Submitted by Timberland Regional Library
Artist David Lasky will present a multimedia slideshow documenting the creation of the graphic novel, “The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song,” by Frank M. Young and Lasky, about the classic American folk group. Lasky will also discuss historical graphic novels and the depiction of music in comics. Join him at the Olympia Timberland Library on Friday, March 1 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
In The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, and Lasky tell the story of the Carter Family—the first superstar group of country music—who made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records between 1927 and 1944. The novel is both a unique biography, and an account that reveals the family’s rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music. It is also a story of success and failure, poverty and wealth, racism and tolerance, creativity and business, and the enduring power of music and love.
The book shares the same goal as country music: to tell stories, and to capture them honestly. Illustrated with exacting detail and written in the Southern dialect of the time, the book is uniquely American. It includes a music CD of 11 rare Carter Family radio recordings. http://carterfamilycomix.blogspot.com
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer/artist of Maus, said: “Frank Young and David Lasky have spun a work of visual music that will replay in your head and heart well after you’ve finished reading it.”
Lasky has written and illustrated a number of acclaimed comic books. Originally from Virginia, he now makes his home in Seattle.
This free afterhours library event is sponsored by the Friends of the Olympia Timberland Library. The library is located at 313 8th Avenue SE, Olympia. For more information, contact the library at (360) 352-0595 or visit www.TRL.org.
