art and Design, to discuss how COVID-19 has changed comics education in the short term and to share their thoughts on how our recent adventures into remote learning will continue to effect student cartoonists in the future, even when they eventually return to the classroom.

Odin Cabal sits down with Autoptic's Pete Faecke to discuss his current work in progress Captain Beard and Koala. They discuss Odin's process transitioning from slice of life comics for an adult audience to working on a fairy tale aimed at a younger crowd, and how the narrative rules change when you start working in the fantasy genre. Follow @odincabal on instagram for progress shots, and to get the book when it comes out!

Camilo Aguirre reads an excerpt from his comic, What Remains, which explores Colombian politics and life through social research, historical accounts, and personal experiences. Follow Camilo on Instagram: @camil0_aguirre

Sean Knickerbocker sits down with cartoonist Audra Stang to talk about, comics, print making, and comic shops. Then Audra reads an excerpt from her new serialized comic Tunnel Vision. You can check out more of Audra's work at https://www.audrastang.com and you can read Tunnel Vision parts one and two in The Rust Belt Review at https://www.rustbeltreview.org.

Cartoonist Jose Pimienta and Random House Graphic Senior Editor Whitney Leopard talk with Autoptic Festival's Robert James Algeo about the relationship between author and editor. Jose and Whitney go deep on how to navigate the lines between reader, fan, and editor, the challenges posed by bringing pre-existing material to the book market, and their specific experiences working together on Jose's new graphic novel Suncatcher.

Cartoonist Craig Thompson and his brother Phil Thompson talk comics with the Autoptic Festival's Alex Mitchell. The brothers chat about Ginseng Roots, a memoir/travelogue-comic published by Uncivilized Books, about their shared childhood helping farm ginseng in rural Wisconsin.

Cartoonist Madeline McGrane talks comics with the Autoptic Festival's Peter Faecke. McGrane is currently working on The Accursed Vampire, a graphic novel being published by HarperCollins. The interview dives into the world of publishing, college memories, vampires, and everything in between.

Cartoonist M. S. Harkness talks comics with the Autoptic Festival's Peter Faecke. Harkness chats about her comics—Tinderella and Desperate Pleasures—published by Uncivilized Books. The interview digs deep into the nuts and bolts of making comics, with some frank conversation on the challenges and pitfalls of working in autobio.

Cartoonist Rumi Hara talks comics with the Autoptic Festival's Sean Knickerbocker. Hara chats about her book Nori, published by Drawn & Quarterly, but the conversation moves from her childhood in Kyoto, to the beaches of Hawaii, to the coast of Georgia, and the sci-fi inspiration of the Mojave desert.

Cartoonist Julia Gfrörer talks comics with the Autoptic Festival's Sean Knickerbocker. Gfrörer chats about her recent comic Vision, published by Fantagraphics. The conversation covers horror, zines, poetry, and how to make a sort of peace with the chaos of 2020.

Cartoonist Josh Pettinger talks comics with the cast of the Gutter Boys as part of the Autoptic Festival's virtual tribute to a 2020 show that never was. Josh Pettinger is an English comic book artist based out of Chicago. His comic series Goiter uses fiction to explore the uncomfortable parts of the human condition. It regularly gets described by reviewers as 'unnerving' and 'strange'.

This August 22nd, Autoptic will be presenting Autoptic 2020—a virtual tribute to the show that almost was. In collaboration with the Gutter Boys podcast, we'll be hosting interviews with some of our special guests, including Julia Gfrörer, Rumi Hara, M.S. Harkness, (and more). Autoptic will also be releasing a special festival catalog showcasing the incredible work of our exhibition applicants, with a cover by our show artist, Madeline McGrane.