On May 11th and 12th Toronto will be celebrating the diversity of comics at the annual Toronto Comic Arts Festival and the Goethe-Institut will join in. As this year’s guest we are happy to welcome Nora Krug, author of the visual memoir
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, in which Krug takes on a powerful investigation into her German family’s involvement in World War II. It was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 and as one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2018. Piecing together her family’s history through a variety of visual devices – her book includes photographs, postcards, newspapers and documents, children’s exercise books, watercolours, comic strips and hand lettered text – Krug explores what it means to belong and what impact history has on successive generations.
Nora Krug, born 1977 in Karlsruhe, is a professor at the renowned Parsons School of Design in New York. Her visual narratives have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and A Public Space. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and her animations were shown at the Sundance Film Festival. Her previous work includes the graphic novel,
Red Riding Hood Redux, silk-screen book,
Shadow Atlas and the visual biography,
Kamikaze. She also illustrated the children’s book,
My Cold Went on Vacation.
You can catch her at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) and at the following events:
05/09 European Artists’ Panel
7 – 8PM | Alliance Française
24 Spadina Road, Toronto, ON M5R 2S7
Nora Krug will be a part of a European Artists’ Panel at the Alliance Francaise. |
05/10 Reading at Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre
2PM – 3:30PM | JCC
750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 2J2
The critically acclaimed author and illustrator will be discussing and reading from her graphic memoir. There will be a short signing after the discussion. |
05/11 Nora Krug at TCAF
10AM – 5PM | Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street, Toronto
Krug will be tabling at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival all day supporting “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home”. |
05/11 Comic Formalism: Panel w/ Emily Carroll, Jason, Nora Krug, Paul Kirchner
10 AM – 11AM | Hinton Learning Theatre, Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street, Toronto
Where artists get their inspiration to explore and experiment with the form. |
05/12 Spotlight: Nora Krug
11AM – 12PM | High Park Ballroom 1, Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville
90 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Nora Krug will be interviewed by the Goethe-Institut’s Michelle Kay.
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