Although not an official Fright Night event, Lotus Gallery’s Comic Book Art Show is worth a side trip.
Lotus Gallery owner Vicki Salzbrun admits the show was an 11th-hour improvisation on her part, but she says her call for comic book art and comic book-inspired art drew immediate and enthusiastic response from area artists.
“I needed a filler,” she said. “even when you plan ahead, things will go awry sometimes.”
Salzbrun says she found herself with some exhibit-free time near Halloween and thought “how cool would it be to have something comic book related?”
The results will be available for viewing from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday, which is smack dab in the middle of Fright Night and its pre-dusk slate of activities.
The art in the Lotus Gallery’s Comic Book Art Show is as varied as any team of X-Men.
Jason Rowland painted familiar comics characters on all sorts of unlikely surfaces, including skateboards and the sort of wood panels you might find on the walls of an untrendy den.
Matt McClure and Josef Zimmerman teamed up to create multi-dimensional ink drawings. among them is one that could be titled “Three-Toed Messiah with Pokemon Angels.”
Except it’s not.
Zimmerman also collaborated with Kay Gregg on some cute-but-vicious creatures that look like what Robert Crumb would have drawn if he had grown up in Japan.
“The theme is sort of ‘Funny animals being mean to each other,’ ” Salzbrun says.
Sean Robinson’s work seems to pay homage to Edward Gorey, and Kris Lorenzen gives us spies in silhouette.
Salzbrun expects to have local comic book creators on site, showing and selling issues of their work, including Emily “Ducky” Fitch and Courtney Hahn, authors of “Sweet Beat!”
“Sweet Beat!” is about a flying bakery, Salzbrun says.
The Comic Book Art Show is a family-friendly event, Salzbrun says, with refreshments of the cold-weather variety: cider and coffee.
She says she’ll be handing out leaflets about the show during Zombie Walk, hoping to lure some citizens of the undead nation down to Lotus Gallery.
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