Some highlights for today...
Got to meet James Bucky Carter, who as either written, edited, or consulted on so many professional books on using comics in the classrooms...
Met and had a great talk with Andy Runton...author of Owly!!! He is perhaps the NICEST author I have ever met at one of these events... genuinely humble and kind... just like his books! We made plans to talk later this year to arrange an author's visit to one of the schools I work with -- I can't wait. Its going to be FAB u lous!!!
Got introduced to another series that I hadn't heard of before... the Boilerplate books by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett... their panel was really intellectually stimulating. If you haven't heard about the Boilerplate books, you need to check it out. Its sort of fiction meets history meets authentic spoof hoax. The companion website makes things even more interesting!
We also (by mistake) sat in on the Assassins Creed session... we were trying to get into a session on "What is creativity" with one of the artists from Disney. But, we didn't realized that session had been canceled -- ended up in a room of AC Fangirls (and boys..) that was interesting! The art in the new game, however, is simply AMAZAZING!!!!!!
Our panel session went really well and was over before we knew it. Afterwards one of the audience members approached me to tell me all about the American Physics Societies comics that teach physics... she invited me to visit her booth and check ou