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SUMMARY:Virtual: Mikael Ross (Golden Boy: Beethoven's Youth) in conversation with Nika Knight and Eric Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join Goethe Pop Up Seattle\, Elliott Bay Book Company\, and Fantagraphics for a virtual book talk in celebration of the launch of the English edition of Golden Boy: Beethoven’s Youth. Comic artist & author Mikael Ross will discuss the book and his process with translator Nika Knight. Fantagraphics’ own Eric Reynolds will moderate the talk. \nThe book talk will take place online on Saturday\, June 11th at 11:00 AM PT. Please register to receive Zoom access info. \nWant a copy of the book? Order now from Elliott Bay Book Company! \n  \nAbout the book: \nLudwig van Beethoven created music that moves and inspires us to this day; his very name sparks a melody in the ear. But are you born a genius? This graphic biography asks: “Who was Beethoven before he became ‘Beethoven?'” \nMaster cartoonist Mikael Ross tells the story of Beethoven from 1778 to his first major public appearance in Vienna in 1795. It begins when the family is living a difficult life in Bonn. Father Johann battles with alcoholism and is deep in debt. Only young Ludwig and his talent at the piano offer any hope for the future — if only he would stop composing his own pieces and just play what’s expected of him. \nAuthor Ross was asked to do a small comic for the Berlin State Library. Through this opportunity\, he encountered the diaries of the baker’s son that lived downstairs from Beethoven’s family\, the content of which inspired Golden Boy. As in his previous book\, The Thud\, Ross skillfully mixes humor with empathy and pure social drama\, crafting a coming-of-age story that transcends its biographical subject matter. His colorful\, expressive style and mastery of the language of comics are perfectly suited to the tall task of capturing Beethoven’s timeless music visually. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nMikael Ross (born in Munich in 1984) initially trained as a theater cutter at the Bavarian State Opera. A move to Berlin and studies at the Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy influenced his first longer story\, Herrengedeck\, which he self-published in 2008. Together with the Belgian scriptwriter and illustrator Nicolas Wouters\, he wrote and drew the graphic novel Les pieds dans le béton (2013). His graphic novel The Thud (2018) received the Max & Moritz Prize for “Best German-language Comic” in 2020. Goldjunge\, published in 2020\, also received the Max & Moritz Prize; Fantagraphics will release the English translation in May 2022. \nNika Knight is a writer and translator of German literature. She has an MFA in literary translation and nonfiction writing from Columbia University\, New York\, and has translated graphic novels by Mikael Ross\, Ulli Lust\, and Katja Klengel\, as well as a novel by Svenja Leiber. She lives in Maine with her husband and two children. \n  \nAbout the moderator: \nEric Reynolds is the vice president and associate publisher of Seattle’s Fantagraphics Books. As a cartoonist\, critic\, and editor\, his writing and drawing has appeared in The Stranger\, The New York Times\, Juxtapoz\, and other publications. He has edited hundreds of books for Fantagraphics\, by authors such as Daniel Clowes\, Ellen Forney\, Joe Sacco\, Robert Crumb\, Emil Ferris\, Robert Pollard\, Peter Bagge\, Jack Black\, Crockett Johnson\, Walt Kelly\, and many others. His acquisitions for Fantagraphics have appeared on New York Times bestseller lists\, earned multiple Harvey\, Eisner\, and Ignatz comics awards\, Society of Illustrators medals\, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize\, and the Los Angeles Times book prize. Others\, like I Am Not Okay With This and The End of the Fucking World\, have been adapted into hit television series. In 2000\, he was immortalized as a character on The Simpsons.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/virtual-mikael-ross-golden-boy-beethovens-youth-in-conversation-with-nika-knight-and-eric-reynolds/
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Jim Woodring (One Beautiful Spring Day) in conversation with Gary Groth at Powell's Books
DESCRIPTION:Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon everyman\, Frank\, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form — both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank’s travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure\, revelatory aesthetic expression. One Beautiful Spring Day combines three previously published volumes — Congress of the Animals\, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery; Fran\, where he learned\, then forgot\, that things are not always what they seem; and Poochytown\, in which Frank demonstrated his dizzying capacity for both nobility and ignominy — along with 100 dazzling new pages conceived and drawn by Woodring. The result is a seamless graphic narrative that forges a new and even more poignantly realized single story that takes readers deep into the hidden meanings of the previous stories and offers the most full\, complete\, astonishing exposition of Frank and his supercharged world to date. Frank’s curiosity and risk-taking mixed with a dose of\, let’s face it\, wanton recklessness\, takes him on a series of terrifying peregrinations that often leave his soul and body shattered\, and the reader in a state of creative exaltation. Suffice to say that if you are a friend to Frank\, you will find One Beautiful Spring Day to be a thousand-course feast of agonizing bliss\, soul-stirring mystery\, and luminous depth. Woodring will be joined in conversation by Gary Groth\, co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics. \n  \nThis virtual event is free to attend\, just be sure to register ahead of time (link). \n  \nBonus: if you order your copy of the standard edition of One Beautiful Spring Day from Powell’s\, you’ll get it before anyone else–they’re getting copies ahead of release day for the event! Pre-order your copy here (link).
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/virtual-jim-woodring-one-beautiful-spring-day-in-conversation-with-gary-groth-at-powells-books/
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