The seventy-third meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. PLEASE NOTE: Events this semester will take place on Tuesday evenings.

Presentation: Keren Katz will discuss and show work from the small history of cartooning in Israel as represented in three recently published catalogs by The Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics. She will sample artwork from these catalogs, representing three time periods, focusing on work by contemporary Israeli cartoonists. She will also share slides from her thesis work and her documentation of guerrilla poetry readings at the MoMA.
Keren Katz is an Israeli illustrator and cartoonist based in New York. A graduate of the Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program, School of Visual Arts (New York) and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jersusalem), she has contributed comics to anthologies worldwide, self published six graphic novels and many zines. Titles include: Crossing the Rubikon, Chronicles of the Falling Women, Before The Dark Gate, Rashomon Ramat-Gan, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Coat Check Dream, Were You Watching?, The Night Poetry Class in Room 1001, and Uncontested Spaces which will be published by No Press. For more of her work visit: http://kerenkatz.carbonmade.com/