Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series

Award-winning artist and author Derf Backderf will discuss his latest published graphic novel: "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio." He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially "My Friend Dahmer", the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip "The City", which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990 to 2014.
In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning, and has won awards for his other work including" Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio", which received the Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division of the American Library Association, the 2021 Eisner Award for best reality-based work, and the 2021 Ringo Award in the same category.

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