Tomorrow, June 17th, the Appalachia Comics Project will formally launch with a national Kickstarter campaign and kickoff event at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Center in Waynesville, NC. The kickoff event is a celebration featuring local comic book and graphic novel creators as well as the survivors telling their story in the ACP’s first graphic history — Islands in the Sky: The Story of Hurricane Helene as told by those who survived.
Luminaries such as Barbara Kingsolver and José Andrés are expected to make public statements of support upon launch and the book will include work by noted scientist Dr. David Easterling, former Chief of the Scientific Services Division at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, among others, including multiple Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
6:00pm (remarks begin at 7:15pm)
WHERE: Pigeon Community Multicultural Center
450 Pigeon Street
Waynesville, NC 28786
The Appalachia Comics Project (ACP) is an initiative formed by local and national comic and graphic novel creators to (1) create a nonfiction graphic history of the Hurricane Helene disaster in southern Appalachia, and (2) work toward a self-sustaining comics publishing initiative that creates comics works for, from, and about Appalachia.
So far, ACP has paired more than a dozen local survivors with renowned comic creators like Brian Michael Bendis, Gene Luen Yang, Matt Fraction, Nate Powell, and others to create Islands in the Sky as a monument to the storm that changed everything. Harrowing, inspiring, humorous, and tragic–this history is being brought to life in comics to create a first-hand account of what really happened by those that lived it. Survivor accounts include Dr. David Easterling, former Chief of the Scientific Services Division at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC presenting a science-based exploration of what occurred.
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