The fall meeting of the Maryland Association of School Librarians on October 20 will include a panel of local cartoonists
including Jessica Sheron, Alexis Frederick-Frost and Matt Dembicki.
The session, moderated by podcaster Matthew Winner, will “focus on creating
graphic novels, storytelling through paneled art, and how to support
instruction through the use of graphic novels.”
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Oct. 19: Cohen @ Heurich House Museum
Cartoonist Andrew Cohen on October 19 will sign copies of
his comic “The Brewmaster’s Castle” at the Heurich House Museum for an event from
6:30-8:30 p.m. that include local comics-themed brewer Heroic Aleworks and Greg Kitsock, the founding editor of
Mid-Atlantic Brewing News and contributing editor of Beer Advocate Magazine.
The cost is $30 and includes beer, snacks and a tour of the historic home.
PR: 10,000 Sci-Fi items to be auctioned Saturday Oct 21 in Falls Church VA - The Brammer Collection
FOR INFORMATION: Catherine Payling, Director Waverly Rare Books at Quinn's Auction Galleries; 703-532-5632 ext. 575 catherine.payling@
AUCTION CATALOGUE:
http://quinnsauction.hibid.
EARLY SCI FI COLLECTION GOES TO AUCTION OCT 21
The Brammer Family Collection of more than 10,000 books, comics, ephemera
to be sold at Quinn's Auction Galleries
A treasure trove assemblage of early science fiction will be sold October 21 when the Fred and Eric Brammer Family Collection of books, comics and ephemera goes to auction at Quinn's Auction Galleries & Waverly Rare Books in Falls Church, Virginia.
An encapsulation of the collections of father and son duo, Fred and Eric Brammer, of McLean, VA, the sale represents more than six decades of purposeful collecting starting with items from early science fiction and fantasy conventions in the 1930s. Fred, a member of the First Fandom, a group of lovers of the sci-fi and horror genres, amassed a collection of pulp fiction, comic books, ephemera, classic novels, short stories and cult hits starting before the Second World War As he traveled the globe attending sci-fi conventions, Fred often purchased the newest works by burgeoning authors. Passing along his love of weird fiction to his son, Eric, the Brammer family eventually became staples at conventions sharing their passion for the genre and supporting then little known authors and ventures such as Star Trek.
After Fred's death Eric, a filmmaker and photographer, decided to bring his father's collection to auction for the purpose of using the proceeds to create a documentary examining the Brammer family story in the world of science fiction. His film will also show the influence and importance the members of the First Fandom had on contemporary science fiction and popular culture fandoms.
Highlights of the Quinn's sale will include a first edition of Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider and Others. In addition to a series of rare and desirable first editions, the Brammer Family Collection boasts hundreds of golden and silver age comic books including Batman No. 181 with the first appearance of Poison Ivy; Captain America, No. 100, and the first appearance of Captain America in his own series; Fantastic Four No. 48, "The Coming of Galactus," and The Amazing Spider-Man No. 129, the first appearance of the Punisher, among many other important and early comics.
The auction will take place Saturday, October 21 at 11 am at Quinn's Auction Galleries, 360 South Washington Street, Falls Church, Virginia. www.QuinnsAuction.com
FOR INFORMATION: Catherine Payling, Director Waverly Rare Books at Quinn's Auction Galleries; 703-532-5632 ext. 575 catherine.payling@
Ann Telnaes on covering Trump
The Trump Bump
How covering Trump has changed the careers of some of journalism's hottest names
By Meg Dalton, Karen K. Ho, and Pete Vernon, CJR
Fall 2017Comic Riffs talks to Brian Fies about his losses to California fires
Santa Rosa cartoonist draws 'a dispatch from the front' after his house burns down
Wall Street Journal talks to Tom King about Batman...
... but it's behind a paywall.
Batman Shows His Softer Side
The Dark Knight is evolving, with writer Tom King seeing Batman as 'sort of a machine that turns pain into hope.'
By Michael Rapoport
Updated Oct. 16, 2017
Appeared in the October 17, 2017, print edition as 'batman takes on a more human dimension.'
https://www.wsj.com/articles/batman-shows-his-softer-side-1508168307#comments_sector
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Big Planet's Jared Smith on Slate podcast...
...although I can't figure out how to listen to these on a computer...
How Does a Comic Book Store Owner Work?
Jared Smith talks about the weekly grind of bringing comics to readers.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Jacob Brogan.
Over the past six episodes of Working, we've been talking with writers and artists about how comics get made. In this episode, which you can listen to via the player above, we're looking at how they make their way into readers' hands.
This week, we sat down with Jared Smith, one of the co-owners of Big Planet Comics, a chain of four shops in the Washington area. Smith discusses the ups and downs of a job that finds him reading comics almost every day. Along the way, he leads us through a week in the life of the comics shop, from the labor that goes into unpacking boxes of new books every Tuesday to the daily effort of building relationships with customers. He also talks Big Planet's publishing partnership with Retrofit Comics, a project that finds him serving an editorial role.
Then, in a Slate Plus extra, Smith talks about the comics he eagerly reads every month. If you're a member, enjoy bonus segments and interview transcripts from Working, plus other great podcast exclusives. Start your two-week free trial at Slate.com/workingplus.
Monday, October 16, 2017
Shannon Gallant talks about leaving G.I. Joe for… G.I. Joe
By Mike Rhode
Shannon “S.L.” Gallant spoke recently on a panel on graphic novels at
George Mason University’s Fall for the Book Festival. I last interviewed him in 2010 so it was about time to check in again. After the panel (which
will be transcribed here in the future), we sat down for a quick talk.
You have just come off of what
is supposed to be the longest run of an artist on the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic book. How many issues did you
draw?
I didn’t even count. I think the IDW guys said something like 70 or 75.
I started on #161, which had a cover-date of November 2010, so that means I
started before then timewise, and I just did my last issue three months ago,
and that was issue #245. There were some fill-ins of various issues along the
way.
You were mainly the penciler and
didn’t ink yourself on the book?
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| Gallant inked by Earskine |
The only thing I inked were covers. My first few covers were done by
whoever the inker was on the book. Some were by Gary
Erskine, and a couple were by Brian Shearer, but the last twenty or thirty or
so that I did were inked by myself. That was the only inking that I did.
Larry
Hama wrote the entire run that you worked on?
He did.
How did
he give you the scripts? Was it thumbnails, or typescript?
Larry works in the old Marvel style which is a
springboard style – a synopsis of the page, rather than broken down on the page
into panel-by-panel descriptions. He very rarely included any kind of dialogue,
because he would script that later. It was basically just a synopsis of the page
and he would say things like, “If I have more than one paragraph, consider the
paragraph to be a panel,” but it wasn’t a hard rule. That’s generally how he
worked.
So you’re
leaving the main G.I. Joe title to do… another G.I. Joe title?
I am. It’s G.I.Joe versus the Six Million Dollar Man [jointly published by IDW and
Dynamite]. It’s a period piece and I’m setting it in my head in 1981 so it’ll be
between the end of the Six Million Dollar Man tv show and the beginning of the G.I.
Joe cartoon. I’m modelling G.I. Joe more on the cartoon characters than on the
comic book version. So the costumes are pretty much the same, but the
characters backgrounds are slightly different.
Who’s
writing it?
Ryan Ferrier. He’s done comics for a lot of companies, IDW and
Dynamite included.
What kind of script is he giving
you?
It’s more of a full script, panel-by-panel breakdowns with dialogue.
Who made the decision about when
this was set it time?
It evolved out of everyone talking and deciding with Steve Austin being
so set in the ‘70s because of the tv show and the fashions, and Dynamite has
gone back from updating the character, to making it more like the classic
character in most of their books. I wanted to do it [that way], and feel those
books need to be period pieces. A lot of the G.I. Joe fans had issues when we
started at IDW with the updating of characters and making everyone have cell
phones, and computers, and laptops and iPads and so forth… so this is my way of
doing a period piece. The research is one of the biggest hurdles for me on it.
Plus he’d be a Six Trillion
Dollar Man now… You’ve said you do a lot of research. Since you’re setting this
35 years ago, are you doing a lot of research to see what buildings and cars
looked like at the time?
I’m trying to. I trying to make sure that it at least feels like it’s
set in 1981, as opposed to having people with iPods. You don’t want to make
those kinds of mistakes. When I got the first script, there were references to
an office building with computers on the tables, so I had a discussion with the
editor, saying “Well, people didn’t have computers on their desk in 1981. There
was a room you had to go to and use a computer.”
How many issues is it?
From what I understand it’s supposed to be four, depending on sales
they may expand it.
You’ve also done work for American Mythology in Baltimore
lately?
They do a lot of licensed properties. They do have some creator-owned
stuff, but the work I’ve been doing for them is on their cartoon properties.
They have the rights to Bullwinkle, Casper, Underdog… they started out with a
license for Pink Panther and I did the Free Comic Book Day Pink Panther comic
where he turns into Thor. Most of what I’ve done for them has been on their
cartoon side, but they also do a Three Stooges comic and a Stargate comic.
Do you find it easy to switch
styles between G.I. Joe and Pink Panther?
It’s something I’ve always had to do when I was working in advertising.
I had to switch styles up a lot. That’s how I ended up as a staff illustrator
which is pretty rare. If they wanted a
New Yorker-type comic style or something more realistic, or traditional
advertising – that was something I was used to doing and I still enjoy. It
keeps the batteries fresh.
Are you hoping to continue on
the Six Million Dollar Man after this
miniseries?
I enjoy the character. I wonder if it’s one of those things though. I
read an interview with Adam Hughes once, about Star Trek, after he did the big
Debt of Honor Star Trek graphic novel. He said, “No, I got that out of my
system. I’m done with it.” So we’ll see if at the end of this if I’m over the
Six Million Dollar Man.
Is there anything you would like
to work on?
Dynamite has announced that they’re going to redo Swords of the
Swashbucklers, and that’s a series I would love to get on. It was when I fell
in love with Jackson “Butch” Guice’s artwork. I would love to do that because I
love those characters. It was steampunky before steampunk was a thing. I was
never into pirates until that but it’s got enough of a Star Wars feel to it. It’s a fun book.
Who’s writing that?
Marc Guggenheim, the producer of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow tv show.
Over the years at HeroesCon, you’ve
become friendly with Butch?
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| Shadows drawn and inked by Gallant |
He was introduced to me by our mutual friend Chris Sparks, who was
friends with Butch for years and years. We email back and forth and are
friendly acquaintances. I think he’s phenomenal. One of the things I really
enjoy about his work – when I fell in love with it, back he was working on Swords of the Swashbucklers, and the
work he’s doing now… if you look at his work then, and his work now, you wouldn’t
guess it was the same person. Stylistically he has grown, but a lot of artists,
when they hit a certain level, they plateau and they stay at that level and
they don’t change. He’s still experimenting and trying different techniques. He’s
gotten very obsessed with shadow work. To see his penciled pages and then to
see what the final looks like… I still don’t know he makes that leap. I’ve
asked him multiple times, “how do you approach your shadows, because what you’re
penciling, and what I’m seeing in the final product, makes it almost seem like
two different people did the book.”
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Your Home Should Be A Safe Space"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock:
"Your Home Should Be A Safe Space"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2325
(Art promoting DCMJ's Oct. 31 protest at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development)
Despite the personal possession and use of cannabis being legal in DC, residents of Federally-subsidized Section 8 public housing are prohibited from smoking in their homes. Because Congress prohibits DC from enacting Tax'n'Regulate and the DC government prohibits public consumption in bars and clubs, folks in Section 8 have the choice of risking immediate eviction and possible imprisonment by smoking in their homes, or smoking on the street and risking arrest for smoking in public.
It's no wonder Section 8 is often referred to as "prison you pay rent for".
"Your Home Should Be A Safe Space"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=23
(Art promoting DCMJ's Oct. 31 protest at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development)
Despite the personal possession and use of cannabis being legal in DC, residents of Federally-subsidized Section 8 public housing are prohibited from smoking in their homes. Because Congress prohibits DC from enacting Tax'n'Regulate and the DC government prohibits public consumption in bars and clubs, folks in Section 8 have the choice of risking immediate eviction and possible imprisonment by smoking in their homes, or smoking on the street and risking arrest for smoking in public.
It's no wonder Section 8 is often referred to as "prison you pay rent for".
Friday, October 13, 2017
A new ReDistricted story on Lincoln and Comic Riffs behind the scene report
Painting history
Story and art by Teresa Roberts Logan
https://www.redistrictedcomics.com/carlbersch
There is only one eyewitness artwork of Lincoln's death. Here is the creator's story.
Tomorrow: Two comics panels at Fall for the Book at GMU
When:
October 14, 2017 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Where:
Merten Hall, Room 1202, George Mason University
4441 George Mason Blvd
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA
4441 George Mason Blvd
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Kara Oakleaf
703.993.3986
Bring the whole family for a celebration of comic books and graphic novels with artists S.L. Gallant, Paulina Ganucheau, Kevin Panetta, Jason Rodriquez, and Ben Towle. Gallant presents his artwork of a familiar hero figure as he is the longest running artist on G.I. Joe: An American Hero. Ganucheau and Panetta co-authored Zodiac Starforce, starring comic high school girls taking on the darkness of the earth. Rodriquez shares his graphic novel, Colonial Comics: New England, 1750-1775, and his revolutionary idea for exciting young adults to learn about the history of colonial New England. And Towle introduces readers to the coastal town of Blood's Haven, with an ocean full oysters and even oyster pirates in his graphic novel, Oyster War. Sponsored by Canon Solutions America
Oct 27: Animezing!: Galaxy Express 999
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