In the slight chance a reader of this blog will be in or near Columbus, Ohio, on 22 April 2023, come to the Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. A free-half-day event, the Printing & Papercraft Day, includes yours truly! The 1:30–4:00 pm event starts with an optional guided tour by the curators of the current “Man Saves Comics!” exhibition, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the acquisition of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection—Bill Blackbeard’s amazing stash.

The event features letterpress printing, paper craft, and me on hand to show artifacts from the library and my own collection that illustrate the process of moving from an artist’s drawing board through the complex printing process all the way to a newspaper or comic-book page. This draws from now years of research plus the work I put into a video that accompanies the exhibition.