This may be the gift for a design, comic / graphicnovel fan or historian in your life
BLAB!: A Retrospective
1 August – 2 November 2008
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane
Manhattan, KS 66506
OK. You are probably not going to be in Manhattan, Kansas anytime soon. But here's the design scoop.
This exhibition features an eclectic gathering of stylistically varied work by alternative comics artists, illustrators, graphic designers, printmakers, and painters from BLAB!, the annual anthology of visual art produced by Chicago-based graphic designer and art director Monte Beauchamp.
BLAB! began in 1986 as a self-published fanzine (fan-produced magazine) devoted to MAD magazine and other EC Comics publications. Today it is a significant outlet for a wide variety of contemporary artists. BLAB!'s influence has cut a broad swath across contemporary visual culture. It has helped launch many artists' careers. It has introduced American audiences to important contemporary European graphic and comics artists. And, it has contributed meaningfully to the blurring of boundaries between alternative graphics and mainstream illustration. All of the work in this exhibition has been featured in BLAB!
The good news is that the exhibition catalogue is available for the comic book fans in your life (rumor has it that President-elect Obama is a serious collector of comic books and graphic novels.) 128 pages; 84 color illus.; graphic design by Monte Beauchamp; essays by David A. Beronä, Mark Frauenfelder, and Bill North; in-depth interview with Monte Beauchamp by Matt Dukes Jordan.
ISBN-13: 978-1-890751-15-9; $20.
You can purchase this collector item by credit card, call 785-532-7718. Send check or money order for $20.00 plus $4.00 for shipping (via UPS) for the first copy, $1.00 for each additional copy, payable to Beach Museum of Art at:
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane
Manhattan, KS 66506
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