{"id":596,"date":"2014-11-24T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsforum.msu.edu\/?p=480"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:45:06","slug":"2015-comics-forum-dates-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"2015 Comics Forum Dates &#038; Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/18.225.193.206\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sergio.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sergio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-870\" src=\"http:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sergio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>The 2015 MSU Comics Forum will take <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">place on Feb. 20th<\/span> and <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">21st.<\/span> The keynote address will occur on the first evening, <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">Friday, Feb. 20th, 2015,<\/span> while the panel discussions and artist alley will take place the following day, <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">Saturday,<\/span> Feb 21st, 2015. The location will be in Snyder\/Phillips Hall on the campus of Michigan State University.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Forum is proud to announce that Sergio Aragones will be our Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker on Friday, Feb 20th, 2015.\u00a0 Aragones is the most honored cartoonist, having won every major award in the field including the National Cartoonists Society?s Reuben Award and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame Award.\u00a0 He is widely known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and his long-running comic book series, Groo the Wanderer.\u00a0 Recently, Aragones completed a Groo vs. Conan crossover with artist, Tom Yeates, and continues his more than 50 years of contributions to Mad Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 MSU Comics Forum will take place on Feb. 20th and 21st. The keynote address will occur on the first evening, Friday, Feb. 20th, 2015, while the panel discussions and artist alley will take place the following day, Saturday, Feb 21st, 2015. The location will be in Snyder\/Phillips Hall on the campus of Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","category-annoucements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsforum.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}