Ulster-Scottish (The often incorrectly labeled 'Scots-Irish') settlers in the hill-country of Appalachia brought their traditional music with them to the new world, and many of their songs and ballads dealt with William, Prince of Orange, who defeated the Catholic King James II of the Stuart family at the Battle of the Boyne, Ireland in 1690. Supporters of King William were known as Orangemen and Billy Boys and their. Orange Order, an Irish Protestant and political society, named for the Protestant William of Orange, who, as King William III of Great Britain, had defeated the Roman Catholic king James II. The society was formed in 1795 to maintain the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland in the face of rising d.
Matsumoto, Akira (Reiji). Aoi Hanabira (Blue Petals) (Tokyo: Showa Manga Shuppansha, 1958)
Contact: Caitlin McGurk
The Ohio State University
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
1813 N High St.
Columbus OH 43210-1393
614-292-0538
cartoons@osu.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 17, 2015
Upcoming Exhibition and Symposiums at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
WORLD OF SHOJO MANGA!
MIRRORS OF GIRLS’ DESIRES
March 28, 2015 – July 5, 2015
Columbus: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will celebrate Women’s History Month, and their international cartoon holdings, with the opening of World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires, a traveling exhibit curated by Masami Toku, Dept. of Art and Art History, CSU-Chico.
Many different kinds of manga have been published for different ages, genders, and fans’ favorite themes since the 1970s. One of the major characteristics of Japanese manga is that it has split into boy’s (shonen) and girl’s (shojo) manga, each developing in its own way. Based on reader’s expectations, each boy’s and girl’s manga has its own theme. Regardless of the subject, the main theme in boy’s manga is competitive fighting, and how the heroes become men by protecting women, family, country, or the earth from enemies, while the main theme of girl’s manga is simply love. Within this context, the topics in shojo manga have changed in response to girl’s expectations and have developed into diverse subjects over the last 70 years since World War I. This exhibition will focus on discussing the specific phenomenon of women’s changing roles and expectations in Japan.
The exhibition will feature works by 12 artists, including female mangaka Masako Watanabe, Miyako Maki, Hideko Mizuno, Machiko Satonaka, and Moto Hagio.
Masami Toku, curator of this exhibit, is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History (CSU), Chico, where she teaches courses in art education and multicultural perspectives of art appreciation. She also works internationally as an educator, publisher, researcher, and speaker. Professor Toku created this touring exhibition to explore the role of visual pop culture that impacts U.S. society through the phenomenon of manga in Japan. It also introduces manga’s value and contribution to visual culture and society with a special emphasis on shojo manga.
This exhibit will be part of a continuing celebration of manga throughout the spring semester, including two symposiums: Classic Manga and Development & Globalization of Manga (more info below).
Join us on Saturday, April 4th from 5 – 7pm for the opening reception of World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires in The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum galleries. Cosplayers are welcome and encouraged!
Also on display at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will be Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women. Separate details forthcoming.
Kurara no Mizuumi (Clara’s Lake) cover illustration – Interview
About the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: The BICLM is one of The Ohio State University Libraries’ special collections. Its primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection of materials documenting American printed cartoon art (editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons) and to provide access to the collections. The BICLM recently moved into its newly-renovated 30,000 sq. ft. facility that includes a museum with three exhibition galleries, a reading room for researchers and a state-of-the-art collections storage space. The library reading room is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 – 5 p.m. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday from 1 – 5 p.m. See http://cartoons.osu.edu/ for further information.
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MANGA at A CROSSROADS: SYMPOSIUMS I & II
Symposium 1: Classic Manga
Date: Friday, March 6
Location: Thompson Library 165
12:00-12:10: Opening
12:10-1:10: Prof. Maureen Donovan (OSU) “Comics from the Time of ‘Erotic Grotesque Nonsense’: Yomiuri Sunday Manga of 1930-1931”
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1:10-2:10: Prof. Thomas LaMarre (McGill University) “Manga Empire: Companion Species and Shōnen Kurabu”
2:10-2:15: Break
2:15-3:15: Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University) “Laughing in the Face of Calamity: Visual Satire after the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923”
3:15-4:15: Prof. Natsu Onoda Power (Georgetown University) “Questioning the Racial Question: Representations of Human Faces in Classic Manga”
4:30: Reception
Symposium 2: Development and Globalization of Manga
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2015
Location: Sullivant Hall 220
1:00-1:10: Opening
1:10-2:10: Prof. Masami Toku (California State University, Chico) “World of Shōjo Manga!: Mirrors of Girls’ Desires”
2:10-3:10: Prof. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso University) “Local Texts, Global Audiences: a View from within the Shōjo Manga Industry”
3:10-3:15: Break:
3:15-4:15: Prof. Kerim Yasar (OSU) “Marketing Manga in the U.S.: Translational Strategies, Transnational Flows”
4:15-5:15: Prof. Casey Brienza (City University of London) “Global Manga: ‘Japanese’ Comics without Japan?”
5:15-5:30: Wrap-up
5:30: Reception
Sponsors: East Asian Studies Center, Institute for Japanese Studies, Ohio State University Libraries, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of History of Art, Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy, Division of Arts and Humanities, Association for Asian Studies, Japan Foundation, and US Department of Education (Title VI)
For more information and printable flyers click here: http://easc.osu.edu/manga2015
“Soyo” byTennen Kokeko. Back cover image of Tankobon 1
by Wendy Pflug, Associate Curator for Collections
Kings Of Ireland History
In 2019, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University acquired the papers and artwork from the late Vernon E. Grant. Vernon Ethelbert Grant (also known as Vern Grant) was born February 14, 1935. Grant was an early appreciator of Japanese manga and wrote about Lone Wolf and Cub for publications as early as the 1970s. He was also a cartoonist who did several strips for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, created a science fiction graphic novel series called The Love Rangers, and self-published many of his works.
Original art for The Love Rangers by Vernon E. Grant
Through a generous donation from his widow, Betsy Reese Grant, we have procured a collection of his papers and his published and unpublished cartoon work. When asked about her motivation for donating the collection, Betsy remarked: “My primary reason for choosing the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum was because it was highly recommended by the late Bhob Stewart of Massachusetts, artist and comics expert, who always gave me excellent advice on how to perpetuate Vernon’s legacy. Once I started talking with Wendy Pflug and Jenny Robb, I was very impressed with their depth of knowledge of cartoons and their deep concern for preserving them in history, and it made the final decision easy.”
Grant served three army tours in Japan and Vietnam in the 1960s and contributed numerous cartoons for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes, including three comic strips about life in the military: Grant’s Heroes, A Grant Time in Japan, and Grant’s Grunts. After leaving the Army in 1968 he enrolled as a student at Sophia University in Tokyo and continued to draw cartoons for English language newspapers. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Sophia University in 1970 and frequently wrote about manga. He is a pioneer in introducing Japanese concepts to U.S. audiences. Manga’s influence can be seen in Vernon’s 1972 work A Monster is Loose!- In Tokyo, a humorous look at the life of a foreigner in Japan. He also self-published a book of his single panel cartoons, Stand By One! and a series of three books about life in U.S. Army featuring his character Point-Man Palmer, all of which are found in the collection.
“Well Terwilliger…How does it feel to make aviation history?”
…Due to a slight error in the request transmission, the Pentagon has sent us the wrong type of guerrilla expert!…
Grant returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Betsy in 1973, where he began work on his science fiction graphic novel The Love Rangers. Grant’s wartime experience in Vietnam influenced the creation of this series, which features a racially mixed space crew traveling through the universe to promote peaceful change through the use of love. Our holdings include original artwork from The Love Rangers (1977-1988) and documentation of Grant’s efforts to self-publish and distribute the books.
Original Art for The Love Rangers by Vernon E. Grant
“The materials in this amazing collection document Vernon Grant’s imagination, humor, and talent spanning decades. The materials deal with diverse themes including love, military life, appreciation of manga, the expatriate experience in Japan, and science fiction,” says curator Jenny Robb. “We are very fortunate to have this extraordinary body of work from an early pioneer of the self-publishing movement. His work, while often humorous also shows a serious side, conveying Grant’s philosophy of the ability of love to transform hate and negativity. We are grateful to Betsy Grant for sharing these treasures with us and the world.”
For more information about this collection, contact us at cartoons@osu.edu.
About the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: The BICLM is one of The Ohio State University Libraries’ special collections. Its primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection of materials documenting American printed cartoon art (editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons) and to provide access to these collections. The BICLM recently moved into its newly-renovated 30,000 sq. ft. facility that includes a museum with three exhibition galleries, a reading room for researchers and a state-of-the-art collections storage space. The library reading room is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Museum is open Tuesday-Sunday from 1 – 5 p.m. See http://cartoons.osu.edu/ for further information.
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