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We are pleased to announce a lecture by Jerelle Kraus, former Art Director of the NY Times Op-Ed page on Oct 16th in BR320. 

She will be discussing the impact of Eastern European art on the look of the Op-Ed page and how that influenced editorial illustration in the last half of the 20th century. Her 13 yrs experience at the Times makes her an expert in this area of illustration history.

The course this semester is formatted as a research class where students are working in small groups researching distinct focal areas 
in the practice’s history and linking them to narrative works through time using the context of social, political, technological and aesthetic influences.

The lecture is open to the public and is followed by a small reception and book-signing of Kraus’s recent book “All the Art that’s Fit to Print” from Columbia Press.

This lecture is being sponsored by the Office of Research and the Mixed Media Lecture Series as a co-departmental initiative.

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Check out Peter’s schedule and drop in one of his presentations here at MICA or at other venues throughout the month of September!
Peter is co-founder of World War 3, is author of numerous books including Sticks & Stones and his adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphasis. His website is www.peterkuper.com.

Sept 13th at Brooklyn Book Festival, NY
International graphic novel panel with Matt Madden moderating
http://www.visitbrooklyn.org/BookFestival/press.html

Sept 15th-Nov? at MOCCA 
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art 
Exhibition of art from Diario de Oaxaca
594 Broadway, Suite 401
(btwn. Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10012 

Sept 23rd at GMU 

Lecture 4:30pm
George Mason University
3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201
Free to public  
Fall for the Book series
http://fallforthebook.org/

Sept 24th at MICA
Presentations will be made in the following classes. 

Pls contact the faculty for permission to attend if you
are not enrolled in the class:
10-11am - Drawing as Illustration, F 420 
12-2pm - Sr Thesis & Seminar [sect. 1], BR 320 
3-5pm - Sr Thesis & Seminar [sect. 2], BR 320  

Sept 25th at Atomic Pop
6-8 Booksigning / presentation with 
JOHN PORCELLINO
EMILY FLAKE
JULIA WERTZ
MK REED
LIZ BAILLIE
KEN DAHL

Sept 26th at SPX, Bethesda
Talk 3-4pm followed by signing

Sept 27th at Baltimore Book Festival 
Talk at 4-5pm in the Radical Book Pavilion

Sept 30 at Society of Illustrators, NY
“All Over the Map” Lecture
6:30-8:30pm
128 East 63rd St, NYC

 

During June, the students of Alain Corbel’s Spring 2009 Sequential Art class exhibited work at a comics convention in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France. The comics convention, called “Bulles a Croquer” (Word Balloons to Crunch), was unique in that it offered both comics and gourmet food. http://www.bullesacroquer.net/index.php

Because of this gastronomic theme, the MICA students created comics about the infamous gourmet Gargantua, a character from the book “Gargantua and Pantagruel” written by French author Francois Rabelais in 1534. These comics were displayed in large format and collected in an anthology which was sold during the convention. This exhibition follows a show in Beja, Portugal in which Alain displayed work from his Fall 07 Sequential Art class. 

Recent MICA graduate Max Hallinan IL‘09 accompanied Alain Corbel to “Bulles a Croquer”, where he was introduced to well-known French comic creators such as Jean-Claude Fournier, Emmanuel Lepage and had the opportunity to make contacts with French publishers. 

Students involved:  Robin Rodowsky, Timothy Yingling, Laura Allen, John Bylander, Christie Sheridan, Ian Kahler, Thomas Kieley, Kirsi Twomanen, Emma Maatman, Alexis Morgan, Quentin Gibeau, Mellis Tuck, Alon Braier, Rebecca Mock, and Craig Bowers.

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The 2009 MICA Illustration Showcase which used Skype to connect graduating IL Seniors with art directors and designers in the NYC area led to many great networking opportunities including several commissions for work. Na Kim IL ‘09, who was matched with NY Times Op-Ed Page art director Leanne Shapton, produced this piece for the Times and has also gotten several of her pieces on Thumbtack Press:

Her web address is www.na-kim.com

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The Society for History and Graphics presents “An Evening with the Hubleys”
Wednesday, January 28th from 7–9pm
Brown 406


 

The program will feature animation shorts by John and Faith Hubley and their children, to include:
Mr. Magoo & “I want my Maypo!” – a sampling of UPA work
Tender Game – John and Faith Hubley, music by Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson
Moonbird, Windy Day and Cockaboody – award-winning classics by John and Faith Hubley, with dialogue by the Hubley children
People People People – jazz score by Benny Carter
Enter Life – by Faith Hubley, with work by Emily and Georgia Hubley & music by Elizabeth Swados
Who Am I? - by Faith and Emily Hubley

 

This program is sponsored by the Society for History and Graphics