| Dogs or Cats? Star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti weighs in! "First Date" by Ivan Brunetti, September 16, 2019 See Brunetti's cover for this week's New Yorker ! Read his interview with Françoise Mouly on comics, craft, and cats & dogs! Come meet Brunetti at the Brooklyn Brooklyn Book Festival For years, Brunetti has taught cartooning at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Aesthetics: A Memoir. Saturday September 21, 2019 1:00 p.m. Comics: Easy As ABC! with Ivan Brunetti Make your own comics and learn cartooning basics to create your own comic book. Join Ivan Brunetti, author of Comics: Easy As ABC! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids for simple and fun exercises playing with lines and shapes, to help you design and draw characters, faces, animals, props, and settings, and to develop starting points to spark your own stories. Ages 7 & up. This event will be followed by a half hour book signing. Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering – 5 Metrotech Center, 4th Floor 3:00 p.m. Illustrator Smackdown: Come watch, laugh and cheer as talented artists Ruth Chan (The Great Indoors) and Lucy Ruth Cummins (Truman) preside over the year’s most dynamic live action drawing competition featuring illustrators Elisha Cooper (River), Jessie Sima (Spencer’s New Pet), Jerry Craft (New Kid), Ivan Brunetti (Comics: Easy as ABC), Yuko Katakawa (Let’s Scare Bear), Esmé Shapiro (Alma and the Beast), Nina Mata (She’s Got This), and more! This event will be followed by a half hour book signing. Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering – 5 Metrotech Center, Auditorium Brunetti's TOON Books include... COMICS: EASY AS ABC! ★ ★ ★ " Drawing guides have never been so appealing. A must." - School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW ★ ★ ★ INTEREST LEVEL: Age 8+ READING LEVEL: Grades 3+ LEXILE LEVEL: 740L F&P: Level M HARDCOVER EDITION ISBN 918-1-943145-44-7 PAPERBACK EDITION ISBN: 978-1-943145-39-3 3x4 TOON LEVEL: 1 INTEREST LEVEL: Age 3+ READING LEVEL: Grades K-1 ISBN: 978-1-943145-34-8 ★ ★ ★ THREE STARRED REVIEWS Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal & Publishers Weekly! ★ ★ ★ MATHICAL HONOR BOOK WORDPLAY TOON LEVEL: 1 INTEREST LEVEL: Age 3+ READING LEVEL: Grades K-1 ISBN: 978-1-943145-17-1 ★ ★ ★ "Praiseworthy!" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review ★ ★ ★ Indiana's Young Hoosier Book Award Top 20 List Stop by TOON's Table at the Brooklyn Book Festival and meet the great Kevin McCloskey + other surprise guests! Saturday September 21 Children's Day - BOOTH #31 Sunday September 22 Festival Day - BOOTH #315 See what all the fuss is about over the Giggle & Learn series! First it was worms, then pigeons, then fish, then snails, and now...ANTS! |
Dogs or Cats?
Star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti weighs in! |
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"First Date" by Ivan Brunetti, September 16, 2019 |
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See Brunetti's cover for this week's New Yorker!
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Read his interview with Françoise Mouly on comics, craft, and cats & dogs! |
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For years, Brunetti has taught cartooning at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Aesthetics: A Memoir. |
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Saturday September 21, 2019 |
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1:00 p.m.
Comics: Easy As ABC! with Ivan Brunetti
Make your own comics and learn cartooning basics to create your own comic book. Join Ivan Brunetti, author of Comics: Easy As ABC! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids for simple and fun exercises playing with lines and shapes, to help you design and draw characters, faces, animals, props, and settings, and to develop starting points to spark your own stories. Ages 7 & up.
This event will be followed by a half hour book signing.
Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering – 5 Metrotech Center, 4th Floor |
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Illustrator Smackdown:
Come watch, laugh and cheer as talented artists Ruth Chan (The Great Indoors) and Lucy Ruth Cummins (Truman) preside over the year’s most dynamic live action drawing competition featuring illustrators Elisha Cooper (River), Jessie Sima (Spencer’s New Pet), Jerry Craft (New Kid), Ivan Brunetti (Comics: Easy as ABC), Yuko Katakawa (Let’s Scare Bear), Esmé Shapiro (Alma and the Beast), Nina Mata (She’s Got This), and more!
This event will be followed by a half hour book signing.
Location: NYU Tandon School of Engineering – 5 Metrotech Center, Auditorium |
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Brunetti's TOON Books include...
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★ ★ ★
"Drawing guides have never been so appealing. A must."
-School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW
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★ ★ ★
THREE STARRED REVIEWS
Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal & Publishers Weekly!
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MATHICAL HONOR BOOK
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"Praiseworthy!"
- Kirkus Reviews
Starred Review
★ ★ ★
Indiana's Young Hoosier
Book Award Top 20 List
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Stop by TOON's Table
at the Brooklyn Book Festival and meet the great Kevin McCloskey + other surprise guests! |
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Saturday September 21
Children's Day - BOOTH #31
Sunday September 22
Festival Day - BOOTH #315
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See what all the fuss is about over the
Giggle & Learn series!
First it was worms, then pigeons, then fish,
then snails, and now...ANTS! |
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