Co-presented with the Center for Communication

At Housing Works Used Book Café
126 Crosby Street
(Between Houston & Prince Streets)

Wednesday , April 27

7:00 to 8:30 pm

FREE

RSVP: visit cencom.org, email info@cencom.org or call 212-686-5005.

Call `em sequential art, expensive comic books, or as master-of-the-genre Art Spiegelman prefers, „comic books that needs a bookmark.‰ Whatever they are, graphic novels are grabbing hold like never before. With a critical mass of talented artists and stepped up distribution, comics are getting respect. Meet the superheroes who dominate the industry.

Peter Kuper, MAD's SPY vs. SPY; adaption of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Sticks and Stones; Co-founder, World War 3 Illustrated

Tom Hart, Hutch Owen, The Sands, Banks/Eubanks, New Hat; editor, serializer.net

Raina Telgemeier, Creator, Take-Out Comics and weekly web comic, Smile; graphic novel adaptation of The Baby-sitters Club (Scholastic's Graphix imprint)

Chip Kidd, Editor-at-Large, Pantheon Graphic Novels; Author, Batman Collected, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross

Charles Kochman, Sr. Editor, Harry N. Abrams; former editor, DC Comics

Kent Worcester, co-editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (moderator)