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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Hey Detroit (& Dearborn)! Check out the COVERED exhibit at Headspace Gallery!

Masheka is one of many awesome cartoonists featured in this exhibit at Green Brain Comics' Headspace gallery in Dearborn. Here's his contribution, and the details from his blog:

Check out my version of Gil Kane's cover to Sensation Comics #109. The original art and a color print are on exhibit (and for sale) at Headspace Gallery in Michigan's Green Brain Comics (see press release below) -----

Green Brain Comics is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit entitled COVERED on Wednesday, January 13th in the recently named HEADSPACE Gallery inside Green Brain Comics.

Inspired by a similar theme at the Covered blog (www.covered.blogspot.com) HEADSPACE curator Dan Merritt has assembled several pieces by artists that have brought their own touch to famous, and infamous comic book covers from several different decades.

"The theme for this exhibit has really sparked a creative flame." says Merritt "Each of these pieces has been lovingly recreated in tribute to the original art and the original artists that created them."

Featured in the exhibit will be works from Michigan based comic creators Paul Sizer, Matt Feazell, and Sean Bieri. Joining them will be other well known local artists Eric Millikin, Jennifer Rose Evans, and Chris Houghton. The Covered exhibit also features new work by many others, including Bryan Durren, Heather Hansma, Lizz James, Jesse Hughes and a piece by Masheka Wood from New York.

The opening reception for the Covered exhibit will be on Wednesday January 13th from 7pm to 10 pm. And the art will be on view until Saturday March 6th.

HEADSPACE Gallery is inside Green Brain Comics which is located at 13210 Michigan Avenue in East Downtown Dearborn. More information is available at www.greenbrain.biz or by calling 313-582-9444

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Mikhaela in the news: "Political cartoonists sing hail to the chief"

My cartoon "Bush vs. My Cat" (above) is currently featured in the exhibit "Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take On the White House" (at American University's Katzen Museum in DC, on view through July 29). I've even been mentioned in an article about the piece in the Examiner:

Through “Bush vs. My Cat,” freelancer Mikhaela Reid envisions a battle of wits. One of several women selected for the show, this hot hand is among the growing number of female cartoonists.
Full article here (warning: link is to a PDF).

I was also included in a story in Editor and Publisher about the AAEC convention panel on cartoonists and blogging. I was actually in the audience, but panelist Tom Tomorrow kindly suggested I might have two cents to put in:

Mikhaela Reid, speaking from the audience, said cartoonists such as herself who aren't daily newspaper staffers often want to do a blog because it helps build readership. She added that freelance or self-syndicated creators may not do as many editorial cartoons each week as staff creators do, so a blog can be "a valuable place to vent" when not drawing a cartoon that day.
Which I did.

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Other Heroes Art Show Opening today in Jackson, Missisippi

Cartoonists With Attitude members Keith Knight, Masheka Wood and myself all have work in this show, though Masheka and I won't be able to get to Mississippi to see it. Here are the details from the curators:
Other Heroes: African American comics creators, characters, and archetypes opens today, on Thursday, April 5th! There will be an opening reception for the show Apr. 5 from 4-6pm in the Jackson State University Gallery, located in the Dollye M.E. Robinson School of Liberal Arts Building, Jackson, MS. It will feature a gallery talk by the curators of the show, John Jennings and Damian Duffy. Everyone's invited. If you can make it, bring yourself and some guests. We can guarantee this will be an unprecedented and outstanding exhibition of comics art. With artists like these how could it be anything but?

Meanwhile, the Other Heroes Catalog is ON SALE NOW! Available for purchase online, and chock full of all the fantastic art from the show, the catalog also features essays from a serious line up of comics creators and scholars. The contents are:

  • -intrOH!- Damian Duffy w/ John Jennings
  • -E. Sims Campbell: Comics Pioneer - R.C. Harvey
  • -Da Rise of Da Blackuns and Da Black Age of Comics - Turtel Onli
  • -Jackie Ormes Biography - Nancy Goldstein
  • -Here Come the Sisters! - Prof. Bill Foster
  • -Somewhere Between Here and There is Me - Alex Simmons
  • -Finding Other Heroes - John Jennings w/ Damian Duffy

178 pages. $50.00. All proceeds past printing costs donated to Scholarship America's Disaster Relief Fund, helping low income students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita seek post secondary educations.

We're excited to finally get it all together, and we hope you are too. Please help spread the word about the show and the catalog. If you have any thoughts or questions, feel free to contact the curators: Damian Duffy, duff@eyetrauma.net, 217-355-8569 and John Jennings, jayjay@uiuc.edu, 217-244-8539.

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