Brooklyn, with our engaging mish-mosh of old and new, greenery and urbanity, natives and newbies, corporate aspirations and bohemians, and wannnabes of all stripes, can seem surreal and post-modern enough in the 21st century. But now, the Borough of Bars and Churches is being scrutinized and explained by a new generation of artists and writers who expose Brooklyn -- and their own personal experiences in it-- to the Large Hadron Collider of their imaginations, and somehow it comes out through the other end of the black hole of their artistic visions transmogrified as a cartoon universe, brilliant, hip, philosophical, and, sometimes, even funny.The King Con festival at the Brooklyn Lyceum, with panels beginning this evening and continuing through Sunday, smacks right up against the NYC Marathon this weekend, but it promises to be an interesting and entertaining mix of Brooklyn-centered or Brooklyn-themed comic art, discussions and home grown creativity.
Scheduled panels begin tonight. Sessions throughout King Con include X-Men luminary Chris Claremont, Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel (the cartoonist for Ames' HBO show Bored to Death, and a model for Ray played by Zach Galifianakis), R. Sikoryak, Collaboration Counseling (writers and artists/cartoonists sort it all out), Atlantic Yards, Cartoons, and the Changing Face of Brooklyn and much much more. Tickets: $10 for the weekend, $7 per day (some panels extra), a Brooklyn bargain for comic aficionados. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Avenue (Union & President Streets)... Details here
Among my personal faves - R. Sikoryak, who has created work for the New Yorker, Nickolodeon and Raw Visions, among many other venues, with his cool, smartass sensibility, impeccably illustrated, as with the examples below:
King Con main site here
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