Brooklyn Book Festival Comics & Graphic Novels

#YAlit #comics on the BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL Youth Stage! THIS WEEKEND 9/18/16 – see you there! 

Let Me Show You My World

Saint Ann’s School Rotunda September 18, 2016 2:00pm

CAN YOU STAND IT: Ben Katchor, Glen Baxter, and Emily Flake with Connie Sun at THE BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL – it is going to be $%^& hilarious. 9/18/16 – THIS WEEKEND. Details: 

Short But Sweet

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St September 18, 2016 2:00pm

REVOLUTIONARY ART with Kyle Baker, Sabrina Jones, and Nick Bertozzi – moderated by Vivek Tiwary! THIS WEEKEND at the Brooklyn Book Festival #comics programming 9/18/16

Revolutionary Art

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St September 18, 2016 11:00am

While it is not possible to pick “a favorite” panel for this Sunday’s BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL – I’ll just say I’m very very excited about this one. SEX IS POWER with Phoebe Gloeckner, Chester Brown, and MariNaomi, moderated by Ophira Eisenberg. 

Sex is Power

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St September 18, 2016 4:00pm

Brooklyn Book Festival 2016: Lots of Graphic Novel Goodness!

Fall approaches, and once again, the Brooklyn Book Festival will take place this weekend at Brooklyn Borough Hall and surrounding locales! Held since 2006, this literary festival has always had a strong graphic novel presence, and this year offers another strong mix of creators! You can easily spend the entire day just at the graphic novel events! New this year: The Brooklyn Book Festival has…

Comics workshop – #free!! – at the Brooklyn Book Festival with the acclaimed cartoonist and educator @joshneufeld and award-winning writer and educator Sari Wilson!

Flash Fiction Workshop: Comics > Prose.

St. Francis College Workshop Room 4202, 180 Remsen St September 18, 2016 3:00pm

Congratulations to this year’s National Book Award nominees! NPR News blogger (and Friend of NPR Books) Colin Dwyer writes:

Unlike the shortlist for the U.K.-based Man Booker Prize, which was announced Tuesday, the long lists for the National Book Awards still feature their fair share of familiar names — albeit occasionally in different genres than we saw them last. Jacqueline Woodson, who has won an NBA in young people’s literature, returns with Another Brooklyn, her first novel for adults in two decades. Viet Thanh Nguyen, who won last year’s Pulitzer for his fiction, makes an appearance on the long list for nonfiction for Nothing Ever Dies — which, like his 2015 novel, delves into the kaleidoscopic legacy of the Vietnam War. And Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, iconic activist and politician, joins his collaborators Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell on the YPL list for their third volume in a graphic memoir series on the civil rights movement.

You can find the full lists here – stay tuned for more coverage!

@brooklynbookfestival is fast approaching! Make sure to stop by D+Q Booth #220 on Sunday, September 18th to get our brilliant authors to sign some of your favourite books!

SIGNING SCHEDULE:

11am-1pm: Chester Brown signing

12pm-1pm: Ben Katchor signing

1pm-2pm: Sarah Glidden signing

1:30pm-3:30pm: Adrian Tomine signing

2pm-3pm: Chester Brown signing

3pm-4pm: Ben Katchor signing

3:30pm-4:30pm: Sarah Glidden signing

PROGRAMMING DETAILS:

2:00 pm — Hey, Some Comics Are Still Funny! Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St

According to these cartoonists giving birth is a laugh, our modern urban society is laughable, and captioned old Westerns are a joke. And it’s true! Join some of the most surreally hilarious cartoonists working in short (and sometimes longer) form today: Ben Katchor (Cheap Novelties), Emily Flake (Mama Tried) and from the United Kingdom, Glen Baxter (Almost Completely Baxter). Moderated by “Connie to the Wonnie” web cartoonist, Connie Sun.

2:30 pm — Wanderlust and the Search for Meaning Congregation Mt. Sinai, 250 Cadman Plaza W

Novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Russell Banks (Voyager: Travel Writings), cartoonist Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) and essayist Pico Iyer (The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere) discuss their genre-bending travel books, the effects of landscape on the human psyche, and what we’re really searching for when we travel. Moderated by Timothy J. Houlihan, Provost, St. Francis College.

4:00 pm — Sex is Power   Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St

Creators of truly “graphic” graphic books get serious talking about sex. Who is in power in transactional–or taboo–relationships, and how do such stories get ultimately told? Bestselling, cult-favorite Phoebe Gloeckner (Diary of a Teenage Girl, now a major motion picture) and rising star MariNaomi (Turning Japanese) claim their own tales of identity and awakening, while Chester Brown’s (Mary Wept at the Feet of Jesus) provocatively reinterprets biblical sex-workers. Moderated by comedian and radio host Ophira Eisenberg (Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy).

5:00 pm — The Art of War Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St

Compelling comics can be drawn from conflict zones. Journalist Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), ex-Marine Maximilian Uriarte (The White Donkey), and historical graphic novelist Ethan Young (Nanjing) discuss war stories. Moderated by Josh Neufeld (Flashed and Ad).

MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS AT BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL

Brooklyn Book Festival is shaping up to be the most exciting event of the Fall, and Macmillan authors are going to be a huge part of it. We’ll be at the festival on Sunday, September 18th from 10AM - 6PM at Booth #512!

Read on to plan your week!

CHILDREN’S DAY: SEPTEMBER 17

11AM: Kate Milford appears on Do You Believe in Magic? (Young Readers Stage) 11:30 AM: Christian Robinson presents School’s First Day of School (Picture Book Stage)

12PM: Stephen Savage leads Your Name in Lights (Workshop Room) 12PM: Leopoldo Gout appears on Ready. Set. Action! (Young Readers Stage) 12:30PM: Zachariah Ohora presents Stop Snoring, Bernard! (Picture Book Stage)

1PM: James Sturm leads Cartooning with James Sturm (Art Spot) 1PM: Mike Curato presents Little Elliot, Big Fun (Picture Book Stage)

2PM: Bob Shea presents Kid Sherriff and the Terrible Toads (Picture Book Stage) 2PM: Nick Bruel leads Once Upon a Story (Workshop Room)

3PM: Ruth Chan and Christian Robinson appear on the Illustrator Smackdown (NYU Tandon School of Engineering) 3PM: Barry Lyga appears on You’ve Got a Friend (North Stage)

FESTIVAL DAY: SEPTEMBER 18

10AM: Irina Reyn appears on Unsung Heroines (North Stage) 10AM: Maylis de Kerangal appears on Body Language (Borough Hall Media Room)

10:30AM: Steven Sheinkin signs books at Macmillan Booth #512

11AM: Patrice Nganang appears on Exile, Within and Without (Borough Hall Media Room) 11AM: Darryl Pinckney appears on History Threatens (Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge) 11AM: George O’Connor and Faith Erin Hicks are guest booksellers at Macmillan Booth #512

12PM: Steve Sheinkin and Kekla Magoon appear on Against the Odds (Saint Ann’s School Rotunda) 12PM: Monica Youn appears on New Works: A Poetry Reading (Main Stage) 12PM: Anuk Arudpragasam signs books at Macmillan Booth #512

1PM: Anuk Arudpragasm appears on Marriage: In Love, Madness and War (Borough Hall Media Room) 1PM: George Michelsen Foy appears on Location Location Location (St. Francis College Workshop Room) 1PM: Mitchell S. Jackson appears on The Circle of Life: Generational Turmoil (Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge) 1PM: Alex Mar appears on Witches (Main Stage) 1PM: Tom Hart signs books and guest booksells at Macmillan Booth #512

1:30PM: Sloane Crosley appears on Art and Providence (Congregation Mt. Sinai) 1:30PM: Yusef Komunyakaa appears on Poets Laureate Past and Present Reading (Brooklyn Historical Society Library) 1:30PM: Helen Phillips signs books and guest booksells at Macmillan Booth #512

2PM: Ben Katchor appears on Hey, Some Comics Are Still Funny! (Brooklyn Historical Society Library) 2PM: Faith Erin Hicks and George O’Connor appear on Let Me Show You My World (Saint Ann’s School Rotunda) 2PM: Thomas Frank appears on Politically Correct? (Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom) 2PM: Stephen Savage signs books and guest booksells at Macmillan Booth #512

2:30PM: Sarah Glidden appears on Wanderlust and the Search for Meaning (Congregation Mt. Sinai)

3PM: Sarah Beth Durst appears on The Art of Survival in Imaginary Worlds (North Stage) 3PM: Tom Hart appears on Can You Draw the Meaning of Life? (Brooklyn Historical Society) 3PM: Helen Phillips and J. Robert Lennon appear on Something Strange in the Neighborhood (Brooklyn Historical Society Library) 3PM: GIVEAWAY: By Gaslight by Steven Price (Macmillan Booth #512)

4PM: Chester Brown appears on Sex is Power (Brooklyn Historical Society Library) 4PM: Sarah Porter appears on Magic and Mayhem in New York (Saint Ann’s School Rotunda) 4PM: Solmaz Sharif appears on Truth to Form (St. Francis College Auditorium) 4PM: Asali Solomon appears on The National Book Foundation presents 5 Under 35 Alums (Main Stage) 4PM: Kao Kalia Yang appears on We the People (Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom)

5PM: Sarah Glidden appears on The Art of War (Brooklyn Historical Society Library)

BONUS: BOOKEND EVENTS: SEPTEMBER 13 - 16

September 13

6PM: R.L. Stine reads from and signs Young Scrooge in Brooklyn Bridge Park 7PM: Luvvie Ajayi launches I’m Judging You at St. Francis College 8PM: Irina Reyn reads from The Imperial Wife at the LIC Reading Series

September 14

7PM: Translators read from Magdy El Shafee and Anna Politkovskaya during Banned But Translated at WORD Brooklyn

September 15

7PM: Faith Erin Hicks, George O’Connor and Sara Varon celebrate the 10th Anniversary of First Second Books at Mama Says Comics Rock 7PM: Roxana Robinson reads during Seven Ways of Looking at War at Humboldt & Jackson 7:30PM: Anuk Arudpragasam launches The Story of a Brief Marriage at POWERHOUSE Arena

September 16

Brooklyn Book Festival 2016: Lots of Graphic Novel Goodness!

Fall approaches, and once again, the Brooklyn Book Festival will take place this weekend at Brooklyn Borough Hall and surrounding locales! Held since 2006, this literary festival has always had a strong graphic novel presence, and this year offers another strong mix of creators! You can easily spend the entire day just at the graphic novel events! New this year: The Brooklyn Book Festival has…

While it is not possible to pick “a favorite” panel for this Sunday’s BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL – I’ll just say I’m very very excited about this one. SEX IS POWER with Phoebe Gloeckner, Chester Brown, and MariNaomi, moderated by Ophira Eisenberg. 

Sex is Power

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St September 18, 2016 4:00pm