I just opened up a shop for my GALLERY section:
Friday, Dec. 5th
@ the Lakeland Library Cooperative's presenter showcase, featured guest.
Saturday Dec. 6th
@ the Bloomfield Township Public Library presenting "the Creative Spark" at 1pm, and "Making Comics" at 2pm.
I will be presenting "Comics in Your Library" at the Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME) 2008 Fall pre-conference this Wednesday - updates to follow. Then I am on vacationnnnnnnn to a tropical paradise! Whoooo! I'll return to making the world more creative on November 16th.
"Write. Create. You!" 2008-2009 kicked off for the year, and my first school workshop for the year was at Martin Luther King Leadership Acadamy in Grand Rapids, MI. I think it was hands-down the BEST group of kids I have had for WCY sessions in 5 years. The level of creativity and enthusiasm was higher than normal, the kids were genuinely funny, and the coolest thing was the entire room of kids were already familiar with my Michigan book because it was coincidentilly prominently displayed in the media center - so when I started talking about it, all the kids pointed to the shelf. Very cool.
Summer is over, and Fall is here. and that means it is back-to-school time. And for me, that means the 2008-2009 school presentation season. If you are a teacher, librarian, or event planner, contact me for this season's presentation rates and availability.
New this year: Tell your mom and dad you want to take weekly illustration lessons. I will be taking on students interested in learning the art of comics/manga. You can learn and have fun with other kids with the same interests! Contact me for more information.
Summer has been moving pretty fast; it is hard to believe August is already here. Summer has been filled with many library and camp visits, and Fall school visits are already starting to be planned.
The interesting catch-22 of doing presentations is sometimes an author spends so much time traveling, that he or she is not able to sit down and get the creative spark charged up and productive. Just this month I had to make the hard decision to turn down attending the San Diego ComicCon as well as the SCBWI Annual L.A. conference.
But this realization has helped me come to a great decision - to spend the rest of summer working hard on getting as much new material finished as possible.
Ryan wants to thank the campers at Rockford Day Camp for a really great show yesterday, July 15.
Ryan will also be at the New Buffalo Township Library on July 18 for a presentation for their summer reading program.
Ryan will be visiting at Forest Hills Summer Day Camp at Central Woodlands School on Monday, June 16th.
Ryan will be performing at 4:00 with Kevin Kammeraad at Grand Rapids Annual Festival of the Arts this Saturday June 7. Also, come visit us in the art tent all weekend where we will have books and music available!
Thanks to all my attendees at my session on Graphic Literature at the Michigan Library Association Spring Institute. I will have full resources available in the "resources" area of my "presentations" section of my website a.s.a.p. (I have some FTP issues that should be resolved later today). Thanks for your patience!
Ryan will be presenting on "Sequential Art" at the 2008 Michigan Library Association Spring Institute on Thursday May 8.
Ryan will be attending the Motor City ComicCon the weekend of May 16-18!
Check out the May issue of On-the-Town: West Michigan's Arts and Entertainment Magazine for cover illustration by Ryan!
Ryan attended Jackson Park Middle School Thursday for a fun writing workshop. Thanks to the students and a wonderful staff for the great morning!
Ryan will be presenting at The Second Annual SteeleStock on Friday at Steele Elementary in Mason— "a day of peace, love and music" - talking to the elementary students on how he makes music and books for kids and sharing a few songs.
Next weekend: Ryan will be in Detroit, Michigan presenting at the Michigan Reading Association's annual conference, and he is super excited about it - there is a great line-up of fellow kids book experts, and it is going to be a non-stop weekend of picture book mayhem. I'll post pictures upon my return...or will I return?
Ryan spoke at the semi-annual Student Teacher Fire-Up today. This is the fifth year that Ryan has been presenting at Fire-Up helping new education students get their berrings for their new roles as student-teachers.
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