Beyond the Frame!

Last year Rob Stull ( inker supreme ) was asked to help organize and participate in an exhibit featuring the work of african american comic book artists at The Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan.

Here's all the info...

January 24, 2009 – April 26, 2009
Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists
Temporary Exhibition Gallery
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts

Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists presents the work of African American artists working in commercial, self-published, and web-based comic book and graphic novel genres. The exhibition will reflect a cross-section of artists, some well established, others emerging and active in new areas of publication, such as Internet-based web comic art.

Here are the names of the featured artist for the exhibit:

Keron Grant, Mshindo Kuumba, Leisl Adams, Ashely Woods ( not the British guy ), Jerry Craft, Kenijji Marshall, Sanford Greene, Ken Lashley, Larry Stroman, Kyle Baker, John Jennings and Damian Duffy, N Steven Harris, Georges Jeanty, Dexter Vines, Rob Stull, Afua Richardson, Leilani Hickerson, Kieth Knight, Khary Randolph, Charles Goubile, Stacey Robinson, Eric Battle and Hannibal King.

It's an honor to be among some great artists. Check out the site if you can't make it to the show. By the way the entrance to the exhibit has the artwork to the cover I did for the Methodman GN it was also used as the cover art for the exhibit program. That was pretty cool to see!

www.flintarts.org

Day 5 - Tokyo, Japan Trip!

Ok... I know what you're thinking... "Sanford still hasn't posted his entire trip to Tokyo on his blog!" I'm really am sorry, with so much going on it's hard to get all of this together and get it to you quick. I promise to complete my posts on the Tokyo trip within the next week:) Stay tuned! Also, I will be posting some cool images and news about my next few projects, which includes an exhibit I am apart of at the Flint Art Institute in Michigan. But first things first...

DAY FIVE!





Here we are about to enter The Asakusa Temple. As you walk up towards the temple there's a ton of markets that sold everything from Jewlery to ice cream. This place was a blast more details in the next few pics.

Before you enter you must wash yourself in smoke. Yeah you heard me, SMOKE! It's a Japanese custom to do so. It helps keeps the bad spirits from coming into the temple with you!

Some cool statues as you walk in. This one is actually kinda creepy....





As you walk in they'll be people praying before Budda. It was kinda neat to see all ages there.

A family of women and girls outside the temple. I wish I had a better picture.











Just some random images around the temple.

I really liked how this came out.

So we headed out after a long day of picture takin' and shopping.