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Friday, February 14, 2020
Bloom recommended by All Things Considered’s film editor Mallory Yu
Clifford Berryman cartoon in National Archives' Suffragette exhibit
The National Archives celebrates the centennial of the 19th Amendment's ratification with its newest exhibit, Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote. The exhibition features more than 90 items—including the original 19th Amendment and other records, artifacts, and photographs—that look beyond suffrage parades and protests to the often overlooked story behind this landmark moment in American history. This fuller retelling of the struggle for women's voting rights highlights the dynamic engagement of diverse suffragists in the struggle to win the vote for one half of the people. The exhibit is free and open to the public in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives Museum.
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
Keeping up with the Post's The Lily's comics
I was scared to try the menstrual cup. But it changed everything.
Here are four reasons I prefer it to tampons and pads
How baking shows changed my relationship with my daughter
Our cake-making days are all the more precious now
March 12: Margaret Atwood at LoC, March 13: Mariko Tamaki at LoC
Now Available: Tickets for March Events in National Book Festival Presents Series
Today's the day: You can now reserve tickets for March events in the National Book Festival Presents series!
First, though, make sure you've snagged free tickets for tonight's event, "Rosa Parks: The History and the Heart," celebrating Parks' life and legacy. NPR host Michel Martin will moderate a panel conversation featuring Parks biographers Douglas Brinkley ("Rosa Parks: A Life") and Jeanne Theoharis ("The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"). Act fast!
Now, on to the literary superstars who will take the Coolidge Auditorium stage throughout the month of March:
On Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m., join us for "Great American Editors," a new National Book Festival Presents series kicking off with legendary fiction editor and publisher Nan Talese alongside one of her most legendary novelists, Margaret Atwood, in a conversation about their work together. The new "Great American Editors" series will explore the vital role of editors in the writing and publishing process.
Register now for your free tickets via Eventbrite. Signed copies of Atwood's latest novel, "The Testaments," are available for pre-purchase with ticket registration, and ticketholders are also invited to view a pre-event display of items from the Library's extensive collections related to "Great American Editors."
The following morning, at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, March 13, we invite you to attend the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature and Symposium. The event, emceed by award-winning writer Grace Lin and co-sponsored by We Need Diverse Books, will feature the honorees and winners of the Walter Award.
Tickets are not required for this event, which is free and open to the public. Book sales and signing will follow the symposium.
Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer of comics and prose, and the winner of the 2020 Walter Award (Teen Category) for "Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me," with Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (illustrator).Roll Call's cartoonist RJ Matson wins Berryman award
Matson to accept 2019 Berryman Award
CQ Roll Call's political cartoonist honored by the National Press Foundation
Post's Mueller Report Illustrated is still online
Just a reminder -
The Mueller Report Illustrated
A book and six-part digital series on the obstruction investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/mueller-report-illustrated/about/
New manga translation by Ryan Holmberg of Yoshiharu Tsuge
It's on sale for 30% off for a few days at https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-man-without-talent
The Man Without Talent
by Yoshiharu Tsuge, translated from the Japanese and with an essay by Ryan Holmberg
"Tsuge's work represents a groundbreaking apotheosis of comics fiction at its most humane, literary, and poetic. I am thrilled that it is finally reaching the Western audience which has longed to read it for so many decades." —Chris Ware
Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with.
Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from the translator Ryan Holmberg which discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.
This NYRC edition is a paperback and features the first-ever English release of Tsuge's work, carefully relettered in English with minimal intrusion on the original art, and with the traditional right-to-left manga format preserved.
REVIEW: THE MAN WITHOUT TALENT and the grind of poverty
The Man Without Talent allows the author and the reader to explore the fantasy of leading a contemplative life while remaining honest about the consequences
01/13/2020
https://www.comicsbeat.com/review-the-man-without-talent/
What's to Be Believed in Yoshiharu Tsuge's 'The Man Without Talent'?
15 Jan 2020
https://www.popmatters.com/yoshiharu-tsuge-man-without-talent-2644307800.html
The Latest Liz at Large at the City Paper
Liz At Large: "Skip"
Blink and you'll miss it.
Liz Montague
Matea Gold, Rosalind Helderman, and Katherine Lee talking about the Mueller Report Illustrated
They are discussing the difficulty of adapting the report especially as it changed from an online publication to a book.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Up Against The Wall"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist
"Up Against The Wall"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2924
This is pretty much my prediction for the New York Primary, based on the revelations from a recording of former New York City Overlord and prospective White House purchaser Mike Bloomberg leaked by blogger and podcaster Benjamin Dixon, in which Bloomberg defends NYC's horrific "stop and frisk" measures directed at poor communities and communities of color in NYC.
So, anyway, I'm for real serious about this. I'll bet you for real that on New York Primary day, the NYPD are going to be stopping'n'frisking black people on their way to the polls, throwing 'em to the wall, and snatching their voter registration cards.
I'm not joking, folks. Get yer money out.
"Up Against The Wall"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2924
This is pretty much my prediction for the New York Primary, based on the revelations from a recording of former New York City Overlord and prospective White House purchaser Mike Bloomberg leaked by blogger and podcaster Benjamin Dixon, in which Bloomberg defends NYC's horrific "stop and frisk" measures directed at poor communities and communities of color in NYC.
So, anyway, I'm for real serious about this. I'll bet you for real that on New York Primary day, the NYPD are going to be stopping'n'frisking black people on their way to the polls, throwing 'em to the wall, and snatching their voter registration cards.
I'm not joking, folks. Get yer money out.
Feb 16: Greg Pak at Fantom Comics
Greg Pak Signing | Darth Vader #1
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY WEEKEND! WE GOT YOU A PRESENT!
Our friend Greg Pak returns for a surprise visit! To celebrate the release of Darth Vader #1, Greg is coming back to Fantom Comics to hang out, talk shop, and sign books! So stop on by, come chat with us, and grab some books! We'll talk Star Wars, comics, and have an all around great time.
We ask that customers please limit themselves to 2 items for Greg to sign with the possibility that he will have time to sign more later after everyone has had a chance to get through the line.
Our friend Greg Pak returns for a surprise visit! To celebrate the release of Darth Vader #1, Greg is coming back to Fantom Comics to hang out, talk shop, and sign books! So stop on by, come chat with us, and grab some books! We'll talk Star Wars, comics, and have an all around great time.
We ask that customers please limit themselves to 2 items for Greg to sign with the possibility that he will have time to sign more later after everyone has had a chance to get through the line.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Annie Lunsford, Arlington illustrator, has passed away
Joe Sutliff is reporting on Facebook that Annie Lunsford passed away on Sunday, February 9, 2020. Annie was a professional illustrator for many years, and collaborated with her sister Linda, who survives her. The two exhibited at many local shows including Artomatic. In recent years, Annie's work including science fiction and cats. Her website is https://www.annielunsford.com/
Annie Lunsford Hang in There Nemo
Illustration Original Art (2012). Annie Lunsford,
illustrator (page 79): "I met Richard years ago, before he was
world-famous; just amazing and brilliant! He's got the winning
combination -- wit, and he can draw! Richard's the best, and I hope
all the money raised can really help." This wonderful ink and
watercolor on paper homage to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo
strip.
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Linda and Annie Lunsford at Washington-Lee High School, December 2015.
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| Her contribution to the Team Cul de Sac book for Richard Thompson. |
Robin Ha's Cook Korean! is important part of Ten Speed Press' comics line
More details are here -
Ten Speed Builds a Graphic List
Feb 07, 2020
A version of this article appeared in the 02/10/2020 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Ten Speed Builds a Graphic List
Monday, February 10, 2020
Feb 12: The Mueller Report Illustrated
The Mueller Report Illustrated
- Wednesday, February 12, 2020
- 7:00 PM 8:00 PM
- Solid State Books 600 H Street Northeast Washington, DC, 20002 United States (map)
Join us in welcoming The Washington Post's Rosalind S. Helderman, Matea Gold and Katherine B. Lee for a conversation about "The Mueller Report Illustrated," a new graphic nonfiction book. Written and designed by The Post and illustrated by artist Jan Feindt, "The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation" brings to life the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and illuminates a crucial period in the Trump presidency that remains relevant to the turbulent events of today. The book unspools a dramatic narrative of an angry and anxious president trying to control a criminal investigation into his own actions, with dialogue taken directly from the special counsel's 448-page report. "While the storyline is eminently faithful to Mueller's more detailed documentation, the writers and artist bring drama to it by showing the many points of resistance within Trump's staff," Kirkus Review notes. The Post journalists will discuss how they tackled this groundbreaking project, how the Mueller probe eventually led to the impeachment inquiry and how the Russia investigation is still reverberating today. About the speakers: Matea Gold Matea Gold is the national political enterprise and investigations editor for The Washington Post, where she plays a leading role guiding some of The Post's highest-profile stories. Before moving into an editing role in 2017, Matea spent two decades as a reporter, covering money in politics, presidential campaigns, Los Angeles City Hall and television media, among various beats. She joined The Post in June 2013 after 17 years at the Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Bruin. Rosalind Helderman Rosalind S. Helderman is an investigative reporter for the national political staff of The Washington Post. A reporter for the Post since 2001, Rosalind has helped cover two presidential elections and the US Congress, as well as local news in Virginia and Maryland. She was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for coverage of Donald Trump and Russia and is a two-time recipient of the Polk Award for investigative reporting. She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a graduate of Harvard University. Katherine Lee Katherine Lee is an art director and designer at The Washington Post, where she designs for various cross-platform projects and products. She helped launch the visual style of The Post's Snapchat Discover page in 2017, and in 2018 she redesigned The Post's newsletter brand suite. Her work has been recognized by the Society of News Design, and she served as a judge for the Society of Illustrators competition. Before arriving at The Post in 2016, Katherine worked at the Boston Globe and Globe Magazine. She graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in advertising and psychology. March 8: Maira Kalman at Politics and Prose
Maira Kalman - Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Click here for more information.
5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20008
By Gertrude Stein, Maira Kalman (Illustrator)
$30
9781594204609
Coming Soon—Pre-Order Now
Penguin Press - March 3rd, 2020
Grand Comics Database Comics History Awards
The Grand Comics Database is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Many of you are probably familiar with our database, at https://www.comics.org/. But in addition to the database we have a related educational mission: expanding and improving the public's understanding and appreciation of comics.
As a part of our educational mission we would like to announce the creation of the Grand Comics Database Comics History Awards. Awards will be given in three categories, best book, best article, and best reprint collection for works published, in English, between January and December, 2020.
Eligibility
Eligible works should be published in English or accompanied by a translation into English. All types of comics are suitable as source material: comic books, strips (including single-panel and editorial cartoons), and webcomics. Anthologies, as a whole, are not eligible, however individual chapters from anthologies will be accepted. Subjects such as history of publishers, of characters, of publications, of trends or tropes, or biographies of creators are all acceptable. Works deemed by the judges to be outside the discipline of history are not eligible. Works by members of the GCD Board of Directors or the awards panel of judges or their immediate families are not eligible.
Evaluation Criteria
We will use these criteria:
Serious scholarship representing a significant contribution to the discipline
Relevant topic of continuing importance to fans, readers, and scholars
Authority in interpretation: depth and breadth of expertise represented
Spirit of objectivity
Research findings handled with skill and assurance
Accurate, thorough, clear cross-referencing and indexing
Well-written and readable writing style
The best reprint collection will include an essay, introduction, or annotations that place the reprinted material in the historical context of comics and/or pop culture.
Awards
The award committee will consist of a GCD board officer, two GCD members, and two academic scholars selected by the GCD Board. The author of the best book will be awarded $750. The authors of the best reprint collection and best article will be awarded $200 each. In the event of works authored by more than one person, the monetary prize will be divided among the authors; each award will also include an appropriate plaque for each author. The GCD reserves the right to present no award in any of the three categories.
Nominations can be made by publishers or authors. Five copies of each nominated book should be sent to GCD Awards, 34 Overby Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205. A pdf of a traditionally published book is acceptable and should be sent to awards-chair@comics.org.
For the best article award, please send a pdf of the article that includes the name and date of the publication wherein it appeared to awards-chair@comics.org.
All entries should be accompanied by a cover letter that includes a brief vita for the writer and appropriate contact information. Nomination will be accepted 1 January 2020 through 31 January 2021 with the awards being made on 1 March 2021.
Questions may be directed to the awards panel at awards-chair@comics.org or at GCD Awards, 34 Overby Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205.
Library of Congress comics blogs for Black History Month
Two stories have appeared so far.
Rosa Parks: In Newspapers and Comic Books
New book from Alexis Frederick-Frost out this month
Maker Comics: Grow a Garden!
- Age Range: 9 - 13 years
- Grade Level: 4 - 8
- Series: Maker Comics
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: First Second (February 25, 2020)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250152143
New Rosarium Kickstarter: Box of Bones launches today
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754730215/box-of-bones
HISTORY IS HORROR!!!
This Black History Month Rosarium Publishing cordially invites you to see our history like you never have before.
From Box of Bones #2 FROM THE MINDS OF AYIZE JAMA-EVERETT
AND JOHN JENNINGS!!!
When Black graduate student, Lyndsey, begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide if she really wants to see what's inside the Box of Bones.
Described as "Tales from the Crypt Meets Black History," Box of Bones is a supernatural nightmare tour through some of the most violent and horrific episodes in the African Diaspora.
Volume 1 contains art from John Jennings, Sole Rebel, Damian Duffy, Frances Olivia Liddell-Rodriguez, Tommy Nguyen, Jarmel and Jamal Williams, and Bryan Christopher Moss with covers by Stacey Robinson!!!
Help us raise $10,000 to bring this book to print.
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