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in Bay View, Milwaukee

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"Look up the term 'Milwaukee gem' in a dictionary and you’ll find an impeccably illustrated picture of Lion's Tooth."
Matt Wild, Milwaukee Record

VOTE NOW for Lion's Tooth in Milwaukee Magazine’s 2023 Readers' Choice Awards

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And vote often, no joke! Polling reopens every day, and every time you vote, you will be automatically entered into a drawing to win prizes. Voting is open through 6/11.

2022/2023 Dandelion Comics Residency
Presented by Lion’s Tooth in partnership with BearBear and MILK Comic Fest
Mentorship by Quinn Blackshere, Cris Siqueira and Shelly McClone-Carriere

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The 2022/23 Dandelion artist-in-residence is ​Casey "KC" Harrison AKA DARK AGE online 🔥
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The Dandelion Comics Residency is a juried program for cartoonists based on the Greater Milwaukee area. Our goal is to support the local comics community while promoting work produced here to well-respected professionals active in the industry today.
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Saturday, May 20, 2023 | 4-6PM
All Butts are Good Butts book release party
By Rachal Duggan AKA radillustrates

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Come celebrate the release of the book All Butts Are Good Butts: Celebrate Your Derriere with Booty Affirmations, As*trology, Tushie Trivia, and More by Milwaukee's own Rachal Duggan AKA radillustrates ​<3
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Saturday, May 27, 2023 | 5-7PM, reading at 5:30PM
Death's Intern Derrick book signing
With author Becky Franzel

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Friday, June 2, 2023 | 5-9PM
Bay View Gallery Night with BearBear
A Mary Nohl Sunrise exhibit

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Lion's Tooth is hosting BearBear for Bay View Gallery Night! Come check out risographed work from their book A Mary Nohl Sunrise, about one of Milwaukee's most important artists and focusing on Mary's house and art environment in Fox Point. And don't miss a discussion of the project with Alex Gartelmann, John Michael Kohler Arts Center Mary Nohl program director and site steward - Friday, June 9 at 5:30. 
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | 5PM
An evening with author and educator Dr. Artika R. Tyner

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Dr Artika R. Tyner is an author and law professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. She is a passionate educator and advocate for justice, committed to training students to serve as social engineers who create new inroads to justice and freedom. She will be at Lion's Tooth for an informal conversation about her most recent books, The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity and Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023 | 4-7PM
Cartoonist Megan Kelso at Lion's Tooth!
Author of Who Will Make the Pancakes

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Come hang with Megan Kelso, the award-winning artist behind the legendary mini comic Girlhero (compiled in Queen of the Black Black), as well as the recently relaunched Artichoke Tales and the brand new collection Who Will Make the Pancakes. ​
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 4-7PM
Reading and workshop with author Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author of The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life

Please join us for an evening with author Mary Helen Stefaniak, including a reading and a workshop, both free and open to the public.
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Thursday, June 15, 2023 | 5:30-7PM
MILK Comic Workshop
Presented by Milk Comic Fest

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Mark your calendars for MILK's first comic workshop on June 15th from 5:30 to 7pm at Lion's Tooth. This free event is open for anyone who has started the process of making their own comic. Bring in what you're working on, and the group will provide feedback. It doesn't matter what state your project is in. Bring in your scripts, thumbnails, sketches, inks, or finished comics. Whatever you bring in, we'll look at together.
This community building workshop is hosted by MILK organizers Hannah Hallman and Hali Fisher.

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