LA Times Festival of Books - LOS ANGELES, CA - 4/21-22 - KIRKMAN and more

[Tropean]

 

Just got an email that Robert Kirkman will be appearing at this event, which will take place on the campus of USC. Here's a link to the site:

 

http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/general-information/ticket-info/

 

Here's more on Kirkman and on lots of other stuff that would be of interest to forumites:

 

Fans hungry for talk of zombies and mutants can get their fill at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC, where writer Robert Kirkman will talk about his work for “The Walking Dead,” “Invincible,” “Ultimate X-Men” and his new project, “Super Dinosaur,” which he has described as “a Pixar movie on paper.”

 

The question-and-answer session with Kirkman, hosted by Hero Complex writer Geoff Boucher, will be held in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center at 10:30 a.m. on April 21.

 

Here are a few other events Hero Complex readers may want to check out at the festival, which runs April 21-22:

 

• “With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story”: The documentary will screen at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. April 22 in the School for Cinematic Arts’ Ray Stark Theater.

 

• “Graphic Novel: Drawing Outside the Lines”: Times staff writer Deborah Vankin will moderate a Q&A with Joseph Lambert, Carla Speed McNeil and Jim Woodring. All three are finalists in the graphic novel category of the festival’s book prizes. 1:30 p.m. April 21, Taper Hall.

 

• “The Nerds Shall Inherit the Earth”: This panel will feature “The Nerdist” host Chris Hardwick and John Scalzi, president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 3 p.m. April 22, Bovard Auditorium.

 

• “Graphic Novel: Mythic Stories”: Leslie S. Klinger, who recently published “The Annotated Sandman,” will moderate a panel with Ed Brubaker, Adam Mansbach and Douglas McGowan. 3:30 p.m. April 21, Salvatori Computer Science Center.

 

• “Fiction: World Building”: Moderated by writer Charles Yu, this panel features Frank Beddor (“The Looking Glass Wars”), Lev Grossman (“Codex,” “Warp”) and Scalzi. 10 a.m. April 22, Davidson Continuing Education Center.

 

The full schedule for the Festival of Books – which also features writers such as Cornelia Funke, Anne Rice and “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” author Seth Grahame-Smith – is online here. Tickets for indoor panels cost $1, and complete ticketing information is available on the festival’s official website.

[Hawkman]

i'll be there...hopefuly i can get him to sign something

[Baron]

Jim Lee will also be there.

 

So do the authors do signings too, like will Kirkman and Lee just do their panel on stage and leave or do they have a table/booth to sign for fans afterwards?

[Baron]

Anyone end up going there and getting sigs or sketches? Had to skip out.

[Joel Elad]

I was there, Kirkman did a short signing after his panel with a healthy line. I saw a WD 19, 27, 94 sketch get signed and an image united blank with a zombie sketch, plus some thief of thieves comics get signed.

 

I heard that Jim Lee signed for a few fans who approached him after the panel but he had no official panel. Normally panelists go to a signing area after a panel but not always.

[DoomBat]

Kirkman's panel was fun as usual. The audience was pretty interested with some laughs along the way. Unfortunately, one of the volunteers passed out towards the end and hit the floor pretty hard (another volunteer thought it was a stroke, but it was probably something less serious since they were able to get up almost right away with help). That pretty much ended the panel on a somber note, but it was almost time to end anyway.

 

Jim Lee did sign for a few people after the Before Watchmen panel, but a PR woman whisked him away almost immediately for a press panel. She said he'd come back out to finish, but I don't know if he actually did. They also had some of the Before Watchmen newspapers to give out.

 

I also saw Kirkman do some quick zombie sketch's on art canvas.

[Baron]

Glad then I didn't trek out to the Fair if Lee wasn't really signing. Hopefully Kirkman does a LCS signing soon.