Mon October 17, 2016
Box Brown / Tetris: The Games People Play Book Launch & Signing [in-convo with Ed Luce]
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Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Box Brown appears in conversation with Ed Luce to discuss Tetris: The Games People Play, a comics history of the beloved, addictive game. In 1984, Alexy Pajitnov created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it became a megahit, sparking a bidding war among the major game developers where no tactic was too underhanded to secure the game for distribution. New York Times-bestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and demonstrates the impact a well-designed game can have on art, culture, and commerce across the world.
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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend was released in 2014 and spent three weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. His second graphic novel with publisher First Second is Tetris: The Games People Play. Brown launched the independent comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011.
Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, a two-time Ignatz nominated series of comics and ever-expanding line of shirts, posters, records, figures and other merchandise. The first five years of Oaf comics were collected by Fantagraphics Books in 2015, with a new color volume on the way in 2016. Ed has created covers, stories and illustrations for Slate Magazine, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the infamous Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever comic series, the Eisner nominated No Straight Lines, Maximum RockNRoll and BEAR magazine. He has also exhibited his works internationally, counting Tokyo, Amsterdam, London and Toronto among his tour stops.
>>> More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/launch-box-brown-tetris-games-people-play-conversation-ed-luce
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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend was released in 2014 and spent three weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. His second graphic novel with publisher First Second is Tetris: The Games People Play. Brown launched the independent comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011.
Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, a two-time Ignatz nominated series of comics and ever-expanding line of shirts, posters, records, figures and other merchandise. The first five years of Oaf comics were collected by Fantagraphics Books in 2015, with a new color volume on the way in 2016. Ed has created covers, stories and illustrations for Slate Magazine, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the infamous Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever comic series, the Eisner nominated No Straight Lines, Maximum RockNRoll and BEAR magazine. He has also exhibited his works internationally, counting Tokyo, Amsterdam, London and Toronto among his tour stops.
>>> More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/launch-box-brown-tetris-games-people-play-conversation-ed-luce
*** RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1441486402534710/
Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Box Brown appears in conversation with Ed Luce to discuss Tetris: The Games People Play, a comics history of the beloved, addictive game. In 1984, Alexy Pajitnov created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it became a megahit, sparking a bidding war among the major game developers where no tactic was too underhanded to secure the game for distribution. New York Times-bestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and demonstrates the impact a well-designed game can have on art, culture, and commerce across the world.
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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend was released in 2014 and spent three weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. His second graphic novel with publisher First Second is Tetris: The Games People Play. Brown launched the independent comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011.
Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, a two-time Ignatz nominated series of comics and ever-expanding line of shirts, posters, records, figures and other merchandise. The first five years of Oaf comics were collected by Fantagraphics Books in 2015, with a new color volume on the way in 2016. Ed has created covers, stories and illustrations for Slate Magazine, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the infamous Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever comic series, the Eisner nominated No Straight Lines, Maximum RockNRoll and BEAR magazine. He has also exhibited his works internationally, counting Tokyo, Amsterdam, London and Toronto among his tour stops.
>>> More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/launch-box-brown-tetris-games-people-play-conversation-ed-luce
*** RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1441486402534710/
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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend was released in 2014 and spent three weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. His second graphic novel with publisher First Second is Tetris: The Games People Play. Brown launched the independent comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011.
Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, a two-time Ignatz nominated series of comics and ever-expanding line of shirts, posters, records, figures and other merchandise. The first five years of Oaf comics were collected by Fantagraphics Books in 2015, with a new color volume on the way in 2016. Ed has created covers, stories and illustrations for Slate Magazine, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the infamous Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever comic series, the Eisner nominated No Straight Lines, Maximum RockNRoll and BEAR magazine. He has also exhibited his works internationally, counting Tokyo, Amsterdam, London and Toronto among his tour stops.
>>> More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/launch-box-brown-tetris-games-people-play-conversation-ed-luce
*** RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1441486402534710/
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