NYCC / Legendary Comics YA Presents: History, Hauntings, and all things Halloween
Dana Mele (Tragic), Kelly Zekas (Championess), Cat Staggs (Enola Holmes: Mycroft’s Dangerous Game), and surprise guests will be sharing stories and supernatural inspiration heading into spooky season. Join the conversation with talent and learn how they create characters, costumes, creatures, ghosts, and ghouls in comics.
Friday, October 7, 2022 – 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Javits Center
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NYCC / AWA Studios Panel featuring Dana MeleÂ
From The Great Gatsby to Hamlet, Comic Creators Offer Contemporary Update to Classic Lit Favorites with AWA Studios Chief Creative Officer Axel Alonso in conversation with Legendary Comics YA author Dana Mele (Tragic), along with Jeremy Holt (Gatsby), Amy Chu (Carmilla: The First Vampire), and Alex Cormack (The Crimson Cage) as they discuss how they are putting their spin on some of literature’s best-known stories and bringing the tales into modern times to relate to today’s readers directly.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 – 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Room 1C03
Javits Center
Legendary Comics YA Presents: Author in the Park with Dana Mele
Legendary Comics YA takes on a new twist of Shakespeare in the Park and will host Tragic Volume 1 author Dana Mele as she answers questions about her latest book. Tragic is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, exploring family, mystery, and death, by Pushcart-nominated writer Dana Mele (People Like Us; Summer’s Edge).
Featuring artwork from artist Valentina Pinti (SMASH! Thunderbolt the Avenger; Noise Press’ The Steams; NoLand Comics’ Rust)Â and colorist Chiara Di Francia (Jungle’s Le Renard de Morlange; Les Humanoides’ Associes Hard Rescue), Tragic takes on redefined and curious characters layered into a queer narrative that weaves together both lovely and unsettling perspectives inspired by the infamously classic tragedy.
Sunday, October 9, 2022 – 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
Bella Abzug Park Fountains 539 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
Free to attend. Purchased tickets include a copy of Tragic signed by Dana, available to be picked up at the event!
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