Graphic novelists Rutu Modan and James Sturm present their newest works with readings and PowerPoint. Toronto poet Emily Schultz opens the event with a reading from her new collection. Peter Birkemoe hosts.
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Peter Birkemoe is owner of The Beguiling, which stocks the largest selection of comics and graphic novels in Canada. He is also co-founder of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
Rutu Modan is one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists, and the founding member of the internationally acclaimed collective and independent publishing house for alternative comic artists, Actus Tragicus.
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Emily Schultz is the author of the highly acclaimed novel Joyland and the story collection Black Coffee Night. Most recently, she was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry for her debut collection, Songs for the Dancing Chicken. Her writings have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, and the Walrus, to name a few, and several anthologies. Shultz presents her latest novel, Heaven is Small, about Gordon Small, a man who works for a Harlequin-like publisher and gradually discovers that he has arrived in "heaven."
James Sturm is the founder and director of the Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Russell Banks has said of his work: “James Sturm’s graphic narratives make us re-imagine our shared history.
