The Reading Room Gallery
November 8, 2007

Comic artist Carol Tyler will discuss her upcoming bookSepia Tome: Telling Dad’s World War II Story. Tyler’s comics first appeared in Weirdo and Wimmen’s Comixtwenty years ago. Since then she has contributed to numerous comics anthologies and published two solo works, The Job Thing in 1993 and Late Bloomer in 2005.Late Bloomer presents a rich and powerful collection of Tyler’s autobiographical comic stories beautifully published in color by Fantagraphics.

In the introduction to Late Bloomer, Robert Crumb writes, “She is tops, in my book, one of the best artists alive and working in the comics medium. She has fine aesthetic instincts… Her drawings are always pleasing to look at, warm, delicate, inviting. Yet the content, the stories, are all about gritty reality, the hard struggles of common, everyday life.”

Tyler’s presentation is co-sponsored by the Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative, Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of History’s Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching.

This event is part of Storytelling 2007: A Celebration of Graphic Narrative, a special year of events and exhibitions celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of master-storyteller Milton Caniff, the founding donor of the Cartoon Research Library. Caniff was the creator of the comic strips Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon.