Past Events
- Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Open House and Reception for The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons October 1, 2021
We’re excited to welcome CXC attendees and guests back to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for our annual Friday party at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, the mecca for cartoons and comic art. Explore our current exhibits, Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, and The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons. Curator of The Dog Show, Brian Walker, will discuss the exhibit in the Schulz Lecture Hall at 5:45pm.
Visitors can peruse an open-house display of special items from the collection in the Lucy Shelton Caswell Reading Room. Light refreshments will be served. Masks required.
- CXC Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2021 September 30, 2021 - October 3, 2021
We hope to provide an international showcase for the best of cartoon art in all its forms, including comics, animation, editorial cartoons, newspaper strips, and beyond, in a city that is a growing center of importance to comics and cartooning. We also focus on helping the next generation of young cartooning talent develop thriving careers that invigorate the industry for years to come.
To do that, we strive to create an atmosphere of communication and shared enthusiasm between creators and audiences of cartoon storytelling so they can have serious (and fun) discussions on it as art, with the respect their creators deserve, as well as help an emerging generation of young cartooning talent develop careers that are both artistically and economically rewarding.
This year’s events will be held both virtually and in-person. schedule of events
- Exploring the Human-Dog Relationship through Canine Cartoons September 13, 2021
Join us for a webinar that looks at the relationship between dogs and humans from the perspective of animal scientists and animal training professionals. We’ll look at famous cartoon dogs from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s latest exhibition The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons and talk about how popular culture has shaped societal views of dogs and the roles that we see them play today. You’ll even see some dogs in action!
FREE and open to all. Registration required.
Presenters: Dr. Liz Parker, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University; Michelle Mullins, Owner and Director of Training at Honest to Dog, LLC; Steve Hoyt, Director of Training, Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist with Pilot Dogs; Dr. Kelly George, Co-director, CHAIRE; and Brian Walker, Cartoonist, Comics Historian, and Curator of “The Dog Show” (on display at the Billy Ireland through October 31, 2021).
This webinar is a partnership between the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and the Center for Human-Animal Interactions Research and Education (CHAIRE).
Art pictured is from Little Annie Rooney by Darell McClure (writer) and Nicolas Afonsky (artist), August 2, 1935 © King Features Syndicate.
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This virtual program will include automated captioning. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
- Spotlight on Kewa Cartoonist Ricardo Caté September 8, 2021
Join the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and The Ohio State University Newark for an evening (Zoom) with cartoonist Ricardo Caté. Caté is the creator of the newspaper cartoon Without Reservations, which has run daily in the Sante Fe New Mexican since 2006. Without Reservations is the only Native cartoon appearing daily in a mainstream newspaper. Caté is from the Kewa Pueblo, and teaches 7th and 8th grade social studies on the reservation in Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. Caté will discuss his work and career, followed by an audience Q+A.
This FREE event is presented by the Traditional Indigenous Knowledges and the Stepping Out/Stepping Up projects, The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Newark Earthworks Center, and made possible by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme at The Ohio State University.
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- Virtual Tour Premiere! Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly's Pogo September 2, 2021
Join exhibit curators Jenny Robb and Lucy Shelton Caswell on Zoom for a virtual guided tour of the exhibit, Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, on display at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum until October 31, 2021.
Caswell and Robb explore Kelly’s career, his influences and his legacy, as well as his take on the many political issues of the world in which he lived: from the Red Scare, to the Cold War, to the environment, and presidential elections. Along the way, viewers will see a broad selection of Kelly’s artwork and will hear from special guests Jake Tapper, Lynn Johnston, Ben Sargent, Jeff Smith, Garry Trudeau, Jan Eliot, and Bill Watterson on their favorite aspects of Pogo, as well as how the strip influenced them. The premiere will be followed by a Q+A with the curators.
FREE and open to everyone!
Registration required: https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mcFSNS1PQoq7r9-UW0D3zw