UPCOMING EVENTS

KICKSTARTER Friday, October 1-31

The Kickstarter for my upcoming nonfiction graphic novel What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel begins Friday, October 1-31 so be sure and pledge! Click HERE for more information.

ARTIST RECEPTION / PRESENTATION October 2, 6-8 pm, Cozy Nook Studio & Gallery, Lonoke, AR

Join us Saturday, October 2 from 6-8pm at Cozy Nook Studio and Gallery in Lonoke for an artist reception and presentation. I’ll be discussing my upcoming book and exclusive (sneak peek) preview books will be available for purchase! Click HERE for more information.

PRESENTATION Wednesday, October 6, 12-1pm, CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies (online)

Sean Fitzgibbon will give a presentation at Legacies & Lunch, a free monthly program of CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies about Arkansas-related topics. Click HERE for more information.

PRESENTATION Wednesday, October 6, 4:30-5:30 pm, Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library, Eureka Springs, AR

Author-illustrator Sean Fitzgibbon will read from, answer questions and discuss his research on his latest non-fiction graphic work, "What Follows is True: Crescent Hotel." Sean Fitzgibbon is an alumni of the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) who is co-presenting this event with the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library under the tent in the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library Garden at 188 Spring Street (south of the Carnegie Library Gardens Building). This event is free and open to all. Click HERE for more information.

PRESENTATION Thursday, October 7, 7-8 pm University of Arkansas for Medical Science / Society of the History of Medicine (online)

PRESENTATION Saturday, October 9, 2 pm Fayetteville Public Library. Click HERE for more information.

SUPPORT THE KICKSTARTER FRIDAY OCTOBER 1-31

The KICKSTARTER launch is coming up Friday, October 1 at 7:00 am and runs through October 31 at 11:59. If you’re planning on backing the campaign please try to pledge as early as possible and that way the campaign can gain traction early on and we can reach the funding goal. The book is ready for the printer but Kickstarter is all or nothing so let’s work together and make this book happen!

The Crescent Hotel underwent a total transformation in 1937 when it reopened as a cancer hospital and thus beginning the most bizarre and darkest chapter in the history the Crescent Hotel.

BAKER HOSPITAL LOBBY

This is a panel from my upcoming nonfiction graphic novel “Crescent Hotel” illustrating the marble, lobby fireplace during Norman Baker’s reign. After having been run out of Iowa for practicing medicine without a license Baker moved his cancer patients to the Cresent Hotel in Arkansas in the late 1930’s. He transformed this Late Gothic /French Renaissance/Romanesque style hotel into his strange cancer hospital and health resort which was festooned with carnival-like art deco motifs and utilizing his signature color purple throughout.