Friday, June 11, 2010
OT: National Geographic and Google on Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday
My wife, Cathy Hunter, blogs for National Geographic in between her archivist duties and also provides some news stories for them. Today, one of hers on Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday was picked up, and appparently used as the basis for Google's customized logo.
June 25: American Library Association in DC with comics programs
At Its Summer Conference in D.C.
ICv2 06/11/2010
Some of this sounds like fun, but it'll only be open to registered attendees. However, I will be moderating a panel with some local cartoonists for the DC Public Library that weekend and will have more details as they're finalized.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Lamont Cranston painting by Thomas Boatwright
Mr. Boatwright just put a note in the comments section of the Jim Amash's Shadow sketch post with a link to his painting of Lamont Cranston that I was lucky enough to buy at Heroes Con. It's a nice one isn't it? Spooky eyes though. Here's another painting he's done on the topic - I think I may buy a photoprint of that one after the Heroes Con bills fade.
This will join the Amash sketch, a Bill Sienkewicz poster and a Mike Kaluta cover to American Spectator magazine on my office walls.
Local animation student injured in Palestine protests
U.S. student pays devastating physical price to protest Israel's actions
By Robert McCartney
Washington Post June 10, 2010
Interview with Mike Short of Trickster up at City Paper
Posted by Mike Rhode on Jun. 9, 2010 at 10:32 am
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/06/09/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-trickster-cartoonist-mike-short/
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Weldon explains Twitter and comics, but not why he wants ComicsDC on it
Heroes Con 2010 pictures continued
Richard Thompson IS ready for business.
Ben Towle namechecked me - we had a nice conversation in the Westin bar.
Richard Thompson, Cul de Sac webmonkey Chris Sparks and Shannon Gallant.
The great Bernie Wrightson. I actually bought a piece of art from him. I never thought I'd own a Wrightson page. BTW, Joel, he says hello.
Comics cover god Brian Bolland.
More of my pictures are online here.
Finally, Our Man Thompson in Joe Lambert's photo.
"Stories Without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations 2008 edition" free shipping
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Politics and Prose bookstore for sale
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 9, 2010; 1:01 PM
I'm taking this one at face value - the owners are old and tired. They tried to bring in a new partner a few years ago, but he didn't work out.
Shadow sketch from Heroes Con
Jim Amash did this sketch for me after seeing a painting of Lamont Cranston by Thomas Boatwright that I was carrying around. It turns out that we're both pulp hero fans. As Alex Toth said about doing a drawing of the Shadow for Jim "it had to be in the style of Ed Cartier" and so is this one.
Roger Langridge's Barney Google sketch
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Heroes Con 2010 pictures
Evan Dorkin's perhaps ashamed to be caught buying a mainstream comic strip book from Richard Thompson.
After talking about the Thomas Boatwright painting of Lamont Cranston I bought, Jim Amash drew this Shadow sketch for me.
Richard Thompson is a fan of Kate Beaton.
Raina Telgemeier and her fine Smile.
And then there's Dazzler.
More pictures online here. Labels to follow.
Asaf Hanuka illustration in Sunday's Washington Post
Hit-hungry Hollywood gambles on litany of 'romaction' flicks
Caro Small on Asterios Polyp
Monday, June 07, 2010
Cul de Sac like "an anchor" says Comic Reporter readers
Comic Riffs' full court Weingarten press
The 'Riffs Interview: GENE WEINGARTEN, New Cartoonist, dares to attempt comic pearls before breakfast
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs June 4, 2010
The discussion of the strip at the Post Hunt event -
POST HUNT: When a comic strip stands between you and $2K
PR: Wash Post Introduces Gene Weingarten's Comic Strip: "Barney & Clyde"
The Washington Post today introduces a new comic strip by Pulitzer-Prize winning Post columnist Gene Weingarten and his son, Dan Weingarten, with illustrations by David Clark. "Barney & Clyde" is about an accidental friendship between a billionaire and a homeless man. Fans of Weingarten's "Below the Beltway" humor column will recognize his wit and lack of social grace in this comic, a satire that re-examines measures of success, failure, and fulfillment. The comic will run Monday-Sunday in The Washington Post's comic pages.
Barney & Clyde is the newest addition to The Post's comics and puzzle pages in Style. Last April The Post added The Post Puzzler, a crossword puzzle from celebrated puzzle writer Peter Gordon.
To visit Barney & Clyde, go to http://www.postwritersgroup.com/comics/bcl2.htm#.
To visit the Post Puzzler, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/crosswords/.
Heroes Con pic of 3 cartoonists, 1 professor and 2 fanboy stalkers.
Dinner at Heroes Con. Left to right: Richard "Cul de Sac" Thompson, Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode, Shannon "G.I. Joe Gallant, Craig "Appalachian State" Fischer, Chris "Crogan's Vengeance" Schweizer and Chris "Cul de Sac webmaster" Sparks. Sparks and I are the fanboy stalkers because Fischer gets paid to do this stuff. The picture is Sparks' and we all had to really overtip the waitress by the time he was done asking her to take it.
Trickster’s Jacob Warrenfeltz interview online at Washington City Paper now
Posted by Mike Rhode on Jun. 7, 2010 at 10:48 am
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Rand Arrington chat up at City Paper
Comics on the Rack, Quick Picks for Comics Due 06-09-10
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Mexican cartoonist obit in today's Post
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 26, 2010; 6:20 AM
ComicsDC goes to Heroes Con; so does Thompson and Gallant
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Pulitzer Prize cartoonists' petition online at Cartoonists Rights Network
Now you can join the nineteen Pulitzer Prize winners who've created and signed a petition against censorship. Click through the link to add your name. It's up from seventeen signatories at the last time we looked at it, and has been generalized to be opposed to all censorship of cartoons, not just South Park's specific example.
Fiore vs. Apple & Draw Mohammad followups by Comic Riffs
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog June 2, 2010.
SUDDEN TWIST: 'Draw Muhammad' artist gains a cartoon client -- in Pakistan
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Brother Juniper's Washington connection
Did you photograph Bill Day at the RFK awards?
Monday, May 31, 2010
Cavna on Reuben awards
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 31, 2010; C04
June 1: Superheroes special report on ABC's 2020
Superhero Obsession: Why We Love Fantasy
From Jesus to Hercules to Superman and Iron Man, All Cultures Have Own Mythic Heroes
By JON MEYERSOHN
May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Dan Piraro, not Richard Thompson, wins Rueben
Which probably means Richard will have to rent the tux and go win it next year, since the same is true for him now.
Trickster review in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
By Jim Higgins
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 29, 2010
The City Paper will have more Trickster cartoonist interviews this week too.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The New York comics Times
Itzkoff, Dave. 2010.
Flintstones Cereal Maker Rocked by Lawsuit From Hulk Hogan.
New York Times' Arts Beat blog (May 28); New York Times (May 29): C2.
On Marmaduke -
Barnes, Brooks. 2010.
Producer Is a Friend to Comic Animals.
New York Times (May 29): C1, 8.
But their weekly graphic novel sales list is still online only -
Graphic Books
May 27, 2010
Comics on the Rack, Quick Picks for Comics Due Thursday (NOT Wednesday) 06-03-10
Friday, May 28, 2010
Weingarten's co-author on Clowes
PR: Sun, June 6 Capicons Comic Book & Pop Culture Con
http://capicons.com
Our Biggest Show Yet!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
10 am - 3 pm
Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Dept.
2148 Gallows Rd. Dunn Loring, VA
Admission: $2! FREE for children under 10
$1 of each paid admission will be donated to The Hero Initiative
Special Guest:
Michael J. Hayde author of FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: The Unauthorized but True Story of Radio & TV's "Adventures of Superman" www.michaeljhayde.com
Also Featuring:
Cover Artist and Inker
Tim Dzon (Marvel Comics Presents, Avengers West Coast, Hawkeye, GI Joe, etc.)
http://tim-dzon.deviantart.com/
Artist/Publisher
Andre Campbell, Heritage Comics HSQ
http://heritagehsq.tripod.com/v2/index.html
Artist/Publisher Dan Nokes, 21st Century Sandshark Studios
http://21sandshark.com/
Chameleon Creations' Writer/Publisher Radi Lewis (The Children of the Phoenix)
http://www.thechildrenofthephoenix.com/
- Model Maker Extraordinaire Dave Wilson,
- Cartoonist Ali Gee
Free Parking! Fabulous door prize drawings!
The show is open to the public from 10 am - 3 pm. 40+ Tables. Buy, sell and trade...Gold, Silver, Bronze Age comics; Indie & Modern comics, Publishers & Creators, TV & Movie Collectibles. Non-sport cards; Videos and DVDs; Horror/Sci-Fi; figures, toys; Star Wars and Star Trek memorabilia; original artwork, posters, T-shirts/clothing and various other comic related items.
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Directions to DLVFRD:
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Take I-495 (DC/Capital Beltway) to Exit 47A (Rt. 7 West). Go 1/2 Mile, Left on Gallows Rd. 1 mile to 2148 Gallows Rd
Metro: Take Orange Line to Dunn Loring Metro Station--We're 1.35 miles from the Metro stop and on both the Fairfax Connector and Metro Bus lines. Visit www.wmata.com to plan your trip to our show.
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Become a fan on Facebook, and keep on top of show updates.
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Capicons 2010 Dates
Sun. June 6
Sun, Aug. 1
Sun. Oct. 3
Sun. Dec. 5
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To book a table, be added to our mailing list, request flyers, or for more info about our show, email info@capicons.com.
PR: Stan Lee, Others Among Wash Post's Judges for Cartoonist Contest UPDATED
Here's some PR from the Post on their cartoon contest. One might also note that the area's crack cartoonist, Richard Thompson, whose career has been tightly intertwined with the Post, and who is up for a Rueben Award this weekend, is also a judge. One might.:
Today The Washington Post announced the final list of celebrity judges who will critique the work of the finalists of America's Next Great Cartoonist Contest.
Stan Lee, Stephen Pastis, Jerry Scott and Garry Trudeau are among the judges. For the complete list, visit Comic Riffs:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/05/final_judges_list_washington_p.html
For more on the contest which looks to help a budding cartoonist launch their career, go here: http://views.washingtonpost.com/cartoonist/
Submissions are due June 4!
I just went to the Post website and see that there's a bunch of other judges they didn't list in the PR too - Lalo "La Cucaracha" Alcaraz, Darrin "Candorville" Bell, Mike "Penny Arcade" Krahulik, Hilary "Rhymes with Orange" Price, Tom "that darn" Toles, Gene "theoretical Barney & Clyde" Weingarten and Signe "Family Tree" & Pulitzer-winner Wilkinson.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Heroes Con, Or Stuck Inside of Charlotte with the Cul de Sac Blues Again
June 5 Saturday
3.00 PM
IN CONVERSATION | Richard Thompson
Room 206
Reuben Award -nominated Richard Thompson is widely hailed as one of the most talented cartoonists working today. From his strip Cul de Sac to his Richard's Poor Almanac humor strip to his illustrations for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and more, he's a fascinating creator. Tom Spurgeon sits down to talk with Richard in this informal conversation.
Presumably I'll be the table monkey and miss it again.
Shannon "G.I. Joe" Gallant is also going down from DC. My buddy Craig Fischer's doing his thing again too.
Truitt on GI Joe, again
Ann Telnaes photo from visiting Pixar
Ralph Eggleston, Ann, Bob Scott at Pixar
After our brief mention of Bob Scott yesterday, Ann Telnaes wrote in and sent this picture, noting "Ralph Eggleston and Bob Scott were classmates of mine at CalArts. I was in SF a couple of months ago and stopped by for a tour."
Pixar animator Bob Scott likes Telnaes and Cul de Sac
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Bill Day's RFK Journalism award
Bill Day, winner of the 2010 RFK Journalism award for editorial cartooning.
Bill Day, winner of the 2010 RFK Journalism award for editorial cartooning, with 2010 Herblock award winner Matt Wuerker.
Bill Day, winner of the 2010 RFK Journalism award for editorial cartooning, with 2010 judges Sara Duke and Mike Rhode.
Barbarella, Cul de Sac - nothing in common
Richard Thompson explains the gag in today's Cul de Sac here and noodles about the cover of the next (2nd) Treasury edition here.
Post cartoonist contest adds Stan Lee as judge
Marvel posters at National Library of Medicine
Here's the links to the images and the catalogue information:
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A26073 - Storm
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A26074 - Iron Man
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/A26072 - Firestar and Iceman
RFK Journalism award given to Bill Day tonight
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Webcomic con coming to DC in September.
Intervention: Your Online Life, In Person. A Convention with Webcomics, Videos, Music, and You - September 10-12 2010 at the Hilton Washington DC. http://www.InterventionCon.com
Intervention is a convention for the independent comics, art, and music creators. The con was started by webcomic creator Onezumi Hartstein (http://www.Onezumi.com) and web developer James Harknell (http://www.AWSOM.org). This goal is to bring together different independent creators to party, educate, and appreciate the opportunities the Internet gives to all of us.
Intervention will have awesome webcomics geek-related programming and gaming all day and night from Friday through Sunday. There will be one dance party where the audience can assist the DJ in making live music and one NYC-style dance party. In addition to the Artist's Alley/Vendor Room over 30 webcomic and New Media experts will attend. The con is still being planned. Discussion is being held on the Intervention forum: http://interventioncon.com/forum/
City Paper comics reviews
International Ink: Back to the Future
Monday, May 24, 2010
June 5: DC Anime Club’s Gundam Day
DC Anime Club’s Gundam Day
DC Anime Club invites all Giant Robot fans to Gundam Day on Saturday June 5, 2010 2pm-5pm at the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Library, 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 in A5 on the A Level of the Library.
For those of you who are unfamiliar Gundam is a Japanese Animated metaseries by the Animation Studio in Japan Sunrise.
Gundam Day will consist of the following activities:
Model kit construction where attendees will learn how to build their own Gundams.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own model kits.
An Marathon of the Japanese Animated Series Gundam Wing will be screened during Gundam Day.
An Anime Swap Meet will be included as part of Gundam Day.
Have anime dvd’s or Japanese Comics you don’t want anymore?
Come to the Anime Swap Meet and trade with fellow anime enthusiast who no longer.
We hope to see you there.
This event is free and open to the public.
Ages 13 and up.
For more information please visit the DC Anime Club website at http://dcanimeclub.org.
June 1: Swann Fellow's lecture on Turkish cartoonists
Swann Fellow Yasemin Gencer presents her public lecture, "Cartooning Progress: Secularism and Nationalism in the Early Turkish Republic (1922-28)" at noon on Tuesday, June 1, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the Madison Building.
Gencer will discuss how cartoons of this era had the power to create, shape and project a new Turkish national identity based on European models. She will look at cartoons that highlight reforms initiated during the early years of the Turkish Republic. In one such image, for example, an automobile made of Latin letters speeds past a camel composed of Arabic letters, demonstrating how the cartoonist combines text with visual metaphor to underscore the benefits of changing the official alphabet. Such cartoons from 1922-28 illustrate many reforms aimed at secularizing the nation.
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Trickster Artist Chris Piers
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Trickster Artist Chris Piers
I've got a few more of these in the pipeline.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Zadzooks on Iron Man 2 toys and some movie comics
Joseph Szadkowski, May 11, 2010
Zadzooks: War Machine, Mark VI Metalon and Iron Man Helmet
Joseph Szadkowski, May 19, 2010
Homer Simpson in Parade Magazine insert in today's Post
Homer's 6 Best Grilling Tips
Illustration by Julius Preite
Comics on the Rack, Quick Picks for Comics Due 05-26-10
Saturday, May 22, 2010
9 Chickweed Lane's post-war nookie
This is the third example of sexuality that Brooke McEldowney has shown in his strip. Our notes on number one is here and number two is here.
Comic Riffs' Shrek interview
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 21, 2010
Cavna on the political cartoon.
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 21, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Reason on the Danish Islam cartoons controversy again
And The Winner of The Everybody Draw Mohammad Contest is...
Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch | May 20, 2010
Cartoons, cartoons every where
Matt Wuerker's very excellent hat and the Funny Times
The party.
Matt and the hat.
Cartoonists Matt Wuerker, Bill Brown and Joe Sutliff.
Ray Lesser presenting the first Irving Award to Matt.
Matt admiring his award.
Lots more pictures are here.
Post on Pakistan response to Draw Mohammed day
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 21, 2010; A08
and some commentary from yesterday:
Drawing Muhammad respectfully
By guest bloggers Kelsey Sheridan and Saleha Mallick
Washington Post’s On Faith blog May 20, 2010
Shrek Forever After local reviews
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post Friday, May 21, 2010
'Shrek Forever After' heavy on sight gags and sidekick antics [online title: Third time not as charming for ‘Shrek’].
By: Sally Kline
Washington Examiner May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
That darn Toles
Cartoon draws unfair comparisons to the Middle East
Washington Post Thursday, May 20, 2010If the goal of Tom Toles's May 17 cartoon comparing the division of Jerusalem with Alexandria's retrocession to Virginia was intended to trivialize the issue and distort history, he succeeded. The U.S. Congress willingly agreed to Alexandria's request to return to Virginia, which was based on economic factors and lack of representation in Congress.
In contrast, Jews have lived in Jerusalem all but two times since the days of King David, and one of these times is when Jordan ruled East Jerusalem from 1949 to 1967 and prevented Jews, regardless of nationality, from praying at the most sacred places. To compare the division of Jerusalem with the Alexandria retrocession is beyond political cartoon license -- it is really outrageous.
Beth Marcus, Washington
Cavna article on 'Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,' an accidental provocation
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 20, 2010; C04
InTHEIR TURN: 12 top cartoonists offer their take on 'Draw Muhammad Day' the Riffs blog has longer quotes from the cartoonists Michael interviewed.
'Everbody Draw Mohammed' cartoonist: I'm against my own concept becoming a reality
By JAMIE GRISWOLD
MyNorthwest.com
But Over the Hedge and Mark Fiore both did rather different interpretations.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Bamn goes to the classroom
Naif Al-Mutawa, creator The 99 comic series, was in DC recently
and we missed him. You can read an interview about his experiences here -
Comic book saving the world from stereotypical rhetoric, By Marriam Mossalli, Palestine Note blog May 18 2010