Phoebe Gloeckner to Speak at MOCAD Comic Jam 3/14
COMIC JAM 2015 with guest artist Phoebe Gloeckner
OPEN DRAWING SESSION + ARTIST TALK
MOCAD and Green Brain Comics present the 6th Annual Comic Jam with guest artist Phoebe Gloeckner
Saturday, March 14, 5 – 8pm
Admission: Free (Suggested $5 Museum Donation)
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan 48201
All are welcome to jam! Participants create spontaneous, improvised, collaborative comics and freeform drawings with each other.
Following the jam session, acclaimed graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner will talk about her art and career. Her book, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), was praised as “one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender, beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America.” R. Crumb called her story Minnie’s Third Love one of the “comic book masterpieces of all time.” Gloeckner continues to experiment with technology and the form of the novel, and is currently working on a book about a family in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She is an associate professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.