Saturday, September 07, 2019
Friday, September 06, 2019
More spot illos from CHAD-
As in the previous post about CHAD-, which helped identify him as Chad Grothkopf, these are from a newspaper held in the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery's archives, here in Falls Church. The run is
being digitized and put online in the Medical Heritage Library.
These are from the US Naval Hospital Memphis' newspaper The Hospital Clipper from 1972-1973.
These are from the US Naval Hospital Memphis' newspaper The Hospital Clipper from 1972-1973.
More PSAs from The Hospital Clipper - Doonesbury and Wee Pals (and Love Is and Moon Mullins)
As in the previous post, these are from a newspaper held in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's archives, in Falls Church. The run is being digitized and put online in the Medical Heritage Library.
I'm not actually sure if the Doonesbury panel is actually a PSA, or if an enterprising editor just pulled it out from a strip. Any thoughts?
These are from the US Naval Hospital Memphis' newspaper The Hospital Clipper from 1972-1973.
Mo Willems profiled in Washingtonian
Mo Willems's "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Will Be a Musical at the Kennedy Center This November
The world-premiere show is part of the author's two-year residency
Exhibit Review: 100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico-United States As Seen By Mexican Cartoonists.
by Mike Rhode
100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico-United States As Seen By Mexican Cartoonists. Augustin Sánchez González. Washington, DC: Mexican Cultural Institute, September 4 – October 30, 2019. https://www.instituteofmexicodc.org/
100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico-United States As Seen By Mexican Cartoonists. Augustin Sánchez González. Washington, DC: Mexican Cultural Institute, September 4 – October 30, 2019. https://www.instituteofmexicodc.org/
El Universal was Mexico’s
first modern newspaper, according to the exhibit, and on its first day of
publication in October 1916, the first thing readers would see was group
caricature of the men writing the new Mexican constitution. The exhibit
commemorates both the 50th anniversary of editor Juan Francisco Ealy
Ortiz, and the 100th anniversary of the newspaper.
Sánchez
González
organized the bilingual exhibit into five sections. The first deals with the
establishment of the newspaper with its early cartoonists Andrés
Audiffred and Hugo Thilgmann, as well as comic strips influenced by American
strips. Two original strips by Audiffred and two caricatures by Thilgmann are
highlights of this section, which also includes two sheets of the original
comics section of the paper, as well as reproductions of front pages with
cartoons. This section is supplemented with a video of the curator discussing the
exhibit.
The second section is on the influence of the American cartoon and comic
strip. A reproduction of a newspaper page by Guillermo “Cas” Castillo of comic
strip characters such as the Katzenjammer Kids and Mutt and Jeff with caricatures
of Charlie Chaplin is displayed with large reproduction drawings by Juan Terrazas
of Cas’ drawings of the characters. Terrazas is the director of the Museum of
Caricature which was a major contributor of pieces to the exhibit. This room is
by far the weakest part of the show. In spite of the curator’s comments about fame
of the characters during the exhibit opening, the comic strips are too far
removed from the current audience’s experience to be recognizable. Only
students of the form recognize the 100-year old characters today. A local
connection to the exhibit venue is seen in Rogelio Naranjo’s self-caricature of
as a young dandy holding the Washington
Post with a headline announcing his arrival in D.C., but the placement of
the piece in this section is odd, and probably just is an artifact of the
layout of the rooms.
The third part concentrates on caricature of American presidents, and
the fourth on Uncle Sam and U.S. politics. These and the next section are by
far the strongest part of the exhibit with original artwork by masters such as Antonio
Arias Bernal, Ruis, Naranjo and Helioflores featured. It can be interesting and
instructive to look at caricatures by artists who are not natives of the
country, because they tend not to use the same tropes or exaggerated features
as a local cartoonist might. Bernal’s drawing of Eisenhower is clearly
recognizable, but Ruis’ cartoon of John F. Kennedy makes him look more like
Superman’s Jimmy Olsen, and Efren’s caricature of Reagan does not seem accurate
at all. Audiffred is still working for the newspaper at this time, and has a
nice heavy ink line displayed in his drawing of Vice President Richard Nixon.
Naranjo’s drawing of Jimmy Carter is firmly in the large-headed David
Levine-influenced style, but with two men hanging on barbed wire behind Carter,
is probably harsher than what would have appeared in an American publication.
One of the pieces that resonates today is Helioflores drawing of Richard Nixon
as a tree with multiple cuts in its trunk and titled, “¿Caerá? (Will it Fall?).”
Although there are two good caricatures of Trump in this section, the Nixon
drawing feels timely.
The exhibit closes with a section on masters of Mexican cartooning.
Without needing to hew closely to a theme, this section is the strongest part
of the exhibit. Excellent examples by all the previously named cartoonists are
featured along with others by Omar, PIT, Carilla, and Dzib.
Overall the exhibit is an interesting and educational introduction to
one particular niche in Mexican cartooning. Additional photographs can be seen at https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGJtK1B. The exhibition is open Monday – Saturday on
16th St NW, and includes a free booklet. The historic mansion
that holds the exhibit is available for a guided tour as well, and features
striking murals by Roberto Cueva del Río of Mexican history up the three levels
of the main staircase. I believe there is an accompanying book and will provide
additional details if I can confirm that.
(This review was
written for the International Journal of Comic Art 21:2, but this version
appears on both the IJOCA and ComicsDC websites on September 6, 2019, while the
exhibit is still open for viewing.)
Bruce Guthrie on Batman @ Society of Illustrators Museum in NYC
by Bruce Guthrie
Ace local photographer Bruce Guthrie visited the exhibit and wrote some notes to go alone with his pictures:
I visited the Society of Illustrators Museum in NYC on Tuesday. The entire museum was devoted to four (!) Batman exhibits.
Batman has always been my favorite comic character, probably helped by the fact that his real name is Bruce Wayne. (Ages ago, I was going some contracting work for NIH while I was working for the Department of Commerce. NIH said I couldn't sign up as a Commerce person so they said I needed another company. Bruce... Batman... So Wayne Software did the programming work for them. My business card had "Batman Lives" in hexadecimal characters under the company name which probably drove the proof readers at the card company crazy.)
The four exhibits, which run through October 12, a week after the New York Comic-Con event, are fully described on https://www.societyillustrators.org/exhibits .
* (Third Floor) Batman Collected: Chip Kidd's Batman Obsession
* (Second Floor) Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
* (Second Floor) Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
* (Second Floor) Batman Black and White: Sketch Covers Selected by Chip Kidd
* (First Floor and Basement) Illustrating Batman: Eighty Years of Comics and Pop CultureThe Eighty Years One is the biggest. It includes original pages going back to the 1940s and some commissions by Alex Ross, Neal Adams, Bob Kane, Joe Giella (much of the collection was from Joe's son Frank), Dick Sprang, Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff, Carmen Infantino, Irv Novick, Brian Bolland, Kelley Jones, Jim Aparo (including the famous back-cracking sequence from Bane), Sam Kieth, Mike Mignola, Ross Andru, Gene Colan, and others. I recognized way too many of those pages! There were also originals of the daily comic strips.
The manga exhibit had about 50 original pages from a Manga Batman story by Jiro Kuwata.
Chip Kidd's Batman Obsession section had lots of originals and commissions by various folks. The pieces by Frank Quitely were gorgeous.
My favorite, however, was Chip's Black and White exhibit. He had 100 illustrators create original cover art for him. Two dozen of the original illustrations are on exhibit. Some of the artists -- Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Jim Lee, Steve Rude, Michael Golden, Kyle Baker, etc -- you expect to see. But he also approached folks like Xaime Hernandez, Roz Chast, and Liniers.
One of the things I loved was that the entire museum has flying bats in various corners. Similar to how the Ralph Steadman exhibit at American University's Katzen had splatters periodically. Steadman, BTW, came to SOI so there is a Steadman splatter on the wall. The cleaning crew thought it was a spill and started to clean it up before panicked people stopped them.
Of course I did my normal photo obsessive thing so you'll find all of the exhibits on my site --
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