Friday, November 15, 2013
Huge mural in progress on M St.
MacAuley cartooning for Cosmopolitan.com
Nov 20: Joe Sacco at Politics and Prose bookstore
Joe Sacco - The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme ♦
Sacco's extraordinary graphic work captures the first days of the infamous Battle of the Somme in a twenty-four page foldout. This panorama depicts scenes of General Haig and the trenches, but most vividly conveys the mass horror of thousands of troops marching out—and thousands being cut down.
Beer and wine will be available.
New Flugennock -Latest'n'Greatest: "Angry Birds"
"Angry Birds"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1409
Last week JPMorgan Chase, world-renowned den of thieves, decided to try and buff up their PR by staging an event on Twitter, a question-and-answer event under the hashtag #AskJPM. Needless to say, hilarity ensued.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AskJPM&src=hash
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/13/jpmorgan-twitterpromptfanspopulistoutrage.html
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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"
--grateful dead.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Dec. 6: Live Big Planet Comics podcast 100th episode
Comic Riffs talks to Lalo Alcaraz
'BORDERTOWN': Lalo Alcaraz on joining Seth MacFarlane's new Fox immigration comedy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/bordertown-lalo-alcaraz-on-joining-seth-macfarlanes-new-fox-immigration-comedy/2013/11/14/1b6b2c40-4cef-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_blog.html
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Nov. 22: Super Art Fight in Rockville
Nov 21: Cartoons & Cocktails annual auction
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Nov 14: Satire and Paper Money talk at Library of Congress
New Research at The John W. Kluge Center
Topic: The Art of Paper Money
Scholar: Amanda Lahikainen, Kluge Fellow
November 7, 2013
What roles have artists and printmakers played in the normalization of paper money?
Art historian Amanda Lahikainen, Kluge Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center, is researching the responses of British artists and printmakers to the introduction of paper money in England while at the Kluge Center.
Lahikainen has spent the past six months as a scholar-in-residence at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She is looking at the ways in which print artists in England satirized the introduction of paper money and the ways in which art may have helped enable paper money to become normalized in society more broadly.
"Satire responds to important events. One of those important events was the increased use of paper money in England in 1797," Lahikainen says. "Prime Minister William Pitt declared paper money the de facto currency. Suddenly, people could no longer bring credit instruments to the bank and exchange it for gold. The result was great unease and distrust."
British satirists responded with grotesque and scatological imagery deriding the new system. Some produced imitation, satirical bank notes that challenged the trust in the new currency. A few supported the new instruments. But in all cases, Lahikainen says, the work of satirists helped to normalize a paper money system backed by trust and not by bullion.
"Even when they're mocking the currency, they're also helping people grow more accustomed to it," Lahikainen says. "This early period of paper money offers an important glimpse into how the process of naturalization took place—a naturalization we take for granted today."
Among the satirists Lahikainen is researching is little-known engraver John Luffman. Luffman began printing satirical bank notes in 1803, and his notes were re-printed in 1818. The Library of Congress has one of the preeminent collections of satirical banknotes in the world, including Luffman's.
Lahikainen recently shared examples of British satirical bank notes with researchers at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. "They were unfamiliar with this tradition, and it was wonderful to hear their responses," she says. "We then spoke about the definition of money more broadly. It was a great discussion."
Lahikainen is in residence at the Kluge Center through December.
Upcoming Events with Amanda Lahikainen
Graphic Satire, Paper Money and the Art of Engraving in Britain, 1797-1821
with Amanda Lahikainen, Kluge Fellow
Thursday, November 14 at 12:00 pm in room LJ-113
Amanda Lahikainen, Assistant Professor of Art History at Aquinas College, on the connections between art and money, and how graphic satires and satirical banknotes reflected and helped produce the changing cultures of paper money and engraving in England.
Nov 19: Rep. John Lewis at National Press Club book fair
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Monday, November 11, 2013
'Smithsonian' list includes Wonder Woman
Washington Times on Ms. Marvel being Muslim
Washington Times editorial
To sum up the paper's argument on Ms. Marvel being a teenage Muslim girl: "Marvel Comics insists
that it won’t evangelize for Islam, but the comic book industry promotes eerie
lifestyles."
To sum up the paper's argument on Ms. Marvel being a teenage Muslim girl: "Marvel Comics insists that it won’t evangelize for Islam, but the comic book industry promotes eerie lifestyles."
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Rep. Lewis' March on Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow | November 07, 2013
Civil rights history illustrated in new book
Congressman John Lewis and his co-authors of the bestselling graphic novel "March" talk with Rachel Maddow about telling the story of the civil rights movement.
Loya's Splotch Monster Island shop
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Even more on The Post dropping Get Fuzzy
The unwelcome loss of 'Get Fuzzy'
Erin Lourie, Silver Spring
Anne Ritchie, Alexandria
Shelley Bond, Fairfax
Roger M. Allen, Takoma Park
Rachel Griffith, Washington
Greg Friedmann, Ashburn
Leonard Keifer, Gaithersburg
Washington Post November 9 2013
More 'Terrible' in the works
Dropping 'Get Fuzzy' continues to rattle around The Post
MAILBAG: What Post readers are saying about the 'Get Fuzzy' drop...
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 8 2013http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/mailbag-what-post-readers-are-saying-about-the-get-fuzzy-drop/2013/11/08/150a3f64-48ba-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_blog.html
Friday, November 08, 2013
Comic Riffs interviews Rich Stevens
Millennials & the Economy: The Nib's latest webcomic has all the answers in 6 easy steps [Q+A]
Eric Gordon's drawings from Cartoonists Draw Blood
D.C. Conspiracy meet up this Sunday
WaPo article on cartoonists' blood drive
NPR reviews Jeff Smith's 'RASL'
By Etelka Lehoczky
"Smith's dark tale of a dimension-jumping scientist, whose name is pronounced "razzle," is relayed in a jaggy style that couldn't be more different from that of the artist's Pogo-esque epic Bone."