Prelude to a Poster Event (announcement)

The Magical Guitar Poster Project prelude

Announcing my summer promotional Poster Event:

‘COMIC STRIPS!’ 

a multifaceted event taking place in the streets of San Antonio and across many platforms and media to promote reading and collecting this native American art form as an inexpensive and entertaining activity.

From childhood I collected comic books, and also comic strips from the newspaper. As a result I now have an entire closet full of boxes of strips that I have realized I am unlikely to revisit and enjoy them in my lifetime. So now with intent to perhaps marry one day that closet must be cleared! While these boxes of strips are fun, and do have value, they are less commonly collected than comic books. I have sold many this past year, but only a drop in the bucket.

Long time friend Adam, manager of the Summit location of Heroes and Fantasies, the greatest comic shop in Texas, has generously allowed me to offer my strips through his shop this summer to this customers. We are planning in store events describing aspects of newspaper comic strips and to illustrate the history of the medium; and fun ways to collect this comic art form; which is still surprisingly available and mostly inexpensive to acquire.

Also I will be on hand there periodically to do watercolor sketches of and for Heroes and Fantasies customers. I truly hope this activity will attract someone to give my collection a new home and once more to the eyes of eager readers!

I began this blog last year as a place to put all of my promotional activity for the crass, commercial promotion of my artwork and myself. I have avoided this aspect of an artist’s life by creating in amateur standing while working at other jobs to support myself through the past decades.

I attained Master painter status 25 years ago, but events in my life , crisis, upheaval of sorts; the emotional demands of the art world were not attractive to me then. The costs of both success and failure there seemed much alike, so instead I turned my talents to becoming a more complete sort of person by stepping onto a path of service to others and a career of monastic Buddhist practice. Having written elsewhere extensively about this I mention that only to place this blog in context.