Canada’s Foremost Graphic Novelist Ho Che Anderson to Read at Laurentian University

They used to be known as “comic books”, but they’ve come of age. No longer limited to superheroes, Graphic Novels are addressing some of today’s most significant public issues.

The fourth visitor in Laurentian’s 2006-2007 LUminaries Reading Series is Ho Che Anderson, Canada’s foremost graphic novelist and author of King, a critically acclaimed graphic novel format biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. On Friday November 17 Ho Che Anderson will read from his work and offer a Power Point presentation of his graphic art.

The doors to the Brenda Wallace Reading Room in Laurentian University’s Desmarais Library will open at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will begin at 8:00 p.m. Free admission and refreshments. Enter from outside entrance “E”. Parking in Lot 4. Further detials, including a map, may be found by clicking here.

The LUminaries Reading Series is sponsored by the Laurentian University English Department, the English Arts Club, the Vice president Academic Anglophone affairs, the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information please call Kelly Smith in the Laurentian English Department, 675-1151 ext. 4340.

Anderson is primarily known for inflicting the world with the comics books, King, I Want To Be Your Dog, Wise Son, and Scream Queen.

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