Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Monday, April 27, 2015
April 29-30: Jay Hosler at Politics and Prose and Takoma Park library
Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Cartoonists at Politics and Prose in February
Monday, June 16, 2014
Catching up with local photo ops - Chast, Horsey, Pastis and Brown
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Herblock and Chast on YouTube
Herblock: A Political Cartoonist - History, Cartoons, Civil Rights,
McCarthyism, Nixon
C-Span2's BookTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFg8N4HvEus
Roz Chast "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant"
Politics and Prose· May 20, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLI0L-A1c6c
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast discusses her new book at Politics &
Prose in Washington, D.C. This event was recorded May 13, 2014.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Bob Mankoff asks, "How About Wednesday - Is Wednesday Good For You?"
The book is a breezy, extremely well-illustrated autobiography / history of New Yorker cartooning / treatise on gag cartooning that is a quick, but worthwhile read. The style is one that Mankoff perfected on his From the Desk of Bob Mankoff blog: short, pithy, humorous essays well illustrated by cartoons. By this point, in 20 years of being the cartoon editor, he's selected over 14,000 for the magazine, many of which aren't by him. That's actually a sample of the type of humor in the book by the way.
My suspicion is that parts of this book actually appeared there first, which in no way undermines its value. The introduction is actually useful for anyone who picks up the book and is unfamiliar with Mankoff's role in cartooning. He then begins with a superficial look at his early interest in cartooning, relating that to the currently-fashionable theory that Jews produced much of the 20th century's comic art.* And honestly, that is all we really need about his teenage years, and the book picks up steam when he writes about attempting to break into Lee Lorenz's cartoonist stable. His discussion of the need for a distinctive style, and developing his pointillist version, is quite interesting. Mankoff's look at the first cartoons by him, Jack Zeigler, Michael Maslin, Roz Chast and Mick Stevens is clever, and his discussion of the changing nature of New Yorker cartoons is a must-read.
A chapter looks at how he began the Cartoon Bank, an electronic database / syndication service for cartoons the New Yorker rejected, sold that to the magazine which expanded it, and indexed and digitized all the cartoons the magazine had ever run. The way the magazine handled this before was a scrapbook for each cartoonist with clippings pasted in them. One can easily see the possibilities that having a computer-searchable catalog opened up for licensing and reprint books.
Perhaps a little too much space is devoted to the Seinfeld episode which focussed on the New Yorker's cartoon choices, but Mankoff uses that as a stepping off place to write about the nature of cartoon humor. As I said, he's a very smart man. Mankoff also looks at the joys and difficulties of developing his own stable of newer cartoonists, how and why cartoons are selected, editor-in-chief David Remnick's role in the final selection, the cartoon contest is the magazine's back pages, and closes with a look at the newest cartoonists to join the magazine.
Overall, if one is interested in either gag cartooning, the New Yorker, or the nature of humor, this is a must-have book.
*Not that there's anything wrong with that, to quote another comedic Jew, Jerry Seinfeld.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Joe Sacco (and others) at Politics and Prose
Joe Sacco did a nice talk about his new bookish-thing, The Great War, at Politics and Prose. The audience was far more World War 1 buffs than comics buffs, although cartoonists Art Hondros, Barbara Dale, and Michael Cavna were in the audience as well as journalist Peter Carlson and cartoon librarian Sara Duke. Politics and Prose eventually gets the video online.
Here's some more pictures of Sacco's visit.
Here's video of some earlier P&P events that haven't been linked to yet:
Friday, October 18, 2013
Oct 21-22: Brian Biggs booksignings
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Oct 21-22: Brian Biggs at local bookstores
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Tonight: Gene Yang at Cleveland Park Library
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Monday, September 16, 2013
This morning! Liniers at Politics and Prose
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Politics and Prose Interactive Graphic Novel Panel! And events with Yang and Pope.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
cARToons exhibit opens in Politics and Prose
The exhibit at Modern Times Coffeehouse in Politics and Prose bookstore, curated by Theresa Roberts Logan, opened tonight with many of the contributors attending. Here's some photographs, although I eventually gave up taking them when professional Joe Carabeo arrived.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Weldon discusses Superman on the Kojo Nnamdi show
I've just about finished Glen Weldon's new book Superman: An Unauthorized Biography, and can recommend it. You can listen to him on NPR last week -
Bellantoni, Christina. 2013.
How Superman Explains America.
National Public Radio and WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show (July 9).
online at
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-07-09/how-superman-explains-america
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio-player?nid=23650
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-07-09/how-superman-explains-america/transcript
and the pictures are from his talk at Politics and Prose yesterday, which was fun. When the bookstore posts the video they shot, I'll add link to it.
Monday, May 06, 2013
Pictures of cartoonists made my life so wonderful...
Here's more shots of Awesome Con. Starro the Conqueror!
Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, receiving the Herblock Award for his strip, This Modern World, at the Library of Congress. See the strip here.
Way too many shots of Charles Vess at Politics and Prose bookstore.
Free Comic Book Day at Big Planet Comics in Bethesda and Vienna, as well as Victory Comics. That's Art Hondros, the cover artist for Magic Bullet #6.
Political cartoonist Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher's book launch for Daggers Drawn, his Kickstarter-funded retrospective, held at Boordy Vineyard near Baltimore. Buy the book here.
Glen Echo Park in Maryland with cartoonist Lincoln "Big Nate" Peirce. Get tickets to the Big Nate musical here. (I'm working on writing up an interview with Peirce, but I saw the show on opening day, and can recommend it).
Monday, April 29, 2013
May 2: Charles Vess at Politics & Prose at 10:30 AM
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Stephan Pastis at Politics and Prose Bookstore (October 6, 2012)
Stephan Pastis at Politics and Prose Bookstore (October 6, 2012)
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis speaks about his comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC.More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42072348@N00/sets/72157631708410406/with/8061262204/
Audio: http://archive.org/details/StephanPastisAtPoliticsAndProseBookstore
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
May 4: Alison Bechdel at Politics and Prose
May 4 2012 7:00 pm
In her acclaimed graphic memoir, Fun Home, Bechdel focused on her father, his secret life, and his death. Now she turns to her talented, emotionally repressed mother, exploring the family psychology and the tentative mother-daughter truce the two achieved via D.W. Winnicott , Dr. Seuss, and Bechdel’s own vivid memories.
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Washington, District Of Columbia
I'm planning on being there - Fun Home was a great book.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Small Press Expo Spring Update and Guy Delisle Book Signing
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Politics and Prose's Graphic Novel Bookgroup books! (UPDATED)
Here's the list for the next 6 months.
As for the April book: Delisle will be coming to store on the 26th…so I think we'll probably have the group then. Maybe he'll join us for the discussion. Also, this book has not been released yet, but I'll let you all know when it is…probably mid-April.
April 25/26th
Jerusalem by Delisle
May 23rd
Are you My Mother by Allison Bechdel
June 27th
Dylan Dog: Case Files by Sclavi
July 25th
Local by Brian Wood
August 22nd
Understanding Comics by McCloud
September 26th
The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes
October 24th
Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mignola