Posted by Winter on March 27, 2012
John W. Lynch passed away earlier this month on March 2nd. Lynch was an art teacher most of his life, part of which he spent in Columbia. According to his obituary, he started the commercial art program at Columbia College where he taught from 1973 – 1984. Lynch played a part in helping develop the Columbia City Emblem in 1974 when he had eight of his students submit designs for the city to consider. (The winning design by student Robert Freeze was widely adopted by the city.) When he left Columbia, he moved back to teach art at his alma mater, the University of Central Missouri, for 28 years.
While in Columbia he started drawing a comic strip called “Breaker Breaker.” According to a Columbia Tribune article from June 24th, 1977, the strip capitalized on the CB Radio craze of the 1970s, and featured Chub and Libby, a husband and wife; Tulsa, Libby’s brother; and Tulsa’s dog, Rin 10-4. Lynch wasn’t a CB fan, but local CB enthusiast Mike McCormack helped out with writing chores on the strip. At the time of the article, the strip was gaining momentum and was running in 45 newspapers around the country.
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Posted by Winter on March 16, 2012
This week’s Vox Magazine has a story about the Anyone but Virginia graphic novel that was recently put together by MU alumni Zac Crockett and Josh Eiserike. You can buy the paperback online, or buy it digitally as well. In related news, a short film based on the characters in the comic has recently been funded on Kickstarter.
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Posted by Winter on March 14, 2012
Columbia Public Library is offering a Cartooning for Beginners class taught by James Mouser on March 30th from 1:30-2:15 p.m. or 3-3:45 p.m. Mouser is the creator of the comic strip Fayette-cetera which ended its run last year. From the library website:
See how easy it is to draw cartoons! Learn the basic steps to drawing people and animals from cartoonist James Mouser, and develop your own cartoon characters. Ages 6 and older. Registration begins Tuesday, March 13.
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Posted by Winter on March 12, 2012
Skip Harvey has been riding a surge of popularity on the heels of being one of the stars in Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope documentary that played at the 2012 True/False Film Fest. Stories about his involvement with the film have appeared in the Tribune, Vox, Move, and RFT. When Harvey is not drawing, you can find him bar-tending or doing karaoke DJ duties at the local Sci-Fi/Horror themed Eastside Tavern. Harvey recently took some time to answer some questions from us.
What are you working on now comics-wise?
I’m working on a collection of short stories made by Columbia artist/writers about the Midwest Geek perspective. It’s a side of the story that I think is under-represented in media today. We have a lot of talented, energetic people here in Columbia and there’s never been a better time to showcase that fact. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Josh on March 2, 2012
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of Thomas Hart Benton’s Year of Peril series, the controversial paintings from World War II will be exhibited at the State Historical Society of Missouri in its gallery at Ellis Library from March 3 through mid-August.
This priceless collection of eight, large, war propaganda paintings created by Benton at the outset of the U.S. involvement in WWII will be on display as well as editorial cartoons and war posters created by other artists in 1942.
More information and a slide show of the paintings can be found at Mizzou Wire.
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