On Comics: A Conversation: Charles Burns on The Hive, Chip Kidd on Batman: Death By Design and Chris Ware on Building Stories
Saturday, Nov. 17, 3:30 p.m., Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Charles Burns
Charles Burns’s second volume of his epic graphic novel series is The Hive (Pantheon Books, 21.95). Doug seeks answers to his hazy memories of a shattering incident in a nightmarish alternate world that is a distorted mirror of our own. “Burns’s stark work operates on its own nightmare logic.”—Publishers Weekly. Burns’s work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s. He has illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine and is a recipient of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards.
Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd reveals the back story and the ultra-realistic pencil and ink drawings of the famed DC Comics illustrator Alex Ross in Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross (Pantheon, $24.95). The collection, much of it available for the first time, is a trove: deleted scenes and altered panels for the epic Kingdom Come saga, proposals for revamping Batgirl, Captain Marvel, and an imagined son of Batman named Batboy, and unused alternate comic book cover ideas for the monthly Superman and Batman comics. Kidd is the four-time Eisner Award–winning designer and author of Batman: Animated, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross.
Batman: Death by Design (DC Comics, $24.99) is a graphic collaboration between Dave Taylor and Chip Kidd. This unique take on the Batman mythology is set against the period backdrop of an expansive Gotham City construction boom, combining visual and thematic elements from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Elia Kazan’s The Waterfront. “Pure deliciousness, from start to finish.”– Michael Chabon. Taylor’s previous Batman work includes Batman: Shadow of the Bat and Batman & Superman: World’s Finest. Kidd is the four-time Eisner Award–winning designer and author of Batman: Animated, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross.
Chris Ware
Chris Ware’s, graphic novel Building Stories (Pantheon Books, $50.00) pushes the boundaries of the form as it explores the kaleidoscopic nature of memory. Packaged as a series of smaller books inside a bigger book, Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building. “Ware takes visual storytelling to a new level of both beauty and despair in a work people will be talking about for a long time.” –Publishers Weekly. Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times (London). A contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
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