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Art News:
For Immediate Release: May 26,
2010
Contact Andrew Farago, 415-227-8666, ext.
309
Images Available on
Request
Small Press Spotlight on Trevor
Alixopulos
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition: June 19 – September 12, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Beginning on June 19, 2010, the Cartoon Art
Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Trevor
Alixopulos.
Trevor Alixopulos is Hawaii-born transplant to the Bay Area, raised in
Sonoma County. He has been working in art comics and small press for the past
ten years. First inspired by the 1990s zine explosion and the new wave of art
comics in RAW and LOVE & ROCKETS, he started photocopying his
first minis while still in his teens. From his first stapled satirical
zines his artistic horizons have broadened to encompass long form graphic
novels, experimental narratives and painting.
After producing his handmade comic QUAGGA for several years he was eager
to work on a more ambitious scale and jumped at the chance to draw a graphic
novel. His first, Mine Tonight (2006), was a deconstructive political
thriller, set in the 2004 Presidential Election. Suffused with the
overheated, paranoid atmosphere of the post 9/11 years, it attempted a romantic
modern noir of Bush’s America. His second graphic novel, The Hot
Breath of War (2008) again engaged social themes, but this time in an
abstract manner, more lyrical than literal. A novel of short stories grouped
around themes of passion and aggression, exploring the areas where people try
and fail to connect, from the battlefield to the bedroom. The Daily Cross
Hatch called The Hot Breath of War “A book that demands to be
experienced.” It was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Best Graphic Novel
and was listed on TCJ.com’s Top 100 Comics of the
00’s.
Alongside his longer novels Alixopulos has continued to produce small hand-made
comics with a stapler at home, as well as working in watercolor and
screenprints. His art has been featured in shows at Giant Robot, Gallery of Sea
and Heaven, STUDIO Gallery and in ANTHEM Magazine. On the themes of his
work today, Alixopulos stated, “…I'm interested in the play between
narrative and iconic forms in comics. Comics stake out some common zone of
understanding, while dramatizing those areas where understanding breaks down. I
like this profane realm, where the word won't go; language becomes cartoon,
visual joke, enigmatic sign and heraldry.” Today he does occasional
commercial illustration, works in a library and draws comics from his home in
Santa Rosa, California.
About the Small Press
Spotlight:
San Francisco has been a hotbed of innovative, groundbreaking comic art since
the late 1800s with the advent of the modern comic strip. In the1960s, the
Bay Area gained further notoriety when the underground comix movement launched
from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Today, some of the biggest
names in alternative and small-press comics hail from the Bay Area, and the
Cartoon Art Museum's Small Press Spotlight focuses on the works of these
talented
individuals.
The Small Press Spotlight is funded in part by The Zellerbach Family
Foundation and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode
Foundation.
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Cartoon Art Museum € 655 Mission Street €
San Francisco, CA 94105 € 415-CAR-TOON €
www.cartoonart.org
Hours: Tues. - Sun. 11:00 - 5:00, Closed
Monday
General Admission: $6.00 € Student/Senior: $4.00 € Children 6-12: $2.00 €
Members & Children under 6:
Free
The Cartoon Art Museum is a tax-exempt, non-profit, educational organization
dedicated to the
collection,
preservation, study and exhibition of original cartoon art in all
forms.
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