Exhibition - Emerging Artist Showcase Featuring Donna Almendrala

The Cartoon Art Museum presents the art of Donna Almendrala in the latest installment of its ongoing Emerging Artist Showcase. This exhibit features a selection from Almendrala's autobiographical comic Becoming a Dog Person.

Donna Almendrala is a cartoonist and graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies Class of 2012, and she now sits on the CCS Board of Trustees as their first alumni member. In 2013, she started her dream job in Santa Rosa, California as the art director of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts Studio. She is currently working on her next graphic novel about adopting her dog Max in Becoming a Dog Person.
 
"Becoming a Dog Person is a mostly autobiographical story about adopting our family dog Max, and the subsequent journey of confusion, conflict and self-discovery," says Almendrala. "Through getting to know Max, I learned what it meant to have confidence, set boundaries, and foster relationships in my career, marriage and sense of self. This sequence details a quiet morning, as we go for a jog around the park, and depicts the familiar entanglement between dog and owner, asking who is responsible for who."

About The Emerging Artist Showcase

The Cartoon Art Museum’s Emerging Artist Showcase is dedicated to the presentation of new and emerging voices in comics, from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This ongoing series of exhibitions is curated by the Cartoon Art Museum and supported in part by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.