Industry news for the professional cartoonist
After the Masters of American Comics exhibit left LA and Milwaukee, I kind of let it slide as to the events surrounding it in various cities. Now that the exhibit is in New Jersy, there are some interesting panel discussions scheduled.
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….
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.
The UCLA Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) have a current exhibition called “Masters of American Comics.”
Brian Walker, son of Mort Walker, has been busy doing interviews about the ongoing ‘Masters of the American Comics’. NPR had him on last Tuesday. There is a link to the audio on their site. There is also an printed interview in AIGA Journal of Design where in he talks about how the this exhibit…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2024 release.Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY DAILIES & SUNDAYS Volume 5 1938-1939 by Chester Gould THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY DAILIES &…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via the books’ publishers,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Comics Revue Presents December 2023 features Drago by Burne Hogarth; Flash Gordon by Harry Harrison; Rick O’Shay by Stan Lynde; Gasoline…
John Auchter frames our ongoing debate, a conversation that could have ended long ago: Why do we need Black History Month? This NPR article does a good job of tracing the commemoration itself, including answering the question of why it is in February: The founder of the concept chose the month that contains the birthdays…
From the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will celebrate the centennial of King Features Syndicate with King of the Comics: William Randolph Hearst and 100 Years of King Features. This exhibit examines the role William Randolph Hearst played in the birth of newspaper comics and traces the…
From the National Cartoonists Society: On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is our great pleasure to announce that Brian Walker will be awarded the Silver T-Square at the 77th Annual Reuben Awards in Jersey City! As the NCS notes Brian Walker is – a writer of comic strips–…
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…
This year seemed to be a big year for comic exhibits. We had two really big exhibits: the Masters of American Comics and now the Cartoon America exhibit in the Library of Congress. The Washington Post has written their review of the exhibit.
Hy Eisman, the current cartoonist behind Popeye and the Katzenjammer Kids will be conducting a workshop at the Newark Museum this Saturday. The Masters of American Comics is currently on display at the Newark Museum, so I suspect the two events are connected. Pre-registration is required.
Brian Walker who is the writer behind “Hi and Lois” and “Beetle Bailey” will be a special guest at the San Diego Comic-Con this July 20-23rd…. Brian wrote the book cataloguing the exhibit.Brian also attended the New York Comic-Con with his father and brother earlier this year.
A confession: Ella Baron’s artwork appeals to me on such a level that I’m inclined to feature her cartoons even when I’m not sure of her topic. In this case, she provided both a label and a quote from MacBeth that made things easy to search for: Britain is in the throes of a scandal…