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Sean Fitzgibbon
March 8, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Sean Fitzgibbon for an in person event to celebrate his graphic non-fiction work, What Follows is True: Crescent Hotel, on Wednesday March 8 at 7:00 pm in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books.
Artist Sean Fitzgibbon explores unusual, real places and events through his work. His documentary-style graphic nonfiction, What Follows is True, explores the Crescent Hotel’s strange two years as the Baker Hospital, one of the darkest and most controversial legends in the town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
This event is free and open to the public. What Follows is True is available now at Magic City Books or you can purchase a copy online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/what-follows-is-true/1003.
About What Follows is True: Crescent Hotel
What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel, a graphic nonfiction that explores the stories surrounding the Crescent Hotel’s strange and tragic two years as The Baker Hospital, a Depression Era cancer hospital.
This 240 page fully-painted, graphic narrative blends oral histories, newspaper articles and Norman Baker’s own vanity biography to examine this historical happening and the complicated determinations of yesteryear’s monsters.
Artist Sean Fitzgibbon explores unusual, real places and events through his work. He has an MFA in art and a passion for making art and visual storytelling.
He is a 2021 Artists 360 recipient and a 2023 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award for graphic nonfiction What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel. He has exhibited work throughout the US. He also illustrates books and recently completed writing and illustrating a documentary-style graphic nonfiction that explores the Crescent Hotel’s strange two years as the Baker Hospital, one of the darkest and most controversial legends in the town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Be sure to also follow his work on Instagram at instagram.com/seanpfitzgibbon and facebook at facebook.com/seanfitzgibbonart
