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DESCRIPTION:Sat\, May 10 - Sun\, Aug 3\, 2008
\nWexner Center Galleries
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 \nBased in Columbus\, Jeff Smith is one of the country's most acclaimed and
  influential comic book artist/writers\, best known for the epic graphic no
 vel Bone.
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\nIn 2005\, Time magazine called Bone\, which Smith wrote and 
 drew\, one of the 10 greatest graphic novels of all-time. This exhibition-a
  partnership between the Wexner Center and Ohio State University's Cartoon 
 Research Library-will include approximately 75 original drawings: primarily
  original black-and-white pages from Bone\, with a smaller selection of ful
 l-color Bone covers and post-Bone work\, including original drawings from S
 mith's recent Shazam series for DC Comics and from Rasl (forthcoming)\, a t
 ime-travel story.
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\nThe exhibition will also include a selection of orig
 inal comics whose artists Smith cites as direct influences\, among them exa
 mples from Walt Kelly's Pogo\, Will Eisner's The Spirit\, George Herriman's
  Krazy Kat\, Charles Schulz's Peanuts\, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury\, and E.
  C. Segar's Thimble Theatre. The exhibition is organized by Lucy Shelton Ca
 swell\, professor and curator of Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library\, an
 d David Filipi\, the Wexner Center's curator of film and video. The catalog
 ue features an introduction by Caswell\, and essays by Filipi\, Sandman cre
 ator Neil Gaiman\, and cartoonist and scholar Scott McCloud.
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\nA related
  show will be on view nearby in Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library (the 
 entrance is just north of the Wexner Center's main entrance\, along the sid
 ewalk under the "grid").
SUMMARY:Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond
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LOCATION:Wexner Center for the Arts
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