Carmilla with Karen Berger, Amy Chu, and Soo Lee

​Join Karen Berger, Amy Chu, and Soo Lee as they discuss their Bram Stoker Award nominated graphic novel series Carmilla.

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 1st floor.

Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was . . . CARMILLA. 

At the height of the Lunar New Year, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the center of a real-life horror story--and face-to-face with illusions about herself, her life, and her hidden past.

Inspired by the gothic novel that started a genre, this queer vampire murder mystery is a mesmerizing tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets by fan-favorite writer Amy Chu (Red Sonja, Netflix's DOTA: Dragon's Blood) and fine-line illustrator Soo Lee (Ash & Thorn).

 At this event, Carmilla creators Amy Chu and Soo Lee will discuss the series with its editor Karen Berger.

To join the event in-person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events, registration does not guarantee admission, and all registered seats are released shortly before start time. Some seats will be available for walk-ins.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Karen Berger is the editor of Berger Books, a line of acclaimed creator-owned graphic novels from Dark Horse Comics. An award-winning editor, she founded Vertigo, the legendary imprint of DC Comics where she published over 350 properties including the groundbreaking and bestselling series: Sandman, V for Vendetta, Preacher and Y,The Last Man. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2018.

Amy Chu is a multi-genre writer for comics and animation. Her most recent graphic novel is Carmilla: The First Vampire (Dark Horse / Berger Books). For TV, she contributed to two seasons of the Netflix anime series DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. At DC and Marvel she has worked on popular characters such as Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Deadpool, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man and Iron Man. Known for her contemporary run on the long running sword fantasy Red Sonja, she is also the first woman to write the KISS and Green Hornet series.

Her graphic novels for children include Fighting to Belong!, Turning Red, Sea Sirens, Sky Island and Ana & the Cosmic Race. Amy has created educational comics for many charities including the New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Chinese in America and The Asian American Foundation. In addition to judging for the Ringo and Harvey awards, she serves on the faculty of the Kubert School and the School of Visual Arts and is a board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.  She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a double bachelor’s degree in Architectural Design from MIT and East Asian Studies from Wellesley College. You can follow her on instagram @amy_chu, tiktok @theamychu, and on Facebook/iwritecomics.

Soo Lee is a freelance comic artist and illustrator living in NYC. She is the illustrator and co-creator of the title Carmilla: The First Vampire and Carmilla: The Last Vampire Hunter. Growing up in Queens, NY, Soo had the luck of being exposed to different arts and cultures which led her to attend the School of Visual Arts, majoring in Cartooning and pursuing her career in comics. Soo has been published by various companies such as Dark Horse, DC Comics, Dynamite, Skybound, and Ahoy. Her works also include illustrations for magazines Sierra and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Soo’s favorite genres are Horror and High Fantasy. She is still a self-proclaimed connoisseur of Asian gangster movies.

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ACCESSIBILITY NOTES

In-Person

• Assistive listening devices and/or hearing loops are available at the venue.


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• This venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs.

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