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Darth Vader And Son @ Isotope
May 8th by James Sime

One of the most talked about comics and creators of the year is coming to the Isotope!

Indie comics god Jeffrey Brown, the man behind some of our most beloved comics including CAT GETTING OUT OF A BAG, CLUMSY, UNLIKELY, and INCREDIBLE CHANGE-BOTS, has a really wonderful new book coming out that you won’t want to miss… DARTH VADER AND SON, and the Isotope and our friends at Chronicle Books have teamed up to bring you Jeffrey’s first 2012 San Francisco public appearance.

DARTH VADER AND SON takes place in an alternative Star Wars universe filled with hilarious and charming scenes from Luke Skywalker’s childhood if Darth Vader had been a good dad. One look and you’ll be just as in love with this as we all are!

Jeffrey Brown @ Isotope
Wednesday, May 16th 2012
4pm – 7pm

While we await Mister Brown’s imminent arrival with stacks of what will surely be one of our favorite graphic novels of the year, go check out this cinematic trailer for the book, catch a preview over at Apartment Therapy, sit in on a Skype interview with Jeffrey, check out the Drawing Between the Lines Jeffrey Brown documentary which had it’s world premiere screening at the Isotope, and go have some puzzle-solving and finger-puppet making fun with the Darth Vader And Son Activity Book.

We’ll also be giving out free DARTH VADER AND SON pinback buttons during our event too! How cool is that?!

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Free Comic Book Day 2012 w/ Naifeh + Ambrose!
May 1st by James Sime

Free Comic Book Day is an annual event at comic shops the planet over. Here at the Isotope we will once again be featuring a massive selection of absolutely free comic reads for comic lovin’ kids of all ages… and this year we’re thrilled to announce special guest stars Ted Naifeh (of COURTNETY CRUMRIN fame) and Adrianne Ambrose (author of the awesome FRAGGLE ROCK series) autographing copies of Archaia Publishing’s absolutely free original hardcover anthology featuring their brand new JIM HENSON’S LABYRINTH story!

We’re thrilled to have Ted and Adrianne in and to get to bring all of you the creators behind the most talked-about FCBD offering in the history of the holiday! What could be cooler? Take a peek at this book’s beauty and then come meet the author and artist, we think you’ll love them…

FCBD w/ Ted Naifeh & Adrianne Ambrose
Saturday, May 5th 2012
11am – 3pm

And while we’re talking about FCBD, do you remember that glorious FCBD comics feast we treated you to last year? We hope you’re all done reading those gigantic stacks we hooked you up with by now and are ready for more mind-bogglingness this year!

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Avengers Vs X-Men Pre-Launch
March 30th by James Sime

Isotope Bank & Trust at 326 Fell Street proudly helps launch the House of Ideas most anticipated series of 2012 with a pre-launch bash. Featuring free posters, X-themed buttons, Marvel lithographs… and variant cover editions the best X-Men costumes we see!

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To Do This Weekend: Jamaica Dyer & Noise Pop
February 24th by James Sime

Artist extraordinaire Jamaica Dyer teams up with the Isotope, Noise Pop Music Festival, DJ Darragh, and indie rock supergroup HIKING (featuring members of YURPLE PONI, GINGERBREAD HOUSE, and HUBERT) for a live art/music mashup!

Performing live art from her upcoming graphic novel FOX HEAD STEW (currently being serialized here on MTV Geek), Jamaica promises an epic follow-up to last year’s gigantic Ben Templesmith / DJ SamSupa show we hosted at Noise Pop Culture Club. And HIKING tells us to expect a show where “pyramids surface, a coyote presents himself. sand stones. undo the mask, fetch water from the well. garden psalm. the moon people are walking, within time.”

This is going to rock!

Jamaica Dyer Live Art @ Noise Pop Culture Club
@ Public Works Gallery
Saturday Feb 25th at 5:30pm
San Francisco, CA
http://2012.noisepop.com

Find out more about this year’s Noise Pop + Isotope festivities here.

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Noise Pop 2012 + Isotope = Awesome
February 3rd by James Sime

It’s that time of year again, where we combine our love of spreading the gospel of comics with our love of blisteringly good live music along with our friends from the Noise Pop Music Festival!

For 20 years running, SF’s Noise Pop indie music festival has been cranking up the amps and bringing the Bay Area a live mix of international and local musical superstars, and this year truly looks to be the best collection yet! Once again yours truly will be complementing your experience and bringing you some amazing live music-centric comic art events as Noise Pop’s official “Comics Curator”… with the help of my brilliant Isotope team of Kirsten Baldock and Dyami Serna, of course. With just about every member of our staff and several hundred of our extended family involved in various bands, what better way could there be to combine our collective interests than to create a true cross-pollination of indy music and sequential art to the masses?

Last year we blew the doors off in high style, the set list we’ve got 2012 is all about rocking, and we’ve definitely got a line-up to do just that!

Isotope presents at Noise Pop Culture Club 2012

JAMAICA DYER LIVE ART & FOX HEAD STEW FEATURETTE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 2012
5:30PM–6:30PM
Public Works Gallery – Upstairs Stage

Painter, performer, animator, web cartoonist and graphic novelist Jaimaica Dyer holds the Public Works Gallery stage with a multi-media reading, art projection, and presentation of her forthcoming original graphic novel Fox Head Stew (currently being serialized on the MTV Geek website). A live mashup of reading, concert, and art show, this featurette pulls back the creative process curtain to reveal the magics behind her comic art before the Public Works audience. With a live soundtrack composed and performed by hand-picked musical guests to accompany a unique, wall-sized live art painting session.

SEQUENTIAL REPORTERS
All Week Long, All Over San Francisco
FEBRUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Celebrating Noise Pop 2012 with on-site comic book reportage! Throughout the week our team of Sequential Reporters will be invading the festival’s shows, events, and after-parties to capture their personal Noise Pop experiences in visceral snapshots in single-page comic book form. From backstage interviews with artists to stageside with live bands to interactions with fellow fans to all manner of outrageous adventure. This compilation of sequential art memories will be hosted in an online graphic novel anthology for all to enjoy on www.noisepop.com.

Participating cartoonists include — Ed Luce, Katie Loungua, Beth Dean, Roman Muradov, Justin Hall, Sonia Harris, Danger Bob DeSilva, Kelly Martin, Dyami Serna, Jean Chen, Peter S. Conrad, Brie Spielmann, Josh Richardson, Mari Naomi, Matt DeLight, Janelle Hessig, and more.

NOISE POP REWIND: 2011 SEQUENTIAL REPORTERS COMIC ART GALLERY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 2012
All Day Long
Public Works Gallery

See last year’s Noise Pop Festival through the eyes of the SF Bay’s best cartoonists with the Noise Pop Rewind: 2011 Sequential Reporters Comic Art Gallery. Featuring show reports from Yo La Tango, The Fresh & Onlys, Kid Koala, The Concretes, Aesop Rock, Shannon & The Clams, Best Coast, Social Studies, The Soft White Sixes, Nobunny, and many more.

VINYL DREAMS 2012: COMIC ART ON RECORD SLEEVES GALLERY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 2012
All Day Long
Public Works Gallery

Celebrating the cross-pollination of music and comics… as well as the long history of famous comic artists working on album covers, Public Works Gallery hosts a unique art installation of original comic-inspired record album covers created for, and inspired by, Noise Pop attendees. Spotlighting fresh analog works by some of the most exciting outsider artists in the Bay Area and also a fistful of blank record album sleeves for attendees to join in on this interactive, DIY art gallery.

ARTISTS: Want to participate? Get a blank record album cover at the Isotope after February 10th. Just ask and it’s yours!

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Avengers Vs X-Men gets Isotope-ized
January 31st by James Sime

There are few things that could make the most anticipated Marvel event of the year, AVENGERS VS X-MEN, better. This 12 issue mini-series boasts a true superstar creative team, teaming up a fistful of the industry’s best writers Jason Aaron, Jonathan Hickman, Brian Bendis, Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker with art gods Frank Cho, Johnny Romita Jr, Olivier Coipel and Adam Kubert. And c’mon, it’s the Avengers verses the X-Men, if that doesn’t get you at least a little excited, I think your Nerdjoy Receptors need a re-configuration.

So what could make it better? If it got Isotope-ized! Check out this awesome shout-out our comic writing amigo Jason Aaron managed to work into issue zero, complete with the shop’s address, over some San Francisco police scanner chatter:

And what’s that 10-30 that’s in progress?! Click through to the Official Ten-Code List from the Association of Public Communications Officers to see!

AVENGERS VS X-MEN issue #0 hits store shelves the planet over on March 28. You can indulge in an exclusive 5 page sneak peek of this issue over on CBR to see this panel in it’s full glory. And… for those of you who have been waiting for us to announce this…

AVENGERS VS X-MEN LAUNCH PARTY @ ISOTOPE
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
8pm – 11pm

So which side will your friends here at the Isotope be backing? Do you have to even ask?

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Cartoonists Invade Noise Pop 2012!
January 25th by James Sime

Rock and roll! The Isotope has once again been asked by our friends at Noise Pop indie music festival to bring the awesome by combining our collective interests in live music, cool comics, and amazingly creative cartoonists to make this year’s line-up the best ever. We couldn’t be more excited!

Those of you who were lucky to join us on our live music-centric comic art adventure will remember the jaw-dropping set list we laid out last year. From our army of Sequential Reporters to comic making classes to the DIY Vinyl Dreams gallery show to Ted Naifeh’s stunning COURTNEY CRUMRIN LIVE to international superstar Ben Templesmith drawing the next issue of FELL live on stage with DJ SamSupa.

And yours truly as Noise Pop’s official “Comics Curator” will be bringing you all another exciting year of music+comics events. Our official press releases go out later in the week, but we currently have an open call for local cartoonists who would like to participate as Sequential Reporters. Hooking up artists with their favorite bands? What could be more fun? Last year experiment was a tremendous success, and we helped facilitate some really exceptional collaborations between great bands and amazing cartoonists. Do drop me a line if you want to be part of this year’s festivities.

(Art for this post from the awesome HOPELESS SAVAGES comic. Always available in store at the Isotope!)

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Bourbon, Bread Pudding, Isotope & You!
January 18th by James Sime

The SF food blogs are all a-buzz!

Tonight is the worldwide debut of the Isotope + Schulzie’s Bread Pudding first “demo flavor”… come join us and taste test this custom flavor at this swanky Bourbon & Bread Pudding Tasting. And try Hayes Valley’s coolest new addition before it opens too.

Bourbon & Bread Pudding Tasting
1/18/12 from 8-10pm
@ Bloodhound
1145 Folsom St. (@ 7th
San Francisco
More info here

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Celebrating The Blue Estate
January 6th by James Sime

In honor of one of our favorite pulp crime series in recent years, the Isotope is proud to present a day with BLUE ESTATE series author, cover artist, and art director Viktor Kalvachev!

A truly tension-packed book, BLUE ESTATE jam packs every page with enough dim-witted private eyes, low-rent starlets, alcoholic hitmen, groovy hippies, psycho mobsters, and all the glittery, Hollywood trash you could possibly ask for. It’s one part Guy Ritchie film, one part Elmore Leonard novel, one part It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and 100% love.

We’ll be celebrating the launch of the second volume with Viktor all day at the shop. He’s doing a cool Isotope promotion, every Blue Estate Volume 2 (or 1 or both) you’ll get a free custom Blue Estate Coaster. And for an additional 5 bills he’ll do quick sketch of a character from the BE on the back. Very cool, we like Viktor.

And then we’re following it all up with a fantastic BLUE ESTATE after-party at one of the world’s most beloved cocktail lounges, Smuggler’s Cove. Come join us and see why Drinks International Magazine listed Smuggler’s Cove #19 on their World’s Best 50 Bars for 2011 list!

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Schulzies Bread Pudding Day!
December 16th by James Sime

Because I love you, we’ve decided to give all of you a little Isotope treat to go with your favorite comics and graphic novels this weekend… Saturday is Schulzie’s Bread Pudding Day!

Be among the first in San Francisco to get to try Hayes Valley’s newest addition (opening on February 14th next year) and find out why Isotope is all over our favorite SF food blogs this week. From noon until 5pm on Saturday, December 17th,

What could make your hectic holiday shopping weekend better?

xoxox

Find out more about the amazing Schulzie’s Bread Pudding here:
www.schulziesbreadpudding.com

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