Dixie State University’s weekly lecture series, “Dixie Forum: A Window on the World,” will host the presentation, “Comics and Collaboration,” to be given by illustrator Nate Taylor and writer Pat Johnson.
Taylor and Johnson will offer their lecture from noon to 12:50 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, in the Dunford Auditorium in the Browning Resource Center on DSU campus. Dixie Forum is free and open to the public. The comic duo plans to speak about their creative collaboration, artistic processes, backstories, current projects, and entrepreneurial experience.
Taylor and Johnson, both Washington State University graduates, are friends and creative collaborators who together created their very own web comic, “Coming Distractions.” In the beginning, their story revolved around theater workers who love movies and hate customers, but what began as satire of modern movies quickly became their figurative sandbox for playing with wild ideas. Over a seven-year period, Taylor and Johnson created 121 strips without an audience in mind. Once the story reached its end, they decided to push for publication. In 2014, they published the entire collection as a book with the help of a Kickstarter.org campaign.
Dixie Forum is a weekly lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students, faculty, and staff to diverse ideas and personalities, thereby widening their worldview. Next week, Dixie Forum will host guest Amos Kennedy who will offer his presentation, “Typography, Printmaking, and Graphic Design.”
For more information on Dixie State University’s Dixie Forum series, please contact DSU forum coordinator John Burns at (435) 879-4712 or burns@dixie.edu, or visit the Dixie Forum webpage. Find Dixie Forum on Facebook and Twitter.
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