Friday-Sunday, January 11-13, 2002
:
Phil Yeh will be a guest at Rusty Con in
Bellevue, Washington,
right across from Seattle
. This convention will cover science fiction, fantasy and comics and
Phil will be speaking about self-publishing for the last 32 years and his work.
Book signings will be part of the fun.
Monday-Friday, January 14-18, 2002
:
Phil taught art classes at Oakley Elementary
School in Santa Maria,
California.
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
:
Phil spoke at the Mountain Vista Elementary
School in Indio,
California.
Saturday, January 26, 2002
:
Mural event in our headquarters city of
Lompoc, California at
the new Read More Books store on H Street. Phil and his sons will be
out for the fun with local students and the community as they paint a mural
celebrating reading and the arts for the community. Sponsors are needed to give
away books to the students in the Lompoc schools. Special guest
author/artist Bruce Hale who has a number of bestsellers based on Chet
Gecko will be at the event as well. Other artists will be announced shortly.
Saturday and Sunday,February 9-10, 2002
:
We are painting a mural from 11 am to 4 pm on the weekend to celebrate the
opening of a special fine art show called
"Shining A Light", a celebration of Dyslexic Artists. This beautiful first
annual exhibit will run from February 6 to
February 16, 2002 at the Art and
Cultural Center, 105 South Main Street,
Fallbrook,
California. The opening reception for the artists will be held
February 9 from 5 pm to 8 pm - reservations necessary. To RSVP call
(760)
751-1127. The show is co-sponsored by the National Dyslexic Research Foundation
and includes original watercolors from the The Winged Tiger &
The Lace Princess fairytale by Phil Yeh and Lieve Jerger. Special
Guest artist Lieve Jerger will also be showing her copper lace artwork in the gallery. Artists include: Ed Paker,
Mary Buckman, Tim Burns, Stoney Lester DeMent, William Ware, Dale St. Denis.
Thursday and Friday, March 7-8, 2002
:
Phil returns to Casa Blanca Community
School in
Bapchule, Arizona for another fun two days of mural
painting and school assemblies. This is Phil's third visit with the kids of this
wonderful school and he is excited about continuing the work that was
started last November.
Monday, March 11, 2002
:
Phil speaks at
Blackwater Community School
in
Coolidge, Arizona.
Friday, March 22, 2002
:
Mural painting event from 12 noon to 5 pm at the
Everett Public Library
in Everett, Washington
.
Everyone is welcome to join in the fun. Scott Alan Wilson (who joined our band of artists
in January after meeting Phil at Rusty Con in Bellevue), lives in Everett and we are
excited about doing our first mural in his town.
This is the first of three events to debut the 11th issue of the
Winged Tiger Comics &
Stories which has a huge scene set in Seattle
featuring: Jennifer Daydreamer, Lin Lucas, Jim Woodring, Roberta
Gregory, Donna Barr, Rick Veitch, Jason Lutes, Craig Thompson, Pat
Moriarity, Tom Hart, Megan Kelso, David Lasky, Larry Lewis, Elizabeth
Pankey, and Scott Alan (and that's just for the scene set in
Seattle!!!!). Also featured in this issue are Hawaiian aritsts Jon
Murakami and Darlene Oshiro and Mexican artists Daniel Ortiz
Celestino and Jose Quintero (creator of Buba!). The musical guests
are Keiko and Kazu Matsui in Japan and Los Lobos in East Los Angeles
making this one of the very best issues of the series yet! The whole
Ideaship storyline will wrap up in the 12th issue slated for Summer
2002.
Saturday, March 23, 2002
:
Mural painting event at The Factoria Mall
in Bellevue,
Washington from 11 am to 5 pm. We hope to have many of the
Seattle artists attend these local events to kick off the new
Winged Tiger
issue ! Everyone is invited to come and join in the fun as we paint a
mural promoting Reading, The Arts and Dreaming!
Sunday, March 24, 2002
:
Bothell Books in
Bothell, Washington
from noon to 3 pm will find some of the Seattle issue artists signing books and doing
another mural for the community of Bothell.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
:
Mural painting event at the
Santa Maria Town Center in the state of
California.
This event is designed to bring out the kids in the community as we celebrate
the coming Star Wars film with issues of the Winged Tiger Comics &
Stories featuring Star Wars creator George Lucas.
Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, 2002
:
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the
UCLA Campus will
again have Cartoonists Across America paint a monumental mural for literacy
and the arts. Everyone is invited to attend and paint with us. We will also
debut many new books, including a hot, new, full-color edition of
The
Legend of The Winged Tiger - in both English and Spanish ! More info
at this URL:
www.latimes.com/extras/events/fob
Thursday, May 2, 2002
:
Weequahick Branch Library
at 355 Osborne Terrace,
Newark, New Jersey. Mural painting event from
11 am to 5 pm. Call Dolores Whitehead for more info at
973-7751. This event was re-scheduled from September 2001.
Friday-Sunday, May 3-5, 2002
:
BookExpoAmerica
in the Javits Center in
New York City ! After 10 years, the Book Show
returned to the publishing center of the United States and Cartoonists Across
America painted a huge mural celebrating the city that we love so much and
also literacy and the arts. We had an all-star group of guest artists for this event ! Our European Vice-President
Klaus Leven flew in for the Newark Public Library event and also the BookExpoAmerica show. Klaus was joined by
our New York crew of Laura Basili and Mike Wolf from years gone by.
Laura is a reading specialist in NY and is working to help us get
more work in her state and Mike went to work for Vanity Fair and Talk
magazine since his early days on the road with Cartoonists Across
America. He was a great help on the entire East Coast tour this
year. Award winning cartoonists and teachers at the famous School of
Visual Arts Howard Cruse and Tom Hart also came by and painted with
us along with artist Wendy Baker from the St. Louis area and special
surprise guest Kevin Eastman (co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles). We had many old and new friends stop by this year to help
make this one of the best mural events in New York City to date.
Special thanks to Brenda and Keith Murphy (Brenda will be on Rosie in
May!) and Jerry Poynton for all their help!
See pictures of this event here.
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
:
Westfield Shoppingtown Meriden
in Connecticut
will host our first mural painting in that city!
We will be at the mall from 11 am to 5 pm. Come out and join in the fun!
Wednesday, May 10, 2002
:
Our first Mural Painting event in Springfield,
Massachusetts ! This all day family event will take place
at the Brightwood Branch
of the
Springfield Public Library. More details will be announced
soon !
Saturday May 18, 2002
:
11 am to 5 pm. Mike Portaro, our new vice-president
in the home office will be performing as The Lone Drummer while Phil
paints a mural for the Santa Barbara
community at the
Albertsons shopping center
in Santa Barbara,
California. This marks the first
time (but not the last) that Cartoonists Across America & The World
teams up with Mike's incredible musical talents as The Lone Drummer.
Mike has performed at Universal City Walk in Hollywood and many other
places all over the state. His show is something that has to be seen
and heard!
Saturday, May 25, 2002
:
Cartoonists Across America's Hawaiian VP Jon Murakami and other top local artists will
come out to join Phil at the beautiful
Ala Moana Shopping Center in
Honolulu
on Saturday, May 25 from 10 am to 3 pm. Our events in
Hawaii
always draw some of the very best artists in the state and this event will also feature
local talent and special guests to be announced!
Saturday, June 8, 2002
:
We are back in the Santa Maria Town Center
to kick off the summer reading programs for the
Central Coast of California.
This all day event is designed for the entire family and will run from 11 am to 5 pm. Everyone is invited
to come out a paint with us!
Friday, June 21, 2002
:
Phil is painting a mural at Shopper's
World in
Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
This is an event for the entire community and we are thrilled at being back in Canada after all these years.
Phil will also be painting our first mural at BookExpoCanada
in Toronto
on June 23-24.
Saturday, June 22, 2002
:
McKinley Mall
for our first mural painting event in the Buffalo,
New York area. After 17 years on the road, we are
finally coming to this area. Everyone is invited to the mall from 11 am to 5 pm to take in the fun!
Phil will also have comics for the kids!
Sunday-Monday, June 23-24, 2002
:
Our first mural ever at BookExpoCanada
in Toronto !
We are working with the show and also a great group called Word on the Street. We hope to see many cartoonists
from Canada on this trip.
Sunday, June 30, 2002
:
County Fair Mall
in Woodland, California near
Sacramento for our first
mural event in that city. After all these years, there are still towns in our home state that we have
yet to paint a mural in although we have painted more than 1000 murals and many of them in this state over
the years. We will be at the mall from noon to 5 pm.
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
:
Phil is speaking at the Atascadero Public Library
from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. We are planning a mural painting event for the
daylight - stay tuned for further details. Atascadero
is in the
Central Coast of California.
Friday, July 26, 2002
:
CAA Vice-President Michael Portaro aka The Lone Drummer is
playing his drums and singing for the entire five hour event at
Albertsons Shopping Center
in
Orcutt, California. While Mike plays,
CAA President Phil Yeh will paint our first mural for that city with
local kids and adults! This event is co-sponsored by The Santa Maria
Sun, Albertsons, Cold Stone Creamery, Jiffy Lube, Target, Original
Roadhouse Grill, Mad Mike's Party Jumpers, Mad Mike's Bikes, Suvan's
Kitchen, Burrito Loco,and Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites.
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
:
Phil is speaking at a teacher's training workshop and festival at
California State University in Long
Beach. More details about this event are coming.
Thursday-Sunday, August 1-4, 2002
:
We've been invited to paint another mural celebrating reading and the arts at the
San Diego Comic
Con International. More than 50,000 pop culture fans will celebrate with us at the
San Diego Convention Center. We have been
attending this convention since the very first one and meet many old (and new) fans each year here. We also try and
talk many world famous artists into drawing on the murals created for the San Diego Literacy Council.
Saturday, August 10, 2002
:
Mural painting event at the Sunrise Shopping Center
in Casper, Wyoming. We will
be working with local youth and service groups to make this a great event for the entire area. We painted
our first and only Wyoming mural in Casper
in last 17 years and we are happy to be back after all these years.
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
:
Phil will be reading one of his books and painting a mural
at the Southridge Mall
in
Greendale, Wisonsin from 1 pm to 7 pm. This is part of a
family event celebrating reading and everyone is invited.
Saturday, August 17, 2002
:
Our first mural painting event in County East Mall in
Antioch, Calfornia.
The 12th issue of the Winged Tiger Comics &
Stories will be out
in time for this event in Northern California ! Come out and join the
fun this summer.
Sunday, August 18, 2002
:
Mural and tribute art exhibition to the late great Filipino artist Alfredo Alcala at
the San Francisco Public Library.
We will be painting with Alfredo's youngest son Christian. Alfredo was Phil Yeh's best friend and a solid
supporter of Cartoonists Across America & The World from the very beginning.
Saturday August 24, 2002
:
Mural painting event at the Lincoln Mall in
Matteson, Illinois in greater Chicagoland
and near Homewood, Illinois
where Phil Yeh's mother grew up. Phil is always excited to come out to his birthplace (especially during baseball
season) and to see all his many relatives and friends in the area. Our very busy vice-president of the
Chicago office, Geoff Bevington will hopefully join in the fun as well as other Chicagoland artists!
Sunday August 25, 2002
:
Mural painting event at the North Park Mall
in Marion, Indiana. Phil will have copies
of Winged Tiger Comics &
Stories #9 at this event featuring Indiana's own Krystal the Supergirl!
Krystal did the music for The Princess Diaries and toured with the Backstreet Boys.
Friday August 30
:
Mural painting event at the Eastland Mall in
Columbus, Ohio, home to the wonderful
software developers Interactive Ink who did the work on our Theo the Dinosaur series a few years ago
published by Panasonic.
Saturday, September 7, 2002
:
Michael Portaro (AKA: "The Lone Drummer") will perform from 11 am to 4 pm and Phil will
paint another mural for our headquarter city of Lompoc,
California at the
Albertsons Shopping Center. This event celebrates International
Literacy Day and everyone is invited to come and join the fun.
Wednesday and Thursday, September 18-19, 2002
:
Baylor University
for our third "Building a World of Readers,
Artists & Dreamers" event with the college students and
kids from all over the greater Waco region. This is turning out to
be one of the best events we do every year! Special thanks to Rick Busby who got the
ball rolling when he met Phil at BookExpoAmerica a
couple of years ago!
Thursday, September 26, 2002
:
Manchester, Connecticut
- Phil is painting a mural from noon to 5 pm at the
Cat's Meow Comics & More (www.catsmeowcomics.com), one of the few kid and women friendly comic
book stores in the United States! The store is located at
829 Main Street in Manchester
and their phone number is
(860) 647-7850. This is a really rare appearance for us (we don't do too
many comic book stores) and we welcome the help of all fans, friends and artists in creating this new mural
for the community celebrating literacy and the arts.
Wednesday-Monday, 9-14 October, 2002
:
The Frankfurt Book Fair
has just invited us to paint our first mural at their show (the biggest rights show in the world).
More details on this year's European
tour to be announced soon from Klaus Leven and the
European home office. Klaus was with us in New York for BookExpoAmerica and he really
made some excellent contacts at that show.
You can find more information about Cartoonists Across America's participation in the
Frankfurt Book Fair
at www.buchmesse.de (click on "Programme").
Saturday, October 12, 2002
:
We have been invited back for the second annual
National Book Festival hosted by The First Lady Laura Bush.
The festival will be held on the West Capitol
Grounds this year and we expect another wonderful turn out.
Last year, Phil was kept busy from start to finish drawing free cartoons for everyone and
talking about the importance of reading and the arts.
Saturday and Sunday, October 19-20, 2002
:
We are back for our third mural at the Northwest
Bookfest in
Seattle. Details coming soon to this site.