Transatlantic Thursdays - Women in Comics
Channel: AmbasciataUSA
Date: 2021-03-25

Please join us for a discussion on

Women in Comics

featuring
Kim Munson
Rita Petruccioli
Francesca Torre

Thursday, March 25, 2021
4:00 PM

the program will be in English / il programma sarà tradotto simultaneamente in italiano nella pagina YouTube.com/Ambasciatausa     

Kim Munson is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Comic Art in Museums (University Press of Mississippi) the first academic book to explore the evolution of thought about comic art 1930-present as manifested in art exhibitions. Munson is an art historian, author, artist, and curator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She often contributes essays on comic art and museum exhibitions to academic books and journals like the International Journal of Comic Art and Places Journal. She is the curator of Women in Comics at the Society of Illustrators in New York and in Rome. 

Born in 1988 Francesca Torre combined her historical and artistic studies with journalistic writing from a very young age. Since 2019 she collaborates with the pop culture online magazine Stay Nerd for which she manages the section dedicated to comics.

Rita Petruccioli is an illustrator and cartoonist born in Rome in 1982. Her work ranges from magazines, advertising, children's books and comics. I call you tomorrow is her latest comic book, released by BAO Publishing. Her books include the graphic novel Frantumi, Christine e la città delle dame written by Silvia Ballestra and published by Laterza. She also took part in Bedtime stories for rebel girls.