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Spotlight on Shary Flenniken

In conversation with Rachel Miller

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Oct 01, 2021 4:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

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Award-winning cartoonist, editor, author, and screenwriter Shary Flenniken visits as part of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus for an onstage conversation with scholar Dr. Rachel Miller, a managing editor at The Comics Journal.

Flenniken is best known as a contributor and editor at National Lampoon magazine. After attending commercial art school in Seattle, she migrated to the colorful world of underground comic books and newspapers that was burgeoning in 1970s San Francisco. Her work was discovered by editors from National Lampoon, and she was recruited to add her down-home view of suburban angst to the pages of that magazine. Her irreverent strip about precocious teenagers is now collected in Trots and Bonnie, published by the New York Review of Comics.

Her work has appeared in a variety of books, magazines, and films including American Bystander, Mad, Graphic Classics, Comics Confidential, and Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great.

Joining Flenniken in conversation is Rachel Miller who earned her PhD from Ohio State. In addition to being a managing editor for The Comics Journal , she has written extensively on comics. Her book An Introduction to American Comics is forthcoming from Routledge.

This year’s CXC festival features both virtual and in-person events presented by Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Metropolitan Library, and the Wexner Center. Visit cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org for a complete festival schedule.

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Shary Flenniken | Image courtesy of the artist

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Trots and Bonnie | Image courtesy of New York Review of Comics

Book cover for Trots and Bonnie.

Trots and Bonnie | Image courtesy of New York Review of Comics

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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

FILM/VIDEO STUDIO SUPPORTED IN PART BY
National Endowment for the Arts

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
The Wexner Family
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
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Spotlight on Shary Flenniken

Oct 01, 2021 4:00 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

Click here to view our latest COVID-19 safety protocols.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688–3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Become a Member