2010 Fairgoer's Guide - Miami Book Fair International

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Weekend Cartoons
Saturday, November 20
Centre Gallery, Rm. 1365, Bldg. 1, 3rd Floor
10:30 a.m. - Graphic Noir: Kody Chamberlain on
Sweets, Joshua Hale Fialkov on Tumor, Mat Johnson on
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story
12 p.m. - Life and Comics: Amanda Conner, Jimmy
Palmiotti, Greg Rucka and Jen Van Meter
with moderator Alex Rodrik
2 p.m. - Jaime Hernandez, The Art of Jaime Hernandez:
The Secrets of Life and Death, in
conversation with Gustavo Arellano,
Ask a Mexican, and Charles
Kochman, executive editor, Abrams
ComicArts
3 p.m. - Shazam! Chip Kidd and
Brad Meltzer on The Golden Age of
the World’s Mightiest Mortal
with moderator Charles Kochman,
executive editor, Abrams ComicArts
4 p.m. - Graphic Lives: Lars
Martinson on Tonoharu, Tracy White
on How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story and
Sid Jacobson on Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House
Authorized Graphic Biography
Sunday, November 21
Centre Gallery, Rm. 1365, Bldg. 1, 3rd Floor
10:30 a.m. - Denis Kitchen and
John Lind on The Oddly Compelling
Art of Denis Kitchen
11:30 a.m. - Lynda Barry on Picture
This: The Near-sighted Monkey
Book and Vanessa Davis on Make
Me a Woman
1 p.m. - Dean Haspiel and Inverna
Lockpez with Joan Hilty, editor,
DC Comics/Vertigo on Cuba: My
Revolution
2 p.m. - Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza in
conversation with book critic Ariel Gonzalez
3 p.m. - Rick Meyerowitz on Drunk
Stoned Brillaint Dead: The Writers
and Artists Who Made the National
Lampoon Insanely Great
4 p.m. - Dan Archer on The
Honduran Coup: A Graphic History
and David Axe on War Is Boring
5 p.m. - Étienne Davodeau on
Lulu, femme nou (in French with
consecutive interpretation)
Thursday, Nov. 18
Educational Sessions for Teachers,
Librarians and Other Educators
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Free. Registration required. Please visit
www.miamibookfair.com and click on School
of Comics and Graphic Novels.
The School of Comics and Graphic Novels
is designed to demonstrate how comics,
and now graphic novels, can work in your
classroom. Attendees will also be shown
practical examples of how comics and
graphic novels have been integrated into
curricula, as well as lists of titles that work in
classrooms.
10 a.m. - Introduction and Welcome: Carol
Fitzgerald, Founder of
GraphicNovelReporter.com.
Session 1: 10:05 - 10:55 a.m.
Using Graphic Novels to Open a Different Door
to Literacy with Dr. James “Bucky” Carter
Dr. James “Bucky” Carter is the author of
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic
Novels (NCTE).
Session 2: 11 - 11:50 a.m.
Your Life In Comics: Using Do-it-Yourself
Comics to Foster a Love of Reading, Writing
and Creativity with Bill Zimmerman
Bill Zimmerman is an award-winning author
and has written more than a dozen books
used by families, children and schools,
including 100 Things Guys Need to Know.
Lunch 11:50 - 12:50 p.m.
Session 3: 1 - 1:50 p.m.
Connecting the Library and the Classroom:
Developing a Brilliant Partnership and
Resource for Teachers with Librarian Kat Kan
Kat Kan has worked in school and public
libraries. She has served on the Best
Books for Young Adults Committee, among
others, and she chaired the YALSA Graphic
Novels Task Force, which recommended
the creation of the Great Graphic Novels
for Teens Committee. Kan also created the
selection criteria for Brodart Company’s
graphic novel collection development
Educational Sessions for Teachers, Librarians
and Other Educators, and Comics and Graphic
Novel Creators of All Ages
Thursday and Friday, November 18 and 19
Room 7128, Bldg.7, 1st Floor
program and currently selects the
recommended titles for their core lists.
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SESSION 4: 2 – 2:50 p.m.
Developing a Graphic Novel Project for the
Classroom with Dr. Adam Johnson
Dr. Adam Johnson developed and
implements the Stanford University Graphic
Novel Project.
SESSION 5: 3 – 3:50 p.m.
The Art of Story Telling in the Graphic Novel
Format with Professor Chris Schweizer
Chris Schweizer created the graphic novels
Crogan’s Vengeance and Crogan’s March
(Oni Press).
Friday, Nov. 19
Educational Sessions for Comics and
Graphic Novel Creators of All Ages
Free. Registration required. Please visit
www.miamibookfair.com and click on School
of Comics and Graphic Novels.
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Women Making Comics, A New Generation:
For years comics and graphic novels were
viewed as mostly a “boy thing.” Lately, the
participation of women in comics-making
has grown exponentially. How do they
approach story telling? What comes first,
drawings or dialog? Where do they start
the process, and does it come out the way
they had planned? With Amy Ignatow, The
Popularity Papers, Raina Telgemeier, Smile,
Tracy White, How I Made It to Eighteen, and
Amanda Conner, Power Girl.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Brain to Hand to Paper: Getting Your Comics/
Graphic Novel Done
Have a great idea for character? A story?
A series? Get it done! Four creators talk
about the process and offer advice on how
you, too, can get your comic book/graphic
novel completed and published. With Barry
Deutsch, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her
Sword; Mark McKenna, Banana Tail;
Alex Rodrik, Bushido Wasabi; and David
Steinberg, The Adventures of Daniel Boom
AKA Loud Boy.
The School of Comics and Graphic Novels is made possible in part with the support of