Check out this short documentary about Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, David Boring, Eightball) by artist Dick Tuinder.
[self-portrait by Dan Clowes]
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Bat-Manga: Chip Kidd, Anne Ishii, & Geoff Spear at Rocketship!
Illustration Faculty Frank Olinsky gave us the heads up about a fantastic event going on at Brooklyn’s own Rocketship, purveyor of fine comics, cartoons, and graphic novels.. Here’s the scoop from their blog:
BAT-MANGA!!! Slideshow Presentation and signing with editor/designer supreme CHIP KIDD, photographer extraordinaire GEOFF SPEAR, and translating superstar ANNE ISHII!!!
Beer and Wine will be served… what a great opportunity to get a signed copy of my current favorite Batman book, BAT-MANGA, for yourself, or for the Batman fan in your life!
7:00-7:30: open bar, meet the BAT-MANGA crew
7:30-8:00ish: PowerPoint presentation
8:00-8:15: Q&A
8:15-close: signing
ONE-NIGHT ONLY BOOKPLATES DESIGNED BY MR. KIDD!! Available for folks getting books signed at the event! AWESOME!!
Sounds incredible–get out there tomorrow!
Thanks for the tip-off, Frank.
Follow-up: Level Reviews F08
Last Minute: New York Stereoscopic Society 3D Comics Night!
New York Stereoscopic Society 3D Comics Night
Wednesday, November 19, 7 pm
Mick Andreano, Jerry Marks, Joe Pedoto — 3D Comics and Moral Corruption
Haft Auditorium, Fashion Institute of Technology
Enter C Building Lobby on 27th street between 7th and 8th Avenues
FREE and open to the public!
3D PROJECTIONS and live readings by:
Michael Kupperman — “Hercules vs. Zeus”
Kim Deitch — “It’s 4D!”
R. Sikoryak — “The Lost Treasure of the 3D!” (Parsons Illustration Alum and Faculty!)
Jason Little — “The Abduction Announcement”
Get more information and pictures at either the official website or on Facebook.
Last Reminder: Kim Deitch Q & A at MoCCA
Tonight at 7 p.m.
Kim Deitch Q & A with curator Bill Kartalopoulos
Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401
New York, NY
In a unique and wide-ranging conversation, Kim and Bill (Illustration Part-time Faculty) will discuss Deitch’s work and career to date. Deitch will present examples of recent work and will also preview images from his current works in progress.
From the Inbox: The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
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.
Reminder and Repost: Kim Deitch Retrospective
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
Brian Wood written up in the Village Voice
Illustration Alum Brian Wood (’97) was recently interviewed for an article in the Village Voice. He talked about why San Francisco just isn’t as good as New York (to him), how his artwork has developed, and the critical and social reaction to his art. Here’s an excerpt:
Comic-book fame is a funny thing: Even as Hollywood pushes the medium further into the mainstream, a sense of geek solidarity remains. Writers and artists feel compelled to stay in touch with their fans; the fans, in turn, continue to treat creators like best friends. “I’m hesitant to compare him to an emo band, but I feel like Brian has that sort of connection to the audience,” says James Lucas Jones, an editor at Oni Press who worked with Wood on Local. “People feel emotionally invested in him.”
Wood’s own fame was cemented in the late ’90s, after the publication of the William Gibson–esque Channel Zero. He now calls it something of “an art student’s rant”—a ” ‘zine where everybody talks about what pisses them off.” But Zero led to a writing stint at Marvel’s Generation X and paved the way for the series Couriers, Couscous Express, and Pounded, about a rock band in New York. Eventually, Wood transitioned from occasionally drawing into writing full-time, mostly because he “had so many ideas, and not enough time to put them to paper.”
Make sure you read the rest of the article here. Brian also has a list of other articles about his work here on his official website. You can pick up a copy of his latest book, The New York Four here.
Congrats on your continuing success, Brian!
“Beasts! in Movies” Competition
Jitter-Magazine has announced an international illustration competition Beasts! in Movies. Here are the details they passed along to us:
Jitter is the only German magazine focusing on illustration, comic art, and animation. Each issue covers a key issue like “drawing”, “music”, “laughter”, “fashion”–the forthcoming issue (October) covers “beasts”. In our categories interview, artist portrait, art show, image+narration, we present illustrators and designers, talk with art directors, publishers, university lecturers, gallery owners; we review comics, dvd, books on illustration, design, animation and fine art and related theory.
The main purpose of jitter is not only to show great artwork and artists but to have a close look at their context. We look on contemporary and historic illustration in regard to philosophy, psychology of perception, semiotics, media theory and art history. We believe that picture making is deeply rooted in mankind and not a thing of modernity or luxury.
Beasts! in Movies Competition
Entry of this competition is free.
Deadline is September 30th, 2008.
Beasts! What would man be without the creature? Whether admiration or contempt, emotion or horror, the ambivalent relationship between man and creature has been the source of countless stories of all cultures.
Seeing himself as creation’s crowning glory, man keeps his distance to nature only to use it as screen for all kinds of desires and fears. Over and over again this has been the reason for movies; whether they aim for
a romantic view of a primordial lost world, used at the same time as a metaphor for the innocent of childhood or they aim for the darkest nightmares of an unnameable evil hidden in any unknown terrain — even in our own basement. The fascination of the creature is a never ending source.
All professional illustrators and students of art programs are eligible to enter. Work must be dated after August 2007 and should have beasts who appeared in movies as a theme. These beasts can be real, fantastic, harmless or menacing. The manner of the beast’s demeanor, its appearance alone, in pairs or in masses, as well as the staging of the encounter between human and beast are interesting starting points.
Work must have the size relations 1:2,35 (cinemascope) and be submitted in digital format. Work will be
evaluated through a professional jury. All selected work will be showcased in Berlin in an exhibition at a cinema of the Yorck cinema-group. Faber-Castell and Adobe have kindly made available prizes amounting to Euro 3300.
We are especially happy to have a distinguished panel of judges including Armin Abmeier, Publisher (Die Tollen Hefte), GER; Andrew Coningsby, Representative (DebutArt Ltd & The Coningsby Gallery), London GB; Dr. Rolf Giesen, Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin, expert for phantastic film, GER; Steven Guarnaccia, Parsons New School for Design, New York USA; Andrea Offermann, Illustrator, GER; Prof. Albrecht Rissler, Illustrator, GER; Sabine Witkowski,Curator and Cultural Manager, H. Torsten Wolber, Illustrator, GER.
Download an entry form here! Good luck.
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]