Feb 19, 2008 @ 12:16 am by KenAlvine

Cartoonists Day, Free Comic Book Day : May 3, 2008Lovers of comic books, comic strips and all forms of cartooning will have two reasons to celebrate these art forms this year when Free Comic Book Day and Cartoonists Day : Saturday, May 3, 2008!Fun-loving people everywhere are also urged to enjoy CARTOONISTS DAY and CARTOON APPRECIATION WEEK May 3-10. May 5 has been designated as CARTOONISTS DAY because the first comic strip, The Yellow Kid, appeared in the newspaper on May 5, 1895.CARTOON APPRECIATION WEEK offers a chance to recognize the positive influence and laughs this art form has provided for so many years in films, books, newspapers, magazines, comic books, and commercial art.Cartoonists, schools, and libraries are encouraged to offer cartoon exhibits and classes and to promote books on cartooning at this time.”It’s exciting, and appropriate, that CARTOONISTS DAY and FREE COMIC BOOK DAY share the same date this year”, says Elissa Lynch, spokesperson for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. “For more than a century, comic strips have entertained and informed millions of readers, as comic books do now. In fact, several comic book publishers have started releasing collections of classic comic strips to introduce them to a new generation of readers. We look forward to celebrating that shared lineage - one of the richest in all of popular culture - on May 3rd”.First conducted in 2002, Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book specialty retailers across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who visits their stores. Since its inception, Free Comic Book Day has distributed millions of free comics in thousands of participating comic shops to both current and new comic readers, who in turn discover the wide range of stories and characters found in comic books.For more information about CARTOONISTS DAY and CARTOON APPRECIATION WEEK, contact Ken Alvine at kenalvine@qwest.net.For more information about FREE COMIC BOOK DAY - including a listing of the many free titles to be distributed on May 5 - visit the event’s official website at http://www.freecomicbookday.com. To find a comic book specialty shop near you, use the Comic Book Locator Service on the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY website, or visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com.

May 5 - Pittsburgh- Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

Apr 25, 2006 @ 02:58 pm by KenAlvine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts:Suzanne McCaffrey, (412)

586-6041,

smccaffrey@pittsburghkids.orgBill Schlageter,

(412)

586-6023,
b

schlageter@pittsburghkids.orgChildren’s

Museum of

Pittsburgh

Celebrates National Cartoonists DayMay 5, 2007 (PITTSBURGH) April 23, 2007–Join one of the nation’s biggest celebrations of National Cartoonists Day at the Children’s

Museum of

Pittsburgh on May 5, 2007, from 11:30 am – 4:30 pm, for a wide variety of cartooning activities.  This event is presented in conjunction with WOS Studios, one of the Museum’s five on-site partners.

  A host of professional cartoonists will be on hand to draw cartoons, give advice to budding young artists and sign autographs, including: 

  • Don Peoples - Political cartoonist and freelance illustrator
  • Earl Musick - Freelance illustrator with clients such as Walt Disney Company, U. S. Postal Service and “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books
  • Terri Libenson – Creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip “Pajama Diaries” and greeting card illustrator
  • Jenny Campbell - Creator of the nationally-syndicated comic strip “Flo and Friends” and children’s book illustrator
  • Michael Corle - Freelance cartoonist, animator and caricature artist
  • Joe Wos - Freelance cartoonist and children’s performer (Once Upon a ToonÃ’)

Cartooning activities include: 

  • Have your caricature drawn
  • Create a trading card and super hero from your own photo with the Allegheny County Library Association
  • Cartooning workshops
  • Quick Draw demonstrations by our featured cartoonists
  • Manga (Japanese comic) drawing demonstrations
  • Performances by Joe Wos of Once Upon a ToonÃ’
  • See original anime and cartoon artwork in the exhibit Jump to Japan
  • Prize giveaways throughout the day

Visitors can also receive a free comic book as part of Free Comic Book Day, while supplies last.  This event is free with Musuem admission. Children’s Museum of

Pittsburgh is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm., Sunday, noon – 5:00 pm. Admission is $8 for children 2-18 and seniors, $9 for adults.  The Museum is located on the North Side at 10 Children’s Way,

Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh

.  For more information, call

(412)

322-5058 or visit www.pittsburghkids.org.

 #### Joe WosCartoonist/Storyteller
Once Upon a Toon®www.onceuponatoon.com 
Executive ProducerWOS Studios10
Children’s Way Pittsburgh,
PA15212(412)760-1896joe@wosstudios.com