**FREE EVENT** COMICS LUMINARIES JOE QUESADA, CHIP KIDD, DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI, DANNY FINGEROTH, HEIDI MacDONALD TO SPEAK AT NEW YORK’S BRYANT PARK, WEDS AUG 19, 12:30 PM.
As part of the Bryant Park Word-for-Word author series, key figures from comics will speak at “COMICS: FROM EVERY ANGLE."
Join moderator DANNY FINGEROTH as he and JOE QUESADA, CHIP KIDD, DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI, and HEIDI MacDONALD discuss how comics have become an important part of high and low culture.
Wednesday, August 19, 200912:30pm – 1:45pm
PANELISTS:JOE QUESADA, Editor-in-Chief, Marvel Comics
CHIP KIDD, Author and designer: BAT-MANGA!: THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN
DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI, Comics writer and artist: BATMAN: YEAR ONE; CITY OF GLASS; ASTERIOS POLYP
HEIDI MacDONALD, Co-editor, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY COMICS WEEK; Blogger: THE BEAT, the News Blog of Comics Culture; editor: THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY
MODERATOR:DANNY FINGEROTH Longtime Marvel writer and editor. Author of SUPERMAN ON THE COUCH (Continuum) and THE ROUGH GUIDE TO GRAPHIC NOVELS (Penguin).
LOCATION:BRYANT PARK READING ROOM is on the 42nd Street side of the park—under the trees—between the back of the New York Public Library and 6th Ave. Look for the burgundy and white umbrellas.
RAIN VENUE:The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
