This month, Jose is the guest critic on the website Trouble With Comics, and he wrote about a little known Fantasy comics series by fellow Spaniards Carlos Portela and Das Pastoras. Click on the link to read more:
http://troublewithcomics.tumblr.com/post/519965832/guest-reviewer-month-jose-villarubia-on-deicide
Topher Delaney, the 2010 William O. Steinmetz ‘50 Designer-in-Residence at MICA, will talk about her studio, Seam Studio’s, broad range of commissions, including explorations of how communication and physical design intersect, and its current sculpture installations. Seam’s practice exists as an ecosystem thriving through the implementation of a diverse spectrum of mediums, working within architecture, writing, gardening, painting, photography, metal fabrication and graphics. Delaney’s works incorporate many innovative materials including rubber, colored concrete, fiberglass, diachronic glass and recycled plastics.
The Homewood Art Workshops wraps up its 35th anniversary celebration with a slide talk by legendary cartoonist Kim Deitch on Monday, April 26. Deitch’s talk, “The Search for Smilin’ Ed and Other Tales,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the F. Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Along with Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman, Deitch transformed the art of cartooning in the psychedelic late 1960s. Combining a love of early 20th century comic strips and animation with the media-savvy satire of mid-century MAD Magazine, these artists gave a raucously subversive jolt to a nearly moribund medium.
Deitch, 65, began doing comic strips for the New York underground newspaper, the East Village Other, in 1967. Since then, his work has appeared in dozens of publications, including RAW, Pictopia, Details, Nickelodeon Magazine, and Little Lit. Among his groundbreaking comic books and graphic novels are Hollywoodland, The Mishkin Files, A Shroud for Waldo, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Alias the Cat! His latest book, The Search for Smilin’ Ed, will be published by Fantagraphics in June. Deitch will sign advance copies of Smilin’ Ed at the Johns Hopkins Barnes & Noble, 3330 St. Paul Street, on Sunday, April 25, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Deitch has been recognized with the comics industry’s highest honors, including an Eisner Award, an Inkpot Award and a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in 2008. He lives in New York City with his wife, Pam.
To download images of Deitch’s work, go to: http://www.jhu.edu/artwork/deitch.html
“The Search for Smilin’ Ed and Other Tales” is co-sponsored by Homewood Art Workshops and Homewood Arts Programs. Visitor parking on campus is available in the South Garage, 3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21211. Admission
is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-516-6705.
Starting this Friday, the first Festival of French Comics and Animation will take place here at MICA and at The Alliance Française de Washington. Here are the events taking place at MICA:
FRIDAY, APRIL 16 MICA, Main Building, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Free -7:30 p.m., Main Court: Opening reception -8 p.m., Room 140: Panel discussion, including Nicolas Nemiri and Antoine Dodé, covering what is unique about French comics and animation
MONDAY, APRIL 19 MICA, Main Building, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Free -8 p.m., Room 110: Lecture by MICA illustration faculty member José Villarrubia, Color in Comics
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 MICA, Main Building, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Free -7 p.m., Room 110: Presentation by MICA animation faculty member Laurence Arcadias of short films by MICA and SUPINFOCOM students
SATURDAY, APRIL 24 MICA, Main Building, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Free -2 p.m., Room 140: MICA illustration faculty member Alain Corbel presents his Sequential Art students’ exhibition -2 p.m., Room 110: MICA students’ animation on display -3 p.m., Room 140: Workshop with Cyril Pedrosa and MICA students on the narrative process -4 p.m., Room 140: Professional forum with publishers Yvan Alagbé (Fremok/France), Jérôme Martineau (Carabas Revolution/France) and Calista Brill (First Second Books/US) -6 p.m., Main Court: Closing party
SUNDAY, APRIL 25 MICA, Main Building, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Free -2-5 p.m., Room 140: Closing of exhibition by MICA’s Sequential Art class
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Big Huge Games
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1954 Greenspring Drive, suite #520
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Big Huge Games is pleased to invite Art and Animation students from local colleges and universities to our Spring 2010 Art Open House. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 21st from 6-9pm at our studio in Timonium, MD. Join us for a tour that includes light snacks along with numerous game art creation demos. In addition, Big Huge Artists will be available for student portfolio reviews and feedback. Portfolio reviews will be first come, first serve. We kindly ask that you RSVP via email to RSVP@bighugegames.com by April 20th. In your RSVP please note if you’d like to reserve a portfolio review slot and specify your primary area of interest (concept, character, UI design, environment, level/world design, animation, modeling, texturing, etc…). Review sessions are limited and during past Open Houses have filled up quickly.
Alvaro Ortiz is a Spanish illustrator and Comic Creator.
De Ponent Publishers, http://www.edicionsdeponent.com/, has recently published the second volume of his graphic novel: “Julia, a voz de la Ballena”. His book has been nominated for the 2010 Award Josep Toutain revelation, Salo Internacional del Comic de Barcelona, Spain: http://comic-28.ficomic.com/
Alvaro recently visited the Sequential Art class, taught by Alain Corbel. He showed the students his work and discussed with them about the Spanish book market (Illustration and Sequential Art).
To see more of his work, go to: http://veranomuerto.blogspot.com/
Jose Villarrubia has recently completed the digital artwork for a documentary on the great architect I. M. Pei, Building China Modern that was aired as part of the series American Masters on PBS. The program can be seen online here:
The winners of the Words on Wheels transit poster project will be launched at the MTA North Avenue Light Rail facility [just north of the Gateway] first floor. Baltimore City Middle School student poets, their parents, the MTA and the MICA illustrator/designers will be on hand to celebrate this collaboration and place printed posters in Light Rail cars and buses. The winning posters will be seen for one year around Baltimore City and one special wrapped bus will feature a collage of the winning poster art and poems.
MICA Illustration winning student’s posters
I Still Go On : Sarah Straub ‘11
College : Nick Kalivas ‘11
What I Want for Christmas : Lucy Lui ‘11
Reborn : Kate Brooks ‘11
Dreaming : Julianna Brion ‘11
Beautiful People : Jimmy Malone ‘11
Determination : Jenny Lumelsky ‘11
Imagine Me : Erin Watson ‘11
Purple Snow : Sam Gauss ‘11
MTA : Christina Daura ‘11
The Perfect Day: Cailin Nealon ‘11
Monday April 5
Time: 4:00 PM
737 Deepdene Road. Baltimore, MD 21210
Due to the sheer number of people possibly attending the signing and the amount of books Jerry Pinkney has illustrated/written, we request that you only bring one (1) book from home to be signed. We apologize for the inconvenience. Other books by Jerry Pinkney are available at the store. If you have any questions, please call us at 410-532-2000.
http://www.thecbstore.com/events.html
