Our very own local
ToonSeum curator/founder Joe Wos is featured (briefly) in a brand new article in the
Village Voice, mentioned in the same article as
Jules Feiffer,
Jim Woodring,
Tony Millionaire,
David Delmar, and
Jason Yungbluth! That's some pretty strong company to be mentioned with. The article is interesting in exposing the lives of several cartoonists and how they are able to translate their drawings into cold hard cash, using Joe as a prime example of being able to realize his strong-points and plugging that into the art community while opening one of only three cartoon museums in the United States. From
VV:
Joe Wos got comic-strip assignments in school, but was fired from all of them, including one on the college paper he co-founded. "I think I knew then," he says, "that I just wasn't a good fit for the funny pages." So Wos started doing what he calls "performance cartooning."
Read the rest of the article here...
(Illustration at top by Chicago-based Mitch O'Connell for Village Voice!)
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