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The musical Annie, based on the Tribune Media Service comic strip, will be performed at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre Jun 19 – Jun 28.
By the way, the public library has just got in a new Annie comic strip collection: Will tomorrow ever come? : daily comic strips 1924-1927.
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As reported in an earlier newspaper story, Randy Schnell has put together a book collection of work by Biljo White titled The art of Captain Biljo. The book is not available for purchase, but you can now look at it in the special collections area of the MU Libraries.
The book is a collection of various material by Biljo spanning his whole career. It contains material from his high school years and time in the army to his work on Batmania and the Eye comics. Also included are rarities like personal greeting cards, and art he did for the city of Columbia.
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The State Historical Society of Missouri has a new exhibit going up: “Wall Street and Main Street”: Editorial Cartoons on the Economic Crisis of the 1930s from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The 40 cartoons featured will be from Pulitzer Prize-winning Daniel Fitzpatrick. The exhibit opens June 6th and goes until October 3rd.
From the press release:
Born in Superior, Wisconsin, at the turn of the twentieth century, Daniel “Fitz” Fitzpatrick was a classically trained artist who was not afraid to use his lithographic crayon against any person, place, or event that he saw trampling the average American. Fitz ridiculed presidents and other politicians, took aim at Nazis, pressed for equal rights, and during the 1930s reflected the truth of the Great Depression for readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He depicted the “Hooverville” shantytowns that plagued St. Louis and the rest of the country, and viewers could read in the faces of his characters the economic hardships brought to bear on both financial elites and “main street” America.
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I’ve noticed that “superhero” themes are becoming more mainstream this last year. We’ve reported on a few of these items here and there (and here too) because they’re somewhat comic related. Here’s a collection of some more superhero stuff I’ve noticed around Columbia recently:
This February, Stephens College fashion students did a “Marvelous” super hero themed fashion show:
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The Columbia Area Career Center is having a few cartooning classes this summer:
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Mort Walker has a large interview in the latest Comics Journal conducted by R.C. Harvey. Of course his college days at MU are mentioned in the interview. The comics journal has an excerpt of the interview up online. Here’s a small bit from the interview:
R.C. Harvey: The college that Beetle went to was called Rockview College, and there were features of the campus that came right out of Columbia, MO.
Mort Walker: They were direct steals. I’d get pictures of Missouri campus and I’d draw those landmark buildings.
For the full interview, see The Comics Journal #297 in print.
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Dan Magee is the creator of Bad Guy High, which is featured on the Drunk Duck webcomics website. He’s also done quite a few illustrations for the Maneater during his college years. We decided to throw some questions his way before he graduates from MU this month
For the past five years I’ve been working on my webcomic Bad Guy High. It’s a project that I keep very close to my heart and I want to see it through to the end. Unlike most web and print comics I don’t plan on doing it indefinitely. I have a very specific course of events and ending all planned out, and I won’t give up on Bad Guy High till I reach it. After college I eventually plan on doing a semi autobiographical graphic novel based around the rocky love life I’ve had here at school. I’m just narcissistic enough to believe it might actually be interesting. Read the rest of this entry »
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The last comic jam produced robot bump and robot nipples. It was almost too much to handle.
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The movie Tokyo! is collection of three short films by three directors, all relating to Tokyo the city. One of the short films is based on the work of cartoonist Gabrielle Bell (Lucky), and directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Bell traveled with Gondry to Tokyo to shoot the film and they released Kuruma Tohrimasu, which is a collection of drawings and photographs made during the production of the film. Bell also recently released a collection of her short stories called Cecil and Jordan in New York, which includes the story that was the basis for the short film. Tokyo! will show at Ragtag Cinema from May 8th to May 14th.
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It’s time for the annual Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 2nd. There are two locations in Mid-Missouri who are participating:
Rock Bottom Comics, 1013 E Walnut St, Columbia, MO
Hastings, 2233 Missouri Blvd, Jefferson City, MO
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The Tribune’s Bill Clark has a story about famous fanzine creator Biljo White, who lived in Columbia most of his life. Biljo was the publisher of Batmania, a Batman themed fanzine started in 1964.
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The MU Libraries has posted an online exhibit: Alley Oop 75 years of the comic world of V.T. Hamiln. The exhibit is an online representation of the anniversery exhibit and events that happened in September 2008.
Included in the exhibit are videos of the events. Speakers include Jack and Carole Bender, Mark Lambert, Frank Stack, Katie Carr, Matt Kindt, Mardou, Ted May, Jeff Zwirek, Dan Martin, Andrew Hoberek, Stephanie Kartalopoulos and Daniel Conner.
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Comic/street artist Steve Powers and underground comic artist Justin Green will have an exhibition in St. Louis at White Flag Projects from April 25th to June 7th. The show is titled 2 Fists of Iron and a Bottle of Beer, and a reception for the show will be held April 25th from 7pm-10 pm.
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Mizzou Wire has a new feature up about Assistant Professor Tim J. Evans, a veterinary medicine professor for the University of Missouri, who uses an alter ego, The Antidote, to teach toxicology.
“But his over-the-top teaching technique involves a cape, mask and transformation into his alter ego — The Antidote — who appears on slides and in person to promote the study of toxic-plant principles.”
You can read the whole story on Mizzou Wire and find more stories about Mizzou’s brightest and geekiest faculty.
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A new animated short by cartoonist Chris Ware will be shown at This American Life Live! on April 23rd. The show is being broadcast to theaters for one night only and will start at 7pm central time. You can purchase advanced tickets for the Columbia showing from the Forum 8 theatre. Ware has created cartoons for the show before including this one and this one.
Update: An encore presentation of the program will take place May 7th at the Forum 8 theatre.
Update two: The animated short from the show is online.
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Alan’s Comic Book Conventions:
Note: I overlooked Hurleycon which was on March 9th in Joplin, MO.
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Kewpie by cartoonist Rose O’Neill, a resident of the Missouri Ozarks. Local Hickman High School has the Kewpie as its mascot, thus there’s been some Kewpie stuff that’s come up in the news lately:
For more information on Kewpie news and updates from a Hickman High School perspective you can visit www.Kewpie.net maintained by Charley Blackmore.
Update: The Missourian has another story and podcast with more details about the open house.
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Something I missed in my previous movie roundup: Ragtag Cinema is showing the movie Fanboys April 10th to the 16th. While the movie is about Star Wars, one of the movie stills shows a guy in a comic shop, so it should have some comic fanboys involved.
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Today’s meeting produced a jam that asks the question: How do post modern super heroes and villains fight?
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