Books By the Banks Poster Unveiling

It is the Books By The Banks 10th year!

Will Hillenbrand’s artwork, created exclusively for the festival, will be revealed at a special event set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Rookwood. It is free and open to the public. Attendees may purchase the poster for $15 and get it signed by Hillenbrand who, along with past poster illustrators, will briefly speak.

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Books By the Banks Poster Unveiling!

 Ninth annual Books by the Banks book festival poster to be revealed!!

Aug. 14, 2015 ─ Award-winning artist and comic book illustrator David Michael Beck was selected to design the 2015 Books by the Banks book festival poster. This year’s poster will be unveiled at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Rookwood Pavilion, 2692 Madison Road.

Beck will be at the poster debut to talk about its creation. A poster signing will follow. Joining him will be past poster artists, including Jeffrey Ebbeler, Ryan Ostrander and Christina Wald. Posters will be for sale, with proceeds benefiting Books by the Banks. This year’s poster is $15 and previous years’ posters are $10.
Also being revealed is the specially designed Rookwood Pottery trophy being awarded this year for the inaugural author awards in four categories: Best Kids Book, Best Young Adult Book, Best Emerging New Talent and Lifetime Achievement.

The 2015 Books by the Banks festival, presented this year by Ohio Humanities, is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati. Last year, the festival drew more than 125 authors and a crowd of 5,000 attendees. It’s considered one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the region. For details, visit BooksbytheBanks.org.

ABOUT DAVID MICHAEL BECK
David Michael Beck was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1950. His academic training was with Wright State University, the American Academy of Art, and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. He worked in small in-house art departments, studios, and design firms illustrating in a variety of mediums from watercolor, gouache, acrylics and oils, to full tonal pencil, and pen & ink. The underlying editorial, narrative themes evident in his work has won acceptance with many Fortune 500 companies and high-profile periodicals. In recent years, he has developed an impressive body of work in genre illustration covering adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. His original artwork hangs in the private collection of George Lucas, and his client list includes Hasbro Toy Company, The Grammy Awards, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Anheuser-Bush, Miller Brewing Co., Dow Jones, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Coca-Cola, Sony Entertainment, The Grateful Dead, and Marvel, DC and Dark Horse comics. He resides in Cincinnati.

Thanks to the Cincinnati Public Library for providing the unveiling details. Hope to see you there!

A cryptic and enticing poster teaser!

Illustrator Lane Smith at Joseph Beth on May 9th

Lane Smith is the award-winning illustrator of some of the most memorable picture books of all time (The Stinky Cheese Man) and he's going to be here in May with an incredible new book for middle grade readers: "Return to Augie Hobble", the story of a normal boy who is going through some very paranormal changes.

Saturday, May 9 at 1:00 pm at Joseph Beth in Rookwood Pavilion.

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Graphic Novel Author/Illustrators Raina Telgemeier and Kazu Kibuishi at Joseph Beth October 30th

 Joseph Beth October 30th, 4:30 PM

 From the website:

The companion to Raina Telgemeier's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir, SMILE. Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. 

In AMULET: ESCAPE FROM LUCIEN, by bestselling author/illustrator Kazu Kibuishi (also known for illustrating the new Harry Potter paperback series), Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures, where they search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. Meanwhile, Emily heads back into the Void with Max, one of the Elf King's loyal followers, where she learns his darkest secrets.

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Illustrator News: C. F. Payne at Joseph Beth Booksellers December 17th

From the FB event site: "C.F. Payne has illustrated more than a dozen picture books, including the Texas Bluebonnet winner "Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy" and" Turkey Bowl", both written by Phil Bildner. He also illustrated the "New York Times" bestsellers "The Remarkable Farkle McBride" and "Micawber", both by John Lithgow. He teaches at the Columbus College of Design, where he is the chair of the Illustration Department. C.F. Payne lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him at CFPayne.com."

Tuesday December 17th at 6 pm.

Details here:


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Joseph Beth Booksellers:

2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208-1321

 

 

Illustrator News: Loren Long and Jon Agee at Joseph Beth

From the event page: "Join two of our very favorite children's book creators as they bring us two new Christmas classics - Little Santa & An Otis Christmas!

Little Santa - A resident of the North Pole with the ability to slide up and down chimneys meets a flying reindeer and some industrious elves, in this fictional biography of Santa Claus.

An Otis Christmas - On Christmas Eve at the farm, a horse faces complications while delivering her foal and Otis the tractor must race through snowy, treacherous woods to bring back Doc Baker before it is too late."

Friday November 15th at 6pm

Joseph-Beth Cincinnati

2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208-1321

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Books By the Banks Poster Unveiling: Release the Kraken!

Jeffery Ebbeler shows off his wonderful poster

The full art and tentacles

Last night was the Books By the Banks poster unveiling at Joseph Beth (also a favorite illustrators lunch spot). We love that the library commissions an illustration each year for the festival!

This year is a great one.I love the idea of a kraken in the Ohio River.

The actual festival is October 12th. So put it on your calendar. It is a great place to get signed books!

Some of the previous illustrators...

Illustrator News: Christina Wald Signing Books at Joseph-Beth in Kentucky

I will be signing A Warm Winter Tail and Why the Possum has a Large Grin on Wednesday, December 5th at 5 pm.

I will read the books and do an art demo.

Note that this is the Joseph-Beth in Crestview Hills, KY.

Hope to see all my Kentucky (and Ohio) friends there!

More info here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/137125883104497/

Joseph-Beth Booksellers

2785 Dixie Hwy.

Crestview Hills, KY  41017

859 912 7860

Here are the book trailers:

Books By the Banks Poster Illustrator Interview on WCPO

Marlene Steele, this year's poster artist for Books by the Banks, will be interviewed on WCPO to be broadcast during the noon hour about the creating her poster design tomorrow (Sept 20th).

If they put the segment up after, I will keep an eye out for a link.

Hope to see many of you at Joseph Beth! (Or at the Books by the Banks festival in October...)

Here is the interview:

Books by the Banks Poster Unveiling

One of the great things about Books by the Banks besides being an awesome book festival, is they commission an illustration for their poster each year.

This year the artist is Marlene Steele.

BIO: A native of northern Kentucky, Marlene Steele began her studies at the age of 11, in the studio of Aileen McCarthy, a student of Duveneck at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
 

A little peek at the poster is on the banner. Looks gorgeous!

Marlene was a full scholarship recipient and is a graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She enjoys the challenge of figurative and portrait work as well as landscape in the mediums of oil, watercolor and pastel. Marlene Steele’s work is in corporate and private collections regionally. Marlene teaches her studio skills in workshops and Art Academy Community Education classes. Steele’s Studio is in the West End of Cincinnati and is currently accepting commissions in all media.

Joseph Beth is once again hosting the poster unveiling which is Thursday, September 20th at 6:30.

Marlene will discuss her poster concept and design and then several artists from the previous years will also be on hand to sign posters. (Not sure who else will be there from previous years, I will post an update later).

Also if you go here: http://booksbythebanks.org/2012/09/20-off-at-joseph-beth-september-20-2012/

You can print out a coupon for 20% off your store purchase or meal at Bronte (an illustrator lunch favorite spot) on that day.

Hope to see you there!

Loren Long: Nice Article in the Cincinnati Enquirer about Of Thee I Sing

 Nice article about Loren's new book in the Cincinnati Enquirer by Lauren Bishop.

It looks like Loren will be signing the book at Joseph Beth on December 11th at 1PM.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101115/ENT07/11160303/1032/ENT/Long-adds-Obama-book-to-resume

Update: Loren will also have a signing at Blue Manatee on December 18th at 11am.

Announcement: Ryan Ostrander: Books By the Banks Poster Unveiling

Ryan posted his poster a couple weeks ago. Now get one of your own on Tuesday September 1st at 7PM when the new poster is unveiled at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Hyde Park.

Will Hillenbrand and C.F. Payne will be there also with the previous 2 posters and they will all discuss the process illustrating for this event! More info here!

Hey Ryan! Add a picture to this post :)