April 3, 2008

For Immediate Release

Thursday, April 3, 2008, 4:30pm

Location: Haldeman Conference Center

Kreindler Auditorium Room 041
Dartmouth College

Presented in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies
and the Leslie Center for the Humanties at Dartmouth College.
Cosponsored by a grant from the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation.

Jonathan Lethem trained to be an artist before moving to California and devoting his time to writing. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Lethem is also a prolific essayist and short story writer.

Farel Dalrymple was awarded a Xeric Grant for the first issue of his ongoing series, Pop Gun War. The first five issues were collected in a trade paperback by Dark Horse Comics. In 2002, Farel was awarded a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators for the first issue of Pop Gun War. Farel also co-founded the experimental comic anthology, Meathaus. In 2002, he was nominated for a Russ Manning Award. Farel’s work has also appeared in Spin magazine, Grendel Red, White, and Black, and the Dark Horse anthology, Happy Endings.

Paul Hornschemeier was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1977 and raised in nearby Georgetown, Ohio. As a child he liked to draw, dreaming that he might publish his own comicbooks one day. Following graduation, he began publishing his own black and white comics that have been collected by AdHouse Books under the title The Collected Sequential. In 2003, he published his first graphic novel titled Mother, Come Home. His other books include The Three Paradoxes and Let Me be Perfectly Clear (Fantagraphics Books).

The Center For Cartoon Studies (CCS) is America’s premiere cartooning school and studio, located in the historic village of White River Junction, Vermont. Faculty and visiting artists include many of today’s most celebrated cartoonists. CCS has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Farmer’s Almanac, LA Times, and on the front page of The Washington Post. CCS is a driving force behind the recent revitalization of White River Junction, bringing jobs, students and art to the village.

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