Join moderator Glen Weldon, author and a contributor to NPR’s pop culture blog and podcast, for the second P&P graphic novel panel with some of today’s most innovative artists. Discussing and demonstrating their work with Weldon are graphic novelists Laura Lee Gulledge, Rutu Modan, Matt Phelan, and Gene Yang. Ages 12 and up.
Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. He was an established figure in the indie comics scene when he published his first book with First Second, American Born Chinese, which is now in print in over ten languages. American Born Chinese'scritical and commercial success, along with its status as a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Printz Award, catapulted Yang into stardom as a major voice of our times. His most recent book is the graphic novel diptych Boxers & Saints.
Glen Weldon is the author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, and contributes to NPR’s pop culture blog Monkey See. He is a regular panelist on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He's written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Story, The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, and many others. He reviews books and comic books for NPR.org rather a lot, and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, as well as the PBS NewsHour, Slate Culture Gabfest, 99% Invisible, iFanboy, Comic Book Queers and the Nerdist Writer’s Panel. He's received an NEA Arts Journalism Fellowship, a Ragdale Writing Fellowship and a PEW Fellowship in the Arts for Fiction.
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