New York City Comic Con

New York City Comic Con was great.  Here are some cool highlights...  :)

With the super-cool and brilliant storyteller Jane Yolen

With Jimmy Gownley of Amelia Rules! fame

With Peter Kuper, of contemporary Spy vs. Spy and retold Kafka graphic novel awesomeness

with Gus Fink (aka, Dr. Krinkles), one of my favorite new artist i met.  here's a link to his website.  :) 

Gus' significant other, Emi Boz, was also really impressive.  here's a link to her website.  

Thank you to everyone, with special outs to John Shableski of Diamond Comic Books, John Hogan of graphicnovelreporter.com, Maureen Bakis (awesome graphic novel teacher extraordinaire), and First Second Books, especially Gina Gagliano.

- Katie :)

Great review from Graphic Novel Reporter

John Hogan recently reviewed Teaching Graphic Novels for Graphic Novel Reporter. Here's a snippet:

"It’s a pretty thorough book that covers all the bases...the real star here is the content, which is exceptional. Dr. Monnin is a trusted authority who has put together an essential book on the use of comics in the classroom."