Pics of the Week, 8/1
-- Publishers Weekly, 8/1/2005
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This week our pictures present the opening of a new Brooklyn, N.Y., store specializing iin graphic novels; novelist Christopher Sorrentino in San Francisco; kids' author David Wiesner at MoMA; a couple of Harry Potter fans in San Jose, Calif.; and cartoonist Michael Kupperman and girlfriend, hawking books in an East Village bar. | |
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ROCKETSHIP BLASTS OFF
Comics fans and creators turned out in force to celebrate the opening of Rocketship, an 800-sq.-ft. graphic novel bookstore and gallery, located amidst the Brooklyn hipoisie on Smith Street. The opening featured an exhibition by four comics artists. Pictured (l. to r.) are exhibiting artists Matt Madden and Jessica Abel; Rocketship owners Alex Cox and Mary Gibbons; and Josh Neufeld and Dean Haspiel, exhibiting artists. |
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PATTY HEARST REDUX
Novelist Christopher Sorrentino stands in front of the San Francisco house where SLA revolutionaries Bill and Emily Harris were arrested for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Sorrentino’s new novel, Trance (FSG), is a fictional account of the kidnapping. He's on tour and reading from the novel, accompanied by PW's Michael Scharf, who is writing a blog about the book tour. |
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STORY TIME AT MOMA
Kids' author, illustrator and two-time Caldecott Medal-winner David Wiesner reads to fans young and old during New York's Museum of Modern Art’s storytime in the Sculpture Garden. |
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MORE POTTER MANIA
Two more fully satisfied Harry Potter consumers hug their magical prizes at a Harry Potter book party at Hicklebee’s Bookstore in San Jose, Calif. |
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TALES TO THRIZZLE FOR SHIZZLE
Cartoonist Michael Kupperman and girlfriend Muire Dougherty show off Kupperman’s latest book, Tales Designed to Thrizzle (Fantagraphics) at a book party held at the Lit Bar in NYC’s East Village. |
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