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EVENTS AMSTERDAM ö GALERIE LAMBIEK NEW EXHIBITION Galerie Lambiek present the vanguard young Dutch comics and fine artists Stefan van Dither and Tobias Schalken, starting 26 January 2001. A splendid opportunity to have a fresh look at the works of these self-called 'masters of sequence' who indeed lack neither ambition nor a fine feeling for irony. Eiland in Lambiek opens Friday night January 26, 2001 at 18.00 and will be on show until the end of February 2001 in Amsterdam. Read the full text on the exhibition in Cartooning News. Virtual exhibitions at Lambiek Net currently on show include Pascal Doury, Robert Crumb, Peter Pontiac, Jim Woodring and Chris Ware.You can link to Galerie Lambiek's website via our Cartooning Links page and our Exhibitions/Galleries Page in the WHAT'S ON SECTION. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////// LONDON - THE IRREPRESSIBLE HOFFNUNG Gerard Hoffnung's widow, Annetta, will be talking about the celebrated cartoonists life and work at this special one-off event which takes place at the British Cartoon Centre, The Brunswick Centre, London, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on 16 January. Admission is £6. For more details contact Paul Gravett at the Cartoon Art Trust on 020 7278 7172. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Members Party Saturday, February 17, 2001 From 8:00p.m. Š 10:00p.m. The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host a party to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. For more information on CBLDF please visit their web site at www.cbldf.org. This event is free to CBLDF and CAM members. There will be a $3.00 admission for non-members. BAY AREA EVENTS Alternative Press Expo February 17 and 18, 2001 San Francisco This yearÕs Alternative Press Expo will be held at the Herbst Pavillion at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on Saturday, February 17 and Sunday, February 18. This exposition features many alternative publishers and artists from all over the country. To find out more about this year's APE please visit their web site at http://www.comic-con.org and click on the link for APE 2001. The Cartoon Art Museum will have a table with several artists on hand to draw sketches for donations to the museum. Volunteering: If you are interested in volunteering your time for the Cartoon Art Museum at this years Alternative Press Expo, and/or for the CBLDF party February 19, 2001 please contact Hallie at 415-227-8666. Cartoon Art Museum 814 Mission Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA. 94103 PHONE: (415) CAR-TOON FAX: (415) 243-8666 EMAIL: Fun_Adm@sirius.com www.cartoonart.org THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF CARTOON ART, FLORIDA The only museum of its kind with cartoonists represented from over 50 countries. Started in 1974 in Greenwich, CT, it moved to Rye Brook, NY and then to Boca Raton, Florida. Open to the public since March 10, 1996, its collection of over 160,000 original drawings includes every genre of the art: animation, comic books, comic strips, gag cartoons, illustration, editorial cartoons, greeting cards, caricature, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and computer generated art. The Museum's collection also includes over 10,000 books on cartoons and a thousand hours of film and video of animated cartoons, interviews, and cartoon documentaries. This online museum will give you a sampling of the Museum. You'll find a gallery of artists and their work, advice for those looking to stretch your artistic wings, a peek into the Museum store and much more. Exhibitions: The Legacy of Mort Walker: 50 Years of Beetle Bailey November 11, 2000 to February 25, 2001 This retrospective will focus on the pivotal themes in Museum Founder Mort Walker's work, tracing the evolution of the Strip and its interpretation of American life and culture, as well as examining Walker's tremendous impact on cartoon art as a whole. At: http://cartoon.org/home.htm |