NBM Heads To MoCCA Arts Festival on April 6th & 7th

ALL STAR by Jesse Lonergan and Ted Rall's SILK ROAD TO RUIN 2nd Ed. To Premiere

NBM is once again heading to the MoCCA Arts Festival and we are happy to have both Jesse Lonergan, who will be appearing to promote the debut of his new book, the coming of age story All Star and Ted Rall who will be signing copies of the new edition of his book, SILK ROAD TO RUIN: Why Central Asia Is The Next Middle East.


About All Star

Set at the end of the school year in 1998 when Mark McGwire is racing Sammy Sosa to break the home run record, Bill Clinton is being questioned about a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky, and Semisonic's 'Closing Time' is on top of the charts, Carl Carter is leading the Elizabeth Monarchs of rural Vermont to the state championship in his senior year.

A full scholarship to the University of Maine is waiting for him, and everyone says he has a shot at the pros.

He?s so good he can do whatever he wants.

Until he makes one very arrogant mistake.

About SILK ROAD TO RUIN: Why Central Asia Is The Next Middle East - 2nd Ed.

Part graphic novel travelog, part tongue-in-cheek travel guide, here are the adventures of caustic cartoonist Rall in the wild and wooly central Asian countries, a powder keg sitting on tomorrow?s oil...

Combining articles with comic chapters relating his experiences retracing the old legendary Silk Road starting with the sublime history of China and ending in the absurdity of the petty dictatorships of the ?The ?Stans? where Rall had the temerity -or was it blustery stupidity?- to go back, including once with a group of listeners to his radio show, on a dare.

It?s exotic adventure, satire and a fun way to find out more about a part of the world that looms in importance with its immense reserves of oil...

Both Jesse and Ted will be appearing at the NBM Booth throughout the weekend.  Follow @nbmpub on Twitter for appearance times.  So come on by, meet some cool folks and celebrate comics!

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