Boneville Blog
September 28th – October 1st
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC)
& Billy Ireland 40th Anniversary Celebration!The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is proud to host the first two days of the third-annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC)! This city-wide, four-day festival brings hundreds of cartoonists from across the nation together to celebrate cartoon art at a variety of venues throughout Columbus.
All events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
On Thursday, catch presentations by STEVE HAMAKER on computer coloring, DAN GEARINO on research for comics historians, and KEVIN HUIZENGA on depicting time in comics form, as well as a spotlight on our guest DANA SIMPSON.
Friday’s features include presentations by LESLIE STEIN on watercolor, Pulitzer Prize winner SIGNE WILKINSON on editorial cartooning, JAMAICA DYER on creating autobiography, and behind-the-scenes tours every hour on the hour from 10 am to 3 pm, starting from the Reading Room.
Also on campus Thursday and Friday are SOL-CON, the Black and Brown Comix Expo, and events at the Wexner Center, including film screenings and an interview with CHRIS WARE by our associate curator Caitlin McGurk (free but must reserve tickets in advance beginning September 25).
On Friday from 5 – 7pm, join us for a special
40th anniversary celebration at the Billy Ireland!
Explore our current exhibits, enjoy refreshments, and prepare for a few surprises! Visitors will get to peruse an open-house display of materials selected by the Billy Ireland’s 2017 CXC special guests, and view our special anniversary exhibitions, TALES FROM THE VAULT: 40 YEARS / 40 STORIES and FOUNDING COLLECTIONS: 1977-2017. These dynamic exhibits include some of the most unique moments from our four decades of collecting.Following the reception, head over to Wexner Center for the Arts to see a special sneak-peek of MY FRIEND DAHMER, the film adaptation of BICLM guest DERF’s critically acclaimed graphic memoir (free but must reserve tickets in advance beginning September 25).
Tim Fulton and Jeff discuss CXC and why Columbus is the
perfect place to host the festival, in the Confluence Cast Podcast. Listen
here:
http://theconfluencecast.com/46-cartoon-crossroads-columbus/
Something for everyone! Admission is free!
Someone is excited for CXC!
The CXC Expo and Marketplace is taking place Saturday
(11:00am-6:00pm) and Sunday (12:00pm-5:00pm) at The Columbus Metropolitan Main
Library (downtown branch)
96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH
Here’s where you can find Jeff over the weekend:
Saturday September
30th:
1:00pm-2:00pm Signing at Cartoon Books table
Saturday September
30th:
3:00pm-3:50pm Panel: The Other Mainstream-Indy Creators on
Non-Indy Books (Jeff Smith, Peter Bagge, Kyle Baker and Connor Willumsen;
moderated by John Kelly) Room 1A
Sunday October 1st:
12:30pm-1:20pm Panel: Kyle Baker Spotlight panel (moderated
by Jeff Smith) Room 2A
1:30pm-2:20pm Panel: Comics are for Kids-Straight from the
Creators’ Mouths (Judd Winick, Mike Maihack, and Dana Simpson; moderated by
Jeff Smith). Room 1A
Sunday October 1st:
2:30pm-3:20pm: Signing-Kids Signapalooza (Jeff Smith,
Jarrett Krosoczka, Mike Maihack, Judd Winick and Dana Simpson) Across from Room 1A
Fresh off of her double win at the Ignatz Awards for ‘My Favorite Thing is Monsters’, we are honored to welcome Emil Ferris to CXC!
Kyle Baker will be descending on Columbus, OH for a Special Guest appearance at CXC! Be there!
Our pal Jake made this swell card for Tom’s (Cartoon Books) 50th birthday!
Frederick Aladama in conversation with Armando Sanchez about the
importance of comix to the black and brown community and what to expect at SOL
CON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sim7oIRxl1E&feature=youtu.be
Also appearing, Laura Park! She is the Columbus Comics Residency recipient with her exhibition appearing at the Columbus Museum of Art beginning Sept 28th!
And the countdown is on! Less than a week away….
SÕL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo 2017 is back on Ohio
State’s campus for its third year. With its high-energy atmosphere, the free
event includes an expo, panels and workshops for all ages.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
EXPO | COMIC, ZINE, AND ANIMATION WORKSHOPS FOR K-12 STUDENTS
BLACK AND BROWN LIVES MULTIMEDIA TALK BACKS
Friday September 29th
9AM-6PM
The Ohio State University Campus
OSU’s Hale Hall | 154 W. 12th AVE
Schedule and more info
https://odi.osu.edu/laser/events/sol-con-the-brown-and-black-comix-expo/
Our friend Henry kicking back and enjoying BONE. And he’s got the original b&w trades too!
Jeff will be promoting CXC on CD102.5 live this morning at 9am. Tune in!
The Spanish edition of BONE: CODA has been released by our publisher, Astiberri. Beautiful job!
Tom Spurgeon, Jeff and Tom Gaadt working hard on the finishing touches of the CXC program!
Something for everyone! See you next weekend!
The CXC 2017 Programming schedule is now live! Take a look at the many exciting events we’ve got in store for you:
Check out the book trailer for the final chapter of Bryan Talbot’s
forthcoming “GRANDVILLE Force Majeure”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX6h1QJJ2wU&feature=youtu.be
Frederick Aldama, head of SOL CON (and partnering with CXC) has launched his illustrated series, Latinographix, which was recently highlighted in the Columbus Dispatch!
Cartoon
Books is proud to donate materials to this worthwhile cause, partnering with
publishers: Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Drawn&Quarterly and others!
Washington, DC;
September 12, 2017 – The Small Press Expo (SPX), the
preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels,
and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce that the
Philadelphia Free Library is the 2017 recipient of the
Small Press Expo Graphic Novel Gift Program.
This program, the first of its kind in the
United States, is an outright gift of graphic novels to the library as selected
by the library’s collections specialists, who this year selected 87 titles
comprising 310 individual books.
To date, the Small Press Expo Graphic
Novel Gift Program has given away over 1800 graphic novels and comics to
library systems from Virginia to Pennsylvania.
There was a formal presentation of the
books to the Philadelphia Free Library by Small Press Expo Graphic
Novel Gift Program Director Catherine Fraas on Saturday, September 9.
The books were selected by the library’s
collection staff from the offerings of publishers Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly, Cartoon Books, Adhouse Books and Koyama Press, all of whom support this program.
SPX’s
Graphic Novel Gift Program is an expansion of the philanthropic and charitable
endeavors that are part of its corporate charter, and is in addition to SPX’s
annual support to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The targets of this
program are public and academic library systems in the Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan area as selected by the Small Press Expo.
The
goals of this program are:
– to facilitate the availability of graphic
novels to readers of all ages utilizing public and school libraries,
– to promote learning and literacy through the
availability of graphic novels at local libraries, and
– to provide library systems with additional
resources by which they can purchase graphic novels and comics.
Jeff was a guest on Fox 28’s Good Day Columbus Marketplace segment promoting comics and the upcoming CXC Festival!
(incoming!)
Here’s the link to the video of the segment: http://myfox28columbus.com/good-day-columbus/good-day-marketplace/gdm-columbus-makes-art-cartoon-crossroads-columbus
614 Now: Cartoons are X’ing the road this September
http://614now.com/2017/leisure/cartoons-are-xing-the-road-this-september