The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with
| Jessica Abel | |
| Matt Madden | |
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| Thursday, June 16, 2005, 7:30 pm | |
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| Hot! Graphic!
Abel started her comic series Artbabe in 1992, which after five issues was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1997. Her next book, Mirror, Window, a softcover book from Fantagraphics, is a collection of the first four Fantagraphics issues of Artbabe. The series Artbabe ended in 1999 and she has worked on a new four-part series called La Perdida since 2001. She is also published in Dirty Stories and Comix 2000 and many other anthologies. www.jessicaabel.com
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale. | |
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The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals. |
Serious
literary interest in graphic novels (comic books) started slowly with Art Spiegelman’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus over two decades ago, and it is now in full bloom.
Graphic novelists Jessica Abel and her husband Matt Madden of NYC
will share their work and discuss the future of this rich, labor intensive and
once-marginalized form. 
Madden’s
comics have appeared in various mini-comics and anthologies. He has also written
occasional criticism for the Comics Journal and other publications. His
first book, Black Candy, was published in 1998 by Black Eye Books. His
second, Odds Off, was published by Highwater Books in 2000.