Eric Shanower will be visiting the Gage Center for a book signing event. Limited copies will be available for purchase.

Eric Shanower is the award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novel series Age of Bronze (Image Comics), retelling the story of the Trojan War. With cartoonist Skottie Young, he adapted six of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books to a series of New York Times best-selling graphic novels (Marvel Comics). He wrote the Eisner Award-winning comics series Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland (IDW) with art by Gabriel Rodriguez, based on the classic comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay. Shanower’s past comics work includes his own Oz graphic novel series, available as Adventures in Oz (IDW), the story “Happily Ever After” included in the Lambda Literary Award finalist How Beautiful the Ordinary (HarperCollins), and art for An Accidental Death by Ed Brubaker (Fantagaphics Books), The Elsewhere Prince by Moebius and R-JM Lofficier (Marvel), and Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor (Dark Horse Comics). In 1994 he co-founded—and through 2002 was co-publisher of—Hungry Tiger Press, which specializes in books and cds reprinting and continuing the works of L. Frank Baum. Shanower illustrated books by original Oz series authors, including The Rundelstone of Oz by Eloise McGraw (Hungry Tiger Press), The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes (The International Wizard of Oz Club), and The Runaway in Oz by John R. Neill (Books of Wonder). Shanower has illustrated for television, magazines, stage, and children’s books, including his own books The Giant Garden of Oz (Dover Publications) and The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and Other Stories (Hungry Tiger Press). His work appears in several documentaries, including The Origins of Oz (BBC), which runs occasionally on the Smithsonian Channel, and “Because of the Wonderful Things It Does” on the video release of the 1939 MGM The Wizard of Oz. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner, David Maxine. www.age-of-bronze.com