{"id":1295,"date":"2010-06-04T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2010-06-04T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T03:20:39","slug":"ande-parks-talks-graphic-novels-at-kansas-city-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"Ande Parks talks graphic novels at the Kansas City Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1296\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andeparks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1296\" title=\"andeparks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andeparks-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ande Parks\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ande Parks is a comic book writer and inker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local comics creator Ande Parks will discuss his graphic novels and other comics work at the Kansas City Public Library&#8217;s Central Library next week. Parks&#8217; presentation, &#8220;Graphic Novels as Art and Literature&#8221; covers how a graphic novel takes shape, from research to script, from artwork to final product.\u00c2\u00a0In addition, he will\u00c2\u00a0dissect a sequence from <em>Union Station,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>explaining his writing approach and how he coordinated with the artist to\u00c2\u00a0tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>Parks will have copies of his graphic novels for sale and will be signing copies. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. Admission is free. A 6 p.m. reception precedes the event. For more information and to <strong>reserve your seat<\/strong>, call 816-701-3407 or visit the <a title=\"Ande Parks: Graphic Novels as Art and Literature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kclibrary.org\/event\/ande-parks-union-station-and-capote-kansas\" target=\"_blank\">library website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local comics creator Ande Parks will discuss his graphic novels and other comics work at the Kansas City Public Library&#8217;s Central Library next week. Parks&#8217; presentation, &#8220;Graphic Novels as Art and Literature&#8221; covers how a graphic novel takes shape, from research to script, from artwork to final product.\u00c2\u00a0In addition, he will\u00c2\u00a0dissect a sequence from Union &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ande Parks talks graphic novels at the Kansas City Public Library&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,420],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions-and-events","category-local-creators","tag-ande-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}