Join renowned graphic artist David Edward Byrd and co-author Robert von Goeben in conversation. They will be discussing Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd, a stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock ’n’ roll’s most influential artists.    Beginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist…

Before written language existed, people drew pictures, everywhere. Representational drawings evolved into pictograms, and some pictograms were abstracted into phonetic symbols which could be strung together to form words. The medium of comics takes these now apparently disparate elements—the picture and the word—and reunites them to create a form of expression greater than the sum…

Join Chris Byrne and Keith Mayerson (editors of Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics Vol. 1: Wally's Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and The Bowser Boys (1946-1950)), Mark Newgarden (How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels), and Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) for a panel…