R.Sikoryak’s infamous Carousel returns to DP! In partnership w/the Brooklyn Book Festival, tonite features graphic novels, gag cartoons, & comics, performed by these writers/artists: Amy Chu, Angela Fanche, Sarah Firth, Kazimir Lee, Tracy White & more. Hosted by R. Sikoryak

This is an Official 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event!

For over 25 years, R. Sikoryak has hosted Carousel, a series of live comics readings and visual performances by cartoonists, graphic novelists, and artists. The show started at Dixon Place in 1997 and has since traveled around the United States and Canada, presenting over 250 creators. Now Carousel is back with a great lineup of new and returning guests. 

Amy Chu, an award winning multi-genre writer for comics & animation, worked on Netflix anime series DOTA: Dragon’s Blood; and several books for Marvel, DC & Disney. Her most recent graphic novel is Carmilla: The Last Vampire Hunter (Dark Horse/Berger Books). Graphic novels for children include Fighting to Belong!, Turning Red, Sea Sirens & Sky Island, and Ana & the Cosmic Race. She’s created educational comics for nonprofits, ie. New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Chinese in America and The Asian American Foundation. 

Angela Fanche is a cartoonist who resides in NYC. Fanche’s debut book Me & Night is a collection of autobiographical comics from 2018-2020 was published by Cram Books in 2021. Since then, she has transitioned from memoir to surreal, dreamlike narrative drawings in recent works ie. Performance of a Love Note (Entropy Editions 2022), This Valentine’s Day (2023) and Gateway to a Miracle featured in Smoke Signal 42 (Desert Island 2024). She is currently co-editor of Bernadette Magazine and continues to draw diary comics in her spare time. https://www.instagram.com/angelafanche

Sarah Firth (she/her) is an artist, writer, cartoonist and graphic recorder based on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, AU. Sarah received a Talking Difference Fellowship from the Immigration Museum; was a finalist in the Incinerator Gallery Award For Social Change; and her comics have appeared in Eisner Award-winning anthologies. Her debut graphic novel Eventually Everything Connects was The Age’s Non-Fiction Pick of The Week, shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and listed as one of The Best Graphic Novels Ever by Refinery29. https://www.instagram.com/sarahthefirth

Kazimir Lee has lived for almost equal amounts of time in Malaysia, the UK, and the US. They have been published by Slate, The Nib, OJST and NY Magazine. Their work has won a Lambda and an Ignatz. They now reside in Brooklyn with all the other freaks. They enjoy queer subtext, parenthood, ghost stories, and karaoke.

Tracy White is a cartoonist and teacher. Yalsa Great Graphic Novel and Cybil Award Finalist, her current book Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum tells the true experiences of teens fleeing their home countries seeking asylum in the US. Tracy’s 1st graphic novel How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story was a Bank Street Book of the Year, a Yalsa Great Graphic Novel, and a Texas Maverick Graphic Novel. Her webcomics TRACED, nominated twice for an Ignatz, was a TV series for Oxygen.

R.Sikoryak is the author of the graphic novels Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn & Quarterly). He illustrated the three comic book stories in Tom Hanks’ novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. Since 1997, he’s hosted the live comics performance series, Carousel.