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Showing posts with label Warren Bernard. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Warren Bernard's Willard Mullin collection (pre-Columbia U donation)
Warren Bernard spent years collecting sports cartoonist Willard Mullin artwork and ephemera. Before he donated it to Columbia University this month, he had a showing of material at his house. With his permission, here are photos of the material that went to NYC (with a few ringers that stayed home with him).
Prof. Joseph Witek sent me a note about this post. "In one of the random projects that came my way back in the helter-skelter pioneer days of comics studies, I wrote the Dictionary of American Biography entry for Willard Mullin (who I had never previously heard of). Mullin was just an excellent cartoonist / caricaturist from back in the day when sports cartoons were the sports-page counterpart of editorial cartoons, during an era when boxing (Joe Louis), thoroughbred racing, and East Coast college football were the premier sports in US culture (the Army-Navy game was once a huge deal). But Mullin covered a bit of everything."
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Feb 16: Illustrating Spain in the US: the comic art of Anapurna
- February 16, 2022
- 6:30 pm
Illustrating Spain in the US: the comic art of Anapurna
Spanish comic author Anapurna shares the insights of her creative process and discuss comic art in a conversation with Warren Bernard, executive director of Small Press Expo.
Commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and curated by award-winning writer Ana Merino, Illustrating Spain in the US unites comic creators and scholars in a joint artistic effort to deepen into the Spanish presence in this country. Anapurna worked with Hispanism expert Lucia Cotarelo to explore the Spanish philological and literary legacy in the U.S. through a comic piece that evokes the poetics of the diaspora.
The exhibition Illustrating Spain in the US is currently on show at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain until early March.
About Anapurna
Anapurna is the alter-ego of Ana Sainz Quesada, graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and specialized in illustration and graphic narrative in IED Madrid. Working on different artistic disciplines and equally attracted by drawing, street art, painting, embroidery, and engraving, she loves making and reading every kind of comics.
A Madrid-based illustrator and artist published her first graphic novel, Chucrut (Salamandra Graphic), in 2015, awarded with the VIII Fnac-Salamandra Graphic Award. Her work has been featured in different magazines around the world, such as Larva (Colombia), Kiblind magazine (France) or Jot Down (Spain); and included in graphic anthologies in the United States (Anthology Editions) and Germany (Wagenbach).
About Warren Bernard
Warren Bernard is twice-nominated Eisner Award comics author and historian, who in addition to contributed to over two dozen books on comics history, has curated or contributed to retrospective gallery shows on various comics-related subjects. He has lectured on comics at the United States Library of Congress, The Center for Cartoon Studies and other centers of higher learning. Bernard is also the Executive Director of Small Press Expo, one of the most influential indie comics festivals in the world.
The Illustrating Spain in the US book is available for purchase.
Friday, September 06, 2019
Sept 11: Newsprint: The Medium That Launched Comics exhibit gallery talk
8/13 – 9/27, 2019
The Cade Art Gallery at Anne Arundel Community College
Exhibition Reception with curator Warren Bernard on September 11, 2019 from 5 to 7pm.
The colorful world of newspaper comic strip characters and today's superheroes can be traced back to the 1890s with the development of high-speed color printing presses. Color printing gave publishers a competitive edge in the bruising newspaper circulation wars of the time.
The large size of a broadsheet newspaper gave both editors and artists a vast canvas upon which to create ground-breaking comics like Little Nemo in Slumberland, Gasoline Alley, and The Spirit.
Here in the 21st Century, we still find newsprint relevant to the comics world, even as physical newspapers and comic books fade in favor of digital content. Newsprint's cheap production price coupled with the latest digital technologies have encouraged publishers and creators of indie comics to embrace the medium.
This has led to the creation of such long-running newsprint-based publications such as Smoke Signal and Magic Bullet, both mainstays of the indie comics field. The editors and artists of these and other comics across the United States leverage the large form factor and low costs of newsprint to create stories and compositions that could not be entertained in smaller print formats like comic books or in any digital medium.
This exhibit of over 50 pieces is curated by comics historian and Small Press Expo Executive Director Warren Bernard from his personal collection. It traces the use of newsprint in comics from its first commercial application in 1892, through the adoption of this very old medium by today's indie comics artists.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 8am–6pmFriday: 8am–4pm
Saturday: 8am–3pm
Exhibition Reception
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 from 5 to 7pm
Curator Warren Bernard will be on hand to discuss the exhibition and answer questions.The event is free and open to the public.
Friday, November 24, 2017
Back to the Future with Winsor McCay
by Mike Rhode
Warren Bernard is known to many as the Executive Director of the Small Press Expo, but he's also an indefatigable collector of specialties in the comic art field. He and I refer to these as the "Secret History of Comics." Lately, he's been providing a lot of ads drawn by New Yorker cartoonists to Michael Maslin's Ink Spill. When I visited him recently, he pulled out a whole box of Winsor McCay's editorial cartoons clipped from the Chicago Herald and Examiner. I looked through barely any of the box (there's always something more to see at his house), but what struck me was how sadly relevant are these cartoons dating from 1929-1930 by McCay (who was also creator of Little Nemo, and Gertie the Dinosaur, and a founding father of animation). Almost 90 years later, we're still dealing with many of the same issues and Warren provided scans for me to share with you.
Warren Bernard is known to many as the Executive Director of the Small Press Expo, but he's also an indefatigable collector of specialties in the comic art field. He and I refer to these as the "Secret History of Comics." Lately, he's been providing a lot of ads drawn by New Yorker cartoonists to Michael Maslin's Ink Spill. When I visited him recently, he pulled out a whole box of Winsor McCay's editorial cartoons clipped from the Chicago Herald and Examiner. I looked through barely any of the box (there's always something more to see at his house), but what struck me was how sadly relevant are these cartoons dating from 1929-1930 by McCay (who was also creator of Little Nemo, and Gertie the Dinosaur, and a founding father of animation). Almost 90 years later, we're still dealing with many of the same issues and Warren provided scans for me to share with you.
There's a narcotics problem hollowing out the social and civil life of our country....
and an international drug problem...
...although it's apparent to everyone that the War on Drugs dating back to Ronald Reagan and the 1980s has been a stunningly expensive failure.
Distrust and ill will lead to tariffs that block trade and business...
...while a President's speech disrupts international organizations.
Schools are failing their students, leading to high levels of ignorance...
... which is infecting the mood of the country...
... leading to an endemic lack of trust in government among certain Americans ...
...while also filling prisons, which now are being run for profit, and thus prime for overcrowding.
Public works projects, including highways, are desired by 'common citizens and tax payers' ...
... but the large companies in the country are using their power to manipulate Congress and the media on their own behalf...
...while farmers suffer from high seed prices, low commodity prices and high debt while big agribusinesses like Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland Company get even bigger.
Meanwhile, there's ongoing probes of the Executive Branch and Congress for sexual, ethical, lobbying and foreign interference issues...
that's going to take a lot of effort to resolve and preserve democracy.
Meanwhile, 16 years of ongoing wars have led to tens of thousands of veterans, many with medical issues, having problems integrating back into society.
Sadly, I'm afraid that Warren and I could have added many more cartoons if I had time to look through more than a tenth of the box.
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