Join us for a live comics reading presented by the Sequential Artists Workshop on at 7pm on Sept 20th at the store. We’ll have books for sale by some of the artists.
Here’s the lineup:
M.S. Harkness
M.S. Harkness is an American cartoonist known for her graphic memoirs Time Under Tension (Fantagraphics, 2023) Desperate Pleasures (Uncivilized, 2020) and Tinderella (Kilgore Books, 2018) and various self-published mini-comics. Her work is an incisive bildungsroman of growing up poor, marked by sexual trauma and various other indignities. Her cartooning is rendered in stark black & white, tending toward forceful graphics that blend contemporary animation and traditional cartooning styles.
Born in Carney, Oklahoma, Harkness currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she occasionally teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Comics from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2017, studying under Kevin Huizenga. A weightlifter for many years, Harkness is also an NASM CPT and works part-time as a Personal Trainer. @m.s.harkness on Instagram msharkness.com.
Raeghan Buchanan
Raeghan Buchanan is an artist based in Columbus, Ohio, who makes comics focusing on Black Punk culture. Buchanan founded and co-runs POCtoberArt, an online gallery that features illustrations of Black/POC punk, funk, and rock musicians to document and create a visual dialog between artists and bands. She has recently created self-published books Strange Glances and the POCtober Sketchbook, as well as The Secret History of Black Punk, now available from Silver Sprocket. @peppermint_raygun on Instagram peppermintraygun.com.
Carly Shooster
Carly Shooster is a Jewish-American cartoonist based in Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from the California College of Arts with a MFA in 2022 and has since been working on her first Graphic Novel, 'Mamita'. When she's not supporting community arts through her work at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA) and the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), she's walking her dog and tending her garden. @hunger_eating_munch on Instagram carlyshoo.com.
Morty
Morty was born under the wolf moon. She is a cartoonist and printmaker. She wants the pictures to bring your attention to the matrix of spiritual information in which your mundane life is situated and to make you smile. @girls.complex on Instagram girlscomplex.carrd.co.
Derek M. Ballard
Derek M. Ballard is a cartoonist and animator based in Gainesville, Florida who makes modern American family comics