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Farley’s San Francisco Chronicles:
A Salute to Phil Frank
April 6 - September 14, 2008
The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates the life and legacy of one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most beloved cartoonists in a special retrospective, Farley’s San Francisco Chronicles: A Salute to Phil Frank. The exhibition includes original art from his nationally syndicated comic strip The Elderberries, panels from Road and Track magazine, his college strip Frankly Speaking, several rarely seen and unpublished works, and his signature comic strip, Farley.
Starting in 1975, first as a nationally syndicated cartoon titled Travels with Farley and, for the last 22 years, as a local feature of the San Francisco Chronicle, Farley was the only local daily comic strip in the country. With this format, a cartoon responding to late-breaking news can appear in the paper for the next day's edition. When syndicated, the lag time between drawing the feature and its appearance in print was five weeks.
About Phil Frank:
Phil Frank, the creator of the comic strips Farley and The Elderberries passed away in September, 2007 after a battle with brain cancer. He is greatly missed by family, friends and fans alike.
Phil was a resident of Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, since 1972 along with his wife Susan. Both of his children, Stacy Frank and Phil Frank have benefitted from a creative upbringing - each are active in artistic careers as well.
Phil's cartoon illustration, either incorporating characters from the comic strip or drawings designed for the specific client have illustrated materials for the de Young Museum, the S.F. City Treasurer, Small Business Bureau, minority businesses, BART, the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco Water Conservation department, numerous regional utility companies and extensive educational materials for Yosemite National Park.
Phil has had long ties to the park system, initiated by the comic strip. He's a member of the board of the Yosemite Association and is an honorary California State Park Ranger. Susan Frank wrote a series of four guidebooks to National Parks (Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Muir Woods) that Phil illustrated. This well received series will be reissued by Avalon Publishers by 2008.
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Sex and Sensibility
Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love
February 9 - June 8, 2008
The Cartoon Art Museum's latest exhibition showcases work by ten of the funniest cartoonists in America, eight of whom regularly publish in The New Yorker, along with two Pulitzer Prize winning editorial artists. Opening February 9, 2008, Sex and Sensibility comments on the many humorous aspects of sex, love and everything else that's amusing about relationships today. The exhibition features 50 cartoons from Liza Donnelly's upcoming book Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Love in 200 Cartoons. The book will be published in April 2008 by Twelve Books, an imprint of Grand Central Books.
Beyond the laughs, the creators of this collection of cartoons and essays offer a perceptive portrait of how gender roles and attitudes are changing with the times, whether the subject is sex through texting, lesbian erotica, the new rules of dating, sexual politics, or procreation (for example, Barbara Smaller's cartoon: "I plan on having a baby one day but I'm waiting for the right technology to come along") .
This exhibition runs through June 8, 2008, and features cartoons by Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly, Carolita Johnson, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Victoria Roberts, Barbara Smaller, Julia Suits, Ann Telnaes, Kim Warp, and Signe Wilkinson.
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© Creig Flessel
Bay Area Spotlight
Featuring: Creig Flessel
February 2 - June 1, 2008
The Cartoon Art Museum is honored to celebrate the life and work of cartoonist Creig Flessel with a special exhibition opening on Flessel's 96th birthday, February 2, 2008. The exhibition will include over 30 examples from Flessel¹s long creative career, including original comic book artwork from the 1930s, newspaper advertisements from the 1950s, comic strips from the 1960s, Playboy cartoons from the 1980s and recent commissioned artwork from the 1990s onward.
A panel discussion honoring Flessel will take place at the upcoming WonderCon comic and popular culture convention which will be held February 22-24, 2008 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. For more information on this event, please visit Comic-Con International's official website, www.comic-con.org.
About Creig Flessel
Creig Flessel (born February 2, 1912, in Huntington, Long Island, New York) began his cartooning career with DC Comics in 1935, and was a prolific cover artist in the earliest days of the medium, including work on the seminal titles Detective Comics and More Fun Comics. After his tenure at DC Comics, he spent many years illustrating ads for the Johnstone and Cushing Advertising Company. In the following decades, Flessel's work appeared in such diverse publications as Boys' Life, Clues Detective Stories and Playboy, as well as the syndicated comic strip feature David Crane.
In 2000, Flessel and his wife Marie moved from the East Coast to Mill Valley, California, where he continues to create art for local events and talent shows. Among his many achievements, Flessel received a Comic-Con International Inkpot Award in 1991, and was honored with the National Cartoonists Society Silver T-Square Award for Extraordinary Service in 1992. In October 2007, Flessel received the Sparky Award from the Cartoon Art Museum and the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
About the Small Press Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art
since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip.
In the1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when
cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson and Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names
in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and the
Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented
individuals.
The Small Press Spotlight is funded in part by The Zellerbach Family
Foundation and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.
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EXPLORATION OF
CARTOON ART
Ongoing
Explore
the history of cartoon art including works from the most renowned
and creative cartoonists of the last century. This exhibit
traces the evolution of cartooning through its many forms
including animation, comic strips, comic books, editorial
cartoons, magazine cartoons, and underground cartoons.
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© Andy Hartzell
Small Press Spotlight
Featuring: Andy Hartzell
May 10 - August 10, 2008
Beginning on May 10, 2008, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Andy Hartzell.
Andy Hartzell has been spinning stories in a variety of media for all his life. Some of his earliest memories involve turning empty stamp-books into little comics. In third grade, he commandeered the school ditto machine to churn out sheaves of single-panel gags for the benefit of his classmates. But it wasn’t until his college years, when he discovered the work of comics pioneers like George Herriman and Robert Crumb, that he was turned on to the real potential of the medium.
Hartzell is a partisan of cartoony cartoons. He likes characters that can only function as squiggles on paper. He likes stories that openly revel in symbols and stereotypes, setting up expectations and knocking them down. He likes the way cartoon icons can penetrate through layers of rational consciousness to connect with our most basic fears and desires. And it’s a plus if they’re funny.
Hartzell’s first completed graphic novel was published by Top Shelf Productions in 2007. Fox Bunny Funny is a twisty little wordless fable that pits social violence against secret desire. It was praised as “a jewel of design and comedy” by the New York Times Book Review and went on to win last year’s Maisie Kukoc Award (along with his mini-comic The Rise and Fall of Yip the Wonder Dog).
Monday, a Garden-of-Eden fantasia, plays out the eternal struggle between Creativity and Control through a brand new adventure starring the world’s oldest characters. Issue #2 of this ongoing story was nominated for an Ignatz Award.
Hartzell’s work has been featured in a number of anthologies, including Boy Trouble and the most recent issue of Papercutter. His weekly strip Fool’s Paradise ran in several alternative weeklies during the second half of the 1990s, and his self-published comic Bread & Circuses was a 1995 Xeric winner.
About the Small Press Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art
since the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip.
In the1960s, the Bay Area gained further notoriety when
cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson and
Trina Robbins launched the underground comix movement from San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest names
in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and the
Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight will focus on these talented
individuals.
The Small Press Spotlight is funded in part by The Zellerbach Family
Foundation and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.
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