September 21, 2019
Event date: October 5, 2019 – October 5, 2019
Saturday, October 5
Fleming Museum of Art
Robyn Smith ′17 will be talking at the Fleming Museum of Art, the University of Vermont, on October 5 at noon with cartoonist Whit Taylor. Robyn wrote The Saddest, Angriest Black Girl in Town to explore the intersections of Blackness and mental health. She and Whit Taylor—author of Ghost Stories (Rosarium Publishing, 2018), The Anthropologists, and many other comics—will discuss mentorship and networks among female cartoonists of color.
Praise for The Saddest, Angriest Black Girl in Town:
Smith uses the depiction of her anger to elicit anger within her readers. We’re meant to feel her pain along with her. It’s not a ‘woe is me’ story, it’s designed deliberately to show me and other readers that her anger is real and that it matters.
—Ayana Underwood on Do You Even Comicbook?!
Robyn’s talk is in part of the Pulp Culture Symposium at the Fleming Museum.
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