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[wd_asp id=1]Visual Literacy Through El Cuy
Visual Literacy Through El Cuy’s Comic Strips
A Conversation With Peruvian Cartoonist Juan Acevedo
What do you get when you cross the written word with a line drawing? Join us for a lunchtime talk with Peruvian political and social cartoonist Juan Acevedo on promoting visual literacy through El Cuy‘s comic strips.
Free and open to the public. Light lunch served. This event is made possible with the support of Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Forum for Scholars and Publics, the Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Fund, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University.
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Juan Acevedo
Juan Acevedo Fernández de Paredes is a Peruvian artist and art educator widely known for his 50-year trajectory as a cartoonist, especially for his famous character El Cuy. Acevedo’s prolific work is compiled in outstanding comic books that reveal his political and humanistic concerns as well as his expertise in…...
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