Memento Nora Project
THE MEMENTO NORA PROJECT Publishing Student Comics Inspired by Teen Novel “You said someone needs to remember. I was thinking maybe we could do it with a comic book. Okay, maybe more like a comic strip. With our stories. And maybe other kids could tell us their memories before they are erased.” -from the novel, Memento Nora by Angie Smibert The upcoming teen novel, Memento Nora by Angie Smibert (Marshall Cavendish) is set in a near-future dystopian world where daily attacks by a terrorist Coalition (as well as any other memory) can be wiped from people’s...
Read MoreForeigner in the House of Comic Con
kAs a foreigner in the house of Comic Con from the much more tepid world of book trade shows, I wondered often and heartily over the weekend at “fandom.” As someone who as a living tries to increase the readership of books for children, I marvel that Graphia (the new haute word for manga, comic books, and graphics novels) has FANS, not readers.How different a writer’s life would be if, say, (our dear departed) John Updike had readers pressing towards him at conventions dressed like Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. I mean, the costume would not be so hard.I saw many wonders of...
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