The wonderful comics-friendly literary event organized by our friends at Rain Taxi, the Twin Cities Book Festival is this weekend! Here’s the info from the Rain Taxi newsletter:

Tomorrow is the big day—the Twin Cities Book Festival starts at 10:00 am sharp. Come to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds and make your way to the Progress Center to spend your day browsing books, meeting authors, and listening to great readings!

All Day Bookfair and Exhibit

We have more exhibitors than ever this year, with over 130 vendors ready to wow you with their wares! CLICK HERE to see the list of exhibitors, ranging from publishers like Graywolf Press to organizations like Minnesota Literacy Council to magazines like Revolver! Many authors will be exhibiting their books as well.

Exhibitors will be hosting author signings and specials all day. CLICK HERE to see the long list of Exhibitor Author Signings and Specials, and take notes for your best route through the exhibit hall.

Download the Program

Plan your day at the Festival ahead of time with a FREE download of our Festival Program! It has the schedule and list of exhibitors ready at your fingertips, so you can study up on how best to navigate your way through the Festival. Download it now! Or access our mobile-friendly website for all the same great info!

Books, Brains, Tyrannia, and two Brians

The Local Lit Lounge will be hopping all day with authors ready to mingle and sign books. We’ve got Geoff Herbach, author of the YA novel I’m With Stupid, Jesse Ventura with his new book They Killed Our President, Wendy Webb with her new book The Fate of Mercy Alban, and so many more authors! CLICK HERE for the schedule of author signings.

Test your creativity with author Rosanne Bane, who will be on hand all day to give the Brainy Creativity Quiz—you can win fabulous prizes too! Also available to blow your mind will be author Alan DeNiro with a book launch like no other: play his game-novella We Are The Firewall in real time, and offer your definition of tyranny in celebration of his new novel, Tyrannia!

And two Brians are visiting us from afar: Meet Brian Evenson, author of Immobility and The Lords of Salem (with Rob Zombie) and Brian Tuohy, author of Larceny Games. And meet authors Erin Hart and Paddy O’Brien who will inject a bit of Irish into the day’s festivities. These four will be at the Lit Lounge at 4:00pm.

This is just a taste of all the fun at the Festival—CLICK HERE to find out more!

See you at the Festival!

The great Peter Bagge will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis October 16th… here is the info:

Wednesday, October 16, 7:00pm – Magers & Quinn Booksellers
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Peter Bagge presents Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story

The alternative-comics master offers an indelible and idiosyncratic take on the proto-feminist.

“[Woman Rebel] is fine work from an excellent cartoonist and I urge you to jump right in.”-Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter, from his introduction

Peter Bagge’s Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story is a dazzling and accessible biography of the social and political maverick, jam-packed with fact and fun. In his signature cartoony, rubbery style, Bagge presents the life of the birth-control activist, educator, nurse, mother, and protofeminist from her birth in the late nineteenth century to her death after the invention of the birth control pill. Balancing humor and respect, Bagge makes Sanger whole and human, showing how her flaws fueled her fiery activism just as much as her compassionate nature did. Sanger’s life takes on a whole new vivacity as Bagge creates a fast-paced portrait of a trailblazer whose legacy as the founder of Planned Parenthood is still incredibly relevant, important, and inspiring.

Peter Bagge is the Harvey Award–winning author of the acclaimed nineties alternative-comic series Hate, starring slacker hero Buddy Bradley, and a regular contributor to Reason magazine. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he got his start in comics in the R. Crumb–edited magazine Weirdo. Bagge lives in Seattle with his wife, Joanne, their daughter, and three cats.