Y'ALL. HAPPINESS COMIX is gonna be at COMIC ARTS BROOKLYN THIS SATURDAY at table D-13, 11am - 7pm @ Mt. Carmel Church 275 N. 8th St, Brooklyn NY 11211 (L Train to Lorimer) !!! I'll be sharing a tabling with the great Heather Benjamin - Please drop by and say hi!
I will have the newest issue of Happiness (#4) available for sale plus all three back issues (as well as my own prints, zines, etc!)
Some recent feedback that Happiness #4 has received:
"I'm in LOVE with Happiness! It's exactly what [is needed] right now; mixing comics, painting, essays, and music culture. I love how it feels real and immediate in the same way that old '90s punk zines do. It's really inspiring." - Cullen Beckhorn, founder and editor of Neoglyphic Media.
"The book is kick ass! All of the comics were amazing." - Jordan Speer, Happiness #4 cover artist
"What a beautiful and angry and hopeful and heartwarming compilation - and also - what an incredible resource! I was astounded not only by [the] impeccable curation (what a good mix of different things) but also by the thoroughness of delivering information on every artist, providing tons of recommendations for more stuff to check out, and [the] encouraging and celebratory tone in general. It is really an honor to be included. I work with some rad teenagers at an art museum and last week I started loaning out one of my copies, I want all of them to read it, especially the angry young feminists." - Lyra Hill, comics artist, filmmaker, & curator
"Leah Wishnia’s enthusiastic anthology of comics and underground culture [is a] beacon of hope for me .... I like the spirit of it, the focus on unique creative voices, and the ambitiousness of her editorial and graphic scope. I also really appreciate the low price point and sense of a localized community." - Dan Nadel, The Comics Journal
"For a startlingly comprehensive document of said contemporary underground visual culture, see Happiness, a punk art anthology created in 2011 by NYC-based cartoonist and illustrator Leah Wishnia ...The massive, 33-page feature on contemporary poster and flyer art does a particularly excellent job of connecting the dots between art and music worlds ... In conversational interviews and pull-quotes printed side-by-side their re-printed artwork, the featured artists (many of whom also play in bands) draw lines between their musical pursuits and their visual work, like Dunja Jankovic, an artist and comics-maker from Croatia, who writes: "Historically, I've always been a drummer. Rhythm and comics are strongly connected on a basic level: sequencing and juxtaposing can be seen as elements for constructing a rhythm. By abandoning narration and embracing abstraction, the sounds, melodies, rhythm and other musical formers have creeped into my visual work and are now conducting the meaning." Ideas like these speak to the unique strength of a publication like Happiness, which pushes those entrenched in music and art worlds to view their mediums from a new perspective." - Liz Pelly, The Le Sigh
"It's great! Like RAW good. I'm proud to be included." - Max Morris, comics artist & Happiness #4 contributor
Seeeeeeee you all Saturday! :D
*(Psst - and don't forget - we'll also be at this event on Friday evening!)
