The comics world looks at "mainstream comics" as the superhero crowd, the ones available in comic book stores every Wednesday. But the real mainstream comics and graphic novels are in bookstores and created by a whole different crowd, one that lacks, for the most part, capes, powers, and spandex. Comics journalist
Tom Spurgeon (comicsreporter.com) talks to Comic-Con special guests
Kate Beaton (
Hark! A Vagrant!),
Alison Bechdel (
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama),
Brecht Evens (
The Making of),
Jennifer and Matthew Holm (Babymouse series),
Nate Powell (
Any Empire), and
Jason Shiga (
Empire State) about their popular graphic novels that appeal to a more diverse audience in bookstores all over the world.
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