Wednesday APRIL 8, 6:30 PM guest speaker - artist Frank Mutascio cartoonist, graphic illustrator, flash animator "How to use your art to make money and be found online" Bring food - see your Wheel O Food assignment (below) Show off - your portfolio Get mentored - Bring your latest cartoon effort Members = Free, Students = free. Visitors = $5 San Diego Blood Bank 440 Upas Street, San Diego, CA (map below) |
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April 18, Saturday Cartoonists Day, SD Blood Bank and ALL BB Branches! May 13 Wednesday annual 'Toon In Party Jack White's Magic Museum 4275 University Ave, SD, CA June 10, Wednesday Lucus Turnbloom - cartoonist, lecturer July 22-26 Comic-Con July 23, Thursday NCS/SCCS Comic-Con Kick Off Party Buster's Beach House 807 W Harbor Drive North County Meetings 6 PM 2/19, 3/19, 4/16, 5/21, 6/18, 7/16, 8/20 - G'ma BB's Hilltop Restaurant 539 Vista Bella, Oceanside August - vacation - NO MEETING September 9 - Dave Kellet - cartoonist, blogger, author SD Blood Bank October 14 - live model SD Blood Bank November 11 - Andy Mitchell - cartoonist, illustrator, author SD Blood Bank December - 9 Annual Holiday Party Jack's Magic and Toy Museum |
ALL with SCCS logo From T-shirts to G-strings, of course! Let's go shopping! |
| Sharp Hospital 7901 Frost Street, room 314 San Diego, CA 92123 1-858-939-2314 (visiting hours LIMITED) MICU Medical Intensive Care Unit Arthur Paul Gringle Veterans Home of California Unit 300 Room 604A 100 East Veterans Pkwy Barstow, CA 92311 760. 252.6205 |
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Photos from March 2009 meeting with guest speaker Frank Mitchell (click to enlarge photos) |
SCCS Braintrust! L to R Paul Gringle, the late, great Paul (Aquaman) Norris, Jim Whiting, Charlie Roberts at the SCCS Cartoon Gallery in Grandma's Hilltop Hideaway Restaurant in Oceanside taken, October 2007 |
MEMBER NEWS! |
| Wheel O' Food |
How the Wheel works: If your last name is Eisner, bring cold soda, water |
| " ZAP ! POW ! BAM !" Comic Book Art Exhibit in L.A. by Charlie Roberts Subtitled " The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950 ", anyone with an interest in the art and history of early superheroes in comic books will enjoy the nationwide traveling exhibit currently at the Skirball Cultural Center located just off the 405 freeway at 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd. in Los Angeles. The exhibit runs through August 9, 2009. Hours are Tuesday- Friday Noon to 5, and 10 to 5 on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $ 10; $ 7 for Seniors and full time students; and FREE ADMISSION is offered every Thursday. The Skirball is also a museum of Jewish history with many historical displays. David Siegel, noted collector who has been responsible for getting major Golden Age comic book artists to Comic-con International over the last 17+ years, invited my wife Joan and I to go with him this past Thursday March 5. Needless to say, Any trip with David is an adventure unlike no other (!) The foundation of the exhibit is the Golden Age original comic book art collection of Jerry Robinson, one of Bob Kane's first assistants on Batman in 1939. Jerry saved many originals from the trash can, in the days when comic book art was casually thrown away as having no value after publication. Jerry created the first drawing of the Joker, which is on display, and also named Batman's sidekick Robin (hmm....wonder where that name came from ). Heritage Galleries originals and art from collectors Ethan Roberts and Keif Fromm are also included. Mark Evanier had an excellent talk with Jerry on stage, then Jerry stayed to sign copies of the exhibit catalog. As a collector, seeing the original art was the icing on the cake. Joe Shuster, Fred Ray, Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Mort Meskin and others key artist-creators are represented with prime examples of their work. We All owe Jerry Robinson a debt of gratitude for having the foresight to save this important art for future generations. Attached are images of the Skirball promotional card, and a photo of Jerry and Joan ( both Excellent Originals !). Go to www.skirball.org or call 310-440-4900 for more information. |
| From Wardell Brown: I'm proud to announce the completion of my new book, War! Veni, Vidi, Vector: From Pencil to Vector. It features the vector cartoon art I have been crafting the last 11 months. Get a preview of the book, here. I will send word when it goes on sale. |
All this and more once you dare to enter Hogan's Alley, on sale now. hoganmag.com |
The latest of many by Stan Yan!
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New Exhibit curated by Trina
Robbins:
The Brinkley Girls, a celebration of
be announced shortly.
be announced shortly.
About Nell Brinkley:
For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’
s beautiful girls waltzed, vamped
and shimmied their way through
the pages of William Randolph
Hearst’s newspapers, captivating
the American public with their
innocent sexuality.
In 1907, at the tender age of 22,
Nell Brinkley came to New York to
draw for the Hearst syndicate.
Within a year, she had become a
household name. Flo Ziegfeld
dressed his dancers as “Brinkley
Girls” in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three
popular songs were written about
her. Women, aspiring to the
masses of curly hair with which
Nell adorned her fetching and
idealized creations, could buy Nell
Brinkley Hair Curlers for ten cents
a card. Young girls cut out and
saved her drawings, copied them,
colored them, and pasted them in
scrapbooks.
Nell Brinkley widened her scope to
include pen and ink depictions of
working women. Brinkley used her
fame to campaign for better
working conditions and higher pay
for women who had joined in the
war effort, and who were suffering
economic and social dislocation
due to acting on their patriotism.
Unlike most of her
contemporaries, she drew women
of different races and cultures.
Today, except for a small group of
avid collectors, she is unjustly
forgotten.
But no longer. The forthcoming
Fantagraphics Books publication
The Art of Nell Brinkley collects
Brinkley’s exquisitely colored full
page art from 1913 to 1940. Here
are her earliest silent movie serial-
inspired adventure series,
“Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;”
her almost too romantic series,
“Betty and Billy and Their Love
Through the Ages;” her snappy
flapper comics from the 1920s; her
1937 pulp magazine-inspired
“Heroines of Today.” Included are
photos of Nell, reproductions of
her hitherto unpublished
paintings, and an informative
introduction by the book’s editor,
Trina Robbins.
Retired cartoonist and current
comics historian Trina Robbins has
been writing graphic novels,
comics, and books for over 30
years. Her subjects have ranged
from Wonder Woman and the
Powerpuff Girls to her own
teenage superheroine, GoGirl!,
and from women cartoonists and
superheroines to women who kill.
She lives in a moldering 103 year
old house in San Francisco with
her cats, shoes, and dust bunnies.
www.trinarobbins.com
Robbins:
The Brinkley Girls, a celebration of
be announced shortly.
be announced shortly.
About Nell Brinkley:
For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’
s beautiful girls waltzed, vamped
and shimmied their way through
the pages of William Randolph
Hearst’s newspapers, captivating
the American public with their
innocent sexuality.
In 1907, at the tender age of 22,
Nell Brinkley came to New York to
draw for the Hearst syndicate.
Within a year, she had become a
household name. Flo Ziegfeld
dressed his dancers as “Brinkley
Girls” in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three
popular songs were written about
her. Women, aspiring to the
masses of curly hair with which
Nell adorned her fetching and
idealized creations, could buy Nell
Brinkley Hair Curlers for ten cents
a card. Young girls cut out and
saved her drawings, copied them,
colored them, and pasted them in
scrapbooks.
Nell Brinkley widened her scope to
include pen and ink depictions of
working women. Brinkley used her
fame to campaign for better
working conditions and higher pay
for women who had joined in the
war effort, and who were suffering
economic and social dislocation
due to acting on their patriotism.
Unlike most of her
contemporaries, she drew women
of different races and cultures.
Today, except for a small group of
avid collectors, she is unjustly
forgotten.
But no longer. The forthcoming
Fantagraphics Books publication
The Art of Nell Brinkley collects
Brinkley’s exquisitely colored full
page art from 1913 to 1940. Here
are her earliest silent movie serial-
inspired adventure series,
“Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;”
her almost too romantic series,
“Betty and Billy and Their Love
Through the Ages;” her snappy
flapper comics from the 1920s; her
1937 pulp magazine-inspired
“Heroines of Today.” Included are
photos of Nell, reproductions of
her hitherto unpublished
paintings, and an informative
introduction by the book’s editor,
Trina Robbins.
Retired cartoonist and current
comics historian Trina Robbins has
been writing graphic novels,
comics, and books for over 30
years. Her subjects have ranged
from Wonder Woman and the
Powerpuff Girls to her own
teenage superheroine, GoGirl!,
and from women cartoonists and
superheroines to women who kill.
She lives in a moldering 103 year
old house in San Francisco with
her cats, shoes, and dust bunnies.
www.trinarobbins.com
KUDOs to SCCS Reuben Award Nominees Vic Lee -"Pardon My Planet" for newspaper panel cartoons and Werner Wejp-Olsen for gag cartoons! and to Benita Epstein on her becoming one of the Six Chix! |
