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LEBO COMICS SERIES
COMICS NOW AND THEN
7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 12
With the gigantic popularity of recent
major studio films, comics and its
characters have never been more popular,
but the art form of illustrative narrative
dates back to at least the caveman.
John Kelly, the executive director of
the ToonSeum, Pittsburgh’s Museum
of Comic and Cartoon Art, will present
an overview of comics history and how
the ToonSeum—one of the very few
museums of its type in the world—plays
a role in this significant transformation of
popular culture.
VISIBLE PICTURES: TALES OF COMICS
SCRIPT WRITING WITH YONA HARVEY
7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23
Have you ever wondered what happens
behind the scenes when making a Marvel
comic? What are the steps of telling a
story in words and pictures? Until recently,
poet and writer Yona Harvey wondered
too. She was a sporadic comics and
graphic novel reader—off and on since
her college years—and considered herself
a fan rather than creator. Then Yona’s
friend and author of Marvel’s current Black
Panther run, Ta-Nehisi Coates, tapped
Yona on the shoulder, asking her to try her
hand at comics script writing for World of
Wakanda. He thought a poet writing
comics would be a fun experiment. Yona
thought it would be madness. It turned
out to be a little bit of both. Whether you
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