Holy smokes! I would have completely missed this had the alert ladybloggers of the Pecanne Log not hipped me to it. On February 5, Art Spiegelman will be giving a lecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design (ATL campus) free-open to the public-and free on campus parking. That’s the awesome trifecta right there. Spiegelman is the author of the Pulitzer-winning Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers. From the press release:
In this talk, Spiegelman will trace the history of cartoons from Hogarth to R. Crumb and will consider what he calls “forbidden images,” inspired by the commotion raised over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad in early 2007. He believes that in our post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise, as “comics echo the way our brain works.”
