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Play to Win: Graphic Novel Games

Saturday, November 19, 2016 @ 9:30 am

MAGIC Screening Room (Building 8, 1st Floor)

300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

Graphic novels that use puzzle theory, coding and video game history to turn readers of all ages on to science and Shakespeare: Ryan North (Romeo and/or Juliet), Box Brown (Tetris: The Games People Play) and Library of Congress Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Yang (Secret Coders) invite us to play. Moderated by editor Joan Hilty.

In Tetris: The Games People Play, New York Times–bestselling author Box Brown untangles the complex history and true story of the world’s most popular video game as he delves deeply into the role games play in art, culture, and commerce. Ryan North’s satirical retelling of the Shakespeare tale, Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable Path, Adventure, is packed with exciting choices, puzzles, surprises, terrible puns, and more than a billion possible storylines. Gene Yang’s comic for children, Paths and Portals (Secret Coders), combines logic puzzles, basic programming instruction and a mystery plot: a group of students discover a secret underground classroom once dedicated to unraveling the secrets of coding, but why are the rugby team and the Principal suddenly so interested? Moderated by Joan Hilty.

UPDATE: Box Brown has cancelled his appearance.

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Date:: Saturday, November 19, 2016
Time:: 9:30 am
Cost:: Free
Event Category:: Ages 8-14

Authors

Ryan North is a New York Times-bestselling author and cartoonist. His previous choose-your-own-path Shakespeare book, about Hamlet, To Be or Not To Be, became Kickstarter's most-funded publishing project when it launched. North writes the popular web comic Dinosaur Comics and the critically acclaimed Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics. He wrote the first thirty-five issues of Adventure Time, for which he won an Eisner Award. That's like the Oscars of comics! In Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable Path Adventure (Riverhead Books), Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. In this choose-your-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet, you choose where the story goes every time you read! What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around the castle all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with robot suits? Whatever your adventure, you're guaranteed to find lots of romance, lots of epic fight scenes, and plenty of questionable decision-making by very emotional teens. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats up the Marvel Universe (Marvel) is proof that we're living in the best of all possible worlds: there's a Squirrel Girl graphic novel! It's a stand-alone adventure that's both great for new Squirrel Girl readers, and also for people who already know about how she can talk to squirrels and also punch really well! Squirrel Girl has defeated Thanos, Galactus, and Doctor Doom. TWICE. But in this all-new graphic novel, she'll encounter her most dangerous, most powerful, most unbeatable enemy yet: HERSELF. Specifically, an evil duplicate made possible through mad science (both computer and regular) as well as some bad decisions. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power (Marvel) collects The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1-4. Doctor Doom, Deadpool, even Thanos: There’s one hero who’s beaten them all: Squirrel Girl! The nuttiest and most upbeat super hero in the world is starting college. As if meeting her new roommate and getting to class on time isn’t hard enough, now she has to deal with Kraven the Hunter, too? At least her squirrel friend, Tippy-Toe, is on hand to help out. But what can one girl, and one squirrel, do when a hungry Galactus heads toward Earth? You’d be surprised! With time running out and Iron Man lending a helping hand (sort of), who will win in the battle between the Power Cosmic and the Power Chestnut?

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Language: English
Occurrence: Annual

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MAGIC Screening Room (Building 8, 1st Floor)

300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

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