Having Fun in a Changing World
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Today is the last day of syndication for Ollie and Quentin with my syndicate, King Features. Piers Baker has created a great strip and it is a poor reflection of the state of the industry that this comic has not become a modern classic. It’s fresh and fun and has real heart. If you haven’t read Ollie and Quentin, do check it out. The good news is that it will be re-running on Daily Ink.
My friend and fellow cartoonist, Lemon, has put up some pics of the new comic strips exhibition at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. The only shame is that Rabbits Against Magic isn’t sharing the space with Arctic Circle, Ollie and Quentin, Cul de Sac, etc.
More pics at Lemon’s Flickr site.
So far, there is no conclusive evidence that cellphones cause medical problems (unless you are driving whilst talking on one, which is as bad as driving drunk), but it’s hard to like those big cellphone towers. It would be better if all the cellphone companies were forced to share towers so that we wouldn’t end up with unnecessary forests of them.
That would also mean I’d have vodafone coverage in rural Australia…
Arctic Circle will be joining some illustrious company in an exhibition in San Francisco from today:
Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition: December 17, 2011 – May 6, 2012
Andrew Farago, the curator, writes:
The newspaper comics page is known for its sense of tradition. The Katzenjammer Kids is still in syndication more than 110 years since its debut, and popular favorites Peanuts, The Family Circus, Blondie, Beetle Bailey and Dennis The Menace are among the comics still going strong as they’ve passed the half-century mark. New strips are introduced every year, however, and millions of readers worldwide enjoy classic comics—and new ones—on a daily basis.
The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to announce its latest exhibition, Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium, a showcase featuring nine comic strips introduced between the years 2000 and 2010. From talking animals to beleaguered cartoonists, childhood fears to childhood nightmares, the perils of adulthood to the trials of arrested development, the nonsensical to the political (which often goes right back around to nonsensical), the modern comic strip page really does include something for everyone.
Featured artists in this exhibition include Harvey Award and Glyph Award Winner Keith Knight; two National Cartoonists Society winners for Best Comic Strip of the Year, Stephan Pastis and Mark Tatulli; The National Cartoonists Society’s Best Editorial Cartoonist of 2005, Jeff Parker; and the 2011 Winner of The National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Best Cartoonist of the Year, Richard Thompson.
Comic strips featured in Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium include:
- La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz
- Ollie and Quentin by Piers Baker
- Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt
- The Knight Life by Keith Knight
- Dustin by Jeff Parker & Steve Kelley
- Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis
- Tina’s Groove by Rina Piccolo
- Lío by Mark Tatulli
- Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
*****
Cartoon Art Museum • 655 Mission Street • San Francisco, CA 94105 • 415-CAR-TOON
Hours: Tues. Sun. 11:00 – 5:00, Closed Monday
General Admission:$7.00 • Student/Senior:$5.00 • Children 6-12:$3.00 • Members & Children under 6: Free
Living and working in a one bedroom flat, with a small courtyard, I dream of studios/workshops etc. On the way to Wilson’s Promontory National Park in Victoria, we discovered this talented artist in Fish Creek. Andrew McPherson works with old materials, including a lot of old metal. I’m kicking myself for not having bought one of his pieces due to a lack of cash at the time.
Wilson’s Prom is beautiful. The only drawback to this is that everyone knows it’s beautiful and it fills up with bogans at the weekend (why, when you have the sound of the bush and the sea would you play techno music???). Sunday night was waaaay quieter and more pleasant than Saturday.
One of the great things about WP is the amount of wildlife. You can get up close to wombats and wallabies and as I was in the surf a huge school of fish lept out in front of me.
Detail from an upcoming Sunday.
