News archive September, 2008
Posted by Winter on September 30, 2008
The comic store Star Clipper in St. Louis is celebrating a 20th anniversary this year with a gallery show. The show has an opening reception October 3rd from 6pm-10pm. (The opening is also part of Loop in Motion Festival.) The show will be up until November 21st. From the website:
Featured artists include Jenny Cimino, Kevin Huizenga, Brian Hurtt, Matt Kindt, Sharlene Kindt, Nick Main, Sacha Mardou, Ted May, Stephanie Richardson, Anchovy Sciarrino, James Stark, Ronald Weaver, Dan Wilson, Peat Wollaeger, Brian Yap and Dan Zettwoch! Also, meet and greet Star Clipper founders Sonny and Carol Denbow!
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 23, 2008
On September 24th, MU associate professor of English Andrew Hoberek will give a lecture at Stephens College on The Graphic Memoir as/and Contemporary Literature. The lecture will start at 6:30pm in Windsor Auditorium, and is hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department at Stephens College. The Missourian has a story about the lecture.
Update: The U.Town blog has some quotes from the lecture.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 20, 2008
On September 25th, local cartoonist Frank Stack will speak in the Ellis Library Colonnade at 1pm. The title of his talk will be Alley Oop and the New World: a talk and Q&A with legendary underground cartoonist and MU Professor Emeritus of Art Frank Stack.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Correction: Wrong time was listed before. The talk will be at 1pm.
Update: Stack will also have a booth at the Columbia Festival of the Arts this weekend, September 27-28, 10am - 5pm both days.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 20, 2008
On September 24th two MU grad students, Stephanie Kartalopoulos and Daniel Conner will be part of a Grad Student Panel at the Ellis Library Colonnade at 2pm. Kartalopoulos will speak about Comics and Conflict, and Connor will speak about English Imaging of an Irish Problem: English Understanding of the Great Irish Potato Famine through Punch 1845-1855.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 20, 2008
The Kirksville Daily Express has a story about costumed bicycle riding do gooders traveling through Kirksville Missouri. The traveling bicycle group apparently rides into towns in full superhero garb with a mission of helping people along the way. Ethan Hughes, the leader for the group, has organized many bicycle based tours around the same idea.
Apparently during the group’s stay in Missouri they’ll also be doing a Habitat for Humanity project in Columbia and a workshop for low-income families in St. Louis.
Update: The Planetsave blog has an interview with Ethan Hughes about the superhero bike ride in Missouri. Apparently the people involved with the ride are part of the newly formed Possibility Alliance in La Plata Missouri.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 20, 2008
According to the Columbia Tribune, MU Law student Brad Desnoyer has a 8 page story he wrote coming out in the DC Universe Halloween 08 anthology on October 22nd.
Update: The Maneater has a story about Desnoyer as well.
Update two: STL today has an interview with Desnoyer.
Update three: Missourian also has a story.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 17, 2008
On September 18th, Dr. Andrew Hoberek will give a lecture in the Ellis Library Colonnade at 1pm. The title of the lecture is From Gags to Graphic Novels: Alley Oop in the History of Narrative Comics. The lecture is part of the MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 15, 2008
On September 14th, we gathered a Shakespere’s Pizza for another Pitchers and Pictures event. We were doing caveman themed drawings and jams because of the Alley Oop events this month. We also gave the use of some chip board a try with colors and white out pens. Check out the art below.
Posted in: Comic jams
Posted by Winter on September 15, 2008
On September 17th, St. Louis Post Dispatch cartoonist Dan Martin will give a talk in the Ellis Library Colonnade at 2pm. The talk is based on Dan’s recent book See You in the Funny Papers: The Rich Tradition of St. Louis Cartooning. He had an exhibit in St. Louis to compliment the book this summer.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 15, 2008
Checker publishing has relased a new Beetle Baily book this month: Beetle Bailey - The First Years 1950-1952. The book is a hardcover collection of the first two years of the Beetle strip, and is of particular relevance to Mid-Missourians since it shows many of Walker’s influences from his college days at MU on the comics page. From the website:
From the very first Beetle Bailey strips on a college campus through Beetle’s enlistment in the U.S. Army, this volume contains the first two years of Mort Walker’s famous strips, encompassing September 1950 through June 1952. Enjoy two separate casts of quirky characters, the first based on Mort Walker’s fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri and the second on his Korean era stint in the Army. These are the strips that won him the Ruben Award in 1953. Beetle Bailey went on to become the third most widely distributed comic strip of all time. Introduction with comments by Mort Walker himself!
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 15, 2008
On September 20th and 21st, the Mo-Kan Comics Conspiracy comic show is coming to Kansas City. The show is open Saturday 10am-5pm ($7.00 admission) and Sunday 10am-4pm ($5.00 admission).
The guest list includes Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier and Stan Sakai, Tom Luth, Gary Friedrich, B. Clay Moore, Dennis Hopeless, Kevin Mellon, Anna-Maria Cool, Steve Lightle, Rick Stasi, Monte May, Alex Grecian, Kyle Strahm, Ed Bickford, Steve Daniels, Kirk Chritton, Rob Davis and Ed Lavallee.
According to Kirk Chritton’s blog, three leading creators will lead a workshop on how to break into the comics business on September 20th. From Chritton’s website:
Writer B. Clay Moore (Hawaiian Dick, Billy Smoke), writer/penciller Phil Hester (Firebreather, El Diablo), and writer/inker Ande Parks (Capote in Kansas, El Diablo) will be meeting with creators and interacting in break out sessions to review portfolios, provide specific tips, and take direct questions about the comics creative process. ComicsCareer.Com publisher Kirk Chritton will serve as emcee for the event and will participate in the discussions.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 15, 2008
Mort Walker’s Beetle Baily is on the cover of the Fall issue of Mizzou Magazine. There is a two page story inside regarding the new version of the Shack (called Mort’s Place) that is going to be in the renovated Brady Commons. You can catch a glimpse of Mort’s Place in an online Brady Commons slideshow.
Mizzou Magazine also has new online slide show of cartoons and illustrations from old football programs.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 15, 2008
The September jams at the midmococo meeting were done on long narrow strips of paper. Take a look at the results.
Posted in: Comic jams
Posted by Winter on September 12, 2008
On September 14th at 2pm a panel of four visiting cartoonists will speak at the Columbia Public Library Friends Room. The title of the panel is Nice Work if You Can Get It: Comic Artist in the Digital Age. The cartoonists will have copies of their works for sale after the panel. Here’s more info from the MU Libraries website:
This panel discussion of young, up-and-coming comic artists will be moderated by Dr. Kristin Schwain, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri. Each artist will address their own personal experiences as present-day artists who are in the beginning stages of a career, including how they use technology in their work. Cosponsored by Columbia Public Library
Matt Kindt is an award-winning graphic novelist who has been reading, writing, and drawing comics for as long as he’s been able to hold a pen. His most recent work, Super Spy, was named the 2007 Indie Book of the Year by Wizard magazine and made Booklist’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2008. Matt won a 2008 Harvey Award for his work on Alan Moore’s Lost Girls (he’s been nominated four times previously). His first graphic novel, Pistolwhip, was on Time Magazine’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2001.
He has worked with Random House, Top Shelf, Dark Horse and DC Comics as an author, illustrator and graphic designer.
Mardou has been making and self-publishing mini comics for 8 years. Born in Manchester, England she now lives in St Louis, Missouri with her cartoonist husband Ted May where she is working on a graphic novel.
Ted May has been drawing comics since an early age, and has more recently been a part of the St. Louis comics scene as a published comics artist. May has contributed to various comics anthologies including Kramers Ergot, and Non, and has published some of his own books such as It Lives. May was named “Mini-Comics Artist of the Year 2002” by the Comics Journal. Currently May produces Injury Comics, a series published by Buenaventura Press, as well as comic strips appearing in Arthur Magazine and the Riverfront Times.
Along with his comics work, May works at Xplane, a visual communications company. May lives in south St. Louis with his wife (and fellow comics artist) Sacha Mardou.
Jeff Zwirek is the Ignatz-nominated artist behind the mini-comics Burning Building Comix, Black Star, and Jack Rabbit. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 12, 2008
On September 8th, Darren Hellwege’s Thinking out Loud show on local radio station KBIA played part one of an interview with Katie Carr of the MU Libraries Special Collections and local cartoonist Frank Stack. They talked about the Alley Oop comic strip and the special events going on this month.
The second part of the interview will run on September 15th. The show starts at 6:30pm on 91.3 FM.
Update: The second part of the interview is online.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 10, 2008
The Ragtag Cinema is showing the documentary Caveman: V.T. Hamlin and Alley Oop on September 11th at 7:30pm. The Movie is free, and there will be a Q&A afterward with the producer Mark Lambert, current Alley Oop artists Jack and Carole Bender, and local cartoonist Frank Stack.
From the Ragtag website:
Ellis Library’s Special Collections presents a new documentary from Iowa novelist/filmmaker Max Allan Collins, best known as the writer of the graphic novel Road to Perdition. It tells the story of Vincent T. Hamlin, the innovative cartoonist from Iowa who created the dinosaur-laden, long-running comic strip credited with inspiring everything from The Flintstones to Jurassic Park.
I might also mention that while Mark Lambert currently lives in Iowa, he also has a regional tie because he published Two-Fisted Tales of La Plata, Missouri last October. It’s an anthology honoring Lester Dent’s home town of La Plata in central Missouri. (Lambert is also the publisher of Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft and His Market.) Oddly enough, like the character Alley Oop, Lester Dent’s main character Doc Savage also has a 75th anniversary this year.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Update: You can preorder the DVD at target.com.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 10, 2008
New Yorker cartoonist Michael Shaw will have an exhibit up for the MU Journalism School centennial/dedication celebration. As reported earlier this year, the cartoons that he’ll have up are based on J-School Epiphanies.
The exhibit is supposed to be up in the Neff Hall Student Lounge. You can visit the exhibit from 11am-1pm on September 11th and 12th and have Shaw customize an “epiphany” for you. All the proceeds will be donated to the Journalism Endowment Fund.
Update: If you missed the exhibit, you can see his J-School Epiphanies cartoons up on his website.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 9, 2008
On September 10th, the Alley Oop exhibit opens at Ellis Library and will be up in the Library Colonnade until September 30th. At 5:30pm in Ellis Auditorium, current Alley Oop creators Jack and Carole Bender will give a keynote address titled Inventing Our Own Alley Oop.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on September 3, 2008
The 10th annual Toonfest is coming Saturday, September 20th in Marceline, Missouri (Walt Disney’s boyhood town).
Here’s the 2008 guest cartoonists:
There will be a parade in the morning and a cartoonists symposium in the afternoon, but check out the schedule for a full rundown of activities.
Update: Tom Richmond’s blog has a more detailed schedule of events.
Posted in: Uncategorized
News categories
News archives
