Cartoonist And Comic Book Theorist Scott McCloud To Speak At Manhattan College

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Cartoonist and comic book theorist Scott McCloud will speak at Manhattan College on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

McCloud’s talk is the fall semester’s scheduled college writing lecture to accompany Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, a wise, funny and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

McCloud is the author of Understanding Comics (1993), a 215-page book about comics that has been translated into more than 16 languages. He also has written Reinventing Comics (2000), a more controversial look at comics revolutions in art, culture and technology, and Making Comics (2006), an extensive look at comics storytelling techniques.

A native of Boston, Mass., McCloud in 1984 created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot!, which he describes as a “cross between Peter Pan, Buck Rogers and Marshall McLuhan.” His other print comics include Destroy!!, scripts for various Superman comics, a 1998 series The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, and various short subjects and mini-comics.

Members of the media who would like to cover the event should call Scott Silversten at (718) 862-7232 or e-mail scott.silversten@manhattan.edu. Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway line 1.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.