Tender Signing with Beth Hetland

Bethe Hetland Tender Signing at Forbidden Planet NYC

Forbidden Planet NYC is once again beyond excited to be teaming up with Fantagraphics in celebration of Tender, Beth Hetland’s “nimble and unsettling graphic novel debut” (Publishers Weekly). Join us on to meet Beth and get your hands on an autographed copy of Tender!

About the book: Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family. She carefully performs her own roles (gal pal, bestie, girlfriend, wife, and expectant mother) and in trying to enact agency over her life, sacrifices it completely. Her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing. When things don’t go her way, she exerts dominance over the one thing she does have total control over: her body; until that “betrays” her. After suffering a horrible loss, Carolanne spirals into a literal, all-consuming delusion that will engross comics readers and horror aficionados alike.

Chicago cartist and educator Beth Hetland’s graphic novel debut is a brilliant psychological thriller that tears down the wall of a genre — body horror — so often identified with male creators. Heady and visceral, Tender uses horrific tropes to confront women’s societal expectations of self-sacrifice despite those traditional roles often coming at the expense of female sexuality and empowerment.

So mark your calendars for March 16th and come down to FPNYC for a night to remember with Beth Hetland!

Can’t make it to the event but still wanna get your hands on an autographed copy? No stress, just place an order at www.fpnyc.com and we will get your copy of Tender signed by Beth before we ship it straight to your door!

Who: Beth HetlandWhat: TenderWhen March 16th 5-7PMWhen: Forbidden Planet 832 Broadway New York, NY 10003Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/288965567533111Signed pre-order link: https://rb.gy/p7cxhm

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Matt D has been a manager, buyer and event coordinator at Forbidden Planet since 2005 or maybe it was 2006. Who can remember? We didn't even have computers back then. A native New Yorker from the borough of Queens, raised on Sunday Funnies, Monster Movies and Rock N' Roll. What better place to end up than Forbidden Planet where he can use his position to influence the city's pop culture. A responsibility he takes seriously more now than ever due to New York's consistent change for the worse. The last thing NYC needs is another cafe or bank so thank whatever it is you believe in that Forbidden Planet is here to stay. Beyond the walls of FP, Matt is a publicly recognized expert in cult and horror cinema with a focus on VHS. He is the founder of Horror Boobs a collective that books screenings and distributes weirdo films, the producer of the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS collector, the publisher of the Blood Video zine, and is regrettably responsible for resurrecting the career of schizophrenic Shot-on Video director Carl J Sukenick. E-mail him at Mattdfpnyc@gmail.com Follow him on various social media at @horrorboobs