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Game On! Comics Weekly Digest Come  Visit Us! March 7, 2012 In this issue :: New Titles this Week :: New Game :: Game Nights  Dear Mike,   Welcome to Game On! Comics PARTY TIME COMING!  On April 3rd at 8pm, Game On! Comics will be hosting a Launch Party for the Avengers vs. X-Men comic book!  Details below.  SUBSCRIBERS:  Please make sure that you come in and pick up comics at least once per month.  Thanks!!!!     Don't forget to go on yelp.com and write a review about us too!! Please tell your comic/game friends about our shop, we would appreciate their business.   Please visit our Facebook page and "Like" us!! Please tell your friends about us, we would love their business! New Comic Book titles this week 3-7-12   Best Discounts in the area   Comic of the Week Honey Badger #1   Have you heard of internet sensation and crazy nastyass the honey badger? The Guinness Book of World Records named this species the most fearless animal on Earth. It really doesn't give a s#!t. Honey badgers are just crazy. Now, see the honey badger in action! The most fearless critter on Earth will face off against...EVERYTHING! Birds, snakes, small children, velociraptors, whatever! It'll fight anybody and anything and just smack the hell out of it. You should read this comic, 'cause it's bada**, just like the honey badger.       30 Days Of Night Ongoing #5 Action Comics #7 Action Comics #7 Combo Pack Age Of Apocalypse #1 Amazing Spider-Man #681 Animal Man #7 Avengelyne #7 Avengers Academy #27 Avengers Childrens Crusade #9 (L) Batwing #7 Beyond The Fringe #1 Boys #64 Charismagic #5 Comic Shop News #1290 Dc Universe Online Legends #25 Dead Or Alive #2 Defenders #4 Detective Comics #7 Dicks #2 Doctor Who Classics Series IV #2 Fairest #1 Fatale #3 Fear Itself Fearless #10 Ferals #3 Gi Joe A Real American Hero #176 Gi Joe Vol 2 Ongoing #11 Green Arrow #7 Hawk And Dove #7 Hell Yeah #1 Honey Badger Adventures #1 Hulk #49 Huntress #6 (L) Infestation 2 TMNT #1 Irredeemable #35 Izombie #23 Jennifer Blood (Garth Ennis') #10 Justice League International #7 Kirby Genesis Captain Victory #4 Lone Ranger #3 Magdalena #11 Manhattan Projects #1 Marvels Avengers Prelude Fury's Big Week #1 Men Of War #7 Mice Templar Vol 3 #8 Next Men Aftermath #41 Night Force #1 Omac #7 Rachel Rising #6 Red Lanterns #7 Salems Daughter Haunting #5 Spawn #217 Star Wars Crimson Empire III Empire Lost #5 Static Shock #7 Stitched #3 Stormwatch #7 Supernatural #6 (L) Supurbia #1 Swamp Thing #7 Sweet Tooth #31 Thor Deviants Saga #5 (L) True Blood French Quarter #6 (L) Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #8 Uncanny X-Men #8 Valen Outcast #4 Vampirella Vs Dracula #2 Venom #14 Villains For Hire #4 (L) Wheel Of Time Eye O/T World (R. Jordan) #22 Winter Soldier #3 Wolverine #302 Wolverine And X-Men: Alpha & Omega #3 Wulf #5 X-Club #4 X-Men #26     NEW ALL AGES AND KIDS COMIC BOOKS   Adventure Time #1 2nd Ptg Scooby Doo Where Are You #19 Star Wars Clone Wars YR 7 Enemy Within Toy Story #1     NEW TRADEBACKS   Flashpoint TPB Ghostbusters Ongoing TPB Vol 01 Hellboy TPB Vol 12 The Storm & The Fury     NEW TOYS AND ACTION FIGURES Marvel Universe AF Asst 201109         Do you want to get the same comic titles month after month?       Do you want to get them at a discounted rate?   Then get a comic subscription box with Game On! Comics!  We will hold comics for you on a weekly basis based on the comics that you want.  The more comic titles you have the more of a discount you will get.   We have the best discounts in the Washington DC area.    Number of Regular Titles Subscribed: 10-19 Comic titles 10% off 20-39  Comic titles 15% off 40+  Comic titles 20% off All you have to do is respond to this email with the titles that you would like and we will create a box for you.      Launch Party Avengers vs. X-Men        Put this date in your calendar:   April 3rd, 2012 8pm-10pm Game On! Comics Store   We will officially be selling the new Avengers vs. X-Men one day early.   Join us for FREE giveaways, games, and snacks as we welcome in the most hyped comic of the year.  What side are you on??  Marvel comics made our store pick a side and we chose.........the AVENGERS!   More details to come for Game On! Comics first big event for 2012!      Game Nights    Tuesday Nights 7pm-11pm We may change our D&D night to Saturday.  If you have mentioned that you are interested in playing then look to get an additional email this week.  C   Come play D&D at the store.  We are currently ready to start a new campaign for 1st level characters.  If you have never played before this is your time to start.  Because each story has limited space you must email us and let us know that you would like to join.  We will be starting with just 6 people.   WE ONLY NEED 2 more PLAYERS to start!!  If you are interested please email me because we are very close to starting.       Wednesday Nights 7-9pm Magic the Gathering   TONIGHT Wednesday, March 7th 7pm till 10ish DRAFT DAY Join us as we have another Dark Ascension Draft game.  For only $12 you will get 2 Dark Ascension Boosters and one Innistrad Booster.  Prizes will be awarded.  1st Place-4 Ascension Boosters 2nd Place-3 Ascension Boosters 3rd Place-2 Ascension Boosters 4th Place-2 Ascension Boosters. Tell your friends to come join us! Come in tonight for casual play.   Friday Nights 7-9pm Heroclix                                     Heroclix this Friday, March 9th, at Game On! Comics in Vienna, Va at 7 p.m., build a 500 point force with one character at 40 points or less chosen to be protected from one end of the map to the other. (We did a scenario like this a while back with Pogs for the protected piece.) Thanks Giahn for the scenario this week! Special rules to be announced as the game begins. No Feats, BFC's, or Colossals, all other figures are good to go. Surprise us with your choices for the Protected!   Congrats to last weeks winners:   1st: Mike 2nd: Tom Fellowship: Giahn     Saturday nights 7pm-?? Board and Card Games       NoVA Jacks night from 7pm to LATE NIGHT!  We have about 20-30 people that come in to play board and card games.  You can come and bring your own game or join one of the other games.  We often preview the newest games that come out.      Last weeks winners:       -1812:  The British (Avi, Scott, and Patrick) -Belfort:  Mathias -Core Worlds:  Avi -A Few Acres of Snow:  Scott -Navegador:  Andrew -Power Grid:  Barry -Puerto Rico:  Oz -Ra (played 3 times):  Oz; Jon; and Leslee -Small World Underground:  Rhett                     COMIC Review I, Vampire   This one is an interesting review.   There have been a ton of vampire and zombie comics/TV show/movies coming out, I know.  I will admit now, I really like them!  So, I am a little biased.  But, even I, was reluctant to read this one.  I didn't know anything about the previous series in the Vertigo lot so this was a fresh start for me.      That being said, I really like this series!  Anytime Batman and vampires are in the same comic, I am there!    OK, the series starts with a 600 year old vampire, Andrew Bennett.  He is like Blade, in that he is a vampire that doesn't like vampires and he has been going around killing them.  One vampire in particular, Mary, has been causing a ton of trouble and he feels responsible because he created her.  The story leads Andrew and a couple friends to Gotham where a certain super hero confronts him.   Without spoiling anything, they decide to confront the vampires together.  This was a fun read!  Issue #6 ends with the promise of the first DC crossover.  Justice League Dark and I, Vampire will join forces in issues #7.     I can't wait because issue #6 ends with a big cliffhanger!  -----Louis     Thank you so much for your support of our new comic and game shop.  We look forward to taking care of all of your comic and game needs.   Dave, J.R., and Louis Game On! 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Local webcartoonist Kerry G. Johnson profiled

The Writer's Block Interviews: Kerry G. Johnson
by Raychelle Muhammad
Raychelle Writes blog March 5, 2012
http://raychelle-writes.blogspot.com/2012/03/writers-block-interviews-kerry-g.html

His website is http://kerrykraft.com/ and his webcomic Harambee Hills is at http://www.gocomics.com/harambeehills

Comic Riffs interviews the retiring Tony Auth

THE 'RIFFS INTERVIEW: Pulitzer-winning Tony Auth to leave Inquirer after 'a great ride' of 40 years
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 7 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-riffs-interview-pulitzer-winning-tony-auth-to-leave-inquirer-after-a-great-ride-of-40-years/2012/03/07/gIQAnwnPxR_blog.html#pagebreak

Politics and Prose's Graphic Novel Bookgroup books! (UPDATED)

From: Adam Waterreus

Here's the list for the next 6 months.

As for the April book: Delisle will be coming to store on the 26^th…so I think we'll probably have the group then. Maybe he'll join us for the discussion. Also, this book has not been released yet, but I'll let you all know when it is…probably mid-April.

April 25/26th

Jerusalem by Delisle

May 23rd

Are you My Mother by Allison Bechdel

June 27th

Dylan Dog: Case Files by Sclavi

July 25th

Local by Brian Wood

August 22^nd

Understanding Comics by McCloud

September 26^th

The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes

October 24th

Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mignola

April 3: Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Early Release Party

Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Early Release Party
Tuesday, April 3 at 8:00pm
Location: all 4 Big Planet Comics stores!

I was somewhat surprised to get this Facebook invitation. So surprised that I might actually go!

March 14: Comics Exhibit at UMBC

"All Lurid, Unsavory, Gruesome Illustrations Shall Be Eliminated: The Comics Code as seen through the UMBC Comics Collection," currently on display in the Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is a chance to see how self-censorship shaped the way comic books have developed over the past 70 years.  Visitors will see rare pre-Code, Silver Age, and underground titles as well as non-Code magazines and modern graphic novels. 

Also part of the exhibit is rarely seen original 1970s comic book art from legendary artists such as Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott and John Romita, Sr.  Recently unearthed from the Special Collections vault, these pieces have rarely been seen in public.  Shown with their published counterparts, the works provide a fascinating insight into the comic book production process.

The exhibit runs until May 16^th.  An opening reception will be held Wednesday, March 14^th, from 12-1pm.  Special Collections is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-4 pm, and Thursdays from 1-8 pm. Other weekday hours are available by appointment- call 410-455-2353. More information on UMBC's Special Collections can be found at http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/ .

Steve Ammidown

Special Collections Student Assistant

Albin O. Kuhn Library, UMBC

mailto:sammido1@umbc.edu

Truitt on Green Arrow

Green Arrow gets a 'karmic wipeout' courtesy of Ann Nocenti
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 5 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-03-05/Green-Arrow-comic-book-series/53368296/1

Truitt on Manhattan Projects

'Manhattan Projects' bends history around atomic bomb
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 6 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-03-06/The-Manhattan-Projects-comic-book-series/53388376/1

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March 29: Early Comics and the Nature of the Child Lecture, Library of Congress

Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington DC   20540

March 6, 2012
Public contact:  Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115, mkenn@loc.gov

 Swann Foundation Fellow Lara Saguisag to Discuss
How Early American Comic Strips Shed Light on the Nature of the Child

Swann Foundation Fellow Lara Saguisag, in a lecture at the Library of Congress, will examine how early 20th-century comic strips that featured child protagonists revealed the nature of the child during that era.

Saguisag will present "Sketching the 'Secret Tracts' of the Child's Mind: Theorizing Childhood in Early American Fantasy Strips, 1905-1914," at noon on Thursday, March 29, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  No tickets are needed.

Saguisag will focus specifically on fantasy strips such as Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and Lyonel Feininger's "Wee Willie Winkie's World."  These strips featured child characters who inhabited dream worlds and transformed their environments through their imaginations.  According to Saguisag, central to these works is the idea that a child's perception and experience of the world was shaped by his/her proclivity for fantasy.  This natural connection with fantasy, moreover, made the child a complex, sometimes inscrutable figure, one who was essentially different from an adult.

Comic strips that linked childhood and fantasy drew from and built on themes of late-19th and early-20th-century children's books such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" and Frank L. Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."  Such literature portrayed and celebrated the child as a highly imaginative being who enters and sometimes creates fantasy worlds that an adult could not readily access.

According to Saguisag, during the same period, psychologists and practitioners associated with the Child Study Movement were also intrigued by what G. Stanley Hall termed the "secret tracts" of the child's mind.  Many psychologists concluded that imaginative play and reverie were healthful childhood activities and advised parents to take an active role in cultivating the child's imagination.  The intersection of children's literature and psychology encountered in early American "kid strips" helped perpetuate and naturalize the image of the imaginative child.

Born and raised in the Philippines, Saguisag completed an M.A. in Children's literature at Hollins University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The New School. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, where she held a University Presidential Fellowship from 2007-2009. 

This presentation is sponsored by the Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon of the Library of Congress and the Library's Prints & Photographs Division.  The lecture is part of the foundation's continuing activities to support the study, interpretation, preservation and appreciation of original works of humorous and satiric art by graphic artists from around the world.  The foundation strives to award one fellowship annually to assist scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon.  Applications for the 2013-2014 academic year are due Feb. 15, 2013.  More information about the fellowship is available through the Swann Foundation's website: www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/ or by e-mailing swann@loc.gov.

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Local bits

Bill Brown has a calendar out of cartoons from his local paper - Citizen Bill 2012, Takoma Park, MD: Takoma Voice.  I bought mine directly from him last weekend.

I also met Jason E. Axtell who just colored Mr. Big for the Dembicki's reissue. His website is http://www.jasoneaxtell.com

Magic Bullet #4, Washington's cartoon newspaper is out, and has an ad for ComicsDC that Rafer Roberts kindly drew for me. Pick it up at finer comics stores in the area.

Post article on Lorax merchandising and advertising...

...isn't online. But it's in the paper as

Brown, Emma.  2012.
At a school near you, the Lorax now speaks for SUVs.
Washington Post (March 5): B2

OT: An interview about a book about Jack Kirby

Charles is a good buddy of mine and he's got a new book on Jack Kirby out -

Spurgeon, Tom.  2012.
CR Sunday Interview: Charles Hatfield.
Comics Reporter (March 4): http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_charles_hatfield/

Winston-Salem Journal adds Cul de Sac on Sunday

Journal introduces new comics
By: Tim Clodfelter | Winston-Salem Journal March 05, 2012
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012/mar/05/wsmain02-journal-introduces-new-comics-ar-2002769/

and by the way, Reuben Bolling is doing the strip starting today.

Cavna on the Lorax

'THE LORAX' DEBUTS WITH $70M: What does it mean when the Seuss film is so 'green'?
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 5 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-lorax-debuts-with-70m-what-does-it-mean-when-the-seuss-film-is-so-green/2012/03/05/gIQA8HUjsR_blog.html#pagebreak

March 6: Kal on Washington's NPR station WAMU

From: kevin Kallaugher

 

Friends and colleagues

On Tuesday March 6, 1-2PM I will be a guest on Washington's NPR station, WAMU (88.5FM) with the great Kojo Nnamdi. According to the station's website, we will be discussing satire, politics and the hi-tech future of editorial cartoons.

I cannot wait to hear what I have to say! If you cannot listen live, you will be able to listen on the web during or after the show here…

http://TheKojoNnamdiShow.org/shows/2012-03-06/editorial-cartoonist-kevin-kal-kallaugher

Kal

Kevin Kallaugher

kal@kaltoons.com

www.Kaltoons.com

The iKAL iPhone App is now available at the iTunes store.

Truitt on Grim Leaper

'Grim Leaper' explores a gory story of love, life and death
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY February 27 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-02-27/Grim-Leaper-comic-book-series/53265248/1