Charles Johnson and David Horsey

You put effort into crafting a skill set, you’re recognized for your talents, maybe you even become well-known for those skills and achievements- who wouldn’t love that? But is that where we should stay – in the lanes we’re expected to fall into?

Join award-winning literary and creative figures Charles Johnson and David Horsey for an evening discussing their storied careers and the lessons they’ve learned along the way about challenging expectations and reaching for more.

Charles Johnson is best known as a prolific author; David Horsey as a political cartoonist. However, the two have more in common than extensive bibliographies and a mutual admiration of each other’s work. Horsey just published his debut novel, Beach of Stars, and Johnson has recently released a collection of his own early cartoons about the Black Power movement titled All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End.  Both creators have years of experience in pushing industry boundaries and showing the importance of continually giving creative minds room to grow. Between the two, they display that yes, writers can be cartoonists and cartoonists can be writers – as well as essayists, columnists, philosophers, musicians, and more.

Follow Johnson and Horsey on a tour through their wide-ranging careers, with abundant on-screen examples, and a conversation highlighting their shared belief that creative minds should never be confined to narrow definitions of what they’re expected to do.