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Library Con Celebrates Comics Culture With Tom King, Meg Cabot, Mark Siegel, Minh Le, Kami Garcia, Mariko Tamaki, Malaka Gharib, Kirk Scruggs, Jody Houser and More

Published Sat, 18 May 2019 11:00:20 -0500

For the third time in a row, Library Con will be held before the annual American Library Association big annual meeting in Washington Convention Center, to celebrate comic book culture and how it can find its feet in libraries. As well as showing off comic books, talking to creators, and giving away free stuff.

Here's how the schedule is shaping up, on Friday, 21st June, from 9am to noon at the Washington Convention Center in Room 146C.

Comic book creator scheduled to appear inlude Tom King, Meg Cabot, Mark Siegel, Minh Le, Kami Garcia, Mariko Tamaki, Malaka Gharib, Kirk Scruggs, Jody Houser, and more. Oh and brekfast is included.

Highlighted books include George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen's Lost Girls-lite, Cheshire Crossing, and Tom King and Clay Mann's Heroes In Crisis.

As well as Library Con, there are other comic book-related events happening through ALA>..

Reads Like Fiction: Nonfiction You Can't Put Down with
Grady Hendrix (We Sold Our Souls, Quirk Books)
Saturday, 6/22 • 9:00am – 10:00am • Washington Convention Center, Room 102B

Teaching With Manga Classics
Saturday, 6/22 • 9:30am – 10:20am • Graphic Novel/Gaming Stage

Booth Signing with AJ Dungo (In Waves, Nobrow)
Saturday, 6/22 • 9:30am – 10:00am • Booth 1805

Booth Signing with Lorena Alvarez (Hicotea , Nobrow)
Saturday, 6/22 • 10:00am – 10:30am • Booth 1805

Booth Signing with Clay McLeod Chapman (The Remaking, Quirk Books)
Saturday, 6/22 • 12:00pm – 12:30pm • Booth 1805

Don't Be Afraid of Horror with Clay McLeod Chapman (The Remaking, Quirk Books)
and Grady Hendrix (We Sold Our Souls, Quirk Books)
Saturday, 6/22 • 1:00pm – 1:50pm • Graphic Novel/Gaming Stage

PRHPS Graphic Novel Book Buzz
Saturday, 6/22 • 1:05pm – 1:35pm • Book Buzz Theater

Booth Signing with Michelle Gish (We Are Here Forever, Quirk Books)
Sunday, 6/23 • 1:30pm – 2:00pm • Booth 1805

ALA Award Ceremony and Presidents Program, Nnedi Okorafor (LaGuardia, Dark Horse)
Sunday, 6/23 • 3:00pm – 5:30pm • Washington Convention Center, Ballroom B-C

The Many Paths to Comics
Sunday, 6/23 • 3:30pm – 4:20pm • Graphic Novel/Gaming Stage

Auditorium Speaker Series, George Takei (They Called Us Enemy, Top Shelf)
Monday, 6/24 • 10:30am – 11:30am • Washington Convention Center, Ballroom B-C

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