R.L. Stine

Witness R.L. Stine (BA, English, 1965), bestselling author of Goosebumps, and Jenny Robb, curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, in conversation about graphic novels, including Stine’s new series, Just Beyond: The Scare School original graphic novel.

The event will be followed by a reception and book signing starting at
6 pm. Stine’s newest release, Just Beyond: The Scare School will be available for purchase on site from Gramercy Books.

This event is a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and University Libraries.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

          Email to register: advancementevents@osu.edu 

          Call to register: 614-247-4105 or 1-800-678-6011

Join master cartoonist Carol Tyler for a workshop on how to turn illness, trauma, and other health challenges into comics stories. You don’t have to be an expert at drawing, just someone willing to share your experience and have fun. Professor Tyler will guide you through the process, from ideas to drawings, and provide helpful tips on how to shape your material. The workshop will include a tour the current exhibit, Drawing Blood: Comics and Medicine with professor and exhibit curator Jared Gardner.

Attendees are required to supply their own preferred art materials.

For more information contact cartoonevents@osu.edu

$10 per person 
Registration is closed 

Thank you to everyone for supporting us and making this event a great success!

To ring in the back-to-school season, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is holding a $2 book sale blow out! EVERYTHING IS $2 AND EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Hundreds of duplicate items from our collection will be available for the public to purchase. We will be accepting both cash and credit card, and all proceeds will be used to help process our collections. Don’t miss out!

Included in the sale will be:

Graphic novels
Underground comix
Comic books
Comic strip reprint books
Humor magazines
Bundled comic strip clippings (new feature!)
Comic and art history books
…and much, much more, all for $2 per item!

Please plan to bring a bag or box for carrying home your great finds!

The event will take place in the North lobby of Sullivant Hall. For more information about our location and parking, please see Visit Us.

Because our first workshop was so successful in 2018, we’re doing it again!  This 2-day workshop will introduce teachers to the history of French-language comics and vocabulary needed for textual analysis, as well as address how to create language learning activities based in this kind of authentic text content so as to respect the artistic medium and the goals of the language classroom. Activities are designed to enrich language teaching from the beginning through advanced levels, including attention to AP and IB themes. The workshop will take place in the reading room and classrooms of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and all materials (books) and lunches will be provided. Each day will begin at 9:30 AM and end at 5:00 PM.  The majority of sessions will be conducted in French. The workshop will be facilitated by Ohio State University faculty and staff.

Repeat participants are very welcome. There will be some repetition in curriculum in that we will again have general bande dessinée vocabulary and history sessions, but activities will be updated and the specific books that we will read and discuss in their entirety will be different.

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.

Registration is now closed

Leila Abdelrazaq is a Palestinian author and artist born in Chicago and currently living in Detroit. Her debut graphic novel, Baddawi (Just World Books 2015) was shortlisted for the 2015 Palestine Book Awards and has been translated into three languages. She is also the author and Illustrator of The Opening (Tosh Fesh, 2017) as well as a number of zines and short comics. Her creative work primarily explores issues related to diaspora, refugees, history, memory, and borders. She is co-founder of Maamoul Press, a multi-disciplinary collective for the creation, curation, and dissemination of art by marginalized creators whose work lies at intersections of comics, print making, and book arts.

In this artist talk which forms part of the Borders in Motion Symposium, Leila will share images from her career as an artist and writer and talk about how her thinking about borders, nationalism, and national identity have shifted over time. She will share how this shift is reflected in how she approaches her work and tells stories.

FREE and open to the public.

A book signing will follow the presentation. Leila Abdelrazaq’s work will be available for purchase.

This event is cosponsored by Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and made possible by funding from a Migration, Mobility, and Immobility grant.