Slightly off topic, but the Museum of Modern Art has a exhibit called “Pixar: 20 Years of Animation.” The exhibit runs through February 6. In celebration of Pixar Animation Studios? twentieth anniversary in 2006, and as part of its exhibition of Pixar animation art, MoMA presents a complete retrospective of the company?s theatrical shorts and […]
E&P is reporting that Kate Salley Palmer will have a exhibit of her work on display at the Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library running from January 10 through April 14. Palmer, a former staff cartoonist for The Greenville (S.C.) News, left syndication in 1989. Since then, she has written and illustrated children’s books. Also, […]
The Charles M. Schulz Museum will begin a new exhibit (scroll down the page) on February 4 (through May 29) called, “Sugar and Spice: Little Girls in the Funnies.” The subtitle is: “An Exhibition of Peanuts Girls and their Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors” and as you might expect shows various girl characters in comic strips […]
The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco has an exhibit called “Why Do They Hate U.S.? An International Perspective on American Politics & Culture”. The exhibit starts Dec. 22 and runs through April 30th.Even in times of international turmoil and American jingoism, the rest of the world, uncomfortably, still looks to the U.S. for leadership. […]
An exhibit in Seattle is opening featuring the work of a small group of cartoonists who are pushing for the legitimacy of comic art.Cartoon artists have a long, proud history of pushing people’s buttons. Gary Larson once baffled and infuriated readers with a Far Side panel depicting odd objects in a field captioned “Cow tools.” […]
Time magazine has a good article on the two Los Angeles museums showing a large 900 piece exhibit on the history of American Comics that I reported on earlier. Says John Carlin, curator:When I started doing research, I felt this was a lost continent. Comics are one of the most important forms of artistic expression […]
The UCLA Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) have a current exhibition called “Masters of American Comics.”
If your a comic collector, you may want to visit the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla California. LA JOLLA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 11, 2005–Jim Davis, the creator of the world’s most famous cat, Garfield, will have an art show of one-of-a-kind signed works at the Hallmark Galleries in La Jolla, California, 1162 Prospect Street. A wide […]
As reported by E&P:Keith Knight is teaching the next “True Confessions of a Professional Cartoonist” workshop at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco Dec. 3. Knight is the creator of “The ‘K’ Chronicles” and “(th)ink” comics. His self-syndicated work appears in newspapers, magazines, and on the Web.
Hundreds of New York City high school teens will learn about World War II by visiting the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. The “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust: Art in the Service of Humanity” exhibit runs through February 6 2006.link
Signe is celebrating 20 years at the Philidelphia Daily News. To commemorate, a sample of her cartoons will be shown at the University of the Arts November 9th through December 5th. The Exhibit is called “real wars and culture wars in Philadelphia and the world beyond”For more information: Hamilton Hall, 320 South Broad Street. 215-717-6480.
Editor and Publisher is writing about Ranan Laurie’s UN painting but has mentioned what I consider a larger story that Lurie is leaving print cartooning. Before he left on his sabbatical, he had 1,105 subscribers to his cartoon.“Political cartooning is going to change its character completely. It will become animation, sound, and color,” said Lurie, […]
A childrens exhibit of Peanuts can be had at the EdVenture museum in Columbia South Caroline. From the museums web site: Don’t miss EdVenture’s newest blockbuster traveling exhibit, ?Good Grief!? Based upon the cartoons of the late Charles Schulz, ?Good Grief!? uses the trials and tribulations of Charlie Brown and the PEANUTS gang to help […]
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is hosting an exhibit of 47 works of cartoon art that were part of a traveling exhibit to help sell war bonds. The artists were legendary Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, Peter Arno, Mary Stewart and Sid Hoff. Their cartoons are variously violent, patriotic, frightening and funny, lampooning Hitler, […]
I’m a day late reporting this one, but legendary editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad’s work will be featured in an exhibit called “Conrad & the Presidents.” The exhibit will feature more than four dozen cartoons on the subject of the American presidency. From the press release:Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Conrad has skewered 11 presidents – from […]