Editor’s Note: This week, we are featuring three entries by students who worked at the Parson’s Illustration tables at the MoCCA Festival this past June. Our second installment features an illustration and photographs taken by incoming sophomore, Grace Lang. Click on the images for a more detailed version. Thanks, Grace!
Editor’s Note: This week, we are featuring three entries by students who worked at the Parson’s Illustration tables at the MoCCA Festival this past June. First up, a narrative and sketches by Rising Senior Sophia Chang.
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So I had the pleasure of having a table at MoCCA Festival along with other Parsons students including Katie Turner, Beryl Chung, Grace Lang and Christine Young. Check out their stuff!
I felt like I was in a microwave the entire time, the humidity of everyone’s body sweat evaporating and condensing was absolutely delicious! I say that sarcastically. On the real though, MoCCA was an awesome experience, being in a room with upcoming artists and surrounded by printed matter! Afterall print is slowly slowly dying…
I specifically enjoyed the Norwegian, Swedish and German/Berlin tables, offering some great perspective on their visual language. Just sitting at the table and watching the different unique people pass by was an experience of its own. I started sketching down all the interesting people I saw towards the end of my stay.
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Thanks for the firsthand account, Sophia! Make sure to check out Sophia’s website and blog for more about her work.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund proudly presents Conversational Comics: a new summer speaker series taking place on three separate Saturday afternoons at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Please join us for lively panel discussions with artists currently changing the face of comics, all moderated by comics critic (and Parsons Illustration Adjunct) Bill Kartalopoulos. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.
The event takes place at 2:00 pm in the back room at Union Pool. Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L stop.
July 11 @ 2:00 pm
Telling Stories: Fiction in Comics
Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Jason Little (Shutterbug Follies) and Matthew Thurber (1-800-Mice, Kramers Ergot) will talk about the nature of narrative and fiction in comics. We�ll consider forms of storytelling that comics can adapt, and others that comics can generate.
Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics and illustration at Parsons. He is a Contributing Editor at Print Magazine, where he frequently writes about comics.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.
For additional information, donations, and other inquiries please visit www.cbldf.org
On Wednesday, July 8th Green Brain Comics continues their 10th Anniversary summer event schedule with an appearance by cartoonist and animator Neil Swaab (Parsons Illustration Adjunct!).
To celebrate the release of the third collection of his weekly comic strip Rehabilitating Mr Wiggles, Brooklyn-based Michigan native Neil Swaab will be coming home to set up at award winning Green Brain Comics.
“We are excited to give people a chance to meet Neil Swaab, a unique talent and swell guy.” says Dan Merritt, event coordinator for Green Brain Comics “We are also excited to be making available a great collection of comic strips hot off the presses featuring Neil’s lovable, foul-mouthed teddy bear Mr Wiggles.”
It all takes place on Wednesday, July 8th with the signing at 5pm and it’s capped off at 8pm with Green Brain Comics monthly Comic Jam, where local cartoonists of all talent levels are invited to participate in a creative exercise that puts their drawing and improvisational skills to the test.
Green Brain Comics
13210 Michigan Avenue
Dearborn, Michigan
313-582-9444
www.greenbrain.biz
Our goal is to create and post an image of Pinocchio each week on the departmental blog. If you are an Illustration student–we need your contributions!!! Your Pinocchio can be a photo, an assemblage, a drawing, a doodle…any visual representation of Pinoke that was created, altered conceived by you.
Specs: 72 dpi jpeg, file appropriately named with the image is (not an incomprehensible string of numbers/letters)
Include: Your name, what year you are, and if you have a website/sketchblog/etc that we can link to
Due: by Weds of every week starting next week!
Send to: illustration@newschool.edu
Hope to get your submission soon!
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund proudly presents Conversational Comics: a new summer speaker series taking place on three separate Saturday afternoons at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Please join us for lively panel discussions with artists currently changing the face of comics, all moderated by comics critic (and Parsons Illustration Adjunct) Bill Kartalopoulos. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.
All events take place at 2:00 pm in the back room at Union Pool. Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L stop.
June 27 @ 2:00 pm
Autobiography: My Life in Comics
David Heatley (My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, Kramers Ergot), Lauren Weinstein (Girl Stories, The Goddess of War) and Julia Wertz (Fart Party) will discuss the process, pleasures, and problems of making comics based on their own personal lives and observations.
July 11 @ 2:00 pm
Telling Stories: Fiction in Comics
Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Jason Little (Shutterbug Follies) and Matthew Thurber (1-800-Mice, Kramers Ergot) will talk about the nature of narrative and fiction in comics. We�ll consider forms of storytelling that comics can adapt, and others that comics can generate.
August 15 @ 2:00 pm
Lines on Paper: Drawing and Cartooning
Austin English (Windy Corner, Christina and Charles), Lisa Hanawalt (Stay Away From Other People, I Want You), and Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, Bodyworld) will discuss the relationship between image-making and drawing for comics. How do pictures work differently in comics than they do on gallery walls?
Suggested donation for each event is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics and illustration at Parsons. He is a Contributing Editor at Print Magazine, where he frequently writes about comics.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.
For additional information, donations, and other inquiries please visit www.cbldf.org
Illustration Alum John Kerschbaum (’88) recently sent along this email containing exciting and impressive news about his recent work:
I’m a Parson’s Illustration grad from 1988. I thought I’d write and let you know about some recent work of mine. I did some illustrations and a puzzle poster (jpeg attached) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Family Map. The poster just received an Honorable Mention in the American Association of Museums publications competition. The map/poster is available for free at the main information desk at the Met. It is also being turned into a jigsaw puzzle for their Christmas gift catalogue. Also, my graphic novel Petey & Pussy, published by Fantagraphics this past November, has been nominated for a 2009 Eisner Award for best humor publication.
You can get your copy of Petey and Pussy here and absolutely stop by John’s website for more work and news.
Congrats to John on his accomplishments!
MIDWESTERN BLAB!
Midwestern Contributors to BLAB! Exhibit / Chicago
Opens this Thursday, June 18, 5-8 pm
[ CHECK OUT: http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/21415 ]
Midwestern BLAB!, curated by Monte Beauchamp, the Chicago-based creator of the art anthology BLAB!, has included the works of five Midwestern artists who have contributed significantly to BLAB! and are exemplars of the periodical’s core values. Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is the co-curator of this exhibition.
“Though BLAB!’s scope is international,” writes Bill North, Senior Curator of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, in the exhibition’s catalog essay. “The underpinning of its cornucopian visual feast is resolutely Midwestern. BLAB!, a product of the Midwest, boldly affirms the positive view of Midwestern culture. And, in the face of BLAB!, claims of the region’s cultural inferiority ring hollow.”
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Don Colley, Tom Huck, Teresa James, CJ Pyle, and Fred Stonehouse
WHEN: June 18 – July 22, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 18, 5-8 pm
WHERE: Columbia College Chicago’s Leviton A+D Gallery
619 S. Wabash Avenue
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm, Thursday 11 am – 8 pm
MORE INFO: Gallery Coordinator: 312.369.8668 // Press Inquiries: 312.369.8695
Your favorite comics anthology TYPHON collides with your favorite comics performance series CAROUSEL for a unique, once-in-a-lifetime multimedia comics extravaganza at MoCCA on Thursday, June 18th!
You’ll laugh! You’ll scream! It’s not for the squeamish!
Please join the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, (aka MoCCA) for an evening of dazzling cartoon slide shows featuring work from the critically-acclaimed comics anthology TYPHON Volume One. This exclusive event is brought to you by TYPHON editor Danny Hellman and Carousel host R. Sikoryak.
A select group of TYPHON contributors will be on hand to read their strips, including:
Gregory Benton
Rupert Bottenberg
Victor “Bald Eagles” Cayro
Nick Gazin
Hawk Krall
Hugo
Pshaw
Hans Rickheit
plus Hellman and Sikoryak.
Come meet the artists whose cutting-edge artwork brings the pages of TYPHON to life!
MoCCA Thursday, June 18, 2009. 7 pm
Admission: $5 (Free for MoCCA Members)
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, suite 401
New York, NY 10012
212-254-3511
For more information about MoCCA please visit
http://www.moccany.org
For more info on TYPHON visit
http://www.dannyhellman.com/typhon.html
This event is intended for Mature Audiences!
(in other words, don’t bring your kids unless they’re already hopelessly warped).
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Just discovered: Back in May, the fine folks over at Cartoon Brew posted a restored version of the very first Krazy Kat cartoon from 1929! Here’s a link to their write-up and, of course, check out the video itself. Quite the deal!