There isn't a lot of press on this, and there should be. So I'm posting this up to help the great folks over at the Cartoon Art Museum.
Colan: Visions of a Man without Fear
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition: November 15, 2008 – March 15, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 4, 2008
With special guests Gene and Adrienne Colan
The Cartoon Art Museum is honored to celebrate the life and work of cartoonist Gene Colan with a career-spanning retrospective entitled Colan: Visions of a Man without Fear. This exhibition will include over 40 examples from Colan’s long creative career, from his one and only story illustrated for legendary publisher EC Comics in 1952, through his career-defining work for Marvel Comics from the 1960s and 1970s on titles as diverse as Iron Man, Tomb of Dracula and Howard The Duck, to his notable run on DC Comics’ Batman in the 1980s, to his more recent efforts, including illustrations commissioned by his fans and his beautiful pencil artwork on titles such as Michael Chabon’s The Escapist, published by Dark Horse Comics.
This exhibition has been assembled by Guest Curator Glen David Gold, author of the novel Carter Beats the Devil and many comics-related essays. Gene Colan and his wife Adrienne will be the guests of honor at the December 4 reception, and many Bay Area comic book professionals are scheduled to be in attendance. Additional information regarding this reception will be announced later this month.
I'll be there for the reception, and so should you if you live in the Bay Area. Imagine, the original art for Iron Man #1 right next to the art for Iron Man & Sub Mariner #1, right next to rejected cover art for Daredevil vs. Captain America. If you don't know who Gene is, you're probably not really reading this blog. I expect to see amazing art from EC, to Tomb of Dracula, to Tales of Suspense, to Steward the Rat, to Detectives Inc. And Gene himself, who has been suffering from ill health the last few years, making the trip out here. Gene and Adrienne are genuinely some of the nicest people in comics and it will be a pleasure to see them again.
Don't miss out. When you come by, tell me you saw it on "Ink Destroyed My Brush"!
5 comments:
That exhibition sounds really great. I'll try to check it out.
can't wait to go myself. I've only seen some of the originals myself, so i'm really looking forward to it. hope that you make it!
Here are some photos from last night's event:
http://cartoonart.livejournal.com/19556.html
We had live testimonials from Steve Englehart, Steve Leialoha, Joe Rubinstein and Daniel Cooney, one of Gene's former pupils-turned-comic book professional and Academy of Art professor. Stan Lee provided us with a special video presentation, too.
thanks for the url!
I had a great time last night and will be composing a post on it a bit later today. I will very possibly steal on of your pics...
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