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Four acclaimed graphic novel authors and artists—Cece Bell, Françoise Mouly, Jeff Smith, and Gene Luen Yang—join Booklist Associate Editor Sarah Hunter and Eva Volin, Supervising Children’s Librarian for the Alameda Free Library, to dig into graphic novels at the popular Author Forum.

Françoise Mouly is art director at The New Yorker (where she has been responsible for more than 1,000 covers) and is also publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an imprint of comics and visual narratives for young readers. She founded and coedited, with collaborator and husband Art Spiegelman, the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW, the New York Times bestselling Little Litseries, and the TOON TRASURY OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S COMICS. She has received many awards including the Eric Carle Museum Bridge Award for “sustained achievement in the realm of the illustrated book for young people.”
(Sponsored by TOON Books)

Cartoonist Jeff Smith was an early adopter of the graphic novel format and is best known as the creator of the comic book series BONE, started in 1991 and now a New York Times bestselling series that has won numerous awards and honors including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harvey Awards. He is a board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, guest edited the 2013 Best American Comics anthology, and is the creator of TÜKI and RASL. His other books include SHAZAM: The Monster, SOCIETY OF EVIL and 2009 Geisel Honor recipient LITTLE MOUSE GETS READY.
(Sponsored by Scholastic)

Gene Luen Yang’s first book, AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, is published in more than ten languages, won the Printz Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. His other works include the popular comics adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the New York Times bestselling graphic novel diptych BOXERS & SAINTS --- also a National Book Award Finalist. THE SHADOW HERO, the story of the first Asian-American superhero, is Yuen’s most recent graphic novel.
(Sponsored by Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)

Book signings outside Ballroom immediately following the event.

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Making Educational Comics: Why Should the Pros Have All the Fun?
Sunday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, McCormick Place-W474a

Are you dissatisfied with the educational comics available on the market? Think you can do better? Join veteran middle school math teacher and Solution Squad creator Jim McClain, winner of the 2014 Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship, as he walks you step-by-step through the process by which you can make educational comics to suit your needs. He will break it down by financial cost as well as the investment of time required to make the comics that YOU want to use in the classroom.
(Sponsored by the Graphic Novels & Comics Member Interest Group)

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