Smyrl exhibit in Columbia, SC - reviewer wanted for IJOCA

McKissick Museum features exhibit on Jak Smyrl
August 10, 2:25
Columbia History Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-8167-Columbia-History-Examiner~y2009m8d10-McKissick-Mu\
seum-features-exhibit-on-Jak-Smyrl
Douglas Steimle

Aragones exhibit in California - reviewer wanted

Here's more info -

Ojai museum fetes Mad magazine's Sergio Aragonés
The cartoonist and co-creator of Groo the Wanderer is honored by his adopted
hometown with 'Mad About Sergio' exhibition.
By Reed Johnson
August 9, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-aragones9-2009aug09,0,61962\
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Fantagraphics exhibit in Seattle - reviewer wanted

Here's details about the show -

'Comics Savants: A Survey of Seattle Alternative Cartoonists' at Fantagraphics
Peter Bagge, Jim Woodring, Ellen Forney and 10 others have work on display in "Comics Savants: A Survey of Seattle Alternative Cartoonists," at Fantagraphics Books & Gallery in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood.
By Michael Upchurch
Seattle Times August 7 2009
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2009620775_fantagraphics08.html?cmpid=2628

new research blog on Early Comics

Pascal does excellent work - this should be a good resource.

From: Pascal Lefèvre <lefevre.pascal@gmail.com>

Dear colleague,

If you're interested in early mass culture, there's a new blog <http://earlycomics.blogspot.com/> that might interest you. I've just started my new Early Comics blog about my research into the comic strips before 1930. I'll deal also with relations between early comics and other media (as cinema).

cordially

dr. Pascal Lefèvre
<http://lefevre.pascal.googlepages.com/>