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#authorSpeaker: D.B. Dowd
Date: Friday, October 11
Time: 12 pm
Location: Webster University, 8300 Big Bend Blvd., Sverdrup Hall, Room 123
Bio: D.B. Dowd is a writer, illustrator, and scholar who writes on the hybridity of reading and seeing, the history of illustration, and practices of drawing. He will publish Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration with Princeton University Press in the Fall of 2025. His book A is for Autocrat: A Trumpian Alphabet, Illustrated was honored with local, regional, and national Addy (American Advertising) awards in 2021. Dowd also publishes the illustrated journal Spartan Holiday, a nonfiction serial tracking his travels to diverse locations. He teaches at Washington University in the MFA for Illustration and Visual Culture Program.
This event is made possible with generous support from the Webster University Speakers Committee and is free and open to the public.
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