#kim deitch

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Kim Deitch - Tales from the Crypt Vignette Original Art (1970s)

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Eating Raoul promotional comic by Kim Deitch and Carol Lay (Heavy Metal magazine - February 1983)

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Sally Cruikshank's 1978 "Make Me Psychic" is trippy and delightfully campy in that look-back-at-the-'20-and-'30s vein that some creators of the '60s and '70s mined so successfully.

Looking at some of the character designs, I'm not surprised that the great Kim Deitch was involved as an assistant animator, as this is also squarely in his stylistic wheelhouse. A bit like Fleischer for the '70s in its bouncy animal toon style and casual surrealism. Very nice.

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[ultrakeencollectionbreadfan]

Remember this comic?

Maybe Paramount+ should look into this...

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Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly: Raw, Volume 2, Number 3 (1991)

[usedcarheaven]

The Demons No Longer Feared Him, from Anatole France’s Thaïs by Frank C. Pape (1926)

[smashedpages]

Happy birthday to Kim Deitch!

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[colleendoran]

MOCCA Arts Festival

Announcing the 2023 MoCCA Arts Festival Featured Guests

The Society of Illustrators is proud to share a list of Featured Guests who will appear at the MoCCA Arts Festival, taking place April 1 - 2, 2023 from 11:00AM - 7:00PM on Saturday and 11:00AM - 6:00PM on Sunday. The Exhibitor Hall will be held at Met Pavilion, a spacious venue nestled in the heart of the Chelsea neighborhood, and is within walking distance to many great restaurants and attractions. Programming will be a few steps away at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, located at 133 West 21st Street. 

Maia Kobabe is the author of Gender Queer (Oni Press), a critically acclaimed Young Adult graphic memoir that has also been named a Stonewall Honor book. Gender Queer was also ranked by the American Library Association as the most frequently banned or challenged book in the United States in 2021. Kobabe will talk about eir work in a special spotlight session moderated by Michele Kirichanskaya and will also participate in a panel on comics and censorship hosted by PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman.

In her career, Colleen Doran has written and drawn the long-running creator-owned series A Distant Soil and has worked on titles including Wonder Woman, Amazing Spider-Man, and many others. Her body of work includes a series of collaborations with writer Neil Gaiman which are the subject of the exhibit “Colleen Doran Illustrates Neil Gaiman,” running from March 22nd to July 29th at the Society of Illustrators. She will appear in conversation with Gaiman to discuss their comics collaborations and her overall body of work in a special programming event moderated by exhibition curator Kim Munson.

Barbara Brandon-Croft became the first Black woman to write and draw a nationally syndicated comic strip when Where I’m Coming From debuted in American newspapers in 1991. Featuring a cast of nine women of color commenting insightfully on current events, her groundbreaking comic strip has now been anthologized in a book edition from Drawn and Quarterly. Brandon-Croft will talk about her trailblazing work in a special spotlight session. 

Other featured artists at this year’s festival will include:

Kim Deitch, a pioneering underground comix artist who began publishing comics in the East Village Other in 1967 and whose most recent graphic novel, Reincarnation Stories (Fantagraphics) was published to critical acclaim in 2019. 

Drew Friedman, whose most recent book of portraiture, Maverix and Lunatix (Fantagraphics), celebrates the artists of the underground comix generation

Miriam Katin, whose out-of-print graphic memoir of escaping the Holocaust as a child refugee accompanied by her mother, We Are On Our Own (Drawn & Quarterly), will be republished in a forthcoming paperback edition. 

Toma Vagner, the award-winning illustrator who designed this year’s MoCCA key image and has produced striking graphics for clients including Harry Styles, Google, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and The New Yorker. 

Noah Van Sciver, whose body of graphic novels includes Joseph Smith and the Mormons (Abrams ComicArts), Fante Bukowski (Fantagraphics Books), and the forthcoming comic book series Maple Terrace (Uncivilized Books). 

These and other Featured Artists will participate in programming and signings, schedules for which will be announced in the coming days and weeks. A full list of exhibiting artists can be found on the MoCCA Arts website. 

About the Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators and the MoCCA Arts Festival

Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators and its Museum of Illustration together comprise America’s longest-standing nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of illustration. The mission of SI/MI is to promote the art and appreciation of illustration and its history and evolving nature through exhibitions and educational programs. 

The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan’s largest independent comics and cartoon festival, drawing over 7,000 attendees each year. With over 500 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting demos, lectures and panels, our Festival mission accelerates the advancement of the Society’s broader mission to serve as Manhattan’s singular cultural institution promoting all genres of illustration through exhibitions, programs and art education. 

The Society will continue to release additional information about the Fest in the near future. Tickets are available to purchase online as well as at the door.  The Society is following all state and city safety protocols. Protocols are subject to change, so be sure to check back for the latest information. As of now, face coverings are optional at Metropolitan Pavilion and the Exhibitor Hall. Proof of vaccines, boosters and masks are required to enter SVA buildings and programming. 

To learn more about the Fest, please visit the website.

For media inquiries please contact:

Kate Feirtag

Director of Communications and External Relations

kate@societyillustrators.org

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James Collier -

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[dynamobooks]

Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly (ed.): Raw, Volume 2, Number 1 (1989)

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[copcomco]

Mineshaft #45 - The 25th Anniversary Issue!

Believe it or not, Mineshaft #45 is the 25th Anniversary Issue!  How?!?

It features a trippy-yet-appropriate wrap-around cover by Aaron Horkey, along with a slew of new work by a bigger than ever roster of contributors, including R. Crumb, Drew Friedman, Aaron Horkey, Billy Childish, Mary Fleener, Christoph Mueller, Gunnar Lundkvist, Simone Baumann, David Collier, Glenn Head, Aaron Lange, Kim Deitch, Sophie Crumb, Bill Crook, Max Clotfelter, Robert Armstrong and Kayla E.

As with all issues of Mineshaft, this issue has a small print run. In other words, it won't be around forever.

Available HERE, now.