[Comicsstudiessociety] CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)

[Mike Rhode]

 CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)
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June 19–October 3, 2021Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney Yates Gallery, 4th
Floor North

A significant but often overlooked contribution to American art and culture
is Chicago’s role in the development of the early comic strip. Through its
countless newspapers and its publishing industry, Chicago led the
transformation of comics from daily fantasy and joke features into ongoing
stories grounded in the textures and details of real life, its first real
step towards legitimacy as an expressive language and semi-literary art
form.

The exhibition focuses on the origins of the comics in popular publishing,
the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing,
the first woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and
finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank King, who with
“Gasoline Alley” captured not only the rhythms and tone of everyday
existence in his characters that aged not only at the same daily rate as
its newspaper readers, but were also fictionalized versions of real people.

*Curated by artist and author Chris Ware, and Chicago Cultural Historian
Emeritus, Tim Samuelson, this exhibition is designed and planned as an
intentional historical companion to the concurrently appearing survey of
contemporary Chicago comics at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in which
Ware’s work also appears.*
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