[Comicsstudiessociety] Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics Opening

[Mike Rhode]

 Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics
Opening

   - Thursday, September 22, 2022
   4 PM ET
   - Online on Zoom
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In this opening discussion for the exhibition *Drawing Us Together: Public
Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics*
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*,* cartoonists and scholars Hillary Chute, Joel Christian Gill, and James
Sturm will discuss comics and their ability to tell stories across time,
experience, and identity.

The global pandemic and recent movements for racial justice have tested
public and private institutions in this country; our sense of collective
wellbeing; and familial, social, and civic lives. *Drawing Us Together:
Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics* explores these
challenges and the interconnectedness of contemporary public life and
public health through the medium of comics. Authors and artists share a
range of stories across time, experience, and identity through the
interplay among images and words.
Register

Free and open to the public.

To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom
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For instructions on how to join online, see the How to Attend a Radcliffe
Event on Zoom
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 webpage.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a link
and password for this meeting.

*Live closed captioning will be available for the webinar.*
Speakers

*Hillary Chute* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/hillary-chute/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPOt3y1DE$  > is
Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern
University. She is the author or editor of six books, including *Why
Comics? From Underground to Everywhere* (Harper, 2017), *Disaster Drawn:
Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form* (Belknap Press, 2016), *Outside
the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists* (‎University of Chicago
Press, 2014), and *Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics*
(Columbia University Press, 2010). She has written for venues including
*Artforum*, *Bookforum*, the *Village Voice*, and the *New York Review of
Books*. Her collection *Maus Now: Selected Writing* is forthcoming from
Pantheon in 2022. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for the *New
York Times Book Review*.

*Joel Christian Gill* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bu.edu/cfa/profile/joel-christian-gill/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsP25fADWU$  >
is a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of
sharing stories. He is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of
Fine Arts in Visual Narrative and the author of the acclaimed memoir *Fights:
One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence*, cited as one of the best graphic novels
of 2020 by the* New York Times* and for which Gill was awarded the 2021
Cartoonist Studio Prize. He wrote the words and drew the pictures for *Fast
Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride* and the award-winning graphic
novel series *Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History*,
as well as three volumes of *Tales of The Talented Tenth*, which tell the
stories of Bass Reeves, Bessie Stringfield, and Robert Smalls. He is
currently at work on the graphic novel of Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book
Award-winning *Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist
Ideas in America* (Ten Speed Press, 2023), and CNN journalist Don Lemon’s
Young Adult graphic memoir *Fitting In *(Penguin Random House, 2024).

*James Sturm* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cartoonstudies.org/james-sturm/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPNo-p1bg$  > is the
cofounder and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies. He is editor of
CCS’s graphic guide series
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cartoonstudies.org/css-studio/cartooningprojects/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPJwXO_AQ$  >, and his
writings and illustrations have appeared in the* Chronicle of Higher
Education, Slate, *the* Paris Review, *the* Onion, *the* New York Times*,
and the cover of the* New Yorker*. His comics address issues of faith,
race, and American identity. His graphic novel *Off Season* (Drawn and
Quarterly, 2019) explores the intersection of the personal and political
against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election. Sturm was a
2020–2021 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow and a 2008 and 2015 MacDowell
Colony fellow.
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