Baltimore’s first-ever Graphic Novel Festival will be held at Dreamers & Make-Believers bookstore on Aug. 10.
The festival’s goal is to reclaim Baltimore’s title as The City That Reads and encourage readers to take up reading graphic novels.
Graphic novels have grown in popularity in the past few years at over 90 percent in school libraries, according to the School Library journal. But graphic novels aren’t just for students. In 2023, graphic novels were the third highest selling category within adult fiction.
The Graphic Novel Festival will provide both children and adults a variety of graphic novels as well as the opportunity to meet authors and illustrators of some of the novels.
Attendees will also be able to attend book talks, panels, workshops and see how educators interact with graphic novels.
The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit the Dreamers & Make-Believers bookstore’s website.
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Tolu Talabi is Baltimore Fishbowl’s reporting intern for summer 2024. Tolu is a junior at the University of Maryland, College Park where she studies journalism. She is currently a staff writer at The Diamondback,…
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