Cartoon Tunes: Capturing Music in Comics September 6, 2006

Comics are, by nature, a pairing of two mediums more often kept apart -- pictures and words. For many cartoonists, that pairing so often provides a vantage on yet another medium -- sound. The Cartoon Art Museum's latest exhibition, 'Cartoon Tunes: Capturing Music in Comics,' examines the ongoing love affair between comics and music through more than 40 pieces of original artwork on themes from biographies of legendary jazz and blues musicians to childhood musical memories to illustrated song lyrics.