Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Well, we plucky local artists of a humorous bent managed to get our "What’s So Funny" art exhibit up and running at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in time for the opening reception last Friday. And look! Here’s an art-lover studying my pages from "Purchaser’s Clearing House" while listening to the song of that title while the video version of my comic strip plays on that DVD player on the table. What a multi-layered treat this fellow must be experiencing!
That DVD player, I should mention, is being graciously loaned to me for the duration of this show’s run by my friends Marianne and Matt, owners of the Greylock Arts gallery in Adams. Thanks so much for the help, guys.
And thanks also to curator Charles Giuliano for including me in his exhibit. Now that he’s had time to catch his breath, the tireless Charles has posted some of his reflections about the show at his Bershire Fine Arts web site.
Education News
Last week marked the beginning of my new semester of teaching at MCLA, where a sharp set of students were waiting on Thursday evening for me to shower them with wise notions about cartooning in Room 204 of Bowman Hall. The fools, the mad, mad fools!…
And What Was Spain Like?
(Or France, For That Matter?)
Eddie’s and my excellent European adventure had many parts to it. To see snapshots of some of those parts, just click the picture puzzle below.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
If you’re a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender comic book creator in America, the chances are better than even that you’ve been visited in recent weeks by a young cartoonist from England named Sina Shamsavari.
While talking shop and politics with an ebullient guy like Sina (see the ten probing pages he devoted to his hair-related issues in The Book of Boy Trouble for a taste of Sina’s comic sensibility) is reason enough to hang out with him, Sina has been wearing his academic hat during his recent mission in the U.S. He is gathering gather interviews for a PhD. thesis-in-progress on the subject of "queer comics," and to that end he seems to have dropped in on every gay colleague I know while I was in Spain. Both Robert Triptow of San Francisco and Robert Kirby of Minneapolis have hosted him, to cite just the two I’ve had interactions with lately, and Sina mentioned several other interviewees who have sat for interviews with him during this visit to our shores. Yet for all that he still had energy enough to include North Adams in his extensive travels once Eddie and I were back from our overseas trip. A determined and rugged student of the cartoon arts is this Sina.
Meanwhile…
…I’ll be down at the Eclipse Mill Gallery tomorrow helping curator Charles Giuliana to hang my portion of the "What’s So Funny?" group show that’ll be opening this Friday (September 5). If you’re anywhere near North Adams this week, don’t forget to drop by the gallery between 6 and 8 that day for conversation, cheese, and amusing artwork. And if you can’t get to the reception, the show will still be available for viewing on weekend afternoons through September and the first five days of October.
Also coming up…
…I begin teaching my Cartooning course at MCLA this Thursday. Gotta get the ol’ syllabus in order for that. Slacker students beware: this ‘tooner prof means business!
And for those who’ve been inquiring, I really do plan to post some of Eddie’s and my photos from Spain and France here on the blog soon. I’ve got the pix selected and ready; now it’s just a matter of writing a few explanatory captions.
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