Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Mike Lester and Ann Telnaes (w/Michael Cavna, Gene Yang, then Roz Chast):
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Description of Pictures: Mike Lester
Mike Lester is an award-winning editorial cartoonist and illustrator whose work is syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. His children’s book “A Is for Salad” (Puffin) was a New York Times best-seller in 2000. In 2012, he created and launched the comic strip “Mike du Jour.” He has received the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben award for best book illustration four times, in 2000, 2006, 2008, and 2010, and the Reuben for best advertising illustration in 2004. He also received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartoons in 2007 and 2010.
Ann Telnaes
Ann Telnaes is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who works in various mediums—animation, visual essays, live sketches and traditional print. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her print cartoons and the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 2016. In 2004, she donated 81 of her original drawings to the Library of Congress, which then showed her work in a solo exhibition. Also in 2004, the Library of Congress and Pomegranate Press published her first book, a collection of her editorial cartoons titled “Humor’s Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes” (Pomegranate). She is the current president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
The speakers were in conversation with Michael Cavna, from the Washington Post.
The speakers joined a conversation with Gene Yang, and at the end of the conversation, they were joined by Roz Chast.
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2017_DC_NBF_Chast_170902: Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Roz Chast (w/Michael Cavna, Ann Telnaes, Mike Lester, then Lincoln Pierce) (51 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_NBF_ML_AT_170902: Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Mike Lester and Ann Telnaes (w/Michael Cavna, Gene Yang, then Roz Chast) (79 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_NBF_Peirce_170902: Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Lincoln Peirce (w/Michael Cavna and Roz Chast) (61 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_NBF_Yang_170902: Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Gene Luen Yang (w/Michael Cavna, then Mike Lester and Ann Telnaes) (50 photos from 2017)
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MLAT_170902_032.JPG: Mike Lester
MLAT_170902_055.JPG: Amy Lago in the middle
MLAT_170902_068.JPG: Ann Telnaes
MLAT_170902_100.JPG: Ann Telnaes, Michael Cavna, Gene Yang, and Mike Lester
MLAT_170902_689.JPG: Roz Chast is introduced
MLAT_170902_692.JPG: Ann Telnaes bows to Roz Chast
MLAT_170902_706.JPG: Ann Telnaes, Michael Cavna, Roz Chast, and Mike Lester
MLAT_170902_787.JPG: Mike Lester and Ann Telnaes
MLAT_170902_791.JPG: Mike Lester, Ann Telnaes, and Warren Bernard
MLAT_170902_795.JPG: Amy Lago, Mike Lester, Ann Telnaes, and Regan (Mike's wife)
MLAT_170902_800.JPG: Amy Lago, Mike Lester, Ann Telnaes, Regan (Mike's wife), and Warren Bernard
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2016_CA_SDCCA San Diego Comic-Con International 2016 -- Artists
2016_DC_Yang_160107 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature: Gene Luen Yang
2015_CA_SDCCA San Diego Comic-Con International 2015 -- Artists
2015_MD_GBF_Diversity_150516 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2015) -- Panel -- We Need Diverse Books (w/Ellen Oh, Tracey Baptiste, Gene Luen Yang, and Aisha Saeed)
2015_MD_GBF_Yang_150516 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2015) -- Gene Luen Yang ("The Shadow Hero") w/Michael Cavna
2013_DC_Graphic_Novels_130916 Politics & Prose -- Panel -- "Art and Style of Graphic Novels" -- w/Glen Weldon, Laura Lee Gulledge, Rutu Modan, Matt Phelan, and Gene Yang
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.