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.

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

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.

Self-publishing powerhouse Steyven Curry and his mastermind collaborator Taylor Chiu, also known as Third Mind Comics, have recently pulled off the ultimate Columbus art heist, drawing together creators from all artistic disciplines to publish the newest art mag in town: Superspreader. Featuring comics, poetry, fine art, short fiction and non-fiction from some of Columbus’s very finest writers and artists, Superspreader is infectiously pushing the boundaries of collaboration and small press self-publishing right here in the city. This panel will find Curry and Chiu detailing how they created Superspreader and excavating their multitude of other self-publishing ventures.

This event will be held in person at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.

Streaming October 1 , 2021 on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch and https://www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/?session=third-mind-comics-presents-superspreader

Cartoonist and educator Emi Gennis will discuss key principles of designing letters, the application of lettering in comics, and methods of lettering using traditional techniques. Using examples from her own work, she will walk you through the process of creating letters by hand, and describe her approach to designing text that amplifies storytelling. Gennis teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design, where she is Associate Professor of Comics & Narrative Practice and regularly offers courses in hand lettering to her students.

This in-person event will be held at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.