Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Join Prairie Lights Bookstore, Daydreams Comics, and ICPL in welcoming award-winning graphic novelists Guy Delisle and Craig Thompson to the Iowa City Public Library!
Delisle is best known for his graphic novels about his travels, including Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea; and Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. Craig Thompson's Blankets was his first, but not last, highly acclaimed graphic novel. It won numerous industry awards, and was soon followed by award-winning books Good-bye; Chunky Rice; and Habibi. Guy and Craig will talk about their most recent works, Muybridge and Ginseng Roots, with Corey Creekmur, Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Comparative Literature.
Doors will be open at 6, the event begins at 7.
Get ready for this event by checking out Guy's and Craig's works!
Guy's recent work Muybridge is an engrossing biography of Eadward Muybridge, the 19th century English photographer known for his ground-breaking studies of photos in motion. Despite many career breakthroughs, his life was hampered by betrayal, intrigue, and tragedy. Delisle's keen eye for detail helps to illuminate that which lives in the shadow of an individual's ambition for greatness, and proves that Muybridge deserves to be far more than just another historical footnote.
Craig Thompson's first novel, Blankets, debuted to rapturous acclaim when it was published in 2003. A memoir about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin, it went on to win two Eisner and three Harvey awards, and is considered one of the great works of graphic storytelling. His new work, Ginseng Roots, tells the story of Thompson and his siblings as they spend the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on Wisconsin farms for a dollar an hour. Craig interweaves this lost youth with the 300-year-old history of ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. Stretching from Wisconsin to Northeast China, the book charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world.
Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library America/Chicago publicMeeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Join Prairie Lights Bookstore, Daydreams Comics, and ICPL in welcoming award-winning graphic novelists Guy Delisle and Craig Thompson to the Iowa City Public Library!
Delisle is best known for his graphic novels about his travels, including Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea; and Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. Craig Thompson's Blankets was his first, but not last, highly acclaimed graphic novel. It won numerous industry awards, and was soon followed by award-winning books Good-bye; Chunky Rice; and Habibi. Guy and Craig will talk about their most recent works, Muybridge and Ginseng Roots, with Corey Creekmur, Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Comparative Literature.
Doors will be open at 6, the event begins at 7.
Get ready for this event by checking out Guy's and Craig's works!
Guy's recent work Muybridge is an engrossing biography of Eadward Muybridge, the 19th century English photographer known for his ground-breaking studies of photos in motion. Despite many career breakthroughs, his life was hampered by betrayal, intrigue, and tragedy. Delisle's keen eye for detail helps to illuminate that which lives in the shadow of an individual's ambition for greatness, and proves that Muybridge deserves to be far more than just another historical footnote.
Craig Thompson's first novel, Blankets, debuted to rapturous acclaim when it was published in 2003. A memoir about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin, it went on to win two Eisner and three Harvey awards, and is considered one of the great works of graphic storytelling. His new work, Ginseng Roots, tells the story of Thompson and his siblings as they spend the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on Wisconsin farms for a dollar an hour. Craig interweaves this lost youth with the 300-year-old history of ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. Stretching from Wisconsin to Northeast China, the book charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world.
If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.
This event is open to the public.
Cosponsor
Cosponsor Organization: Prairie Lights
Cosponsor Name: Kathleen
