Join Joel Christian Gill—cartoonist, historian, Associate Professor of Art, and Chair of the MFA in Visual Narrative at Boston University—as he unpacks Trenton Doyle Hancock’s graphic and cartoon-inspired artwork on view in To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood.

Joel Christian Gill is a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. He wrote and illustrated Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride and the award-winning graphic novel series Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, as well as 3 volumes of Tales of The Talented Tenth, which tell the stories of Bass Reeves, Bessie Stringfield, and Robert Smalls.

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