Comics are, by nature, a pairing of two mediums more often kept apart: pictures and words. For many cartoonists, that pairing so often provides a vantage on yet another medium: sound. The Cartoon Art Museum's latest exhibition, Cartoon Tunes: Capturing Music in Comics, examines the ongoing love affair between comics and music through more than 40 pieces of original artwork on themes from biographies of legendary jazz and blues musicians to childhood musical memories to illustrated song lyrics.
Featured artists include R. Crumb, Lloyd Dangle, Gene Deitch, Eric Drooker, Gary Dumm with Harvey Pekar, EEllen Forney, Justin Green with Carol Tyler, Dylan Horrocks, David Kelly, Megan Kelso, Keith Knight, Lev, Jason Little, Jim Mahfood, Mats?!, Laurenn McCubbin with Janet Harvey, Jesse Reklaw with Joe Sayers, Spain Rodriguez and R. Sikoryak.
Spotlighted musicians include The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Miles Davis, Fats Domino, Bob Dylan, Philip Glass, Jenny "The Swedish Nightingale" Lind, Jelly Roll Morton, The Partridge Family, Run DMC, They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa and more.
Cartoon Art Museum is located at 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 94105. More information can be found at www.cartoonart.org.
