Liniers today at Politics and Prose at 10:30 am

If you can get away this morning, you should go to this.

I saw Argentine cartoonist Ricardo Liniers last night. He was really entertaining and a sweet guy. He did a painting on stage, Michael Cavna interviewed him, he did some more painting and then signed books. His comic strip Macanudo is a big success in Latin America, and is now appearing in books in English. He's also done 2 books for younger readers with Toon Books. All three should be available at the bookstore today. He does a nice drawing in each book.

You can see more see pictures at https://www.flickr.com/photos/42072348@N00/albums/72157659990511236

He's done 3 New Yorker magazine covers:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-obamas-elephant-problem
http://www.newyorker.com/uncategorized/cover-story-straphangers-by-liniers
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2015-03-16\

He also did one very crazy thing with one of his books. He printed Macanudo #6 (only in Spanish now) with a blank cover and drew an individual cover for each of the 5,000 in the first print run.

Here's one he did for me last night.

 

April 9: Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez

Graphic Novelists Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez

Takoma Park Maryland Library

Thursday, Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m.

 

Graphic novelists Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez will present their new book for kids, "Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure" on Thursday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. In the book, Spiegelman and Sanchez  tell the story of a boy named Pablo, who gets separated from his schoolmates on a class trip and has to figure out how to navigate the NYC subway system. In a starred review, Kirkus noted that the book is "required reading for anyone, tourist or resident, mystified by or anxious about using arguably the greatest public-transportation system on the planet.." At our event,  Politics & Prose will be selling copies of "Lost in NYC," but the event is free and no purchase is required to attend.

This is the best SPX ever

Of course, I say that every year. But this year, with 33% more space is really good. It continues tomorrow.

Here's some pictures.

The pre-opening line

Local cartoonist Mark Burrier

Local cartoonist Mark Burrier and his new comic

Connie Sun and 'Animals doing Yoga'

The Reeds and their new comic

The 'March' authors

Gordon Harris and his new minicomic

R.M. Rhodes

Anders Nilsen

Janet Hamlin, Guantanamo court artist

Carol Tyler

Jay Lynch

Jay Lynch and Frank Cammuso

R. Sikoryak

Kriota Willbert and R. Sikoryak

Peter Bagge

Seth

Rutu Modan

Brian Ralph

Rutu Modan

Takoma Park librarian on Benny and Penny

'Benny and Penny' tops 2010 list of best books for beginners, By KAREN MACPHERSON, Scripps Howard News Service March 3 2010.

Benny & Penny is one of Toon Books line.