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Sunday, February 14, 2016
SPX 2016 Important Exhibitor Information!
Mark Giaimo's cartoon fine art
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-celebrating-nature/2016/02/10/98b66494-ce7f-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Nick Galifianakis contest at the Post
Valentine's reader cartoon contest: Write a great caption and win this Nick Galifianakis art!
Washington Post February 12 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/02/12/valentines-reader-cartoon-contest-write-a-great-caption-and-win-this-nick-galifianakis-art/
4 more SPX 2015 videos online
SPX 2015 Panel - Dear Internet: Today I Made a Comic. Now What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOiwIBE18tM
So you made a comic on the internet. Now how do you make sure it gets seen, read, and supported? We've assembled a crack team of internet-saavy creators and organizers to show you their ways so that you can make your own way. Join Molly Ostertag (Strong Female Protagonist), Aatmaja Pandya (Travelogue), Matt Bors (The Nib), and John D. Roberts from Comixology Submit, the digital self-publishing platform, for a journey through comics on the Internet in the 21st century. Moderated by Jen Vaughn.
SPX 2015 Panel - Animate Your Life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFVqpgtiKoQ
Animation is a thrilling medium that's changed so much just within the last decade! This panel features a lively discussion of the various paths people took to animation and what it currently means to them. Lilli Carre (Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation), Sam Spina (Regular Show), Ian McGinty (Welcome to Showside), and Monica Ray (Harvey Beaks) participate in the panel which is moderated by Michael Cavna.
SPX 2015 Panel - SPX Spotlight on Dylan Horrocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpc4M9iQWgM
Dylan Horrocks's beloved 1998 graphic novel Hicksville gave readers a sensitive and bittersweet fictionalized account of comics history, and imagined a whole world of possibilities for the form. 2015 saw Horrocks's return to regular publication with the new graphic novel, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, and Incomplete Works, collecting a body of short stories produced in the interim. Horrocks discusses his recent work and the responsibilities of fantasy with Best American Comics series editor Bill Kartalopoulos.
SPX 2015 Panel - Drawing The News: Comics Journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnHMWV_QGzE
Chris Kindred is a cartoonist, illustrator, and contributor to The Response. Peter Kuper is the co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated and the author of numerous graphic novels including, most recently, Ruins. Ted Rall is an author, columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist; his most recent book is Snowden. Matt Bors, founder of The Nib and The Response, leads this group in a conversation about the intersection between cartooning and politics today.
TMNT voice actors encounter on Fantastic Forum
Fantastic Forum Interview with RAY, TIM AND ROB
by Ulysses Campbell
Ray Francis, Tim Craggette and Rob Spencer are the creative masterminds behind RAY, TIM AND ROB. This dedicated team combines talent in artistry, writing, coloring as well as the various business elements of the comic book industry to form a dynamic creative collective. They also produce a podcast! Producer/host Ulysses E. Campbell talks with the team about their encounter with vocal artists from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! And Ray, Tim and Rob LOVE the turtles! Taped on location at Awesome Con DC!
Friday, February 12, 2016
The Beat on Batman, Bill Finger and Marc Nobleman
How Marc Tyler Nobleman Rescued the Legacy of Batman Co-Creator Bill Finger
02/11/2016 by Alexander Lu
http://www.comicsbeat.com/how-marc-tyler-nobleman-rescued-the-legacy-of-batman-co-creator-bill-finger/Feb 12-14: Katsucon has started in National Harbor!
The City Paper on Deadpool
Marvel's attempt at adult-oriented superhero fodder just comes off as juvenile [in print as Crass Action Hero].
Washington City Paper February 12, 2016, p. 29
The Post on Deadpool
'Deadpool': Marvel's 'merc with a mouth' has teeth, too
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/deadpool-marvels-merc-with-a-mouth-has-teeth-too/2016/02/11/5941019c-cce6-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.htmlalso in the Express -
This is not for everyone: 'Deadpool' plays to immature jokes, shocking vulgarity and over-the-top violence.
Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press
Express (February 12 2016): 15
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Comic Riffs talks to Telnaes
Why debate artist Ann Telnaes loves to live-sketch Clinton, and why she'll miss Christie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/02/11/why-debate-artist-ann-telnaes-loves-to-live-sketch-clinton-and-why-shell-miss-christie/
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Raging Cow"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1875
I've broken a promise I made to myself to avoid doing election cartoons at all costs, but my muse wouldn't quit kicking me in the nuts until I did this. When the news got out about Hillary Clinton's wet, sloppy blowjob of a speech to Goldman Sachs honchos and about her casting around among Goldman's executive ranks for cabinet appointments -- especially at Treasury -- it was a story too hot to not jump on.
While this news was certainly appalling, I still have to thank the Ice Queen and give her some due props for getting right out front with being a Wall Street tool and owning it in front of the media, God and everybody.
None of you Liberals out there can say you didn't know the score, now.
"What Clinton Said To Goldman Sachs", Politico 02.06.16:
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-money/2016/02/what-clinton-said-to-goldman-sachs-212602
1914 comic strip exhibit at the Smithsonian
Feb 19-20: Art Soiree political cartoon exhibit
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 10, 2016) - With a touch of art, style and humor, Art Soiree takes a look at the candidates and the hottest debate topics surrounding 2016 US Presidential Elections at its 6th Annual Political Cartoon Exhibit "Road to the White House" taking place at the Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown 3100 South Street NW, Washington DC during a two night exhibit on Friday, February 19th and Saturday, February 20th from 8pm to 12am.
Bringing together some of the best editorial and political cartoonists from the world's top newspapers and magazines, this will be the most unique and controversial event in political Washington, DC. Paying tribute to graphic satire as a significant journalistic medium and a catalyst for political debate, the event will feature the works of
KEVIN "KAL" KALLAUGHER (The Economist), TOM TOLES (Washington Post), MATT WUERKER (Politico), DARYL CAGLE (Cagle Cartoons Inc.), JIMMY MARGULIES (AM New York and Newsday), CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI (Sega), ROBERT L. ARIAIL (The State)
Artists will be available for interview on the site. Signed prints and originals of the cartoons on display will be available for purchase.
Event benefits Cartoonist Rights Network International (CRNI)
Friday, February 19th and Saturday, February 20th 8pm-12am The Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown at 3100 South Street NW, Washington DC 20007
Tickets: $20 - https://cartoonist2016.eventbrite.com/
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Feb 26: Animezing - Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
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JICC, Embassy of Japan | 1150 18th St., NW | Suite 100 | Washington | DC | 20036
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Wash Examiner on Kal coasters
The historic Hay-Adams Hotel across Lafayette Square from the White House is now featuring the 2016 contenders on its extremely popular political cartoon drink coasters. (Photo courtesy: Kevin Kallaugher)
D.C. bar lets you share a drink with 2016 candidates
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-bar-lets-you-grab-a-drink-with-your-favorite-candidates/article/2582786
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Smithsonian kids comics coming
These graphic novels for kids are museum-quality
By Nancy Szokan
Act Four blog February 8 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/these-graphic-novels-for-kids-are-museum-quality/2016/02/08/f93d922c-caad-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html
April 23: Justin Jordan at Comic Logic
***JUST ANNOUNCED! ***
Justin Jordan will be in store at our One Year Anniversary Party on April 23rd.
Creator of "The Strange Talent of Luther Strode", "Strayer" and "Spread"
Save the date...more names to be announced in the coming weeks!
Monday, February 08, 2016
Feb. 15: Swann Fellowship deadline
Feb. 15, 2016 is the deadline for receipt of applications for the Swann Foundation Fellowship, one of the few that supports scholarly graduate research in caricature and cartoon. For criteria, guidelines, and application forms, please see:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html
Please email swann@loc.gov or call (202) 707-9115 if you have questions.New Hampshire presidential cartoons online
Cartoonists Take on the New Hampshire Primary
POLITICO's Matt Wuerker handpicks his favorite New Hampshire-themed cartoons.
2/07/2016
http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2016/02/cartoonists-take-on-the-new-hampshire-primary-000611?lo=ap_e1&slide=0Black Excellence in Comics events
Upcoming Black Excellence in Comics events:
2/11 - Princeless
2/18 - Shaft Vol.1 and Shaft: Imitation of Life #1
2/22 - Fantom Discourse: "Afrofuturism - What If Wakanda Existed?"
2/25 - Power Man & Iron Fist
Sunday, February 07, 2016
That darn Toles
Tom Toles's Zika cartoon is '99 Red Balloons' all over again [in print as This is it, boys, this is war].
Barry Sasscer, Laurel
Friday, February 05, 2016
Feb 5: Lord Arik by Eric Apfelbaum in Falls Church
Compleating Cul de Sac first edition goes out of print
We're pleased to announce that we (aka The Thompsons) are just about to sign the contract with Picture This Press for them to publish the grandly-themed Richard Thompson Library. Compleating Cul de Sac version 2.0 is being expanded by editor Rhode and designer Bono Mitchell with more interviews, more Thompson art and more Team Cul de Sac art, even as we type. Any profits from this book will continue to be sent to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fund Parkinson's research, as we had arranged to do with the first edition.
The draft of The Incompleat Art of Why Things Are with an introduction by Joel Achenbach is in the hands of the publisher who's working with his designer on the book. Scott Stewart is continuing to work on a new collection of caricatures.
March 15: Phil Nel on Crockett Johnson at the Smithsonian
Tickets
$30 Member
$45 Non-Member
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Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906–1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901–1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Johnson's best-known solo works are the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon, published in 1955, and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952). Krauss wrote more than a dozen children's books illustrated by others, collaborating eight times with Maurice Sendak to produce titles that include A Hole Is to Dig and A Very Special House.
Together, Johnson and Krauss's style—whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child's point of view—is among the most revered and influential in children's literature and cartooning. Acclaimed by critics and loved by readers, the couple's work also drew attention from another quarter in the 1950s: the FBI. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, Krauss and Johnson became the targets of surveillance and investigations during this rabidly anti-Communist era.
Drawing on his dual biography Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (University Press of Mississippi), Philip Nel tells a true story of art, publishing, politics, and the power of the imagination.
Nel is a scholar of children's literature and a University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is co-editor of the first complete collection of Barnaby comic strips, an extended, multi-volume project of Fantagraphics Books.
The program is underwritten by the Irving M. Gorbach Charitable Foundation.
From 1965 until his death in 1975, Crockett Johnson painted more than 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, 80 are in the collections of the American History Museum. Take a look at a digital gallery, presented along with related diagrams from the artist's library and papers.
LOCATION:
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Mall exit)
The Post on Brazil's ‘Boy and the World’ cartoon
Seeing life through a child's hand-drawn eyes [online as Oscar-nominated 'Boy and the World' looks at life through a child's wide eyes]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/oscar-nominated-boy-and-the-world-looks-at-life-through-a-childs-wide-eyes/2016/02/03/f6ab5144-c7a5-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
The animation in the Academy Award-nominated "Boy and the World" was created with colored pencil, paint and photo collage. (GKIDS)
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Feb 11: Cartoons and Taboos: Dancing in a Visual Minefield
Cartoons and Taboos: Dancing in a Visual Minefield
Thursday, February 11, 6:30 - 8 pm
Cartoons and Taboos: Dancing in a Visual Minefield
New York University, 1307 L St. NW, Washington, DC 20005 (Metro: McPherson Square)
One year ago, on January 7, 2015, terrorism attacked freedom of expression with the assault on the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. The slogan "Je suis Charlie" became ubiquitous. All of Europe showed its solidarity with France. Many citizens living in capital cities placed garlands of flowers in front of the French embassies. The European media reproduced caricatures as a show of solidarity.
The freedom which was accepted throughout Europe after the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and which formed the core of liberalism is being seriously threatened today. For whoever avails himself of the freedom upon which our ability to express and accept criticism is based may face the threat of death as a result. Withstanding this challenge and finding institutions that continue to protect this freedom is an imminently urgent task. We are confronted with a fundamental shift in thinking: freedom of expression can cost lives. Time will tell what consequences this has – will there be an image policy to prevent conflicts? Or will we maintain our position in editorial departments, at universities, in art and politics?
European cultural organizations hold on to the belief in the freedom of expression, and refuse to avoid difficult topics. Four caricaturists have accepted our invitation to participate in a discussion about these questions.
Panelists
Lectrr (Steven Degryse) is a Belgian cartoonist, best known for his daily political cartoons in De Standaard. Over the past decade he has been published all over Europe, both as an editorial cartoonist and as a syndicated single panel cartoonist, in magazines including Helsingsborgs Dagblad (Sweden), Prospect Magazine (UK), Nieuwe Revu (The Netherlands), Veronica Magazine (The Netherlands), Kretèn (Hungary) and many others. His work has been published in over ten languages and 15 books. Lectrr is a member of the jury in Knokke-Heist, the oldest cartoon festival in the world, and was nominated multiple times for the Press Cartoon Belgium and the Press Cartoon Europe awards.
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) is the international award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London and The Baltimore Sun. In a distinguished career that spans 37 years, Kal has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resumé includes six collections of his published work, including his celebrated anthology of Economist cartoons titled Daggers Drawn (2013). In 2015, KAL was awarded the Grand Prix for Cartoon of the Year in Europe, The Herblock Prize for Cartoonist of the Year in the US and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning. In 1999, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons said of Kevin "Commanding a masterful style, Kallaugher stands among the premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century."
Ann Telnaes creates animated editorial cartoons and a blog of print cartoons, animated gifs, and sketches for The Washington Post. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her print cartoons. Telnaes' print work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in 2004. Her first book, Humor's Edge, was published in 2004. A collection of Vice President Cheney cartoons, Dick, was self-published by Telnaes and Sara Thaves in 2006. Her work has also been exhibited in Paris, Jerusalem, and Lisbon.
Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for POLITICO. Part of the team that launched POLITICO in 2006, he provides editorial cartoons, illustrations, caricatures and Web animations for both the print and Web platforms of the publication. Over the past 35 years, Matt's cartoons have been used widely in publications that range from dailies like the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, The Nation and Smithsonian. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2010, he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress, and the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award.
No charge. RSVP here.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Belgium and the House of Flanders, New York.
This Iconoclash program is also supported by the Ambassador of the EU in the US, S.E. David O'Sullivan, the British Council, the Embassy of Slovenia, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Goethe-Institut and the European Union National Institutes of Culture.