Colleen Doran at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. She was delighted to see this Prince Valiant original art, from Hal Foster’s peak artistic period.
Category: Cartooning
Meddling with AI
I have to admit that, without AI, this video would have been extremely costly.
Post-NCS Post
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, at Ohio State University in Columbus, is a must-visit for anyone interested in any and all genres of cartooning.
NCS attendees took an OSU bus from the hotel to the Bill Ireland. This brought to mind very happy memories of a field trip to see New York art museums I once took in college with Marion, my girlfriend at the time, and Barbara Harris, our Art History instructor at Westfield State.
Last Saturday in the auditorium, Colleen Doran told the story of her lifelong devotion to being a comics creator and artist.
When Colleen detailed her Pre-Raphaelite artistic influences, I felt as though I was back in Art History class with Ms. Harris, as we called her at the time. I am very pleased to own one of Barbara’s excellent paintings.
I also proudly own this painting by Colleen. It’s an outstanding work that is worth far more than what I paid her many years ago.
The Billy Ireland’s galleries aren’t huge, but they’re packed with visual delights. Samples of Bill Waterson’s original art for Calvin & Hobbes are prominently displayed.
The museum has curated a touring Calvin & Hobbes exhibit, that will be presented later this year at the Norman Rockwell Museum, here in Massachusetts.
The New England Chapter of the NCS is planning a field trip to the museum to see the C&H exhibit. There are more happy memories to be made!
To wrap up, here is an interactive PDF of the National Cartoonists Society program book from last week’s conference and awards dinner. As you will see on page 3, Colleen is now the NCS Treasurer.
https://www.flipbookpdf.net/web/site/51ff6ed59f2753c2c5323c206e3270578d53aa57FBP29703983.pdf.html
Wayno, No Relation to Waymo
In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.
Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.
https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno
Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.
Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.
Plane Crazy 2
This time I’m posting from 33,000 feet, once again with free Wi-Fi compliments of American Airlines and AT&T.
My in-flight entertainment includes this beautifully rendered drawing of Batman by Bernie Wrightson.
Return to Hootin’ Holler!
I refer you to this post from late last year, about one of my very favorite comic strips.
Snuffy Smith, by John Rose, is the definition of a perfect strip in the classic tradition. It presents a humorous, self-contained world, both familiar and unreal, with its own internal logic.
To our mutual amusement, John and I have chatted about how he settled on “Pratt” for that sequence in the strip.
The answer? John explained it was a perfectly innocent selection. He simply needed a name and that was the one he happened to pick.
He even put the well-worn Hootin’ Holler welcome mat in writing. Whew, that’s a relief!
