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It's been a while since I've posted to this blog but I see that people still find posts on it, so here's a quick update on current projects. The most up to date info is usually on my website www.neuroticraven.com and on Facebook if we are connected. I am working hard on my latest book project, From Panels to Frames: Comic Art in Museums, for the University Press of Mississippi, which is

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On Reflection: the Art of Margaret Harrison Of late I've been neglecting this blog because I've been focused on writing projects and my other web-site Neurotic Raven.  I've recently completed "Forming a Visual Canon: Comics in Museums" for The Routledge Handbook of the Secret Origins of Comics Studies (Duncan & Smith, expected late 2016), and am working on articles about Malcolm

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SFCF grew out of a community effort after the loss of WonderCon & APE, leaving SF without any kind of large celebration of comics and graphic novels. Inspired by LitQuake and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), events will happen in locations scattered around town, provided that they aren't all evicted for new condos between now and then (calendar).

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I'm proud to post that the exhibition catalog for our San Francisco photography show is now available on Blurb as an e-book or print on demand. Tom Griscom and Wendy Crittenden's photos look beautiful. The show is opening Thursday 4/2 5-7pm at the Special Collections Gallery on the 4th floor of the library at San Francisco State University. Tom & Wendy are scheduled to talk about their work

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Denis Kitchen by Peter Poplaski I speak with Denis Kitchen about his return to publishing, new projects, art exhibitions, and trend-spotting at Comic-Con. Kim Munson: Congrats on the Harvey Awards for Kitchen Sink’sThe Best of Comix Book! Denis Kitchen: Feels good, Kim! Especially after winning the two awards for our debut title. It also felt good to have that material finally be

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My husband Marc Greenberg & I were blown away when one of our favorite artists, Darick Robertson, told us that he featured Marc as the big bad super-villain Maxwell Vanderbilt of Big Dick Industries (Sex & Crime & Rock N Roll). He is revealed as the bad-guy-in-chief in Black Mask's Ballistic #4, and meets with a nasty (but colorful) demise in Ballistic #5. Now Marc is immortal! Thanks

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On October 10th, Marc and I saw Wordless!, a presentation on wordless novels by Art Spiegelman in collaboration with jazz composer Phillip Johnston and a 6 man jazz band (including Johnson on soprano sax).  Spiegelman began the evening speaking about the concepts that make comics work, and the odd marriage of word & image, and then continued with animated slideshows of works by artists

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Just posted on Comics Alternative are 3 of my capsule reviews on Comics Unmasked: Art & Anarchy in the UK by Gravett & Dunning, Comic Book People: Photographs from the 1970's and 1980's by Estrada, and an oldie but goodie, The Plot: the Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Eisner at http://comicsalternative.com/critical-takes-unmasked/

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Carol Tyler, Ponder. Cartoonist Carol Tyler has created a beautifully detailed art installation as her contribution to With or Without: Challenges, an art exhibition curated by Mary Heider for the Carnegie (Covington, KY), September 5 - November 1 2015. The show presents work created by artists as a way to process and address difficult life experiences or challenges in their lives. 17 artists

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I speak with comics vet Steve Leialoha for Comics Alternative about Seduction of the Innocent (the band), Warlock, Howard the Duck, Fables and future plans. http://comicsalternative.com/interview-leialoha/ I learned quite a lot about working for Marvel in the 70's from Steve, and it was a great conversation. Thanks Steve, and Aloha.

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Yesterday I viewed Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism (at the CJM SF through 10/6) a show about how European Jewish emigres networked together around a core of design institutions across the US, inspiring a new look for architecture, furniture, textiles, dinnerware & utensils, Judaica, and graphic design.  The institutions singled out in the show were MoMA, Walker Art

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Introductory video from Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK curated by Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning, which just closed at the British Library. As usual, the catalog is the artifact that remains, and it's a beauty.

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We were thrilled to see this thoughtful and detailed review of Marc's new book, Comic Art, Creativity and the Law from UK Barrister Phillip Taylor MBE of Richmond Green Chambers. Other reviews: The 1709 Blog | Art and Artifice | ICv2

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CI: TACB Cover I contributed chapters on comics censorship and indie comics to this book, due to come out from Salem Press in November. It covers an impressive amount of territory and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's work. Order here. I also contributed entries on Mort Walker and Beetle Bailey to the newly released 4 volume set from ABC-CLIO Greenwood Comics Through Time, which

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San Diego Convention Center. The white tents are protecting the hours long line to get into Hall H from the blazing sun. Photo by Kim Munson. Here's a quick round up of panels and other happenings at San Diego Comic Con International: At the Future of Geek panel moderated by John Siuntres (Word Balloon podcast), Heidi MacDonald (The Beat), Rob Salkowitz (Comic-Con and the Business of Pop

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As usual, the Comic Arts Conference, an academic conference within and in conjunction with San Diego Comic-Con International, offered a heaping platter of scholarly goodness. Several panels and presentations really stood out to me this year. Marc Greenberg, author of Comic Art, Creativity and the Law (my husband) and Rob Salkowitz, author of Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, talked

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Trina Robbins discusses the fine points of a page by Grace Drayton from her collection at the Pretty in Ink exhibition, as CAM executive director Summerlea Kashar looks on. Last Night (7/31), the Cartoon Art Museum hosted a reception for Pretty in Ink, an exhibition showcasing pieces from the collection of comics creator and Herstorian Trina Robbins, which will be up for about another month (

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The Labor Archive and Research Center at the SFSU J. Paul Leonard Library has a display of the long out of print 1940 book White Collar: A Novel in Linocuts by Giacomo Patri (1898–1978), which is illustrated with linocut prints in two colors. The first edition of this wordless volume was hand printed by Patri and bound with his wife's assistance, two other editions were commercially printed.

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Margaret Harrison. The Last Gaze. 2013 Northern Art Prize winner. Over the summer, I've been pleased to spend several afternoons with Margaret Harrison, discussing her new work. Her latest installation piece, The Last Gaze, builds on many of the themes and devices she has developed throughout her career. Based on the Pre-Raphaelite painting of the Lady of Shalott by Waterhouse and the ballad

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Landmarks photography by Wendy Crittenden (color, top) and Tom Griscom (B&W, below) Dual Views: Labor Landmarks of San Francisco will be exhibited at SFSU from April 2, 2015 through mid-July (details below). Taken in 2008 in the recovery from the 1999-2000 tech boom/bust cycle, Griscom’s black and white panoramas and Crittenden’s askew color c-prints celebrate the resilience of the

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Last week I had the privilege of interviewing Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson for the Comics Alternative blog. For 15 years, she has been researching the life and business affairs of her Grandfather, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, who lost his publishing company, which would quickly become DC comics, to bankruptcy back in the 1930's, and with it, his stake in the first publication of Superman. Along

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"San Francisco needs a real comics conference." That’s what I was thinking as I struggled upstream through end of day traffic to the lovely and sprawling Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, CA for a symposium hosted by the Graphic Narrative Project called Secret Identity Politics: Superhero Studies and Comics Scholarship (5/22). Losing WonderCon to Anaheim (probably permanently) has left a

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I am so glad I got over to the Presidio see Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: the Art of Tyrus Wong at the Disney Family Museum before it closed. Wong had a fascinating career. Well, still has, actually. He's 103 and still actively creating beautiful work.  This wide ranging exhibit was one of the best I've seen at the Disney, showing over 150 works by Wong. Promotional Art from Disney

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Interview with Margaret Harrison about her infamous Motifs Editions gallery show in 1971, and her installations "Women and Work" and "Homeworkers," which are currently on view at the Tate Britain. This part of her career will be discussed in depth in the biographical book we are collaborating on.

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Chester D. Wilson, cover art by Spain Rodriguez. 1989. Back in the late 1980’s before South Beach was populated by AT&T Park, million dollar condos and fine eats, it was a light industrial and working class neighborhood. There was a dive bar called Bouncer’s around Townsend and 2nd, that served up cheap burgers and beer to the ironworkers in the area, and a big helping of local blues

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