While there are other topics we could talk about today - like the 2012 GOP candidates stepping all over each other, and themselves, in New Hampshire, we think the most valuable subject we could talk about today is one of our favorites: cartoons.
This weekend, there will be three different events for you, our readers, to get out and see in different places around the country - and all of them are related to cartoons and cartooning.
If you're in the Midwest, near Lincoln, we invite you to stop by this evening (Friday) at the Haydon Gallery in the Haymarket, to meet Paul face-to-face - along with four other troublemakers cartoonist friends of ours. The event is a fund-raiser called "A Toon For Meadowlark," to help raise funds for the Meadowlark Music Festival.
The cartoonists are legends, and include our own Paul Fell; Mike Edholm, our current President of the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society; John Hambrock, of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee; Milt Prigee, whose work has been seen in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, and Washington Post; and Tom Richmond of Mad Magazine.
You'll be able to meet the cartoonists, buy some of their works, and talk with them beginning at 5:30 tonight.
If you're going to be in the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic regions this weekend, you may want to take a road trip to a comic art convention called HeroesCon, happening in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our friend Eric Menge (who also happens to be the husband of our editor, Amy) writes an online graphic novel called Snow by Night. He and his cartooist/artist Brittany will be there to promote their graphic novel, sell copies of Chapter 1, and meet with fans. If you go, they'll be at table SP-45. Stop by and say h, and check out Snow by Night in hard-copy form!
If you're near our West Palm Beach offices, we recommend stopping by the Norton Museum of Art, to check out the "Out of This World" exhibit beginning this Saturday. The exhibit will feature costumes, pictures, comic artwork, and related items from such entertainment and comics legends as Star Trek and Batman (and now we all know who Tom Richmond loaned his Batman costume to).
As most people know, we love comics and cartooning - so we're glad we get to share these opportunities to meet some of our favorite cartoonists this weekend. Remember - without cartoon art, you'd likely have to sit around and watch news clips and pictures of pretend Presidential candidates steal the media spotlight from actual announced candidates.
We shudder to think of what a horrible world that would be.
No matter where you go this weekend, we hope you enjoy some cartooning - even if it's just the characters on a cereal box.
