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Film, Video Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series

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Title

  • Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series

Summary

  • Award-winning artist and author Derf Backderf will discuss his latest published graphic novel: "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio." He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially "My Friend Dahmer", the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip "The City", which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990 to 2014. In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning, and has won awards for his other work including" Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio", which received the Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division of the American Library Association, the 2021 Eisner Award for best reality-based work, and the 2021 Ringo Award in the same category.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-09-07.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Live! at the Library. 13
  • -  Georgia Higley, Derf Backderf, Warren Bernard.
  • -  Recorded on 2023-09-07.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2025661430

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division. Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-07, 2023. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661430/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division, S. B. (2023) Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661430/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division. Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-07, 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2025661430/>.