Comic Arts Brooklyn [CAB], organized by Desert Island Books, which created its original, now defunct incarnation, Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, promises a wild wind-up for Illustration Week. The programming is directed by Paul Karasik, a cartoonist whose work often appears in The New Yorker, and who was an editor at RAW magazine in the ‘80s.

Highlights include a panel discussion to mark the 20^th anniversary of the seminal graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass. Auster and Karasik will be joined by artists Art Spiegelman and David Mazzacchelli at 11am on Saturday.

Another highlight is The New Generation: What We Like, moderated by Karen Green, Columbia University’s librarian for ancient and medieval history and comics. At the table will be Michael DeForge, Lisa Hanawalt, Joe Lambert and Katie Skelly who will discuss specific works that inspired them to become cartoonists.


David Sandlin will introduce Monsters, a new silk-screened book [above], and new proofs of previous editions, at CAB.

Off-site festival programming includes an art exhibition by Charles Burns (Black Hole) at Desert Island, a screening of rare Japanese animation by Dash Shaw (Bottomless Bellybutton) at Spectacle Theater, and an art exhibition by Heather Benjamin at Mishka.

More than 100 artists and publishers will fill the tables, on both floors, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on Saturday, from 11am to 7 pm. 275 N. 8^thStreet, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, including book sales and signings. Free. Discussions take place at the Knitting Factory, a short hop away at 362 Metropolitan Avenue. Information. Free. The official afterparty is on Saturday, 9pm, at Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, $5.