"While he’s nationally known and has his share of followers in Central New York, many of those followers don’t realize he lives among them. 'I’m in a weird situation,' he says. 'I do my work here locally but I don’t do my work for the local area. Up until recently I didn’t make much of an effort at letting people know that I’m here or what I do.'
"'The impetus for this change was Reynolds’ battle with, and ultimate victory over, cancer. “Since I had cancer, I started to make more of a concentrated effort; I decided it would be fun to share more of what I do on a local level,' he says. 'So I’ve made myself more available, like the last couple of years working with the American Cancer Society locally, helping them out, participating in fundraising walks.'"
The rest, detailing Dan's life and how he started drawing cartoons, is here.
Dan will give a talk at the Museum this Saturday at noon.
Provo, Utah: The Terra Nova Gallery presents the Dueling Banjo Pigs exhibit, which is based on Guy Francis' and Stacy Curtis' Dueling Banjo Pigs blog. The show runs from April 1 to April 29, 2011.It started out with a duel between friends. Guy Francis challenged fellow illustrator, Stacy Curtis, to a duel of banjo playing pigs. Now, other illustrators have joined the fun with banjo pigs of their own!We have more than 500 banjo pigs from countries all over the world!
"This show was presented to us on relatively short notice and Kickstarter is an ideal vehicle for raising funds for small, popular projects in a brief time frame."
Above: a rude cartoon by saucy postcard cartoonist Donald McGill.Put together with some the country’s best-known cartoonists and comedy writers, this exhibition explores British comic art from the 1600s to the present day. Bringing together a wide array of paintings, sculptures, film and photography, as well as graphic art and comic books, the exhibition celebrates a rich history of cartooning and visual jokes.
" ... worth visiting this show just to see the full-scale ink drawings on fine, heavyweight paper that are reduced to gray, postcard-size images in The New Yorker, in which his work has appeared since 1962."Koren, who lives in Vermont now, draws his originals really, really big. I remember seeing these rather large boxes, a couple of feet wide on either side, postmaked from Vermont, in The New Yorker offices. The return address was Ed Koren. Inside: his HUGE originals.
"You see that in the cartoons he published in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s in Negro Digest, Black World and Ebony magazines (the originals were destroyed in a fire at Turner's Berkeley home, so he created the color versions in the exhibition from memory, so his son, also named Morrie, could have them). One, from the '50s, depicts an African American woman perusing three white guys in a police lineup: one tall and skinny, one squat and bald, the third with a mop of hair. 'I don't know!' she says. 'They all look alike to me!'"
