Friday, May 15, 2026

36th Annual Spring Art Show

 Even though I'm retired and no longer organize the annual Spring Art Show I'm still hanging in there (by helping to hang the show). A small installation crew, including Molly, got the almost 100 artists up on the walls on April 29th. The reception was May 1st.


Molly and the usual confederation of pickers played in the portico

Here's Molly's new (I'd say excellent) portrait. Hangers Tom Tabakin and Donn Deangelo to the left.

Zoltron's wondrous bronze sculpture and Judy North's equally wondrous canine.

Andrew Bates "School Drop Off"

I always like looking at Geoff Bernstein's paintings of people looking at paintings

A great piece by Judith Selby-Lang

Leonard Leinow

Jim Finnegan

Tom Tabakin (leather, wood, copper and brass)

John Torrey

Nikko Raffael

Laurel Marinelli

"Artist-in-Training", David Hoffman



John Beck "Rainbow Tara, Mother of All Buddhas"

Alexis Brayton, an encaustic piece

Liz Lauter

Anne Hillsley, paper collage

Paul Valente

Watercolor by Edieann Fleming

Paul Snyder, pyrography on basewood

Martha Cederstrom

Sarah May Salin

Barbara Libby-Steinmann

Dahlia Kamesar

Painting/collage by Taylor & Kaba Rechtschaffen, ceramic dog by Marie Eisen and robo-fantasy by me.

"Evolutionary Stroll"

Richard D. James

Nils Persson

Barbara Morris


Richard Lang, "Distributed Cognition"

Claudia Tomaso, "State of the World"

Jay Oneil

Susan Doyle "Banned: I know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Monotype by Sunday Favor 

Kristin Jakob "Sweet Violet-Viola Odorata"

Elaine Penwell, handcut layered paper

Sierra Salin (I wish I had a better shot of this fine piece of photography)

Sam Harris

Watercolor by Leo Den Ouden 

Stained glass by Sarah Smith

Carole Alter's lampsculpture

Anne Pennypacker

I wish I had more shots. My apologies to the missing artists.
The 36th Annual Spring Art Show ends on May 17th.

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

An Addendum to National Cartoonist Day

 Aside from being National Cartoonist Day (and Cinco de Mayo and the day NASA launched the first American --astronaut Alan Shepard--into space and National Hoagie Day) it's also--

Ron Turner Day !

(By a 2015 proclamation of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, May 5th honors the pioneering comix publisher of Last Gasp).

May 5th is National Cartoonist Day !

 Yes, it's National Cartoonist Day and probably the best way to acknowledge that is with B. Kliban's now-iconic cartoon:

Here's a salute to ink slingers of days gone by:

Milton Halladay

One of America's greatest cartoonists, Art Young

British cartoonist Harry Furniss

19th Century political cartoonist Bernhard Gillam

Abe Savrann

Charles Dana Gibson

Kate Carew

And Kate's brother Gluyas Williams

Ernest Peixotto as drawn by Jimmy Swinnerton

The great British cartoonist David Low

Bill Mauldin as drawn by caricaturist, Irma Selz

Golden Age comic book pioneer, Lillie Renee and husband gag cartoonist Eric Peters

Harry Lambert, gag cartoonist and Golden Age comic book artist

Jon Cornin + Zena Kavin = Corka

The amazing and multi-faceted F. G. Cooper

Caricaturist Aline Fruhauf

Magazine cartoonist Mary Gibson

Tony Sarg

Magazine cartoonist Dorothy McKay

New Yorker cartoonist, Richard Taylor

Humorous illustrator, Arnold Roth

Editorial cartoonist, Etta Hulme

Mel Tubby Millar

Disney gagster, Roy Williams

Don Martin, in a class by himself

EC comic book legend, John Severin

Fellow EC artist, Johnny Craig drawn by Marie Severin

Comic book veteran Kurt Schaffenberger

I always like to include this self-portrait by Superman artist, Curt Swan

Underground comix pioneer, Joel Beck

Peggy Bacon as drawn by Aline Fruhauf

Victor 'Vicky' Weisz


The legendary Herblock by Aline Fruhauf

and Al Johns
It's tough times now to be a cartoonist.
A salute to all who struggle on to ply the trade.