Mid-Missouri Comics Collective

Annie at Arrow Rock

Posted by Winter on June 15, 2009

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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June jams: Watchmen & Apes

Posted by Winter on June 10, 2009

A couple of jams from the June midmococo meeting:

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The art of Captain Biljo

Posted by Winter on June 3, 2009

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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Depression era cartoons exhibit

Posted by Winter on June 3, 2009

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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