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The Funny Pages exhibition is a celebration of cartooning. It’s the largest collection of cartoonists and featured art spanning over 100 years of works from those with ties to Indiana. This is one of the biggest projects I have worked on.

I am one of the co-curators of this exhibition. The purpose of this was to showcase how much treasure was in Indiana that often goes unnoticed. So I banded together with The Anderson Museum of Art to bring this to life. Their only demand was that Rosebuds had to be one of the three main features.

You can’t have a museum exhibition about Indiana cartoonists and not feature Jim Davis and Garfield. They’re the hometown heroes of the funny pages. Garfield is canonically from Muncie, Indiana. Jim was ecstatic to be a part of this, and working with him and Paramount was incredible.

Charles Schulz’s legacy with Indiana can’t be understated. He had an honorary doctorate from Anderson University and created “Young Pillars” for their Youth magazine and would give Anderson, Indiana several shoutouts in Peanuts. Deep love to CMSM and AU for helping us uncover rare art.

I want to point out a couple of “Dried Ink” Indiana cartoonists on display: - Johnny Gurelle (Raggedy Ann) - Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie) -Dalia “Dale” Messick (Brenda Starr) -Norman Birdwell (Clifford the Big Red Dog) -T.K. Ryan (Tumbleweeds)

Here are a few of the “Fresh Ink” Indiana cartoonists on display: -Tom Armstrong (Marvin) -David Reddick (Intelligent Life/Blondie) -Dan Wright (Bobo’s Progress/Wildwood)

Here are a few MORE of the “Fresh Ink” Indiana cartoonists on display: -Jerry Scott (Baby Blues/Zits) -Dan Schkade (Flash Gordon) - Jeff Knurek (Jumble)