Power Up! event at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library. Participants created their own super hero and learned how to draw comic book characters free-hand.

Power Up! event at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library. Participants created their own super hero and learned how to draw comic book characters free-hand.

Get Graphic: The World in Words and Pictures is a community-wide two-year project designed to introduce teens, parents, librarians, and teachers to the exciting and extremely popular literary format of graphic novels. All sorts of fun and informative events will be held throughout Western New York including noted graphic novel author visits and graphic novel design workshops. Teens will be inspired to write their own stories in the graphic novel format and their pages will be included in a book to be published in 2009.

Truly a community project, partners include the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, the Nioga Library System, UB Libraries, UB Department of Library and Information Studies, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Buffalo News Next Magazine, Erie I Boces School Library System, Hein Publishing, Buffalo Public Schools Library System and WBFO radio.

For more information, visit Get Graphic.

This project was made possible in part by a Family Literacy Library Services grant from the New York State Library, New York State Education Department.