The movie trailer for Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope has just been released. One of the subjects in the film is local cartoonist Skip Harvey, who is featured as “The Geek” in the trailer. The River Front Times has an article on Harvey, which features some information about the film and Harvey’s background. The film is playing at the True/False Film Fest March 2-4 with Spurlock in person for each showing.
Ticket information: Unfortunately the Friday and Sunday shows have no reserve tickets left. If you want to see the film you’ll have to pick up advanced tickets for the Saturday showing at the True/False box office when it opens on March 1st, or use the Q system before a showing.
Artist-curators Anne Thompson and Nathan Boyer present an exhibition drawn from the vast archive of the multifaceted painter, printmaker, collector, and comic artist Frank Stack. Stack, who retired in 2003 after forty years as an art professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is also the graphic artist Foolbert Sturgeon. He created this pseudonym as a young man, allowing him to satirize politics and religion without running afoul of Midwestern conservative sensibilities.
The Vox has a story on cartoonist and illustrator Dick Noel. Noel worked on several issues of the Missouri Showme before graduating in 1959 and later worked at Hallmark and Universal Press in Kansas City. The article includes comments from his widow Sylvia Guffin Noel and also includes a short video.
This year the True/False Film Fest is showing Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope as part of the festival line up. Morgan Spurlock himself will be at the screenings of the film. Here’s when it’s showing:
Friday, Mar 2 / 10:00PM / The Blue Note Forrest Theater
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