The Masters of American Comics Exhibit in Los Angeles

[howardhallis]

Just went to MOCA for their Masters of American Comics Exhibit today.

 

More info: http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?&id=358

 

and here's the one at The UCLA Hammer museum, which I plan to see next week:

http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/94/

 

Wow. If you love Will Eisner, there's nothing like seeing entire stories of original art at a museum, as well as old Spirit Sections behind glass. Original pages from Contract With God as well.

 

Jack Kirby fans, they have the splash page to X-Men #2, double page splashes of The New Gods, Thor, Devil Dinosaur and some amazing Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer pages up on museum walls... where they belong... and they even mutilated a Fantastic Four Marvel Treasury Edition so everyone there could read FF #48-50 under glass.

 

Robert Crumb: They has the entire "Patton" story on display, about the old bluesman, and they had some racist stuff up too, which might get some folks pissed. My favorite was seeing the original pages from Zap #0's "Meatball!" strip.

 

Harvey Kurtzman: Entire 5 page stories of original art from Weird Science, Two Fisted Tales, and more. Original Mad cover art. Stunning pages and comic strips.

 

Art Speigelman: Original pages and covers from Maus, every issue of Raw, lots more.

 

Gary Panter: The entire original art for the graphic novel Jimbo In Purgatory.

 

And that's just the first show! I'll report on the other after I see it!

[rjpb]

Thanks for the report. I plan on going to both shows - just not sure when.

[uclapeterg]

Cool!