“The American Museum of Art” by Ellison Hoover. February 13, 1927, Life v. 89 no. 2309

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will be opening up our doors to the public for a free open-house event to coincide with Columbus College of Art and Design’s (CCAD) Mix 2012: Comics Symposium. Enjoy the Reading Room Gallery exhibition Line Dancing, a survey of dance in cartoon art, along with a behind-the-scenes peek at the library stacks and a display of treasures from our collection, including original Bone art by Jeff Smith, original Little Nemo in Slumberland art by Winsor McCay, original Calvin & Hobbes art by Bill Watterson, and original art by P. Craig Russell, acclaimed illustrator of The Sandman, Hellboy, and Coraline.

Longaberger Alumni House
September 6, 2013 – September 7, 2013
 

Newspaper editorial pages are heating up in anticipation of the November election. Join Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and Ohio State alumnus Nick Anderson for an inside look at how editorial cartoons influence the discussion about politics. Anderson will be joined by Herb Asher, professor emeritus of Political Science, senior vice president for government affairs and Lucy Caswell, founding curator of Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, on this Editorial Cartoons and Elections.  This panelwill be moderated by Fred Andrle, former WOSU Open Line radio talk show host and Institute Associate at Ohio State’s Humanities Institute.

$10 registration fee includes hors d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic mixed drinks.

For questions about this event, contact Alyssa Grovemiller at grovemiller@ohiostatealumni.org or (614) 292-2371

For questions or problems with registration, please call (800) 762-5646.

* Free parking is available in the visitor parking area.

Wexner Center for the Arts
May 22, 2013
 

World Premiere

(Ken Mills, 2009)

The Cartoonist is a portrait of Columbus-based cartoonist and Bone creator Jeff Smith and his impact on the field during the past 20 years. The Wexner Center is pleased and proud to host the film’s world premiere.

The film surveys Smith’s career during the run of Bone and also captures the key moment when he shifted focus from completing his popular epic to beginning new projects, including Rasl. Shot during the run of Smith’s Wexner Center exhibition Bone and Beyond in 2008, the film is filled with interviews with fellow cartoonists including Harvey Pekar, Terry Moore, Paul Pope, and Scott McCloud. (76 mins., video)

Tickets are available through the Wexner Center ticket office or may be purchased online.

Co-sponsored by the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Ohio State University Cartoon Library and Museum.

Wexner Center for the Arts
May 20, 2013
 

Françoise Mouly, the art editor at the New Yorkermagazine since 1993, discusses her efforts to promote literacy in children through such efforts as founding TOON Books, a series of hardcover comic books for children.

Mouly has been a key figure in comics since the early 198-s. when she cofounded the alternative comics’ magazine RAW, which featured the work of Charles Burns, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware, to name just a few. In 2008, she launced TOON Books, with projects drawn by such acclaimed artists as Jeff Smith, Jay Lunch, Art Spiegelman, and Nadja Spiegelman (Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s daughter). The line of books have been a huge success with libraries, educators, and, most importantly, young readers.

Presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts in conjunction with Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Wexner Center for the Arts
May 19, 2013
 

Art Spiegelman shares his appreciation for comics’ most famous police detective, Dick Tracy, as well as the art of the character’s creator, Chester Gould, who wrote and drew the strip for more than four decades in this lecture.

An expert on the history of his field, Spiegelman analyzes Gould’s work and places it within the greater context of comics’ history. His residency is a collaboration between the Wexner Center for the Arts and Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and he intends to develop a new project based on research in the Cartoon Library & Museum’s collection.

While you are here, check out the exhibition Dick Tracy: Chester Gould’s Blueprint Expressionism, on view May 2 – August 19 on view in the Cartoon Library & Museum Reading Room Gallery.