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A LOOK BACK AT APE 2007
APE 2007
Special Guests
APE continued its run of presenting some of the best and most cutting
edge talent in comics today. Appearing at APE 2007 were:
Kevin Huizenga
With a career that began in mini-comics, Kevin Huizenga quickly became
regarded as one the most promising young cartoonists of his generation.
His compelling storytelling and simple, yet evocative art has garnered
praise and awards. He’s this year’s Ignatz Award winner for Outstanding
Story for Ganges #1, published by Fantagraphics Books. A major
collection of his work, Curses, has just been published by
Drawn and Quarterly.
Karl Christian Krumpholz
Writer/artist Karl Christian Krumpholz's comic series, Byron,
tells a story of growing up, discovering who you are, and learning
just how foolish it is to glamorize dark things that very well might
be real. Set in the pulsing, dimly-lit world of the gothic night club,
"Lord Byron," dressed to the nines, craves the attention and approval
of the club crowd, and he tries just a bit too hard to impress: Byron
is living the unfortunate life of a poseur in a world filled with
real life menace. Byron is SLG's second comic to be released digitally.
It will be published as a print graphic novel in Summer 2007.
Courtesy SLG Publishing
Hope Larson
Regarded as one of the most promising young cartoonists in comics,
Hope Larson started her career on the web comics site, Girlamatic,
and has contributed to anthologies such as Flight. Her first
graphic novel was Salamander Dreams, published by AdHouse Books.
Her second book, Gray Horses, was published by Oni Press in
2006. She is currently working on her third graphic novel, Chiggers,
to be published by Simon & Shuster in 2008. She is married to APE
special guest Bryan Lee O'Malley.
Francoise Mouly
Along with fellow APE special guest (and husband) art
spiegelman, Francoise Mouly created the fondly remembered comics
anthology RAW in 1980. Mouly is an art editor at The New
Yorker magazine and wrote Covering the New Yorker: Cutting-Edge
Covers from a Literary Institution. She is also co-editor of the
Little Lit series (along with spiegelman), a comics anthology
for kids.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series has taken the comics
world by storm. Published by Oni Press, and now in its third of sixth
volumes, the popular series has been optioned as a major motion picture
by Universal, with Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) attached
to direct. O'Malley has won numerous awards including the Canadian
Doug Wright Ward for Best Emerging Talent and the Joe Shuster Award
for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist. He has been nominated
for three Harvey Awards, two Eagle Awards, and this year's Eisner
Award for Best Writer/Artist-Humor.
art spiegelman
The legendary comics creator started his career in underground comix.
art spiegelman went on to co-create, with Francoise
Mouly, the ground-breaking comics anthology RAW. It was
in this magazine that spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale
was first serialized. The harrowing story of his father's life in
a concentration camp and spiegelman's own troubled relationship with
him later in life, it won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 in it's
collected graphic novel form. spiegelman also produced In the Shadow
of No Towers, his personal account of 9/11. In 2005, spiegelman
was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine.
Gene Yang
Gene Yang first came to comics fans’ attention with his Xeric Grant
for the self-published Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks
in 1997. Yang’s latest work is American Born Chinese, published
by First Second. The book reflects on the Asian-American experience
through three distinct storylines: a retelling of the Chinese legend
of the Monkey King; a Chinese-American boy’s coming-of-age story;
and a sitcom-on-paper starring Cousin Chin-Kee, a living Chinese stereotype.
Yang’s work is the first graphic novel nominated as a finalist for
the prestigious National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
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