Celebrate French Graphic Novels at BookExpo After Hours

VIP Brands, a licensing agent handling European comics and graphic novels, is partnering with French publisher associations to host a special social event June 1 during BookExpo to celebrate French graphic novels. 

Ivanka Hahnenberger, founder and general manager of VIP Brands, is hosting a French Graphic Novels and Comics Cocktail Party, to be held June 1, from 5 pm to 8pm at Clyde Frazier’s Wine and Dine restaurant, on 10th Avenue near the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

Hahnenberger said the event is designed “to celebrate this growing medium and  introduce the wide variety of graphic novels and comics in general and French properties in particular.”

The event is invention-only with RSVP and is targeting librarians, book distributors, journalists, editors and publishers. 

Hahnenberger said French publishers will be in attendance at the event. The party will also display hundreds of French graphic novels aimed at children, as well as adult fiction and nonfiction titles. The event, she said, will show off the “incredible diversity of titles that French publishers have to offer.”

This is latest event organized by Hahnenberger to market and promote French and European graphic novels in the US market. She organized the one day symposium on French graphic novel publishing in 2015, and has worked as a consultant for EuropeComics.com, a coalition of 13 European publishers, working to connect American publishers and readers with the vast array of European graphic novel content.

VIP Brands is hosting the event in collaboration with The French Comics Association and the French Embassy, The International Bureau of French Editors (BIEF) and Society of French Editors (SNE).

The cocktail party will be held June 1 from 5pm to 8pm at Clyde Frazier’s Wine & Dine, 485 10th Avenue in Manhattan.

For more information contact: Ivanka Hahnenberger at I.hahnenberger@vip.net