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Do you love reading graphic novels? Do you love their varied art styles? Then check out the new exhibit, PARTY CRASHERS - a collaborative art show between the Artisphere and the Arlington Arts Center, opening Saturday, Dec. 11 - which explores the mashup between comic art and contemporary gallery culture, and features artists who pass back and forth between the two worlds.
Then go to the Library, and check out books by these Party Crashers artists:
The Arlington Arts Center showcases alternative comic artists who also show their original pages and drawings in art galleries; fine and comic artists working side-by-side on a national curated project, and fine and comic artists creating avante-garde, purely abstract sequential art without words or recognizable imagery.
The exhibit runs from Saturday, December 11, 2010 - Sunday, February 13, 2011. The books are available all year round, at the Library.
- Cfp: Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, And Comics In Education
CFP: Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, and Comics in Education Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, and Comics in Education Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Carrye Syma, Texas Tech University Library (Publisher: McFarland) In recent years the use of graphic novels,...
- Call For Paper Proposal On Comic Books And Superheroes
Call for paper proposal on comic books and superheroes 47th Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians in Jacksonville, FL February 27 through March 1, 2008 From the debut of Superman in 1938 through Marvel?s Comics? Civil War storyline this year,...
- Cfp - Comics And Culture
Deadline - December 10, 2004 The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks original essays, review essays, and reviews for our Spring 2005 special issue, "Comics and Culture," co-edited by Corey Creekmur and Thomas Keegan. Comic strips, comic books,...
- Columbia Pike Documentary Project At Artisphere
Work by the Columbia Pike Documentary Project Photographers will be projected this week in Arlington's new Arts Center, the Artisphere, from March 14 to March 20. Photographers Lloyd Wolf, Duy Tran, Paula Endo, Xang Mimi Ho, Aleksandra Lagkueva...
- Saturday Is International Read Comics In Public Day
Nothing planned for Saturday? Take part in International Read Comics in Public Day - by reading a comic book out in public, where others can see you. The founders of IRCP Day say, "take to the streets. Be proud. If someone asks what you?re reading, say,...
Library
See PARTY CRASHERS, then Read their Books
Do you love reading graphic novels? Do you love their varied art styles? Then check out the new exhibit, PARTY CRASHERS - a collaborative art show between the Artisphere and the Arlington Arts Center, opening Saturday, Dec. 11 - which explores the mashup between comic art and contemporary gallery culture, and features artists who pass back and forth between the two worlds.
Then go to the Library, and check out books by these Party Crashers artists:
- Bodyworld by Dash Shaw
- Afrodesiac by Jim Rugg
- Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
- Bighead by Jeffrey Brown
The Arlington Arts Center showcases alternative comic artists who also show their original pages and drawings in art galleries; fine and comic artists working side-by-side on a national curated project, and fine and comic artists creating avante-garde, purely abstract sequential art without words or recognizable imagery.
The exhibit runs from Saturday, December 11, 2010 - Sunday, February 13, 2011. The books are available all year round, at the Library.
- Cfp: Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, And Comics In Education
CFP: Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, and Comics in Education Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, and Comics in Education Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Carrye Syma, Texas Tech University Library (Publisher: McFarland) In recent years the use of graphic novels,...
- Call For Paper Proposal On Comic Books And Superheroes
Call for paper proposal on comic books and superheroes 47th Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians in Jacksonville, FL February 27 through March 1, 2008 From the debut of Superman in 1938 through Marvel?s Comics? Civil War storyline this year,...
- Cfp - Comics And Culture
Deadline - December 10, 2004 The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks original essays, review essays, and reviews for our Spring 2005 special issue, "Comics and Culture," co-edited by Corey Creekmur and Thomas Keegan. Comic strips, comic books,...
- Columbia Pike Documentary Project At Artisphere
Work by the Columbia Pike Documentary Project Photographers will be projected this week in Arlington's new Arts Center, the Artisphere, from March 14 to March 20. Photographers Lloyd Wolf, Duy Tran, Paula Endo, Xang Mimi Ho, Aleksandra Lagkueva...
- Saturday Is International Read Comics In Public Day
Nothing planned for Saturday? Take part in International Read Comics in Public Day - by reading a comic book out in public, where others can see you. The founders of IRCP Day say, "take to the streets. Be proud. If someone asks what you?re reading, say,...