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CELEBRATE SUPERMAN'S 75th ON JUNE 4 IN NYC WITH LARRY TYE AND DANNY FINGEROTH
"SUPERMAN: THE HIGH-FLYING HISTORY OF AMERICA'S MOST ENDURING HERO"
A supercharged celebration of The Man of Steel by Superman experts LARRY TYE and DANNY FINGEROTH
TUESDAY JUNE 4, 2013
7:00-9:00 PM
The Soho Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (between Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10014
212-228-2810
sgdaintra@gmail.com
ABOUT THE EVENT:
In this Summer of Superman when our hero celebrates his 75th birthday and Warner Bros. releases its blockbuster "Man of Steel" movie---Soho Gallery for Digital Art proudly presents a one-on-one discussion between LARRY TYE, author of "Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero" and DANNY FINGEROTH, author of "Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society."
How has Superman managed to thrive for 75 years and counting? What did Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster have in mind when they brought him to life? What answers does Jerry Siegel's newly-discovered memoir offer? And who knew that Superman was Jewish? Superman experts TYE and FINGEROTH discuss these and many more earth-shattering questions, especially. "Why does Superman wear his underwear on the outside?"
ABOUT THE BOOKS:
LARRY TYE's "SUPERMAN: THE HIGH-FLYING HISTORY OF AMERICA'S MOST ENDURING HERO" is the first full-fledged biography not just of the Man of Steel, but of the visionary writers and artists, publishers and performers, who kept aloft the red-and-blue-clad icon through seven decades and counting. In the book, Tye shows us how Superman like few other mythical characters before or since has evolved in a way that offers a Rorschach test of his changing times and our highest aspirations. The paperback edition of the book has just been released.
DANNY FINGEROTH'S "SUPERMAN ON THE COUCH" is the definitive book on why people love superheroes. In this book, Fingerothfrom his perspective as a highly accomplished superhero comics writer and editorexplains why, in modern society, superhero culture has become the metaphorical prism through which we seeand liveour lives, and why superheroes have become potent myths for our times in movies, TV, and games, as well as in their birthplace, the comics.
[Both books will be available for sale and signing at the event.]
Event will be held at:
The Soho Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (between Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10014
212-228-2810
sgdaintra@gmail.com
ADMISSION:
Purchase ticket in advance: $10
Pay at the door: $15
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
LARRY TYE was an award-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. A lifelong Superman fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Satchel as well as The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. He lives in Lexington, MA, and is currently writing a biography of Robert F. Kennedy.
DANNY FINGEROTH was a longtime writer and editor for Marvel Comics and was Senior VP of Education at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA). He is the author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent; and co-editor (with Roy Thomas) of The Stan Lee Universe, a treasury of interviews, articles, and mementos relating to the co-creator of the Marvel Universe.
Soho Gallery For Digital Art is a multi-purpose event space, art gallery and theater.
We are located at 138 Sullivan Street btwn Houston and Prince. The gallery is 2000 sq. feet on 2 floors with 16 40" digital canvases that can be customized for any event as well as projector and screen in our 75-seat theater downstairs.
Centrally located in an iconic NYC neighborhood, SGDA has hosted all types of events; company parties, corporate meetings, product launches, film screenings, film shoots, art shows, fashion shows, theatrical performances and special occasions.
If you can dream it, we can do it.
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138 Sullivan St.
New York, NY 10012
United States
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