PAST EVENT
Kevin Huizenga & John Porcellino Exhibiting at Zine Not Dead Fest
Saturday, June 15, 2024 to Saturday, June 15, 2024
12:00pm
John Porcellino
John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over thirty years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. According to artist Chris Ware, "John Porcellino's comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive."
PAST EVENT
At Home with John Porcellino
Launch
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 to Tuesday, February 9, 2021
01:00pm
PAST EVENT
CHICAGO COMICS: 1960S TO NOW
Gallery Show
Saturday, June 19, 2021 to Sunday, October 3, 2021
01:00pm
PAST EVENT
Autoptic Festival in Minneapolis
Festival
Saturday, August 18, 2018 to Sunday, August 19, 2018
01:00pm
PAST EVENT
D+Q at Autoptic
Festival
Wednesday, December 31, 1969 to Wednesday, December 31, 1969
07:00pm
PAST EVENT
Australia Exhibition: “Comic Tragics”
Gallery Show
Saturday, April 9, 2016 to Monday, July 25, 2016
10:00am
July 15, 2021
King-Cat Classix reviewed in The Broken Pencil
Here lies a unique portrait of Midwestern youth, reveling in the mundane. The work collected in John Porcellino’s Kin...
July 7, 2021
“A real feast for the eyes”: Chicago comics exhibit features Lynda Barry, John Porcellino, and Nick Drnaso, among others!
“Comics are woven into Chicago and its art history,” says comic historian and curator-at-large, Dan Nadel. “Newsp...
March 25, 2021
The everyday beauty of John Porcellino’s comics in review of reprinted titles
There was this question of how I come up with the “off-the-beaten path” subjects I write about. The editor wondered...
February 28, 2021
Towards a Less Crazy World: John P on NPR
It was May of 1989 when John Porcellino (“a 20-year-old, hormonally charged, punk-inspired Rock ‘n’ Ro...
February 17, 2021
“What I’ve Looked for in My Life is a Way to Just Live in the World” – John Porcellino Talks About His Decades of Minicomics Practice and New Drawn & Quarterly Collections
It has been three decades since John Porcellino began sharing his singular view of the world in the form of self-publish...
February 16, 2021
A History of King-Cat in The Chicago Reader
The graphic novel Map of my Heart begins with a cartoon map of Hoffman Estates: the high school, the Barrington Square M...
February 11, 2021
John Porcellino collection given spotlight in Broken Frontier
“Somewhere along the line, King-Cat went from being something I do for fun, to something I do, to what I do. ” That ...
February 9, 2021
King-Cat’s early years: John P talks zines with AJ Frost
To gaze upon a page of King-Cat is to see the comics form stripped out to its basic element. There on the page, one can...
Watch the trailer for Root Hog or Die – a documentary about John Porcellino
John Porcellino has been self publishing King-Cat Comics & Stories for 25 years. A zine/minicomic legend, this is his story. (more…)
John Porcellino talks to librarians!
John Porcellino is a popular creator of minicomics. Porcellino’s self-published, photocopied, mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics is among the best-known and…
CAKE Panel with Porcellino, Huizenga and Nilsen
With versatile bodies of work that span from self-published minis to long-running serials to graphic novels, Huizenga, Nilsen and Porcellino have…