TOON Events & Author Appearances
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September 21
1:00 p.m. Comics: Easy As ABC! with Ivan Brunetti: Make your own comics and learn cartooning basics to create your own comic book. Join Ivan Brunetti, author of Comics: Easy As ABC! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids for simple and fun exercises playing with lines and shapes, to help you design and draw characters, faces, animals, props, and settings, and to develop starting points to spark your own stories. Ages 7 & up. This event will be followed by a half hour book signing. Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering – 5 Metrotech Center, 4th Floor 3:00 p.m. Illustrator Smackdown: Come watch, laugh and cheer as talented artists Ruth Chan (The Great Indoors) and Lucy Ruth Cummins (Truman) preside over the year’s most dynamic live action drawing competition featuring illustrators Elisha Cooper (River), Jessie Sima (Spencer’s New Pet), Jerry Craft (New Kid), Ivan Brunetti (Comics: Easy as ABC), Yuko Katakawa (Let’s Scare Bear), Esmé Shapiro (Alma and the Beast), Nina Mata (She’s Got This), and more! This event will be followed by a half hour book signing. Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering – 5 Metrotech Center, Auditorium Featuring: Ivan Brunetti |
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OCTOBER 3
Location: Takoma Park Library MD, Evening Featuring: Kevin McCloskey |
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OCTOBER 4
An Open Book Foundation sponsored visits to Washington D.C. schools. Featuring: Kevin McCloskey |
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OCTOBER 5
Glen Rock Children's Book Fest, 11-3pm Location: Borough Hall, Glen Rock, NJ Featuring: Kevin McCloskey https://www.thecuriousreaderbooks.com |
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OCTOBER 19
Graphic Novels as Information Books Location: Bank Street College of Education, 610 West 112th Street New York, NY 10025 Featuring: Nadja Spiegelman |
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November 2
Comic Arts Brooklyn Pratt Institute 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Location: Pratt Activities Resource Center 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY Featuring: Kevin McCloskey and Ben Nadler |
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NOVEMBER 7
Family Reading Night Location: Oley Valley Elementary School Featuring: Kevin McCloskey https://www.oleyvalleysd.org |
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