Ryan Estrada is an author and an adventurer who has spent 8 years traveling the world. He has lived and visited over a dozen countries and his work is heavily inspired by his experiences and the cultures and people that he has met in his travels. Ryan will join us from his home in South Korea to tell us all about these experiences and how he creates his work!
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Teen Lit Chat with Ryan Estrada, Thursday, October 20 from 7-8 pm. This event will take place live on Zoom and is intended for teens ages 13-18.
Ryan Estrada is an Eisner and Ringo-nominated, Freeman Award-winning artist, author and adventurer. His books include Banned Book Club, Student Ambassador: The Missing Dragon, as well as the upcoming books Occulted and Student Ambassador: The Silver City. He has made comics for Star Trek, Popeye, Flash Gordon and Garfield. He was once thrown from a moving train. You can find his work at ryanestrada.com.
Interviewer Stacey Horan left her career as a corporate lawyer to become an award-winning author of young adult novels. Her works include Sycamore Lane, Inland and The Elixir Vitae Adventures (a five-book series). She also hosts a podcast called The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, which is dedicated to helping book lovers discover new authors. Visit Stacey at her website at www.staceyhoran.com or on social media at @staceyleehoran.
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Check out one of Ryan’s books from the library! You can also find books by interviewer Stacey Horan in our collection.
RYAN RECOMMENDS
Since I currently live in South Korea, I'll recommend three things about or from Korea!
(1) A book: A Kim Jong Il Production, by Paul Fischer. This is the unbelievable true story about how the dictator of North Korea once had his favorite filmmakers kidnapped, and forced them to make a rubber suit monster movie for him. Not only is it a terrifying, suspenseful, action-packed, funny adventure but it explains so much about how much the tools of filmmaking are used to influence the world.
(2) A movie: Break Out, directed by Jang Hang-jun. This movie is hard to find, even in Korea. But I love it so much, I'm recommending it anyway. Picture this: Gangsters have hijacked a train, and there's only one man who can stop them. Now imagine that that man has zero skills, has no interest in saving anyone, and is just mad that the head gangster stole his cheap plastic lighter in the bathroom. After so many films about saving the universe, it is refreshing to see a movie where the stakes are so low, and so stupid. But every single character has equally placed their last scrap of self-esteem on some stupid thing, and the film really makes you care about them.
(3) An experience: Learn Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Seriously, you can do it in 15 minutes. Rather than evolve over thousands of years, it was masterminded by one guy, King Sejong, all at once to make it as easy as possible to read. The rules are very simple. I made a little comic to teach you.
