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Thursday,

October 13,

2011

Each week, Times features writerBrandon Oland provides a list ofmust-see entertainment events for

the week ahead.

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Molasses Creek will perform at7:30 p.m. Saturday at the CarrollArts Center in Westminster.

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Josh Turner is headlining Sunday inthe Country, which starts at 11 a.m.Sunday at Merriweather Post Pavil-ion in Columbia.

What: The bluegrass group hasrecorded 11 albums and features GaryMitchell on guitar and vocals, fiddlerDave Tweedie, dobro and bass playerLou Castro, and mandolin and bassplayers Marcy Brenner and GeraldHampton.

When: 7:30 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Carroll Arts Center, 91 W.

Main St., Westminster

Admission: $15 for adults, $13 forCarroll County Arts Council members,students and seniors

Information: 410-848-7272 orwww.carrollcountyartscouncil.org 

CARROLL COUNTY

What: This concert features DarrenBeachley and HeartTown with all pro-ceeds benefiting the Lions Club com-munity.

When: 1-5 p.m. SundayWhere: Westminster Veterans of

Foreign Wars Post 467, 519 Poole

Road, WestminsterAdmission: $15Information: 410-848-9250 or

410-795-3585

Westminster Lions Club presents‘1st Annual Country Gospel

Bluegrass Show’

What: Josh Turner, former CarrollCounty 4-H & FFA Fair act The BandPerry, Easton Corbin, Steel Magnolia,Frankie Ballard and Hunter Hayes takepart in this year’s country showcaseput on by 93.1 WPOC-FM.

When: 11 a.m. Sunday

Where: Merriweather Post Pavilion,10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Colum-bia

Admission: $40-$75Information:410-715-5550 or

www.merriweathermusic.com 

What: After an eight-year hiatus,front man Gavin Rossdale rejoined alt-rockers Bush in 2010 and the groupresumed touring.

When: 6:30 p.m. MondayWhere: The Fillmore Silver Spring,

8656 Colesville Road, Silver SpringAdmission: $41.50

Information: 301-960-9999 orwww.fillmoresilverspring.com 

Bush, Chevelle & Filter in concert

WPOC’s Sunday in the Country

Molasses Creek in concert

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At the Movies

A speaker series is tak-ing place in conjunction

with “Kings of the Pages:Comic Strips & Culture1895-1950.” All events atMcDaniel are free andopen to the public. TheRichard Thompson lectureat Corcoran College of Art& Design is $10-$20. Formore information on theThompson lecture, call202-639-1770 or visit

www.corcoran.org/ 

calendar .

Brian Walker

About: Walker is a

prominent cartoon histo-rian and a second-genera-tion creator of the strip “Hi

and Lois” and a writer for

“Beetle Bailey.” Both strips

were started by his fatherMort, who continues towork on them at the ageof 88. He was the curatorof the Museum of CartoonArt for 18 years and hastaught courses on comics

at Fairfield University andthe School of Visual Artsin New York City.

When: 7:30 p.m. Wed-nesday

Where: McDanielLounge, 2 College Hill,Westminster

Harry Bliss

About: Bliss is a car-toonist for the New Yorker 

and is the creator of theself-titled, syndicated car-

toon, “Bliss.” He is also achildren’s book illustratorwho worked on “Diary of aWorm,” “Diary of a Spider”and “Diary of a Fly” by au-thor Doreen Cronin.

When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26Where: McDaniel

Lounge, 2 College Hill,Westminster

Richard Thompson

About: His comic strip“Cul de Sac” has gainednational recognition. Hewas the 2011 recipient ofthe Reuben Award, given

to the nation’s top car-toonists and illustrators.

When: 7 p.m. Nov. 1

Where: Corcoran Col-lege of Art & Design,

Frances and Armand Ham-mer Auditorium, 50017th Street, Washington,D.C.

Kevin Kallaugher

About: He is a politicalcartoonist for The Econo- 

mist . He’s created morethan 4,000 cartoons andhis work at “The Econo-mist” includes more than120 illustrated covers.

When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8

Where: McDanielLounge, 2 College Hill,

Westminster

Source: McDaniel College 

SERIOUS SIDE OF COMICS

BY BRANDON OLAND

TIMES STAFF WRITER

Most semesters, McDaniel Col-lege associate professorRobert Lemieux teaches a

freshman seminar course about comicstrips and how they affect culture.

His students are most familiar withCharlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and Snoopyfrom “Peanuts” and the fat cat Garfield.But long before Lucy tormented CharlieBrown and Garfield ate lasagna, comicsenjoyed a considerable role in newspa-pers, entertainment and pop culture.

Lemieux said he hopes to shed lighton the history of the art form in “Kingsof the Pages: Comic Strips & Culture1895-1950.” The exhibit opens Wednes-day at McDaniel College’s Rice Galleryinside Peterson Hall in Westminster.

The exhibition features 28 original,hand-drawn panels and early newsprintpieces on loan from the Billy IrelandCartoon Library and Museum at OhioState University. The exhibit was de-signed by graduate students at the Cor-coran College of Art & Design inWashington, D.C.

Successful early strips from “Blondie”to “Krazy Kat” to “Pogo” are included inthe exhibit, which also features“Peanuts” as well.

“The beautiful part of it is it’s kind of an easy sell,” Lemieux said. “Eventhough you might not read comics still,almost everybody has a connection tocomic strips, having read them at somepoint.”

Lemieux spent hours reading andstudying comics during visits to OhioState’s museum in Columbus. He delvedinto the collection of 450,000 originalcartoons and 2.5 million comic stripclippings and tear sheets there.

He picked out strips that he said hadto be in the exhibit because they werecentral to the history of the Americancomic strip. They had to meet two cri-teria: be visually appealing and havequality, preferably funny, content.

He whittled his choices down to 50then painstakingly selected 28 duringthe four-month process in the summerof 2009.

People will be surprised about how

large comic strips used tobe, he said. Prior to WorldWar II, the Sunday comicstrip occupied a singlepage with 12 to 16 pan-els.

Lemieux saidpaper rationingduring World War

II has a signifi-cant affect oncomic stripartists.

“ E v e r y -thing star-ted to shri-nk,” hesaid.

Comicsnever did returnto their original size.For decades, comicshave appeared mostlyas one panel or three-or four-panel enti-ties on pages along-side several others.

Since 1950, MortWalker’s “BeetleBailey” has beenone of them inmany newspa-pers. Thecomic followsthe travailsof the freck-led, goof-off Beetle,who con-tinues tos o l d i e ron in theArmy in newspapersafter originally joining dur-ing the Korean War.

Walker’s son Brian, who contributesgags to “Beetle Bailey,” is one of fourcomic experts taking part in The SeriousSide of Comics Speaker Series takingplace in conjunction with the art exhibit.

Brian will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednes-day at McDaniel Lounge in a discussionthat is free and open to the public.

McDaniel exhibit to feature history of comics

The Carroll County ArtsCouncil will be screening acompilation of the 2011Academy Award nominatedanimated short films at3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Oct.21. The program was cho-sen to complement Mc-

Daniel College’s art exhibit.Admission is $6 for adultsand $5 for Carroll CountyArts Council members, stu-dents and seniors. Mc-Daniel College studentsand faculty will be admit-ted for free. For more infor-mation, call 410-848-7272or www.carrollcountyarts council.org.

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