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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

PR: ToonSeum Press Release: Drawn to the Summit, Cartoonists take on the G20



Drawn to the Summit: A G-20 Exhibition of International Political Cartoons
September 18-October 18, 2009
The Andy Warhol Museum
Co-presented by the ToonSeum, funded by the Pittsburgh Foundation
Opening Reception: September 18, 2009, 6-10PM

Delegates, protestors and journalists will be invading Pittsburgh in September for the international G-20 summit. There will also be another set of voices heard during that week: the voices of the people from the G-20 countries as expressed through editorial cartoons.

The cartoons in Drawn to the Summit will highlight the work of the leading cartoonists from the G-20 nations and will provide an alternative perspective on G-20 themes such as the global economy and its impact on the environment, human rights, world trade, etc. This exhibition offers the public an opportunity to view a diversity of cartooning styles worldwide and see the important role editorial cartoons plays in this global conversation.

In addition, the exhibition will include cartoons by local Pittsburgh artists commenting on what it will be like to have their hometown hosting the world. A computer will be set up in the gallery with an online blog to monitor daily commentaries and sketches by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers and others during the run of the G-20 summit.

The show is funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation, co-presented by the ToonSeum and the Andy Warhol Museum and curated by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers and art historian Sylvia Rhor.

Exhibition is included with paid admission to the Andy Warhol Museum.

For more information or interviews
Joe Wos
(412)325-1060
joe@toonseum.com



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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Reviewer desired: Women in Comics Conference in Cambridge UK


I'm seekng a reviewer for the conference, 'Women in Comics', at Cambridge University on October 25th 2009 for IJOCA. The organizer, Sarah Lightman notes, "With its unique collection of 20th Century Women's Art, The New Hall Art Collection provides the perfect venue for a gathering of practitioners, academics, curators and enthusiasts. Women comic artists will speak about their work, and broader discussion will include the representation of women in comics. The event will run as part of The Cambridge Festival of Ideas week."

For more details see
http://www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/events/comics.html



Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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\
16.story

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

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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/>



Friday, July 31, 2009

**FREE** QUESADA, KIDD, MAZZUCCHELLI, FINGEROTH, & MacDONALD AT BRYANT PARK WEDS AUG 19, 12:30 PM


COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVEL LUMINARIES JOE QUESADA, CHIP KIDD, DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI, DANNY FINGEROTH, AND HEIDI MacDONALD TO SPEAK AT NEW YORK'S BRYANT PARK LUNCHTIME SERIES, WEDS AUG 19, 12:30 PM. **FREE EVENT**

New York, July 31, 2009

As part of the Bryant Park Word for Word author series, key figures from the world of comics and graphic novels will speak at "COMICS: FROM EVERY ANGLE," a freewheeling discussion of the past, present, and future of sequential art.

Join moderator
DANNY FINGEROTH as he and the all-star panel of JOE QUESADA, CHIP KIDD, DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI, and HEIDI MacDONALD discuss how comics have become an important part of high and low culture the world over.

"Word for Word" Author Series at The Bryant Park Reading Room

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
12:30pm - 1:45pm

PANELISTS:
JOE QUESADA, Editor-in-Chief, Marvel Comics

CHIP KIDD, Author and designer: BAT-MANGA!: THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN 

DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI, Comics writer and artist: BATMAN: YEAR ONE; CITY OF GLASS; ASTERIOS POLYP

HEIDI MacDONALD, Co-editor, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY COMICS WEEK; Blogger: THE BEAT, the News Blog of Comics Culture; editor: THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY

MODERATOR:
DANNY FINGEROTH Longtime Marvel Comics writer and Editor. Author of DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT: JEWS COMICS, AND THE CREATION OF THE SUPERHERO (Continuum) and THE ROUGH GUIDE TO GRAPHIC NOVELS (Penguin).

LOCATION:
The Bryant Park Reading Room is located on the 42nd Street side of the park-under the trees-between the back of the New York Public Library and 6th Avenue. Look for the burgundy and white umbrellas.

RAIN VENUE:
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)

For more information, go to:

http://www.bryantpark.org/calendar/wordforword.php?evttype=author


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