Dan Nadel

Gary Panter signa Gary Panter.; Chris Ware; Dan Nadel

Free with museum admission, but space is limited. You may reserve lecture tickets in person at the MCA box office, online, or by calling 312.397.4010. Up to two tickets may be reserved in advance. There is a $3 nonrefundable handling fee for phone and online orders.

Conversation Location: Kanter Meeting Space (1st Floor)

Book Signing: 2:30 PM in MCA Store

Join us to celebrate the release of the definitive volume on Gary Panter's work -- Gary Panter -- from PictureBox Inc. with a talk and book signing directly to follow. Gary Panter has left his mark on every medium he's touched; from his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon Jimbo to his visionary design for Pee-Wee's Playhouse. A three-time Emmy Award-winner and the recipient of the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence, Panter has drawn inspiration from diverse vernacular and traditional art arenas over the course of the past four decades.

Chris Ware, often described as an ‘alternative cartoonist,' is best-known as the creator of the Acme Novelty Library, publications in various formats that feature the adventures of such characters as Quimby the Mouse and Jimmy Corrigan. Not quite comic books, not quite graphic novels, Ware's work mines art history, popular culture, and personal experience, capturing a queasy sense of reality of modern life in a "retro" style distinctly his own.

Dan Nadel is the Director of PictureBox Inc., a Grammy Award-winning art, music, photography, and comics publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2004, PictureBox has specialized in bringing artists visions to print in startling and unexpected ways. Nadel is the author of Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969. (bookjones)… (més)