Check out this great illustration by our own Steven Guarnaccia, Chair of Illustration. It was in this week’s New York Times Book Review, accompanying a review of Ammon Shea’s new book Reading the OED. Congrats, Steven!
Category Archives: Illustration Industry
Last Minute: Typhon Book Signing
NYC area comics aficionados are invited to a TYPHON book signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe on Wednesday, August 6th from 6-8PM! Parsons Illustration Alum R. Sikoryak drew the cover and a story for the collection. Congratulations, Bob!
Pick up a copy of the brand new, 192 page, full-color comics anthology TYPHON Volume One, and get it signed by these TYPHON contributors:
Gregory Benton
Victor “Bald Eagles” Cayro
Mike Edison
Glenn Head
Danny Hellman
Cliff Mott
Bruno “Hugo” Nadalin
Chris “Steak Mtn” Norris
R. Sikoryak (Illustration Alum and Current Faculty)
Doug Skinner
Matthew Thurber
Motohiko Tokuta
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Jim Hanley’s Universe (Manhattan)
4 West 33rd Street
New York, NY
[illustration by R. Sikoryak]
Catch Tara’s Billboard before it comes down!
Late-breaking news:
Did you know that Adjunct Faculty Tara McPherson has had a billboard up on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan for the entire month of July? Neither did I until just now! Go check it out while you still can. Get more info about the whole project here.
Way to go, Tara!
Alumni Update: Louisa Bertman (’92)
From the Illustration Inbox, we’ve got some news about Louisa Bertman (’92):
Louisa Bertman is honored to be 1 of 12 artists chosen to illustrate a page for the upcoming 2009 NPR Calendar. While painting Click and Clack, 2 large portraits were born as an offshoot of the actual NPR Illustration. Check out the portraits as well as her interview with those crazy Car Talk Guys! They’ve listed her this week under “Links We LIke” from their homepage.
Thanks for passing along the good word, Louisa, and congratulations!
The Little Matador by Julian Hector
Illustration Alum Julian Hector (’06) just had his first children’s book released and we here in the department couldn’t be happier for him. Here’s a synopsis:
The Little Matador comes from a long line of bullfighter – but he would rather draw a bull than fight one! In this little book about dreaming big, first time author-illustrator Julian Hector teaches all about the importance of being true to your heart, even in the face of great family expectations – and a charging bull!
Grab your copy here. Congratulations, Julian!
Repost and Reminder: Parsons Illustration at Comic-Con
Parsons will host a panel at Comic-con in July 2008, featuring Parsons Faculty and alumni in a conversation about how art school, and in particular a Parsons Illustration education, prepares young artists to enter these areas of professional activity. The panel is titled:
“Toys, Comics and Characters: Illustrators as Entertainment Entrepreneurs”
Friday, July 25th, 2008
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Comic-con International
Room 32AB
San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA
Faculty and alumni joining us on the panel include: Tara McPherson (Parsons faculty, Vertigo Comics creator), Abby Denson (Alumna and Lulu Award Winning Cartoonist/Author of Tough Love: High School Confidential), Nora Krug (Parsons faculty, BLAB! contributor and internationally published illustrator) and Brian Wood (Parsons alumnus, iconoclastic indie creator of DMZ among other works). The event will highlight the Illustration department’s curriculum and career paths our alumni have followed, while offering attendees information on Parsons degree programs.
Following the panel will be an alumni reception hosted by New School Alumni Relations. Alumni attending Comic-con (or located in Southern California) and industry friends are invited to join Parsons faculty and representatives from Alumni Relations and Career Services for refreshments and conversation.
Alumni Update: Alex Rheault
Straight from the Illustration Inbox, we’ve got an update about Alex Rheault (Illustration ’85):
Alex Rheault has recently been appointed Chair of Illustration at Maine College of Art in Portland, where she resides since 2001. Alex left the Big Apple in 1997, and lived in Sanibel, Florida for two years where she taught cartooning and became the cartoonist in 2000 for the local paper of record, The Island Reporter until 2004.
Alex left hurricane season behind for cooler climes to focus on art, writing, and studies. She completed the Salt for Documentary Studies program as a photography student in 2002, documenting the local fireboat and a wooden boat builder, and attended Vermont College right after, receiving her MFA in 2004.
She teaches drawing, two dimensional design, cartooning, fashion illustration, and illustration related courses in Continuing Studies and the BFA program at MECA, and mentors students privately in writing and visual arts. She exhibits work at Filament gallery in Portland and Patricia Ladd Cargea Gallery in New Hampshire. Her work looks at strategies of authority, language, and hierarchies of preference through everyday objects, images, and text. Her obsession since grad school has been the thinker, Georges
Bataille, whose work has led her to many others.Alex’s most recent projects include drawing room (no “the”), an evolving identity engaging artists and the public in dialogue and collaborative works, curating exhibits with emerging artists, and community engagement. Projects such as Chewed Toys Project invite dogs and people to co-create.
Alex gave a paper at SCAD’s Art History Symposium in April where Fred Wilson was the keynote speaker. She spoke about drawing room projects. Here is a direct link to the presentation and directions for how to find it:
- direct link
- go to the bottom, and click on the icon with a page and arrow.
- then click on “find” icon, and scroll down the green to “drawing room”
- click to begin show!
Alex is actively writing and working towards several upcoming exhibits in 2009.
Visit Alex’s website and also check out Drawing Room, Chewed Toys, and Head on a Stick for info about her work and projects.
Thanks for the update, Alex!
Animation Block Party!
Some call it punk rock, some call it grass roots, but labels aside – NYC based Animation Block Party is dedicated to exhibiting the world’s best independent, professional and student animation.
Since the premiere of the first official Animation Block Party film festival on September 9th 2004, there have been over 4000 animation submissions from all ends of the earth.
Animation Block Party will run from July 25-27, 2008 in Brooklyn. Over 100 films from a record 800 plus entries will be screened at the fifth annual ABP.
Go here for a complete listing of all screenings and locations!
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“Beautiful Losers” screening at Open Space Gallery
Straight from the Illustration Inbox:
Open Space Gallery in Beacon, NY has the honor of hosting one of the far and few between screenings of the inspirational film “Beautiful Losers.” This film basically features all of our favorite artists such as Barry Mcgee, Margaret Kilgallen, ESPO, Geoff McFetridge, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmonie Korine, and many others and focuses on a culture and period of time we find very close to our heart. This film is a must see and once you see it you will leave inspired to make art.
Below are the details for the screening.
Sunday July 20th
6pm to 9pm
The Howland Cultural Center
477 Main Street
Beacon NYSeating at the Howland is very limited ( about 80 people) so we have set up a place where you can pre purchase tickets to assure that you get a chance to see this amazing film.
Click here to pre purchase tickets
Hope to see everyone at the Howland!
Thanks to Adjunct Faculty Dan Weise for passing along this info! Also, as a bonus, here’s a trailer for the movie:
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Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comix of Rory Hayes
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS & DESERT ISLAND present:
WHERE DEMENTED WENTED:
Celebrating the Comics and Art of RORY HAYES
Join us for a book release party and panel discussion featuring:
KIM DEITCH
BILL GRIFFITH
GEOFFREY HAYES
and moderator
DAN NADEL
WHAT: Book Release Party for WHERE DEMENTED WENTED: THE ART AND COMICS OF RORY HAYES, with panel discussion and Q&A
WHO: Dan Nadel, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith & Geoffrey Hayes
WHERE: DESERT ISLAND • 540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY •718.388.5087
WHEN: Friday, August 8, 7PM (discussion begins at 8PM)
FREE ADMISSION
An exclusive, limited-edition Hayes silkscreen will be available for this event.
The controversial cartoonist Rory Hayes was a self-taught dynamo of the underground comics revolution. Attracting equal parts derision and praise (the latter from the likes of R. Crumb and Bill Griffith), Hayes emerged as comics’ great primitive, drawing horror comics in a genuinely horrifying and hallucinator manner (some have called him the Fletcher Hanks of the underground). He has influenced a generation of cartoonists, from RAW to Fort Thunder and back again.
On Friday, Aug. 8, on what would have been Hayes’ 59th birthday (Hayes died of a drug overdose in 1983), Desert Island and Fantagraphics Books will celebrate the life and art of Rory Hayes with a special evening celebrating the release of WHERE DEMENTED WENTED, the first-ever collection of Hayes’ legendary comics and art.
Editor Dan Nadel (Gary Panter, The Wilco Book) will moderate a discussion of Hayes’ work with three men who knew and worked with Hayes: Kim Deitch (creator of Waldo the Cat), Bill Griffith (creator of Zippy the Pinhead), and Geoffrey Hayes (brother of Rory and author of the recent Benny and Penny from Toon Books).
WHERE DEMENTED WENTED: THE ART AND COMIX OF RORY HAYES is the first retrospective of Hayes’ career ever published, features the best of his underground comics output alongside paintings, covers, and artifacts rarely seen by human eyes—as well as astounding, previously unprinted comics from his teenage years and movie posters for his numerous homemade films. The Art and Comix of Rory Hayes also serves as a biography and critique with a memoir of growing up with Rory by his brother, the illustrator Geoffrey Hayes, and a career-spanning essay by Edward Pouncey (a.k.a. Savage Pencil). Also included is a rare interview with Hayes himself.
This should be a great event and a fantastic book. Check ’em both out!