Rilke and Zeno: Two Talks

Above and below are talks given during my recent graphic novelist's residency at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio. Tammy Birk (Professor of English, Otterbein University) discusses themes in "Mother, Come Home" while Ryan Jordan (Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University) examines the nature of paradoxes in general, using Zeno's paradoxes in "The Three Paradoxes" as a launching point.

I wasn't present at the talks but wanted to thank Tammy and Ryan for their time and thoughtful analysis. And of course thanks to Jeff Sims and the people of Columbus Museum of Art for hosting the talks and making the videos.

The Secret Life Of Residency

This has already trickled its way out onto various blogs, but I wanted to be sure to post it here as well: The Columbus Museum of Art and Thurber House are launching a Graphic Novelist Residency, and I'm honored to be the inaugural recipient.

From March 19th to April 6th, I will be residing in the boyhood home of James Thurber, working on new projects, as well as doing a variety of events around town. Having been an admirer of Thurber's work since my own childhood, and having started my comics career in earnest in Columbus, deciding to answer the residency's invitation in the affirmative took little debate.

For more information about the residency go here or for updates from the museum here. And more information about Thurber House is here.

If you'll be in the Columbus area during my time in town, I'll hope to see you at one event or another. I'll be the one sketching an inordinate amount of whimsical dogs.