TOLEDO — The exhibition LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel opens Friday in the Toledo Museum of
Art’s Canaday Gallery, continuing through Jan. 3.
The traveling exhibit contains 146 artworks by 24 contemporary graphic novelists and historic
practitioners of this ever-evolving art form.
Original book pages and studies, sketchbooks and videotaped interview with graphic novelists are
featured.
The show includes:
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wordless narratives by 1920s woodcut artist Lynd Ward and modern-day commentator Peter Kuper;
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revolutionary underground comics by R. Crumb;
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humorous, personal Girl Stories’ by Lauren Weinstein;
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works by Mad Magazine -co-creator Harvey Kurtzman and Breathtaker co-creator Marc Hempel;
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pioneering art of Will Eisner (“Contract with God”), Dave Sim (“Cerebus”) and Terry Moore (“Strangers in
Paradise”).
On Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater, writer and cartoonist Brian Fies will talk about “The Power
of the Graphic Novel.”
The show was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
Admission to the museum and the LitGraphic exhibition is free.
On the Net: www.toledomuseum.org/Art_Exhibitions_LitGraphic.htm
