Beetle Bailey and The Lexicon of Comicana: Brian Walker in Conversation with Tom Gammill
October 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$10.00 – $15.00
As the creator of the popular, long-running Beetle Bailey comic strip and the author of The Lexicon of Comicana, Mort Walker made an indelible contribution to the canon of cartooning! His son, Brian Walker, is keeping his legacy alive with two new books: Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles, a handsome coffee-table career retrospective that pays homage to Mort’s prolific career, and NYRB’s The Lexicon of Comicana, a new edition of an iconic classic with an introduction by Chris Ware and a meticulous appendix by Brian. Join us for an evening of lively discussion between Brian and acclaimed comedy writer and producer Tom Gammill (SNL, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm) with a book signing to follow.
About the Speakers
Tom Gammill is a TV writer whose credits include “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night with David Letterman,” “Seinfeld,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” He was a Consulting Producer at “The Simpsons” for over 20 years. His comic strip “The Doozies” riffs on the clichés associated with comics and humor, and he’s the Curator of the Bushmiller Museum in Altadena, California.
Brian Walker is a founder and former director of the Museum of Cartoon Art, where he worked from 1974 to 1992. Since 1984 he has been part of the creative team that produces the comic strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. He has written, edited, or contributed to 45 books on cartoon art, including the definitive history The Comics: The Complete Collection (Abrams ComicArts). He taught a course in cartoon history at the School of Visual Arts from 1995 to 1996. He has served as curator for 75 cartoon exhibitions, was editor-in-chief of Collectors’ Showcase magazine from 1997 to 2000, and is the founder and current chairman of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society.