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Showing posts with label UPCOMING EVENT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UPCOMING EVENT. Show all posts
Friday, February 10, 2017
Feb 18: Gordon Harris and Dust Elves in Baltimore
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
Local Cartoonist Tour by Paul Merklein
PRESS RELEASE
Do you like to draw? Do you want to be a cartoonist?
See local cartoonist Paul Merklein this month at libraries in DC, Maryland
and Virginia.
Merklein is touring libraries in May thru August, drawing cartoons, super
heroes and people right from the audience! Who will he draw next?
Merklein lives in Silver Spring MD, and tours Libraries, Schools and Comic
Cons. His cartoons appear in publications and online.
See Merklein's Tour Dates here... http://greatbigfaces.blogspot.com
See his cartoon "Dabney and Dad" at DabneyandDad.com
See his cartoon "Take Five" at TakeFiveCartoons.com
Do you like to draw? Do you want to be a cartoonist?
See local cartoonist Paul Merklein this month at libraries in DC, Maryland
and Virginia.
Merklein is touring libraries in May thru August, drawing cartoons, super
heroes and people right from the audience! Who will he draw next?
Merklein lives in Silver Spring MD, and tours Libraries, Schools and Comic
Cons. His cartoons appear in publications and online.
See Merklein's Tour Dates here... http://greatbigfaces.blogspot.com
See his cartoon "Dabney and Dad" at DabneyandDad.com
See his cartoon "Take Five" at TakeFiveCartoons.com
Friday, November 06, 2015
Nov 13: Animezing - Royal Space Force: Wings of HonnĂȘamise
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JICC, Embassy of Japan | 1150 18th St., NW | Suite 100 | Washington | DC | 20036
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Oct 20, 24: Mike Jenkins' LunchBagArt reception
Mike Jenkins' LunchBagArt is on display at Studio Pause during the month of October. Please join us for a reception on Oct 20 6-8pm where Mike will talk about his inspriration, his daily method, and answer questions. Studio Pause owner Sush Mazumdar creates beautifully handmade books, so the much awaited LunchBag Art Books will also be for sale!
Studio Pause is at 2421 26th Rd South, Arlington, VA, just east of S. Glebe Rd. Not lots of parking, so plan on extra time to find a spot.
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Reception, Sat., Oct 24, 6-8 pm
Art to Lunch: Thinking Outside the Bag with Cartoonist Mike Jenkins After a 25 year career as an Editorial Cartoonist, Mike Jenkins left the newspaper business but is still recovering (though he occasionally falls off the wagon). He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Tish and daughter Maggy and works primarily as a caricaturist. He started his company Capital Artworks to provide caricaturists for events around the DC area as well as custom artwork for corporate, government and private clients.
When his two older children left for college, he started doodling on Maggy’s school lunch bags. When she mentioned one night during dinner that all the kids in cafeteria would run to see her lunch bag every day, they knew they were onto something. Mike’s wife posted the next bag on Facebook, and they were stunned by the positive reaction. That’s when Mike knew the pressure was on, and he was back to facing a daily deadline!
PLUS! Art to Lunch: Thinking Outside the Bag, a Handmade Storybook with 17 of Mike’s Lunch Bag art which will be available for sale at the reception.
Mike’s work can be seen daily on Instagram and Twitter @CapitalArtworks and on his website at www.CapitalArtworks.com
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Oct 20: Peter Kuper talk at Library of Congress (CORRECTED)
at noon about his new, "328 page graphic novel called Ruins that follows a fictional couple on sabbatical in Mexico and in tandem the migration of the Monarch butterfly."
Further details to come.Wednesday, May 20, 2015
May 22: Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
Friday, May 22, 2015 at 7 p.m.
Fetter-Vorm, author and illustrator of Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb,
chosen by the ALA as 2013’s best graphic novel for teens, and Kelman,
professor of the Civil War era at Penn State and author of A Misplaced Massacre,
have teamed up for a unique and illuminating view of the War Between
the States. Using Fetter-Vorm’s full-color panoramas and Kelman’s
concise, penetrating commentaries, each chapter begins with an ordinary
object—a pen, a flag, a set of manacles—which then gains extraordinary
meaning for its wartime role.
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Friday, May 15, 2015
May 18: Jorge Aguirre at Takoma Park library
Takoma Park Maryland Library
Monday, May 18, 7:30 p.m.
Join
us on Monday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. when artist Jorge Aguirre presents
his newest graphic novel for kids, "Dragons Beware!" The book, aimed at
ages 7-12, is a sequel to the popular "Giants Beware!" Politics &
Prose will be selling copies of Aguirre's books, but the program is free
and no purchase is required to attend.
Monday, May 11, 2015
May 13: Matt Phelan at Takoma Park library
Picture Book Creators Michelle Knudsen and Matt Phelan
Takoma Park Maryland Library
Wednesday, May 13, 7 p.m.
Author
Michelle Knudsen and illustrator Matt Phelan will read and discuss
their new picture book, "Marilyn's Monster," on Wednesday, May 13, at 7
p.m. In the book, aimed at ages 3-7, Knudsen and Phelan tell the story
of a little girl who grows impatient at being the only kid without a
monster and goes off in search of one to call her own. Politics &
Prose will sell copies of the book, but the event is free and no
purchase is required to attend.
Phelan's done some all-ages graphic novels which I recommend highly.
Monday, April 27, 2015
April 29-30: Jay Hosler at Politics and Prose and Takoma Park library
Wednesday, April 29, 10:30 a.m.
Entomologist
Hosler’s action-packed graphic novel depicts the tale of Lucy, a
curious and tenacious scientist, who happens to be a beetle. She leaves
New Coleopolis, her urban home at the edge of a vast desert in the
protective shade of a palm tree, to discover something new about the
world. With a team of researchers, consisting of a firefly, a stag
beetle, and a variety of kin at her side, Lucy’s quest is rendered in
sweeping pen and ink illustrations and filled with information on the
scientific method and its applications. Ages 10 – 14
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C.DC20008
Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Thursday, Apr. 30, 7:30 p.m.
Graphic
novelist Jay Hosler will present his newest book, "Last of the
Sandwalkers," on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Hosler, who teaches
biology at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, is known for his unique
blend of science and comics. Politics & Prose will be selling copies
of Hosler's books, but the program is free and no purchase is required
to attend.
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
April 9: Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez
Takoma Park Maryland Library
Graphic
novelists Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez will present their
new book for kids, "Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure" on Thursday, April
9, at 7:30 p.m. In the book, Spiegelman and Sanchez tell the story of a
boy named Pablo, who gets separated from his schoolmates on a class
trip and has to figure out how to navigate the NYC subway system. In a
starred review, Kirkus noted that the book is "required reading for
anyone, tourist or resident, mystified by or anxious about using
arguably the greatest public-transportation system on the planet.." At
our event, Politics & Prose will be selling copies of "Lost in
NYC," but the event is free and no purchase is required to attend.
Thursday, Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
March 15: SuperNoVa Comicons Leesburg Va.
SuperNoVa Comicons is happy to announce our return to Leesburg Virginia on Sunday March 15th from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Over 50 Tables of vendors, artist, small press and special guests.
There will be vendors from 4 states offering comic books from Golden, Silver, Bronze and Modern Ages. Comic books for all ages, Non-Sports Cards, Comic Supplies, Gaming Supplies and MORE!!!
Confirmed Guests and Small Press:
Hebb Trimpe
Patrick Block
Shelly Block
Chris Flick
Bill McKay
Dan Nokes
Paste Pot Prefects
Mark Roberts
Top Secret Press
Hebb Trimpe
Patrick Block
Shelly Block
Chris Flick
Bill McKay
Dan Nokes
Paste Pot Prefects
Mark Roberts
Top Secret Press
Confirmed Vendors:
All American Comics- Gene Carpenter
Fandata Bargain Comics- Harry Hopkins
Duckys Comics
Timber Grove Traders- Dave Wulf
Philadelphia Comicon- Derek Woywood
Zeno's Books
Black Dog Collectables
Dave Bowen
Tom Jackson
Hero Initiative
Ram Collectables
Anaconda Collectables
Flying Donut Comics- Dan Cusimano
Comic Logic Books and Art- Kevin Bednarz
Untamed Worlds- Chris Garbee
Scott Deane
Pack Cracker- Teddy Antonakos
Everyday Comics- John Rudemaker
Silver Dragon Studios- Thomas Mulvey
Phantom Wolfe Apparel- Ed Richter
Records and Rarities- Ryan Lynch
GameOn Comics
Cards Comics and Collectables- Marc Nathan
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
March 2: Steve Brodner in Baltimore
Steve Brodner will be speaking on Johns Hopkins' Homewood Campus at 5:30 on March 2. See the image for more details.
Monday, February 23, 2015
With Macbeth behind him, Gareth Hinds eyes an "impossibly long list of classic adaptations"
Gareth Hinds (all pictures from his website) |
Gareth Hinds just released Macbeth, his newest Shakespeare adaptation. He'll be introducing Macbeth tonight at the Takoma Park Library in MD, Politics and Prose in DC on March 3, and Hooray for Books in VA this Friday. Maria Russo at the New York Times just gave the book an excellent review, writing "The book feels like a remarkably faithful rendering of the world of the play. You can almost feel the damp chill of the Scottish Highlands in the silvery-green palette, and as the murdered corpses pile up, the warm oranges of the candlelit castle interiors inevitably tinge toward the blood-red at the center of the story."
What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
Graphic novels based on literary classics
Always a combination, sometimes more digital, sometimes more traditional.
When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?
I'm from central Vermont. I was born in 1971.
Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?
My wife took a job at the literacy nonprofit First Book, and we moved to Takoma Park about a year and a half ago.
What is your training and/or education in cartooning?
I went to Parsons School of Design for illustration, but they didn't have a lot of classes on comics, so as a cartoonist I'm mostly self-taught.
Who are your influences?
Herge, Moebius, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walt Simonson, Walt Kelly, Lorenzo Matotti, Enki Bilal, Masamune Shirow and a lot of other manga artists.
If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?
I would have probably picked a more popular play than King Lear as my first Shakespeare outing.
I'm from central Vermont. I was born in 1971.
Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?
My wife took a job at the literacy nonprofit First Book, and we moved to Takoma Park about a year and a half ago.
What is your training and/or education in cartooning?
I went to Parsons School of Design for illustration, but they didn't have a lot of classes on comics, so as a cartoonist I'm mostly self-taught.
Who are your influences?
Herge, Moebius, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walt Simonson, Walt Kelly, Lorenzo Matotti, Enki Bilal, Masamune Shirow and a lot of other manga artists.
If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?
I would have probably picked a more popular play than King Lear as my first Shakespeare outing.
What work are you best-known for?
Beowulf and The Odyssey
Beowulf and The Odyssey
What work are you most proud of?
When I look back at each book I see things to love and things to groan about. Beowulf launched my career. The Odyssey is my magnum opus (At least so far).
When I look back at each book I see things to love and things to groan about. Beowulf launched my career. The Odyssey is my magnum opus (At least so far).
What would you like to do or work on in the future?
An impossibly long list of classic adaptations and original projects.
An impossibly long list of classic adaptations and original projects.
What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?
Work on something else for a bit, draw from life, meditate, doodle.
Work on something else for a bit, draw from life, meditate, doodle.
Beowulf |
The only constant is change. However, like other media I don't think newer forms of storytelling will make comics go away, though they may become less profitable or change in terms of delivery format. I'm already doing eBooks, and I think they're still in their infancy. We're kind of still waiting for the right reading platform/device as well as a unified format.
What local cons do you attend? The Small Press Expo, Intervention, or others? Any comments about attending them?
I've been at SPX on and off since the mid-90s. I generally don't table, as I prefer to walk around and see what/who is there. I have been a guest at the Gaithersburg Book Fest and am going back this year.
What's your favorite thing about DC?
What's your favorite thing about DC?
It's a lot easier to get around to things than New York, and there's more good theater (especially Shakespeare) than almost any other city but New York.
Least favorite?
What monument or museum do like to take visitors to?
Depends on who they are, but my favorite is probably The Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian Museum of Art. Particularly the Luce Center and some of the contemporary portrait shows.
How about a favorite local restaurant?
There are quite a few options I like, but right now probably Founding Farmers and Comet Pizza Ping Pong (right next to Politics & Prose bookstore!).
Do you have a website or blog?
Do you have a website or blog?
www.garethhinds.com links to my blog, email newsletter, and social media profiles.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Feb 5: George O'Connor returns to the Takoma Park MD Library
George O'Connor returns to the Takoma Park MD Library, Thursday Feb 5th, 7:30 in the kids room at the Takoma Park Maryland Library. If you can't make his signing earlier in the day come find him here. He's introducing Ares: Bringer of War, the newest in his Olympians series.
Talk process, research, story, characters, etc. with a real chill dude who has managed to carve a nice space for himself on the bookshelves of your local library and in schools etc. Nice guy does well. Hang out and have fun.
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Sunday, February 01, 2015
Cartoonists at Politics and Prose in February
3rd
Start: 10:30 am
4th
Start: 6:30 pm
5th
Start: 7:30 pm
17th
Start: 10:30 am
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Cartoonists at Politics and Prose in February
3rd
Start: 10:30 am
4th
Start: 6:30 pm
5th
Start: 7:30 pm
17th
Start: 10:30 am
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Big Planet Comics 20% off everything New Year's Day sale!
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Hagen paintings at Cafe Nola
David Hagen says, "Hagen paintings are on display at Cafe Nola...
....for the whole month of December! Only problem is you have to hike up to Frederick.
I personally am giving a Hagen original as a gift this Christmas.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Nov 22: Nightmare The Rat Signing with Rafer Roberts and John Shine
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Friday, October 31, 2014
The Post reviews ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’
Not a Disney princess story
[in print in the Express as "A fairy tale made for grown ups"; 'The Tale of the Princess Kaguya' movie review]
By Michael O'SullivanWashington Post October 31, 2014, p. EZ 34 and Express, p. 22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-tale-of-the-princess-kaguya-movie-review/2014/10/29/bd63986c-5e1d-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html
Chloë Grace Moretz gives voice to the title character in the dubbed version of the animated "The Tale of Princess Kaguya." (Hatake Jimusho/GKids)
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