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Civil rights graphic novel selected for 2019 Vermont State-Wide Reading Program

March: Book One, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, has been selected as the first-ever graphic novel for the Vermont Reads program. Nate Powell was the 2016 commencement speaker for The Center for Cartoon Studies.

Congressman John Lewis is one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. In partnership with Andrew Aydin (ao-author) and Nate Powell (illustrator), they created March (Top Shelf Comix), a graphic novel trilogy chronicling John Lewis’ lifetime of commitment to justice and nonviolence. The book centers around the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to end segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins.

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Vermont Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival and Symposium Features Faculty Jason Lutes, Sophie Yanow, and recent Alum

Keynote presentations by Art Spiegelman (October 19), Joe Sacco (October 20) and Alison Bechdel (October 21), and a day-long event at the Fleming Museum on October 21 featuring panel discussions and over 40 cartoonists from New England and Quebec.

Presenters include The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) faculty Jason Lutes and Sophie Yanow, along with alum Iona Fox. Alum Bridget Comeau, Iona Fox, and Stephanie Zuppo will have work on exhibit.

October 19, 20 and 21, 2017

Keynote presentations by Art Spiegelman (October 19), Joe Sacco (October 20) and Alison Bechdel (October 21), and a day-long event at the Fleming Museum on October 21 featuring panel discussions and over 40 cartoonists from New England and Quebec. Presented by the University of Vermont and the Vermont Folklife Center.

Sponsored by Burack Distinguished Lecture Series, Fleming Museum, German and Russian Department, Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visiting Artists, Vermont Humanities Council, UVM Humanities Center,UVM Marsh Professor-at-Large Program, and The Center for Cartoon Studies.

For more information, visit:  vermontfolklifecenter.org/panels/

 

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