Graphic Novelist Eleanor Davis at our studio
Graphic Novelist Eleanor Davis learns about solar plate etching during her recent residency in Columbus. Cooperative co-founder Anne Cushman instructed Eleanor on how to create etching plates from her line drawings. You can view Davis’ artwork on display at the Columbus Museum of Art through February 14, 2016.
For the past four years, CMA and Thurber House have awarded the Graphic Novelist Residency to an artist who demonstrates an experimental approach to creating comics and graphic novels. Eleanor Davis was selected as the recipient of the 2015 award which included an exhibition at CMA and a three-week residency at Thurber House.
Read her interview in Columbus Alive and view her images.
http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2016/01/14/profile-graphic-novelist-eleanor-davis.html
Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine. A collection of her short comics for adults, How To Be Happy, is available from Fantagraphics Books. She has produced two graphic novels for kids: The Secret Science Alliance and The Copycat Crook which she created with her husband Drew Weing.