Weekanerd NYC: Six Comic Creators vs Paper Mache Dinosaurs (Dinos FTW)

Monday, March 3

• Shoot Her! Jurassic Park, The Play
  
• 9:30pm @ Market Hotel, 957 Broadway (at Myrtle), 2nd Fl, Brooklyn

I'm telling you people, low-fi recreations....they're reaching critical mass. This production promises to recreate live on stage, scene by scene, the entirety of Spielberg's finest work of cinema. How will they do it? Much paper mache is said to be involved, and probably no small amount of theatrical ingenuity. This event has been talked up quite a bit from the Village Voice to the NYTimes, so I know I'm getting there early.

UPDATE 3/4/08: If you missed this, we've got a full report.


Your chance to meet a whole bunch of comic creators, after the jump...

Tuesday, March 4

• Peter David and Jae Lee Midnight Signing
  
• Midnight @ Midtown Comics West, 200 W 40th Street, Manhattan
  

If you really want to stalk Peter David, you actually have two event options; at 8pm at Comic Book Club, Peter will talk nerd shop with the lads from The Stack, so if you go to that first you can have something to talk to him about during those all important 20 seconds when he's signing your copy of Dark Tower (or any of the other great books he's writing, for that matter).

Wednesday, March 5

• The Global Graphic Novel: Straight Out of Anguleme
  
• 7pm @ Housing Works Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, Manhattan
  

French comic-book creators Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian, the duo responsible for the award winning comic anthology Get A Life, will talk about "the global graphic novel", which sounds very grandiose and probably has something to do with Tin Tin.

Thursday, March 6

• Comic Signing with Danny Simmons & Floyd Hughes, Creators of '85
  
• 6:30 @ Forbidden Planet, 840 Broadway, Manhattan
  

Wow, so many comic artists are doing events this week! They must all be in town to see the Jurassic Park show. Adapted from the book Three Days as the Crow Flies, '85 is a graphic novel about NYC in a tumultuous time, with lots of drug addicts, artists, and other off-the-grid grittiness.

Weekanerd NYC: Stephen King For Free, Future President Colbert, Johnnie To, and the Men of She-Hulk

Monday, October 22nd

• Pet Sematary
  
• 10pm @ Riffifi, 332 11th Street, Manhattan

Why is it spelled "Sematary?" That's not a word. Free, no cover, and $3 PBRs if you're into that kinda thing.

Tuesday, October 23th

• Stephen Colbert
  
• 8pm @ Kaufman Concert Hall, Lexington Ave and 92nd Street
  

Stephen Colbert, AKA our next president, promotes his new book I Am America (And So Can You!). Tickets are a whopping $35, but as an American, if you can't afford it you have no one to blame but yourself.

Wednesday, October 24th

• Election & Triad Election
  
• 1pm @ The Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center Plaza & W. 65th Street, Manhattan
  

Remember when Hong Kong action movies were really big for a while? Here's a couple of mobster movies by Chinese director Johnnie To. You can order tickets for $11 bucks each online, but they're playing back to back, so it seems like you can probably sneak into the second one, right?

Thursday, October 24th

• Peter David and Dan Slott
  
• 6pm @ Jim Hanley's Universe, 4 West 33rd Street, Manhattan
  

Slott and David will be signing She-Hulk #22. I don't know why I'm not reading this book, Slott and David are so awesome. Apparently issue #22 is the beginning of the new arc, so now's the time for slowbies like me to get with the program.