Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Graphic Novel Event at CSU, Sacramento


Graphic Content: Exposing the Process Behind Comic Art Storytelling
April 29th, 6:30pm in Sequoia Hall 301

A Lecture by Kazu Kibuishi on the process of creating graphic novels. Kazu is a full-time comic book artist, and lives in Alhambra, California with his wife, and fellow comic book artist, Amy Kim Ganter. Kazu is the editor/contributor of the highly acclaimed Flight comic anthologies. He also is the author/illustrator of two original graphic novels, including Daisy Kutter: The Last Train (Viper Comics), and more recently, Amulet, Book 1: The Stonekeeper (Simon & Schuster).

An Exhibition of The Peck, an original graphic novel concept by Mario Estioko will also be presented. Estioko is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Design. Posing as a design educator by day, Mario's clandestine comic work has appeared in magazines and college newspapers nationally. This is his first foray into the graphic novel genre. The comic exhibition runs from April 28th-May 9th in the 4th Floor Design Gallery, Mariposa Hall.

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JMS said...

The State Theatre in Auburn, California will be screening 'Persepolis', the superb film based on Satrapi's graphic memoirs of the same name; "a riveting odyssey in pictures and words', on Thursday, May 19th. For more information please contact me at mcclellansanders@gmail.com.

See you at the movies,
Jennifer McClellan Sanders
Chair, Film Committee
Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center