Out of Sequence:Underrepresented Voices in American Comics

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:52 -0700

Out of Sequence:
Underrepresented Voices in American Comics

Despite recent attention to the history and development of comics, the steps required to create a new canon have been limited and incomplete. Out of Sequence continues and expands on investigations such as Masters of American Comics, presented in 2005 by UCLA's Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, by showcasing areas of sequential art that might otherwise be overlooked or underappreciated. These areas include the work of women and minority artists and small press and webcomics creators. The exhibition will explore alternate histories of American comics and suggest some of the limitless possibilities for the medium in the past, present, and future, from early newspaper strips to the Internet and virtual narratives in simulated three-dimensional space.

http://www.kam.uiuc.edu/pr/outofsequence/

Organizer:
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule:
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
October 24, 2008 to January 4, 2009

The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (The Lab), Belmar, CO
January 28, 2008 to April 26, 2009

Publications:
A fully illustrated book with sequential art essays by the curators John Jennings and Damian Duffy, as well as the artists Stan Sakai and Jerry Craft, and additional essays by R. C. Harvey, Dan Yezbick, Brian Wood and Trina Robbins, and an interactive website.

STAN SAKAI ARTWORK ON EXHIBIT

Usagi Yojimbo, p. 1, 1996
Pen and ink on Bristol board
17 x 11 inches
Courtesy of the artist
© Stan Sakai

Netsuké, 1999
Pen and ink on Bristol board, 3 drawings
17 x 11 inches each
Courtesy of the artist
© Stan Sakai