American Comic Strips and Comic Strip Artists: online information from sources other than Resource Library

American Comic Strips and Comic Strip Artists

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The Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg is a 2019 exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum which says: "Within his comic strips Goldberg created extremely complex machines that were built to perform a simple task." Also see press release Accessed 5/19

Bad Gateway - Simon Hanselmann is a 2019 exhibit at the Bellevue Art Museum which says: "A writer of exceptional pathos and insight and a graphic artist of extraordinary depth, Simon Hanselmann has been telling stories and writing comics since the late 1980s." -- To read more after exhibit closes, go to "Past Exhibitions" section of museum website. Also see Simon Hanselmann in Wikipedia. Accessed 7/19

The Black Age of Comics is a 2014 exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center which says: "The Black Age (1970-present) deals with expanding the industry to include artists that create material from a black or African perspective, yet exists parallel to the Modern Age of Comics (1985-present)." Accessed 12/18

The Art of Rube Goldberg is a 2017 exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum which says: "The exhibition traces Goldberg's career over a remarkable 72-year period, from a rare early drawing, through his syndicated strips of the 1920s and 30s, to his influential later works. The Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is best known for his invention drawingscomplex chain-reaction machines designed to perform simple tasks. These humorous drawings and cartoons were for Goldberg, 'a symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results.'" Accessed 6/17

Comic Stripped: A Revealing Look at Southern Stereotypes in Cartoons is a 2017 exhibit at the Blowing Rock Museum which says: "The exhibit showcases six long-running cartoons that have themselves become part of Southern history: hugely popular Li`l Abner, Mountain Boys, and Pogo of the 1930s - 1970s; perennial Snuffy Smith; and the recent Kudzu and television's King of the Hill." - To read more after exhibit closes, go to "Past Exhibitions" section of museum website. Accessed 12/17

GOOD GRIEF! A Selection from 50 Years of Original Art from Charles M. Schulz's PEANUTS, an exhibit held September 01, 2012 to December 30, 2012 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Accessed February, 2015

TFAO wishes to thank Sarah Wahlberg for providing material for the above list.

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