Art News:
For immediate Release: May 27,
2010
Contact: Summerlea Kashar, 415-227-8666
ext.300
Images Available Upon
Request
June Cartoonist in Residence:
Bruce
McKay
Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 1pm to 3pm
The Cartoon Art Museum hosts cartoonist Bruce McKay on Saturday, June 12th, 2010
from 1pm to 3pm as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum
visitors will be offered the chance to talk about cartooning and view
McKay’s work. This event is free and open to the
public.
Bruce McKay is a fifth-generation San Franciscan who lives in the Inner
Sunset district. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003 with
a BFA in Sculpture and a minor in Digital Media. His new work, The Tengu
2010, will see its first printing this
summer.
About TheTengu 2010:
In his first graphic novel, McKay imagines a San Francisco in the dimension
next door, separated from us by a sometimes porous membrane. No birds here, and
no humans: just Bird People and everything we've created, provided it
sits still long enough.
At prominent locations across the peninsula, there are close to a dozen bird
deities from our mythical traditions, getting ready to hatch again after a
century of slumber. Because of this, San Francisco is a Holy Land to its
inhabitants. Its local caretaker god, the Tengu, is a Raven hermit possessed
with great magical powers and an equally notorious temper. He's been on the job
for a century and may be going senile.
Around six hundred Bird People live in the parks and natural spaces of the city.
As is the case all over their world, they belong to clans based on their
counterpart species here. Just as in our San Francisco, they find common cause
as well as conflicts of interest with one
another.
About the Cartoonist in Residence
Program:
The Cartoon Art Museum regularly hosts professional cartoonist in its
galleries as part of its Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum patrons see
cartoonists at work on their latest projects and learn everything you ever
wanted to know about cartoonists–but were afraid to ask. Past featured
Cartoonists-in-Residence include Paul Madonna (All Over Coffee), Keith
Knight (K Chronicles, (th)ink), Paige Braddock
(Jane’s World), Michael Jantze (The Norm) and
Jimmy Gownley (Amelia Rules) among many
others.
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