GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB AT DUNGEON'S GATE!
Schedule
Thu May 02 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Dungeon's Gate | Ankeny, IA
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Join us at Dungeon's Gate every 1st Thursday of the month at 7 PM for our Graphic Novel Book Club, where we discuss our Graphic Novel Read of the Month!? Our May Read is: Middlewest: The Complete Tale
You can grab a copy of the book at Dungeon's Gate (it's always 20% off the Book Club pick)!
At Graphic Novel Book Club we discuss the current read and vote on the read for the next month. We'd love for you to join us!
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What's this book about?
When a violent storm levels his sleepy Middlewest town, Abel and his childhood companion, Fox, must hastily flee into a world of mystical carnies and soothsayer hobos, bridge trolls and wilderness spirits, endless forests and forgotten children.
SKOTTIE YOUNG (Strange Academy, I HATE FAIRYLAND) and JORGE CORONA (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET, Feathers), with colorist JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU and letterer NATE PIEKOS, collect the complete Eisner Award-nominated tale of Abel, a boy who must navigate a strange and mysterious land in order to discover who he can become.
Collects MIDDLEWEST #1-18, with exclusive bonus features!
Skottie Young got his start at Marvel on titles like Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider Clan, Human Torch, and Venom. He soon began adapting the L. Frank Baum Land of Oz novels at Marvel with Eric Shanower. He is best known for writing and drawing the hit series Rocket Raccoon, illustrating the children's book Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman, and the Young Marvel variant covers. He's also the cartoonist of I Hate Fairyland and writer/co-creator of Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with artist/co-creator Jorge Corona, and artist/co-creator of Twig with writer Kyle Strahm.
Jorge Corona is a Venezuelan sequential artist and the winner of the 2015 Russ Manning Award. A writer and illustrator, his works include We are... Robin, Nightwing, and The Flash for DC Comics; Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack, Adventure Time Comics, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Dragons, and others for BOOM! Studios. Corona is also the co-creator of Goners and No. 1 With A Bullet (Nominated for the 2018 Eisner Awards for Best Cover Artist) alongside Jacob Semahn for Image Comics, and creator of Feathers, his all-ages dark fantasy, for Archaia Entertainment.
Corona is the illustrator and co-creator of Image Comic's Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with writer Skottie Young. Jorge lives in Denver, CO with his wife and fellow artist, Morgan Beem.
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Where is it happening?
Dungeon's Gate, Dungeon's Gate, 2525 N Ankeny Blvd, Ankeny, IA 50023, United States,Ankeny, IowaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: