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Minneapolis:

Come join MITCH GERADS (artist) and SCOTT DILLON (writer) at 8PM, on Friday, September 18th, at GLUEK’s RESTAURANT & Bar ( http://www.glueks.com ) in Minneapolis, MN.  We’re celebrating our release of JOHNNY RECON No.01 from POPGUNPULP Comics.

Come by and have some drinks and some great local conversation.  You can also grab your own copy of JOHNNY RECON No.01 for $4.00 as well as an exclusive Release Party print by artist, Mitch Gerads.  For more information please visit, http://www.popgunpulp.com

Thanks and we hope to see you there!

San Francisco:

TWO COOL JAPANESE FILM EVENTS AT NEW PEOPLE NEXT WEEK

FUNUKE: Show Some Love, You Losers!
( 2007, 113min., With English Subtitles, Directed by Daihachi Yoshida)
Reviewed as “amusing Japanese dramedy” by Variety, FUNUKE was in Cannes Film Festival 2008 Official Selection. This dark comedy centers around a dysfunctional family with a history of dark secrets. When both parents die in a car accident, actress-wannabe Sumika returns home from Tokyo and takes the opportunity to harass her aspiring manga artist sister Kiyomi, whom she still blames for her own failures in life for strange some reason. More info at: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/films-9-2009/#funuke

SORASOI by Katsuhito Ishii (WHO WILL APPEAR IN-PERSON ON FRIDAY 9/25)

(2008, 89min., With English Subtitles, Directed by Katsuhito Ishii & Nice Rainbow)
Take this rare chance to see visionary Katsuhito Ishii’s latest work SORASOI, a “delightfully goofy summer-camp comedy. (-Variety)”! The story unfolds in a small beach side hostel called “SORASOI” where a group of college students practice their dance routine day and night for the upcoming competition. Meanwhile, a mysterious girl named Yuri shows up and stays in “SORAROI” and one of the male students falls in love with her at first sight. More info at: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/films-9-2009/#sorasoi

Brooklyn:

BEASTS OF BURDEN SIGNING WITH JILL THOMPSON & EVAN DORKIN AT BSC

Saturday, September 19, Starting at 6pm!

Bergen Street Comics is proud to host the Brooklyn Launch Party for “Beasts of Burden” by Evan Dorkin (writer) and Jill Thompson (artist).  Evan and Jill will be here in person to celebrate  and sign copies of the issue  on Saturday, September 19th from 6PM – close.

Fun, bubbly refreshments will be served.  And Jill has created a special print for all of the fans!

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