Filed under: Exhibits

This weekend is New York City comics art festival.  Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter has a great overview of the events.

I don’t have pictures from the Glyph Awards ceremony, but I do havepictures from the convention it was attached to, the Fifth Annual EastCoast Black Age of Comics Convention (my boyfriend, social/politicalcartoonist Masheka Wood had a table and a book).

‘Zippy’ Comics Part of Exhibit About Diners:Eight “Zippy the Pinhead” strips will be part of an exhibition called “Counter Culture: The American Diner.”The show open tomorrow and runs through Oct. 2 at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, Calif.Bill Griffith’s “Zippy” comic is distributed by King Features Syndicate.

From Jim Borgman’s blog comes this pointer to an art exhibit in Virginia that is showcasing Jeff MacNelly’s sculptures that runs May 6th through the 28th in Washington VA.  Visit Jim’s blog for more details.You can see some of the artwork online.

This year’s festival will focus on the work of Milton Caniff.From the OSU’s web site:Milton Caniff, known as the “Rembrandt of the Comic Strip” for his work on Terry and the Pirates, Male Call, and Steve Canyon, is one of the most honored cartoonists in history, with awards ranging from two Cartoonist of the Year “Reuben” awards from his peers in the National Cartoonists Society, to the Exceptional Service Award of the United States Air Force.  A May 19, 1947 Newsweek cover story about Caniff estimated that the daily readership of Steve Canyon was thirty million people worldwide.Caniff is especially noted for his accurate background research and excellent writing; for his innovative use of graphic techniques in his comic strips; for his unusual public service, especially to the United States Air Force; and for his professional leadership in founding the National Cartoonists Society and the Newspaper Features Council (later named the Newspaper Features Council).Terry and the Pirates provided the vehicle for Caniff’s maturation both as an artist and as a storyteller.

The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco has a new exhibit called “Cartoon Tunes: Capturing Music in Comics” according to Editor and Publisher.  The exhibit runs May 9 through Oct. 15 and features music such as Bob Dylan, Philip Glass, Led Zeppelin, Jenny Lind, Prince, Run-DMC, and They Might Be Giants.

Kevin Kallaugher, a.k.a “KAL” will have a new exhibit at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore MD. The exhibit, called “Mightier than the Sword” will feature more than 200 of his cartoons from the Baltimore Sun and Economist and include caricatures, sculptures and animation. The exhibit runs June 18 through September 3rd. As a great […]

Editor and Publisher has the scoop on an exhibit of Paul Conrad’s bronze statues. The six-week exhibit runs through May 21, according to the Los Angeles Times, where Conrad was formerly a staff cartoonist. The newspaper noted that Conrad has sculpted figures such as George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Dr. […]

I know I’ve mentioned in passing before, but this story reminds me post something new. The Masters of American Comics exhibit that is wrapping up in Los Angeles will be hitting the road to other select cities in the U.S. Next up is Milwaukee (April 27-Aug 13) then on to New York and New Jersey.The […]

The Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection recently received a gift of over 2,000 comic books, magazines and comic strips. The OCC can be seen at the Toy and Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley. They have an impressive number of work from very influential cartoonists.Those Oklahoma cartoonists with work in the collection now include Chester Gould (Dick […]

Those in the Toledo OH area, can visit the Toledo Museum of Art to see Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson’s original editorial cartoons on display. Nick is a Toledo native. The Show runs March 31 through June 25. A new exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art draws its inspiration from those cartoons that […]

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon art is presenting an exhibit called “She Draws Comics: 100 Years of America’s Women Cartoonists.” As you might deduce from theh title – it’s an exhibit featuring the art of women cartoonists.Celebrate a century of the greatest female practitioners of comic and cartoon art that America has ever seen, […]

Just noticed this on the Schulz Museum web site that there is an exhibit coming up called “Face-Off: Charles M. Schulz and Hockey” (scroll down a bit) and runs from June 28 through October 2, 2006. Growing up in Minnesota, Charles Schulz developed a love for ice hockey?a sport that he continued to play for […]

From E&P: An exhibit called “No Straight Lines: Queer Culture and the Comics” will be held March 18 through June 25 at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco. The show features the work of 20 cartoonists — including Alison Bechdel, who self-syndicates the “Dykes to Watch Out For” strip; and Paige Braddock, whose “Jane’s […]

The Scott County Heritage Center and Museum in Scottsburg Indiana is hosting an exhibit of cartoons from cartoonists, like Jim Davis, who call Indiana their home. In addition to Davis, a native of Muncie, the exhibit showcases cartoonists such as Allen Saunders, a Boone County native and Wabash College alumnus who revamped “Mary Worth”; and […]