This program is offered as a part of Manchester Reads 2023: Lighten up at the Library, our community's reading fest. 

Join MBTS Public Library Director Sara Collins and Librarian Maddy Willwerth as we chat with cartoonist Harry Bliss about his career, humor, comics and his recent collaboration with Steve Martin in this webinar. 

Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. His self-titled single panel gag cartoon ‘Bliss’ appears in newspapers nationally and internationally. Bliss has illustrated 26 books for children and most recently published his second New York Times best-selling collaboration with entertainer, Steve Martin: "Number one is walking : my life in the movies and other diversions". Harry Bliss is the founder of the CCS Cornish Fellowship for Graphic Novelists located in Cornish, New Hampshire. Harry Bliss lives in New Hampshire.

Website: https://store.harrybliss.com/ Instagram: @blisscartoons.

 This program recorded and made available to attendees a few days after the event so please sign up even if you can't attend. Send any question for Harry or about the program to Maddy Willwerth by emailing mwillwerth@manchesterpl.org.

This program is made possible through a partnership with the Tewksbury Public Library, Rockport Public Library, Newbury Town Library, Chelmsford Public Library, Kimball Public Library, Peabody Institute Library of Danvers and Burlington Public Library.