Craft was born in Harlem and grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City. Craft is the second person to have simultaneously won both awards in the same year. New Kid was also awarded the Coretta Scott King award for outstanding work by an African American writer. Craft is only the fifth African-American author to land the coveted prize. It is the first graphic novel in the Newbery’s nearly 100 year history to receive the award.
His book, New Kid, is the winner of the 2020 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature. Jerry Craft (he/his) is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. Her graphic novel memoir, Almo st American Girl, talks about immigrating from Seoul, Korea to Huntsville, Alabama as a teenager in the mid-1990’s. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling comic cookbook Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes. Her work has been published in independent comics anthologies including Secret Identities and The Strumpet, as well as in the pages of Marvel Comics and Heavy Metal Magazine. Robin Ha (she/her) is a Korean American cartoonist and illustrator based in Washington D.C. Since then, she has published a number of other graphic novels including Brain Camp, Friends with Boys, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, The Nameless City, and Pumpkinheads. Faith Erin won an Eisner Award in 2014 for The Adventures of Superhero Girl and in 2019, her debut Young Adult prose novel, Co mics Will Break Your Heart, was published by Roaring Brook Press. Her first published work was Zombies Calling (SLG Publishing) in 2007. She started making comics “for fun” and putting them on the web when she was in college. She worked in the animation industry for several years before transitioning into writing and drawing comics full time in 2008. Moderated by Candice Mack (YALSA) and sponsored by the CBC Graphic Novel Committee.įaith Erin Hicks (she/her) is a Canadian writer and artist. Jerry Craft (Class Act, New Kid) and Faith Erin Hicks (One Year at Ellsmere) join exciting comics artists Robin Ha (Almost American Girl), Derick Brooks (Bright Family), and Jonathan Hill (Odessa) in a discussion about new kids graphic novels. New Kids Comics from Eisner Award Publishers (5:00pm – 6:00pm PST).
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