Funnybook / Tragicbook
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June 1, 2011
HiLo contributor Adam McGovern is an indie comics writer — among other things, he wrote the Ignatz-nominated Dr. Id with artist Paolo Leandri. We’ll serialize another Leandri and McGovern comic here at HILOBROW, this month — stay tuned!
If you’re in Brooklyn this month, check out McGovern’s latest work: a live double feature called Funnybook/Tragicbook at The Comic Book Theater Festival in Brooklyn’s Brick Theater. Directed by Ian W. Hill.
Show times: Saturday, June 4 at 7:00 pm; Tuesday, June 7 at 8:45 pm; Tuesday, June 14 at 8:00 pm; and Sunday, June 19 at 8:00 pm. At The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn; take the L to Lorimer or the G to Metropolitan). Tickets ($15.00) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.
From the press release:
Funnybook/Tragicbook combines the layered drama of modern graphic literature with the mindless fun and unintended metaphors or old-school pop art. In “Underworld,” history’s greatest psychologist confronts its most terrible dictator in a surreal and moody monologue. In “Norrga the Thunderer,” a well-meaning Viking warrior-god punches ogres and can’t win with his own disapproving dad, as a “classic Silver Age comic” is re-enacted by a group of sincere actors at a college “low-culture” presentation. Two sides of the comic form are staged, and projected, in a theatrical interpretation of how a comic book can reflect real life, and how real life can be best understood in the mirror of a comic book.
