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CXC is jammed packed with art-y goodness all week! Among the
many wonderful events going on, here’s where you can find Jeff!
Saturday 9/29 Show
Hours 11am-5pm
11am-11:50am: Jim Woodring and his Giant Pen (Jeff will be
joining in with Jim on the fun); Columbus Metro Library Auditorium
12pm-12:50pm: Spotlight Panel; Columbus Metro Library
Auditorium
1pm-2pm: Signing at Cartoon Books booth; Columbus Metro
Library 2nd floor (Carnegie Room/comics expo)
3pm-3:20pm: Emerging Talent Prize Announcement; Columbus
Metro Library 2nd floor (Carnegie Room/comics expo)
Sunday 9/30 Show
Hours 1pm-5pm
1:30pm-2:20pm: CXC Kids Day Spotlight on Kazu Kibuishi with
Jeff Smith; Columbus Metro Library Auditorium
2:30pm-3:20pm: CXC Kids Day Spotlight on Liniers with Jeff
Smith; Columbus Metro Library Auditorium
3:30pm-4:20pm: CXC Kids Day Signapalooza; Columbus Metro
Library Main Lobby
Hey Columbus! Tune into CD102.5 at 9am featuring Jeff Smith talking about Cartoon Crossroads #cxc #cxc18 #cxc2018 #jeffsmith #art #comics #books #graphicnovels
A few shots from this evenings presentation on Billy Ireland and WW1 through his newspaper strips. Fascinating and informative panel by Lucy Shelton Caswell.
A few shots from this evenings presentation on Billy Ireland and WW1 through his newspaper strips. Fascinating and informative panel by Lucy Shelton Caswell.
Friday 7:30pm, free but ticketed event: Cartoonist Lynn Johnston discusses her nearly 30-year run with For Better or For Worse (1979–2008)—one of the most beloved comic strips in North America—at this talk that also features live drawing by Johnston as well as an interview by special guest Jessica Campbell. Johnston made history in 1993 by creating one of the first openly gay characters in a strip, and her unique approach to aging her characters in “real time” made the comic deeply relatable to its readers. A Canadian-born artist and humorist, Campbell works in comics, fiber, painting, drawing, and performance and teaches comics and comics history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and DePaul University. A book signing with Johnston follows in the Wexner Center Store.
Thursday at 7pm: CXC is proud to present through its partnering institution the Wexner Center for the Arts the animation legend Sally Cruikshank.
Cruikshank will be here to show off some of her incredibly memorable cartoon work, including the 1975 short “Quasi at the Quackadero,” a film honored by preservation in the US National Film Registry.
A Q&A with Wexner Center Director of Film/Video Dave Filipi follows the program.
Billy Ireland and World War I, presented by Lucy Caswell tonight at 7pm at the Columbus Metropolitan Library!
Billy Ireland, the cartoonist for the Columbus Dispatch from 1898 until his death in 1935, had a weekly illustrated Sunday commentary page titled “The Passing Show,” which both reflected and influenced public opinion in our community. Lucy Shelton Caswell, Ireland’s biographer and founding curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, will show examples of “The Passing Show” from 1914-18 that document life in Columbus during World War I. The event, which is being co-sponsored by Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, will be held at the auditorium of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 South Grant Avenue.
Join us for a special presentation of the live-action/animated
sports comedy Space Jam, followed by a panel discussion with some of the
members of the animation team that brought the film to life.
Members
of former, Columbus-based animation studio, Character Builders, will be
in attendance for a panel discussion following the film.
Panelists include:
Dan Root, Animator and Storyboard Artist on the film
Ron Price, Scene Planner and Animatics Editor on the film
Jim Kammerud, Story Artist and Supervising Animator on the film, and co-founder of Character Builders
Moderated by Rafael Rosado (Pinky & the Brain, Venture Brothers, Curious George)
Cocktail hour at 7pm, with screening at 8pm. Panel discussion will follow.
This
screening is in partnership with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), a
four day festival, September 27-30, celebrating connections between
people with a passion for the art of cartoons. Ticket proceeds will be
donated to CXC.
CXC Special Guest Kazu Kibuishi will be joining our fabulous lineup of talent for 2018. Jeff will be in moderating Kazu’s panel as they talk about the debut of Amulet Volume 8 and all things comics!
The great Jim Woodring is breaking out his 7-foot pen for CXC
2018, and we couldn’t think of a better kick-off event for the Expo and
Book Fair down at the CML Main Library!
You’ll believe a person can draw (with a gigantic pen)!
Jim
says a big part of the fun is watching other cartoonists use the pen,
so expect moments of artistic hilarity that will burn into your brain
for decades to come.
All part of the CXC 2018 Weekend!
The BONE books are getting a fresh start in Norway, courtesy of Outland! Here are samples of volumes 1 and 2! Very exciting!
CXC is one week away! Spanning from Ohio State campus through downtown Columbus – come join us and the best and brightest in comics! All events are free and open to the public. Full schedule on our website:
We are thrilled to partner with Humble Bundle for Banned Books Week, by including Bone Volume 1 in their bundle! The charities for this years promotion are the CBLDF and NCAC. Book Bundle will be available for 2 weeks!
In order to save George Westinghouse from
bankruptcy, Tesla sold Westinghouse his own royalties, which were worth $12
million, for just $216,000. If Tesla had kept his royalties, he may have been
the first billionaire, sharing financial history with the likes of John D.
Rockefeller the worlds first in 1916, Howard Hughes, and Bill Gates who became
the first man to reach $100 billion in 1999.
Super fun Q&A with comics champion, and curator of the Billy Ireland
Cartoon Library & Museum – Jenny Robb! Illustration drawn by Jeff
and colored by Steve Hamaker. Enjoy!
RASL Book Two (ISBN
9781888963670) is shipping at the end of September! Don’t forget to reserve
your copy ASAP with your favorite comics shop using preorder code SEP181683.
Finders Keepers! Jeff’s new children’s picture book with Scholastic, coming July 2019.
First reveal! Coming soon!
Nikola
Tesla appeared on the cover of TIME magazine. He was chosen as ‘Man of the
Year’ in 1931. Here’s the TIME cover as well as Jeff’s depiction of Nikola in RASL.
More from the Yayoi Kusama
exhibit, Infinity Mirrors. This will mess with your head!
http://www.clevelandart.org/e…/yayoi-kusama-infinity-mirrors
Jeff recently visited the Cleveland Museum of Art to see the
Yayoi Kusama exhibit, Infinity Mirrors. It’s definitely worth checking out if
you can get tickets!
http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/yayoi-kusama-infinity-mirrors
September 11, 2001, Jeff and Vijaya had just arrived in Norway for a comics festival in Bergen. Illustrating the experience of what it was like to be far from home that day, these original art pieces were donated to the “9-11: Emergency Relief” graphic novel which was a fundraiser for the American Red Cross.
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all about it! Not yet signed up for the Boneville Newsletter? Send your name
and email address to kathleen@boneville.com to be
added to our mailing list. You’ll receive updates on future projects, breaking
news and Jeff’s appearance schedule!