Comicks
6 April - 31 December 2012
Blenheim Walk
This exhibition on the First Floor of Blenheim Walk consists of a regularly changing series of displays showcasing important and interesting comics, graphic novels and related ephemera personally selected from artist and lecturer Mick Welbourn’s very large collection. The displays will for the most part revolve around comics as object using the work of important illustrators such as Charles Burns, Chris Ware and Dave McKean and important series such as the Hernandez Brothers Love and Rockets. More specific details of the changing programme can be found on the exhibitions website www.leeds-art.ac.uk during the exhibition.
Currently on show are comics by Charles Burns and Gary Panter.
Charles Burns, best known for his dark, high contrast and creepy artwork, grew up in Seattle. His early works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine but it was following his appearances in Raw in the early 1980s that brought him fame. Most of Burns’ short stories, were collected in the three hardback volumes of the “Charles Burns’ Library”): El Borbah (1999),Big Baby (2000), and Skin Deep (2001). From 1993 to 2004, he serialized the 12 chapters of his graphic novel Black Hole.
Gary Panter was born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas. He studied painting at the East Texas State University and moved to Los Angeles in 1977. Throughout the 1980s he maintained an active comics output through his own mini-comics and his contributions to Raw magazine and other anthologies, while during the 1990s he drew seven issues of a Jimbo comic book. His other books include a comprehensive monograph, and four graphic novels: Jimbo in Purgatory; Jimbo’s Inferno; Cola Madness)and Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise.
