Thursday, July 06, 2006  
Mavreas on Banff Comic Show

:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/06/2006 04:22:00 AM
Montreal cartoonist Billy Mavreas has voiced a few concerns about the Comic Craze art show currently running at the Banff Centre in Alberta. According to the centre's website, the show is basically a big reading room full of Canadian comics (books, zines, etc), with very little (if any) original art. In a post on the Comics Journal discussion board, Mavreas wonders if the centre shouldn't treat the comics on display as artworks akin to paintings and sculptures, with the corresponding attention paid to/permission granted from the cartoonists whose work is on display.
"Hi folks,
I have some specific concerns about the comic book/gallery thing.
From May 4 and running until Sept. 3, 2006 there is a comic book show at a prestigious Canadian public gallery.
It's called Comic Craze and it's at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. It's curated by Sylvie Gilbert. It boasts 400 plus publications...from obscure minis to D&Q hardcovers.
Chances are that if you're a Canadian cartoonist working today, you are somehow represented in this show. I was there. I saw the show. I'm in the show. I wondered if my peers knew they were.
My issues (and some folks at the Walter Phillips Gallery -not the curator herself- assured me that this will all be taken care of before the show comes down and starts touring across the country) are that the artists were not notified about being in the show and that there is not -to date- a public listing of artists and titles appearing in the show, on the website for example, or on a hand-out.
Is this yet another instance of 'the art world' missing the boat as they try to tell the world about this amazing sub-culture they 'discovered' ?
Does any of this matter? Do you folks care or not that your books have been purchased from small shops across the country and placed on display without you being contacted or offered documentation.
I don't think artist fees apply in this situation.
let me know how you feel.
thanks,
Billy"

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Blogger max said...

Weird. I don’t think it would be outrageous to expect a catalog listing of books being displayed for something like that. If not all the concerned parties were notified that seems really sketchy. Not even that it is legally, don’t know. But that it seems pretty indifferent to the interests of the authors/publishers. That being to be able to contribute, and benefit from the promotion of the show. Some thing in the show’s interest….?

Someone goofed.

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