I spent a few hours at the MLK branch of the DC public library talking to local comics creators. IDs to come later as I'm posting from a phone.
Showing posts with label zines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zines. Show all posts
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Thursday, October 01, 2020
Matt Dembicki's minicomics collection in the Library of Congress
I was chatting with the serials librarians (electronically) today after dropping off some comics and minicomics for their collection (curbside), and Matt Dembicki (former ComicsDC writer and our logo artist) came up. He donated his minicomics collection to the Library of Congress a few years back and this search will let you find the 355 issues that he passed along, as the "Matt Dembicki Mini-Comics Collection" nestles in the main comic book collection. The "Small Press Expo Collection" has 3250 pieces cataloged, but the librarians solicit those at the con (when there is one).
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Small Press Expo (SPX) 2019 day 1 in photos
Mostly people local to the area...
Eddie Campbell |
Karen Green at Fanfare Ponent Mon |
Dustin Harbin |
Fantagraphics table |
Robin Ha with her autobiography due next year |
Art Hondros |
Hobbes Holluck |
DC Conspiracy |
DC Conspiracy - Dale Rawlings and Evan Keeling |
DC Conspiracy |
Mark Lindblom and his famous cartoonists figures |
Winsor McCay |
Teresa Roberts Logan |
Ted Rall and his new autobiographical book |
Michael Brace |
Julian Lytle |
Pauline Ganucheau, Kevin Panetta, Savanna Ganucheau |
Keith Knight |
Jared Smith of Retrofit / Big Planet Comics |
Gemma Correll |
KCBC beer art of Brooklyn, New York |
Earl Holloway of KCBC |
Typex from the Netherlands |
Rob Ullman, giving me original artwork to a cover of the City Paper after I lost the tearsheets to a flood. |
Gordon Harris |
Deandra 'Nika' Tan |
R.M. Rhodes |
Jennifer Hayden |
Summer Pierre, Ellen Lindner, Glynnis Fawkes and Jennifer Hayden |
Chinese proto-comics |
Craig Fisher, Chris Ware and Eddie Campbell |
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Malaka Gharib
by Mike Rhode
Next month, I'll be moderating a Nerds in NoMa panel on March 12th on "Comic Converts: The World of Comic Illustrators in D.C.” One of the attendees will be Malaka Gharib, and I must confess to not being familiar with her work previously, even though she has a book I Was Their American Dream coming out soon from Penguin Random House which describes it thusly:
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family’s rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib’s illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka’s upbringing will look familiar to anyone who grew up in the pre-internet era, but her particular story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigates her childhood chasing her parents’ ideals, learning to code-switch between her family’s Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. I Was Their American Dream is at once a journal of growing up and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children.
Sounds good, right? Here's her short bio, grabbed from Catapult, where she has a cute slice of life travel story, Special Request:
Malaka Gharib is a journalist at NPR. She is the author of "I Was Their American Dream," a graphic memoir (Clarkson Potter, April 2019) about being Filipino-Egyptian-American. She is the founder of The Runcible Spoon, a food zine, and the co-founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair. She lives in a rowhouse with her husband in Washington, D.C.
She's answering our usual questions before the talk.
What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
Comics and spot illustrations, also flash installations and little zines.
How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?
Traditional pen and ink and compute.
When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?
198.
Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?
Work! But it's become my home, have been here for a decade. Kingman Park.
What is your training and/or education in cartooning?
None, but I've been doodling and making cartoons since I was a kid. Comics and zines started in high school in Southern California.
Who are your influences?
Roz Chast, Marissa Moss, Adrian Tomine, Christoph Niemann, Maira Kalman, Mari Andrew.
If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?
Go to art school!
What work are you best-known for?
The Runcible Spoon, my zine about food. We got profiled once in the New York Times and it was honestly my proudest moment. And now my forthcoming graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, about being first-generation Filipino-Egyptian-American. My book will be on sale at Solid State Books on April 30, the publication date [note that this is an event that Malaka will be speaking at].
What work are you most proud of?
My little zines that I make on my Instagram continue to delight me https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6Ys2ZhjoU/.
What would you like to do or work on in the future?
Children's books, game books. I've got an idea for a new book called 101 Impossible Games And How To Play Them.
What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?
I think about how writing or drawing is all about discipline, but that it takes as long as it needs to take -- and that blocks are part of the process.
What do you think will be the future of your field?
For print zines and comix? I think it will be like vinyl, rare and cultural phenomenon, so then perceived as special.
What local cons do you attend? DC Zinefest? The Small Press Expo, or others? Any comments about attending them?
Those, of course, and the event I cohost: the DC Art Book Fair (July 7 at the National Museum for Women in the Arts).
What's your favorite thing about DC?
The feeling of seeing the National Monuments on the taxi drive from DCA to home, and knowing that this beautiful, fucked up city is mine.
Least favorite?
The color palette of the city in winter.
What monument or museum do you like to take visitors to?
The atrium in the National Gallery of Art for a coffee.
How about a favorite local restaurant?
I like the meatloaf at Ted's Bulletin.
Do you have a website or blog?
http://instagram.com/malakagharib
Next month, I'll be moderating a Nerds in NoMa panel on March 12th on "Comic Converts: The World of Comic Illustrators in D.C.” One of the attendees will be Malaka Gharib, and I must confess to not being familiar with her work previously, even though she has a book I Was Their American Dream coming out soon from Penguin Random House which describes it thusly:
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family’s rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib’s illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka’s upbringing will look familiar to anyone who grew up in the pre-internet era, but her particular story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigates her childhood chasing her parents’ ideals, learning to code-switch between her family’s Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. I Was Their American Dream is at once a journal of growing up and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children.
Sounds good, right? Here's her short bio, grabbed from Catapult, where she has a cute slice of life travel story, Special Request:
Malaka Gharib is a journalist at NPR. She is the author of "I Was Their American Dream," a graphic memoir (Clarkson Potter, April 2019) about being Filipino-Egyptian-American. She is the founder of The Runcible Spoon, a food zine, and the co-founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair. She lives in a rowhouse with her husband in Washington, D.C.
She's answering our usual questions before the talk.
What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
Comics and spot illustrations, also flash installations and little zines.
How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?
Traditional pen and ink and compute.
When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?
198.
Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?
Work! But it's become my home, have been here for a decade. Kingman Park.
What is your training and/or education in cartooning?
None, but I've been doodling and making cartoons since I was a kid. Comics and zines started in high school in Southern California.
Who are your influences?
Roz Chast, Marissa Moss, Adrian Tomine, Christoph Niemann, Maira Kalman, Mari Andrew.
If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?
Go to art school!
What work are you best-known for?
The Runcible Spoon, my zine about food. We got profiled once in the New York Times and it was honestly my proudest moment. And now my forthcoming graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, about being first-generation Filipino-Egyptian-American. My book will be on sale at Solid State Books on April 30, the publication date [note that this is an event that Malaka will be speaking at].
What work are you most proud of?
My little zines that I make on my Instagram continue to delight me https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6Ys2ZhjoU/.
What would you like to do or work on in the future?
Children's books, game books. I've got an idea for a new book called 101 Impossible Games And How To Play Them.
What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?
I think about how writing or drawing is all about discipline, but that it takes as long as it needs to take -- and that blocks are part of the process.
What do you think will be the future of your field?
For print zines and comix? I think it will be like vinyl, rare and cultural phenomenon, so then perceived as special.
What local cons do you attend? DC Zinefest? The Small Press Expo, or others? Any comments about attending them?
Those, of course, and the event I cohost: the DC Art Book Fair (July 7 at the National Museum for Women in the Arts).
What's your favorite thing about DC?
The feeling of seeing the National Monuments on the taxi drive from DCA to home, and knowing that this beautiful, fucked up city is mine.
Least favorite?
The color palette of the city in winter.
What monument or museum do you like to take visitors to?
The atrium in the National Gallery of Art for a coffee.
How about a favorite local restaurant?
I like the meatloaf at Ted's Bulletin.
Do you have a website or blog?
http://instagram.com/malakagharib
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