Comics at the Memorial Union
I don't know if anyone else is interested, but Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware are going to be at the the Memorial Union next Saturday as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival (very long page, search for each name). In a nutshell, Marjane Satrapi is the author of the wonderful Persepolis and Chris Ware is a current popular illustrator/'hip indie comics celebrity" (he was featured in the Milwaukee Art Museum's Masters of American Comics exhibit). I plan on seeing this, assuming I can figure out how to get in. Anyone else interested?
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a fly on the wall as old friends Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi meet onstage and catch up. Both masters of the graphic novel, Satrapi and Ware have used the medium to tell epic stories on a simultaneously personal and historic scale. Is Ware's self-deprecating Jimmy Corrigan the yin to the yang of Satrapi's outspoken eponymous protagonist?
In addition to Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware's work includes numerous ACME Novelty Library collections, Rusty Brown, and the recent serialization of Building Stories in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Satrapi's newest work is Chicken With Plums, which joins her memoirs Persepolis 1 and 2 in presenting aspects of her Iranian family's history.
(images stolen from Pantheon Books: Persepolis)
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a fly on the wall as old friends Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi meet onstage and catch up. Both masters of the graphic novel, Satrapi and Ware have used the medium to tell epic stories on a simultaneously personal and historic scale. Is Ware's self-deprecating Jimmy Corrigan the yin to the yang of Satrapi's outspoken eponymous protagonist?
In addition to Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware's work includes numerous ACME Novelty Library collections, Rusty Brown, and the recent serialization of Building Stories in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Satrapi's newest work is Chicken With Plums, which joins her memoirs Persepolis 1 and 2 in presenting aspects of her Iranian family's history.
(images stolen from Pantheon Books: Persepolis)