Even though Get Graphic doesn’t have anything to do with this event, we encourage everyone to get out to Medaille College to hear graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner speak. The event is Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library at Huber Hall.
For more information, check this out.
5:00 pm
Film Screening
Independents: A Guide for the Creative Spirit (2007): 77 minutes
Directed by Chris Brandt
A documentary about comic books, featuring interviews with 24 comic book artists, writers and enthusiasts.
http://www.independentsdoc.com/
7:00 pm�
Author Presentation and Book Signing with Scott McCloud�
Presentation followed by a Q&A session and a book signing
Author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1994), Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000), and Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels (2006)
**Free and Open to the Public**
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.