French cartoonist Anne Simon will be presenting her collection of graphic novels—a collaboration with Swiss author Corinne Maier—which explore the lives of some of the most influential figures of the 20th Century: Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Albert Einstein.

Anne Simon has studied at the Beaux-Arts in Angoulême and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her first comic book, Persephone in the Underworld, received the best “New Talent” award at the Angoulême festival in 2006.

The event will be moderated by Washington Post Cartoonist Michael Cavna.

Michael Cavna is an American columnist and cartoonist for The Washington Post. His favorite interviews have included Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, Pénélope Bagieu, Sylvain Chomet, Tim Burton, Bill Watterson and Garry Trudeau.

In 2015, his "Wise Up" cartoon launched the viral #Draw4Atena campaign on behalf of jailed Iranian artist Atena Farghadani. His Post column, "Comic Riffs," has received 11 national awards from the Society for Features Journalism in the past four years. Cavna also wrote the Harvey Award-nominated journalism profile for the Eisner Award-nominated book "Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's." In April 2016, his "Comic Riffs" column also was nominated for an Eisner Award for journalism.

A light reception will follow this event.

This event will be in French and translated into English.

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