Watch When Available!YouTube: https://youtu.be/SSf-rAJR85QAuthors behind graphic adaptations of cultural pasttimes, historical figures, social justice movements, and autobiographies discuss their process. How does one adapt "real life" into a comic format? How is it different from fiction? In what way must art stick to (or differ from) "authenticity"? Featuring
Fred Van Lente (
The Comic Book Story of Basketball),
Tom Scioli (
Jack Kirby),
David F. Walker (
The Life of Frederick Douglass),
Mikki Kendall (Am
azons, Abolitionists, and Activists), and
Malaka Gharib (
I Was Their American Dream), moderated by Ten Speed Press associate editorial director
Kaitlin Ketchum.
