Come join cartoonist, educator, and Latino Comics Expo co-founder Javier Hernandez as he explores the formative influences of his career, from the visual richness of Mexican culture to a wide diversity of creators. He’ll take us back to Golden Age cartoonist Alex Schomburg, Gus Arriola with his graphically groundbreaking Gordo newspaper strip, and Mad magazine’s Antonio Prohias of Spy vs. Spy fame as well as living legend Sergio Aragones. He’ll bring us along on his trip to self-publishing and meeting such contemporaries as Love and Rockets’ Hernandez Bros. He’ll also highlight some of the artists he’s featured over the years at his Latino comics festival.

Javier Hernandez’s comic creations include Weapon Tex-Mex, Dead Dinosaurio, Maniac Priest, Saints and Sinners, and El Muerto, which was adapted into a live-action film. In addition to publishing his work through his own imprint Los Comex, Javier's art has appeared in “Hey Kids, Comics,” the Charlton Arrow, Ditkomania, the New Adventures of the Human Fly, and elsewhere. In 2011 he co-founded Latino Comics Expo, the nation's first convention dedicated to spotlighting the work of Latino and Latina comics creators.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Presented by Michael Dooley’s “Design History of Comics & Animation” class.