HARD TO BE A MULTI-TASKING MAN
At least it is for me where newsletters are concerned. I’m usually so busy doing whatever, that I don’t have time to write about it! But the job of a good newsletter is to keep the interested, interested. So forgive my journalistic tardiness and read on. It’s been a wild couple of months and it’s only going to get WILDER!
*KCC AIN’T NO STOPPING US NOW
The KIDS’C COMIC CON 2012 …
is set for Saturday May 5th from 10 AM to 6 PM, at a NEW location:
Church of the Mediator, 260 West 231st St.in the Bronx.
It’s a new block, with new neighbors, but with the same creative comic book fun and frolic!
Check it out! Some of the Guest:
Viz Media artists; Warner Bros animator Dan Haskett; Batgirl artist Alitha Martinez; Archie artist Bill Galvan; Sonic artist Jamal Pepper, a Skype appearance by manga great Pop Mahn, and more! Hope to see you there!
*One of our Super Sponsor: Lerner Books
Author, Artist, Consultant
BCCSI
About Alex Simmons
Over the past 20 years Alex Simmons has written (and in some cases also created) a number of juvenile mysteries under a variety of pseudonyms for many well-known publishers. He has also penned two educational documentaries and several stage plays. One of his plays, Sherlock Holmes & the Hands of Othello, received critical praise and was published in Black Thunder: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama, published by Signet/Mentor Books.
Simmons has written three movie novelizations for Disney and three biographies for Steck-Vaughn, including one on Denzel Washington.
As a voiceover talent, Simmons can be heard on a wide range of projects from O'Henry Bars, to podcasting financial information for DeLoitte and Touche.
Simmons has traveled the country as a guest speaker and teaching artist. He has developed and conducted creative writing workshops (prose, comics, journalism, and playwriting), as well as consulted on a number of creative arts programs and curricula for children.
Currently, Simmons is serving as the Arts In Education Director for the Children's Art Carnival(NYC); and he sits on the board of the New York State Alliance for Arts and Education. He is affiliated with the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art, and is also a member of the New York Writer's Workshop.
