# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Visit: Caitlin McGurk 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 15 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 15 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: McGurk will discuss her new book: Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund. 

Attendees of this talk will discover Shermund's unique and vibrant life and art, gain an understanding of how women's place in the history of cartooning has been controlled and sublimated by greater societal and cultural allowances, and learn about McGurk's process of tracing Shermund's life and putting scant pieces of information together in order to form a picture of who this artist was.

Books will be available for purchase and signing by Mac's Backs.

Caitlin McGurk is the Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. She leads the education and outreach efforts at the library, organizes community events, curates exhibitions, works with artists, and mentors students who are inspired to study the rich history of comics. McGurk’s scholarship and exhibitions center around the work of women in comics, alternative and underground comics, and early American comic strips.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rocky-river/author-visit-caitlin-mcgurk/200029315305341
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, exhibitions, nonprofit, womens-history-month
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Rocky River
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1600 Hampton Road, Rocky River, OH, United States, Ohio 44116
- **lat**: 41.47683
- **long**: -81.84152
- **full address**: 1600 Hampton Road, Rocky River, OH, United States, Ohio 44116

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- **organizer**: Rocky River Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/rocky-river-public-library/25987354)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 15 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1600 Hampton Road, Rocky River, OH, United States, Ohio 44116
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Rocky River Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, exhibitions, nonprofit, womens-history-month
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Author Visit: Caitlin McGurk  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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