Sunday Comics: The Creative Page

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Sunday Comics: The Creative Page explores both the history of the single, full-page comic in the early twentieth century, and the ways in which that iconic format has been interpreted by comic artists in the twenty first. Deceptively simple in design, Sunday comics employ an entire newspaper page, or broadsheet, to convey short but visually complex narratives. Artists such as George Herriman and Winsor McCay, among many others, saw the unlimited artistic potential of that single page. Contemporary comic artists have continued to explore and expand upon the broadsheet format. This exhibition, curated by WPU professor of art history Claudia Goldstein, combines early twentieth-century examples from the Jerry Robinson Papers in the collection of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University with the work of contemporary comic artists Bodie Chewning, Maëlle Doliveux, Charles Fetherolf, Geoff Grogan, Gideon Kendall, Benjamin W. Morse, and Robert Sikoryak, who continue to transform this simple format and showcase its truly limitless nature.