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1. Kids Read Comics! A free comic event - Dearborn MI
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By: Ruth McNally Barshaw, on 6/9/2010
Blog: Ellie McDoodle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Read all about it! Kids Read Comics, you should too!

I'll be appearing at this event all weekend. Bring kids of all ages. Everything's free.
Register at the website for certain events, others don't require advance registration.

Guests who will be attending the Kids Read Comics Convention include:

  • Arvell Jones, artist of Iron Fist and All-Star Squadron
  • Dwayne McDuffie, Story editor on Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, writer/creator of Static Shock, writer/producer for the Justice League Unlimited animated series
  • Jef Mallett, writer/artist of the syndicated comic strip Frazz – SUNDAY ONLY: SEE PROGRAMMING PAGE
  • Roger Langridge, writer/artist of The Muppet Show Comic Book
  • Marc Sumerak, writer of Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man
  • Raina Telgemeier, artist of The Baby-sitters Club and creator of Smile
  • Dave Roman, creator of Astronaut Elementary and Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden
  • John Green, artist of Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden
  • David Petersen, creator of Mouseguard – SATURDAY ONLY
  • Wolfman Mac, host of Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In
  • Chris Houghton, creator of Reed Gunther
  • Jim Ottaviani, writer of GT Labs’ T-Minus
  • Katie Cook, artist of Star Wars comics and sketch cards
  • Ryan Estrada, creator of Aki Alliance and Chillin’ Like Villains
  • Dan Mishkin, writer/co-creator of Blue Devil and Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld
  • William Messner-Loebs, writer of The Flash, Thor, and Wonder Woman
  • Thom Zahler, creator of Love and Capes
  • Paul Storrie, writer of Gotham Girls comic for DC Comics
  • Rob M. Worley, creator of Scratch9 and author of Heir to Fire
  • Corey Barba, creator of Yam
  • Matt Feazell,
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2. A Rally of Writers
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By: Ruth McNally Barshaw, on 1/4/2010
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I see the date's been set for the Skaaldic Society of Lansing's A Rally of Writers:
April 10, 2010.
This is a day-long writer conference held at the beautiful and spacious Lansing Community College West Campus.

My writer-husband Charlie and I attended the Rally of Writers ages ago, long before we joined SCBWI. It was great every year, but one year Charlie said we shouldn't return to the Rally until we were published so we'd have something happy to report at it -- you know, that old "I'm not *really* a writer yet, so I shouldn't attend writer events" sort of thinking that those of us with low self confidence wallow in. Plus we had little kids at home; daily life was a challenge.

Getting published took years. We delved into comic strips, satire, self-published mini books. . . and then eventually I joined SCBWI in 2003. A Rally writer kept urging me to join SCBWI earlier but I was bullheaded, impoverished and easily-distracted.
It's disappointing to realize I could have been living my dream much earlier, but I guess every path has value, even the meandering one.
Last year the Rally of Writers folks asked me to present a session on kids' books.
I was happy to do it but didn't expect to find much of use for me, since I have a genre that works for me, and a career, and no desire to branch out.
Boy, was I surprised.
Several of the sessions were of immediate, applicable use. Lev Raphael's memoir talks were particularly fascinating and deeply moving, and I learned a lot about poetry from keynote speaker Gerry LaFemina. If my sketchbook were handy, if I weren't on[line, avoiding a] deadline right now, I'd upload sketches.
Charlie enjoyed it too, and I think it jumpstarted his new writing career.

I'd definitely go back, either to present or to sit in the audience: Two thumbs up for Lansing's Rally of Writers!

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