Leo and Diane Dillon visit the Illustration Department!

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Leo and Diane Dillon
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Room 510
66 W. 12th Street
1 p.m.

The prolific husband and wife team of Leo and Diane Dillon first met as students at Parsons School of Design. The only illustrators to have won American’s highest award for children’s book illustration, the Caldecott Medal, two years in a row, Leo is also the first African-American artist to win the award. They won in 1976 for Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears and in 1977 for Ashanti to Zulu.

Respected for their versatility, distinctive style, integrity and the thorough research they bring to each project, the Dillons have won the Hamilton King award, The Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, the Coretta Scott King award, the Society of Illustrator’s Gold Medal, the New York Times Best Illustrated award and the Hugo award for science fiction illustration, among others.

Recently, they have been writing as well , adding titles such as Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose, Jazz on a Saturday Night and Rap a Tap Tap to their constantly growing list of over 45 children’s books.

All are welcome to attend this exciting event!

Georges Seurat: The Drawings @ MoMA

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Georges Seurat: The Drawings
October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008
Museum of Modern Art

Once described as “the most beautiful painter’s drawings in existence,” Georges Seurat’s mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career. This comprehensive exhibition—the first in almost twenty-five years to focus exclusively on Seurat’s drawings—will present over 135 works, primarily the artist’s incomparable conté drawings along with a small selection of oil sketches and paintings. Surveying the artist’s entire oeuvre, from his academic training through the emergence and elaboration of his unique methods to the studies made for his monumental canvases (such as the renowned A Sunday on La Grande Jatte), the exhibition will also present important new research on his artistic strategies and materials.

In bridging description and evocation, Seurat masses tones to abstract figures, weaves skeins of conté crayon to test the limits of decipherable space, and engages with the Parisian metropolis, illuminating urban types, revealing the ever-expanding industrial suburbs, and offering a tour through the world of nineteenth-century popular entertainment. Most of all, his dramatization of the relationship between light and shadow resulted in a distinct body of work. Though Seurat is perhaps best known as the inventor of pointillism, this exhibition will demonstrate his tremendous achievement as a draftsman and the significance of his working methods and themes for the art of the twentieth century.

Visit the online exhibition here.

See a list of all related events here.

Read/see an interesting essay on Slate here.

The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497

Remember that New School students can get
into MoMA for free with their student IDs!

LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel

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LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel
on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum
November 10, 2007 through May 26, 2008

A burgeoning art form with roots planted firmly in history, graphic novels, or long-form comic books, have inspired the interest of the literary establishment and a growing number of readers. For today’s aficionados, graphic novels, with their antiheroes and visual appeal, are positioned to usurp the role that the novel once played. Focused on subjects as diverse as the nature of relationships, the perils of war, and the meaning of life, graphic novels now comprise the fastest-growing sections of many bookstores‹an accessible, vernacular art form with mass appeal.

This comprehensive exhibition explores the history and diverse artistry of the graphic novel, featuring personal commentary and artworks by celebrated historic and contemporary practitioners. Original book pages and studies, sketchbooks, and video interviews provide insights into an evolving and exciting art form. Artworks by Jessica Abel, Sue Coe, R. Crumb, Howard Cruse, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Brian Fies, Gerhard, Milt Gross, Marc Hempel, Niko Henrichon, Mark Kalesniko, Peter Kuper, Harvey Kurtzman, Matt Madden, Frans Masereel, Frank Miller, Terry Moore, Dave Sim, Art Spiegelman, Lynd Ward, Lauren Weinstein, Mark Wheatley, Barron Storey and others will be on view.

The exhibition is taking place at:

The Norman Rockwell Museum
9 Glendale Road, Route 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262

Admission is $7.00 for college students with valid school I.D.

For more information and a gallery of images from the show, go here.

(Above illustration by Peter Kuper)

Art Directors Club–Young Guns Workshop

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Frame by Frame featuring…
Asif Mian, Christopher Lane, Floto + Warner, and Justin Gignac

5:30 pm Adobe Workshop led by Scott Citron
7:00 pm Presentation
Thursday, November 1, 2007
@ADC Gallery
Moderated by Ross Sutherland, Chief Creative Officer, Corbis

Four ADC Young Guns share—frame by frame—fresh new images. Each ADC Young Gun creates imagery using multiple formats and every tool available. They shoot in any medium, resulting in work that sits comfortably in several categories or in none. See how these image creators—photographers, videographers, illustrators and multi-media experts—break down traditional boundaries. Join us for a visual feast from this group of new image-makers. Watch videocasts of previous ADC Young Guns Live events and interviews with ADC Young Guns.

Adobe CS3 Workshop
Prior to each evening’s program, Adobe presents a one-hour tutorial on Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, led by Adobe Certified Trainer Scott Citron. Design content for today—and tomorrow—with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Design Premium software. Design Premium combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for creating engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content.

Combines Adobe InDesign® CS3, Photoshop® CS3 Extended, Illustrator® CS3, Flash® CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver® CS3, Acrobat® 8 Professional, Bridge CS3, Version Cue® CS3, and Device Central CS3. Seating is limited, so please reserve your place early.

Non-member $20
ADC members receive a 30% discount $14

Please RSVP by calling 212-643-1440 ext. 10.

More info can be found here.

Fun at Home

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I’m out sick today and surfing the web to keep myself entertained. Here’s an overheated but awfully fun article on a little known person in comics history. And check out this fantastic Jaime Hernandez image for Bob Dylan’s radioshow!

Also, a number of books I publish through my little publishing concern, PictureBox, have been getting some nice reviews. Here’s a new one for Maggots and another one for Powr Mastrs. You can see more of all this stuff at PictureBox hq.

Back to lying down now!

Prints Gone Wild 2007

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Cannonball Press and Supreme Trading proudly present:
PRINTS GONE WILD 2!!
The second ever annual vernacular printacular mega-hairy Brooklyn affordable print fair.

Supreme Trading
213 n 8th St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
718-599-4224
www.supremetradingny.com

Fri., Nov. 2nd 6pm-12am Opening reception/party
Sat., Nov. 3rd 12-6pm Fair is open all day

FEATURING:
Tugboat Press Pittsburgh, PA
The Amazing Hancock Brothers McGregor, TX
Paping Brooklyn, NY
Sean Star Wars Laurel, MS
Howling Print Studios Brooklyn, NY
Space 1026 Philadelphia, PAYeehaw Industries Knoxville, TN
Triangle Poster Pittsburgh, PA
Team Lump Raleigh, NC
Drive By Press Madison, WI
Isle of Printing Nashville, TN
DRock Press Lexington, KY
Cannonball Press Brooklyn, NY
…and more!!

After last year’s incredibly successful fair,
Brooklyn’s own Cannonball Press has again assembled an
extraordinary menagerie of graphic artists under one
roof, who will be present, displaying their prints,
and selling them for $50 or less for two days only.

Long-time champions of the affordable art cause, as
part of New York Fine Art Print Week Cannonball Press
has brought together these great artists so that New
York can have a chance to see first-hand the
incredible resurgence in affordable fine art printing
that is happening across the country.

An entertaining sideshow will take place during the
fair, featuring the Toughcats from Portland Maine,
emcee David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), a
performance by the Amazing Hancock Brothers, the
Reverend Vince Anderson, and on-the-spot printing with
Drive-By Press, which operates a mobile press out of
the back of their van.

Come join us!

www.cannonballpress.com

Re*Generation Gallery Auction and Benefit

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Please join Virgin Mobile USA & DJ James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem for an evening of entertainment, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and the silent auction of new works by:

Diane Barcelowsky, Melinda Beck, Calef Brown, Thomas Campbell, Clayton Brothers, Daniel Davidson, James Gallagher, Julie Goldstein, Matt Hansel, Caroline Hwang, Jordin Isip (Illustration Faculty), Rich Jacobs, Chesiel John (Illustration ’02), Greg Lamarche, Matt Leines, Julia Marchand, Taylor McKimens, Jean-Pierre Roy, Antonio Sanchez, Denise Tassin and Eric White.

The RE*Generation Gallery
2007 Auction and Benefit
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
7 to 11 pm (bidding ends at 10 pm)
Skylight, 275 Hudson St. , New York City

100% of proceeds raised will benefit non-profit organizations working on the issue of youth homelessness.

Tickets are not required to attend the event but capacity is limited. To ensure admission and avoid the general admission line, pre-register as a VIP by making a donation of $25 or more to The RE*Generation online.

Go to http://www.regenerationgallery.com to pre-register as a VIP, view all of the works and/or place an online bid. Online bidding will end November 1st.

The Beast Within: An Exhibition of Monster Art

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Announcing the official Supertouch Halloween art show, “The Beast Within,” curated by Jamie O’Shea, opening October 31st at the East Village’s SHOWROOM NYC GALLERY in conjunction with Tristan Eaton’s Thunderdog Studios. Featuring introspective monster art reflecting the participant’s personal demons (hence the title), the show features new & original work by over 65 artists including Pushead, Phil Frost, Stephan Jay Rayon (Hysteric Glamour), Doze Green, Eric White, Ron English, Louie Cordero, Tristan Eaton, Andy Cruz/House Industries, Mars-1, Steve Bliss, Shepard Fairey, D*Face, REAS (Todd James), Travis Louie, Rhode Montijo, Friends With You, Nathan Cabrera, Tim Biskup, Eric Elms, Kelsey Brookes, Jim Woodring, Mark Dean Veca, Erik Foss, Gary Baseman, Slick, Nathan Jurevicius, James Jean, Usugrow, Glenn Barr, Mike Moon, Gomez Bueno, Pete Fowler, Rick Griffin, Nate Van Dyke, Stanley Mouse, Andrew Brandou, Makoto Kobiyashi, Miran Kim, Peter Taylor, Scott Campbell, Jordin Isip, Melinda Beck, Joel Dugan, Jeff Soto, Elizabeth Huey, Jacaeber Kastor, Mark Smith, Carl Dunn, Junko Mizuno, Mike Sutfin, Rich Jacobs, Taylor McKimens, WK Interact, 123 Klan, Filth, Calma, and many more. Lots of surprises are in store, including limited-edition merchandise like the Pushead-designed shirt (produced by 10 Deep) shown below. New York City’s the best place on Earth to spend Halloween and “The Beast Within” is the best place to spend your hard-earned dough on some amazing artwork. Don’t be late, first come, first severed…

For more info: http://www.supertouchblog.com/2007/10/19/nycannouncing-the-supertouch-halloween-art-show/

Interview with Marjane Satrapi

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The New York Times Magazine featured an interview with acclaimed author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi this week. She talks about her new movie, her views on plastic surgery, and how she doesn’t really like the term “graphic novel.”

Here’s an excerpt:

You’ve just turned your acclaimed series of graphic novels into a full-length animated film, “Persepolis,” an oddly charming tale about the brutal subject of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. Would you still describe yourself mainly as a graphic novelist? I don’t very much like this term of graphic novel. I think they made up this term for the bourgeoisie not to be scared of comics. Like, Oh, this is the kind of comics you can read.

The problem with the phrase “graphic novel” is that it sounds as if it’s referring to a book with X-rated or at least overly explicit content. Exactly. Chris Ware said something great. He said when he hears the term graphic novel, it makes him think of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”

Do you think cartoonists have received their artistic due? No. People either like to write or they like to draw. And we like to do both. We’re like the bisexuals of the culture. People don’t have any problem if you are a homosexual or if you are a heterosexual, but if you are a bisexual, they have more of a problem with you.

Read more of the interview here.

Learn more about Marjane here.

See the trailer for “Persepolis” as well as behind-the-scenes snippets here.

SVA Masters Series Honors Steve Heller

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The Masters Series: Steven Heller

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, will honor Steven Heller with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. He is the author, co-author or editor of over 100 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, was an art director at The New York Times for 33 years and is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Heller is also the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Design Department and co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism Department at SVA.

Lecture: Tuesday, October 23, 7pm
SVA Amphitheater
209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Free and open to the public.

The art director, writer and design authority will be speaking about his work, with Michael Bierut, partner, Pentagram and founding writer, Design Observer.

Exhibition: October 22 – December 1, 2007
Reception: Monday, October 22, 6 – 8pm
Visual Arts Museum
209 East 23 Street
New York, NY 10010
212.592.2145

Curated and designed by Kevin O’Callaghan, chair of 3D Design at SVA, the exhibition highlights the inspiration and collaboration behind Heller’s many achievements as a writer and art director. On view will be over 100 covers of The New York Times Book Review that Heller art directed and a visual anthology of his major publications, with select volumes available to peruse. An adjacent video installation will feature interviews with co-authors Mirko Ilic, Lita Talarico (co-chair of the MFA Design Department at SVA), Seymour Chwast, Marshall Arisman (chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at SVA) and Gail Anderson (on the faculty of the MFA Design Department at SVA) about their collaborative process. Nearby, visitors will be able to browse Heller’s many contributions to American and foreign periodicals at a full-scale replica of a New York City newsstand. The centerpiece of the multimedia display will be a larger-than-life photo montage of Heller’s library with recorded commentary about his collection of design ephemera and its role in his research and writing.

For more information, visit the exhibition overview.