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To Recognize and Celebrate the 10th year Anniversary of Cartoon Crossroads
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WHEREAS; Columbus is a center of the beloved art form of comics and cartooning in the United States; and
WHEREAS; in 2014, Vijaya Iyer, Jeff Smith, Lucy Shelton Caswell and friends put forth a vision to elevate and celebrate the cartoon arts and their importance to the city of Columbus, they plotted and planned to create a unique citywide festival - Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC); and
WHEREAS; the Cartoons Crossroads Columbus helped bring together diverse institutions, recognized worldwide as bastions of the cartoon and comic arts, including: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Metropolitan Library, The Columbus College of Art & Design, The Ohio State University Department of Pop Culture studies, The Gateway Film Center, and the Columbus Museum of Art, and many more; and
WHEREAS; these partners were independently already presenting and celebrating comics, cartooning and animation artists in local museums, schools, galleries and libraries, Cartoon Crossroads helped unite the partners behind a shared, multi-day celebration of the comic and cartoon arts; and
WHEREAS; CXC’s founders believe in the importance of bringing members of the incredibly diverse, worldwide comics community to Columbus to experience all our city has to offer; and
WHEREAS; the founders and arts and education partner institutions believe both comics and artists past and present should be read, celebrated and studied across all mediums: comic books, animation, editorial cartoons, newspaper strips, graphic novels. Webtoons and beyond; and
WHEREAS; CXC strives to elevate and celebrates creators of all backgrounds and origin stories, and seeks to represent the diversity of comics’ vast international readership and creatorship, and to create experiences where creators can learn and grow while sharing experiences with their fans; and
WHEREAS; ...
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