The 386th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 6pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.

Star Trek’s  Nicholas Meyer talks Will Eisner’s “The Plot” and more. The director/author in conversation with Danny Fingeroth. A Will Eisner Week online event

Multitalented NICHOLAS MEYER is best known for his work on classic movies including Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan and best-selling novels like The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Among his many works is the 2019 Sherlock Holmes novel, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, which centers around the infamous, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which is, sadly, still influential. In Peculiar Protocols, Meyer notes that “I am indebted to ‘The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ a graphic novel by the late Will Eisner.” Discussing the influence Eisner’s final work had on the book and on his career, Meyer will tonight talk with Will Eisner Week Chair DANNY FINGEROTH (Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin) about the role Eisner’s and others’ comics have played in his personal and creative development, about the graphic adaptation of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and other fascinating recollections and observations from his amazing life and career.

NICHOLAS MEYER is the author of five Sherlock Holmes novels, including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for a year. He’s a screenwriter and film director, responsible for The Day After and Time After Time, as well as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country among many others. A native of New York City, he lives in Santa Monica, California.

DANNY FINGEROTH, Chair of Will Eisner Week, is a popular culture critic and historian. Having spent many years as a writer and editor at Marvel Comics, he’s written books including 2019’s A Marvelous Life (from St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan), a biography of controversial Marvel Universe co-creator Stan Lee. Fingeroth’s newest book is 2023’s Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin (from Chicago Review Press), a look at this bizarre, history-shattering figure. For more: http://www.dannyfingeroth.com