CENTERPIECE
Visual visionaries
Comic-Con will showcase the broad range of worlds 'that comes out of an artist's eye and hand'
By Neil Kendricks
For comic-book readers, to open a graphic novel is to be enveloped by a cartoonist's alternate universe governed by its own rules. Within the medium's kinetic fusion of words and pictures, readers learn that all bets are off and the medium's only limitations are the scope of the artist's imagination.
ON STAGE
Ode to joystick
Summer Pops is having fun playing 'Video Games Live'
By Valerie Scher
CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
With a spectacular combination of music, lighting effects and video footage, “Video Games Live” attracted approximately 11,000 fans to its world premiere in the Hollywood Bowl three years ago. “We figured we might as well start at the top,” says conductor-composer Jack Wall, the program's co-creator.
VISUAL ARTS
At the shore's edge
Daniel Wheeler views the world through the prism of water
By Robert L. Pincus
ART CRITIC
Seven years ago, Los Angeles artist Daniel Wheeler created a wonderful project for the Lux Art Institute, even before the Lux had a home. The main location for his “Bird Hub” was the San Elijo Lagoon in Encinitas.
