Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration, 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065. March 11 - October 24, 2020. Entry Mural image by Collen Doran. Poster image by Afua Richardson. Downstairs mural image by Ramona Fradon. Photos by Steve Compton, courtesy of Society of Illustrators.
See the Women in Comics page for contextual information and artist bios. Exhibition curated by Kim Munson and Trina Robbins with special thanks to Karen Green and John Lind.
When I was writing my thesis for my MA at San Francisco State University in 2008, I actually had to bring in a selection of current scholarship to persuade my committee that comics were a real thing. I’m happy to say that times have changed, and they have added a minor in Comics Studies led by Eisner winner Nick Sousanis https://humanitiesliberalstudies.sfsu.edu/minor-comics-studies
Further, the SFSU Library is the recipient of a fascinating collection of Platinum and Golden Age comics from the first Superman comic (1939) to 1952, with an emphasis on adventure, war, and kid’s comics. These are all reader copies. Superman #1 for instance, is intact and fully readable but it’s missing the front cover. I can’t wait to see students handling these comics with white gloves.
I welcome this great new resource and hope to use it in future projects. The graphic was from the reception, but the collection can be viewed any weekday from 1-5 in the Library’s Special Collections Reading Room #460.
I am happy to say that I am returning to San Diego Comic Con with the Thursday afternoon panel Splashing Ink on Museum Walls: "Do comics belong in museums? Lots of major art and cultural institutions seem to think so, with ambitious new shows and comic art museums springing up everywhere, including one spearheaded by Comic-Con itself. Artist/writer Emil Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters), Kim Munson (editor, From Comics to Frames: Comic Art in Museums), writer/editor and exhibition consultant Ann Nocenti, and SDCC museum director Adam Smith converse about the future of comics on display, moderated by Rob Salkowitz (Forbes, Full Bleed). http://sched.co/FQnu
In support of my upcoming book From Panels to Frames: Comic Art in Museums, I'm posting some exhibition photos and checklists as additional reference material.
To flesh out my interview with Art Spiegelman, I've assembled photos I took of his retrospective exhibition Co-Mix at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) in January of 2015. I apologize for the quality of these shots, they were intended only to document the show. There is also a rough floor plan. They are posted in order as I walked through the galleries.
Raven photo: Hristo Pershev/Shutterstock. All opinions and images shared here are for scholarly purposes.
Kim Munson is a writer, art historian, independent curator, and fine artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. Her publications include the photography book Dual Views: Labor Landmarks of San Francisco, On Reflection: the Art of Margaret Harrison, and several articles about comic art and pop culture.
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