The Cartoon Art Museum continues its Centennial Salute to Edward Gorey with an artists discussion about Gorey’s collaboration with Muriel Spark for The Very Fine Clock . Graphic novelists Briana Loewinsohn, MariNaomi, and cartoonist Amy Martin will come together for a conversation about Muriel Spark and Edward Gorey’s enduring legacy and how they influenced their work and others. Moderated by Ashley Nelson Levy and Adam Levy, publishers of The Very Fine Clock.
This event is free and open to the public.
Briana Loewinsohn is an American cartoonist. She is the author of the acclaimed graphic memoir Ephemera, published by Fantagraphics in 2023. It was listed as one of the American Library Association's top graphic novels of 2023 and was awarded the 2023 Foreword Indies Editors Prize for non-fiction. Her new YA book, Raised By Ghosts, came out in February 2025, also with Fantagraphics. It was nominated for a Harvey Award. Loewinsohn lives in Oakland, CA with her husband, two kids, and a cat named Gary.
MariNaomi (they/them) is the author and illustrator of the SPACE Award-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22, Eisner-nominated Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories, Turning Japanese, I Thought YOU Hated ME, the Life on Earth trilogy, Dirty Produce, and I Thought You Loved Me. Their work has appeared in approximately 100 print publications and has been featured on The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, The Washington Post, LA Times, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast, SF Examiner, and BuzzFeed, as well as a number of local and international museums. Founder of Cartoonists of Color Database, the Queer Cartoonists Database, and the Disabled Cartoonists Database and served as California Chapter Leader of Authors Against Book Bans, their next graphic novel is forthcoming with Little Brown Ink, a collaboration with cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen.
Amy Martin (she/her) is a cartoonist, civic techie, and former children's librarian. Her comics have appeared in Mutha Magazine and in many self-published volumes. Originally from Chicago, she lives with her family in Oakland, CA.