FRIDAY AT THE FRYE

Friday at the Frye is an occasional series event that brings together an array of artistic disciplines in creative, exploratory, and engaging ways. Each event enlivens the Museum with programs throughout all its spaces. For an enhanced social experience, the Museum is open until 10pm, with a cash bar and extended café and store hours.

Bootlegging: The Alternative Underground from the Bottom Up

April 4, 7-10 pm

Spotlighting R. Crumb’s Underground on exhibit through April 27

Free admission | Programs are first come, first served. Capacity is limited.

ZAPPED! Zine and Comic Laboratory

Greg Stump, David Lasky and Jessica Gomes

Frye Art Studio
7-10pm

Presented with Richard Hugo House, three of Seattle's finest zine and comics artists share their DIY secrets in the Frye studio.  Highlighting the zine's history, selections from ZAPP (Hugo House’s Zine Archive and Publishing Project) are on view.  Stump, Lasky, and Gomes orchestrate a "jam" with you (yes, you) on a collaborative zine which will be published and distributed before the evening ends.

A Roving Performative Gallery Guide Tour in Three Acts

Book-It Repertory Theatre

Frye Galleries
Act 1 7:30pm

Act 2 8:30pm

Act 3 9:30pm

Book-It brings classic and contemporary writing to the stage and transforms literary works into theatre. In this reinvented traditional gallery tour, Crumb's characters come to life. Atypical docents take you on an unconventional and unique guided tour through R-Crumb's Underground.

Slide Rule Comic Strip Slideshow

Davey Oil, Stefan Gruber, Tyler Gillies and Todbott

Frye Auditorium
Two performances: 8pm and 9pm

Seattle's own Slide Rule Comic Strip Slideshow Players mix up a multimedia salad of digital video and hand drawn cartoons, live music and electronic sound, animation and live performance to serve up unique theatrical experiences. For Bootlegging Slide Rule performs all original comics confronting R Crumb's themes of enlightenment, disappointment, confession and outrage.  With funny voices!

About our collaborators:

BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE

Book-It’s main goal has always been to bring classic and contemporary writing to the stage and transform literary works into theatre. By bringing books to the stage, Book-It’s performances directly address the issue of literacy by striving to make the joy of reading accessible to everyone. Performing books instead of plays allows the Book-It theatre experience to spark the audience’s interest in reading and to challenge the audience to participate by using their imaginations.

book-it.org

RICHARD HUGO HOUSE

Richard Hugo House is a home for writers and readers. Our mission is to provide writers of all ages and backgrounds with the resources they need, connect audiences with the world of writing, foster the creation of new work and promote the literary arts as a vital part of our culture.

hugohouse.org

David Lasky

David Lasky began drawing mini-comics in 1991, while living in the Bay Area. He moved to Seattle in 1992, where he joined the ranks of a new wave of young "alternative cartoonists." He has created a number of critically acclaimed comic books, including a nine page mini-adaptation of Joyce's "Ulysses", eight issues of “Boom Boom Comics”, two issues of the award-nominated “Urban Hipster”, and numerous short comics for anthologies such as Kramers Ergot, Hotwire, and The Best American Comics 2006.

SLIDE RULE

A collective of artists bringing comics to the stage and screen, at the same time.

Davey Oil

Stefan Gruber

Tyler Gillies

Todbott

Cartoonists, comic artists, animators, musicians, they are Slide Rule.

Jessica Gomes

As Teen Services Lead Librarian at the Issaquah and Sammamish libraries of the King County Library System, Jessica aims to bring the D.I.Y. ethic to the Eastside, mainly by starting a zine collection in suburbia. Jessica's secret D.I.Y. life consists of: making stuff, exploring, writing zines, and being passionate about stuff. She wishes she had more time to give to the Seattle D.I.Y. Collective, Books to Prisoners, the Jet City Rollergirls and of course, the ZAPP.

Greg Stump

Greg is a longtime contributor to “The Stranger” and “The Comics Journal”. He is the creator of the weekly strip “Dwarf Attack” and co-creator, with David Lasky, of “Urban Hipster”.