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	The Hive by Charles Burns Our Price $21.95 Hardcover In Stock


	Building Stories by Chris Ware Our Price $50.00 Hardcover In Stock

A Panel Discussion on Graphic Novels

with

Charles Burns, Chris Ware, and Chip Kidd

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Date

Oct

Thursday
October 11, 2012
6:00 PM

Location

Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Tickets

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Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome graphic novelists CHARLES BURNS and CHRIS WARE and writer and graphic designer CHIP KIDD for a panel discussion on graphic novels.

The authors will also discuss Charles Burns's new book, The Hive, and Chris Ware's new book, Building Stories.

“The Hive is a tour-de-force of psychedelic storytelling, an astonishing piece of graphic literature that combines strange characters, even stranger situations and locales, and multi-leveled narratives in a way you have never seen before on the page. Burns’ work is utterly unique, and he has no fear about experimenting and trying to engage the reader in new ways. Perhaps his greatest gift is finding a way to make you find empathy for people and things that you would normally find off-putting or disgusting. Burns is one of the few talents who stands above the medium, and deservedly so. Easily one of the finest works you’ll see this year.” —Comics Waiting Room

"Chris Ware's Building Stories is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn't a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss. It is the reader's choice where and how to begin this monumental work—the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end." —J.J. Abrams

Charles Burns

Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw Magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the set for Mark Morris’s delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He’s illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.

Image Credit: Charles Burns

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf. His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is the editor-at-large for Pantheon and the author of Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Batman Collected, and others. He lives in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut.

Chris Ware

Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and the annual progenitor of the amateur periodical the ACME Novelty Library. An irregular contributor to The New Yorker and The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ware was the first cartoonist chosen to regularly serialize an ongoing story in The New York Times Magazine, in 2005-2006. He edited the thirteenth issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern in 2004 as well as Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics for 2007, and his work was the focus of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2006. Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with his wife, Marnie, a high-school science teacher, and their daughter, Clara.

Online ticket sales have now ended. Tickets are still available in the store and over the phone at 617-661-1515.

Tickets purchased online are non-refundable and are exchangeable for $5 coupons towards the purchase of a book (valid up to 30 days after the event). Additionally, tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Please note that tickets only guarantee you a seat up until five minutes before the event begins.

Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 10 minutes

As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and look for the newsstand Crimson Corner on the right side of the street and Curious George book shop on the left side of the street. Keeping the newsstand to your right, proceed along Brattle St. (you will pass the restaurant Tory Row). Follow Brattle St. as it curves to the right in Brattle Square (follow the sidewalk on the right side of the street). The Brattle will be on the left-hand side of the street. The building is shared with Algiers Cafe, Casablanca Restaurant, and Harvard Square Optical, and the theatre entrance is on the left side of the building—look for the sidewalk poster case and marquee.

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While we can't guarantee fulfillment of a signed book pre-order, our authors are almost always able to sign extra books to fulfill such orders.

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FAQ:

Can I request a personalized inscription?
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I am planning to attend an author event. Do I need to pre-order a book?
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