Non-Fat MOCA

On New Year’s Eve, Nick, The Sparkler and I ventured out to the Museum Of Contemporary Art to check out the “Masters of American Comics” exhibit. It was a real eye opening experience into the lives of comic writers/illustrators.

I was especially jazzed to see Robert Crumb. The Sparkler wanted to see Art Spiegelman and Nick wanted to see Charles Schulz. Unfortunately, the Schulz exhibit was at the Hammer. But not to fear kiddies, Nick and Snoopy will undoubtedly see each other soon enough.

If you plan on checking out the exhibit, be sure to give yourself plenty of time because there’s A LOT to see. And for those of you unfamiliar with the MOCA, they usually do a really great job with big exhibitions. A few years ago, they had a mind boggling Warhol exhibition and the Basquiat one this past fall was incredible.

If you’re not that into comics, you can always go check out Damian Ortega’s awesomely deconstructed VW Beetle that’s now on display.


Since I’ve already got you guys here...let’s talk about "Crumb." If you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend this film. It’s one of the best and well put together documentaries I’ve ever seen. If ever you feel compelled to take a look a disturbingly dark look into the world of “underground comix” or just fucked up people, this is the film for you.


And if you need any further testimonial to its weirdness, David Lynch is one of the film’s producers. Enough said.