7:00 PM Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Award-winning cartoonist Gene Luen Yang will discuss the historical portrayals of Asians and Asian Americans in American comics, commonalities between modern comics and traditional Asian art, prominent Asian American cartoonists, and how being an Asian American has shaped his own work in comics. For more information see Events
Friday, 5:30-7:00 pm
Join us for the opening reception of Good Grief!: Children and Comics and Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream at the Cartoon Library & Museum’s Will Eisner Seminar Room.Enjoy light refreshments and view the exhibits.
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff will introduce Leah Wolchok’s documentary film, “Very Semi-Serious” at the Wexner Film/Video Theater, March 10, 2016 at 7 pm. A book signing will precede the event from 6:00-7:00 pm in the Wexner lobby (in front of the book store).
Join us on Saturday, February 20, 2016 to celebrate the opening of our new exhibitions, Dedini: The Art of Humor and WORDLESS: The Collection of David A. Beronä . The Opening Events for New Exhibitions will include two films screenings and the exhibitions’ reception. The films will be shown in the Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall, room 220.
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Join director Steve Martino, VP of 20th Century Fox Animation, Ralph Millero and Craig Schulz, son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz for From Strip to Screen: A Panel Discussion on staying true to the legacy of Charles Schulz in The Peanuts Movie. The event takes place in the Barnett Center Collaboratory, 141 Sullivant Hall and is free but you must register. Space is limited, please RSVP Here
Join us November 20th at the Wex Film/Video Theater, 3:30 PM for a FREE screening of The Peanuts Movie for Ohio State students only (with Buck ID). Director Steve Marino, Ohio State graduate and ACCAD alum, will introduce his recent animated 3-D feature based on Charles Schulz’s long-running and beloved comic strip, Peanuts. The screenplay was written by Charles M. Schulz’ son Craig with his grandson Bryan and Cornelius Uliano. Martino has directed such features as Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) for Blue Sky Studios.
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Special thanks to 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.
Dana Walrath is the author of the graphic memoir Aliceheimer’s, which chronicles her mother’s dementia and how it provided an unexpected community of help including pirates, space/time travel, and Walrath’s dead father, looming in the branches of the maple trees around her New England farm house. This talk will focus on the power of graphic storytelling to heal and support individual caregivers, to support those with memory loss, and to rewrite the story of how we age globally. Free and open to the public. Visit Dana Walrath|Aliceheimer’s: Comics, Medicine, and Memory for more information.
Our Image Collections database is now available to search images from the BICLM collections. This database encompasses all public image collections at the Ohio State University Libraries. Improvements are still in progress to enhance functionality and improve our services. Search the Cartoon Library & Museum’s images by selecting our database from the home page or go directly to the BICLM database. The database is searchable by keyword and by faceted searching. If you need assistance in locating the images you need, please contact cartoons@osu.edu.
Latino and African American comics have been traditionally sidelined in the mainstream. During Hispanic Heritage Month, The Ohio State University Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host the first annual SÕL-CON: The Brown & Black Comix Expo 2015.
This three-day event includes a grand expo where authors/artists will feature their work, comic book creating workshops for high school and middle school students, academic panels, and featured conversations with the artists. All events are FREE and take place in Hale Hall on the OSU campus.
Cartooning superstars Art Spiegelman, Jeff Smith, Kate Beaton, Craig Thompson, Jaime Hernandez, Bill Griffith, Jeff Lemire and Francoise Mouly headline a group of 15 special guests and 45 exhibitors appearing at the first year of a new annual, city-wide comics literary festival focused on reading and enjoying comics, cartoons, graphic novels and webcomics. Visit the CXC website for more information.
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in collaboration with Pop Culture Studies and Project Narrative at The Ohio State University are thrilled to welcome renowned cartoonist, writer, educator, and now podcaster JESSICA ABEL to campus on Tuesday, September 15th in the WIll Eisner Seminar Room (rm. 205).
Join us for an evening of discovery while Jessica discusses her comics career and latest work, OUT ON THE WIRE: THE STORYTELLING SECRETS OF THE NEW MASTERS OF RADIO.
Following Jessica’s talk, Out on the Wire: An Evening of Storytelling Secrets, will be a Q&A and book signing.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) is hosting their annual convention in Columbus during Labor Day weekend. As part of this convention, the AAEC is holding public presentations and panel discussions featuring prominent professionals in the field, including Steve Brodner, Liza Donnelly, Jules Feiffer (via Skype), Peter Kuper, Mike Peters and more. All events are held at the Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) and are free and open to the public. Schedule of AAEC public events . The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is a proud co-sponsor of this event.
The museum galleries will present two new exhibits – Seeing the Great War and What Fools We Mortals Be! The Story Of Puck – from July 25, 2015 – January 24, 2016. In addition, the Treasures Gallery will reopen with a selection of exceptional artwork and artifacts highlighting the breadth and depth of our collections.
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Join us for the free opening program and reception for Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, on Sunday, April 19 in The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall and museum galleries. The program features special guests Trina Robbins, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, and Sarah Lightman.
1:30 – 2:45 – SARAH LIGHTMAN – Curator’s Tour
3:00 – 3:30 – TRINA ROBBINS – Artist Talk
3:30 – 4:00 – SARAH GLIDDEN – Artist Talk
4:00 – 4:30 – MIRIAM KATIN – Artist Talk
4:30 – 4:45 – Break
4:45 – 5:30 – Q&A moderated by SARAH LIGHTMAN
5:30 – 7:00 – Exhibit reception, light refreshments will be served
The symposium Manga at a Crossroads: Development & Globalization of Manga is to be held Saturday, April 4 in the Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall (220) in Sullivant Hall. It focuses on the diversification and globalization of manga. Speakers are: Masami Toku, California State University, Chico; Jennifer Prough, Valparaiso University; Casey Brienza, City University of London, OSU visiting scholar; and Kerim Yasar, Ohio State. Toku and Prough will focus on girls’ manga and probe its development by looking at the relationship between producers and consumers. Brienza and Yasar address globalization of manga by looking at the social organization and transnational influence of the manga industries.
This symposium is held in congruence with the exhibition in The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum titled World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires, on display March 28 – July 5, 2015, curated by Masami Toku. “Shojo manga” is known as girl’s manga and often the theme is love and overcoming obstacles. World of Shojo Manga! features 12 artists and focuses on women’s changing roles and expectations in Japan. Cosplayers are encouraged to attend.
A reception will follow the symposium from 5:30-7:00 pm. Come and enjoy light refreshments and view the exhibit.
The event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. For a full schedule of the symposium, click here.
The sponsors for the event are East Asian Studies Center, Institute for Japanese Studies, The Ohio State University Libraries, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of History of Art, Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy, Division of Arts and Humanities, Association for Asian Studies, Japan Foundation New York, and US Department of Education (Title VI).
The galleries open Saturday, March 28th with our two new exhibits, World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires and Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women. The Treasures exhibition will also be open. The galleries are always closed Mondays.
Garland Taylor’s lecture examines the life and work of Henry Jackson Lewis, an African American artist, editorial cartoonist, and art director at a black illustrated periodical in the 1890s. This event will appeal to audiences with interests in cartoon history, African American studies, literacy studies, print culture, periodical studies, visual culture, and more.
Garland Martin Taylor is a Chicago-based sculptor and independent researcher who earned a Master’s in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His recent article on Henry Jackson Lewis appears in “Critical Inquiry.
More information is available at “Talking Palette, Hidden Artist: H.J. Lewis’s Visual Narratives”
From Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Carol Diedrichs:
I am happy to announce that Caitlin McGurk has been named Associate Curator for Outreach and Engagement at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM). As most of you know, Caitlin had been serving as the Engagement Coordinator for the BICLM during the past two years. She was selected for this new position following a nationwide search.
In her role as Associate Curator for Outreach and Engagement, Caitlin will work in conjunction with BICLM curator Jenny Robb and subject librarians in developing collaborations with faculty and academic departments to foster the use of BICLM’s distinctive collections and intellectual content to advance teaching and learning. She will work with Jenny and Exhibits Coordinator Erin Fletcher to schedule, plan, design, and install dynamic, educational and user-centered exhibitions in the Sullivant Hall galleries, to further establish the BICLM as a gathering place for intellectual inquiry and to provide lifelong learning opportunities. Caitlin will collaborate across University Libraries and the university to organize, develop, and execute educational programs, such as workshops, lectures, artist’s presentations, and exhibition tours for diverse audiences including students and faculty at Ohio State and the general public. She will also manage BICLM’s docent program; cultivate relationships with the cartoon and comics community, including potential collaborators and donors of funds and gifts-in-kind; advise the curator on aligning collecting with teaching and learning; and assist in collections development.
Prior to her work at BICLM, Caitlin was the Head Librarian at the Schulz Library for the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, and Head Librarian the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center in New York. Caitlin also had an internship with Marvel Comics. She holds an MLIS degree from the Palmer School of Long Island University, with a double certificate in Records Management and Rare Books & Special Collections.
Please join with me in congratulating Caitlin as she continues her work at University Libraries and BICLM.
Since the creation of the first manga magazine, Eshinbun Nipponchi, in Japan in 1874, manga evolved and came a long way. After manga became a widely-accepted form of popular culture in Japan, it was exported to countries like the US and has become an international phenomenon. Manga is no longer a mere source for entertainment for the general public, but also it is a serious subject of academic inquiry. However, while manga became mainstream and global, its sales in the US have recently been in decline. Although some publishers attribute the sales drop to the market stabilization and maturation, it is clear that manga is at a crossroads. Through the two manga symposia, the origin of manga and future directions of this unique art form that started in Japan will be reexamined. The first symposia on March 6, 2015 will focus on classical manga. The second symposia on April 4, 2015 is dedicated to diversification and globalization of manga. The participants will also learn about the OSU’s manga materials accessible to them and find out how they can incorporate manga into research, teaching, and learning.
Symposia 1: Manga at a Crossroads: Classic Manga
Friday, March 6
12:00 pm – 4:30pm, Thompson Library, Room 165, OSU campus
Schedule:
12:00pm: Opening
12:10pm: Prof. Maureen Donovan (OSU)
“Comics from the Time of ‘Erotic Grotesque Nonsense’: Yomiuri Sunday Manga of 1930-1931”
1:10pm: Prof. Thomas LaMarre (McGill University)
“Manga Empire: Companion Species and Shōnen Kurabu”
2:15pm: Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University)
“Laughing in the Face of Calamity: Visual Satire after the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923”
3:15pm: Prof. Natsu Onoda Power (Georgetown University)
“Questioning the Racial Question: Representations of Human Faces in Classic Manga”
4:30pm: Reception
The sponsors for the event are East Asian Studies Center, Institute for Japanese Studies, The Ohio State University Libraries, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of History of Art, Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy, Division of Arts and Humanities, Association for Asian Studies, Japan Foundation New York, and US Department of Education (Title VI).
Please join us on Thursday, February 19, 4-6 pm in the Schulz Lecture Hall (Rm. 220) , for a short symposium on the events of January 7, 2015, when the Parisian satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked by armed assailants, leaving a dozen individuals dead including five cartoonists. Bringing together scholars working in French comics, popular culture and identity, global media and the middle east, and the history of radical satire in comics and alternative publications, this symposium seeks to provide both context and preliminary thoughts towards answering some of the big questions raised by the event. This event is FREE and open to the public. Visit Charlie Hebdo & January 7
Celebrate the opening of King of the Comics: William Randolph Hearst and 100 Years of King Features, an upcoming exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, guest-curated by Brian Walker. Join us for a weekend of celebration featuring some of your favorite King Features cartoonists in conversation, a curator’s tour, films, and an opening reception on December 13, 2014 to kick off the 100th Anniversary of King Features Syndicate.
Curator Jenny Robb was awarded the 2014 Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Ink Bottle Award. This award is presented annually by the AAEC “in recognition of dedicated service to the Association and distinguished efforts to promote the art of editorial cartooning.” Jenny also presented Off the Walls: Cartoon Satire and Social Commentary in Museum Exhibitions at this year’s annual convention with fellow presenters Andrew Farago (Cartoon Art Museum), and Corry Kanzenberg (Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center).
The galleries are open Tuesday-Friday from 1:00-5:00 PM from August 16, 2014 to November 30, 2014 with our new exhibits, Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling and The Long March: Civil Rights in Cartoons and Comics. The exhibitions are free and open to the public.