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Saturday, August 21, 2010
PR: Baltimore Comic-Con 2010 Panel Announcements, Guests, and Portfolio Reviews!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Tonight: Kiki's Delivery Service anime at JICC
Sad news from Nick Galfianakis in today's Post
By Nick Galifianakis
Washington Post August 20, 2010; C04
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Gene Kannenberg, friend of ComicsDC, on radio, on Tintin
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO's Here on Earth AUGUST 19, 2010
http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100819k.cfm
http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/podcast/hereonearth100819k.mp3
Post features Indian graphic novelists
Indian graphic artists draw outside the box for nonfiction 'Bhimayana'
By Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post August 19, 2010; C08
OT: The only surviving Spanish-American War battleship may be scrapped
Laurel comic book camp featured in paper
Organizers say participants tap into imagination while honing reading, writing skills
by Deanna Hines | Special to The Gazette August 18 2010
Schulz at NPG
PR: Small Press Expo Announces the Ignatz Award Nominees for SPX 2010
Small Press Expo Announces the Ignatz Award Nominees for SPX 2010
Bethesda, Maryland; August 19, 2010 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce nominees for the fourteenth annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
The Ignatz, named after George Herriman's brick-wielding mouse, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. The Ignatz Awards are a festival prize, the first of such in the United States comic book industry.
The nominees for the ballot were determined by a panel of five of the best of today's comic artists, Anders Nilsen, David Kelly, Rob G, Joshua Cotter and Trevor Alixopoulos, with the votes cast for the awards by the attendees during SPX. The Ignatz Awards will be presented at the gala Ignatz Awards ceremony held on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM.
SPX will be held Saturday, September 11 from 11AM to 7PM and Sunday, September 12, noon-6PM at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.
For further information on the Ignatz Awards, the nominees or to request an interview, please contact Warren Bernard at warren@spxpo.com.
For more information on the Small Press Expo and the Ignatz Awards, please visit http://www.spxpo.com.
2010 Ignatz Awards Ballot
Outstanding Artist
Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions)
Al Columbia, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Fantagraphics Books)
Mike Dawson, Troop 142 (self-published & http://troop142.mikedawsoncomics.com)
John Pham, Sublife #2 (Fantagraphics Books)
Sully, The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum Press)
Lemon Styles, David King (Sparkplug Comic Books)
Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)
Red Snow, Susumu Katsumata (Drawn & Quarterly)
Ten Thousand Things to Do, Jesse Reklaw (self-published)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
The Complete Jack Survives, Jerry Moriarty (Buentaventura Press)
Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Al Columbia (Fantagraphics Books)
Summit of the Gods Vol. 1, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Years of the Elephant, Willy Linthout (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Outstanding Story
"John Wesley Harding", The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, Joe Daly (Fantagraphics Books)
Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
Monsters, Ken Dahl (Secret Acres)
"Turd Place", The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum Press)
"Untitled", Mome Vol. 16, Laura Park (Fantagraphics Books)
Promising New Talent
Rina Ayuyang, Whirlwind Wonderland, (Sparkplug Comic Books & Tugboat Press)
Rami Efal, Never Forget, Never Forgive (Studio Namu)
Blaise Larmee, Young Lions (self-published)
Sully, The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)
Matt Wiegle, "The Orphan Baiter", Papercutter #13 (Tugboat Press)
Outstanding Series
Ganges, Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics Books)
King-Cat Comics & Stories, John Porcellino (self-published)
Sublife, John Pham (Fantagraphics Books)
Summit of the Gods, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Troop 142, Mike Dawson (self-published)
Outstanding Comic
Blammo #6, Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
Eschew #2, Robert Sergel (Sparkplug Comic Books)
Flesh and Bone, Julia Gfrörer (Sparkplug Comic Books)
I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press)
Sublife #2, John Pham (Fantagraphics Books)
Outstanding Mini-Comic
Don't Drink from the Sea, Lille Carre
Rambo 3.5, Jim Rugg
Stories by...Vol. 1, Martin Cendreda
Troop 142, Mike Dawson
Water Column #3, Josh Frankel
Outstanding Online Comic
Callahan Online, John Callahan (www.callahanonline.com/calarc.html)
I Think You're Sauceome, Sarah Becan (www.sauceome.com)
The Lesttrygonians, Stephen Gilpin (www.sgilpin.com/2010_site/Weekly_Comic_Strip/Weekly_Comic_Strip.html)
Reliable Comics, David King (www.reliablecomics.com)
Troop 142, Mike Dawson (troop142.mikedawsoncomics.com)
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
David Hagen's trip to Musee Herge
Set to Sea reviewed by Weldon
by Glen Weldon
August 18, 2010
I picked up a copy of this today as well. I'll try to get a review done from my International Ink column at the City Paper.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
August 25: Micah Gunnell at Beyond Comics
Special Artist Signing
Micah Gunnell (Artist of Deadpool Team-up #890)
Beyond Comics
Wednesday August 25th
3:00pm to 7:00pm
At the Frederick Store
Peanuts cartoons to continue on ABC
ABC extends the Charlie Brown TV specials for another 5 years
By Lisa de Moraes
Washington Post August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
PR: Small Press Expo Animation Showcase Announces Selections for SPX 2010
Small Press Expo Animation Showcase Announces Selections for SPX 2010
Bethesda, Maryland; August 13, 2010 - The Small Press Expo announces selections for the First Annual Animation Showcase, to be screened September 11 and 12 in conjunction with the Small Press Expo.
The 2010 SPX Animation Showcase features indepedently made animation created in a variety of styles and techniques. "These films let people know independent animation is as sophisticated as its big-budget brothers," says Showcase committee co-chair Paul Nadjmabadi. "Every year at SPX we see that pool of talent in comics that hasn't been recognized yet, that one-off that someone did that's the most amazing thing you've seen all year.
We want to bring that to animation."
Animations screening in the showcase include traditional and abstract storytelling in a variety of styles including stop-motion, clay-mation, hand-drawn, and computer animation. Selections include:
Good %^&$ing Morning Nick Arcidy
Suck It Up Rebecca Boensch
Building Blocks Vanessa Chan
Bleach and Glitter Vanessa Chan
Head Garden Lilli Carre
The Discovery Rodgers Dameron
The Magician Dustin Maassen
Wonders of Nature: Our National Parks Yosemite Clasrissa Maralone
Hocas Croakus Mark McDonald
One of a Kind Dixie Pizani
The Melting Pot Shani Vargo
Krawll Matthew Wade
Birdy Agnieszka Woznicka
Deadline Bang Yaoliu
More information on animators and films is available via the SPX Animation Showcase Web site at www.spxpo.com/animation.
SPX is a registered 501(c)3 which brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators.
As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org/.
The hours for SPX 2010 are 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, September 11, and noon – 6 p.m. Sunday, September 12. Admission, which includes the Expo and Showcase, is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.
For more information, visit http://www.spxpo.com/animation/Ryan Claytor on his MD stop
Tony Rubino interview at Wash City Paper
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Dora the Explorer in today's Examiner
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Nate Beeler's editorial cartoon, "No Ground
Zero Mosque," about the trampling of the Constitution was excellent
too.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Post on Dora the Explorer
By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 14, 2010; C01
Friday, August 13, 2010
WashPost on Futurama producer, 'Cathy,' Max Headroom and Scott Pilgrim
Washington Post staff writer Manuel Roig-Franzia
Comic Riffs blog August 13, 2010
The 'Riffs Interview: CATHY GUISEWITE reveals why she's really ending her strip -- and why she won't abide 'Cathy Classics' reruns
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 13, 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Only fans will care who wins
By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post August 13, 2010
'Max Headroom': There's still time to catch the wave
By Jen Chaney
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
[print: In 'Max Headroom,' the future is now, WPost Aug 13 2010]
Bits from today's paper (and a note about yesterday's Non Sequiter)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Aug 18: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Ice Cream Truck at Politics and Prose
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Summer Reading Ice Cream Truck
Start: August 18, 2010 - 12:00pm
End: August 18, 2010 - 2:00pm
Join Politics & Prose as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Summer Reading Ice Cream Truck rolls into town on Wednesday, August 18. Starting at 12:00 noon, come get a free frozen treat to celebrate the upcoming publication of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID BOOK 5, which is on sale Tuesday November 9, 2010. Other free goodies will be handed out.
Politics & Prose will have a table in front of the store to pre-sell the fifth book. We will also be giving away “golden tickets” in a random order that will entitle the recipient to receive a free copy of the 5th book. The pre-sales will be 20% off the retail price for everyone.
PLEASE NOTE: JEFF KINNEY WILL NOT BE MAKING AN APPEARANCE OR SIGNING BOOKS AT THIS EVENT.
Cavna talks to 'Cathy'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 11, 2010
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Spurgeon, among others, urges Cul de Sac replace Cathy
I urge every paper that is looking for a replacement to consider Cul-De-Sac. I think it's the finest strip going with a client list short of where it should be, but it really needs to sit in your paper for a while to have the best chance for people to pick up on its rhythms. It's not the kind of strip that benefits from replacing something that's been running and that has fans that could demand its return.
Aug 13-14: Heavy Metal cartoon showing in DC
Indies & Arties: Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy
Shuana Miller
Express (August 12 2010)
and the specifics -
Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW; Fri. & Sat. at midnight, $10; 202-452-7672. (Metro Center)
City Paper and Express on Scott Pilgrim
By Tricia Olszewski
Washington City Paper August 13, 2010
And the Express gets weird on us. Former DC-area comics writer does the online one -
Geek Love: 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,' In Theaters
Written by Express contributor Scott Rosenberg
August 12 2010
while they publish a different one in the print edition -
Alter, Ethan / Film Journal International. 2010.
The 'Pilgrim's Progress: Filmmaker Edgar Wright puts a trippy spin on a comic-book tale of young love.
[Washington Post] Express (August 12): 23
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
PR: Baltimore Comic-Con 2010 Second Annual Costume Contest and More!
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Mark Tatulli interview on Comic Riffs
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 11, 2010
Union of Concerned Scientists annual contest featured
By Rich Davis
Evansville Courier & Press August 10, 2010
Fredric Wertham's papers opened at Library of Congress
Hate Comic Books? Library of Congress Opens Papers of Comics Opponent Fredric Wertham
Posted by Mike Rhode on Aug. 11, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Weldon likes Langridge and Samnee's Thor
This Is Something Of A Thor Point
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio’s Monkey See blog August 11, 2010
Crumb dvd reviewed in Express
Written by Express contributor Stephen M. Deusner
Express August 11 2010
Spider-Man musical to open according to Comic Riffs
Costly 'Spider-Man' musical finally set to open on Broadway
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 11, 2010; C05
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Zadzooks on Road to Perdition and Kick-Ass movies
'Perdition' magnificently rendered on Blu-ray
By Joseph Szadkowski
The Washington Times, August 9, 2010
Brad Meltzer speaks with Brian Vaughn
DEUS EX MACHINA: Meltzer Interviews BKV Part 1
by Jeffrey Renaud
Comic Book Resources, August 9th, 2010
Comic Riffs interviews John Romita Jr.
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 10, 2010
Truitt on Titan Maximum stop-motion animiation
Brian Truitt
USA Weekend's Whos News blog August 9th, 2010
PR: Fantom's Got a New Website
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PR: Small Press Expo Announces James Sturm, Raina Telgemeier and Jim Rugg as guests for SPX 2010
Small Press Expo Announces James Sturm, Raina Telgemeier and Jim Rugg as guests for SPX 2010.
Bethesda, Maryland; August 10, 2010 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons is pleased to announce that James Sturm, Raina Telgemeier and Jim Rugg will be guests for SPX 2010, which will be held September 11 and September 12 at the Marriott North Bethesda Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland, across from the White Flint Metro stop. These guests are in addition to the previously announced Kate Beaton and Dean Haspiel. James Sturm is an Eisner and Xeric Award winner as well as being a co-founder of The Center for Cartoon Studies. His latest graphic novel, Market Day, published by Drawn and Quarterly, drew critical acclaim from such media outlets as The New York Times and NPR. James is the creator of the equally well received The Golem's Mighty Swing, as well as co-authoring Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. He just completed a long stint off the Internet and e-mail, which was documented in a series he did on the subject for Slate. Raina Telgemeier's latest work, Smile (A Dental Drama) published by Scholastic Press, led to excellent reviews by both Publishers Weekly and the New York Times. She drew four graphic novels for Scholastic based on the best seller series by Ann M. Martin, The Baby-sitters Club. Raina has won the Eisner, Ignatz and Kimberly Yale Awards and is the artist for this years SPX poster. Raina's website is http://goraina.com/. Jim Rugg is an illustrator and cartoonist from Pittsburgh. His graphic novels and comic collections include Afrodisiac (Adhouse Books), Street Angel (SLG Publishing), The PLAIN Janes and Janes in Love (DC Comics), One Model Nation (Image Comics) and The Guild (Dark Horse Comics). He has also produced short comics for VH1, New York Magazine, True Porn, Meathaus, Cinema Sewer and Project Superior. For detailed information about guests, panels and the Ignatz Awards, visit the SPX web site at www.spxpo.com. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 which brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org/.
Ryan Claytor on his VA and DC stops
Ryan Claytor and Mike Rhode (note our t-shirts, mine was a gift from my wife and says "Comic Book Collectors have issues", his is the 3rd version advertising his comics that I'd seen by that point).
Monday, August 09, 2010
Chris Morris caricature in today's Post
A deep bench of substitute justices goes unused
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 9, 2010
New Trickster review online
Finding willing storytellers wasn't easy, but Matt Dembicki's persistence paid off with a collection that's funny, sad, surprising.
By Jenny Shank,
New West Book Review 8-09-10
Caro on Basil Wolverton
Comics at Brickfest 2010
The Green Lantern -
Asterix the Gaul and his village -
and Matt Dembicki just sent in this Bill the Cat from Bloom County / Outland / Opus -
That Darn Luckovich
Charlotte Johnson Jones
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star 8/8/2010
Comic Riffs on Rall and Bors in Afghanistan.
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 9, 2010;
Comics picture from National Museum of Health & Medicine
MIS 09-5048-36
Headed for home - Commander Frank E. Ehrlich, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, chief of pediatric surgery at Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, finds Brian LeBlanc reading a comic book a few hours after surgery. Brian was hospitalized less than 24 hours for his operation.[Pediatrics.][Hospitals, wards.] 4/1974.
U.S. Navy Medicine; U.S. Navy BUMED Library and Archives via the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Note that the comic book is Little Dot from Harvey Comics.
PRESS RELEASE: “Daddy’s Home” Canadian Sales Boom
Rubino Creative Solutions (RCS)
Daddy's Home Comics
CLICK BELOW TO BUY MY NEW BOOK
Why Didn't I Think of That?
101 Inventions That Changed The World By Hardly Trying
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Bennett's Best on Zadzooks
By Greg Bennett, Special to Zadzooks
Zadzooks Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Saturday, August 07, 2010
That Darn Toles (continued yet again)
An Irony Too Far [online title: Cartoon of Middle East peace principals went too far]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080606088.html
Political cartoons are, by definition, ironic, but Tom Toles's Aug. 2 cartoon went beyond irony into falsehood. Contrary to the illustrated scene, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has, in fact, been calling on the Palestinians to join in direct talks, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has adamantly refused. Most recently, President Obama and the Arab League have joined Israel's call, but Mr. Abbas has yet to respond.
Israel, in contrast to Mr. Toles's depiction, is ready for direct peace talks now -- with all issues on the table -- and is hopeful that when the Palestinians return to the negotiating table, a peace agreement can be reached swiftly and definitively.
Jonathan Peled, Washington
The writer is spokesman for the Embassy of Israel.
Ryan Claytor in the area signing comics this weekend
Ryan Claytor will be at Laughing Ogre Comics, Lansdowne Shopping Center, 19340 Promenade Dr., Lansdowne, Va., on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., then at Fantom Comics in Union Station from 4 to 7 p.m. On Sunday, he’ll be at Beyond Comics at 536 North Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, Md., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The autobio minicomics creator is in town this weekend for his US tour. Union Station is the most central location -
Ryan Claytor In-Store Signing
August 7th, 2010 from 4-7pm
at Fantom Comics
50 Mass Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
I've bought all of Ryan's minicomics and recommend them.
Friday, August 06, 2010
Bugs Bunny at Wolftrap featured in today's Examiner
Looney Tunes light up the outdoors at Wolf Trap
Marie Gullard
Washington Examiner August 6, 2010 : 20
PR: Lone Justice Graphic Novel Exclusive at Baltimore Comic-Con
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
Ryan Claytor interview at City Paper
Meet a Visiting Cartoonist: Ryan Claytor, the Man Behind Elephant Eater Comics
Posted by Mike Rhode on Aug. 5, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Stan Lee's Superhumans premieres on History Channel tonight
Their website says:
About Stan Lee's Superhumans
Throughout history, the forces of evolution and genetic mutation have endowed humans with astonishing new abilities and features. It's a process that continues to this day, and nowhere is it more evident than in the fascinating world of Stan Lee's "Superhumans."
Co-hosted by Stan Lee, the legendary creator of the X-Men, the series scours the globe for the real-life counterparts of Lee's characters–people with unique genetic traits that translate into remarkable powers. These include a man whose body is powerfully magnetic, another who can withstand deadly levels of cold and yet another whose brain performs complex calculations at staggering speeds.
In each episode, these "superhumans" undergo tests that may help explain their amazing gifts, while viewers discover the long history of people with extraordinary powers. Daniel Browning Smith, who's been dubbed the most flexible man in the world, hosts this thrilling journey into the farthest reaches of humankind.