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Creator Café

With Author/Screenwriter Amanda Deibert + Artist Cat Staggs

Join us for an evening of café drink and snacks, and conversation with folks working in a creative industry!

Our guests for August are Amanda Deibert and Cat Staggs!

Ever wondered how your favorite graphic novels and comics are made? Talk to the pros and learn more about how stories go from concepts to finished panels. Amanda and Cat will discuss their creative careers and how they collaborate on creating comics. You'll have a chance to ask them questions about the process or the business, and then they'll help you plot and create your own one-page comic. We'll also be giving away signed copies of their books.

Amanda Deibert is an award-winning television and comic book writer. She just finished 4th year as the writer for former Vice President Al Gore’s annual broadcast, 24 Hours of Reality, an international live broadcast highlighting the Climate Crisis. Before that she was the head writer for two pilots at CBS including the comedy/sketch show “In Other News” and the limited FOX series Breakthrough With Dr. Steve Perry. She's written for The Oprah Winfrey Network’s first ever late night show OWN Tonight as well as comedy/sketch/live shows for SyFy, Hulu, PIVOT, the POP Network and more. Amanda’s comic book writing includes the New York Times #1 Bestseller Love is Love, DC Super Hero Girls, Teen Titans Go!, Batman and Harley Quinn, Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman ’77 for DC Comics, among others. 

Cat Staggs is an artist best known for her work on the New York Times Bestselling title Smallville Season 11 from DC Comics and Crosswind with Gail Simone for Image Comics. Currently working on John Carpenter’s Tales of Halloween Night Vol. 6 with Amanda Deibert and Frank Tieri (Storm King Comics). Recently she completed Joker/Harley Criminal Sanity-Secret Files #1 with Kami Garcia (DC Titles). She has also worked on popular titles like Death of Superman with Louise Simonson (DC Comics), Adventures of Supergirl (DC Comics), Wonder Woman ‘77 (DC Comics), X-Files and Orphan Black (IDW), Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman (DC), The Vampire Diaries (DC), Phantom Lady and Doll Man (DC), Star Trek (IDW), Tales For A Halloween Night Vol. 1-5 (Storm King), and over ten years in the Star Wars universe with Lucasfilm. In 2017 a one of a kind original Wonder Woman piece was inducted to the Library of Congress by Lynda Carter along with Wonder Woman '77 Vol 1.

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