Fanatgraphics books is opening an exhibit in their bookstore called the “Unseen Peanuts“ a small collection of little known works by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. The features are deemed “unseen” because they were one of thousands that were left out of published collections until the Complete Peanuts Project. The exhibition will showcase nine of […]
I know I’ve mentioned it in passing before, but Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher’s exhibit, “Mightier Than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL” will be opening on November 7th at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy’s Rubenstein Hall on the Duke campus. The exhibit is free to the public and will stay at Duke through […]
The Charles M. Schulz Musuem has several interesting exhibits planned this year. Starting January 16th the museum will have feature an exhibit called “Beyond Words” that will display 75 Peanut originals that told stories without using words. Exhibit runs through May 12th.Beginning in February, another exhibit co-curated by Brian Walker (who also co-curated the recent […]
“History Revealed” is a new exhibit in Chicago that will feature the cartoon art of Bill Mauldin and Jules Feiffer. The show opens Friday, October 26 and runs through January 26th 2008 and includes watercolors, original pen and ink, illustrations and a limited edition reprint of Bill’s famous “Weeping Lincoln.” This exhibition will explore subtleties […]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich will have his own exhibit in Atlanta’s finest contemporary gallery, TEW Galleries. His show begins tomorrow and runs through November 6th. This will be Mike’s first exhibit.Creative Loafing has an extensive interview with him about the exhibit, his politics, his italian suits, his blog.
From Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher’s web site comes news that KAL will be speaking at George Washington University on the 19th of this month on the topic of “Iconophobia: Comics, Politics, and the Power of the Image.” The event is open to the public and runs from 7:30-9:00 p.m. KAL is also scheduled to appear at […]
Just got an email from Rob Harrell who tells me that he’s self-publishing a second collection of his Big Top comic through Lulu press. The book is called “Sawdust and Greasepaint”, has 128 pages and retails for $11.95. He’s also redesigned his web site to showcase his fine art, illustration and comic strip. It also […]
Over on Mike Rhode’s ComicsDC blog, he’s passing on information that this year’s Festival of Carton Art has added Paul Pope, Arnold Roth, and David Saylor to the line-up of speakers to replace Jules Feiffer, Guy Delisle and Mark Siegel who have cancelled their appearance. Paul has worked in alternative comics, manga, comic books and […]
An exhibit that opened this week in Fremont Ohio is featuring 100 19-century political cartoons that originally appeared in weekly publications. The exhibit is entitled “The Golden Age of Political Cartooning” and is located at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. It opened Tuesday and runs through May 31st. Thanks to Kelly Croy for the […]
On September 8 the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco will have Betsy Streeter available as their latest Cartoonist-in-Residence. Betsy does the Brainwaves comic seen on GoComics.com.
A new comic exhibit entitled “Comic Relief” is opening up in Sioux Falls (SD) and will feature cartoon art from Lynn Johnston, Mort Walker, Gary McCoy, Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman, Marcus Hamilton, Stan Goldberg, Dan Piraro, Hy Eisman, and Tom Richmond. The show is organized by Ken Alvine – a member of the National Cartoonist […]
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will open up the ToonSeum Gallery this October that will feature exhibits of cartoon art from comic books, comic strips, illustrations, editorial cartooning and animation. The gallery’s first exhibit is entitled “From Illustration to Animation: Picture Books Come Alive Through the Art of Animation” and opens up in October of […]
The new Indie Spinner Rack, #88, was released on Wednesday. The latest issue of the audio magazine features part one of an overview of the MoCCA Art Festival and post-show events, including some of the notable book premieres that sold out, post-show parties and plenty more.
Mike Lynch has posted his photos from this last weekend’s Mocca Festival as well as posting links to other camera toting artist/bloggers who’ve posted their photos (scroll to bottom of page).UPDATE: Comics reporter has combined a much greater list of blogs, photos and news stories surrounding this year’s Mocca.
The Beat blog posts a write up on bumping into Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker and an update on the cartoon museum Mort has diligently worked on for so long.As it stands now, the art that was once housed in the museum is sitting in storage in Stamford, CT. Walker told us that Ohio State […]