Rochester, NH: Last week for the HE DREW, SHE DREW original cartoon exhibit featuring Mike Lynch (that's me) and Stephanie Piro.
Showing posts with label gallery show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gallery show. Show all posts
HE DREW, SHE DREW Gallery Show
Rochester, NH: Last week for the HE DREW, SHE DREW original cartoon exhibit featuring Mike Lynch (that's me) and Stephanie Piro.
Gallery Show: Charles E. Martin
Hugo Pratt Exhibit
Oscar Grillo shares photos from the Hugo Pratt exhibit at the Pinacothèque de Paris: part one and part two. Some spectacular images that makes me wish I could fly there right now and see it myself. Thanks very much for these, Oscar!
Related: Art Daily's description of this exhibit, which has over 300 works by Mr. Pratt. The gallery show runs through August 21, 2011.
Cartoonist Dan Reynolds Gallery Show
The Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, NY, exhibits 200 of Dan Reynolds' gag cartoons in its Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds gallery show, March 12 thru July 1o, 2011.
Molly English-Bowers writing for the Syracuse New Times, pens a profile of Dan:
"While he’s nationally known and has his share of followers in Central New York, many of those followers don’t realize he lives among them. 'I’m in a weird situation,' he says. 'I do my work here locally but I don’t do my work for the local area. Up until recently I didn’t make much of an effort at letting people know that I’m here or what I do.'
"'The impetus for this change was Reynolds’ battle with, and ultimate victory over, cancer. “Since I had cancer, I started to make more of a concentrated effort; I decided it would be fun to share more of what I do on a local level,' he says. 'So I’ve made myself more available, like the last couple of years working with the American Cancer Society locally, helping them out, participating in fundraising walks.'"
The rest, detailing Dan's life and how he started drawing cartoons, is here.
Dan will give a talk at the Museum this Saturday at noon.
Dueling Banjo Pigs Gallery Show
Provo, Utah: The Terra Nova Gallery presents the Dueling Banjo Pigs exhibit, which is based on Guy Francis' and Stacy Curtis' Dueling Banjo Pigs blog. The show runs from April 1 to April 29, 2011.A Dueling Banjo Pigs blog? How did that happen, you may well ask?!
It started out with a duel between friends. Guy Francis challenged fellow illustrator, Stacy Curtis, to a duel of banjo playing pigs. Now, other illustrators have joined the fun with banjo pigs of their own!We have more than 500 banjo pigs from countries all over the world!
Video: Frank Cho's World
Above: a screen grab from the video.
The Washington Post shows us a great video, along with some informative links, all about Frank Cho's work and influences. Well worth seeing. The videos by Ben de la Cruz and Alexandra Garcia are expertly presented and made me want more.
A big hat tip to my pal Sean Kelly!
Why Is MoCCA's Forthcoming Al Jaffee Exhibit Funded via Kickstarter?
Tom Spurgeon asks why the upcoming Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's Al Jaffee exhibit is being funded by Kickstarter. He not only asks the question, he contacted MoCCA Chairman Ellen Abramowitz.
"This show was presented to us on relatively short notice and Kickstarter is an ideal vehicle for raising funds for small, popular projects in a brief time frame."
Funding for museums is always an uphill battle, and this is the first time I've seen Kickstarter used for a gallery show for a name institution (although I am willing to bet there may have been others).
Al sure is very worthy of a retrospective, regardless!
Related: A NY Times 2008 profile of Mr. Jaffee (and scroll down for the multimedia MAD fold-ins!).
Traveling Exhibit: "Speed Bump: The Comic World of Dave Coverly"
"Speed Bump: The Comic World of Dave Coverly" traveling exhibit opens today in Wisconsin. It will be moving on to Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids.
Everyone knows my friend Dave Coverly and Speed Bump, his award winning cartoon panel that's in about 400 newspapers. I think that means Speed Bump is in all of the newspapers now!
Anyway, you probably know Dave through Speed Bump and/or his Parade magazine cartoons, and/or his New Yorker cartoons. If you are fotunate enough to know Dave the man, he's a swell guy and a gracious and funny fellow. If you get half a chance to see this Reuben Award winner speak, please take it. It'll be worth your time and you will laugh.
Related: Dave draws to "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Above: a rude cartoon by saucy postcard cartoonist Donald McGill.London's Tate Gallery's latest gallery show celebrates 300 years of British comic art and is titled Rude Britannia. The exhibition runs from June 9, 2010 to September 5, 2010
The exhibit includes Alice in Wonderland illustrations, Donald McGill’s smutty seaside postcards, Aubrey Beardsley, Cruikshank, Gerald Scarfe, Steve Bell, Rowlandson, Gillray, the Spitting Image's damning Thatcher puppet and the cartoonists from Viz.
Put together with some the country’s best-known cartoonists and comedy writers, this exhibition explores British comic art from the 1600s to the present day. Bringing together a wide array of paintings, sculptures, film and photography, as well as graphic art and comic books, the exhibition celebrates a rich history of cartooning and visual jokes.
Related: The Guardian's slideshow
Ed Koren Profile and Gallery Shows
New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren is profiled in the New York Times. He has a gallery show at alma mater Columbia.
Ken Johnson, writing for the Times, notes that it's
" ... worth visiting this show just to see the full-scale ink drawings on fine, heavyweight paper that are reduced to gray, postcard-size images in The New Yorker, in which his work has appeared since 1962."Koren, who lives in Vermont now, draws his originals really, really big. I remember seeing these rather large boxes, a couple of feet wide on either side, postmaked from Vermont, in The New Yorker offices. The return address was Ed Koren. Inside: his HUGE originals.
The “Edward Koren: The Capricious Line” show is through June 12 at the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
He also has another show in Chelsea titled “Edward Koren: Parallel Play, Drawings 1979-2010” through June 2 at the Luise Ross Gallery.
Rob Rogers' G-20 Sketchbook
Follow Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers as he riffs on the upcoming G-20 summit held in Pittsburgh.
And don't forget that if you're in Pittsburgh, see the Drawn to the Summit editorial cartoon gallery show at the Andy Warhol Museum, thru October 18, 2009. Rob co-curated the exhibition with art historian Sylvia Rhor.
Except don't go tomorrow. The Museum, along with a lot of most other places in The Berg, is closed for the G-20 Summit on Thursday.
Morrie Turner, Creator of Wee Pals: a 45-Year Retrospective
Morrie Turner is the subject of an interview by Jesse Hamlin for the San Francisco Chronicle upon the occasion of a gallery retrospective of his WEE PALS comic strip at the San Francisco Main Library through October 15, 2009.
"You see that in the cartoons he published in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s in Negro Digest, Black World and Ebony magazines (the originals were destroyed in a fire at Turner's Berkeley home, so he created the color versions in the exhibition from memory, so his son, also named Morrie, could have them). One, from the '50s, depicts an African American woman perusing three white guys in a police lineup: one tall and skinny, one squat and bald, the third with a mop of hair. 'I don't know!' she says. 'They all look alike to me!'"
Hat tip to Tom Spurgeon for this. Thanks, Tom!
NYTimes: Berndt Toast Gang Exhibit
Above: A great shot of MAD Magazine master caricaturist Mort Drucker at the board in his studio. Photograph by Ruby Washington for the New York Times.
The Berndt Toast Gang, a group of Long Island cartoonists, will exhibit members' work September 16th through November 30th at the Art-trium Gallery.
Article about the Gang here.
Sergio Aragonés Exhibit Report
Chartles Donlan writing for the Santa Barbara Independent describes the current Ojai Valley Museum retrospective of Sergio Aragonés.
"To add to the MADcap fun of this show, alongside the traditional informational wall cards of an art exhibit, viewers get a number of drawings done right on the walls by Aragonés himself. These not-so-minor masterpieces of marginalia are just as irreverent as the ones that Aragonés has been publishing as his signature contribution to MAD for decades. To imagine the artist prowling around the installation of the show, pen in hand and ready to strike, is a fair symbol of the man’s approach to his art. For Aragonés, there always seems to be more fun to be had, more jokes to be made, and more drawing to do."Mr. Donlen mentions the recent REUBENS JOURNAL cover ("the giant drawing of Hollywood that Aragonés produced for the trade magazine of cartoonists, the Reuben Journal"). Below is a small bit of detail from Mr. Aragonés' REUBENS JOURNAL cover, scanned in from my own copy. Please click to supersize and linger over, lovingly.
Video: The Toy and Action Figure Museum
I didn't even know about this place until today.
If you're in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, stop by at the Toy & Action Figure Museum. In a new 1 1/2 minute video, our host, Josh Kraft, manager, shows us that this place is more than action figures; it embraces comic strips as well.
He shows us some of the comic strip displays, Sunday pages, original art, and sort of a hall of fame of the cartoonists from Oklahoma: Bill Mauldin (the "Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist" if you please, not just a guy who did cartoons back in the army days, as Mr. Kraft describes him), Chester Gould (DICK TRACY) and Jack & Carole Bender (ALLEY OOP). The Benders assist in curating the museum.
My thanks to Nick for posting this on YouTube!
Video: "Art of the Watchman" MoCCA Exhibit
The PBS Sunday morning program "Sunday Arts" showcases the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art's Watchmen exhibit in this segment, hosted by co-curators Ellen S. Abramowitz and Peter Sanderson.
Big hat tip to Lawrence Klein, Esq., Chairman Emeritus and Founder, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art!
Big hat tip to Lawrence Klein, Esq., Chairman Emeritus and Founder, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art!
Video: Pat Oliphant
Above: a screen capture fro "Sketching History," a 13:50 video report by Australian telejournalist David Brill for the Special Broadcasting Service's program DATELINE hosted by George Negus.
Here is some video (and a transcript of same) of Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant, with lots of good close ups of him drawing with a dip pen, as well as sketching onstage with P.J. O'Rourke at the University of Virginia, where there is an exhibition of Oliphant's work, as well as Daumier's, through March 8, 2009.
I couldn't get the video to work on that SBS page above, but this link played it automatically.
Another big hat tip to Comics Reporter!
REPORTER: So there's the completed cartoon for today of the end of Bush's... End of eight years in the White House.
PAT OLIPHANT: Yeah, and, of course, I have mixed emotions about it. It's a dichotomous thing because he's given me a great 8-year ride with a match-up of just the perfect villains. And cartoonists, as you know, depend on villains. And so I'm losing probably the best cast that I've ever had and one thing I just have to remember is that politicians will never eventually let you down. They're going to come through with something. Bye Bush.
TOPOLSKI'S PARIS LOST 1930s Sketches
It's not cartoons, but it's some great work ....
If you're in the vicinity of the British Museum this weekend, drop by the Abbott and Holder Gallery to look at these wonderful inky sketches by Felikz Topolski. The exhibit, titled PARIS LOST: Drawings from the 1930s by Felikz Topolski R.A. (1907-1989), runs from July 5th until July 31st.
A big thanks to Claude H. for emailing me about this. I didn't know of Mr. Topolski's work until seeing at the above Web site. Just some wonderful, loose sketching. Really makes me wish I could wander over and peek at them in person.
Liza Donnelly Video
New Yorker cartoonist (and editor of the new book SEX AND SENSIBILITY) Liza Donnelly talks about being a cartoonist, the woman's point of view in cartooning and how the just-closed Cartoon Art Museum exhibit came to be.
Hey, I think that's Andrew Farago, curator of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, putting up those framed originals ....
Hey, I think that's Andrew Farago, curator of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, putting up those framed originals ....
Tom Engelhardt Video
From KETC St. Louis: a June 16, 2008 interview with veteran editorial cartoonist Tom Engelhardt. Tom was the editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 35 years.
This is a good interview. Not only does the camera linger over Tom Engelhardt's work, but he also talks about (and we get to see) St. Louis' rich history of editorial cartooning, up to and including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's designer, and current Weatherbird artist, Dan Martin.
Here's the video about Tom Engelhardt. It runs about 6 minutes.
Dan Martin's put together a history of St. Louis cartoonists in his book SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS: THE RICH TRADITION OF ST. LOUIS CARTOONING.
Here's Dan:
Some of the names are: Lee Falk, Clare Briggs, Phil Davis, Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Al Hirschfeld, Joseph Keppler, George McManus, Harry Tuthill, Mort Walker, Chic Young, Elmer Simms Campbell, Mike Peters, Mary Engelbreit, Kevin Belford, Glenn and Gary McCoy, and Dan Zettwoch. To celebrate the book's publication, Dan is curating an exhibit of original cartoons by these great cartoonists at the Bellweather Gallery through the end of August 2008
Related: Dan Martin and the history of the St. Louis Weatherbird from the Great Lakes Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society Web site.
Also related: Dan Martin's Postcard from Mound City feature.
This is a good interview. Not only does the camera linger over Tom Engelhardt's work, but he also talks about (and we get to see) St. Louis' rich history of editorial cartooning, up to and including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's designer, and current Weatherbird artist, Dan Martin.
Here's the video about Tom Engelhardt. It runs about 6 minutes.
Dan Martin's put together a history of St. Louis cartoonists in his book SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS: THE RICH TRADITION OF ST. LOUIS CARTOONING.
Here's Dan:
"Six years ago, when I was digging through the Post archives doing research for the Weatherbird’s 100th birthday, I was constantly stumbling across one famous cartoonist after another that had a St. Louis connection. What I found most interesting was how famous some of these great artists were, yet today are totally forgotten except to historians."
- from "You and Blondie at the Station" by Eddie Roth at St. Louis Today/Post-Dispatch site
Some of the names are: Lee Falk, Clare Briggs, Phil Davis, Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Al Hirschfeld, Joseph Keppler, George McManus, Harry Tuthill, Mort Walker, Chic Young, Elmer Simms Campbell, Mike Peters, Mary Engelbreit, Kevin Belford, Glenn and Gary McCoy, and Dan Zettwoch. To celebrate the book's publication, Dan is curating an exhibit of original cartoons by these great cartoonists at the Bellweather Gallery through the end of August 2008
Related: Dan Martin and the history of the St. Louis Weatherbird from the Great Lakes Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society Web site.
Also related: Dan Martin's Postcard from Mound City feature.
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