Art Spiegelman and Comics Events at BEA

Lance Festerman announces that this year's BookExpo America will include in its programming a graphic novel breakfast event on Saturday, May 31 featuring Jeff Loeb, Mike Mignola, Jeff Smith, and TOON Books' Art Spiegelman. The event will be followed by a full-slate of comics related programming. Panel discussions will cover the following topics:

• Designing a Graphic Novel: From Concept to Comic
• Graphic Novel Distribution, Bookstores, and the Direct Market
• What’s Hot, What’s Good, What’s Next in Graphic Novels
• The New Comic Book to Film Machinery: What’s Next and Who is Buying What from Whom
• What Retailers & Librarians Should Know About Video Games and Gamers
• Manga’s New Generational Trade-Up: The Publishers’ Quest for New Readers
• Emerging Voices & Artists: The Graphic Novel Edition
• Building a Graphic Novel Section for Kids and Teens
• Sex in Graphic Novels
• Graphic Novel Buzz: Editors Share List Highlights
• The New Literacy: How Graphic Novels, the Web, and Video Games are Changing the Way We Process Information

BookExpo America will take place May 29 through June 1, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.