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Drawing Inspiration: From Idea To Reality Art Show at the DAC

Lin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:14:52 +0000

To celebrate it’s 25th Anniversary the MSCA will be heading down to Hernando, MS for a joint art show this winter with the DeStoto Arts Council.

FEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 31, 2012
“Drawing Inspiration” Art Show- Cartoons & Fantasy Art
Featuring Mid-South Cartoonists Association
with special concept art display from “Starcraft II” artists.

This will be similar our Process Revealed and Are Cartoons Art? art shows a few years back which were both a big success. This show will be held at the DAC’s new location in Hernando- which is next door to their old location, just much bigger!

NEW BANKS HOUSE GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP LOCATION
DeSoto Arts Council – 564 W. Commerce Street, Hernando, MS

The show will be in the Banks House’s two front parlors and runs concurrent with DAC’s Winter Show.

Opening Reception & Art Demonstrations
FEBRUARY 11, 2012: 5 – 7 pm

To get to the art house from Memphis head south on HWY 51 or I-55 to Hernando, MS. Turn right onto Commerce Street. The Banks House mansion is on the right at the corner of Commerce and Elm Street, just past the library- about a few blocks west of HWY51 and the Hernando Courthouse Square.

Gallery hours are Thursday – Saturday 10AM -5PM. Gallery closed for the holidays December 24, 2011 – January 05, 2012.

For more info- www.desotoarts.com

Leland Frog Fest 2011 this Saturday- 9/24/11

Lin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:48:22 +0000

Coming up this weekend is the Leland Frog Fest- a Festival of the Arts in historic downtown Leland, MS on Saturday, September 24, 2011, which would have been Jim Henson’s 75th birthday.

Special guest Fran Brill from Sesame Street will be on hand for the dedication of the Rainbow Connection Bridge. The MSCA’s Kevin Williams, Muley The Mule, and Lin Workman will be driving down to take part in the frog festivities. Be sure to stop by Kevin and Muley’s table to check out some of Kevin’s art, and visit the The Jim Henson Delta Boyhood Exhibit on the banks of Deer Creek in Leland. (You can see pics and a travel blog about Leland, MS Kermit’s homecoming at Have Geek, Will Travel.)

For more info visit http://www.lelandfrogfest.com/ or email: frogbirthplace@att.net

If you can’t make it down to Leland, there’s still plenty of events going on this weekend in Memphis. A couple are-

Memphis Ronald McDonald House’s 17th Annual Big Scoop Ice Cream Festival- Saturday, September 24 Downtown at Auto Zone Park 11:00am- 4:00pm. Variety of ice cream, frozen treats, snacks, and drinks from many local vendors. Children’s Activity Land with games and activities for children big and small. Advance Tickets are $7.00 and $10.00 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at all area YoLo Frozen Yogurt and SUPERCUT locations.

Brooks Museum’s Chalk Art Festival Saturday, September 24 10am-2 pm -free to celebrate the Brooks’ 95th birthday by drawing on the plaza! 11am – 1pm live music and 12pm birthday cake. (Rain date is 9/25); bring your own street chalk or pastels, or $3 at the Brooks. Hotdogs and drinks will be available for sale. Overton Park- Memphis, TN.

Art Happenings In Hernando!

Lin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:41:30 +0000

Come checkout the DeSoto Arts Council’s new Art House this Saturday!

Grand Opening: Banks House Gallery

564 W. Commerce Street – Hernando, MS Saturday, Sept. 10 from 10:00am – 5:00pm.

Tour the new and much bigger art house!

Craftsmen Demonstration- Pottery, Wood Turning, Fiber Arts

MSCA member Lin Workman will be doing a sculpting demo there outside during the opening reception.

Local entertainment-
3:00 KC Johns
4:00 Lately David

Meet The Artists Reception
Sept 10, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Anna Kline and Grits & Soul Band

3-D Art Show & Craftsman Exhibit on display September 10-October 22.

Hernando Main Street Chamber of Commerce officials are inviting the public to participate in the 2011 Water Tower Festival, September 16 and 17 at the historic Courthouse Square in Hernando at the corner of HWY51 and Commerce Street. This two-day event will offer fun for people of all ages- BBQ contest, arts/crafts, car show, 5K race, poker run, music, and more!

And don’t forget that the Hernando Farmer’s Market runs every Saturday until the end of October at Courthouse Square from 8am-1pm.

Have Geek, Will Travel!

Lin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:00:06 +0000

A new geek blog travel site is up and running- Have Geek Will Travel…

…and the first geek destination is…Metropolis, IL!

MSCA member Lin Workman blogs about how he first found out about Metropolis, and what has happened there since that first super-trip to the home of Superman.

Each week on Tuesday Lin Workman will be posting a new geek travel blog and a web cartoon to go along with it. Future features will include Geek Survival Guides, Geek of the Week, and more Geek Links. Lin, webmaster Nicki Howe, and their mascot “Geeker” will be taking you along for a guided tour of the geek universe.

Coming up will be trips to the Popeye Picnic, Jim Henson Museum, and Nashville Horror Fest in October.

Orpheum Theatre Annual Art Auction- Free Admission!

Lin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:58:12 +0000

The Orpheum Theatre is presenting its Annual Art Auction this Sunday- August 21st.

The Orpheum’s 17th Annual Art Auction celebrates and promotes local artists in Memphis’s diverse and growing art community. 75% of the proceeds go directly to the artists, while the remaining 25% is used to fund Orpheum education programs and the maintenance and preservation of The Theatre.

This year over 2oo pieces of art including original oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, sculptures, and multimedia projects by 70 artists will be featured- including the MSCA’s Lin Workman (“Sherlock Holmes” art above).

Silent auction starts at 2PM and the live auction starts at 3PM.

Admission is FREE, and a cash bar will be available.

The Orpheum is located at 203 S. Main Street in downtown Memphis.

New “Spud Salad” book on the menu at SpudComics.com!

Lin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:30:13 +0000

This just added to the cartoon reading menu by MidSouth Cartoonists Association member Lonnie Easterling-

Get your second helping of hilarity! Over 100 of the best single panel cartoons from Spud Comics in convenient print form. From giant monsters to gun-toting teddy bears, nothing is too outlandish in this second volume from the popular webcomic.

If you like what you see there’s more Spud Comics to devour! Scraped from the brain of cartoonist, Lonnie Easterling, this is the first volume of the best Spud Comics ever to grace the internet. Each turn of the page is sure to bring a chuckle. Featuring over 100 comics from 2008 and 2009.

You can order up some Spud Comics books, tees, and more at the Spud Shop online- http://spudcomics.com/spudshop/.

Josh Elder isn’t singing the blues…but will be at AnimeBluesCon in Memphis!

Lin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:36:45 +0000

The 2011 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced, and comics creator Josh Elder isn’t singing the blues!

Congrats to our buddy Josh Elder and the Reading With Pictures crew for their Harvey Awards nominations!

BEST ANTHOLOGY and BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC PUBLICATION FOR YOUNGER READERS

Josh has self-published comics and written for DC Comics, and has become a regular guest and familiar face in Metropolis at the Superman Celebration each June.

Josh is not only an awesome super-guy (and can prove it!), but is also the Executive Director and Executive Editor for Reading With Pictures.

Their mission-

“Reading With Pictures is a nonprofit organization that advocates the use of comics in the classroom to promote literacy and improve educational outcomes for all students. We work with academics to cultivate groundbreaking research into the proper role of comics in education. We collaborate with cartoonists to produce exceptional graphic novel content for scholastic use. Most importantly, we partner with educators to develop a system of best practices for integrating comics into their curriculum. At Reading With Pictures, we get comics into schools and get schools into comics.”

This weekend Josh will be in Memphis for the first ever Anime Blues Con at the Hilton Memphis, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd off Poplar and I-240. Stop by the con and say hi to Josh and congratulate him on the nominations, pick up a copy of Reading With Pictures, and compliment him on his awesome \S/ tattoo. He will be doing a panel on his book, Mail Order Ninja, as well as ones on writing and getting published.

And speaking of the Anime Blues Con, an MSCA Panel at the ABC will be at 3pm on Friday, July 8th. There will also be a table for the MSCA to pass out information and/or members to sell our individual wares. So keep an eye out for MidSouth Cartoonists Association members at the con.

Congrats again to Josh and Reading With Pictures, and good luck to the Anime Blues Con.

Lin

Have Cape- will travel! MSCA members at Cape-Con

Lin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:24:31 +0000

This past weekend members of the “Memphis Mafia” headed up I-55 to Cape Con in Cape Girardeau, MO.

Here are some pics from the MSCA road trip.

The event center in Cape Girardeau, MO.

Kevin Williams with a TN Ghostbuster.

Jason Negen sketching at Kevin’s booth.

Nicki Howe at our booth on Sunday morning before the show.

Me with a couple of Predators- I’m guessing they’re not from Nashville!

Brian and Bob/Snake- a couple familiar faces from Metropolis.

More familiar faces from Metropolis!

John/Ash and his “boom-stick” in the costume contest.

“Duct-or Doom”

Kids costume contest.

Team Tucci!

Me, Nicki, and “Shi” creator Billy Tucci- he’s now part of the “Memphis Mafia”!

Me, actor William Katt, and show promoter Ken Murphy with my painting of “Ralph/Greatest American Hero” that Ken bought.

Illustration I did of William Katt as “Ralph”.

Me and my hand turkey drawing with the Helock Comics guys.

Outside the Mexican restaurant we had dinner at after the show.

I-55 on the way home back to Memphis.

Crossing the Mississippi River back into Memphis on the “old bridge”.

Thanks to Ken and his Cape-crew for inviting us back!

Lin

Draw Funny with Greg Cravens!

Lin — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:02:34 +0000

Hey gang, got this from our own Greg Cravens-

Hey, folks-

Heads up on the comic booking/cartooning project class I kept threatening
to do- On June 4, 18, and 25 (The first, third, and fourth Saturdays in
June) at 9 am until lunchtime, I’m going to teach anyone who’d like to
come about the process of completing a comic book/comic strip project.

We’ll break up into teams and work as letterers, pencillers, and inkers
and such. I’ll play editor and try to get everyone to understand the WHY
of organizing a project on the front end so that it flows to completion.

It’s not a drawing class, but we’ll all be drawing. Everyone will use
his or her own style and sensibilities AND work with others- thereby
learning what works and how it works when collaborating and communicating.

It’ll be in the Cub Scout room at Trinity United Methodist Church-
downstairs in the education building.

Spread the word- I can’t remember who all has asked about this over
the past few months, so if you know anyone who might be interested
and has time for it, send ‘em this info.

Thanks.

Greg

Greg is the syndicated cartoonist on the comic strip “The Buckets”
and does the web comic “Hubris“. You can see more of his work here.

Lin

Comic News Quickies

Lin — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:14:14 +0000

Liberty Meadows is coming back!

Frank “Monkey-Boy” Cho has regained the rights to Liberty Meadows and is working on new issues of the comic series.

According to Cho, “Issue 38 will hopefully come out end of this year.” Fingers crossed!

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“It’s Alive!”

BleedingCool.com announced the upcoming Frankenstein Alive, Alive! for IDW Publishing, from Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson.

Also from IDW…

Rocketeer Adventures Launches!

Dave Steven’s Rocketeer flies back into comic stores again today- May, 18th with Rocekteer Adventures #1.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/

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TR!CKSTER..?

So what is TR!CKSTER? A new indy comic event in San Diego near Comicon!

TR!CKSTER is a retail space: specializing in CREATOR-OWNED wares including small run and limited edition books, fine art prints, toys, clothing, and more.

TR!CKSTER is a fine art gallery space: featuring the CREATOR-OWNED work of some of today’s most influential artists and designers.

TR!CKSTER is a series of Symposia: focused, CREATOR-DRIVEN demonstrations and discussions of method, process, and theory concerning the act of creating new, uniquely-voiced works of art.

Follow TR!CKSTER on twitter- @TRICKSTER_2011 or check out their website at http://trickstertrickster.com/

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Zombies invade Memphis…Again!

This is the Memphis Zombie Massacre’s fifth year, so to celebrate they’ve decided give something back to the community with Cans-4-Brainz to help benefit the Memphis Food Bank and flood relief efforts.

Keep and eye out for some familiar MSCA and Haunted Web of Horror faces in the crowd.

More info on their site at – http://www.memphiszombies.com/

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It’s a bird…it’s a plane, it’s a Superman Celebration!

Almost time to head back to Metropolis, IL for the 33rd Annual Superman Celebration June 9-12, 2011!

Several members of the MSCA will be back again along with Super Writer Josh Elder and Super Artists Jamal Igle and Freddie Williams II and many others in Artists Alley/Writers Way.

Special guests this year include Superman Returns stars Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington, SMALLVILLE‘s Black CanaryAlaina Huffman, Superman IV‘s Mark Pillow, and Tracey Roberts Lewis from Superboy!

It’s a small town festival meets comic convention for some big time Superman fun- and it’s FREE!

More info at- http://www.supermancelebration.net/

Stay “tooned” for more upcoming events!

Lin