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Finding Friendship: Middle Grade Comics
Saturday December 7, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Thurman Center Stage
The development of friendships are vital to our formative years and are a fundamental theme in Middle Grade comics. How do friendships develop in a storytelling context? How do they start? Where do they struggle? Do they end? Join moderator J. L. Bell and a panel of Middle Grade cartoonists as they explore how this evolution works.
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JL
Exhibitors
avatar for Debbie Fong (Kid-Friendly) - 59B
avatar for Shaina Lu (Kid-friendly) - 65B

Shaina Lu (Kid-friendly) - 65B

Shaina Lu 呂明穎 (she/her) is a queer Taiwanese-American artist interested in the intersection of art, education, and activism. She creates community art for social change through dialogue and conversation with local youth, residents, and grassroots organizers. Shaina is the author... Read More →
avatar for Emma Hunsinger - 66B

Emma Hunsinger - 66B

Emma Hunsinger started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic How to Draw a Horse appeared in The New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner Award. Her middle grade graphic novel How It All Ends is out now.
avatar for Johnnie Christmas (Kid-friendly) - 69A

Johnnie Christmas (Kid-friendly) - 69A

Johnnie Christmas is a #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novelist and author-illustrator of the critically acclaimed middle grade graphic novel Swim Team, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration, was named a Kirkus... Read More →
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avatar for Porter Square Books
Saturday December 7, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Thurman Center Stage First Floor, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline, MA
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