Leading artists and architects explore relationships between comics and architecture at public symposium

The College of Communication and Information and the College of Architecture and Environmental Design are co-sponsoring the upcoming comics + architecture symposium at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) on Friday, April 1.

"Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture" is free and open to the public and will feature some of the most important voices in the area of comics and architecture: Vera Camden, Diane Davis-Sikora, Wes Jones, Jimenez Lai, Françoise Mouly, Alison Sampson, Bob Somol, Mélanie van der Hoorn, Chris Ware and Michael Webb. Presentations and roundtable discussions  will begin at 1 PM, followed by an illustrated keynote conversation between Mouly and Ware at 5 PM. Books by presenters will be available for purchase in the CMA Store, and MIX at CMA will follow the event (http://www.clevelandart.org/events/special-events/mix-at-cma).

The symposium is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. Register through the museum’s Ticket Center by calling 216-421-7350 or by visiting tickets.clevelandart.org

And, if you can’t make it to Cleveland, you can still view the symposium live at: http://graphic-novel-architecture.com.