{"id":42,"date":"2009-02-22T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsforum.msu.edu\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-02-22T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T19:00:52","slug":"mouse-guard-creator-david-peterson-announced-as-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"David Petersen Announced as 2009 Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan State University Comics Forum 2009 is pleased to announce that David Petersen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidpetersen.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.davidpetersen.net<\/a>), creator of multiple Eisner Award winning Mouse Guard (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouseguard.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.mouseguard.net<\/a>), will deliver this year&#8217;s keynote.<\/p>\n<p>David Petersen was born in 1977. His artistic career soon followed. A steady diet of cartoons, comics, and tree climbing fed his imagination and is what still inspires his work today. David won the 2007 Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 2008, David won the Eisners for Best Publication for Kids (Mouse Guard Fall 1152 &amp; Winter 1152) and Best Graphic Album \u2013 Reprint (Mouse Guard Fall 1152 Hardcover).\u00a0 David and his wife Julia reside in Michigan with their dog Autumn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-image\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-903\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mouseguard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-903\" src=\"http:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mouseguard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mouseguard.jpg 596w, https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mouseguard-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mouse Guard, by David Petersen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mouse Guard is the story of mice who struggle to live safely and prosper among all of the world\u2019s harsh conditions and predators. Thus the Mouse Guard was formed. After persevering against a weasel warlord in the winter war of 1149, the territories are no longer as troubled. True, the day to day dangers exist, but no longer are the Guard soldiers, instead they are escorts, pathfinders, weather watchers, scouts and body guards for the mice who live among the territories. Many skills are necessary for the guard to keep the borders safe. They must find new safeways and paths from village to village, lead shipments of goods from one town to another and, in case of attack, guard against all evil and harm to their territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan State University Comics Forum 2009 is pleased to announce that David Petersen (http:\/\/www.davidpetersen.net), creator of multiple Eisner Award winning Mouse Guard (http:\/\/www.mouseguard.net), will deliver this year&#8217;s keynote. David Petersen was born in 1977. His artistic career soon followed. A steady diet of cartoons, comics, and tree climbing fed his imagination and is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-annoucements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}