Joe Gross, the recently hired books, music, and culture editor of the Austin American-Statesman has a plan. In addition to hosting upcoming events here at BookPeople, and covering a few choice ones for the paper, he’ll be leading our brand new graphic novel book club. Joe has deemed the group ‘The Statesman Words and Pictures Book Club’ based on a quote from legendary curmudgeon Harvey Pekar who quipped, ” Comics are words and pictures, you can do anything with words and pictures.”
The group will explore the ever-widening medium of graphic novels from around the world, from the realistic to the fantastic. Joe’s first pick is Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks.
Hicksville has won two Ignatz awards, a Harvey award and two Alp’Art awards. It is considered one of the first ‘contemporary’ graphic novels.
The ‘Words and Pictures Book Club’ will meet for the first time on Thursday, May 6th at 7PM.
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