This program is supported, in part, by the School of Visual Arts and the members of MoCCA.

photograph © TOM POWEL IMAGING

NeoIntegrity:
Comics Edition

March 12 – August 29, 2010

Neointegrity: Comics Edition is an exhibition curated by artist Keith Mayerson that includes over 210 cartoonists, illustrators, animators, and fine artists who work with the spirit and power of iconographic languages.  With creators young and old, historic, currently famous, and soon-to-be-famous, the exhibition is also about the community and legacy of iconographic art and its ability to productively influence the world.  

Originally conceived as a utopic attempt to begin an art movement, the first installment of the NeoIntegrity show was held in the summer of 2007 at Derek Eller Gallery in New York City.  That show incorporated over 180 fine artists, with some cartoonists and illustrators mixed in to breach questions of high and low, rarified and pluralistic.  NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition takes the proposal a step further, showing the relatability of creators harnessing the iconographic vehicle to express themselves and to tell stories for a culture to understand itself in order for it to become a better place.

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Featuring
Derrick Adams • Charles Addams • Ray Alma • Peter Arno • Mark Badger • Peter Bagge • Liz Baillie • Ralph Bakshi • Isabella Bannerman • Disney Studio Artist, signed by Carl Barks • James L. Barry • Charles Barsotti • Gary Baseman • Josh Bayer • Alison Bechdel • Ellen Berkenblit • Jordi Bernet • Nick Bertozzi • Mark Beyer • Michael Bilsborough • R.O. Blechman • Vaughn Bode • Ruben Bolling • Matt Borruso • Barbara Brandon-Croft • Doug Bratton • Kevin Breslawski • Gary Brotmeyer • Jeffrey Brown • Ivan Brunetti • Brendan Burford • Charles Burns • Tim Burton • Karen Caldicott • Sabin Michael Calvert • Bob Camp • Milton Caniff • Al Capp • Joey Cavalieri • Mark Chamberlain • Roz Chast • Nicolas Cinquegrani • Bob Clampett • Rob Clarke • Daniel Clowes • Al Columbia • Dave Cooper • Leela Corman • Erik Craddock • Ann Craven • Robert Crumb • Howard Cruse • Marguerite Dabaie • Farel Dalrymple • Henry Darger • Geof Darrow • T. M. Davy • Melissa DeJesus • Angelo DeCasere • Kim Deitch • Guy Delisle • Mike Diana • Nicholas Di Genova • Liza Donnelly • Julie Doucet • Don Duga • Tom Duncan • Caroll Dunham • Ryan Dunlavey • Mickey Duzyj • Will Eisner • Steve Ellis • Austin English • André Ethier • Neil Farber • Jules Feiffer • Jessica Fink • Joe Flood • Hilary Florido • Jack Forbes • Rick Geary • Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) • Steve Gianakos • Joe Giella • Stephen Gilpin • Sarah Glidden • Stan Goldberg • Emma Claire Goodman • Jonathan Gray • Spencer Green • Roberta Gregory • Cheryl Griesbach • Rick Griffin • Bill Griffith • George Haddad • Richard Hahn • Peter Halley • Tomer + Asaf Hanuka • Joe Harris • Tom Hart • Rory Hayes • Glenn Head • Gilbert Hernandez • Jaime Hernandez • Matt Hickling (Matty Burns) • Syd Hoft • Seonna Hong • Scott Hug • Humayoun Ibrahim • Al Jaffee • Frances Jetter • Phil Jimenez • Ryan Johnson • Anton Kannemeyer • Ben Katchor • KAZ • Mike Kelley • Walt Kelly • Hank Ketchum • June Kim • Miran Kim • Denis Kitchen • Jack Kirby • Keith Knight • Edward Koren • Peter Kuper • Harvey Kurtzman • David Levine • Alice Meichi Li • Yali Lin • John Liney • Jason Little • David Lloyd • Matt Loux • Lee Lorenz • Jay Lynch • Matt Madden • Derek Mainhart • Sakura Maku • Kerry James Marshall • Stanley Martucci • Joe Matt • Brendan McCarthy • Dan McCarthy • Scott McCloud • Patrick McDonnell • Winsor McKay • Ted McKeever • Taylor McKimens • Bill Melendez • Sean Mellyn • Tony Millionaire • Mike Mignola • Moebius • Andrei Molotiu • Victor Moscoso • Tom Motley • Stanley Mouse • Tony Murphy • Josh Neufeld • Mark Newgarden • Diane Noomin • Cheri Nowak • Hiroki Otsuka • Grace S. Pak • Gary Panter • Tintin Pantoja • Rick Parker • Chari Pere • Raymond Pettibone • Brad Phillips • Rina Piccolo • Bill Plympton • Nate Powell • Hugo Pratt • Ted Rall • Archie Rand • MK Reed • Ad Reinhardt • Fred Rhoads • Chris Roberts-Antieau • Jerry Robinson • Trina Robbins • Spain Rodriguez • Dave Roman • Alex Ross • Virgil Ross • Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (or studio of) • Fay Ryu • Bud Sagendorf • Richard Sala • Jim Salicrup • David Sandlin • Frank Santoro • Peter Saul • Elizabeth Sayles • Mell Scalzi • Charles M. Schulz • Dana Schutz • J.J. Sedelmaier • Maurice Sendak • Seth • Marie Severin • Dash Shaw • Jim Shaw • Gilbert Shelton • David Shrigley • James Siena • R. Sikoryak • Shel Silverstein • Josh Simmons • Jeff Smith • Zak Smith • Raymond Sohn • Ali Solomon • Ken Solomon • Art Spiegelman • Charles Steffen • Leslie Stein • Saul Steinberg • James Sturm • B.K. Taylor • Raina Telgemeier • Craig Thompson • Jodi Tong • Mike Townsend • Jonathan Twingley • Carol Tyler • Steve Uy • Fred Van Lente • Jhonen Vasquez • Jack Walsh • Chris Ware • Lauren Weinstein • Rudolph Wendelin • John Wesley • H.C. Westermann • Eric White • TJ Wilcox • Gluyas Williams • Skip Willamson • Connor Willumsen • Gahan Wilson • Laura Wilson • S. Clay Wilson • Ivan Witenstein • Jim Woodring • Thomas Woodruff • Basil Wolverton • William Butler Yeats • Sylvia J. Yi • Jody Zellen

R. Sikoryak
How Classics and Cartoons Collide
June 15 – August 29, 2010

Original drawings from the book “Masterpiece Comics,” which adapts literary classics in the styles of famous cartoons.

Curated by Bill Kartalopoulos

Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos in Conversation
Thursday, July 15, 7pm

Comics chameleon R. Sikoryak inventively adapts canonical Western literature using the visual styles and characters of historical American comic books and comic strips. Among his many works produced over the past twenty years, Sikoryak has adapted Kafka's The Metamorphosis in the style of Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in the style of Tales From the Crypt, and the Book of Genesis in the style of Chic Young's Blondie. "More than a gag or a parody," said exhibit curator Bill Kartalopoulos, "these thoughtful and intricately constructed dual adaptations suggest resonances that reflect upon each story's pair of sources."

R. Sikoryak: How Classics and Cartoons Collide examines the artist's intensive process by showcasing a selection of notes, sketches, and reference material from one of his longest and most ambitious narratives, 2000's "Dostoyevsky Comics," which adapts Crime and Punishment in the style of a mid-century Batman comic book. The exhibit also includes all ten original art boards for the final story, recently collected alongside Sikoryak's other adaptations in his book Masterpiece Comics, published in 2009 by Drawn and Quarterly.

There will be a conversation between Sikoryak and Kartalopoulos on July 15 at 7PM. Admission for this event is $5, free for members of MoCCA.

About R. Sikoryak
R. Sikoryak is the author of Masterpiece Comics (Drawn & Quarterly).  His cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The Onion, The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, Mad, Fortune, and many other publications; he’s drawn for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Ugly Americans. Sikoryak teaches in the illustration department at Parsons The New School for Design. Since 1997, he has presented his cartoon slide show series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada.

 About Bill Kartalopoulos
Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics and illustration at Parsons The New School for Design. He is a frequent public speaker and is the programming coordinator for SPX: The Small Press Expo and the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. He writes about comics for Print Magazine, where he is a contributing editor, and reviews comics for Publishers Weekly. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), an annual academic conference devoted to comics. In 2008 he curated Kim Deitch: A Retrospective at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York, NY. He lives in Brooklyn.

About Masterpiece Comics
Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak’s parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In "Blond Eve,” Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray is reimagined as a foppish Little Nemo; and Camus’s Stranger becomes a brooding, chain-smoking Golden Age Superman. Other source material includes Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, bubblegum wrappers, superhero comics, kid cartoons, and more.