View the latest What’s Good guide for fun things to do in Gainesville and Alachua County.
Scroll down to view a calendar of things to do in Gainesville and Alachua County. Help plan your visit with these submissions from local organizers. You can search by date or keyword, and change your layout from month or list view, by day or browse by images.
- This event has passed.
Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children’s Comics
April 5 - April 7
FreeEvent Navigation
This coming weekend, April 5-7, University of Florida’s Graduate Comics Organization will be hosting its 20th annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children’s Comics.” Join this free event on UF’s campus, which features three days of programming around children’s comics, including:
—A visit on Friday afternoon to see rare and wonderful children’s comics from the mid 20th century to today that are held in UF’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature and Popular Culture collections
—An opportunity on Saturday afternoon to meet and see work by local artists, at an event co-organized with the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), Gainesville’s own non-profit cartooning school
—Two keynote addresses on Friday and Saturday evenings by cartoonist André R. Frattino and scholar Alison Halsall. Frattino is the creator of several Florida-themed children’s comics, including The Flager’s Few series and A Land Remembered, and Halsall is the editor of The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader and author of Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
—Seven panels on Saturday through Sunday featuring scholars and creators discussing a wide range of children’s comics
Check out the full schedule and more details here: https://comics.english.ufl.edu/2024/03/30/2024/
Please share with interested parties in your networks!
This publication contains information about events, venues and activities in Alachua County, Florida. Reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the information is accurate. We are not responsible for errors or omissions in the information provided. For complete details, contact the host directly. The information is not advice, and should not be treated as such. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not represent, warrant, undertake or guarantee that the information is correct, accurate, complete or non-misleading. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage. If a section of this disclaimer is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other sections of this disclaimer continue in effect.
