Original Charles Addams cartoons on exhibit in NYC
Those in the New York area might be interested in this exhibit of original Charles Addams work:
Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams’s quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of [...]
Posted on: Feb 17, 2010, Section: Exhibits, Comments: 2 Comments
Brussels exhibit celebrates 20 years of comics
The Belgian Comic Strip Center is celebrating its first 20 years of operation with an exhibit the explores the “medium of comic strip art over the past two decades and highlights the considerable changes it has experienced.” Exhibit runs through March 28.
Posted on: Feb 11, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Exhibits, International, Comments: 1 Comment
Editorial cartooning exhibit opens at Duke University
Chris Lamb author of “Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States” will be the guest speaker to open a new editorial cartooning exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. The exhibit explores “the significance and impact of political caricature by comparing images [...]
Posted on: Feb 4, 2010, Section: Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Comments: 4 Comments
One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages updated list
Earlier this month, I reported that Stay Tooned! editor/publisher John Read was curating a traveling exhibit through the South. The exhibit entitled “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” featured original Sunday artwork from over 70 cartoonists. John has sent me the updated list which is now over a 100 participants.
ADAM@HOME – Rob Harrell
AGNES – [...]
Posted on: Jan 22, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Exhibits, Comments: 11 Comments
John Read heads up traveling comic exhibit
John Read, the publisher of “Stay Tooned!” is curating a comic strip exhibit to travel through five major southern cities in the coming two years. He tells me in an email that after publishing “Stay Tooned!,” his next ambition is to create an art museum in the South. To get things started, he has 73 [...]
Posted on: Jan 4, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Exhibits, Comments: 21 Comments
Peanuts online Beethoven exhibit launches today
Last week I mentioned that an online exhibit of Beethoven’s work that has been featured in Charles Schulz’ Peanuts was going to launch and today, Beethoven’s birthday, the site is now live. The exhibit features 60 or so Peanuts cartoons where Schroeder is playing Beethoven and the musical notes above the piano are actual music [...]
Posted on: Dec 16, 2009, Section: Comic history, Exhibits, Comments: 0 Comments
Cartoon Art Museum celebrates 25 years
The Cartoon Art Museum is celebrating 25 years as a “a non-profit, educational museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and display of original cartoon art in all its forms.” The museum was started by a group of cartoon art collectors and enthusiasts, led by Malcolm Whyte back on December 14, 1984. The museum operates in [...]
Posted on: Dec 14, 2009, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Museums, Comments: 1 Comment
Cartoon exhibit explores middle east peace
An international roster of acclaimed editorial cartoonists explore Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and peace in a traveling exhibit scheduled to stop in New York City from December 10th – 23rd, organizers announced today.
“Cartoons in Conflict: Editorial Cartoonists Explore Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” offers the singular perspective of forty renowned artists, including Pulitzer Prize winners Pat Oliphant and Jim Morin, [...]
Posted on: Dec 9, 2009, Section: Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, Comments: 1 Comment
Online exhibit launching for the music of Peanuts
Musicians are often surprised to find that they can actually play the music notes floating above Schroeder’s toy piano in the Peanuts comic strip, and they are even more amazed to learn that its not just anyones music Schroeder is playing-the compositions were created by none other than his idol, Ludwig van Beethoven!
Now visitors anywhere [...]
Posted on: Dec 9, 2009, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Exhibits, Comments: 1 Comment
News briefs for December 8, 2009
Animation
» Pixar’s Pete Docter was on NPR’s “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!”
» Variety magazine reports that Jack Black has successfully pitched an untitled animation project “centered in the world of cryptozoology.”
Books
» Chicago Now talks to Ted Rall about the relevance of his 2002 book “To Afghanistan and Back” in today’s U.S. relationship with Afghanistan.
Comic strips
» [...]
Posted on: Dec 8, 2009, Section: Animation, Books, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Exhibits, web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Cartoon museum features Fantastic Mr. Fox exhibit
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will open an exhibit of original work from the upcoming feature film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” on November 23rd and will run through January 10, 2009. This exhibit features two sets from the stop motion animated film, “Flint Mine – We Took Everything” and “Farmer Scale Yellow Door,” which [...]
Posted on: Nov 20, 2009, Section: Animation, Exhibits, Museums, Comments: 2 Comments
Toonseum moves to new location
The Toonseum has moved locations to the Cultural District in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday. The grand opening featured a speech by executive director Joe Wos and a ribbon cutting ceremony by Toonseum president and Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers with former city mayor Sophie Masloff.
The current exhibit on display is “Enchanted Drawings: A Century [...]
Posted on: Nov 16, 2009, Section: Exhibits, Museums, Comments: 1 Comment
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