Genre with a Beating Heart: Queen Kodiak by Christopher Greenslate

Celebrate the release of the graphic novel Queen Kodiak at Village Well Books & Coffee!

Writer Christopher Greenslate and moderator David M. Booher will discuss how crafting compelling genre work is about more than tantalizing terror and arcane mythology. With an in depth look at the creative process from ideation to publication, this event seeks to pick the lock of what makes a thrilling and meaningful monster story.

About the participants:

Christopher Greenslate is an award-winning writer/director whose work in film and television has played at film festivals worldwide, been published by Hachette Books, and highlighted by NPR, TIME Magazine, and the New York Times. Queen Kodiak is his debut graphic novel.

David M. Booher is a multiple Eisner­ and GLAAD nominated writer of comics, television, and film. His comics include Eisner- and GLAAD-nominated Killer Queens (Dark Horse), Eisner-nominated Rain (Image/Syzygy), and the all-ages fantasy series CANTO (Dark Horse). He has also written stories for Firefly, Dungeons & Dragons, and Ghostbusters. His LGBTQ-led Killer Queens was featured in the New York Times as a must read in honor of Pride Month.

About the book:

Following in the massive footsteps of legends like Godzilla and King Kong, comes QUEEN KODIAK, a colossal, super-charged Kodiak grizzly bear… one who survived from the ice-age and who’s been irreversibly enhanced by a mysterious geothermal energy pulsing in the unknown depths of an Alaskan ice cave. And although QUEEN KODIAK’s been asleep for thousands of years, melting ice and subsequent tectonic activity has disturbed her hibernation. And in her debut graphic novel, she wakes up to find her only cub missing.

But as much as we want to meet her and watch her wreck shop on the Pacific northwest (sorry Seattle), our story actually centers on JOEY FOX, an embattled 17-year-old girl, and natural empath, who befriends Queen Kodiak’s cub after a tectonic shift in her own life — the recent passing of her mother. As a result, Joey’s been sent to Alaska’s Kodiak Island to live with the man who left them ten years ago, her state trooper father. In many ways, it’s a story about how families survive overwhelming odds.

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