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Pictopia in Pittsburgh: Pulse-Pounding Panel PIX Didn't Want You to See!

I will be offering a slideshow lecture at this year's 2019 Three Rivers Comic Con on Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 3:00 pm.
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Don Simpson is the author of the Ms. Megaton Man™ Maxi-Series, a serialized prose novel. He is the cartoonist and creator of the comic book and graphic novel series Megaton Man™, Border Worlds™, and Bizarre Heroes™, and his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish.

Don reviewed fiction and nonfiction books for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for several years and taught writing, YA Lit, and other courses at universities in Western Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Art and Architectural History from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013.

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