The penultimate event in New York City’s Bryant Park’s 2009 Word for Word Series will be next Wednesday, 19 August, from 12:30 to 1:45PM. The event is of interest to SFScope readers, because it’s entitled “Comics from Every Angle”.
The free panel, moderated by Danny Fingeroth, will have an all-star panel including Chip Kidd, Heidi MacDonald, David Mazzucchelli, and Joe Quesada, and will feature “a freewheeling discussion of the past, present, and future of sequential art.” The panelists will discuss how comics have become an important part of high and low culture the world over.
Fingeroth is a Marvel Comics writer and editor, and the author of Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero and The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels. Kidd is an author and designer who wrote Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. MacDonald is the co-editor of Publishers Weekly Comics Week and the editor of The Nightmare Factory; she blogs about comics culture at The Beat. Mazzucchelli is a comics writer and artist who is responsible for Batman: Year One, City of Glass, and Asterios Polyp. Quesada is the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics.
The event will be at the Bryant Park Reading Room, located on the 42nd Street side of the park—under the trees—between the back of the New York Public Library and 6th Avenue. Look for the burgundy and white umbrellas. In the event of rain, it will be moved to The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 20 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues). For more information on the program or the series, see this page.