Exhibitions
Gallery shows and museum retrospectives, and comics arriving in art institutions.
Part of Underground Comics
41 moments in this segment.
- - Model for the Toneelschuur. Holding a scale model of the Haarlem theatre he designed, work that took his line off the page and into a building.
- - Mattotti at work. The Italian cartoonist photographed around the turn of the decade.
- - Bench designs. Presenting drawings for public seating, another commission that moved his drawing into street furniture.
- - Decorative work. Swarte with decorative designs in Haarlem, the town his later comics museum campaign would centre on.
- - Lorenzo Mattotti. Mattotti came out of the Italian Valvoline group, whose painterly colour work pulled European comics away from the clear line.
- - Poster unveiling. A city poster of his design being revealed by a local councillor.
- - Signing at Athenaeum. Signing a special edition of his drawing Museum voor Eigentijdse Kunst at a Haarlem bookshop.
- - At the Brussels centre. Dupa with Jim Davis at the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinee, which opened in a Horta building in 1989.
- - Museo nazionale del fumetto. Italy's national comics museum in Lucca, housed in the city that also runs the country's largest comics fair.
- - Inside the Lucca museum. A gallery at the Museo del Fumetto, whose holdings run from Italian newspaper strips to contemporary graphic novels.
- - Lucca museum display. Exhibition cases at the Museo del Fumetto in Lucca.
- - Belgian Comic Strip Center. The Brussels museum occupies a 1906 Victor Horta department store, and has shown Belgian small press work alongside the national canon.
- - WOW Spazio Fumetto. The entrance arch to Milan's comics museum on viale Campania, on the site of a former tram depot.
- - Exhibition at the festival entrance. Framed work hung in the foyer of the Munich Comicfestival, where the exhibition programme sits in front of the trading floor.
- - Tsuge Tadao and the Plight of Postwar Japan. A curator introduces the Honolulu Museum of Art show pairing Tadao Tsuge and Susumu Katsumata, reading their short stories as accounts of poverty, day labour and the unsettled postwar years.
- - PAFF in Pordenone. The Friuli comics centre joins the historic Villa Gavani to a modern extension, and runs exhibitions year round.
- - 蔦サロン「POP UP Gallery ＆ SHOP 7人展」に行ってきました！ 宇野亞喜良 丸尾末広 山本タカト 亀井徹 三浦悦子 須川まきこ 佳嶋. A pop up gallery hangs seven artists together, Suehiro Maruo beside Aquirax Uno, Takato Yamamoto, Toru Kamei and Etsuko Miura.
- - Vibracions underground. The 2019 Barcelona exhibition, curated by Javier Panera, traced the traffic between underground comics and rock music.
- - Manga Exhibition, British Museum: Interview with the curator UEA's Nicole Rousmaniere (2019). Curator Nicole Rousmaniere describes assembling the British Museum's manga exhibition and the problem of showing serialised printed pages inside a museum vitrine.
- - 【ギャラリー内】 根本敬×宮西計三 二人展. Camera moves along the walls of a two person show at Gallery Zaroff pairing Takashi Nemoto with Keizo Miyanishi, each piece hung for sale.
- - 河村要助 傑作イラストレーション展 2017「JOYFUL TOKYO FOR 2020」／@SPACE YUI. A visit to Yosuke Kawamura's illustration show at Space Yui, where work by his 100% Studio colleagues Teruhiko Yumura and Nobuhiko Yabuki hangs near the entrance.
- - Lucca comics museum exterior. The street frontage of the Museo del Fumetto in Lucca, photographed in September 2022.
- - 「マンガ家・つげ義春と調布」展(2022年12月5日号). Municipal television announces an earlier Chofu show on the cartoonist and the town, with a note correcting a credit that had been displayed in error.
- - マンガ家・つげ義春と調布展. Tsuge attends the preview evening of the Kita Gallery show and walks the room himself, among work drawn from the Chofu he had lived in for more than fifty years.
- - 【調布CATCH2023年02月第１回放送】冬鳥に会いに行こう＋マンガ家・つげ義春と調布展. A community broadcast pairs winter ducks on the Tamagawa with the Kita Gallery show on the cartoonist and the town, held over a fortnight in January.
- - 【ONLINE Exhibition】No.034 Takashi Nemoto 'I live' 根本敬「生きる。」. Gallery walkthrough of Takashi Nemoto's show 'I live' at Akio Nagasawa Gallery, panning across hung drawings so the linework and lettering read at full size.
- - 丸尾末広個展 2023 日本橋. A brief pass through the Nihonbashi solo show of Suehiro Maruo, framing the hung pieces and the gallery's hanging arrangement.
- - RRR FRIDAY 2023/7/7 【根本敬】. Takashi Nemoto takes a Friday DJ slot at a small Jimbocho bar, an evening announced with its cover charge and drink prices.
- - 蛭子能収「最後の展覧会」/ The Last Exhibition of Yoshikazu Ebisu @Akio Nagasawa Gallery Aoyama. Promotional footage for Yoshikazu Ebisu's gallery show in Aoyama, assembled by Takashi Nemoto, showing the flat deadpan figures Ebisu has drawn since his 1973 debut.
- - 蛭子能収最後の展覧会展. Filmed on the closing day of the Aoyama show curated by Takashi Nemoto, moving along the hung works and the gallery's posted opening hours.
- - 第二回 無礼院通信. A visit inside a Suehiro Maruo show at a Ginza Six gallery, the camera passing along framed pieces hung in a commercial tower space.
- - Chris Ware in Barcelona. The press launch of Drawing is Thinking at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, a survey of Ware's working method.
- - 水木しげるさんの妖怪画制作に迫る 百鬼夜行展 茨城県天心記念五浦美術館. About a hundred original yokai paintings hang at the Tenshin Memorial Museum in Kitaibaraki, showing how Shigeru Mizuki built his creatures from mid Edo period monster scrolls and folklore records.
- - 【祝 プレ30周年 青林工藝舎 ラッキー展】inタコシェ. Taco Che in Nakano Broadway hangs a show built around Lucky, the eighteen year old house dog at Seirinkogeisha, with contributions from across the magazine's roster.
- - マンガ家・つげ義春のいるところ展(2026年2月5日号). Municipal television announces the Chofu show gathering places associated with Yoshiharu Tsuge, held at the Tazukuri cultural hall ground floor gallery.
- - マンガ家・つげ義春のいるところ展(2026年2月20日号). A longer broadcast feature inside the Chofu exhibition, moving through the displayed pages and the reconstructed settings drawn from his stories.
- - つげ義春のいるところ展へ。調布散歩。. A visitor films what the rules allow, the entrance to the Tazukuri hall show, since the original pages hanging inside could not be photographed.
- - 追悼・つげ義春が遺した昭和の風景. A memorial montage of the Showa era landscapes that recur across his stories, provincial stations, back lanes and shuttered shopfronts.
- - 今のマンガ研究は、つげ義春から始まった！？ 特集. A Kyoto Seika University researcher explains why academic work on Japanese comics keeps returning to Tsuge, and why the regard for him abroad has long run ahead of the regard at home.
- - 水木しげるの妖怪 百鬼夜行展 〜 調布 鬼太郎巡り. A walk through the Shizuoka City Museum of Art show of Shigeru Mizuki's yokai, continuing into the Kitaro landmarks around Chofu where he lived and worked.
- - 【怪談×民俗学】つげ義春『ゲンセンカン主人』のモデルにもなった湯治場「今神温泉」。温泉に紐づく信仰と儀礼【温泉】#47. A folklorist and a ghost story teller visit Imagami Onsen, the bathhouse said to have furnished the setting for Gensenkan Shujin, and describe the rites attached to the spring.