Mon, Sep 08
|Somerville
Picture + Panel: Lies the TV Told Me with Štěpánka Jislová and Sofia Szamosi.
This month, Picture + Panel questions the narratives that shape modern love and self-image with Štěpánka Jislová and Sofia Szamosi. Join us to deconstruct the stories we've been sold about relationships, bodies, and desire as these creators chart a path toward self-acceptance and connection.
Time & Location
Sep 08, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Somerville, 285 Washington St, Somerville, MA 02143, USA
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About the Event
About the Event
This month, Picture + Panel questions the narratives that shape modern love and self-image with Štěpánka Jislová and Sofia Szamosi. Join us to deconstruct the damaging stories we've been sold about relationships, bodies, and desire as these creators chart a path toward self-acceptance and connection. Rebecca Hains, Ph.D., will moderate.
All BCAF events are free to attend. If you wish to pay it forward, a $5 suggested donation helps sustain BCAF's comics advocacy and educational programming in the Greater Boston area.
More about Picture + Panel
Picture + Panel is a monthly conversation series that brings fantastic graphic novel creators to the Greater Boston area. Discover terrific authors and fascinating stories that combine text and art through conversational confabulation. Produced in partnership by the Boston Comic Arts Foundation, Porter Square Books, and the Boston Figurative Arts Center, Picture + Panel provides thought-provoking discussions for adults about this unique form of expression.
Book sales are provided at the event by Porter Square Books.
About the Creators
Štěpánka Jislová is an award-winning comics artist based in Prague and the cofounder of the Czech branch of Laydeez do Comics, an international organization that promotes female comic artists and their work. Jislová collaborated with Czech writer Tereza Čechová on the 2021 Muriel prize–winning Bez vlasů, later published by Graphic Mundi in English as Bald. Srdcovka (the original Czech edition of Heartcore) received the Muriel Award in three categories in 2024, including the main prize.
Sofia Szamosi is an artist and author originally from New York City. In addition to making books, she enjoys painting and creating art in analog photobooths. Along with her debut graphic novel, Unretouchable (Lerner / Graphic Universe), she is the author of, BAD KID: My Life as a Troubled Teen (Little, Brown Ink, forthcoming Spring 2026), a graphic memoir exploring her adolescence in and out of the troubled teen industry. A third graphic memoir is currently in development with Street Noise, focusing on healing from eating disorders and the journey of recovering fertility.
Szamosi now lives in a small town in Massachusetts—just the right distance from New York City—with her husband, two daughters, and their elderly Pomeranian, Breakfast.
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