The sixtieth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, September 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

Miriam Katin will discuss her two graphic novels We Are On Our Own, a memoir of  childhood in Budapest during the Second World War, and Letting It Go – an account of her reaction to her son’s move to Berlin.
Miriam Katin was born in 1942 in Budapest, emigrated to Israel in 1957 where she apprenticed in Commercial Art — drawing all the time with great passion – and served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a Graphic Artist. She moved to New York in 1963. Worked in animation  for Ein Gedi Animation, Jumbo Pictures- Nickelodeon, MTV and Disney. Her first comic was published in 2001. Her first graphic novel, We Are On Our Own (2006) was followed by the recent  Letting It Go, both published by Drawn & Quarterly.

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