UPDATED: Comics exhibitions - an incomplete guide

UPDATED (17/06/26): thanks to friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs for a list he passed me ages ago about exhibitions at Dundee university.

Inspired by my recent post about a (Don Lawrence) comics exhibition I thought I'd start looking into all the comics exhibitions that I've covered on the blog. I'll also try and add in exhibitions I haven't covered - in the hope that some images will eventually surface. At this stage I know this list has a LOT of gaps in it but you've got to start somewhere...

OK so in date order then...

1 April 2022 - 28 August 2022; Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics (at the Foundling museum here)

21 October 2021 - 6 March 2022 Beano - the art of breaking the rules @ Somerset House here

18 May 2021 - 14 November 2021; V for Vendetta - behind the mask (at the Cartoon museum here)

November 2019; Philip Bond @ Orbital comics here

24 May 2019 - 15 September 2019; Posy Simmonds - a retrospective here

1 July - 17 July 2019; Geoff Senior @ Orbital comics here here here here here & here

March 2019; Psychogran exhibition here

15 September 2018 - 16 March 2019; Frank Hampson - the man who drew Dan Dare here

2018 - 12 March 2019; Frank Hampson centenary exhibition (at Bourne Hall here here and here)

October 2018; Arthur Ranson @ Orbital comics here here here here

1 June 2018 - 30 June 2018; Treasury of British comics @ Orbital comics here here and here

15 May 2018 - 12 August 2018; Beano at the V&A London here

2017; Inking women at the Cartoon Museum here 

Girls in Print: Female Figures in British Comics
Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee
22 July - 21 October 2017
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/girls
https://downthetubes.net/girls-in-print-female-figures-in-british-comics-opens-in-dundee/

Jim Petrie: Minnie the Minx and More!
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
3 June – 19 September 2015
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/petrie/
https://downthetubes.net/minnie-the-minx-artist-jim-petrie-exhibition-in-dundee/

Adventures in Space & Time
An exhibition of Science-Fiction Comics Art
Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee
23 November 2013 - 1 February 2014
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/adventures/
https://downthetubes.net/photo-report-dundee-comics-day-2013/ (tied in on the theme but not the date)

75 Years of the Dandy
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
1 December 2012 - 12 January 2013
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/dandy/
https://downthetubes.net/photo-review-dandy-day-at-dundee-university/

David Sutherland: Comics Genius
Baxter Suite, Tower Building, University of Dundee
11 June - 15 August 2012
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/sutherland/
https://downthetubes.net/in-review-david-sutherland-comics-genius-exhibition-and-talk/

Commando: 50 Years of Action and Adventure
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
1 October - 19 November 2011
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/commando/
https://downthetubes.net/dundee-commando-exhibition-open/

Willie Ritchie: Comic Artist
Tower Foyer Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
27 June - 21 August 2010
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/ritchie/
https://downthetubes.net/photo-review-dundee-comics-day-2010/

Starblazer The Official 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
29 July - 22 August 2009
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/starblazer/
https://downthetubes.net/photo-review-starblazer-exhibition/

Happy Birthday Beano
The Official 70th Anniversary Exhibition
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
18 July - 20 September 2008
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/beano2/
https://downthetubes.net/beano-70th-anniversary-exhibition/

BIFF! BANG!! CRIKEY!!!
Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee
4 May - 2 June 2007
Part of the same titled conference (which was the first Dundee Comics Day)
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/
https://downthetubes.net/biff-bam-crikey-seeing-new-worlds-in-dundee/

2000; Dan Dare at 50 - British cartoon centre here

27 May 1999 - 24 June 1999; Don Lawrence exhibition here

6 December 1988 - 14 January 1989; Cartoon Aid exhibition at the Museum of London here

June-September 1987; Comics Iconoclasm at the ICA here

December 1973; A personal view of children's funny papers; Scotland here

Other known exhibitions (to be covered at a later date)...

newspaper comic strips at the NPG

Aarrrghh at the ICA

Dan Dare Southport - 1990, 2000, 2010

Comics Unmasked at the British Library

Cartoon exhibiitons at the Cartoon Museum

The McMenace

Dan Dare in Croydon & elsewhere

other exhibitions covered by me for Down the Tubes

Look at other Down the Tubes entries