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Tomorrow evening in the Wexner Film and Video Theater, we are thrilled to be having a unique event with Portland-based cartoonist and illustrator Aidan Koch (Secret Prison, The Whale) in conversation with Skylab curator James Payne, and visiting curator Caitlin McGurk of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Aidan will be discussing her work and the interrelation and incongruence of working in the worlds of comics and fine art.

Aidan’s style and approach to illustrative comics is progressive and fascinating, and she is the first (and youngest!) self-publisher to join us on stage at The Wexner Center in a casual exploration of comics communities, story telling processes, and more. To see some of her work, check out her continuing series The Blonde Woman hosted on Study Group Comics.

Koch is in residence at Skylab Gallery during the month of June, and this event marks the first collaboration between the downtown art space and OSU.

For more information about this event visit: http://www.wexarts.org/ed/index.php?eventid=6265

To join the Facebook event page visit: http://www.facebook.com/events/374449429283095/

This event is cosponsored by The Wexner Center for the Arts.

Hope to see you tomorrow night!

Remembering Ding: Iconoclast in Ink

May 15-August 24, 2012

Exhibit opening and book signing Thursday, May 17, 2012

7 p.m. reception and book signing

7:30 p.m. Lecture by Richard Samuel West

Jay N. “Ding” Darling (1876-1962) was regarded by many as America’s greatest political cartoonist during the first half of the twentieth century. A two-time Pulitzer winner, Ding repeatedly topped popularity polls throughout the Twenties and Thirties. He was also an influential conservationist and visionary founder of the National Wildlife Federation, and both conceived of and illustrated the first Federal Duck Stamp. The J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida, is named in his honor. For more than four decades, he drew for the Des Moines Register and his cartoons were syndicated around the country for millions to see. Ding was a fiercely independent spirit and a progressive Republican who followed his conscience, not party dogma. This led him to take many surprising stands, such as impassioned support for the League of Nations.

Please join us on Thursday, May 17^th at 7pm, in The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to celebrate the opening of Remembering Ding, an exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Jay N. “Ding” Darling. This event will also commemorate the 50^th anniversary of Ding Darling’s death, and celebrate the release of Richard Samuel West’s new book Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. “Ding” Darling (which will be available for the first time at this event). Join West at 7:30pm that evening as he shares some of his favorite Ding cartoons and discusses the qualities in Ding’s work that made it so extraordinary. Iconoclast in Ink is a profusely illustrated volume celebrating Ding, published by The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Come spend an hour learning about Ding’s wonderful work, in all its antic and powerful glory.

Original art by Jay N. "Ding" Darling. From the Ned White Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

Jay N. "Ding" Darling editorial cartoon newspaper clipping from the Des Moines Register. From The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

Hope to see you Thursday evening for our opening reception!

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