Wallpaper for Many is an academic showcase at Palazzo Mora in Venice, Italy. It features Risograph and letterpress work by students around the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop, part of the Art Department at Rice University and the OSU Printshop at The Ohio State University. The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop is part… Read More Wallpaper for Many
A rare art collection featuring some of the most famous cartoon characters in American history has been acquired by Rice University’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) within the School of Humanities’ Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. The donate works will form the core of a new collection housed… Read More The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop Collection at Fondren
During it’s heyday in the mid-1970s, nearly 55 million comic books were printed each month in Mexico. Forty years later, almost nothing is known about this once-flourishing scene. FUNDAMENTAL CAMARENA is a new monograph on the the work on Julio Camarena, one of dozens of the nearly unknown artists active during this time. The original… Read More Fundamental Camarena
The Comic Art Teaching at Study Workshop at Rice University is pleased to announce a new exhibition, held at the Emergency Room. Overlap(land) is an exhibition dedicated to the vibrant comics scene in Finland. This exhibition is divided into two parts: sketches by comics artists who participated in Comic Blast, a unique residency program, and… Read More overlap(land): Comics made in Finalnd
The works in this traveling exhibition were selected from a collection of over 1,300 ink on paper drawings and comprise fourteen complete comics published by Editorial Continente in Mexico in the late 60s through the mid-70s. Despite the fact that comics were immensely popular in Mexico in the 1970s, the creators involved were embarrassed at… Read More Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comics from the 1970s
FREE DOWNLOAD! The Mini-Comic Mini-Comic is a 16-page mini-comic on how to produce your own mini-comic! Developed by Associate Professor Christopher Sperandio for Communities Router, a program of community-based comic workshops for Make A Difference Asia. The Mini-Comic Mini-Comic is an accumulation of “How to” information on the steps and practicalities of making your own… Read More The Mini-Comic Mini-Comic