Masters of American Comics at MOCA LA

Friday, 18 November 2005 11:00

LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Museum of Cotemporary Art, Los Angeles, presents Masters of American Comics. Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in the 20th century. This exhibition examines 15 key American artists who helped define the form and brought it to the highest level of artistic expression. It features an extensive selection of over 500 original drawings, progressive proofs, vintage-printed Sunday pages, and comic books by Winsor McCay ("Little Nemo"), Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman ("Krazy Kat"), E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy"), Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Art Spiegelman. Co-organized by MOCA and the Hammer Museum, the exhibition will be shared between the venues, with comic strips created during the first half of the century on view at the Hammer and comic books created from the 1950s to the present on view at MOCA. Masters of American Comics is jointly organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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