BUZZING: Cartoonists in Conversation
Sunday, July 30
1:00
Cost: Included in Museum admission. Free for Members.
Join Bay Area cartoonists to celebrate their work and the release of the new graphic novel Buzzing, a moving middle-grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself despite the voices in your head. Buzzing authors Rye Hickman and Samuel Sattin will be joined by Amber Padilla (The Secret Garden on 81st Street), Thien Pham (Family Style: Memories from an American from Vietnam), and Mary Shyne (Graduation Day) to read from their work, followed by a discussion about Buzzing and a book signing. The readings and conversation will be moderated by Maia Kobabe (Gender Queer).
ABOUT THE CARTOONISTS
Rye Hickman
Rye Hickman (previously published as Jen Hickman) is a visual storyteller and a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Sequential Art program. Past work includes Lonely Receiver, TEST, Moth & Whisper, Jem and the Holograms, and more. They get really excited about dystopian fiction, good coffee, and drawing hands.
Maia Kobabe
Maia Kobabe is a graduate of the first ever class in the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Eir first full length book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, came out from Lion Forge Comics/Oni Press in May 2019. Gender Queer was a winner of an Alex Award and Stonewall Honor in 2020, and nominated for an Ignatz Award and the Best Graphic Novels for Teens List from YALSA in 2019. It was also the most challenged book in the United States in 2021 and 2022. It recently received a new hardcover edition and has been translated into Spanish, Polish, Czech, French, and Italian with Norwegian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Japanese and Korean forthcoming.
Amber Padilla
Amber Padilla is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Oakland, CA. Padilla is the creator of the graphic novel The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Graphic Retelling of The Secret Garden. Padilla is also the author/illustrator of the forthcoming YA graphic novel Sugar Coated. Padilla works for Schulz Creative Associates in Santa Rosa, CA.
Thien Pham
Thien Pham is a graphic novelist, comic artist, and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Sumo and did the art for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang. His Latest Book Family Style is a memoir about his family’s immigration to America told through the lens of food. Currently, Pham is working on his next graphic novel, teaching, and eating. A lot. Follow Thien on Instagram at @thiendog.
Samuel Sattin
Samuel Sattin is a writer and coffee addict. In May of 2022, he launched a Kickstarter with the artist team Gurihiru for Unico: Awakening, in coordination with Tezuka Productions in Japan. He is also the writer of forthcoming books, including Buzzing, Side Quest, and more. He has written screenplays for PBS Kids, and previously wrote books such as Bezkamp, Legend, and The Silent End. He graduated with an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts and a Creative Writing MFA from Mills College, freelances in animation development, and works as a studio writer for Schulz Creative Associates, AKA: Snoopy Central.
Mary Shyne
Mary Shyne works for Snoopy at the Schulz Studio in Santa Rosa. Shyne draws comics and show posters in the Bay Area. Shyne wrote JavaScript for InDesign or Photoshop to make production easier, in a previous life.
