Book Fair Lecture #1 Tom Hart

      The first lecture I went to was the Child's eye view, the panel consisted of three authors, Meags Fitzgerald who wrote Long red hair, which basically is her life story about her being a lesbian. It was how she differed from her friends. What I found most interesting was that she didn't tell her whole family only her immediate family not her extended family that she was a lesbian. She used her book as a way to come out to the world. She also talked about how it was her fist comic actually using panels, I found his interesting because I don't think comics need to be framed in a panels to tell a story. She also only used two speech bubbles in her entire book, which to me showed that you don't need characters always talking to get the message of the story across.

       Another author on the panel was Emil Ferris. who wrote the book My favorite thing is monsters , what is like about this comic is that she is writing from a little girls point of view she also used a lot of horror movie things she saw in her graphic novel. The last author in the panel was Tom Hart who wrote Rosalie Lightening: A Graphic Memoir. He talked a lot about how he was inspired by Peanuts comics and always did very funny comics. But after his daughter died he decided to do a serious graphic memoir of her life. What I took from this was you can be a very uplifting person but if you have love or passion for something you will show it and describe it and write about it to tell the world how you feel.