2025 Book Clubs: Comix, Music and Wine
Always on Thursdays | 6-8PM
All free and open to the public
Welcome to our 2025 Book Clubs 💥🎶🍷
Come hang out with us, one Thursday a month for each Book Club, always 6-8PM, all free and open to the public. No registration necessary, just show up!
Come hang out with us, one Thursday a month for each Book Club, always 6-8PM, all free and open to the public. No registration necessary, just show up!
Comix Book Club 💥💥💥
Picking up where we left off in last year’s epic Love and Rockets Book Club we’ll start 2025 reading the two most recent books by Jaime Hernandez, Is This How You See Me? (from 2019) and the collection Life Drawing, which comes out at the end of February, but you can pre-order now. We will also dive into Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 1 and Book 2. Please join us even if you have never read a graphic novel, these are some of the best comics of all times.
Here's the Comix Book Club schedule from January to April 2025:
January 16 | IS THIS HOW YOU SEE ME? A Locas Story, by Jaime Hernandez
February 13 | MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS Book 1, by Emil Ferris
March 13 | MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS Book 2, by Emil Ferris
April 10 | LIFE DRAWING: A Love and Rockets Collection, by Jaime Hernandez
January 16 | IS THIS HOW YOU SEE ME? A Locas Story, by Jaime Hernandez
February 13 | MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS Book 1, by Emil Ferris
March 13 | MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS Book 2, by Emil Ferris
April 10 | LIFE DRAWING: A Love and Rockets Collection, by Jaime Hernandez
Music Book Club 🎶🎶🎶
Next up, the first four titles of our brand new Music Book Club! We’ll start with the anthology Black Punk Now, which includes works of fiction, non fiction and comics by Black writers with connections to the world of punk. We will also read Kathleen Hanna’s memoir Rebel Girl, Mia Zapata and the Gits by Steve Moriarty, drummer of the Seattle band The Gits, and Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, by Hanif Abdurraqib
Here's the Music Book Club schedule from January to April 2025:
January 23 | BLACK PUNK NOW: Fiction, Non Fiction and Comics, edited by James Spooner and Chris L. Terry
February 20 | REBEL GIRL: My Life as a Feminist Punk, by Kathleen Hanna
March 20 | MIA ZAPATA AND THE GITS: : A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution, by Steve Moriarty
April 17 | GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, by Hanif Abdurraqib
January 23 | BLACK PUNK NOW: Fiction, Non Fiction and Comics, edited by James Spooner and Chris L. Terry
February 20 | REBEL GIRL: My Life as a Feminist Punk, by Kathleen Hanna
March 20 | MIA ZAPATA AND THE GITS: : A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution, by Steve Moriarty
April 17 | GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, by Hanif Abdurraqib
Milwaukee Wine Academy Book Club 🍷🍷
And finally we are so happy to host the Milwaukee Wine Academy Book Club at Lion’s Tooth! Come over on the last Thursday of each month to discuss their amazing selection of books about wine and taste some bottles curated to pair with the books. The first three books of 2025 are How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Eric Asimov, Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage, by Dorothy J. Gaiter and Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live, by Bianca Bosker.
Here's the Milwaukee Wine Academy Book Club schedule from January to March 2025:
January 30 | HOW TO LOVE WINE: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Eric Asimov
February 27 | LOVE BY THE GLASS: Tasting Notes from a Marrriage, by Dorothy J. Gaiter
March 27 | CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live, by Bianca Bosker
January 30 | HOW TO LOVE WINE: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Eric Asimov
February 27 | LOVE BY THE GLASS: Tasting Notes from a Marrriage, by Dorothy J. Gaiter
March 27 | CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live, by Bianca Bosker
2024 Love and Rockets Book Club Recap
"Lion’s Tooth Book Club was one of my favorite things of 2024" --Alice
2024 was the year to read (or re-read) Love and Rockets with Lion's Tooth! We met once a month to chat about the comic that changed everything.
The group discussed 12 books from "The Complete Love and Rockets Library", following the Locas storyline and Palomar saga from the beginning. We also had virtual chats with the Hernandez Brothers and with Marc Sobel, author of Reading Love and Rockets. Friends were made, obsessions ignited, imaginary feuds started. In 2025 we are merging into the Lion's Tooth Comix Book Club. Thank you Fantagraphics for the incredible support, thank you Marc Sobel and thank you thank you thank you Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez for taking us in this incredible ride ❤️🚀
The group discussed 12 books from "The Complete Love and Rockets Library", following the Locas storyline and Palomar saga from the beginning. We also had virtual chats with the Hernandez Brothers and with Marc Sobel, author of Reading Love and Rockets. Friends were made, obsessions ignited, imaginary feuds started. In 2025 we are merging into the Lion's Tooth Comix Book Club. Thank you Fantagraphics for the incredible support, thank you Marc Sobel and thank you thank you thank you Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez for taking us in this incredible ride ❤️🚀
2024 LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK CLUB RECAP
Interview with Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez
Listen to an exclusive Interview with Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, conducted by our Love and Rockets Book Club and presented in installments during Lion’s Tooth Radio Show on Riverwest Radio.
- Part one aired on October 22, 2024
- Part two aired on October 29, 2024
- Part three aired on November 12, 2024
