EVENT: SHE DRAWS COMICS opening!
When: Saturday, May 20th, 2006, 7:00pm
Where: The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA),
594 Broadway, (between Houston and Prince), Suite 401, NYC.
What: The opening of a new show curated by Trina Robbins called: "She Draws Comics: 100 Years of America's Women Cartoonists, a celebration of female cartoonists in comic books, strips, political cartoons, graphic novels, manga, animation, and more!
Cost for the opening reception: $15 non members/ $5 members
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I'm very excited about this because I'll have a piece of Sabrina art in the show! I'll be among a bunch of other great female creators - both classic and contemporary, so it's a great honor. I know goraina is also part of the show, along with Jessica Abel (I loved "La Perdida!")and Trina Robbins herself, who is a very cool lady that I had the pleasure of meeting in Minneapolis last year.
I'll be at the opening reception and I hope I'll get to meet some cool people there! If you can't make it to the opening, the show will run until November 6th, so there's plenty of time!
For the official press release, read below:
SHE DRAWS COMICS: MoCCA Celebrates a Century of America’s Women Cartoonists
May 20 opening reception features curator and herstorian Trina Robbins
NEW YORK - On May 20, the exhibit "SHE DRAWS COMICS: 100 Years of
America’s Women Cartoonists" opens at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
(MoCCA) in New York City. Developed in conjunction with the
country’s foremost authority on the subject, writer and scholar Trina
Robbins, the exhibit features over 50 artists and 100 artworks, making it
the largest retrospective of women’s work in comic and cartoon art ever
mounted.
SHE DRAWS COMICS celebrates the diversity of the artists and art being
that has been and is currently being created by women in the comics
medium. The show includes artists as varied as Nell Brinkley, a
pioneering feminist cartoonist of the turn-of-the-century; Dale
Messick, the famed creator of "Brenda Starr: Reporter," who wrote and drew
Brenda from the 1940’s through the 1980’s; legendary women super hero
artists of the 1960’s and 1970’s Marie Severin and Ramona Fradon; Robbins
herself,the country’s first true female underground comic
artist who helped push forth the work of other like-minded artists in the
1970’s; and the many women leading the Renaissance in graphic
novels today, including Jessica Abel (Pantheon’s La Perdida), Sara Varon
(Sweaterweather) and Tania del Rio (Manga-Ka).
Most of the pieces from the first half of the century come from the
personal collection of Robbins, the author of such books as A Century of
Women Cartoonists, The Great Women Superheroes, and Nell Brinkley and the
New Woman in the Early Twentieth Century.
While promoting women cartoonists has always been important to Robbins, it
is particularly important this year. Part for the impetus for her
approaching MoCCA to mount this show is the exhibit of the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles entitled “Masters of American Comics.”
Robbins was dismayed to discover that while the Los Angeles’s museum
exhibit claims to feature “fifteen of the most influential artists” in the
field, none of the exhibited artists are women.
Robbins’ concern lies not in an abstract desire for “fairness,” but a need
for concrete historical accuracy. “I have to ask, ‘influential’ to whom?”
Robbins asks. “Certainly little girls and women, who make up 52% of the
population, were not influenced by Dick Tracy, but a great many of them,
including Candace Bergen, were influenced by Brenda Starr. And so many
little girls used to cut out Nell Brinkley pages, color them in and paste
them into their scrapbooks that it’s hard to find uncolored Brinkley
pages. My point is that these women were
important and influential.”
While many people may not know it, some of their favorite characters may
have been created by a woman cartoonist: Grace Drayton, whose work was
published in the early 1910’s, created the Campbell Kids, who were comic
strip characters before they graced the sides of Campbell’s Soup cans.
Rose O’Neill was the creator of the kewpies, beloved American characters
who were cartoons before they were dolls. Tarpe Mills,
despite her androgynous name, was the woman behind the action strip Miss
Fury.
SHE DRAWS COMICS is on display at MoCCA through November 6, 2006.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts
education organization dedicated to the preservation, study and display of
all forms of comic and cartoon art. The museum promotes greater
understanding and appreciation of the artistic, cultural and historical
significance of comic and cartoon art through a variety of events,
exhibitions, and educational programs. The museum is currently
located at 594 Broadway (between Houston and Prince Streets) in New York
City. MoCCA exhibits are generally open to the public on Fridays,
Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays from 12:00-5:00 pm. General admission to
the museum is $3 but free for MoCCA Members as well as children 12 and
under. For more information about the museum or specific MoCCA events,
exhibitions and programs, visit the museum’s Website
(www.moccany.org).
Where: The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA),
594 Broadway, (between Houston and Prince), Suite 401, NYC.
What: The opening of a new show curated by Trina Robbins called: "She Draws Comics: 100 Years of America's Women Cartoonists, a celebration of female cartoonists in comic books, strips, political cartoons, graphic novels, manga, animation, and more!
Cost for the opening reception: $15 non members/ $5 members
***
I'm very excited about this because I'll have a piece of Sabrina art in the show! I'll be among a bunch of other great female creators - both classic and contemporary, so it's a great honor. I know goraina is also part of the show, along with Jessica Abel (I loved "La Perdida!")and Trina Robbins herself, who is a very cool lady that I had the pleasure of meeting in Minneapolis last year.
I'll be at the opening reception and I hope I'll get to meet some cool people there! If you can't make it to the opening, the show will run until November 6th, so there's plenty of time!
For the official press release, read below:
SHE DRAWS COMICS: MoCCA Celebrates a Century of America’s Women Cartoonists
May 20 opening reception features curator and herstorian Trina Robbins
NEW YORK - On May 20, the exhibit "SHE DRAWS COMICS: 100 Years of
America’s Women Cartoonists" opens at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
(MoCCA) in New York City. Developed in conjunction with the
country’s foremost authority on the subject, writer and scholar Trina
Robbins, the exhibit features over 50 artists and 100 artworks, making it
the largest retrospective of women’s work in comic and cartoon art ever
mounted.
SHE DRAWS COMICS celebrates the diversity of the artists and art being
that has been and is currently being created by women in the comics
medium. The show includes artists as varied as Nell Brinkley, a
pioneering feminist cartoonist of the turn-of-the-century; Dale
Messick, the famed creator of "Brenda Starr: Reporter," who wrote and drew
Brenda from the 1940’s through the 1980’s; legendary women super hero
artists of the 1960’s and 1970’s Marie Severin and Ramona Fradon; Robbins
herself,the country’s first true female underground comic
artist who helped push forth the work of other like-minded artists in the
1970’s; and the many women leading the Renaissance in graphic
novels today, including Jessica Abel (Pantheon’s La Perdida), Sara Varon
(Sweaterweather) and Tania del Rio (Manga-Ka).
Most of the pieces from the first half of the century come from the
personal collection of Robbins, the author of such books as A Century of
Women Cartoonists, The Great Women Superheroes, and Nell Brinkley and the
New Woman in the Early Twentieth Century.
While promoting women cartoonists has always been important to Robbins, it
is particularly important this year. Part for the impetus for her
approaching MoCCA to mount this show is the exhibit of the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles entitled “Masters of American Comics.”
Robbins was dismayed to discover that while the Los Angeles’s museum
exhibit claims to feature “fifteen of the most influential artists” in the
field, none of the exhibited artists are women.
Robbins’ concern lies not in an abstract desire for “fairness,” but a need
for concrete historical accuracy. “I have to ask, ‘influential’ to whom?”
Robbins asks. “Certainly little girls and women, who make up 52% of the
population, were not influenced by Dick Tracy, but a great many of them,
including Candace Bergen, were influenced by Brenda Starr. And so many
little girls used to cut out Nell Brinkley pages, color them in and paste
them into their scrapbooks that it’s hard to find uncolored Brinkley
pages. My point is that these women were
important and influential.”
While many people may not know it, some of their favorite characters may
have been created by a woman cartoonist: Grace Drayton, whose work was
published in the early 1910’s, created the Campbell Kids, who were comic
strip characters before they graced the sides of Campbell’s Soup cans.
Rose O’Neill was the creator of the kewpies, beloved American characters
who were cartoons before they were dolls. Tarpe Mills,
despite her androgynous name, was the woman behind the action strip Miss
Fury.
SHE DRAWS COMICS is on display at MoCCA through November 6, 2006.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts
education organization dedicated to the preservation, study and display of
all forms of comic and cartoon art. The museum promotes greater
understanding and appreciation of the artistic, cultural and historical
significance of comic and cartoon art through a variety of events,
exhibitions, and educational programs. The museum is currently
located at 594 Broadway (between Houston and Prince Streets) in New York
City. MoCCA exhibits are generally open to the public on Fridays,
Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays from 12:00-5:00 pm. General admission to
the museum is $3 but free for MoCCA Members as well as children 12 and
under. For more information about the museum or specific MoCCA events,
exhibitions and programs, visit the museum’s Website
(www.moccany.org).