Frank Cammuso’s Blog

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is quickly approaching. It’s this Saturday and Sunday, May 8th &9th. It’s being held at…

Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge St., Toronto, Canada
BEST OF ALL : Admission to TCAF is Free.

(UPDATED) I’ll be there signing books both days and speaking on a couple of panels on Saturday .

SATURDAY

Comics in Strange Places
Saturday, May 8th, 12:45 – 1:30pm, Learning Center 1
Everyone’s talking about their new graphic novel these days. But you can find comics in other places than books — newspapers, magazines, textbooks, and on the internet. How does the multiplicity of forms of presentation for comics affect their format and context? Featuring cartoonists Frank Cammuso, Chip Zdarsky, Danielle Corsetto, and Abby Denson. Moderated by MK Reed.

Comics for Kids: What’s Next?
Saturday, May 8th, 2:45 – 3:30pm, Learning Center 1
Following the initial burst of graphic novels created and marketed specifically to young readers, where will the industry go? Find out from a panel of experts including editors, creators, teachers and librarians what’s working for young readers, what’s not working, who are reading these books and what’s next. Panelists include Raina Telgemeier (Smile), Frank Cammuso (Knights of the Lunch Table), Clayton Hamner (CTON’s Super A-maze-ing Year of Crazy Comics!), Eva Volin (Librarian), Karen Li (Editor, Kids Can Press) and Diana Maliszewski (Teacher), moderated by Scott Robins (Blogger, SLJ’s Good Comics For Kids)

It’s a great show and I look forward to seeing all my Canadian friends!

I’m happy to report that I’m currently working on “Knights 3″ as we speak. Thanks to everyone who checked out “Knights of the Lunch Table” this year and made it a success!

The Small Press Expo for 2009 is in the books. I had a great time and was busy all weekend! Thanks to everyone that stopped by. I’d like to especially thank Alberto Gonzalez, who came all the way from Costa Rica to attend the show. He was also kind enough to give me this incredible drawing he did of the Knights playing football with some of his characters. Pretty cool, huh?

One more thing, I’ll be doing a signing for Knights 2 this Friday, October 2nd at the Barnes & Nobles on Erie Blvd. in Syracuse, NY, from 7-?. Stop by and say hello!

WOW, I can’t believe it! The Small Press Expo is next week. I’ll be there once again and I’ll have plenty of Knights 2 available. I’ll be at table #W 36, signing, talking and taking commissions.

This is going to be one of my last shows for a while. So, stop by and say hello.

Last week was a veritable treasure a trove of great graphic novels for kids was unleashed (I’m not just talking about Knights 2 either). Two other great books came out.  Amulet 2: The Stone Keepers Curse by Kazu Kibuishi and The Secret Science Alliance by Eleanor Davis. These are both amazing. I wish they had these type books around when I was a kid.

Speaking of when I was a kid, my first EVER comic book show was ITHACON. It just so happens that this weekend I’ll be signing books and hanging out at ITHACON 34. If you are in the neighborhood stop by say hi. There is no better place to be than Ithaca on an autumn afternoon.

Some early reviews are starting to roll in, even though the book isn’t supposed to be in stores until September. I’ll be out and about this fall supporting the book. More on that later, until then enjoy.

Comixtalk

Paperback Reader

The Trades

Graphic Novel Reporter (this one contains spoilers)

I’ve been nominated for a Harvey Award! It’s in the category of Best Colorist and it’s for my work on Otto’s Orange Day. That’s cool! I knew coloring inside the lines was gonna pay-off someday. Now that I’m Harvey Nominated, I guess I’ll have to update my bio.

It’s also nice to see my pals Michael Jantze and Jay Lynch get a nod for their work.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible.

Here is the cover for Knights of the Lunch Table 2: The Dragon Players. It should be out this September. Amazon already has it listed here. The description is wrong, but the cover is right.

Last week I had a speaking engagement in Hanover, Pa the home of Utz Potato Chips. Every year the Guthrie Memorial Library spotlights three ya/kids authors for their summer reading program. The library purchases a hundred and fifty copies of each of the authors’ books and distributes them to the kids who sign up for the program. Pretty nifty huh?

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