Mooncakes Signing Information Wednesday, May 29, 2:30PM – 3:15PM Thursday May 30, 10:30AM – 11:15AM Friday, May 31, 12:00PM – 1:15PM Saturday, June 1, 3:30PM – 4:15PM Sunday, June 2, 10:30AM – 11:15AM Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu will be signing ARC copies of Mooncakes at booth #1609! *ARCs limited to first 50 participants with a ticket – visit the Lion Forge booth early in the show to get your ticket!Suzanne Walker is a Chicago-based writer and editor. She is co-creator of the graphic novel Mooncakes (Lion Forge, October 2019) with artist Wendy Xu. Part of it can be read on mooncakescomic.tumblr.com. Her short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, and she has published nonfiction articles with Uncanny Magazine, Women Write About Comics and the anthology Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability. You can find her posting pictures of her cat and occasionally yelling about baseball on Twitter: @suzusaur. |
Gender Queer: A Memoir Signing Information Thursday May 30, 12:30PM – 1:15PM Friday, May 31, 10:30AM – 11:15AM Saturday, June 1, 1:30PM – 2:15PM Sunday, June 2, 12:00PM – 12:45PM Gender Queer © 2019 Maia Kobabe. Maia Kobabe will be signing copies of Gender Queer at booth #1609! *Free copies limited to first 10 participants with a ticket and will be 50% off after that – visit the Lion Forge booth early in the show to get your ticket!Maia Kobabe is a graduate of the first ever class in the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. E is the illustrator of TOM O’BEDLAM, a single issue which was accepted into the Society of Illustrator’s Comic and Cartoon Art annual and nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2016. Maia’s short comics have been included in the anthologies ALPHABET (2015), TABULA IDEM (2017), MINE! (2018), GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE (2018), THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS (2018), and the forthcoming ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and FASTER THAN LIGHT Y’ALL . Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries and now writes book reviews for Publisher’s Weekly. E has been self-publishing comics and zines since 2010, and has attended over fifty comic conventions in that time. More of eir work, including the origins of GENDER QUEER, can be found on tumblr and instagram @redgoldsparks. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity. |