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Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. It led to 19 Hellboy graphic novels (and counting), several spinoff titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), novels, animated films, and two live-action films. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).
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Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. American Born Chinese was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the L.A. Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His other works include Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), New Super-Man from DC Comics (with various artists), and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series from Dark Horse Comics (with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
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Briana Loewinsohn is an American cartoonist. These days she teaches high school art and draws comic books. She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband, daughter, and son. If she doesn’t text you back, she is probably gardening. Ephemera is her "debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine." Loewinsohn has generously designed the official BPL Comic Con poster.
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Thien Pham is a graphic novelist, comic artist, and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Sumo and did the art for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang, and is an ongoing comic contributor to Eater SF. His new graphic novel Family Style is "a moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in America."
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Jason Shiga (Adventuregame Comics, Meanwhile, Demon, Bookhunter, Empire State) is a cartoonist from Oakland, California. His comics have a geeky side, and often feature exciting uses of math, mazes, puzzles, and unconventional narrative techniques. He has won two Eisner awards, two Ignatz awards, and his work has been featured as an official selection for the Comics Festival in Angouleme.
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Rina Ayuyang was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. She was always inspired by the Sunday newspaper funnies and slice-of-life tales. Rina’s new book, The Man in The McIntosh Suit, is a Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love in San Francisco’s Manilatown. Rina’s previous book, Blame This on the Boogie, is an homage to the American Musical, exploring themes of escapism, ethnic identity, family, and pop-culture fanaticism.
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Trinidad Escobar (Crushed, Arrive in My Hands) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Muwekma Ohlone region of California, USA. She is a cartoonist of folk horror, Gothic and YA fantasy, poetry, and social science. Trinidad currently works for Sins Invalid and the Crip Survival network making comics about disability justice. Her YA graphic novel inspired by the pre-history of the South Pacific will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. Tryst is forthcoming from Gantala Press in the Philippines.
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Jon Chad is obsessed with giant robots, screen-printing, and bookmaking. Chad has been commissioned by Cartoon Network to make artist books based on shows like Adventure Time and The Amazing World of Gumball. He is the illustrator of Science Comics: Solar System, and the author of Leo Geo, Science Comics: Volcanoes, Science Comics: The Periodic Table of Elements, and Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball. Jon is also the creator of the multi-format immersion narrative BAD MASK.
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Karen Schneemann (Look on the Bright Side, Go With the Flow) grew up in Northern California. She received her first undergraduate degree in Engineering from UCLA and her second in Animation from California College of the Arts. In addition to being an engineer, artist and writer, Karen is also a mom to two adorable kids. She lives and works in foggy San Francisco, California
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Andrew Farago is the curator of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum. His writing credits include The Looney Tunes Treasury, the Harvey Award-winning Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History, and Batman: The Definitive History of The Dark Knight. Farago received the prestigious Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International in 2015. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, cartoonist Shaenon K. Garrity, and their son, Robin.
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Saturday, October 14th, 2:00PM 3rd Floor Community Meeting Room 2090 Kittredge St. From DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance, in this documentary, meet five smart and funny queer comic book artists whose uncensored commentary left no topic untouched and explored art as a tool for social change. Director/Producer Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and a Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship artist. She was the story editor for Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, and her work with landmark filmmaker Marlon Riggs includes Tongues Untied, among others. She taught at Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Documentary Film.
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Berkeley Public Library 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley, California 94704 510.981.6100
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