Celebrate 20 years of
Lloyd Dangle’s Troubletown

Thursday, May 8, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm
$5 General Public, Free for Cartoon Art Museum Members

The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents an evening with Lloyd Dangle, creator of the nationally-syndicated weekly political cartoon Troubletown, for a special presentation celebrating Troubletown’s 20th anniversary. Join Dangle for a slideshow featuring highlights from the past two decades of his award-winning comic, followed by a Q&A session and booksigning. General admission to this presentation is $5, and the event is free to Cartoon Art Museum members.

Dangle will be signing copies of his latest release, Troubletown: Told You So: Comics That Could’ve Saved Us From This Mess, featuring 196 pages of Lloyd Dangle at his best, caustically comic stripping the Bush administration’s lead up and mishandling of the war in Iraq, without sparing the enabling Democrats, the media, the Mullahs, the corporate overlords, or the squawking chicken hawks. Not simply controversial for controversy’s sake, Troubletown cartoons turn one CNN talking point after another on its head––with a screwball logic all their own. Troubletown is frequently praised as the funniest comic strip in the alternative press.

About Lloyd Dangle:

Lloyd Dangle’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers of every type from the crusty corporate mainstream to the bleeding, subcommercial edge. He has been featured in publications including American Lawyer, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, Shape, Sierra, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times, Outside, Time Magazine, Utne Reader, The Village Voice and Wired. His drawings adorn the packaging of Airborne effervescent cold remedy, which the company claims is one fastest-selling products in retail history, and he was the first cartoonist assigned to cover the Republican National Convention in New York City armed with nothing but a pen and sketchbook. The resulting cartoon was selected for Houghton Mifflin’s series The Best American Comics. When not on the road covering bizarre and dangerous political events, he works out of his converted garage in Oakland, California

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April Cartoonist-in-Residence:

David Crosland

The Cartoon Art museum hosts David Crosland, artist and co-creator of the comic book Puffed, on Saturday, April 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum visitors will be offered the chance to watch Crosland at work and chat with him about cartooning.

Dave Crosland enjoys peanut butter, road trips, and samurai flicks. He dislikes yogurt and mosquitoes. Since graduating from The Columbus College of Art and Design in 2000, this delicious youngster's art has appeared in comic books, such as Slop: Analecta, The Popgun Anthology, Puffed, and Scarface: Scarred For Life. He's also done a wide amount of work outside of comics, creating album covers for Gym Class Heroes and hip-hop guru Blueprint, a stage backdrop for Incubus, concert posters, tattoo flash, and designs for indie apparel and panties. Dave has painted live and shown fine art across the country, in places like Gallery 1988 (SF/LA), 111 Minna (SF), Copro Nason (LA), Meltdown (LA), The Metro (Chicago), and Club Deville (Austin). Crosland's clients include IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Atlantic Records, Ride Snowboards, and Mad Magazine. His most recent comics work is the dark comedy/horror series, Everybody's DEAD, a classic "misfit fraternity vs. zombie hordes" tale with a twist.

Crosland currently dwells in New San Francisco with his special ladyfriend and their dog, Yoshimi. For more of his visual vermouth, visit www.hiredmeat.com.

This event is free and open to the public.

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