2022 Peninsula Libraries Comic Arts Fest

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"Queer Comics for Teens" Panel Featuring Shannon Watters, Mike Curato, Julia Kaye and Blue Delliquanti (moderator)

Saturday, April 23, 2:00 PM
Join authors and artists Shannon Watters, Mike Curato and Julia Kaye in conversation with Blue Delliquanti on Zoom as they discuss the importance of queer comics and graphic novels for teens written by queer authors themselves.

Shannon Watters is the co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning hit comic book series Lumberjanes. She is also a former senior editor and founder/head of BOOM! Box line at BOOM! Studios, the imprint behind critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels like Giant Days, The Backstagers, Lumberjanes, Fence, Goldie Vance, Heavy Vinyl, The Avant-Guards and many, many others. Her upcoming graphic novel Hollow is out in September 2022. She lives with her partner in Los Angeles.

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Mike Curato is the author-illustrator of the wildly popular Little Elliot picture books. Mike is the illustrator of Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian, All the Way to Havana by Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle, What if… and The Sharey Godmother by Samantha Berger, and The Power of One by Trudy Ludwig. He also wrote and illustrated his debut young adult graphic novel, Flamer, which has received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Young Adults.

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Julia Kaye (she/her) is an award-winning comic artist and published author whose webcomic Up and Out has garnered hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide and wide critical acclaim. She's best known for her 2018 comic memoir Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition, which The Beat listed as one of the 100 best comics of the decade. The sequel, My Life In Transition came out last year to wide critical praise. Julia lives in Los Angeles.

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Blue Delliquanti (they/them) is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis, MN. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal (with Soleil Ho), published through Iron Circus Comics, and The ‘Stan (with David Axe and Kevin Knodell), published through Dead Reckoning. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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Elisa Macellari

Thursday, April 28, 12:30 PM
Take a virtual trip to Milan to meet Thai Italian illustrator Elisa Macellari and have a look at her vivid graphic biography of international art icon Yayoi Kusama.

Elisa Macellari finds Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s world “eccentric, captivating and inclusive. I just took a small step inside it and her dense life mesmerized me.” In Kusama: The Graphic Novel, Macellari follows the icon’s incredible journey, detailing her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first-century super-fame.

Learn more about Elisa Macellari and her own art, as she joins us virtually from her home in Italy.

Elisa Macellari is a Thai-Italian illustrator. Her clients include The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, Mondadori, Feltrinelli, and Nobrow Press. Her first graphic novel, Papaya Salad (2018), has been published in Italian, French, and Spanish.

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Andy Runton

Thursday, April 28, 4:00 PM
Do you love to draw comics but you’re frustrated with your drawings? Every professional drawing starts with a messy pencil sketch that you never see! Join Andy Runton to learn a little about his Owly graphic novel series, and he'll teach you how to draw Owly and anything else you want by sketching it out in pencil first using simple shapes! Registration is required and free copies of Owly 4: A Time to Be Brave will be given away at the Children's Desk of the Burlingame Main Library to the first 30 registrants to claim them.

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John Patrick Green

Saturday, April 30, 11:00 AM
John Patrick Green is a human with the human job of making books about animals with human jobs, such as Hippopotamister, Kitten Construction Company, and InvestiGators. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how he started his comics career, and get a glimpse of his process of making his goofy graphic novel series InvestiGators! Also, all attendees will have an opportunity to win a copy of his newest book, Investigators: Braver and Boulder!

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Ryan North

Saturday, April 30, 1:00 PM
Join us to meet Ryan North, the Eisner-award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and cartoonist behind Dinosaur Comics, Adventure Time comics, and Marvel's Squirrel Girl, as well as non-fiction books like How To Invent Everything. Ryan will discuss his newest book, How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain as well as the process of creating comics, fiction, non-fiction, and more, in a hilarious and engaging overview of several distinct genres of writing!

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Graphic Memoir: Laura Gao and Tyler Feder

Saturday, April 30, 2:00 PM
Join graphic memoirists Laura Gao and Tyler Feder on Zoom as they discuss their process and what motivated them to write their very personal stories in the graphic novel format.

Laura Gao is a queer artist and author based in San Francisco. Originally from Wuhan, China, Gao immigrated to a small town in Texas when she was four. Gao's art career began by doodling on Pokémon cards and has since blossomed to be featured on NPR, the MOCA in NYC, and most notably, her parents’ fridge. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Gao worked as a Product Manager in tech before her comic, The Wuhan I Know, went viral on Twitter and ignited her art career. Her debut graphic memoir, Messy Roots, is out now.

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Tyler Feder (she/her) is a Chicago-based artist whose work explores big feelings, feminism, and pop culture. Her debut solo book, Dancing at the Pity Party, a graphic memoir about the premature death of her super cool mom, won the 2021 Sydney Taylor young adult gold medal. Tyler also wrote and illustrated Bodies Are Cool, a body-positive picture book for preschoolers, which was a 2022 ALA RISE Feminist Book Pick and Rainbow List Top Ten Title.

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