I guess there was some cosplay going on, but most participating attendees chose to dress up as publishing executives for some reason.
“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Lively Roundtable
October 27, 2012 by
” I can see where it’s alarming to see your kid looking like a corpse, but it’s all part of rebellion, of saying the “regular” world of mortgages and wars and nuclear meltdown frightens them and they want to distance themselves from it…”
Talking Superman with Biographer Par Excellence Larry Tye
June 11, 2012 by
“…Superman lets us see what it is that makes a character work in media as disparate as comic books and radio, or as seemingly unconnected as the popular medium of afternoon children’s TV and the decidedly singular one of graphic novels.”
“The Raven” and the Case of the Dashingly Heroic Author
April 26, 2012 by
Why do filmmakers never tire of romanticizing authors’ lives, and why do we never tire of flocking to the finished products…?
Dickens the Media King (2): A Few Words with Author Lewis Buzbee
March 27, 2012 by
If he lived today Dickens “would be on Facebook, would be tweeting constantly, and not only would he make his own films, he’d probably have several TV shows in the works at the same time.”
Dickens The Media King (1): Exploring Author “Longevity”
March 26, 2012 by
Authors who achieve long-lasting fame and admiration represent an easy—dare I say fun?—way to incorporate media lit objectives into core curriculum.