Sept 1: Cartoons and comics at the National Book Festival UPDATED

The Library of Congress' National Book Festival is free and at the Convention Center.

		2:40 pm-3:10 pm Patrick McDonnell 5:30 pm-6:30 pm 3:10 pm-3:40 pm Tillie Walden 5:30 pm-6:30 pm 3:10 pm-3:40 pm Pénélope Bagieu 5:30 pm-6:30 pm 3:40 pm-4:10 pm Ed Piskor 5:30 pm-6:30 pm
		It appears that the above is the biggest chunk of time to see cartoonists, all on the 'genre' stage. Corrections and additions are welcomed.

Pénélope Bagieu

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/penelope_bagieu/

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Genre Fiction
  Saturday, September 1
  3:10 pm - 3:40 pm

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Pénélope Bagieu was born in Paris in 1982 to Corsican and Basque parents. She is a best-selling graphic novel author, and her editorial illustrations have appeared all over the French media. In America, her graphic novels include "Exquisite Corpse," "California Dreamin'" and, most recently, "Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World" (First Second). She blogs, plays drums in a rock band and watches lots of nature shows. Bagieu is also the creator of the animated film "No More Laughter," and she has done work on many advertising campaigns.

Harry Bliss

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/harry_bliss/

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Children's Green Stage
  Saturday, September 1
  10:40 am - 11:05 am

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  noon - 1:00 pm

Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker. He has illustrated many picture books, including the No. 1 New York Times best-selling series by Doreen Cronin that began with "Diary of a Worm," and he has both written and illustrated several picture books, including "Grace for Gus" and "Luke on the Loose." Harry Bliss lives in New Hampshire. His new book is "Good Rosie!" (Candlewick), written by Kate DiCamillo.

Previous National Book Festival Appearances

• 2011 Book Festival Webcast
• 2005 Book Festival Webcast 

 

Roxane Gay

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/roxane_gay

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Genre Fiction
  Saturday, September 1
  4:10 pm - 4:40 pm

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Roxane Gay’s writing appears in “Best American Mystery Stories 20140,” “Best American Short Stories 2012,” “Best Sex Writing 2012,” and the magazines Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review and many others. She is also a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Gay is the author of the books “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” the New York Times best-selling “Bad Feminist,” the national best-selling “Difficult Women” and the New York Times best-selling “Hunger: A Memoir of My Body.” She is also the author of “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” (Marvel) and the editor of “Best American Short Stories 2018.” Gay is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture and a young adult novel, “The Year I Learned Everything.”

Previous National Book Festival Appearances

• 2017

 

Patrick McDonnell

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/patrick_mcdonnell/

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Genre Fiction
  Saturday, September 1
  2:40 pm - 3:10 pm

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Brad Meltzer

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/brad_meltzer/

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Genre Fiction
  Saturday, September 1
  10:00 am - 10:45 am

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Brad Meltzer is the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of "The Inner Circle," "The Book of Fate" and nine other best-selling thrillers, including "The Tenth Justice," "The First Counsel," "The Millionaires" and "The President's Shadow." His newest book is "The Escape Artist" (Grand Central). In addition to his fiction, Meltzer has been on the best-seller lists with the nonfiction "History Decoded," children's books such as "Heroes for My Son" and "Heroes for My Daughter," and for comic books such as "Justice League of America."

Previous National Book Festival Appearances

• 2013 Book Festival Webcast
• 2010 Book Festival Webcast
• 2008 Book Festival Webcast
• 2008 Book Festival Audio
• 2006 Book Festival Webcast

Ed Piskor

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/ed_piskor/

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Genre Fiction
  Saturday, September 1
  3:40 pm - 4:10 pm

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Ed Piskor is the writer and artist behind "X-Men: Grand Design" (Marvel). This deeply personal and heavily researched reimagining of the origins of the world famous X-Men incorporates the past 40 years of the title's history and has been met with critical acclaim from all corners of the comics world. Piskor is also the creator behind "Hip Hop Family Tree," the New York Times best-selling series that won the 2015 Eisner Award for best reality-based work. Piskor's other published works include "Wizzywig" and, in collaboration with Harvey Pekar, "American Splendor" and "The Beats: A Graphic History." Ed teaches classes on comics and lives in Pennsylvania.

Previous National Book Festival Appearances

• 2016

Tillie Walden

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/tillie_walden/

At the 2018 National Book Festival

Presentation

• Genre Fiction
  Saturday, September 1
  3:10 pm - 3:40 pm

Book Signing

• Saturday, September 1
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Ausin, Texas. She is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies and is a two-time Eisner nominee and Ignatz Award winner. She is the author of the graphic novels "Spinning" (First Second) and "On a Sunbeam." "Spinning" is about Walden's years as a competitive figure skater. She lives in Los Angeles.

Ed Piskor, Michael Ramirez, and Gene Yang announced for National Book Festival in 2016

Update: Darrin Bell has also confirmed his attendance.

Sweet Sixteen: The 2016 National Book Festival Announced!

January 21, 2016 by Lola Pyne
http://blogs.loc.gov/national-book-festival/2016/01/sweet-sixteen-the-2016-national-book-festival-announced/

Many authors have already accepted the festival's invitations this year, and they include:

• Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal winner
• Douglas Brinkley, prize-winning historian
• Christopher Buckley, author of such satirical works as "Thank You for Smoking"
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and author
• Philip Glass, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
• Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Winston Groom, author of "Forrest Gump"
• Stephen King, best-selling, prize-winning author and literacy advocate
• James McBride, National Book Award winner
• Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
• Joyce Carol Oates, prize-winning author of more than 70 books
• Ed Piskor, alternative comics artist
• Michael Ramirez, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Diane Rehm, NPR host and author
• Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize winner
• Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Bob Woodward, Pulitzer prize winner and author of 17 No. 1 best-sellers
• Luis Alberto Urrea, prize-winning author of "The Devil's Highway"
• Gene Luen Yang, Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

The National Book Festival poster will be designed this year by Yuko Shimizu, an illustrator based in New York City and an instructor at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has appeared on The Gap T-shirts, Pepsi cans, Visa card billboards and Microsoft and Target ads, as well as on book covers for Penguin, Scholastic and DC Comics. She has published work in the pages of The New York Times, Time magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and many other publications.

Piskor covers City Paper

The new issue of the Washington City Paper has a really nice cover of books as buildings by Pekar-collaborator Ed Piskor. He did interior illos for the story too. I'm willing to entertain requests for tear sheets if they come in soon.

Bits from the papers

Today's Express had a review of Persepolis which wasn't online and one of the Swamp Thing TV series dvd - Stephen M Deusnef's "Swamp Thing: Up From the Muck," [Washington Post] Express (January 24 2008): E13 - which is.

The City Paper had a Big-Daddy-Roth-channeling cover by Pekar-collaborating Ed Piskor (who has a self-published book out now too) and another review of Persepolis - "Menace, Anyone? Politics are a threat in Persepolis, but the danger's even more monstrous in Cloverfield," by Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper January 25, 2008: 42.

More bad news from City Paper?

The December 28th issue doesn't have any comics in it, except for local cartoonist Ben Classen's Dirt Farm. Unfortunately, I'm afraid this will carry into the new year as a cost-cutting measure. The Blade seems to be having similar issues, and certainly hasn't realized that Bechdel's gone back to bi-monthly for Dykes to Watch Out For, if they're even still running it.

On the positive side, they did hire Harvey Pekar-collaborator and nice guy Ed Piskor to do an illustration.

So the new year may bring far less reason to pick up two of the local free papers...