In honor of Will Eisner Week 2022, BICLM invites you to join us for this FREE event via Zoom to hear from scholars Jared Gardner and Shawna Kidman as well as local presenters in a symposium devoted to recent comics scholarship. Sponsored by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and Popular Culture Studies.

***This event has been postponed until Spring 2022. New date TBA. Thank you for your interest and understanding!***

Join the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for a virtual event with Paris-based Lebanese illustrator and comic book author, Raphaelle Macaron.

Raphaëlle Macaron was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, where she undertook her studies in illustration and comics. Since 2012, she has worked as a freelance illustrator and designer. In 2020, she published her first graphic novel, Les Terrestres, a non-fiction work that depicts her conversation and travels with French environmentalist journalist and politician Noël Mamère as they visit sites and political collectives important in the history and ongoing environmentalist struggles in France. The narrative is dynamized not only by the dialogue between the much older environmentalist and the young artist but complicated by the eruption of the COVID-19. A central question of the text is how one maintains hope and perspective, in the light of potential wide-spread collapse, questions that are immediately explored by the pair within the context of France, but that Macaron juxtaposes with her Lebanese hometown and its ongoing social and political history. In conversation with Prof. Maggie Flinn, of the Department of French and Italian, Macaron will discuss her work on Les Terrestres, current book project, as well as how her training and work as an illustrator and graphic designer interact with and inform her long-form graphic narrative style.

This event is FREE and will be presented online via Zoom. The conversation will be in English, and this event will be recorded. This program is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Department of French and Italian and is made possible by a generous gift from Engie-Axium.

This virtual program will include automated captioning. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Virtual Event

Meet Snoopy’s siblings from the Peanuts comic strip and learn to draw Spike, Belle, Marbles, Andy, and Olaf with step-by-step drawing instruction. Join the Schulz Museum and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates staff artist Mary Shyne as she explores the story of Snoopy’s canine family. Then, learn how to draw each of his siblings from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Gang with an easy-to-follow drawing demonstration.

This program was originally recorded live on November 12, 2020, for the Charles Schulz Museum and Research Center. Located in Santa Rosa, California, the Schulz Museum is dedicated to exploring the life, art, and legacy of Charles Schulz and Peanuts. Learn more at schulzmuseum.org and look for online and at-home resources, activities, and exhibitions.

CXC is presenting this event to celebrate The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons, currently on display at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum through Sunday, October 31, 2021.

Streaming October 3, 2021 on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch and at https://www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/?session=the-charles-m-schulz-museum-presents-how-to-draw-snoopys-siblings 

Cartoonist and educator Emi Gennis will discuss key principles of designing letters, the application of lettering in comics, and methods of lettering using traditional techniques. Using examples from her own work, she will walk you through the process of creating letters by hand, and describe her approach to designing text that amplifies storytelling. Gennis teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design, where she is Associate Professor of Comics & Narrative Practice and regularly offers courses in hand lettering to her students.

This in-person event will be held at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Self-publishing powerhouse Steyven Curry and his mastermind collaborator Taylor Chiu, also known as Third Mind Comics, have recently pulled off the ultimate Columbus art heist, drawing together creators from all artistic disciplines to publish the newest art mag in town: Superspreader. Featuring comics, poetry, fine art, short fiction and non-fiction from some of Columbus’s very finest writers and artists, Superspreader is infectiously pushing the boundaries of collaboration and small press self-publishing right here in the city. This panel will find Curry and Chiu detailing how they created Superspreader and excavating their multitude of other self-publishing ventures.

This event will be held in person at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.

Streaming October 1 , 2021 on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch and https://www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/?session=third-mind-comics-presents-superspreader