McGurk on the pioneering feminist New Yorker cartoonist.
Annie Koyama Contributes Vast Collection of Original Art to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Annie Koyama, owner and publisher of Toronto’s Koyama Press, has donated a large selection of original artwork to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM). Koyama is donating over 250 original pieces from a wide range of contemporary cartoonist. The list provided by the BICLM includes Lisa Hanawalt, Theo Ellsworth, Katie Skelly, Noah Van Sciver, […]
New CAF: CXC in Columbus from Smith and Spurgeon
And here’s the official word on that new comic arts festival that people were alluding to at ICAF: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus or CXC, which will be a lot more than a CAF, really. The event will debut in 2015 as a two-day event (held October 2-3) and then grow into a four day festival in 2016. The show has a four person executive committee consisting of Cartoon Books’ Jeff Smith and Vijaya Iyer, Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon and Billy Ireland Library founder Lucy Caswell. Smith is the Artistic Director, while Spurgeon will be the Festival Director. Can you say heavy hitters?
Photo parade: Daniel Clowes exhibit opening at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Here’s a pretty awesome photo gallery of the Dan Clowes art show opening at the Wexner Center for the Arts All photos including the above by Katherine Spengler © Wexner Center for the Arts, 2014 Heidi MacDonaldHeidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, […]
Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson interviewed on the state of cartooning
Yep you head me right. This weekend the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and LIbrary in Columbus Ohio will open two incredible shows, The Irresistible Force Meets The Immovable Object: A Richard Thompson Retrospective and Exploring Calvin And Hobbes and in advance of the show Jenny Robb has interviewed Bill Watterson and Caitlin McGurk has interviewed […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/21/13: We must all go to Columbus now
§ Bill Kartalopoulos went to the The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum opening and he thought it was pretty awesome. Another major holding is the International Museum of Comic Art Collection, a large and diverse body of comics artwork and related materials in multiple formats and genres originally collected by Mort Walker for his […]