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"In Conversation with the Librarian of Congress: Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists" featuring Whitney Sherman, Barbara Brandon-Croft and Jillian Tamaki
Thursday, March 15, noon
LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will talk with a panel of women illustrators and cartoonists highlighted in the current exhibition and Library co-published book, "Drawn to Purpose." A book signing and exhibition tours will take place after the conversation in the Graphic Arts Gallery on the ground floor of the Jefferson Building.
Barbara Brandon-Croft is the groundbreaking creator of the comic "Where I'm Coming From," which ran from 1990 to 2005. She was the first African-American woman to publish a nationally syndicated comic strip. Featuring an engaging cast of African-American women, her feature brought a broad range of topical themes into the comics, including politics, history, race and gender issues, and relationships. She has since continued to use her artistic talent in activist pursuits that include illustrations for a guide for black teen girls by Franchestra Ahmen-Cawthorne entitled "Sista Girl-Fren Breaks It Down…When Mom's Not Around."
Whitney Sherman, director of the MFA Illustration Practice program at the Maryland Institute College of Art and an award-winning illustrator, has created a body of multifaceted work for national magazines, corporations and multiple book projects. She has also co-authored and co-edited a monumental new book, "History of Illustration," that covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern.
Jillian Tamaki, an award-winning illustrator and comic artist, has in a short span of years produced an impressive volume and variety of creative work that includes three graphic novels, web comics, editorial illustrations for newspapers and magazines, portrait drawings of authors for the New York Times Book Review, book covers, posters and, most recently, her first children's book.
Additional events during the month will highlight the Library's wide array of collections and resources that enable life-long learning.Curator's Tour: Drawn to Purpose – Exhibition Highlights
Friday, March 23, 11 a.m.
Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building
In honor of women's history month, exhibition curator and Prints and Photographs Specialist Martha Kennedy will present highlights of the exhibition "Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists."
The Library of Congress is the world's largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States—and extensive materials from around the world—both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit at loc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information at congress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Mar 04, 2018
https://previewsworld.com/Article/208277
Larry Wilson, Annapolis
Washington Post March 3 2018http://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/whine-and-angst-reads-speakthe-graphic-novel-re-scheduled-316
Join us this month to discuss Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.
The critically acclaimed, award-winning, modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel.
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. With powerful illustrations by Emily Carroll, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak: The Graphic Novel comes alive for new audiences and fans of the classic novel.
http://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/p%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope-bagieu-brazen-rebel-ladies-who-rocked-world
Please RSVP on Facebook or at rsvp@eastcitybookshop.com
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With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
See Pénélope in conversation with deputy editor of The Lily, Neema Roshania Patel.
The Lily is serializing BRAZEN, so you can get to know the work before the event!
See excerpts:
http://bit.ly/2j6PcAD
and
http://bit.ly/2AnoG0n
Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.
The Prince George's County writer and author will read from and discuss his Black Panther book at the National Press Club.
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| Hergé [pseudonym]; Remi, Georges Prosper; THE SEVEN CRYSTAL BALLS [ADVENTURES OF TINTIN #13] London: Methuen and Co. 1965. First U.K. Reprint. $150 |
https://www.redistrictedcomics.com/we-sing
It's about Marion Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial
Other highlights include: 
by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Feb 25, 2018
