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S.Matt Read
@smattread.bsky.social
Fundraiser, comics supporter, board game aficionado
Just finished Monica early this morning. The ending caught me completely by surprise, in part because I had not flipped over the book once to see the back cover. Masterful narrative quilt. The voice over which at first annoyed me became this utterly transfixing device which I couldn't resist.
November 7, 2023 at 7:57 PM
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Hi Friends! 👋

want to know what bookbans feel like from an author-illustrator's point of view?

i wrote some thoughts.

also in it:
🌈vandalized pages of In The Night Kitchen
🌈a person named Mr. Dilk
🌈rachel wonders if she is indeed a bear

#kidlit

rachelelliott.me/2023/11/03/s...
Six Questions About Book Banning, Censorship, and The Real Riley Mayes
I’ve been asked a lot about book bans recently, so let’s round up all the questions, and my best attempts at answers, in a post for the bookban-curious. Q: Hey Rachel, has your book been banned ye...
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November 5, 2023 at 5:47 PM
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Boston Book Festival has an amazing comics event on Saturday, Oct 14 at 3:30pm!

Birgit Weyhe, a middle class, white woman from Germany tells the life story of Priscilla Layne, an Afro-American German studies professor with Caribbean roots who grew up in poverty in Chicago. The result is RUDE GIRL.
October 12, 2023 at 9:05 PM
The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, aka MICE, is two weeks away! Always free, always awesome.

Nine amazing special guests with hundreds of cartoonists to meet, special programs to attend, and workshops to get your imagination going. www.micexpo.org

If you've never been, then come! :)
September 18, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Just hopping on Blue Sky! Quick snippet from today:

Reading Invisible Wounds by Jess Ruliffson
Making the occasional move in a game of HIVE
Working for the Boston Comic Arts Foundation
Walking Raisin around the block
August 30, 2023 at 5:50 PM