Looking for something fun and different to do during the cold dark of winter? Join us to talk about comics!
Come grab a beverage of your choice and pull up a seat to discuss a different graphic novel on the first Thursday of each month at Bookhouse Brewing at 1526 W. 25th St., Cleveland, OH 44113. Registration is not required!
Have questions? Contact us at ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org or call 216-623-2881.
Thursday, December 1 – 6:30 pm – Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank Smith
A graphic memoir from Frank “Big Black” Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion against the injustices of the prison system remains one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in America.
Thursday, January 5 – 6:30 pm – The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein
For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist’s page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century.
Thursday, February 2 – 6:30 pm – Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang and Adrien Gombeaud
Follow the story of China’s infamous June Fourth Incident – otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre – from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.