Brooklyn comics store Desert Island presents its eleventh-annual free festival at Pratt Institute, which draws exhibitors and guests from around the world to Pratt’s 42,000 sq ft ARC building, the second-largest room in Brooklyn.

This year’s show includes a full day of free talks and lectures on Pratt’s campus, including:
- Chris Ware interviewed by Art Speigelman and Françoise Mouly about his career since appearing in their RAW magazine in 1981
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb interviewed by Lauren Weinstein about the lives and loves of alter ego Honeybunch Kominsky
- Charles Burns and Gary Panter discussing “Drawing as a way of Thinking”
- Kim Deitch and Nina Bunjevac interviewing each other about “The Sublime Detail”
- Frank Santoro and Pittsburgh: Representing Hometown, Family, and Possibility
- “Decolonising Comics,” exploring why comix and zines are spearheading the conversation around decolonization
- “Invisible Wall: Drawing Across Borders,” a surrealist-activist drawing game between artists from New York and Mexico

***All this, plus over 300 artists and exhibitors selling comics, artists’ books, prints, and ephemera, including tons of rare, self-published, and exclusive material***

THE FOLLOWING DAY, join us at Market Hotel to unwind at the free CABaret Voltaire variety show, curated by Matthew Thurber. Including: Ben Katchor on Dairy Restaurants! Puppet show by John Mejias! True confessions by Siobahn Gallagher! A Siberian comic fest documentary! Vintage cartoons! Comedy! Weird performances! Andrew Jeffrey Wright! Julia Gfrörer! Surprise and Revelation!
CABaret Voltaire
Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave, 2-7 PM, Sunday 11/3, FREE