10:30 am to 11:30 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent D
Beyond Words: Middle Grade Graphic Novels
Jesse Byrd, Dream Warriors: A New World
Johnnie Christmas, Gamerville
Allan Wolf, The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
(ages 8 to 14)

11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, Third Floor
“Dr. Werthless”: He Studied Murder and Nearly Killed the Comics Industry
Harold Schechter with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
Bienville Building, Conference Center 118
Remembering, Reimagining, Becoming: Vietnamese Identity 50 Years After the War
Acclaimed author and co-editor Thi Bui and artist Sam Nga Blum discuss the evolution of Vietnamese diaspora identity with journalist Serena Puang. Using Bui's memoir, The Best We Could Do, as a touchstone for remembering the refugee experience, they will explore how contemporary writers and artists—as seen in the experimental and wide-ranging McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers—are now actively reimagining and creating a new, eclectic cultural language for what it means to be becoming Vietnamese in the world today.