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According to a news story at the Warrensburg Missouri Digital Burg site, a University of Central Missouri student has won a contest started by famous writer Stan Lee. The contest was to create a new character for Stan Lee’s Time Jumper series, and freshman illustration major Matt Reynolds answered the call with a character called Backdraft. Reynolds and a friend traveled to Los Angeles for a lunch with Stan Lee as part of winning the contest.
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University of Missouri Classes:
The Missouri History Museum in St. Louis is hosting a lecture January 3rd at 1 p.m. called Spinning Gold out of Scrap Paper: How Comic Books Went from Trash to Treasure. From the website:
How did comic books go from being trash in the 1950s to treasure in the ’70s? Peter Coogan, director of the Institute for Comics Studies, delves into the depths of the ’60s to discover how fan clubs and comic book conventions provided a marketplace in which old comics became valuable. Please join us on the closing day of the Treasure! exhibition for this informative program.
Peter Coogan is a comic scholar in St. Louis who manages the Institute for Comics Studies, which is interested in promoting the study, understanding, recognition, and cultural legitimacy of comics. He is also the author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre.
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Local comic artist Jeremy Burt has a feature story in the Columbia Tribune today. The story focuses on his strip Jeremy And Tim, which made it to the top 5% of Amazon.com’s Comic Strip Superstar contest as we reported last month. The Tribune also showcased some of his new art on their blog last Thursday too.
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I’m a little late to announce this, but William “Bill” Hume passed away on June 27th, 2009. Hume was a multi-talented artist, born and raised in Columbia, Mo., and living here most of his life. He was 93 years old at the time of his death.
His best known contributions to the cartooning world were newspaper cartoons he created during a year long stint in Japan as part of the U.S. Navy reserves in 1951. Hume’s cartoons were later published into four books detailing how the U.S. sailors related with the Japanese girls and culture. The books included Babysan: a private look at the Japanese occupation, When We Get Back Home, Babysan’s World – the Hume’ N Slant on Japan, and Anchors are heavy.
His death was covered online by The Comics Reporter, and The Hairy Green Eyeball. A painting made by Hume in the 1960’s is currently up as part of the 50 Years of Columbia Art League exhibit until November 21st. (The painting is shown in the background of this picture with Hume taken in 2006.)
]]>Due to holidays and people wanting to work over the break, the deadline for submissions is Jan. 15, 2010. You can find more info on rules and production in our previous post.
Want see what everyone else is doing or just show off your awesome work? Then join us at the Mid-Missouri Comics Anthology work night.
Where
Café Berlin
220 N. 10th
Columbia, MO
When
Sat., Nov. 20
7p.m. till late.
The State Historical Society of Missouri has just opened a new exhibit: The Golden Age of the Comic Strip. The show runs November 9th 2009 to May 2010, and a reception for the exhibit will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, November 13th.. Here’s the show description from the website:
The 1930s–1950s were vibrant years for the production of newspaper comics, and this exhibition will showcase the Society’s rarely seen examples, many of which were collected by the well–known former editor of the Mexico Ledger, L. Mitchell White, and his son, Robert M. Works by some of the greatest artists of the genre will be displayed, with original pen and ink drawings for classic strips such as Mutt and Jeff, Little Orphan Annie, and Blondie, and cartoons from the workshop of Walt Disney.
In the main gallery, Twentieth-Century Missouri Portraits: From Famous to Familiar, up until February 2010, also includes cartoons of Harry Truman and “Boss” Pendergast.
Please note that the State Historical Society hours have been recently cut back due to state budget cuts. They are now open Monday to Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
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