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Joann Sfar, Klezmer, Vampire Loves (First Second)ġ1:30-12:30 Reality-Based Graphic Novels- Moderator Andrew Farago (Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco) interviews Comic-Con special guests Alison Bechdel ( Fun Home), Guy Delisle ( Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea), Rick Geary ( The Bloody Benders), Miriam Katin ( We Are On Our Own), and Joe Matt ( Spent) about tales of their own lives and those of others.Gilbert Hernandez, Love and Rockets, New Tales of Old Palomar (Fantagraphics) Sloth (Vertigo/DC).Allison Bechdel, Fun Home (Houghton Mifflin).The Ticking, by Renée French (Top Shelf).Scrublands, by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics).Ninja, by Brian Chippendale (Gingko Press).Billy Hazelnuts, by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics).American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second).Stagger Lee, by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix (Image).Project X Challengers: Cup Noodle, by Tadashi Katoh (Digital Manga).I Love Led Zeppelin, by Ellen Forney (Fantagraphics).Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin).It’s some pretty frickin’ stiff competition. Fun Home is nominated in the three categories below. The Eisner Awards, a big comics industry awards ceremony, will be held Friday night. Prism is a gay comics organization and they have all kinds of stuff they’re doing at the Con too. In room 1ABĥpm, signing at the Prism Comics booth, #2148. If by any chance you’ll be attending this wild rumpus and you need respite from all the people dressed as wookies and corpse brides, here’s my schedule:ģ:30-4:30, “Spotlight on Alison Bechdel.” This’ll just be me talking about my work. I haven’t read it yet but maybe I’ll get it in San Diego. respectability.” It also quotes Doug Wolk a lot, a smart comics critic who just wrote a new book called Reading Comics. Here’s a good article about it in yesterday’s SD Tribune, framing the current moment in comics as a battle of “edge vs. I’m getting ready to head off to the San Diego Comic Con, mother of all comic cons, god help me.