Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman spoke to an enthusiastic and rapt audience at the Central Library, Thursday, May 22nd. This must-see event kicked off the Get Graphic! author series with a bang.  Spiegelman spoke with humor, passion and intelligence of his early years and development as a graphic novelist as well as the evolution of this format. We’ll be talking about this event for quite some time!

Read a review of this event from Next Magazine click here http://www.buffalonews.com/lifearts/next/story/356990.html

Next up is Gene Yang, creator of the graphic novel American Born Chinese. Yang will appear at the Central Library on July 9th at 4:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public - more information will be forthcoming.

For a list of some of the books and authors Spiegelman discussed during his presentation click below.

Early Comics
•Rudolph Topffer (1830s… the first graphic novelist’s collected work from U of Mississippi)
•Wilhelm Busch
•Winsor McCay: Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo (latter as amazing oversized book from Sunday Press available from Strand books. There’s also a good visual bio by John Canemaker.
•Great series of KRAZY KAT books from Fantagraphics.
•Their two volumes of Popeye books are also wonderful…. and ditto their complete Peanuts and recent •Jules Feiffer book, The Explainers.
•Dick Tracy. Best collection so far, The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951
is op but easy to find.
•Similar volume of Little Orphan Annie: Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945

Comic Books
•Will Eisner’s Spirit Archives–pricey volumes: best are earliest and ones from 1946-1950.
•Jack Cole and Plastic Man (by me and Chip Kidd)
•Destroy All Civilized Planets (Stardust by Fletcher Hanks)
•Jack Kirby by Mark Evanier
• Harvey Kurtzman’s Jungle Book and The MAD ARCHIVES, volume 1 and 2. Also Completely Mad by Maria Reidelbach and the Mad paperbacks (Inside Mad, Mad Strikes Back, The Brother’s Mad, Utterly Mad and The Mad Reader)
also Harvey Kurtzman’s war comics: The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 and volume 2Reference Books & Anthologies
•Jules Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes (op hardcover has pictures)
•also op great books: Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics and Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics
•Men of Tomorrow (history of Jews in comics) by Gerard Jones
•Patrick Rosenkranz’s Rebel Visions, a history of underground comics
• The Complete CRUMB comics (if you dare) 16 or 17 volumes from Fantagraphics
• Masters of American Comics (Yale Univ)
*McSweeney’s # 13 hardcvr anthology edited by Chris Ware
•Any issues of Kramer’s Ergot (very Avant Garde…)“Graphic Novelists” to watch out for
•Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan & Acme Novelty volumes)
•Dan Clowes (esp Ghostworld & Ice Haven)
•Kim Deitch (Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Shadowland and Alias the Cat)
• Allison Bechdel’s Fun Home
• Charles Burns’ Black Hole
•Ben Katchor
•Joe Sacco
• Lynda Barry (brand new What It Is)
•Shaun Tan’s The Arrival

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