{"id":3204,"date":"2016-04-05T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2016-04-05T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:07:39","slug":"graphic-novelist-simeon-mills-cartoonist-tom-van-deusen-at-get-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/graphic-novelist-simeon-mills-cartoonist-tom-van-deusen-at-get-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic novelist Simeon Mills &amp; cartoonist Tom Van Deusen at Get Lit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Makayla Wamboldt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/butcher-paper.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/butcher-paper-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"butcher paper\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>The 2016 Get Lit! Festival lineup is not only filled with talented writers and visual artists, but also a special few who do both. Graphic novelist Simeon Mills is one of them. His fiction has appeared in <em>Hawaii Review, StringTown<\/em> and <em>Monkey Bicycle <\/em>and his comics have been featured on <em>Top Shelf 2.0. <\/em>He has a degree in architecture from Columbia University, an MFA from the University of Montana, and is currently a middle school teacher living in Spokane. In 2012 he received an Artist Trust Grant for his graphic novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simeonmills.com\/easy-reader\"><em>Butcher Paper<\/em><\/a>, which is currently available from Scablands Books. <em>Butcher Paper <\/em>is about fathers, sons, bullies, worms, sharks \u2013 an eclectic and fun mix tied together by Mills\u2019 creative storytelling and humor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tom-van-deusen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3206 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tom-van-deusen-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"tom van deusen\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>During the festival he will be launching his book accompanied by Seattle cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/tomvandeusen.tumblr.com\/\">Tom Van Deusen<\/a>. Van Deusen has been called \u201ca major new talent in contemporary commix\u201d by Larry Reid of Fantagraphics Bookstore. He adds, \u201cHis revealing characterizations are endearing in their honesty while repellant in their execution \u2013 a perfect balance of alluring and grotesque. Well rendered and wicked fun\u201d The two literary artists will hold a casual interview style discussion where they will talk about <em>Butcher Paper<\/em>, the craft of cartooning, and graphic novels. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Makayla Wamboldt The 2016 Get Lit! Festival lineup is not only filled with talented writers and visual artists, but also a special few who do both. Graphic novelist Simeon Mills is one of them. His fiction has appeared in Hawaii Review, StringTown and Monkey Bicycle and his comics have been featured on Top Shelf &#8230; <a title=\"Graphic novelist Simeon Mills &amp; cartoonist Tom Van Deusen at Get Lit!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/graphic-novelist-simeon-mills-cartoonist-tom-van-deusen-at-get-lit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Graphic novelist Simeon Mills &amp; cartoonist Tom Van Deusen at Get Lit!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-get-lit-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}