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Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women

Graphic Details
March 28 - July 15, 2015
12:00AM - 12:00AM
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum | Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-28 00:00:00 2015-07-15 00:00:00 Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women Graphic Details is a groundbreaking touring exhibition providing the first in-depth look at a unique and prolific niche of graphic storytelling – Jewish women’s autobiographical comics. While the influential role of Jews in cartooning has long been acknowledged, the role of Jewish women in shaping the medium is largely unexplored. This exhibition of original drawings, full comic books and graphic novels, presents the powerful work of eighteen U.S., Canadian, and International artists whose intimate, confessional work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades, creating an entirely new genre.  Spotlighting the raw, revealing voices of Jewish women and their singular presence in graphic storytelling, the exhibition illuminates the intersection of experiences that make these diaristic comics so compelling. By turns funny, outrageous, poignant and embarrassingly intimate, the works in Graphic Details reflect the artists’ individual journeys, refracted through a distinctively Jewish lens in a pop culture art form. Many of the original artworks on display have never been exhibited in public until now. Artists run the gamut from pioneering Wimmen’s Comix and Twisted Sisters artists of the 1970s and 1980s to the superstars of the new generation. Participating artists include: Vanessa Davis, Bernice Eisenstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Miss Lasko-Gross, Sarah Lazarovic, Miriam Libicki, Sarah Lightman, Diane Noomin, Corinne Pearlman, Trina Robbins, Racheli Rotner, Sharon Rudahl, Lauri Sandell, Ariel Schrag, Lauren Weinstein, and Ilana Zeffren. This iteration of the exhibit also includes selections from The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum collection. The public is invited to the opening program and reception for Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women,  scheduled for Sunday, April 19 in The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall and museum galleries. The program features special guests Trina Robbins, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, and curator Sarah Lightman. 1:30-2:45 – Sarah Lightman: Curator’s Tour – Museum Galleries3:00 – 3:30 – Trina Robbins – Artist Talk – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall3:30 – 4:00 – Sarah Glidden – Artist Talk – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall4:00 – 4:30 – Lauren Weinstein – Artist Talk – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall4:30 – 4:45 – Break4:45 – 5:30 – Roundtable/Q&A moderated by Sarah Lightman – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall5:30 – 7:00 – Catered exhibit reception – Will Eisner Seminar Room / Museum Galleries Please see the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for more details! Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum | Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St. Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public
Graphic Details is a groundbreaking touring exhibition providing the first in-depth look at a unique and prolific niche of graphic storytelling – Jewish women’s autobiographical comics. While the influential role of Jews in cartooning has long been acknowledged, the role of Jewish women in shaping the medium is largely unexplored. This exhibition of original drawings, full comic books and graphic novels, presents the powerful work of eighteen U.S., Canadian, and International artists whose intimate, confessional work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades, creating an entirely new genre.  Spotlighting the raw, revealing voices of Jewish women and their singular presence in graphic storytelling, the exhibition illuminates the intersection of experiences that make these diaristic comics so compelling. By turns funny, outrageous, poignant and embarrassingly intimate, the works in Graphic Details reflect the artists’ individual journeys, refracted through a distinctively Jewish lens in a pop culture art form.
 
Many of the original artworks on display have never been exhibited in public until now. Artists run the gamut from pioneering Wimmen’s Comix and Twisted Sisters artists of the 1970s and 1980s to the superstars of the new generation. Participating artists include: Vanessa Davis, Bernice Eisenstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Miss Lasko-Gross, Sarah Lazarovic, Miriam Libicki, Sarah Lightman, Diane Noomin, Corinne Pearlman, Trina Robbins, Racheli Rotner, Sharon Rudahl, Lauri Sandell, Ariel Schrag, Lauren Weinstein, and Ilana Zeffren. This iteration of the exhibit also includes selections from The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum collection.
 
The public is invited to the opening program and reception for Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women,  scheduled for Sunday, April 19 in The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall and museum galleries. The program features special guests Trina Robbins, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, and curator Sarah Lightman.
 
1:30-2:45 – Sarah Lightman: Curator’s Tour – Museum Galleries
3:00 – 3:30 – Trina Robbins – Artist Talk – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall
3:30 – 4:00 – Sarah Glidden – Artist Talk – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall
4:00 – 4:30 – Lauren Weinstein – Artist Talk – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall
4:30 – 4:45 – Break
4:45 – 5:30 – Roundtable/Q&A moderated by Sarah Lightman – Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall
5:30 – 7:00 – Catered exhibit reception – Will Eisner Seminar Room / Museum Galleries