Just Drawn That Way: Comic Books, Cartoons and Illustrations

Join the staff of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center for a tour of an exhibition featuring a sampling of the Center’s holdings in the fields of Illustration, comic strip art, and political cartoons. You will be able to examine original panels from America’s most well-known comic strip characters, such as Little Orphan Annie, Dennis the Menace and Lil’ Abner Yokum. Explore the collections of such well known illustrators as The New Yorker’s Constantin Alajalov, Esquire’s E. Simms Campell and Charles Dickens’ illustrators George Cruikshank and John Leech, and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Szep. Come explore a broad range of rare material and see the Sunday comic strip come to life in your own hands.

When 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Building 771 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor
Room HGARC Reading Room
Contact Name Christopher Gately
Contact Email archives@bu.edu
Contact Organization HGARC
Fees Free
Open To Students
Speakers With Professor Lynne Allen, CFA - Director of the School of Visual Arts, and Sean Noel, HGARC