Spotlight on Paul Karasik
The panel started with Paul getting an inkpot award. He was introduced by his good friend and cartoonist Liniers. Paul spoke about the New York City Trilogy of Paul Auster books that he along with some artists are adapting to comics. Paul revealed he had met Auster when he taught his kid and he came in for a Parent/Teacher meeting. He spoke about art spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and got him the job of adapting it with David Mazzucchelli. Paul also revealed what he learned about adapting a book with subtext into a comic book and how Auster’s one request was that all of the text in the book had to have come from his book, he also spoke about the subtext of all 3 of the stories in the book.
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