LECTURES & LITERATURE

    A Conversation with Dan Clowes, Ben Katchor and Chip Kidd

    A Conversation with Dan Clowes, Ben Katchor and Chip Kidd

    Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

    May 3, 2011


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    Called “the country’s premier underground cartoonist” (Newsweek) and “a bona-fide cult hero” (The New Yorker), Daniel Clowes is the multiple Harvey, Ignatz, and Eisner Award-winning creator of the alternative comic Eightball. Ben Katchor is the author of the graphic novels The Jew of New York and The Beauty Supply District. His comics and drawings have appeared in Raw, Forward, Metropolis Magazine, and The New Yorker.An art director at Alfred A. Knopf and editor-at-large for Pantheon, Chip Kidd's work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and is collected in the monograph Chip Kidd: Book One. Kidd recently joined forces with Lisa Birnbach, the editor and one of the writers of the original The Official Preppy Handbook, on True Prep, an updated prep protocol for the modern age. Kidd's latest book is Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal.


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        Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

        1901 Vine Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19103

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        FREE!

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        May 3, 2011

        Times:

        7:30 pm

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