Mon, Jul 07
|Somerville
Picture + Panel: Queer Communities with Mike Curato and K. Wroten
This month, Picture + Panel explores queer communities with Mike Curato and K. Wroten. Join us for a colorful conversation that weaves together stories of belonging, identity, and connection while exploring how these artists bring LGBTQ+ experiences to life through their distinctive visual voices.
Time & Location
Jul 07, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Somerville, 285 Washington St, Somerville, MA 02143, USA
Guests
About the Event
About the Event
This month, Picture + Panel celebrates queer communities with wonderful authors Mike Curato and K. Wroten. Comics are here and queer; join us for the conversation. Scott Knox from Boston's Equality Fund will moderate.
All BCAF events are free to attend. If you wish to pay it forward, a $5 suggested donation helps sustain BCAF's comics advocacy and educational programming in the Greater Boston area.
More about Picture + Panel
Picture + Panel is a monthly conversation series that brings fantastic graphic novel creators to the Greater Boston area. Discover terrific authors and fascinating stories that combine text and art through conversational confabulation. Produced in partnership by the Boston Comic Arts Foundation, Porter Square Books, and the Boston Figurative Arts Center, Picture + Panel provides thought-provoking discussions for adults about this unique form of expression.
Book sales are provided at the event by Porter Square Books.
About the Creators
Mike Curato is the author and illustrator the children's book series Little Elliot. He has also illustrated What If… by Samantha Berger, All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle, Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian, The Power of One written by Trudy Ludwig, If I Were a Fish by Corook and Olivia Barton, and contributed to What's Your Favorite Color? by Eric Carle and Friends, Sunny Day: A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song, and Dear Heartbreak: YA Authors and Teens on the Dark Side of Love. Publishers Weekly named Mike a “Fall 2014 Flying Start.” In the same year he won the Society of Illustrators Original Art Show Founder’s Award. Mike’s debut young adult graphic novel, Flamer, was awarded the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Young Adult and the 2021 Massachusetts Book Award for Middle Grade/Young Adult. Gaysians is his adult debut.
K. Wroten is an award-winning comics author and illustrator. Their graphic novels include Cannonball, Eden II, and Everyone Sux But You. They are originally from the Midwest and currently live in Brooklyn, NY with their pet snake, Jules.
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