My Life in the Comics

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Date/Time:Thursday, 09 Sep 2010 at 8:00 pm
Location:Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
Channel:Lecture Series
Categories:Lectures
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"My Life in the Comics: Thirty Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama," Nicole Hollander. She is the creator of Sylvia, an internationally syndicated comic strip that appears in over 80 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Detroit News, Boston Globe and Seattle Times.

She has published 16 collections of Sylvia strips; two books, Female Problems and My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big Boned, as well as a collection of essays, Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial. Her comic strip and books were the inspiration for three plays, all of them musicals. Her most recent collection is The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama. Hollander earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University.