While the influential role of Jews in cartooning has long been acknowledged, the role of Jewish women in shaping the medium is largely unexplored. Graphic Details is a groundbreaking exhibition, and provides the first in-depth look at a unique and prolific niche of graphic storytelling – Jewish women’s autobiographical comics. This exhibition of original drawings, full comic books and graphic novels, will present the powerful work of eighteen artists whose intimate, confessional work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades, creating an entirely new genre. By turns funny, outrageous, poignant and embarrassingly intimate, the works in Graphic Details reflect the artists’ individual journeys, refracted through a distinctively Jewish lens in a pop-culture art for ... Go to event
The immensely popular play Top Restaurant, from China’s premier professional theater company, chronicles the comic ups and downs of a Peking roast duck restaurant over half a century.
Founded in 1952, the Beijing People’s Art Theatre, China’s premier professional theater company, has largely shaped modern Chinese theater. They will perform one of their best known plays, Top Restaurant (1988), by contemporary playwright He Jiping. Top Restauranthas been revived numerous times in the past two decades, having run for more than a total of 500 performances, and even been made into a television drama. By capturing the culinary culture of Peking–its famous roast duck–Top Restaurant is a tale of inheritance versus ingenuity. Who is ultimately responsible for running a ... 
In 2003, Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, a Kuwaiti psychologist, graduate of Columbia Business School and father of four young boys, had an idea: create a comic book series with roots in Islam and Islamic culture. Al-Mutawa came up with the concept of The 99: a team of superheroes, each one exemplifying one of the 99 attributes of Allah. Within the Islamic world, Al-Mutawa hoped these new role models would counter the growing tide of political and religious extremism. But when Al-Mutawa launches the comic series, he runs up against suspicion from Muslims and the harsh realities of the global marketplace.
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When: Tue, October 4, 2011
Schedule:
Light refreshments: 6:00 PM
Screening 6:30 PM
Post-Screening Discussion 8:00 PM
Where: Delancey Street Theater
600 Embarcadero St, San Francisco, ... 
Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common: Tibet. For more than sixty years Tibet has figured in comic books from around the world, at times creating and at times perpetuating notions of an otherworldly land roamed by the yeti, inhabited by wise and powerful lamas, or full of dark magic.
Hero, Villain, Yeti features the most complete collection of comics related to Tibet ever assembled, with examples ranging from the 1940s to the present. More than fifty comic books from the Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and the United States reflect on the depiction of Tibet, tracing the historical roots of prevailing perceptions and stereotypes and their visual and narrative evolution over time.
Tibet ... 
