SPX 2020: Parenting and Art in a Time of Crisis
Channel: SmallPressExpo
Date: 12/09/2020

Balancing parenting with creating art can be difficult under the best of circumstances. In a time when parents also have to cope with a global pandemic, economic turmoil, injustice and oppression, and naked racism, how are cartoonists who are parents coping with this? How is it affecting not only their output, but the content of their work? Moderator Rob Clough (High-Low, SOLRAD) will discuss these questions and more with Keiler Roberts (Chlorine Gardens), Tyler Cohen (Primahood: Magenta), Whit Taylor (Fizzle, The Nib), and Luke Howard (Our Mother).

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

TYLER COHEN (She/They) is a cartoonist who likes to mix autobiography and surrealism. Her book, Primahood: Magenta, won the 2017 Bisexual Book Award for Graphic Memoir. Tyler’s work has also appeared online at PEN Illustrated and MuthaMagazine.com, and in print in numerous anthologies, including the Eisner Award-winning Drawing Power and Ignatz Award-winning Qu33r.

Buy Tyler Cohen’s book here: https://stackeddeckpress.com/product/primahood-magenta/

LUKE KRUGER-HOWARD is an Ignatz Nominated cartoonist living in a tiny bubble between New Hampshire and Vermont. His work has appeared in some places including The New Yorker, The Nib, Best American Comics, Retrofit/Big Planet Comics, and AdHouse Books. Right now he is strictly a stay-at-home dad.

But Luke Kruger-Howard’s book here: http://retrofit.storenvy.com/products/17488829-our-mother-by-luke-howard

KEILER ROBERTS makes autobiographical comics. She is the recipient of the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize for Chlorine Gardens and is the author of Powdered Milk, Happy Happy Baby Baby, Miseryland, Rat Time, and Sunburning which was translated into Spanish as Isolada. Also the winner of the Ignatz Award, she teaches comics at The School of The Art Institute in Chicago.

Buy Keiler Roberts’ books here: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=keiler+roberts

WHIT TAYLOR is an Ignatz-Award winning cartoonist, editor, and public health educator from New Jersey. Her comics have been published by The Nib, The New Yorker, Radiator Comics, Rosarium Publishing, and others. She is currently a contributing editor at The Nib. Her graphic novel with Kazimir Lee, Harriet: Toward Freedom, will be published by Little, Brown Young Readers in 2021.

Buy Whit Taylor’s books here and here: https://www.radiatorcomics.com/creator/whit-taylor/