The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes Eisner-nominated cartoonist and illustrator Leela Corman for a reading from her latest graphic novel Victory Parade followed by a Q&A and book signing on Monday, June 17, 2024 from 6–8pm. This Toon Talk is a free event and open to the public.
About Victory Parade
A heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, Victory Parade paints a deeply affecting portrait of how women on the home front and men serving in uniform process mass trauma while immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life. Magnificently drawn by Leela Corman, it’s an Expressionist journey through the battlefields of the human heart and the mass graves of genocide.
About Leela Corman
Leela Corman is a painter, educator, and graphic-novel creator, working in the realm of diaspora Ashkenazi culture and third-generation restorative work. Her books include Unterzakhn, which was nominated for an Eisner Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Le Prix Artémisia; won the 2015 Romics Prize for Best Anglo-American Comic; and received a 2023 MoCCA Arts Festival Award of Excellence, and the short comics collections You Are Not a Guest and We All Wish for Deadly Force. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The Believer, Nautilus, and The Nib. She is a founding instructor at Sequential Artists Workshop and an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design.
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