"Master Hands and the Background Man: A History of American Comics"
Presented by Tom De Haven
 Wednesday, April 20, 2005,  7:30 p.m.  /    VCU Student Commons
Theater, 1st Floor  / 907 Floyd Avenue

Tom De Haven is the author of several novels, including /Derby Dugan's
Depression Funnies /(winner of the 1997 American Book Award) and /Funny
Paper/s.  De Haven is the Professor of English and Director of Creative
Writing Program, Virginia Commonwealth University.

This lecture is the 19th Annual James Branch Cabell Lecture and is
sponsored by the James Branch Cabell Library Associates and VCU
Libraries. This event is free and open to the public. Public parking is
available for a fee in the Main Street Parking Deck and West Cary Street
Deck. If special accommodations are needed, please contact Kimberly
Separ at (804) 827-1163 or e-mail [log in to unmask]

To learn more about the Comic Arts Collection at the VCU Libraries,
visit Special Collections and Archives, located on the 4th floor of
James Branch Cabell Library. Additional information about the collection
is available at  www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/comicbk1.html

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