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NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition March 12 – August 29, 2010 Neointegrity: Comics Edition is an exhibition curated by artist Keith Mayerson that includes over 210 cartoonists, illustrators, animators, and fine artists who work with the spirit and power of iconographic languages. With creators young and old, historic, currently famous, and soon-to-be-famous, the exhibition is also about the community and legacy of iconographic art and its ability to productively influence the world. NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition includes such artist as Peter Arno, Mark Badger, Ruben Bolling, Jeffrey Brown, Robert Crumb, Liza Donnelly, Bill Griffith, Peter Halley, Mike Kelley, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Patrick McDonnell, Diane Noomin, Art Spiegelman, Raina Telgemeier, Chris Ware, Lauren Weinstein, Gahan Wilson, Basil Wolverton and many more. For the full list, please visit here. Originally conceived as a utopic attempt to begin an art movement, the first installment of the NeoIntegrity show was held in the summer of 2007 at Derek Eller Gallery in New York City. That show incorporated over 180 fine artists, with some cartoonists and illustrators mixed in to breach questions of high and low, rarified and pluralistic. NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition takes the proposal a step further, showing the relatability of creators harnessing the iconographic vehicle to express themselves and to tell stories for a culture to understand itself in order for it to become a better place.
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Donate to fund the exhibition via Kickstarter! The exhibition will showcase a selection of Al's amazing, all-new illustrations from the just-released biography, Al Jaffee's Mad Life (written by Mary-Lou Weisman). The drawings chronicle his childhood in a Lithuanian shtetl and his traumatic loss of his mother in the Holocaust. The exhibition will also feature original art from his Mad Fold-Ins, and other classic work from his career at Mad magazine and elsewhere. The exhibition is scheduled for Fall 2010, please check our website for details. The exhibition will be curated by Danny Fingeroth and Arie Kaplan. Your donation will be used to cover the expenses of the exhibition, including shipping, matting, and framing of the artwork, promotion, and special events with Al Jaffee! Born in 1921, AL JAFFEE was a member of the first graduating class of New York's High School of Music and Art (where his classmates included future Mad colleagues HARVEY KURTZMAN, AL FELDSTEIN, and JOHN SEVERIN). Jaffee worked as an editor, writer and artist for STAN LEE at Timely (later Marvel) Comics during the 1940s. Then, in 1955, Jaffee joined “the Usual Gang of Idiots” at Mad where he's been a mainstay ever since, entertaining generations with his Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions and Mad Fold-Ins. Despite repeated requests, Jaffee refuses to retire, and is frighteningly active, including still doing the Fold-Ins for Mad. For more information about the irrepressible Al Jaffee please read this article in the NewYork Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/arts/design/30genz.html
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R. Sikoryak Original drawings from the book “Masterpiece Comics,” which adapts literary classics in the styles of famous cartoons. Curated by Bill Kartalopoulos Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos in Conversation Comics chameleon R. Sikoryak inventively adapts canonical Western literature using the visual styles and characters of historical American comic books and comic strips. Among his many works produced over the past twenty years, Sikoryak has adapted Kafka's The Metamorphosis in the style of Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in the style of Tales From the Crypt, and the Book of Genesis in the style of Chic Young's Blondie. "More than a gag or a parody," said exhibit curator Bill Kartalopoulos, "these thoughtful and intricately constructed dual adaptations suggest resonances that reflect upon each story's pair of sources." R. Sikoryak: How Classics and Cartoons Collide examines the artist's intensive process by showcasing a selection of notes, sketches, and reference material from one of his longest and most ambitious narratives, 2000's "Dostoyevsky Comics," which adapts Crime and Punishment in the style of a mid-century Batman comic book. The exhibit also includes all ten original art boards for the final story, recently collected alongside Sikoryak's other adaptations in his book Masterpiece Comics, published in 2009 by Drawn and Quarterly. There will be a conversation between Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos on July 15 at 7PM. Admission for this event is $5, free for members of MoCCA. About R. Sikoryak About Bill Kartalopoulos About Masterpiece Comics
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