Litquake 2019 Festival: Full Schedule

5:00pm PDT

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society eventually hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities. Its strange and often bizarre style of public creativity influenced and inspired everything from Urban Exploration and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club to SantaCon, and yes, Burning Man. A new revised edition of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp) tells the history and offers a template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity. Author and Cacophony member John Law, interviewed by V. Vale. FREE

Sunday October 13, 2019 5:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Graphic Narrative

TICKET TYPE FREE!
ADA Accessible Wheelchair Accessible

6:00pm PDT

Books to Look At

Join renowned graphic memoirists Brian Fies and Mark Ulriksen, artist Jeremy Fish, and comics historian Jon B. Cooke, as they read from and project their award-winning work on the wall of North Beach's iconic gallery, during an ongoing group exhibition of related fine art. Hosted by Jody Weiner. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Moderators

Jody Weiner

Jody Weiner wrote the novel Prisoners of Truth (2006). drawing from his experiences defending criminal cases in Chicago. Along with Jane Goodall, Dave Soldier and William Shatner, he co-authored Kinship With Animals (2007), an anthology of true interspecies encounters which included... Read More →

Authors and Participants

Jon B. Cooke

Jon B. Cooke is the five-time consecutive winner of the Eisner Award for his magazine Comic Book Artist (for which he also won a coveted Harvey Award), as well as an award-winning documentary film writer and producer (Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist). His most recent... Read More →

Jeremy Fish

Jeremy Dan Fish was born in Albany, New York in 1974 and relocated to San Francisco in 1994. He received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997 with an emphasis on painting and printmaking. Fish’s education and work experience has led to a successful career as a fine... Read More →

Brian Fies

Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist of award-winning graphic novels, including Mom's Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? The day after Brian and his wife Karen lost their home in the Tubbs fire, he bought paper and pens, and began writing and drawing A Fire Story... Read More →

Mark Ulriksen

Mark Ulriksen is an award-winning San Francisco-based artist and illustrator whose instantly recognizable portraits, whimsical takes on life, and editorial drawings have appeared in many of America’s leading magazines and newspapers. Ulriksen is best known for his work for The New... Read More →

Sunday October 13, 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Live Worms Gallery