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 […]
While this may have very little impact to readers of this site, I post it nonetheless on the grounds that it has nothing to do with the Mohammad cartoon contoversy. With that admission, here is the story. Enjoy.London’s first cartoon museum, with 3,000 books and 1,200 images, covers three centuries, from Georgian Rowlandson watercolours of […]
The Univerisity of Florida is sponsoring the fourth annual conference on comics. This year’s theme is “Comics and Childhood”The fourth annual University of Florida conference on comics will focus on the theme of comics and childhood. Comics are still largely seen by the general public as a media directed toward a child or youth audience. […]
Kathryn LeMieux, one of the six contributors to “Six Chix,” will participate in the current “Sugar and Spice: Little Girls in the Funnies” exhibit at the Charles M. Schulz Musueum. Author Trina Robbins will discuss the history of women cartoonists Saturday at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. Her talk coincides with […]
The new National Cartoon Museum in New York City has announced their target date to open to the public. “Early 2007.”The National Cartoon Museum, which possesses one of the largest and most important collections of cartoon art in the world, will open in its new home in New York City?s Empire State Building in early […]
A new exhibit has opened in London featuring editorial cartoonists from both sides of the Atlantic and how the artists treat the US President. Pictures in a new exhibition depict President Bush as a crocodile, a spider and a dimwitted cowboy. And those are the polite images. “Misunderestimating the President Through Cartoons” looks back on […]
A sculpture to be erected using Calvin and Hobbes figures has been approved for constructure and display at Dartmouth College.The sculpture will depict cartoon characters Calvin and Hobbes bobsledding down a large, slanted “D”. A snow version of the Olympic torch will serve as the spine of the “D,” and the inside of the sculpture […]
A new traveling exhibit called “Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace” will begin in July with several cities lined up. This exhibition consists of forty high?quality reproduction prints and will travel for five years to various locations. Venues that have already rented the exhibit include the R.W. Norton Art Gallery (Shreveport, Louisiana); the […]
Dan Davis, who cites on his web site that he inks comic features such as “Blondie,” “Alley Oop” and holds “Paws Inc.” as a client, will be appearing at the upcoming Gem City Comic Con in Dayton Ohio.
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will be holding their second annual “Comics 4 Comix” fund raiser. The event features bay area stand-up comics, and the opportunity to purchase original cartoon art from Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Paul Madonna (All Over Coffee), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts). Comics 4 Comix will be held February 10. Ticket and […]
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will run an exhibit of Israeli politicial cartoons starting February 1 and running through April 9. Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka will be speaking at the museum on Feb. 15. Should be interesting.
The Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State will have 30 rare political prints from 1830-1840. This exhibition features thirty lithographed political prints from the 1830s and 1840s, which are recent acquisitions of the Cartoon Research Library, purchased with support from the William J. Studer endowment. Twenty-seven of the prints were issued by H.R. Robinson, the […]
Mark Anderson’s blog reports that the Masters of American Comics exhibit will be traveling to Milwaukee between April 29 and August 13, 2006.You can read more about the exhibit and get more details (tickets and contact information) at Milwaukee Art Musuem’s web site.
American cartoonists will join up with their counterparts from across the pond for a cartoon event called “Drawing Inspiration: The Art of the Editorial Cartoon” sponsored by the French Institute Alliance Francaise.With eye-catching imagery and clever wordplay, an editorial cartoon says far more than a thousand-word article, inspiring us to look at a topic from […]
According to E&P, two comic strip artists will appear at the upcoming WonderCon, a comic book convention held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Frank Cho, whose feature “Liberty Meadows” is syndicated by Creators and Romona Fradon, the former artist for “Brenda Starr” will appear. WonderCon runs February 10 through 12.If I’m not mistaken, […]