The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will be spotlighting the art of Briana Miller starting on August 16th.Briana Miller is a Berkeley-born, East Bay resident who has lived in almost every city that touches the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay. She created her first comic in 2000 and quickly discovered what she […]
The Pittsburgh based Toonseum has announced a new exhibit. To celebrate the city’s 250th birthday, the museum will feature original cartoon art from cartoonists spanning 50 years with artists such as Rob Rogers, Tim Menees, Tim Hartman, Randy Bish and Cy Hungerford. The exhibit is entitled “Drawn to the Hive” and runs from August 9 […]
Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett’s work will be on display at The Jewish Cultural Center in Chattanooga between August 4 through September 4. The exhibit is called “Think Globally, Draw Locally.” Clay will speak on August 19 at a luncheon.
The San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will open an exhibit starting June 28 featuring “a visual history of one of the most popular comic book publishers of all time: Harvey Comics.” Harvey Comics produced many memorable cartoon characters such as Casper The Friendly Ghost, Wendy The Good Little Witch, Richie Rich, The Poor Little […]
» E&P reports that another couple of Charles Schulz original Peanut strips have sold at auction for a combined $115,269. The first strip dated June 3, 1962 is a Sunday featuring a kite-flying scene and it sold for $79,100 and the second is a daily featuring Snoopy dated January 11, 1964 which sold for $36,160.» […]
Akron Beacon Journal editorial cartoonist Chip Bok will be the featured speaker at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center this Thursday night in conjunction with their The Golden Age of American Political Cartoons exhibit that ends on Sunday. Chip’s speech is entitled, “A Cartoonist’s Life or ‘Is that ALL you do?’.” The exhibit is described […]
» Peter Parker and Spidey are slated to hit to Broadway in late 2009 or 2010 in a musical directed by Julie Taymor (who won a Tony for her work on “Lion King”) and the music score by Bono and The Edge of U2.» Garfield will by highlighted in Total Licensing Magazine.» Andrews McMeel Universal […]
Post-Dispatch designer and illustrator Dan Martin has curated an exhibit of cartoon art by cartoonists associated with St. Louis Missouri. The 40 original cartoon exhibit includes work from Kevin Belford, Mary Engelbreit, Lee Falk, Clare Briggs, Phil Davis, Clare Victor “Dwig” Dwiggins, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Al Hirschfeld, Joseph Keppler, S. Carlisle Martin, Glenn and Gary McCoy, […]
Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker has written a review of Pat Oliphant’s traveling exhibit entitled “Leadership: Oliphant Cartoons and Sculpture From the Bush Years.” When you walk into the exhibit, you’re first struck by two giant charcoal caricatures, one of the late President Ronald Reagan as a cowboy and the other of former President George […]
Caleb Mozzocco attended the recent opening of Jeff Smith’s Bone exhibit at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and Wexler Center and the panel discussion with Jeff and Scott McCloud. He’s posted extensive notes about the exchange, so if you missed it, this is a very good summary. He spent a few years trying […]
Jeff Smith’s joint exhibit his Bone comic opened up last weekend at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and Wexner Center for the Arts. WizardUniverse.com’s Kiel Phegley interviewed the two curators Lucy Caswell and David Filipi. David, you may have just answered my next question, but I was wondering for each of you, what […]
An exhibit entitled “Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast Pictures Black America” is now open in Auburn N.Y. according to E&P. The show explores life for many African-Americans after the Civil War as seen through the eyes of Thomas Nast, the father of modern editorial cartooning. Pardon / Franchise, wood engravings, August, 1865, Harper’s Weekly post-Civil […]
Those not in the D.C. area can still see “Herblock’s Presidents: “Puncturing Pomposity,” an exhibit currently showing at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery online. The exhibit displays Herblock’s editorial cartoons featuring presidents Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton.Visit the exhibit online.Hat tip: Dirk Deppey
The Wexner Center and The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library will co-host an exhibition of artwork from Jeff Smith’s critically acclaimed Bone comic. The exhibit, entitled “Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond,” will feature approximately 80 original drawings as well as an exhibition of selected original comics by artists who has influenced Jeff – artists […]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will be opening an exhibit featuring famed editorial cartoonist Herbert “Herblock” Block in May. The exhibit, entitled “Herblock’s Presidents: ‘Puncturing Pomposity” features 40 political cartoons. The exhibition includes his depictions of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald […]