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[dc]T[/dc]he centerpiece of this week’s MSU Comics Forum is tomorrow night’s keynote address. Each year, someone in the comics field gives an informative chat in Snyder/Phillips Hall. I attended the last two keynote addresses by Nick Bertozzi and Stan Sakai, and loved both.

Cartoonist Tom Hart (filling in for Sergio Aragones) gives this year’s keynote address, and like all the other keynote addresses, it is free to attend.

This year’s MSU Comics Forum poster by Tom Hart.

I confess I didn’t know of Hart before the news of his (very welcome) last-minute addition. Yet, this was the case with Bertozzi’s keynote, and I very much enjoyed his speech.

There’s a reason someone gets the guest of honor title at the MSU Comics Forum and gives the keynote address. Hart’s selection was reason enough for me to research his work.

I’m glad I did! I found Hart’s comic Hutch Owen and loved it right away. I looked over Hart’s personal website, and the more I did, the more I grew excited about his keynote address. Hart runs the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), “a school for cartooning and graphic novels,” so I am eager to hear what he has to say about making comics.

If you read comics, make comics, both, or want to simply learn more about comics, I recommend attending Hart’s keynote address. It is tomorrow night, at 7:00 PM, in Snyder/Phillips Hall on Michigan State University’s campus.

Again, like all the MSU Comics Forum events, Tom Hart’s keynote address is free.

Also on Friday: A signing with Image Comics artist Jason Howard (Trees, Super Dinosaur, The Astounding Wolfman) at Hollow Mountain, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM.

Saturday: The MSU Comics Forum Artist’s Alley and Panel Discussions. Also in Snyder/Philips Hall, Artist’s Alley begins at 11:00 AM on Saturday and goes until 5:00 PM. Entry is free and the event is family friendly. I will be there, with a fresh crop of new comics and cartoons for sale.