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28 SATURDAY Although the local group Animal Rights Mobilization disbanded in January because executive director Kay Sievers was leaving town for New Mexico, several members weren’t ready to give up the fight. In June they launched Compassion Into Action, a new animal rights organization that focuses on the problem of overpopulation. Strategies will be hammered out at the group’s second meeting, which takes place today from 1 to 3 at the Edgewater Public Library, 1210 W. Elmdale; Sievers will be a special guest. For more information call 773-205-1622.
When he moved to Chicago a dozen years ago, Acme Novelty Library creator Chris Ware was invited to join fellow cartoonists Dan Clowes, Archer Prewitt, Terry LaBan, and Gary Leib each week to draw improvised minicomics at Earwax in Wicker Park. The group eventually scattered, with Clowes moving on to Berkeley (and a little fame, after last year’s movie adaptation of Ghost World) and Leib to New York. Ware and Clowes will appear today at a free book signing with underground comics legend Kim Deitch, whom Ware calls “one of the most important cartoonists ever.” Deitch is on tour promoting his new graphic novel, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and Clowes is flogging the paperback edition of 2000’s David Boring. Ware doesn’t have a new book, but he’ll be on hand anyway at 3 at Quimby’s, 1854 W. North (773-342-0910).
2 WEDNESDAY While walking home from elementary school in Berkeley in the late 1960s, David Sereda saw a “large, classic, disc-shaped UFO hovering in a clear blue sky.” The thing hung around for a while, and then Sereda says he–and a crowd of hundreds–saw it disappear “into another invisible dimension.” Sereda’s been intrigued with the paranormal ever since, and from 1995 to 2001 he did research for a new book and set of videotapes called Evidence: The Case for NASA UFOs; the tapes purport to show NASA footage of alien contact, and the book offers theories as to how and why such contact might have occurred. Sereda, an environmentalist and self-described spiritual seeker who also penned 2000’s Face to Face With Jesus Christ (in which he describes three meetings with JC as well as an encounter with Mary), will discuss Evidence tonight at 7 at Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North (312-951-7323). It’s free.
