Scott McCloud will conduct a daylong workshop for teens on creating graphic novels, October 4, 2008 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. This workshop will have limited seating and will require advance registration. Information on registration will be posted in September. Please check back for further information.

As part of Get Graphic! Scott McCloud, author of the revolutionary work Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art will give a talk on October 3, 2008, at Gusto at the Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. More details will follow.

Learn techniques for creating comics
2:00 - 4:00 pm (Reservations: 858-8900)
Central Library Meeting Room (1 Lafayette Square , Buffalo, NY 14203)

Workshops

July 10, 2008 — Writing and Drawing Comics and Manga with Gene Yang
Reservation required - call 858-8900
2:00-4:00 pm
Central Library Meeting Room (1 Lafayette Square , Buffalo, NY 14203)

July 15, 16, 17, 2008 — Flash Fiction: Learn How to Tell Your Story In Just a Few Lines — with    Forrest Roth
This 2 hour workshop will be repeated in 3 different locations

• July 15 - Dudley Library (2010 South Park Ave)
  3:00 - 5:00 pm (Reservations: 823-1854)
• July 16 - Crane Library (633 Elmwood Ave.)
  6:00 - 8:00 pm (Reservations: 883-6651)
• July 17 - Central Library Meeting Room (1 Lafayette Square , Buffalo, NY 14203)
  2:00 - 4:00 pm (Reservations: 858-8900)

August 7, 2008 — Artist Open House - Meet Comics artist Jason Youngbluth
– And learn techniques for creating comics
2:00 - 4:00 pm (Reservations: 858-8900)
Central Library Meeting Room (1 Lafayette Square , Buffalo, NY 14203)

Oct 4, 2008 – Daylong workshop on making comics with Scott McCloud
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Times and registration information – to be announced

All workshops have limited seating – Reservations are required. Call the numbers listed above to register.

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.

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