This is slightly belated, and I see that it was already announced on
rec.arts.comics.misc a couple of weeks ago, but I only just learned
about it.
The Newark Museum and the Jewish Museum are holding an exhibition
entitled "Masters of American Comics" from 15 Sep 2006 to 28 Jan 2007.
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/comics/
Artists at The Newark Museum:
Milton Caniff
Lionel Feininger
Chester Gould
George Herriman
Frank King
Winsor McCay
Charles M. Schulz
E.C. Segar
Artists at The Jewish Museum:
R. Crumb
Will Eisner
Jack Kirby
Harvey Kurtzman
Gary Panter
Chris Ware
--
Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great,
will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us
from
the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New
Sciences