Posted by Winter on March 31, 2010
The Beehive Collective is coming April 8th to present a program featuring: “Huge portable murals, collaboratively produced illustrations, and an engaging narrative.” Their main program starts at 7pm in Ellis Auditorium on the MU campus. From their website:
On tour with giant, portable murals, the Bees use art as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing. We offer a variety of high energy, interactive, graphic-based picture-lectures that speak to the overwhelming and complex picture of globalization, militarization, and resource extraction, as well as the small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build another world.
The collective is also making a couple of other appearances while in town: April 7th at Village Square Park at 9th and Walnut at 6 p.m. (in conjunction with Food Not Bombs) and April 8th at the MU Lowry Mall from 12-1 p.m. Their program is sponsored by MU students for progressive action. Check the beehive’s website for their full tour schedule.
Update: Radio station KBIA interviewed the some of the collective.
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Posted by Winter on March 27, 2010
Charles Blackmore runs the website Kewpie.net, which is a website dedicated to Hickman High School graduates. In January he put up a story on My Missourian explaining an alternate version of how Hickman High School got the cartoon character of a Kewpie as its mascot. The story comes from Lucy Church of Kansas City, who had a great uncle named Sam Church that attended Hickman High School. Sam told Lucy the story, as she repeats in this email in the My Missourian story:
Apparently, the school secretary owned a Kewpie doll, as they were popular figurines then, and she kept it on her desk. At one of the basketball games, she placed the Kewpie in the center of the court (I guess for good luck), and the entire game was played around it without its being broken.
The photo above from the 1914 Cresset yearbook may have the actual original kewpie from the game sitting at the bottom. You can see more information about Sam Church and the story on Blackmore’s website. You can also check out Blackmore’s interview last Friday for KBIA’s off the clock program.
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Posted by Winter on March 26, 2010
Local cartoonist Scott Ziolko has just released his Ninjas for Hire #1 (of 2) in minicomic form. You can get a copy at Rock Bottom Comics, or check out some of the pages online. The official release of the comic was made for Scott’s recent trip to Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle.
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Posted by Winter on March 23, 2010
Kansas City has a new website for comic news. Kirk Chritton has launched a new website this month called Kansas City Comics. The website is somewhat modeled after our own website here, with comics news, links, and a growing section of local comics history. Here’s some info from the website:
The mission of Kansas City Comics is to gather news, interviews, and other features about the Kansas City comic book community, past and present. And, by the way, I define “Kansas City” quite loosely, so you’ll find features about creators, events, and retailers throughout Missouri, Kansas, and even Iowa and Nebraska.
The website already has a lot of Kansas City content that Kirk pulled from his previous blogging project called comicscareer.com. Kirk brings a lot of comics experience to this new venture, and it’s worth noting that he even used to live in Mid-Missouri as our comics history timeline will attest. Kansas City comic news has been hard to come by for a while now, so this blog should be a welcome addition to the blogosphere.
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Posted by Winter on March 18, 2010
This week’s issue of Vox Magazine contains a story about local creators and how they use the web to share their work. Creators interviewed include Scott Ziolko, Jeremy Burt, Gary Lister, JB Winter, and Keith Chan. There’s also a gallery of comic images at the end of the article.
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Posted by Winter on March 15, 2010
On March 27th, the Institute for Comics Studies Forum will be held from 9-4 at the H. Sam Priest House at Webster University (8270 Big Bend, Webster, MO 63119). The forum is open to the public free of charge. Academics and professionals will be discussing local teaching and creating of comics. Teachers, faculty, college and high school students, and comics fans and readers are encouraged to attend.
Panels include: A Map of Comics St. Louis, Comics Studies in St. Louis, Comics Creation in St. Louis, Comics in the Classroom, The Comics Market in St. Louis, and Keynote Speech: “Cinematic Comics: Irrelevant Irreverence?”
Presenters include: Peter Coogan (Institute for Comics Studies), Steve Higgins (Lewis and Clark Community College), Larry D. Quiggins (Lindenwood University), Geoff Schmidt (Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville), and David Schuman (Washington University in St. Louis), David B. Olsen (Saint Louis University), Ted May (Injury), Mardou (artist/writer of Manhole), Dan Zettwoch (Ironclad), Christoher Sagovac (Webster University), Sheri McCord (St. Louis University), Jake Wagman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Scott Samson (The ComicDorksCast), and Pier Marton (Washington University).
The event is being co-chaired by Peter Coogan (Institute for Comics Studies) and David B. Olsen (Saint Louis University).
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Posted by Winter on March 11, 2010
Daniel Boone Regional Library currently has a comics and graphic novels display up at the library, but they are also giving out blank comic templates for people to draw on and turn back in for the library to display. At this month’s midmococo meeting we completed a jam using one of the blank templates:
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