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A three-day digital program, the US Book Show–which lies on the calendar where BookExpo did–is announcing panel discussions, with programming to include exhibtion and networking.
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Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale
Not long after ReedPop “retired” BookExpo in December, it was announced that a “new American publishing trade fair” would be put into place.
Today (April 14), the US Book Show, that stand-in for what had been the long-running BookExpo, is announcing some early programing elements of what will be a digital event running May 25 to 27.
The programming announced today by the show’s producer,
âKent Stateâ On Top of PWâs 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll By PW Staff |
Released in September during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy,
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the majority of votes in
PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll, receiving eight votes from a panel of 14 comics critics.
In this deeply researched work, Backderf, best known for his Eisner-nominated 2012 graphic nonfiction work
My Friend Dahmer, reconstructs the lives and last days of the student activists and bystanders killed when the National Guard fired on unarmed antiwar protesters on the campus of Kent State University. The book presents a nuanced portrait of the equally young National Guardsmen, who were under extreme pressure and suffered from a severe lack of training, while deftly examining the polarized political context, anti-communist paranoia, and rampant government surveilla