Watch When Available!YouTube: https://youtu.be/o0y4sKddiIIJerry Craft (
Class Act, New Kid) and
Faith Erin Hicks (
One Year at Ellsmere) join exciting comics artists
Robin Ha (
Almost American Girl),
Derick Brooks (
Bright Family), and
Jonathan Hill (
Odessa) in a discussion about new kids graphic novels. Moderated by
Candice Mack (YALSA) and sponsored by the CBC Graphic Novel Committee.
Faith Erin Hicks One Year at Ellsmere Faith Erin Hicks (she/her) is a Canadian writer and artist. She worked in the animation industry for several years before transitioning into writing and drawing comics full time in 2008. She started making comics "for fun" and putting them on the web when she was in college. Her first published work was
Zombies Calling (SLG Publishing) in 2007. Since then, she has published a number of other graphic novels including
Brain Camp, Friends with Boys, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, The Nameless City, and
Pumpkinheads. Faith Erin won an Eisner Award in 2014 for
The Adventures of Superhero Girl and in 2019, her debut Young Adult prose novel, Co
mics Will Break Your Heart, was published by Roaring Brook Press.
Robin Ha Almost American Girl Robin Ha (she/her) is a Korean American cartoonist and illustrator based in Washington D.C. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling comic cookbook
Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes. Her work has been published in independent comics anthologies including
Secret Identities and
The Strumpet, as well as in the pages of Marvel Comics and
Heavy Metal Magazine. Her graphic novel memoir, Almo
st American Girl, talks about immigrating from Seoul, Korea to Huntsville, Alabama as a teenager in the mid-1990's.
Jerry Craft New Kid Jerry Craft (he/his) is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. His book, New
Kid, is the winner of the 2020 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature. It is the first graphic novel in the Newbery's nearly 100 year history to receive the award. Craft is only the fifth African-American author to land the coveted prize.
New Kid was also awarded the Coretta Scott King award for outstanding work by an African American writer. Craft is the second person to have simultaneously won both awards in the same year. Craft was born in Harlem and grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School and received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts. He resides in Connecticut with his two sons and two beagles.
Derick Brooks Bright Family: Versus the Multiverse Derick Brooks (he/him) is a cartoonist from Richmond Virginia working in comics literary publishing and animation. Derick loves to create adventure fantasy, soft sci fi, and slice of life stories about BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color.) He is currently illustrating the book series Bright Family (Epic!) and in the production of his first graphic novel
Grip Up! (Iron Circus Comics) coming in 2022.
Jonathan Hill Odessa Jonathan Hill (he/his) is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and educator living in Portland, OR. His first two graphic novels, Americ
us (2011), and Wild W
eather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate (2019) were published by First Second. His third book, Odes
sa, will be published in November of 2020 (Oni Press) and he has another forthcoming book
True Tales of a Seventh Grade Lizard Boy in 2022 (Walker Books).
Jonathan teaches comics in the illustration department at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Literary Arts and chairs the Youth Programs Advisory Council.
Moderator
Candice (Wing-yee) Mack Vice president, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association
Candice (Wing-Yee) Mack and my pronouns are she/her/hers. I manage systemwide Young Adult services, programs, and collections at the Los Angeles Public Library, the third largest library system in the United States and am the incoming President of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. As a lifelong Southern Californian, I've attended San Diego Comic-Con since I was a teenager myself and served on the 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards jury. I also served on the 2018 We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Award Jury and am a past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). On Twitter, I post about food, music, libraries, YA lit, social justice, and Star Wars as @tinylibrarian.
by the CBC Graphic Novel Committee
