Arlen Schumer is an award-winning comic book-style illustrator for the advertising and editorial markets; an author/designer of coffeetable art books, including The Silver Age of Comic Book Art (Collectors Press), which won the Independent Book Publishers Award for Best Popular Culture Book of 2003; and a recognized expert on American popular culture—especially the legendary television series The Twilight Zone and the music of Bruce Springsteen—presenting his VisuaLectures on these and other subjects at universities and cultural institutions across the country since 1988. Connect with him on Facebook and Twitter, see his videos on YouTube, and read his blog on anything and everything, ComiColumn, below.
A VisuaLecture by Arlen SchumerTHIS SUNDAY MAY 5th, 2013 @ 3:00pm! In an incredible multimedia gallery space, part of Stepping Stones Museum's YES2 Youth Program's 1st Comic Book Mini-Convention! A screen the size of a small IMAX to project on! Comic book images like you've never seen 'em before!
I'll be going though not only "The First 25 Years" of my comic book history works (since my instigating the Fall '88 PRINT mag special comics issue), but "the first 25 years" of my childhood and young adult years, from being the art director of BATMANIA mag in high school to working for Batman's greatest artist, Neal Adams, after art school (like getting paid to go to graduate school), and then creating a career illustrating in a comic book style, and parlaying comic book history to audiences around the country!
And hey, adults--it ain't just for kids! There'll be plenty of adults/parents, and ALL ages are invited!
And if you CAN'T make it in person...
LIVE-STREAMING VIDEO ON USTREAM! Go here at 4:00pm EST: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/stepping-stones-museum-forchildren
Stepping Stones Museum
Mathews Park, 303 West Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06850
203 899 0606
www.steppingstonesmuseum.org
Comic book art has always been graphic design—both are verbal/visual communication hybrids—and in this “VisuaLecture,” as comic book historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer of the award-winning coffeetable book The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) calls his super-graphic approach to staid art history presentations, Schumer provides an historical overview of the twin mediums, and how they’ve intersected in his own illustration and design work, that is as enlightening as it is entertaining; edutainment at its best!
Event details: http://teachevil.com/2012/10/16/fall-2102-speakers/
Comic art, beginning in the early 20th century as comic strips before evolving into comic books, has always been a fount of incredible, and incredibly beautiful, pure illustration—and in this “VisuaLecture,” as comic book historian and member of The Society of illustrators Arlen Schumer (author/designer of the award-winning coffeetable book The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) calls his supergraphic approach to staid art history presentations, Schumer provides an historical overview of the twin mediums and how they’ve intersected—and intersected in his own comic art-styled illustration and design work—that is as enlightening as it is entertaining; edutainment at its best!
Event details: http://teachevil.com/2012/10/30/illustration-comics/