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December 30, 2015


Festivals Extra: Billy Ireland Announces 1st 2016 Shows

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The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum announced their first pair of shows for 2016. They both sound pretty great. One is a major retrospective for the late Eldon Dedini, best known for his cartoons in Playboy. The second is a presentation of wordless comics art owned by the scholar David A. Beronä. That is potentially awesome as well; it depends on whether or not the collection lives up to reputation. I suspect it will.

I'm excited about the Dedini because I have the barest sense of what they have access to with that cartoonist, and I'm really interested in seeing originals given the very finished, almost abstractly shimmering art the cartoonist made. I also like that it's of historical interest more than Dedini is a cartoonist of interest right this moment. That's the purpose of a museum, to explore intriguing elements of it chosen subject matters, not direct eyeballs according to what fits the current mood.

Both shows run mid-February to late-May.

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