ah yes… it is a manly art form the comic art form. What looks like an amazing exhibition is on now in L.A. la la land, “Masters of American Comics” and from the fifteen artists selected,—Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, and Charles M. Schulz at the Hammer Museum, and Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware at MOCA— it would seem that there are no female masters…. surely one could have scraped in? Julie Doucet? Pox girls? Melinda Gebbie? Mandy Ord? Dale Messick? Ramona Fradon?
(gruff sea-faring voice) …arrrrrh comics, she be a harsh mistress!!
Masters of American Comics is co-curated by scholars John Carlin and Brian Walker, and is coordinated by Hammer Museum Deputy Director of Collections and Director of the Grunwald Center Cynthia Burlingham and MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling.
November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
National Exhibition Tour
Milwaukee Art Museum
April 27 – August 13, 2006
The Jewish Museum, NY, and
Newark Museum, NJ
September 15, 2006 – January 28, 2007
November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006