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LBB Presents: Christi Furnas - Crazy Like a Fox
Left Bank Books presents Christi Furnas, queer cartoonist, illustrator, oil painter, and disability rights advocate. Join us as we celebrate her debut graphic memoir "Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia." Amy Kurzweil, author of "Artificial: A Love Story" calls it "A work of blunt brilliance."
Furnas will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on May 6th.
Furnas will be in conversation with celebrated St. Louis memoirist Gabe Montesanti.
Join us Monday, May 6, at 7pm at Left Bank Books
399 N Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63108
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Watch the livestream on Left Bank Books' YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@LeftBankBooks/streams
Order the book: https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781951491284
About the Speakers:
Christi Furnas is a queer cartoonist, illustrator, oil painter, and disability rights advocate. She has exhibited in galleries across Minnesota and in New York City. Christi's career includes over ten years of arts administration, teaching art workshops, and numerous speaking engagements. With a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant Christi created the mini-comic, "Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia," which she has since developed into a full-length graphic novel. The comic's protagonist, Fox Foxerson currently has an advice column in "Dispatch," a Twin Cities publication covering arts and culture. Christi lives with her partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is her debut graphic novel.
Gabe Montesanti is the author of "Brace for Impact: A Memoir" (Penguin Random House, 2022), which chronicles her time skating for Arch Rival Roller Derby. Gabe earned her Bachelors in mathematics and studio art at Kalamazoo College and her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been published in places like "Huff Post," "LA Times," "Lit Hub," "Creative Nonfiction Magazine," "Electric Literature," and "Brevity." She has been granted artist residencies from Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City and Storyknife in Homer, Alaska. In 2023, she captured the inaugural title of Mx Pride St. Louis and is at work on a second memoir about her time performing drag.
About "Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia":
This autobiographically-inspired graphic novel explores mental health and schizophrenia in a surprising and emotionally honest story with a fantastical cast of animal characters.
Fox Foxerson's got a new roommate. Fox Foxerson's got a new job. Fox Foxerson's got a date. The roommate is only a little strange, sometimes. The job seems to involve . . . filing? It's not very clear. The date seems to be more interested in someone else. Fox would rather be making art.
As the oppressive weight of the everyday routine beats down on Fox, nothing is going right. And it doesn't seem like anyone can help -- not Fox's roommate, not Fox's friends, and definitely not the nurses and doctors at the hospital, who don't seem to take notice of anything Fox tries to tell them. Fox needs some time and space to figure things out. This quirky, humorous graphic novel tinged with pathos, immerses readers in the constant question: are you okay? Fox is not okay, but Fox is working on it.
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