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From: CMC_Students Subject: FW: Cartooning Series at HMC

From: Sal Plascencia

Monday, February 22nd 4:15 PM Drinkward Recital Hall Lalo Alcaraz is a , multimedia humorist and political prankster. He is the creator of the first nationally-syndicated, politically-themed Latino daily , “La Cucaracha,” which Jeff Chang called “one of the most controversial in the history of American comic strips.” He is also a writer on MacFarlane- exec-produced FOX TV show, Bordertown.

Lalo’s work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, Univision and Telemundo.

1 Monday, March 7th 4:15 PM Drinkward Recital Hall Keith Knight’s cartoons have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and MAD Magazine. He is the recipient of Comic-Con International’s for achievement in his field and a 2015 NAACP History Maker award.

Knight is the creator of three comic strips, The Knight Life, The K Chronicles and (th)ink. His retrospective, “They Shoot Black People, Don’t They: A Cartoonist’s Look at Police Brutality,” is composed of 20+ years of his socio-political cartoons, which take a look at police brutality in the African-American community, from the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, MO police officer this past summer. Part activism, part comedy, and part lecture, Knight’s talk will address issues of race, politics, media, and censorship.

Monday, March 28th 4:15 PM Drinkward Recital Hall Vanessa Davis is a cartoonist and author of the graphic memoirs Spaniel Rage and Make Me a Woman. Her work has appeared and been anthologized in Lucky Peach, Vice, Sponge Bob , McSweeney's, Best American Comics and in the cult favorite Kramer’s Ergot.

Davis’s autobiographical comics, whether retelling the joys of fat camp or how loved the dentist’s chair makes her feel, tinge the everyday with a pensive sadness. She brings a restless to the mundane and a formal style that challenges our understanding of what the graphic memoir can be.

Monday, April 4th 4:30 PM Shanahan Center - 1430 Lecture Hall Scott McCloud is a cartoonist, comic theorist, and author of the seminal non-fiction book : The Invisible Art, a 215-page about the comics medium translated into over 20 languages. Also (2000), a more controversial look at comics revolutions in art, culture and technology, and (2006), an extensive exploration of comics storytelling techniques which also resulted in the Making Comics 50 State Tour, and the Google Chrome comic.

In a far-ranging talk about comics, cartooning, visual communication, and art's relationship to old and new technologies, McCloud will guide us through a cascade of hundreds of images.

Free Admission

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Salvador Plascencia Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

2 Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Claremont, CA 91711-5901

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