Join us for “A Whirlwind History of American Comics” by Dr. Jared Gardner, OSU Dept. of English, followed by a gallery talk by Professor Lucy Shelton Caswell, curator of the Cartoon Library & Museum and of the exhibit From the Yellow Kid to Conan: American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art. The event takes place Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm at the Hopkins Hall, 128 North Oval Mall. Free and open to the public.

This is part of the Celebrating the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection events co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, University Libraries, and Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program.

Main event is June 28, 2009. Accompanying dates, times for the exhibits and additional programming are listed below

OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS

June 27, 2009, 7:00 pm, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater

101 Dalmations(1961) proceeded by the Brave Little Tailor (1938) and Leprechaun’s Gold (1949). Introduction by animation historian Jerry Beck. Visit wexarts.org or call 614-292-3535 for tickets.

June 28, 2009, Free Events

Grand Lounge, The Ohio State University Faculty Club, 181 South Oval Dr.

1:00 pm Milestones of the International Museum of Cartoon Art. Panel discussion with former trustees Brian Walker, Mort Walker, and Arnold Roth moderated by Dr. Jared Gardner, Dept. of English.

2:15 pm Keynote Speaker – Jim Borgman, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip Zits

Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 North Oval Mall

3:30-5:00pm Exhibition opening and reception

EXHIBITIONS

Opening June 28, 2009

From the Yellow Kid to Conan:  American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection (through August 7) at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 North Oval Mall, 10:30 am-4:30 pm weekdays. To schedule group tours, call 614-262-6493. Free Admission.

Hogarth and Beyond:  Global Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection (through August 31) at the Cartoon Library & Museum Reading Room Gallery, 27 West 17th Avenue Mall, 9:00-5:00 pm weekdays. Free admission. The library will be open from 3:30-5:00 pm on Sunday, June 28.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING

June 8, 15, 22, 2009, 6:30-8:00 pm, Room 021L adjacent to the library

Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley and Peanuts Revisited. Reading and discussion group led by Dr, Jared Gardner, Dept. of English, and Lucy Shelton Caswell, Cartoon Library & Museum. Organized by Donna Distel, University Libraries Outreach and Engagement. Free and open to the public. Advance registration required: e-mail distel.1@osu.edu or call 614-292-2594.

July 13-17, 2009, 1:30-4:30 pm, Wexner Center for the Arts

Teen Comics Class [Enrollment is full]

July 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm, 162 Hopkins Hall, 128 North Oval Mall

“A Whirlwind History of American Comics” by Dr. Jared Gardner, Dept. of English, followed by a gallery talk by Lucy Shelton Caswell, curator of From the Yellow Kid to Conan:  American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art. Free and open to the public.

July 19, 2009, Free Family Programs

12:30-4:30 pm From the Yellow Kid to Conan: American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor,

1:00 pm The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982), Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater

2:30-4:30 pm Special events at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor: enjoy lemonade and cookies, print a comic strip with Bob Tauber, Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program, and make an authentic newspaper printer’s hat

Co-Sponsors: The Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Department of Art Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, University Libraries, and Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program

Wexner Center for the Arts
May 12, 2009
 

Wayne Alan Harold and P. Craig Russell

Book signing at 6:00 pm

Night Music (Wayne Alan Harold, 2008) provides an illuminating behind-the-scenes look at one of the most acclaimed and interesting comic book artists working today, P. Craig Russell.

Before the film, stop in the Wexner Center Store where Russell will be signing copies ofhis work, including his graphic novel adaptation of Coraline, at 6 pm.

Born in Wellsville, Ohio, and now living in Kent, Ohio, Russell quickly established himself as one of the most distinctive artists in the fantasy genre with early work onDoctor Strange for Marvel Comics in the mid 1970s. He has since created mesmerizing interpretations of characters ranging from Conan to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, along with a string of astonishing adaptations of operas (The Magic Flute and Salome among them) and of Gaiman’s children’s classic Coraline. (80 mins., video)

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

Thurber Center
April 9, 2009

A Lecture by Richard Samuel West

The Cartoon Library & Museum will partner with the Aldus Society, a Central Ohio group devoted to books and the printed arts, to sponsor a lecture about Light by Richard Samuel West, an independent scholar and historian who is an expert in the history of nineteenth century American editorial cartoons.  The event is free and open to the public.

Socializing begins at 7:00 p.m. and allows members and guests the opportunity to discuss among themselves their book interests and latest finds.

The Reading Room Gallery
November 10, 2008

A talk by Karin Kukkonen, PhD candidate at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the University of Tampere, Finland.

Being a medium of visual narration, the images of comics are not limited to merely showing events. On the contrary, much of their storytelling relies on what the image sequences tell readers. Yet are images even capable of telling like language? Can they reproduce the stylistic effects of metaphor and metonymy? And will Superman escape the clutches of anaphora or is he doomed to live through the same story time and again?

Addressing these and other questions, Karin Kukkonen’s talk explores the visual rhetoric of comics narration on the level of individual images, image sequences and larger narrative structure. If the rhetoric of comics emerges from the same thought patterns as classical rhetoric, she argues, this longstanding critical tradition can help us to understand how comics tell their story.

Co-sponsored by Project Narrative and the Cartoon Research Library.