Local creator, Martin Pope, is interviewed by Vox Magazine about his comic Vorto the Pirate. Go give it a read.
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Local creator, Martin Pope, is interviewed by Vox Magazine about his comic Vorto the Pirate. Go give it a read.
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Get ready for another convention in Columbia. Carfax sponsored, Midwest Geekfest is a free event on April 20, 2013. There will be cosplay, panels hosted by local enthusiast businesses, and gaming of all varieties. The registration page is ready for you!
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Mark your calendars! Here’s a look at upcoming Missouri conventions in 2013:
(updated 03/12/13)
]]>We now meet every Monday night, 8:30pm at Eastside Tavern, downtown Columbia. This is during Eastside’s Drink and Draw/Geek Night.
Thanks to Skip Harvey for letting us make Eastside or official meeting location. I look forward to seeing you there.
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Illustrator Tom Huck currently has an exhibit up at the Sidney Larson Gallery on the Columbia College campus. The exhibit will runs through November 30, 2012. (A gallery talk and reception was held earlier today at 1 p.m.) From the press release:
The Columbia College Art Department is pleased to exhibit new editions of prints by noted printmaker Tom Huck. Tom Huck is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri where he runs his own press, Evil Prints. He is a regular contributor to BLAB! of Fantagraphics Books. Tom’s prints are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Spenser Museum of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Fogg Art Museum, and the New York Public Library.
Huck is the juror for the 2013 Paper in Particular Exhibition at Columbia College that will appear in the Spring.
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The Columbia Daily Tribune has a profile of comic artist Dirk Burhans from last Sunday. It covers his history and talks about what lead him to start the webcomic Epiffany Jones back in May of this year. We also ran a featured creator profile on Burhans earlier this year.
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WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Documentary) — Showtime: Windsor Auditorium October 21, 2012, 7:00 pm. More about the film from the CJFF website.
Sita Sings the Blues (Animated Comedy/Fantasy) – Showtimes: Ragtag Cinema, Small Theatre, October 20, 2012, 11:00 am & The Warehouse Theatre, October 21, 2012, 2:15 pm. More about the film from the CJFF website. Animator Nina Paley is also the creator of the comic Mimi and Eunice.
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Columbia Public Library is offering a Creatures and Cartooning class taught by James Mouser on October 18th from 6:30-7:15 p.m. From the library website:
]]>Grab your pencils, crayons and markers and get ready to draw funny monsters, ghouls and goblins. Join cartoonist James Mouser for a night of terrifying tee-hees, hair-raising ha-has and ghoulish giggles! You will create more monsters than Dr. Frankenstein ever did as you learn easy cartooning techniques. Ages 6 and older. Teens and adults welcome. Registration begins Tuesday, October 9.
The State Historical Society of Missouri has a new exhibit titled Frank Stack at 75 coming up next week. A opening event for the exhibition will be held October 13th at 1:30 p.m. The exhibit is up October 13th through January 2013. Here’s more about the exhibit from the SHS website:
Frank Stack has been painting Missouri for almost fifty years. During that time, he has developed an international reputation as a painter, comic artist, and printmaker with pictures housed in museums and private collections around the world. Stack’s work has appeared in The Village Voice, American Artist, and the Academy Award-nominated film American Splendor. Between 1963 and 2003, Stack also mentored hundreds of art students as a professor at the University of Missouri. The SHSMO has been collecting Stack’s work since the 1960s, and with this retrospective—of oils, watercolors, lithographs, etchings, and comics—will honor the artist on his 75th birthday.
In other news: Frank Stack is also providing the forward to the new book Naked Cartoonists: Drawers Drawing Themselves Without Drawers that comes out October 19th, 2012 from Fantagraphics.
Update: The Sunday Tribune has a profile on Stack which talks about the exhibit. The Vox also has an article. Orr Street Studios has some of Frank’s work up too.
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Local creator Rob Davis is a freelance artist of many capabilities. Starting his carreer in the 1980s, he’s drawn pages for many companies including Innovation Comics, Malibu Comics, Marvel Comics & Caliber Comics. His latest work is the recently released Robyn of Sherwood graphic novel. You can check out his main website or follow his blog.
What are you working on now comics-wise?
As an artist I’m working on a couple of short 6-8 page stories for a comic I publish called All-Star Pulp Comics. One story features a new Pulp character in the Solomon Kane ( a Puritan age sword-weilding avenger) mold called Gideon Cain. The other is Robin Hood tale. The book usually has 4-6 short stories in it depending on whether everyone who’s promised to contribute can do so in a timely manner. I hope this second issue will be out by the end of 2012. I’m also a print-on-demand publisher of comics via Ka-Blam and IndyPlanet.com via my Redbud Studio Comics imprint. Mr. Jigsaw, a Ron Fortier/Gary Kato creation, and a graphic novel called Daughter of Dracula that Ron wrote and I drew and lettered were published there as well as a couple of other books.
How’s your comic output been the last year?
Sparse. Just these two short stories, though the Robyn of Sherwood novel came out in August it was actually completed a year or two ago (it’s been long enough I can’t remember- ha!). With everything else I’m doing I don’t get more than a page a week done when I’m working on something.
What’s helped or hindered your output?
I wouldn’t say anything is hindered. I’m still doing plenty of artwork, it’s just that it’s book design, cover sketches & design, and spot illustration for the New Pulp book publishing/production company, Airship 27 I’m a partner in with Ron Fortier. Add in a full-time job and a family and you can see why I’m not all that busy with comics.
Read any good comics, webcomics, or graphic novels lately?
My comics reading has gone way down over the years, but I’m still reading a few titles. I’m enjoying Dynamite’s Lone Ranger series written by old friend Ande Parks and the Steed and Peel series based on the old ’60s TV “Avengers” series. I just got the Mark Waid Daredevil trade collection and really enjoyed reading that. Mark has really rejuvenated that character!
How about other media anything good you like lately? (video, music, books, etc.)
The Avengers movie was just a real kick! My family and I can’t wait for the DVD/Blueray. Dark Knight Rises was really good too. My son and daughter have been really exploring now that we have streaming Netflix and they have me hooked on Firefly and Psych. I’m watching the occasional original ’60s Mission Impossible TV series via Netflix too. I’m feeling retro.
How’s the business of comics changed over the years in your view?
I’m saddened at the decrease in readership of print comics (when I was a kid in the ’60s they were still in the millions), but I’m heartened by the increased variety of types of stories being told and the quality of artwork today. It’s my hope that the growth of webcomics will keep the medium alive and feed into the print aspect of comics. I figure the low cost, low overhead of producing comics on the web can be a feeder to print versions, much like eBooks do for printed books. I don’t think print will disappear completely, but I suspect digital will be primary to readers and producers alike in the next 5-10 years.
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