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Thursday December 7th 7PM
FREEDrawn and Quaterly Presents Kevin Huizenga
Gabrielle Bell
Anders Nilsen
 

Drawn & Quarterly invites you to a signing and discussion with comic artists Gabrielle Bell, Anders Nilsen, and Kevin Huizenga
 
Gabrielle Bell was born in London, England, and lived there two years before moving back to Detroit, Michigan. Eventually she moved to San Francisco where she took art classes at San Francisco Community College. Gabrielle moved to New York and published, “When I’m Old and Other Stories” with Alternative Comics. She also contributed to several anthologies, and began the “Lucky” series, of which the third installment won an Ignatz for “Most Outstanding Minicomic” in 2003 and is now being collected and republished by Drawn & Quarterly. Her work can also be seen in the quarterly anthology “Mome” published by Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book Four. Lucky is available now.
 
Anders Nilsen was born in rural Northern New Hampshire in 1973. Nilsen went to college at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, studying art and doing political work. A group of paintings had developed into an artists book called The Ballad of the Two Headed Boy and in 1997, still thinking he might be more fine artist than cartoonist, Nilsen started graduate school at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he dropped out shortly after the publication of Big Questions #3. He has received two Ignatz nominations for Big Questions #4 in 2002 as well as a Xeric and several grants from the City of Chicago to keep making comics. Nilsen is currently working on finishing Big Questions as well as a couple of further collections of strips from his sketchbooks. Big Questions #8 and Don?t Go Where I Can?t Follow were recently released.
 
Kevin Huizenga was born in 1977 in Harvey, IL and spent most of his childhood in South Holland, IL, near Chicago. He attended college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moved to St. Louis in 2000 where he lives and works. He began drawing comics in high school, xeroxing his first issue (with friends) at the neighborhood Jewel Osco in 1993. Since that time he’s made approximately 30 more. In 2001 the Comics Journal named him “Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year” and called #14 of his “Supermonster” mini-comic series “one of the best comics of any kind released in 2001.” Kevin?s newest title is called Curses

THE2NDHAND #22 Release EventFriday, November 10th, 7:00 PM
 
THE2NDHAND #22 brings Louisville to Chicago with another in Mickey Hess\’s textual sampling series. The story here integrates the journeys of George Rogers Clark, founder of Louisville and brother to the Clark of Lewis & Clark fame, who famously turned down the commission to explore the west in favor of settling in the Ohio river\’s jewel. This crew is all-Louisville, all the time, though we welcome them. Featuring readings from Jason Jordan, Mickey Hess, Jessica Elliott, Mike Smith and Al Burian (not form Louisville).
 
Jason Jordan is a Louisville-area native and frequent contributor to THE2NDHAND. He is the author of the Powering the Devil\’s Circus, a collection of shorts.
 
Mickey Hess is THE2NDHAND\’s FAQ editor and and author of the autobiographical novel Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, the experimental collection One Thousand Pound Locket, and a new two-story offering, Someone Has Plagiarized Faulkner. He recently relocated from Louisville to Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he\’s on the faculty of Rider University. He also edited Greenwood Press\’s forthcoming Icons of Hip-Hop.
 
Jessica Elliott is a freelance writer and a student at Indiana University Southeast, where she is editor of the Undergraduate Research Journal and associate editor of the IUS Review. Her fiction has appeared in the THE2NDHAND.
 
Mike Smith is the author of Tell Christian I\’m Sorry and a contributor to THE2NDHAND.
 
Al Burian is a musican, writer, and zine maker (Burn Collector).