LSU is excited to welcome legendary comic book artist and writer Howard Chaykin, who will deliver a lecture entitled "Popular Frontiers: Graphic Design in the Service of Narrative" on Friday, October 28th, at 2:00 PM, in the Art and Design Building Auditorium (Rm. 103). Over the course of his four decades in American comics, Chaykin has been hailed as a visionary storyteller and an aesthetic innovator whose sophisticated, ambitious work continues to redefine the boundaries of the medium. Chaykin made an indelible mark on the comics scene in the 1980s with his American Flagg! series, an award-winning comic that blended lurid pulp thrills and biting political satire and introduced a new visual language to comics, one based on his experience as an advertising artist and paperback cover designer. Chaykin's distinctive approach to the medium has been featured in comics offering unique takes on familiar characters such as Batman and Captain America as well as in more personal works such as his Time2 graphic novels or the recent Dominic Fortune. Chaykin's lecture will include topics such as the role of graphic design in narrative, the evolution of the comics industry, and his own career as a trailblazing creator.

This presentation of the LSU Art + Design Distinguished Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Department of English, the School of Art, the College of Art and Design, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Jewish Studies. The lecture is free, open to the public and professional AIA and ASLA continuing education credit is available for this lecture.

Additional information is available on the LSU College of Art + Design website
at www.design.lsu.edu, the College of Art + Design Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Baton-Rouge-LA/LSU-College-of-ArtDesign/158963976092?ref=ts or by contacting Debra Langlois, at dlanglo@lsu.edu or (225) 578-5868.

If you are unable to attend a recording of the lecture can be viewed at http://coadmediasite.lsu.edu/mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/default.aspx

For those of you who want to learn a little about Chaykin before the lecture, check out interviews and examples of his work in our electronic database Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels (http://lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/comics.html).