Whatever Happened to Frankie King: Brooklyn, Basketball, and Mental Health

Come meet father-son duo author-illustrator Eli Neugeboren and author Jay Neugeboren for an authors’ talk about their new graphic novel biography, Whatever Happened to Frankie King, moderated by illustrator Sara Gómez Woolley. This graphic novel follow’s King’s enigmatic life from its auspicious start in the limelight to his very reclusive existence in New York City, where he authored more than 40 novels, including a popular series of cozy cat mysteries written under a woman’s pseudonym. Whatever Happened to Frankie King is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a meditation on dreams realized, lost, and abandoned.

Jay Neugeborgen is the award-winning author of 23 books, including the novels The American Sun and Wind Moving Picture Company, and After Camus and the memoir Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed documentary film.

Eli Neugeboren is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in Corpus: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments, Weapon Echh!, and COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, among other publications.

Sara Gómez Woolley is an award-winning illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her ongoing personal project, a fictionalized graphic memoir created collaboratively with her mother, Leila Gómez Woolley, entitled Esperancita’s Mostly True Memoir, was singled out for award by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the largest Latino arts organization in the US and is due for publication by Lee and Low Books in 2027. She is faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center Program for Biography and Memoir and is very proud to serve on the board of the Society of Illustrators.