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Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival Angouleme Angoulême France Festival of Comics and Creation
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre MULTIPLE Claudia Aguirre is a GLAAD & Eisner nominated writer and artist, and co-founder of Boudika Comics. Natacha Bustos is a Spanish comic artist k...
Aya Life in Yop City
Aya Life in Yop City Marguerite Abouet 9781770460829 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly "Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It’s esse...
Aya The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three
Aya The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three Marguerite Abouet 9781897299791 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly Aya has captured the hearts of North American readers of all ages for the rare po...
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch&mdash“Angouleme”
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch&mdash“Angouleme” Samuel R. Delany 9780819567185 Fiction Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press The Americ...
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby 0000000116918041 Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg (1917-1994), was an influential American comic book artist, writer, and editor. Notably known for his creation of Captain America and co-c...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto International Festival of Authors Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada Since its inception in 1974, Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from ov...
Marvel’s Black Panther
Marvel’s Black Panther Brenda M. Greene Book Review The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Bl...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
All-Negro Comics #1 (Reprint)
All-Negro Comics #1 (Reprint) Orrin C. Evans 9781794099869 Fiction Thomas Publications Thomas Publications “…every brush stroke and pen line in the drawings on these pages are by Negro artists.” All-N...
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II 9781441172761 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Bringing together contributors from a wid...
Method Man and Sanford Greene
Method Man and Sanford Greene MULTIPLE Method Man, a Grammy-winning rapper and actor, is part of the Wu-Tang Clan and resides in New York. Sanford Greene, a renowned comics artist for DC Comics, Imag...
Jazmine Joyner
Jazmine Joyner NONE Jazmine Joyner, a Black disabled nonbinary femme, is a renowned comics industry professional. Notable for being the first Black woman to own a West Coast comic shop and an award-w...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Toni Blackman
Toni Blackman 0000000036920264 Toni Blackman, an international champion of hip-hop culture, is known for her captivating performances and powerful presence. She's the first hip-hop artist to work as ...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
Akissi: Feline Invasion
Akissi: Feline Invasion Marguerite Abouet 9781909263017 Fiction Flying Eye Books Flying Eye Books Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are pursuing her to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Stranger Comics
Stranger Comics Stranger Comics Stranger Comics
Fairsquare Comics
Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics, LLC
Fairsquare Comics
Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics, LLC Fairsquare Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics Image Comics, Inc. Image Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics Marvel Comics Marvel Marvel Comics Marvel Press Marvel Universe Outreach/New Reader
Stranger Comics
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Far Sector: DC Compact Comics Edition
Far Sector: DC Compact Comics Edition N. K. Jemisin 9781779527295 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics Graphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DC’s bestselling, most iconic stories in a new ...
Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration
Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration Ytasha L. Womack 9780760375617 Nonfiction Becker & Mayer The Quarto Group Take an engrossing deep dive into the cultural influences of Black Panther, from the dev...
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther Mateus Manhanini 9781984826176 Fiction Random House Worlds Pengui...
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980 Dan Nadel 9781681375618 Fiction New York Review Comics New York Review Books Originally published by Chicago’s Black press, long neglec...
Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics
Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics Ken Quattro 9781684055869 Nonfiction Yoe Books Yoe Books Hear the riveting stories of Black artists who drew, mostly covertly behind the scenes...
Encyclopedia of Black Comics
Encyclopedia of Black Comics Sheena C. Howard 9781682751015 Nonfiction Fulcrum Publishing Fulcrum Publishing The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published s...
Crossroads Comics #1
Crossroads Comics #1 Keith Knight 9780981559360 Fiction New Village Press New Village Press Now, educational comics for teens! Authors of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, Keith Knight and Mat...
Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (Milestone Comics Library)
Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (Milestone Comics Library) Dwayne McDuffie 9781563893391 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics In 1869, an alien life-pod crashes in the cotton fields of the American South. Discovered by...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
International Human Rights Association of American Minorities
International Human Rights Association of American Minorities NONE IHRAAM, an international NGO with UN consultative status, facilitates the access of individuals and unrepresented groups to human ri...
International Royal Music & Art Festival
International Royal Music & Art Festival The Beltway Regulators Barn Fresno Texas The 2021 International Royal Music & Art Festival is set to be an acclaimed cross-genre experience inspired by the his...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
Preserving HBCUs’ Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions
Preserving HBCUs’ Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions International Human Rights Association of American Minorities 9780986085369 Nonfiction Clar...
Art of Making Comics
Art of Making Comics Alex Simmons 9781539828235 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Action, adventure, sci-fi and humor! These are some of the arenas artists and fans have explored for gen...
Bryan Christopher Moss
Bryan Christopher Moss NONE Bryan Christopher Moss, a Columbus-born artist, works professionally on storyboards, comics, and runs a T-shirt company, Strange Things. His clients include Cirque du Sole...
Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd 0000000028238169 Jonathan Todd, co-founder of Boston Kids Comics Fest and former teacher, is a distinguished comics author and illustrator. A Jacqueline Woodson Fellow, he studied writi...
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Hotel Monteleone New Orleans Louisiana The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach...
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns to Tulane’s uptown campus...
Southern Festival of Books
Southern Festival of Books Nashville Tennessee The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written WordSM is a three-day Festival celebrated each year during the second full weekend of Octob...
Dahlonega Literary Festival
Dahlonega Literary Festival Historic Square of Dahlonega, GA Dahlonega Georgia The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books that takes place in March. Situated in Historic Downtow...
San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while...
Etheridge Knight Festival
Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Inc. P.O. Box 18043 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Phone (317) 396-1529.Fax (317) 925-1481 E-mail EKFestival@aol.com The 11th Ann...
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 featuring, Elizabeth Alexander, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Lalita Tademy and Linda A. Duggins Women’s History M...
Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
Books in Bloom Literary Festival
Books in Bloom Literary Festival Color Burst Park Columbia Maryland Books In Bloom is an innovative, progressive, and memorable festival, poised to be one of the premier book festivals in the region. ...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Curtis Hixon Park Tampa Florida The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is an annual, cultural arts & music festival that takes place over the course of 10 days in Tamp...
AJC Decatur Book Festival
AJC Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Decatur Georgia The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, ...
University Spring Literary Festival
University Spring Literary Festival Ohio University Athens Ohio Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-...
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival Family Life Center 1 Redheart Drive, Hampton, VA 23661 Hampton Virginia Upon returning from an out of state book festival, Florenza Denise Lee wondered wh...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival Literary Events Kellie Magnus tells AALBC.com about the Kingston Book Festival during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. AALBC.com is planning a group trip t...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Book Festival Ann Arbor Michigan Formed in 2003, the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture ...
Jael Richardson
Jael Richardson NONE Jael Ealey Richardson is a Toronto-based author and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing. Known for her memoir and children's book, both titled The Stone Thrower, her work re...
LaKesa Cox
LaKesa Cox NONE LaKesa Cox is an award-winning author and screenwriter with over 20 years of experience. She has published four novels and has contributed to two anthologies. She was acknowledged as ...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Troy Johnson Article Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes...
East of the River Book Festival
East of the River Book Festival Rocketship Rise Academy Washington District of Columbia The 2017 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to recognize and enjoy a l...
Voices International Publications
Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Inc.(VIP) is a family based publishing company created to pro...
Voices International Publications
Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Inc.(VIP) is a family based publishing company created to pro...
Prince in Comics!
Prince in Comics! Nicolas Finet and Tony Lourenco 9781681123219 Fiction Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artis...
Regine L. Sawyer The Power Behind Black Comics
Regine L. Sawyer The Power Behind Black Comics Author Interviews Sawyer is the founder of LOCKETT DOWN PRODUCTIONS and coordinator of WOMEN IN COMICS NYC/INTERNATIONAL. Here she talks to AALBC.com at...
Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a...
Zuksiwa Wanner
Zuksiwa Wanner NONE Zukiswa Wanner, born to South African and Zimbabwean parents in Zambia, is a celebrated author known for award-nominated novels like “Men of the South.” As an essayist, she focuse...
Istanbul International Literature Festival
Istanbul International Literature Festival Istanbul Turkey Festival that focuses on veriety of genres, bring together wruters and publishers, critics and journlist for inspirational encounters.
Anika Malone
Anika Malone NONE Anika Malone, author of the acclaimed “10 Minutes Past Too Late”, is celebrated as a fresh voice in contemporary fiction. She has participated in notable book events across the Unit...
Vashti Harrison
Vashti Harrison 0000000476987403 Vashti Harrison, born in 1988, is a Virginia-based author, illustrator, and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. She has degrees in Media Studies, Studio Art, F...
Biyi Bandele
Biyi Bandele 0000000120964833 Biyi Bandele-Thomas (1967-2022) was a renowned Nigerian novelist, playwright, director, and photographer. He was celebrated as one of Africa's top 50 artists. Bandele's ...
Applications of International Trade Theory: The Caribbean Perspective
Applications of International Trade Theory: The Caribbean Perspective Roger Hosein 9789766403478 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Applications of Inte...
Beijing International Book Fair
Beijing International Book Fair Beijing China The BIBF - Beijing International Book Fair – is divided into several specific areas: The area of children’s books and comics, the field of in...
Stranger Kids
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