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May 18, 2003
Shows and exhibitions
Current and Upcoming Art Shows & Exhibitions by AAEC Members
Ohio Cartoonists: A Bicentennial Celebration
Ohio State University
Philip Sills Exhibit Hall, William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
May 1—August 29, 2003
Ohio Cartoonists: A Bicentennial Celebration -- Part 2
Ohio State University
Cartoon Research Library
Reading Room Gallery
27 West 17th Avenue Mall
June 10-October 10, 2003
Ohio has a remarkable place in the history of American cartooning. The number of well-known cartoonists who were born, educated and/or worked in the state is amazing. It is fitting during this bicentennial year to honor our state’s extraordinary legacy with this exhibition.
Geography was certainly a factor in the development of professional cartoonists in the region. The Northwest Territory lured settlers west. Lake Erie and Ohio’s rivers – and later, roads, canals and railways – made travel and the distribution of newspapers and magazines from the East Coast and Europe possible. The area’s first newspaper was published in 1793, ten years before statehood. The Scripps and Cox families began their newspaper dynasties here. Ohio’s combination of industry and agriculture plus its urban centers gave the state extraordinary political power, as evidenced by its nickname as "Mother of Presidents."
With the growth of magazines with national circulation in the late nineteenth century, Ohio cartoonists such as Frederick Burr Opper, W. A. Rogers, and James A. Wales migrated to New York City to work on them, and the Ohio sensibilities they reflected in their work were widely popular. Richard Felton Outcault, creator of what is known as the first newspaper comic strip Hogan’s Alley, was born in Lancaster. Charles Nelan of the Cleveland Press was the first editorial cartoonist to be syndicated. Hooper commented in his 1933 History of Ohio Journalism, "Columbus is notable among cities of its size for its excellent newspaper cartoonists, and names Billy Ireland, Harry J. Westerman, Harry Keys, Ray O. Evans, and Dudley T. Fisher. Unfortunately Edwina Dumm, the first American woman to work as a fulltime editorial cartoonist when she drew for the Columbus Monitor in 1915-1916, is omitted from his list.
C. N. Landon taught dozens of future cartoonists with his Cleveland-based correspondence course. Ohioans whose work was syndicated to millions of readers in the first half of the twentieth century included Billy DeBeck, Milton Caniff, H. T. Webster, and J. R. Williams. James Thurber and Gardner Rea enjoyed successful careers as magazine cartoonists. Superman was created by two young men from Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. At least six Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists have Ohio ties: Tony Auth, Jim Borgman, Walt Handlesman, Ed Kuekes, Charles Macauley, and Mike Peters. Robert Crumb, Cathy Guisewite, and Bill Watterson furthered the legacy of Ohio cartoonists, and the next generation continues it, as evidenced by the work of Tony Cochran, Jeff Smith, Ted Rall, P. Craig Russell and numerous others.
These exhibitions, a celebration of representative Ohio cartoonists who created comic strips, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons, comic books and graphic novels, are drawn from the library’s collections.
For additional information on these exhibitions e-mail cartoons@osu.edu or telephone 614-292-0538.
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The Charlie Daniel Show
The Carroll Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee State University showed an exhibit of 99 of AAEC member Charlie Daniel’s cartoons from late January to March, 2003. Daniel, the cartoonist for The News Sentinel, in Knoxville, said there will be another showing of his work this fall.
"The News Sentinel is located in their new state of the art building, with a seven story printing press, and they have a great place to display art."
