Demolition Derby from Jon Pinnow on Vimeo.
John Porcellino, of King-Cat Comix fame, paints the hood of a 1967 Ford LTD. Patrick Porter plays the music. Rock and roll is here to stay.
Independent comic book artist John Porcellino will be a Parkside doing a number of events this week:
- Wed Feb 20th/ 2:00-4:45pm (CART D113)
Mini-comic workshop - Wed Feb 20th/ 5:30-7:00 (CART D113)
Talk About Comics with John Porcellino - Thurs. Feb 21st/ 2:00-3:00pm (CART 131)
John Porcellino PUBLIC LECTURE - Thurs. Feb 21st / 3:10-4:45 (CART D109)
mini-comic workshop with drawing classes
JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart, published in 2007/2009, offer a comprehensive overview of the zine’s first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden (2008) is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive. From John Porcellino’s website
