How does the initial spark of an idea for a work of art transform into a printed page? Write It Down, Draw It Out: The Comics Art of Carol Tyler celebrates the origins, working process, and the finished art of autobiographical cartoonist Carol Tyler. This show provides a rare look at the creative mind and masterful hand of one of the comics medium’s most accomplished artists. The exhibition is on view in the Robinson Family Gallery at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library from May 24 to November 9, 2025, and is free and open to the public.

How do you show motion in a medium that doesn’t move?

American newspaper comic strips emerged as a popular medium toward the end of the nineteenth century, a period when innovations like trains and automobiles began transforming how people experienced speed and time. This made the challenge cartoonists have always faced in depicting motion on a static page more complex. From early cartoons and comic strips to contemporary graphic novels, artists have devised a wide range of inventive strategies to suggest movement, speed, and energy.