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***JUST ANNOUNCED! ***
Justin Jordan will be in store at our One Year Anniversary Party on April 23rd.
Creator of "The Strange Talent of Luther Strode", "Strayer" and "Spread"
Save the date...more names to be announced in the coming weeks!
Feb. 15, 2016 is the deadline for receipt of applications for the Swann Foundation Fellowship, one of the few that supports scholarly graduate research in caricature and cartoon. For criteria, guidelines, and application forms, please see:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html
Please email swann@loc.gov or call (202) 707-9115 if you have questions.POLITICO's Matt Wuerker handpicks his favorite New Hampshire-themed cartoons.
2/07/2016
http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2016/02/cartoonists-take-on-the-new-hampshire-primary-000611?lo=ap_e1&slide=0Barry Sasscer, Laurel
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Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906–1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901–1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Johnson's best-known solo works are the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon, published in 1955, and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952). Krauss wrote more than a dozen children's books illustrated by others, collaborating eight times with Maurice Sendak to produce titles that include A Hole Is to Dig and A Very Special House.
Together, Johnson and Krauss's style—whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child's point of view—is among the most revered and influential in children's literature and cartooning. Acclaimed by critics and loved by readers, the couple's work also drew attention from another quarter in the 1950s: the FBI. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, Krauss and Johnson became the targets of surveillance and investigations during this rabidly anti-Communist era.
Drawing on his dual biography Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (University Press of Mississippi), Philip Nel tells a true story of art, publishing, politics, and the power of the imagination.
Nel is a scholar of children's literature and a University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is co-editor of the first complete collection of Barnaby comic strips, an extended, multi-volume project of Fantagraphics Books.
The program is underwritten by the Irving M. Gorbach Charitable Foundation.
From 1965 until his death in 1975, Crockett Johnson painted more than 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, 80 are in the collections of the American History Museum. Take a look at a digital gallery, presented along with related diagrams from the artist's library and papers.
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Thursday, February 11, 6:30 - 8 pm
Cartoons and Taboos: Dancing in a Visual Minefield
New York University, 1307 L St. NW, Washington, DC 20005 (Metro: McPherson Square)
One year ago, on January 7, 2015, terrorism attacked freedom of expression with the assault on the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. The slogan "Je suis Charlie" became ubiquitous. All of Europe showed its solidarity with France. Many citizens living in capital cities placed garlands of flowers in front of the French embassies. The European media reproduced caricatures as a show of solidarity.
The freedom which was accepted throughout Europe after the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and which formed the core of liberalism is being seriously threatened today. For whoever avails himself of the freedom upon which our ability to express and accept criticism is based may face the threat of death as a result. Withstanding this challenge and finding institutions that continue to protect this freedom is an imminently urgent task. We are confronted with a fundamental shift in thinking: freedom of expression can cost lives. Time will tell what consequences this has – will there be an image policy to prevent conflicts? Or will we maintain our position in editorial departments, at universities, in art and politics?
European cultural organizations hold on to the belief in the freedom of expression, and refuse to avoid difficult topics. Four caricaturists have accepted our invitation to participate in a discussion about these questions.
Panelists
Lectrr (Steven Degryse) is a Belgian cartoonist, best known for his daily political cartoons in De Standaard. Over the past decade he has been published all over Europe, both as an editorial cartoonist and as a syndicated single panel cartoonist, in magazines including Helsingsborgs Dagblad (Sweden), Prospect Magazine (UK), Nieuwe Revu (The Netherlands), Veronica Magazine (The Netherlands), Kretèn (Hungary) and many others. His work has been published in over ten languages and 15 books. Lectrr is a member of the jury in Knokke-Heist, the oldest cartoon festival in the world, and was nominated multiple times for the Press Cartoon Belgium and the Press Cartoon Europe awards.
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) is the international award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London and The Baltimore Sun. In a distinguished career that spans 37 years, Kal has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resumé includes six collections of his published work, including his celebrated anthology of Economist cartoons titled Daggers Drawn (2013). In 2015, KAL was awarded the Grand Prix for Cartoon of the Year in Europe, The Herblock Prize for Cartoonist of the Year in the US and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning. In 1999, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons said of Kevin "Commanding a masterful style, Kallaugher stands among the premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century."
Ann Telnaes creates animated editorial cartoons and a blog of print cartoons, animated gifs, and sketches for The Washington Post. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her print cartoons. Telnaes' print work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in 2004. Her first book, Humor's Edge, was published in 2004. A collection of Vice President Cheney cartoons, Dick, was self-published by Telnaes and Sara Thaves in 2006. Her work has also been exhibited in Paris, Jerusalem, and Lisbon.
Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for POLITICO. Part of the team that launched POLITICO in 2006, he provides editorial cartoons, illustrations, caricatures and Web animations for both the print and Web platforms of the publication. Over the past 35 years, Matt's cartoons have been used widely in publications that range from dailies like the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, The Nation and Smithsonian. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2010, he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress, and the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award.
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In cooperation with the Embassy of Belgium and the House of Flanders, New York.
This Iconoclash program is also supported by the Ambassador of the EU in the US, S.E. David O'Sullivan, the British Council, the Embassy of Slovenia, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Goethe-Institut and the European Union National Institutes of Culture.
