BCGF Confirms Its 2012 Major Guests List

Doing their part to make 2012 the greatest convention year in comics history, the Brooklyn Comics And Graphics Festival has made official their big-guests list in anticipation of the November show. That is... that is a pretty impressive line-up. It includes Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine, primetime alt-talents with new major books, but it also goes deep into European talent (Florent Ruppert, Blexbolex), and hits any number of other areas from young talent to New Yorker cartoonists.

The one that jumped out at me in a "holy crap" way back when co-organizer Bill Kartalopoulos was showing a postcard with this list of guests around SPX is Richard McGuire, the great illustrator and author of the seminal work "Here," an all-time comics top-10 short story. That's pretty impressive; I don't think McGuire does shows like this very often, if ever. I would expect a very kick-ass line-up of programming for this one-day show, which pretty much ends the North American calendar year in terms of shows that people I know get excited to attend. Hopefully, the year ends as strong as it's consistently performed throughout.

Announced major guests at BCGF 2012:

* Nine Antico
* Blexbolex
* Charles Burns
* Lilli Carré
* Geneviève Castrée
* Roz Chast
* Tim Hensley
* Richard McGuire
* Jonny Negron
* Anouk Ricard
* Florent Ruppert
* Olivier Schrauwen
* Adrian Tomine
* Chris Ware

The show takes place on November 10 at the Our Lady Of Mt. Carmel Church on North 8th Street. I hope to be there. The festival is free, and I greatly enjoyed myself last year.
 
posted 8:00 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives