Lynda Barry will be part of Sunday afternoon panel discussing the graphic novel at the Philoctetes Center
The Philoctetes Center
247 East 82nd St.
Sunday, December 5, free, 2:30
646-422-0544
www.philoctetes.org
The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination has brought together quite a panel of experts for its free December 5 round table looking at the past, present, and future of the graphic novel. Innovative cartoonists Lynda Barry (ERNIE POOK’S COMEEK; THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME) and Ben Katchor (JULIUS KNIPFL, REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER; THE JEW OF NEW YORK) will be joined by University of Chicago English professor Hillary Chute, art historian N. C. Christopher Couch, and RAW publisher Françoise Mouly to talk about this constantly changing and emerging field.