Category Archives: Illustration Industry

THUNDERVOTE!

October 26, 2008Illustration Industry, Newselection 08, obama, thundervote, tristan eatonamt

THUNDERVOTE_HOME

New York based creative agency Thunderdog Studios, Inc. announces www.THUNDERVOTE.com! This website has been created to highlight a series of art projects by Tristan Eaton that encourage voter turn out among our fans and friends (18 – 35 year old, savvy yet sometimes lazy art and toy collectors)!

After exciting poster projects with the Obama campaign for VOTEFORCHANGE.com, we felt compelled to take it a little further and hammer the message home a little harder. The truth is, many of the registered voters out there register to vote but don’t actually show up on voting day. So they’d like to say: DON’T BE STUPID. SHOW UP AND VOTE NOV. 4TH!!!

You can go to THUNDERVOTE.com and download Tristan’s Obama Portrait poster with key messaging per state, download the paper Ballot Box Dude toy and customize him, get free downloads and read up on important voting information. The site will be updated every couple of days with new pics, events and products.

Also on the site: Custom Ballot Box toys by FILTH & BLOKT of Thunderdog Studios, Inc., the Obama Bike, videos, wallpapers, facebook, myspace and more…Enjoy!

Pat Cummings and the Dillons featured in The Original Art Show

October 24, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Alumni, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Newsleo and diane dillon, parsons illustration alumni, parsons illustration faculty, pat cummings, Society of Illustrators, the original art showamt

Art from Illustration Part-time Faculty Pat Cummings’ book Harvey Moon Museum Boy, will be featured in The Original Art show that goes up this month at the Society of Illustrators alongside a host of other wonderful artists including Parsons alums David Ezra Stein and Julian Hector. Here’s a preview:

Make sure to check out Pat’s amazing work as well as all the other fine artists included in the show like Leo and Diane Dillon (Parsons Illustration Alums), who are receiving a Lifetime Achievement award for their outstanding art over the years.

The Original Art Show
October 16 through November 26, 2008
Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street
New York, NY

[top images by Pat Cummings; bottom image from Northern Lullabye by Leo and Diane Dillon]

From the Inbox: Illuxcon

October 23, 2008Current Students, Events, General Info, Illustration Industry, Newsaltoona, conference, free, Illustration, illuxconamt

Current student Chantal Bennett passed along information about this exciting event…

Illuxcon, in Altoona, PA, is the first and only convention dedicated exclusively to fantastic illustration art. IlluxCon is intended to be a symposium, rather than a typical convention. The primary objective is to create a space where close personal interactions can take place between artists, their fans, collectors and students of the genre. There will be an original art show as well as demonstrations, panels and artist booths.

Guests include Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Jon Foster, Stephen Hickman, Ruth Sanderson, Bob Eggleton, Rebecca Guay, Tiffany Prothero, Charles Vess, Eric Fortune, Omar & Sheila Rayyan, Michael Whelan, Greg Hildebrandt, and many more.

Also, the greatest part of this conference is that the student passes are FREE! The passes entitle you to go to the entire conference, not just selected days.

If you are interested in carpooling to attend the conference, get in touch with Chantal to coordinate.

From the Inbox: “Dangers of Debt” Cartoon Contest

October 21, 2008Call for Entries, Competitions, Current Students, General Info, Illustration Industry, Newscartoons, comix, Competitions, consumers union, credit card debtamt

Timothy Marvin, a grassroots organizer with the Consumers Union passed along this contest opportunity…

The Consumers Union “Dangers of Debt” Cartoon Contest site is live now! Anyone 18-25 can go upload their submissions. The deadline to submit is November 3rd. The grand prize winner gets $1,000 and whatever exposure is provided through our campaign and media outreach.

Our panel of celebrity judges is made up of:

Tom Gammill is a TV writer whose credits include Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, Seinfeld and Monk. He’s been a consulting producer at The Simpsons since 1998.
He also has a comic strip that runs weekly in the Pasadena Independent and other small weekly newspapers.

Jen Sorenson is the creator of the award-winning alternative political comic strip Slowpoke.

Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip La Cucaracha.

Please check out the website and cartoons. Online voting to select the finalists begins November 6th.

Check out the official rules here and the official homepage for the contest here.

From the Inbox: The Real Cost of Prisons Comix

October 20, 2008Education, General Info, Illustration Industry, Publications, Randomly Intriguingblind spot, comics, kevin pyle, real cost of prisonsamt

Comic artist Kevin Pyle (Blind Spot) sent us the following info recently…

With over 125,000 copies of the comic books printed and more than 100,000 sent to people who are incarcerated, their families, and to organizers and activists throughout the country, The Real Cost of Prisons Comix series is a great example of the comic as an activist and educational tool for social change.

Originally published in a comics pamphlet format, the three issues have now been collected in a perfect bound collection published by PM Press, publisher of Slingshot, the Postcards of Eric Drooker. The three chapters were written and drawn by longtime World War 3 illustrated co-editors Sabrina Jones (Isadora and Girltalk), Kevin Pyle (Blindspot and Lab U.S.A.) and Susan Willmarth (Black History for Beginners) and addresses the war on drugs, the economics of the prison boom, and the effects of incarceration on women and children.

With the U.S.A. now leading the world in incarceration, this thoroughly researched and documented collection seeks to unpack the rhetoric of punishment and expose the impact of a prison system out to control. All in the easily understood and entertaining medium of comics.

If you’re interested, you can get more information here.

Repost and Reminder: Retrospective of Blab!

October 17, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Publicationsblab!, monte beauchamp, nora krug, steveamt

“BLAB!: A Retrospective” opened August 1, 2008 at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the campus of Kansas State University. The exhibition will be on view through November 2, 2008. It is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of BLAB!, Monte Beauchamp’s periodic anthology of sequential and comic art, illustration, painting, and printmaking. The exhibition, which focuses on BLAB! #8-18 (1995-2007), features the work of forty-six artists and includes 150 works of art from thirty-nine collections.

This exhibition features an eclectic gathering of stylistically varied work by alternative comics artists, illustrators, graphic designers, printmakers, and painters from BLAB!, the annual anthology of visual art produced by Chicago-based graphic designer and art director Monte Beauchamp.

BLAB! began in 1986 as a self-published fanzine (fan-produced magazine) devoted to MAD magazine and other EC Comics publications. Today it is a significant outlet for a wide variety of contemporary artists. BLAB!‘s influence has cut a broad swath across contemporary visual culture. It has helped launch many artists’ careers. It has introduced American audiences to important contemporary European graphic and comics artists. And, it has contributed meaningfully to the blurring of boundaries between alternative graphics and mainstream illustration. All of the work in this exhibition has been featured in BLAB!.

Artists in exhibition:

Michael Bartalos, Gary Baseman, Richard Beards, Tim Biskup, Stéphane Blanquet, Calef Brown, Greg Clarke, The Clayton Brothers, Sue Coe, Don Colley, Brian Cronin, Nicolas Debon, Douglas Fraser, Drew Friedman, Geoffrey Grahn, Steven Guarnaccia (Illustration Department Chair), Ryan Heshka, Peter Hoey, Tom Huck, Teresa James, Jeffrey Kamberos, Nora Krug (Illustration Department Faculty), Peter Kuper (Illustration Department Alum), Mark Landman, Laura Levine, MATS!?, Walter Minus, Christian Northeast, John Pound, Archer Prewitt, CJ Pyle, Helge Reumann, Xavier Robel, Spain, Jonathon Rosen, Marc Rosenthal, Sergio Ruzzier (Illustration Department Faculty), David Sandlin, Bob Staake, Fred Stonehouse, Mark Todd, Chris Ware, and Esther Pearl Watson.

The accompanying 128-page, full-color catalogue was designed by Monte Beauchamp and contains contributions by David A. Beronä, Mark Frauenfelder, Matt Dukes Jordan, and Bill North.

Related Events

Sept. 18 – Gallery talk by Bill North, senior curator, Beach Museum of Art, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 – Lecture, “From Highbrow Comics to Lowbrow Art: The Shifting Contexts of the Comics Art Object” by Bart Beaty, noted comics scholar and associate professor of communications studies, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 23 – Artist talks by Steven Guarnaccia and Nora Krug, associate professors, illustration department, Parsons: The New School for Design, 5:30 p.m.

You can see installation views on Flickr and grab your own Blab! here.

Blab!: A Retrospective
August 1st-November 2nd, 2008
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane (14th & Anderson Ave.)
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-7718

Marcos Chin Digital Workshop October 29/Society of Illustrators

October 17, 2008Events, General Info, Illustration Industrydigital techniques, marcos chin, Society of Illustrators, workshopamt

Digital Illustration with Marcos Chin: Renowned artist/ illustrator
Marcos Chin, best known for his Lavalife campaigns on NY subways, will
demonstrate digital coloring techniques incorporating traditional media.
A line drawing will be taken, step by step, to a fully rendered final-
including shading, layering, patterns, shadows and texture- using
Photoshop and Illustrator. He will also discuss how to build a
consistent aesthetic for advertising campaigns and how to balance
commercial and personal work.
Attendees must bring their own fully-charged laptops to the workshop.
The workshop will be followed by a print signing.

$35 (non-members); $20 (members); $15 (students)
RSVP tara@societyillustrators.org or call 212.838.2560

CMYK Magazine Showcase Call for Entries

October 17, 2008Events, General Info, Illustration Industry, Publicationsart direction, Call for Entries, CMYK magazine, student competitionamt

Enter your portfolio — up to 15 pieces — in the most visible aspiring artist showcase for the opportunity to be discovered by creative decision-makers across the globe.
	Represent your school for the opportunity to be rewarded and recognized by the entire industry. Upload as many as 15 pieces per category.
FREE Online Portfolio with entry to contest More than 100 entries will be showcased in CMYK 43 Priceless exposure for yourself and your school Be seen by over 70,000 CMYK Magazine readers Juried by the most notable creative professionals working today Show the industry you are out there Deadline: Monday, October 20, 2008
CMYK Magazine’s Call for Aspiring Creatives is open to all students, recent graduates and those considered self-taught in the areas of Copywriting, Art Direction, Graphic Design, Illustration and Photography. U.S. and international residents welcome. Contest Deadline: Monday, October 20, 2008.

Picturing Politics on 11.15.08

October 15, 2008Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Industry, Newsanton kannemeyer, daniel dayan, joshua brown, luba lukova, parsons illustration, peter kuper, picturing politics, rutu modan, steve brodner, steve helleramt

picturing politics

The Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design and the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research would like to invite you to the following event:

PICTURING POLITICS
November 15, 2008, 1:00-5:30 P.M.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 WEST 12TH STREET

Free and open to the public

Illustrative responses to world events, large scale and small, have an effect both visceral and intimate. PICTURING POLITICS explores the current state of political and social visual commentary. The Illustration Program of Parsons The New School for Design and the Department of Politics of The New School for Social Research jointly present an afternoon of reflections on the intersection of art and politics.

Guests include Daniel Dayan, leading media and politics analyst from France and visiting professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research, Steven Heller, author and former New York Times art director, Professor Joshua Brown, Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at CUNY, Rutu Modan, Eisner award-winning graphic novelist from Israel, Peter Kuper, graphic novelist and co-editor of WW 3 magazine, Steve Brodner, satiric visual commentator, Luba Lukova, political poster artist and Anton Kannemeyer, South African artist and creator of visual narratives. A book signing will follow the symposium.

Additionally, an exhibition of illustrated covers for Der Spiegel magazine is on view at Parsons Illustration, 2 West 13th street, 8th floor, from November 14th through November 30th. There will be a reception in honor on November 14th, at 6pm.

Reminder and Repost: Kim Deitch Retrospective

October 13, 2008Exhibitions, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industrybill kartalopoulos, comics, Illustration, kim deitch, moccaamt

MoCCA is hosting a fantastic artistic survey of legendary comic artist Kim Deitch. Even better, the exhibition is curated by Parsons Illustration faculty Bill Kartalopoulos. Here’s the official press release:

Kim Deitch: A Retrospective will display original comics pages and other work covering the artist’s entire career to date, beginning with full-page comic strips drawn for the East Village Other in the sixties up to recent graphic novels including The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Alias the Cat, Shadowland, and Deitch’s Pictorama. The exhibit will also feature rarely seen work including elaborate preparatory drawings, hand-colored originals, animation cel set-ups and lithographs.

Kim Deitch was born in Los Angeles in 1944, the eldest son of Oscar-wining animator Gene Deitch (Tom Terrific, Munro). Deitch studied at the Pratt Institute, traveled with the Norwegian Merchant Marines and worked at a mental institution before joining the burgeoning underground press in 1967. As an early contributor to the East Village Other and the editor of Gothic Blimp Works, Kim Deitch was a charter member of the underground comix scene that exploded with the 1968 publication of Robert Crumb’s Zap #1. Forty years later, he stands alongside Crumb, Bill Griffith, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Art Spiegelman as one the most notable and prolific artists to emerge from that milieu. In addition to his comic books and graphic novels, Deitch’s work has appeared in venues including RAW, Weirdo, Arcade, Details, the L.A. Weekly, McSweeney’s, Nickelodeon Magazine, and The New Yorker.

“Kim Deitch’s career spans the entire post-war history of avant-garde comics, from the underground to the literary mainstream,” said exhibit curator Bill Kartalopoulos. “Deitch brilliantly weaves vast intergenerational narratives that enfold a deep history of American popular entertainment. Distinctions between fiction and reality blur in his meta-fictional world just as real madness bleeds into the visions and schemes of the artists, entertainers, and hustlers who populate his stories. The result is a rich narrative tapestry as compelling and as breathtaking as Deitch’s densely layered, tightly woven, and intricately detailed black and white comics pages.”

Deitch’s body of work stretches outward from comics to embrace a spectrum of visual-narrative modes, including extra-textual single images and illustrated prose modeled after Victorian illustrated fiction. His most recent book is Deitch’s Pictorama, a collection of illustrated fiction produced in collaboration with brothers Seth and Simon Deitch. The exhibit includes several examples of Deitch’s career-long experimentation with text/image modes.

MoCCA will publish an original poster and 1″ button featuring the “Sunshine Girl” character who stars both in Deitch’s earliest and most recent work. The Museum will also host a series of talks and events related to the exhibit.

• Exhibition dates: Through December 5, 2008

MoCCA
594 Broadway, Suite 401, between Houston and Prince
New York, NY 10012

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