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On Monday, March 13, Portland State University hosts Will Eisner Week 2023, celebrating sequential art and freedom of expression in a no-holds-barred conversation with creator Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir), author and illustrator of Gender Queer, the US’s most banned book of 2022! The Zoom discussion will be moderated by Dr. Susan Kirtley, director of PSU’s Comics Studies program, in conjunction with the department of English, the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Center for Urban Studies.
Winner of the comics industry’s Ignatz Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and the Stonewall Books Award, Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Northern California Bay Area, whose first full-length book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, was released in May 2019. Eir short comics have been published by both The Nib and The New Yorker online, and can also be found in many print anthologies, including The Secret Loves of Geeks; Faster than Light, Y’All; Gothic Tales of Haunted Love; Advanced Death Saves; and Be Gay, Do Comics. After working in libraries for over ten years, e is now a full-time cartoonist whose comics are heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.