Into the Unknown: New Graphic Novels: Ilan Stavans on El Iluminado and Mark Siegel on Sailor Twain or The Mermaid in the Hudson and Derek Kirk Kim on Tune
Saturday, Nov. 17, 12:00 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Ilan Stavans
Literary critic Ilan Stavans and author and illustrator Steve Sheinkin present a secret history of religion in the Americas in El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel (Basic Books, $24.99) When young Rolando Pérez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries accumulate. What are the documents that Rolando died trying to protect? Why are his family, the police, and the Catholic Church all after them? Professor Ilan Stavans is drawn into a desperate race to find the long-lost documents that might hold the key to Rolando’s death. Stavans is the author of Latino USA: A Cartoon History and editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and adapted into theater and film. Sheinkin writes and draws the popular Rabbi Harvey graphic novels and writes award-winning nonfiction books for young adults.
Mark Siegel
Set one hundred years ago on the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular—and notoriously reclusive—author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together and race to an unexpected collision, the mystery of the graphic novel Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid of the Hudson (First Second Books, $24.99) deepens. “. . . a gripping novel with compelling characters, enhanced by haunting, erotically charged drawings." –John Irving. Siegel is the editorial director of First Second Books and an accomplished writer and illustrator. He is the illustrator of To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, and author and illustrator of the picture book Moving House.
Derek Kirk Kim
Derek Kirk Kim’s illustrated science fiction comedy is Tune: Vanishing Point (First Second, $16.99). Andy's life is going nowhere, fast. Things look better when his art school crush comes back in the picture. Andy even gets a job at a zoo. But the zoo? It's run by aliens. The exhibit? It's him. Kim is the award-winning author of Same Difference, The Eternal Smile (with Gene Luen Yang), and Good As Lily (with Jesse Hamm). He has also contributed to numerous anthologies including Flight (Vol. 1), Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, and Bizarro World. His web-TV series, Mythomania, loosely based on Tune, is currently in its first season.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
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