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Yes MAM!

January 11, 2006December 26, 2009 andertoons2 Comments

My father-in-law sent this to me…

The Milwaukee Art Museum has a nice exhibition coming up. The Masters of American Comics runs April 29 – August 13, 2006 and features McCay, Herriman, and Schulz to name just a few.

This is gonna be after Bonnie arrives, but maybe if grandma and grandpa don’t mind taking the kids for the day, the Mrs. and I can take a nice little write-off-able day trip.

So often stuff like this seems to pass us in the ol’ Midwest by. I can’t tell you how many exhibits I hear about in New York or California. You’d think Chicago would get some more of this.

Anyway, check it out…

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The Mural of the Story

November 21, 2005December 26, 2009 andertoons

New York’s Overlook Lounge (formerly Costello’s) drew some of the cartoon world’s finest talents yesterday who, in turn, drew on the walls.

Cartoonist Mike Lynch organized a gaggle of great artists including New York Daily News legend Bill Gallo, Playboy’s Don Orehek, The New Yorker‘s Mort Gerberg, John Caldwell and Sam Gross, Beetle Bailey’s Mort Walker, Howard Huge/Lockhorn‘s John Reiner and a slew of others who, in exchange for some food and beer, drew a gigantic cartoon mural.

The new art will be great company for the Overlook’s landmark 1976 cartoon mural by luminaries including Stan Lee, Gil Kane, Milton Caniff and Sergio Aragonnes.

Check out the video (Quicktime only, sorry…) from NY1, this article from the New York Daily News, and this one from the New York Post.

Mike has also been kind enough to pass along some great photos from the event:

Overlook server Caroline poses with the blank canvas

Don Orehek gets the ball rolling

The New Yorker‘s Mort Gerberg, John Caldwell and Sam Gross

Bill Kresse gets some “Super Duper” media coverage

Reiner’s drawing a huge Huge

Sam Norkin, Mort Walker and Overlook Lounge’s co-owner Jeff Perzan

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“Complete New Yorker” Sets Dangerous Precedent

November 10, 2005December 26, 2009 andertoons3 Comments

This is all over the blogosphere today re: “The Complete New Yorker”:

The WSJ reports that…

“…when a magazine wants to republish a free-lance work in a new and different format, the free-lancer must be compensated accordingly, two more-recent court rulings have found. That means when republishing articles on DVD or other digital formats, magazines must pay free-lancers again, get their permission to republish free — or preserve the original print context. The New Yorker’s solution was to scan the original magazine pages onto DVDs.”

So as long as they scan in the entire page, they don’t have to pay for further usage.

Methinks the monocle is biting the hand that fed it; not to mention the possible implications for Google’s recent en masse book scanning.

It’s a scary time to be providing content…

(Thanks be to Comics Reporter and Boing Boing.)

Technorati Tags: books, cartoons, magazines, new yorker