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Prior to being exposed to museums, galleries and 鈥渟o-called鈥� fine art, the cartoon is the primary art form, influence and experience from the cradle on.  We set out to create a small show, a scoop of from a sea of artists inspired by making cartoons ands cartoon inspired images.  For most every child, Saturday morning meant being parked in front of the TV for hours of Hanna-Barbera, Bugs and Daffy, Road Runner, Superman鈥� the list is endless.  Every artist grew up drawing cartoons and being glued to the TV and the now mostly defunct Sunday funnies.  

Stan Lee鈥檚 Marvel Comic characters, the DC Universe, Archie and Jughead, Tom and Jerry, Mad Magazine鈥檚 Spy vs Spy, Looney-Tunes, South Park and Family Guy, and the counter-culture icons, Crumb and Zap are our seminal first exposures to art and drawing. Did I mention the list is endless?

Comics give us hope, make us laugh and provide heroes, which is especially important at a time when the world is in the grip of a cartoonishly evil villain.

We are pleased to have all the artists included but are especially pleased to have two original works by the living legend Mort Drucker.  One of the great draftsman and portraitists of his time or any other, and a social commentator of the first rank in all history, Drucker is 90 and lives and works on Long Island, NY and if there's any justice, he should have a 50 pound book and a retrospective at MOMA or The MET.