Main event is June 28, 2009. Accompanying dates, times for the exhibits and additional programming are listed below

OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS

June 27, 2009, 7:00 pm, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater

101 Dalmations(1961) proceeded by the Brave Little Tailor (1938) and Leprechaun’s Gold (1949). Introduction by animation historian Jerry Beck. Visit wexarts.org or call 614-292-3535 for tickets.

June 28, 2009, Free Events

Grand Lounge, The Ohio State University Faculty Club, 181 South Oval Dr.

1:00 pm Milestones of the International Museum of Cartoon Art. Panel discussion with former trustees Brian Walker, Mort Walker, and Arnold Roth moderated by Dr. Jared Gardner, Dept. of English.

2:15 pm Keynote Speaker – Jim Borgman, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip Zits

Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 North Oval Mall

3:30-5:00pm Exhibition opening and reception

 

EXHIBITIONS

Opening June 28, 2009

From the Yellow Kid to Conan:  American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection (through August 7) at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 North Oval Mall, 10:30 am-4:30 pm weekdays. To schedule group tours, call 614-262-6493. Free Admission.

Hogarth and Beyond:  Global Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection (through August 31) at the Cartoon Library & Museum Reading Room Gallery, 27 West 17th Avenue Mall, 9:00-5:00 pm weekdays. Free admission. The library will be open from 3:30-5:00 pm on Sunday, June 28.

 

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING

June 8, 15, 22, 2009, 6:30-8:00 pm, Room 021L adjacent to the library

Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley and Peanuts Revisited. Reading and discussion group led by Dr, Jared Gardner, Dept. of English, and Lucy Shelton Caswell, Cartoon Library & Museum. Organized by Donna Distel, University Libraries Outreach and Engagement. Free and open to the public. Advance registration required: e-mail distel.1@osu.edu or call 614-292-2594.

July 13-17, 2009, 1:30-4:30 pm, Wexner Center for the Arts

Teen Comics Class [Enrollment is full]

July 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm, 162 Hopkins Hall, 128 North Oval Mall

“A Whirlwind History of American Comics” by Dr. Jared Gardner, Dept. of English, followed by a gallery talk by Lucy Shelton Caswell, curator of From the Yellow Kid to Conan:  American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art. Free and open to the public.

July 19, 2009, Free Family Programs

12:30-4:30 pm From the Yellow Kid to Conan: American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor,

1:00 pm The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982), Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater

2:30-4:30 pm Special events at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor: enjoy lemonade and cookies, print a comic strip with Bob Tauber, Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program, and make an authentic newspaper printer’s hat

Co-Sponsors: The Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Department of Art Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, University Libraries, and Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program