Pin-Up
For the upcoming 2024 NY ArtBook Fair
Look out for the new PLOT Zine!
Illustration for Sasha Velour’s Velour the Drag Magazine Book
At The Bureau of General Services
Thanks to the Bureau for their never ending support! Get my books here.
2024 MoCCA Fest
Organized by the Society of Illustrators
With Natasha Sharpe at the Paper Rockets Mini Comics table on March 16.
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People’ Screening + Cartoon Fair
At The Society of Illustrators
Thanks to everyone that came out to support our work and thanks to the Society of Illustrators for hosting us! With Nate Garcia, Sandy Jimenez, Mark Saldana, Julio Anta, Daisy Ruiz, Pepita Sandwich, Jose Berrio, and Carlo Qusipe. The fair will also include the Oto Reifschneider Art gallery, featuring the works of modern and contemporary Brazilian art, taking place on February 3d, 2024.
Weird Rings True: Cartoon Margenelia
Resurfaced From The ABC No Rio Zine Library curated by Claudia Costa & Scout Lee at Project Reach
Comics reading by Uranus Comics 3 creators on December 3, with Ivan Monforte, Katie Fricas, Jennifer Camper, Jack Waters and Carlo Quispe.
Bronx Fantastic Gallery Show
Organized by Ivan Velez Jr.
Thanks to Ivan Velez Jr. for organizing the Bronx Fantastic Gallery Show at Poe Park Visitors Center.
LES Halloween Book Crawl
At Blue Stockings Cooperative
Uranus Comics cartoonists Mike Diana and Carlo Quispe at Blue Stocking on October 23d for the Halloween Book Crawl.
2023 Queer Zine Fair
Held at The LGBT Center
Big comics fun with Queer Zine creators on October 7th at the LGBT Center.
Dennis Anyone Podcast Interview
Comics podcast with Dennis Hensley. Listen to the podcast here.
Thanks to Dennis Hensley for chatting with me about my work and the upcoming 2023 NY Queer Zine Fair on October 17th.
Anarchist Bookfair
At La Plaza Cultural Community Garden
Thanks to everyone that came to support our work! This event took place September 16 on the Lower East Side.
Comic Queenz at Albatross Bar
Organized by Chola Spears
Big comics fun with creators Carlo Quispe, Liam Donnelly, and Greg Lockhard. Thanks to everyone that came to support our work.
Flame Con 2023
Comics panel on race and representation, moderated by Jennifer Camper
Thanks to Jennifer Camper, who organized and moderated the comics panel on race and representation with creators Sharon Lee De La Cruz, Bishakh Som, Jennifer Camper and Carlo Quispe for the 2023 Flame Con.
Flame Con 2023
Queer Comix Table with Jennifer Camper
Thank you to everyone that supported our table at the 2023 Flame Con August 12 and 13 at the Times Sq. Sheraton Table B16 - And thanks to Jennifer Camper who organized the comics panel on race and representation with creators Sharon Lee De La Cruz, Bishakh Som, Jennifer Camper and Carlo Quispe.
Second Queer Comix Group Reading
At Le Petit Versailles Community Garden
The Queer Comix Group had its second group reading on Saturday August 5th at 8pm at Le Petit Versailles Community Garden in the Lower East Side, hosted by Cartoonist Carlo Quispe, presenting the work of Jean Segarra-Rosa, Ricardo Osmondo Francis and Ivan Monforte.
East Village Zine Fair 2023
Table hosted by Allied Productions
Thank you to Printed Matter, 8Ball and Allied Productions for having Uranus Comics at the 2023 East Village ZIne Fair on July 9. Photo with Mike Diana.
The Culture War a film by Charles Lum
Remastered Release
Honored to be on the cover of The Culture War is A Distraction From Economic Policy Insuring Plutocracy, a film by Charles Lum. All proceeds from the film go to the restoration and distribution of Charlie Lum’s work.
Rainbow Book Fair Queer Comix Group Reading
At The Center, NYC
Thanks to Jennifer Camper for organizing a comics reading for the 2023 Rainbow Book Fair on April 25.
First Queer Comix Group Reading
At Le Petit Versailles Community Garden
The Queer Comix Group had its first group reading on Saturday April 15th at 7pm at Le Petit Versailles Community Garden in the Lower East Side, hosted by Cartoonist Carlo Quispe, presenting the work of Jennifer Camper, Nadia Rondon and Caribu Vague.
URANUS Comics at the Bureau of General Services: Queer Division Feb 2, 2023
Watch the reading here.
At the Bureau of General Services: Queer Division Feb 2d, 6 pm with creators Jennifer Camper, Ivan Monforte, Katie Fricas, Jack Waters, Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe.
We are celebrating almost 20 years of making underground experimental comics together with the release of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks!
This event took place at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Creators’ bios:
Jennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.
Iván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race, class, gender, stigma, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower East Side Printshop, Center for Book Arts, and Smack Mellon.
Katie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel, Checked Out, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.
Jack Waters is an artist, film maker, performer, and cofounder of Allied Productions, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project pestilenza.tumblr.com/
Mike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young. He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.
Carlo Quispe is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist, creator of Uranus Comics, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).
URANUS Comics at the Bureau of General Services: Queer Division Feb 2, 2023
Queer Comix Group
Come to our comics reading at the Bureau of General Services: Queer Division tomorrow Feb 2d, 6 pm with creators Jennifer Camper, Ivan Monforte, Katie Fricas, Jack Waters, Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe.
We are celebrating almost 20 years of making underground experimental comics together with the release of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks!
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011. Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
Creators’ bios:
Jennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.
Iván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race, class, gender, stigma, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower East Side Printshop, Center for Book Arts, and Smack Mellon.
Katie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel, Checked Out, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.
Jack Waters is an artist, film maker, performer, and cofounder of Allied Productions, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project pestilenza.tumblr.com/
Mike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young. He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.
Carlo Quispe is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist, creator of Uranus Comics, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).
ISABEL in Fuel For Change Exhibit
As part of the WW3 Illustrated Frontlines of Repair Issue
My story ISABEL is part of an exhibit in Dobbs Ferry, NY, along with others from the latest issue of WW3 Illustrated.
The Beauty As Fuel For Change project is excited to announce its First Art Exhibition, Opening Sunday January 15, 2023, 2-5PM, and continuing Mondays-Fridays 8:30AM-4PM, January 16-February 17.
Participants, inspired by the theme to create a better world through pathways into beauty, are joined by Masters School Art Students!
Exhibitors: Deborah Ryan, Madge Scott, Isabella Bannerman, Monique Avakian, Nick Mottern, Janet Gerson, Susan Rutman, Barbara King, Ann Van Buren, Andrew Courtney, Carol Herd-Rodriguez, Paul Greco, Victoria Bugbee, Nadine Johnson, Clare Francis, Beth Fonfrias, Seth Tobocman, Sabrina Jones, Carlo Quispe, Paula Hewitt Amram, Peter Kuper and Masters students.
The exhibit is at The Wenberg Family Art Gallery, Fonseca Center, Masters School, 49 Clinton Ave, Dobbs Ferry, NY
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
Watch the film here
PBS 2023 Broadcast on Independent Lens
Directed by Vivian Kleiman - When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American culture. From DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance, meet five smart and funny queer comics artists whose uncensored commentary left no topic untouched and explored art as a tool for social change.
Featuring Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Howard Cruse, Rupert Kinnard, Mary Wings, and other queer comics artists.
Director/Producer Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and a Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship artist. She was the story editor for Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, and her work with landmark filmmaker Marlon Riggs includes Tongues Untied, among others. She taught at Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Documentary Film.
Producer Justin Hall edited the Lambda Award-winning, Eisner-nominated No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics and created the comics True Travel Tales, Hard to Swallow. Hall is chair of the MFA in Comics Program at California College of the Arts, the first Fulbright Scholar of comics, and has curated international exhibitions of comics art.
I am honored to participate in a short scene shot at the 2017 Queers & Comics Conference at California College for the Arts in San Francisco
URANUS Comics Signing at Forbidden Planet NY
Queer Comix Group
Celebrating the release of Uranus Comics 3 at Forbidden Planet, NYC Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Creators’ bios:
Jennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.
Iván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race, class, gender, stigma, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower East Side Printshop, Center for Book Arts, and Smack Mellon.
Katie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel, Checked Out, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.
Jack Waters is an artist, film maker, performer, and cofounder of Allied Productions, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project pestilenza.tumblr.com/
Mike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young. He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.
Carlo Quispe is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist, creator of Uranus Comics, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).
URANUS Comics Signing at Forbidden Planet NY
Queer Comix Group
Join us to celebrate the release of Uranus Comics 3 at Forbidden Planet, NYC Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Creators’ bios:
Jennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.
Iván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race, class, gender, stigma, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower East Side Printshop, Center for Book Arts, and Smack Mellon.
Katie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel, Checked Out, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.
Jack Waters is an artist, film maker, performer, and cofounder of Allied Productions, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project pestilenza.tumblr.com/
Mike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young. He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.
Carlo Quispe is a Peruvian born, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist, creator of Uranus Comics, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).
URANUS Comics at the 2022 Big Apple Con
Queer Comix Group
Our convention is the premier boutique comic and popular culture show in the City, chock full of celebrities, exhibitors, collectors, cosplayers, and folks out for a great time in the City.
Through the central theme of comic books, the convention features a large range of pop culture elements including original artwork, science fiction/fantasy, film/television, cosplay, animation, anime, manga, toys, horror, collectible card games, video games, and fantasy novels.
The show invariably includes panels, seminars, and workshops with our guests and professionals from various fields along with feature previews of upcoming films.
Of course there is our justifiably renowned main event Cosplay contest, always packed full of the most outrageous and out there NY cosplayers. From its beginnings cosplay has been an integral and vital part of our heritage. We love the art and celebrate the way cosplayers have revitalized conventions by creating a dynamic link between the worlds of comics, animation, cinema, and real life.
Queer Comix Group at the 2022 Big Apple Con.
URANUS Comics at the 2022 NY ArtBook Fair
Queer Comix Group
The 2022 NY Art Book Fair took place in Chelsea, just around the corner from Printed Matter’s bookstore, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international event for the distribution of artists’ books. Exhibitors included a broad range of artists, collectives, publishers, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors. This year’s Fair featured many of the longstanding exhibitors and programs that have come to define this beloved event, while also offering new ways to discover artists’ books and explore the full breadth of the art publishing community.
Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe at the 2022 NY Art Book Fair
URANUS Comics at the 2022 East Village Zine Fair
Queer Comix Group
Printed Matter / St Marks and 8-Ball Community are excited to announce a Spring Zine Fair taking place next Saturday, June 12, on St Marks Pl between 1st and 2nd Avenues, with a series of collaborative events at community gardens throughout the neighborhood. Join us as we come together after many months apart and gather local independent publishers and zine makers to honor the East Village’s rich DIY and countercultural history.
Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe at the 2021 East Village Zine Fair
Find URANUS 2 at your local NY comics shop:
Forbidden Planet - Union Sq.
Desert Island - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Printed Matter/St. Marks - East Village
BGSQD at the Center - West Village
With collaborator Mike Diana at Desert Island Comics, Brooklyn, NY - May 2022
Frontlines Of Repair - WW3 Illustrated #52
Community Garden Book Release Party
Celebrating the release of the latest issue of WW3 Illustrated with the family safely outdoors. Mask up! COVID is not OVER!
La Plaza Cultural Community Garden, NY, May 2022
Monsters Of The Bronx Halloween Book Release Party at Bx Start
Queer Comix Group
Scary stories read live! Contributors to Planet Bronx publisher Ivan Velez Jr.’s new anthology Monsters Of The Bronx read live on the scariest Halloween of all, 2021!
Bx Start, Bronx, NY October 2021
Scandalo NYC Logo
Email carloquispework@gmail.com for commissioned work.
Carlo Quispe Designs, October 2021
Visual AIDS Exhibit Comic Velocity
“…Carlo Quispe and Visual AIDS Programs Associate Blake Paskal led an in-person tour of Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics. Through an interactive conversation, Carlo and Blake discussed the full breadth of comics on view, from underground queer strips to AIDS educational projects, superhero comics, and more.”
PS 122 Gallery, New York. July, 2021
Psychic Party
Drawing with Ethan Shoshan
Vers Brooklyn, New York. June, 2021
No Straight Lines Tribeca Festival World Premiere Screening
Pier 76, New York. June, 2021
8Ball/Printed Matter Spring Zine Fair
Printed Matter/Swiss Institute at St. Mark’s, New York. June, 2021
2021 Printed Matter Virtual ArtBook Fair
Check out my studio and current books
Uranus Comics, Brooklyn, NY Feb. 2021
NY Comics &
Picture-Story
Symposium
hosted by Cartoonist Ben Katchor
Nov. 7th, 2020
LOVE KILLS HATE
Drawing
We The People Virtual Exhibit and on site projected exhibits in NY and NJ, Oct. 2020
ANITA
WW3 Illustrated #51
The World We Are Fighting For
This will be an explosive year. The actions we take now will define the future of our political systems and the viability of our planet. It is a good time to ask: What do we really care about? What are we fighting for?
World War 3 Illustrated is North America’s longest-running anthology of political comics and, for the fifty-first edition, artists and writers were asked to bring heart and vision to this question. The comics in this edition range from cheerful to angry, from prescriptive to absurd, employing both humor and strong imagery. Some are road maps for change. Others simply tell us what the artists’ values are and what they hold dear in an era of climate chaos, social polarization, and political authoritarianism.
AK PRESS Sept 2020
Adults Only!
Comics Reading
Printed Matter St. Marks hosted artists Katie Fricas, Jennifer Camper, Mike Diana and Carlo Quispe for an adults only comics reading, Feb 2020
Comics Workshop
Free Arts NY
Part 1, Jan 2020
Comics Workshop
Free Arts NY
Part 2, Jan 2020
URANUS ATTACKS!
Live Drawing
MoMA PS1, Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair 2019
GAY CITY NEWS interview
“On September 19, Quispe will kick off his appearance at the 2019 New York Art Book Fair — held at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City — by creating a live drawing, During the fair, which runs through September 22, he will present the latest editions of “WW3 Illustrated” and “Uranus Comics, Vol. 2” as part of its “Friendly Fire” program. As part of his appearance, he will premiere the “Creature of Uranus,” he explained in a recent phone interview, tittering at the name and warning, “It’s coming to invade Planet Earth!”
URANUS ATTACKS!
Mini-Exhibit
EMPIRICAL NONSENSE, NYC, 2019
Stephen Varble exhibit murals
Large scale recreations of Stephen Varble drawings, Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC, 2019
Uptown Murals
“The best way you can do art that’s representative of your community is to really soak yourself in it,” remarked Quispe. “I get that immediate connection with people. It’s a social thing.”
Hairy Tales (Cuentos Peludos) Animated Short Film
by Pablo Oliverio
Psychic Party
Drawings
Psychic Party Live Drawings, NYC
Tiger Mural
MIX NYC, 2015
Tiger
Mural
MIX NYC 2015
Love Me or Leave Me Comic
The Subject Is Black, 2014 exhibit curated by Lawrence Graham-Brown “Art exhibition and salon aims to intervene into the global conversation about the "Black" body, a body that is perpetually in flux via restraint, attack, denial et al. Here these eight artists use the body as the predominant theme, gendered and sexualized in all its strength and glory, questioning a 21st century predicament and narrative.”
Robot Love-in
Mural
MIX NYC 2013
GOT GUTS?
MURAL
MIX NYC, 2013
Love Me Or Leave Me Comic
“Not over” 2013 exhibit curated by Kris Nuzzi and Sur Rodney Sur, Visual AIDS, NYC
“NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS looked back at the history of Visual AIDS and contemporary AIDS politics to create a glimpse into a quarter century of AIDS, art and activism. Curators Kris Nuzzi and Sur Rodney (Sur) linked artists of a generation born after 1970 to an earlier generation of artists that were active in the 1980s.
By creating these layered connections and presenting artwork by both historical and contemporary artists, the exhibition aimed to add to the ongoing dialogue and position the work within a layered timeline of AIDS, art and culture, using art as a means to educate, encourage discussion and inform that AIDS IS NOT OVER.”
Age of Apokaluptious Live Drawing
MIX NYC 2012 Opening Night
Dean Johnson
Live Drawing
“This Stud’s For You, At least Tonight”, LUXX, NYC
Love Me Or Leave Me Comic
4 Page Comic based on Larry Kramer’s speech The Tragedy Of Gays and part of the 2011 Longwood Gallery exhibit I AM A MAN, Bronx, NY.
STD Testing Site
Drawings
GAY exhibit, Longwood Gallery, Bronx, NY - Many of the works seem to examine personal anxieties caused by the culture at large, such as Carlo Quispe’s ink drawings of various Health Centers around the boroughs. Exteriors loom menacingly while young men sit nervously in clinical waiting rooms. The uninviting nature of a medical setting is accurately captures by Quispe’s cartoon-style. - Annie Malamet
B-Sides
Decorated Columns
Group show curated by Edwin Ramoran for Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ “…Carlo Quispe, a stage designer and comic book artist (…) was given the task of decorating the structural columns in the gallery. Influenced by graffiti art and party culture, his column designs depict writhing, dancing figures, cartoon characters, tribal motifs and text. Mr. Quispe also did the restroom murals (involving sex and drugs).”
B-Sides
Mural
Group show curated by Edwin Ramoran for Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ “…Carlo Quispe, a stage designer and comic book artist (…) was given the task of decorating the structural columns in the gallery. Influenced by graffiti art and party culture, his column designs depict writhing, dancing figures, cartoon characters, tribal motifs and text. Mr. Quispe also did the restroom murals (involving sex and drugs).”
Milky Way Dragon and Aliens Mural
Collaboration with Laura Campos, NYC, 2009
Migration Pattern
Mural
Labirynth Wall: From Mythology to Reality Group show, Exit Art, NYC, 2008-09