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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - July 26, 2012
Matt Dembicki's graphic novel Xoc: The Journey of a Great White is out and only Big Planet Comics has it! Matt will be appearing at our College Park and Vienna stores this Saturday, July 28, along with the colorist of Xoc, Evan Keeling! We also have an awesome limited edition signed and numbered print by Matt and colored by Evan for sale (that is the picture to the left)! Only $5, but it is limited so be sure to get there early! Matt also will have some free minicomics, as well as some other cool stuff for sale, including original art, and resin shark teeth created by Brooke Allen!
Well, after you read the story of Xoc Pup above, get ready for a full graphic novel of the stories of a grown up great white shark! Matt Dembicki's Xoc is coming out soon! Join us on Saturday, July 28, at our College Park and Vienna stores for Matt signing copies of his new book. The colorist on the book, Evan Keeling, will also be there! Plus we will have limited edition signed and numbered prints for sale for only $5!
Michael Rex, creator of Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian, will be appearing at both our Vienna and College Park stores on Saturday, August 18, for his new all-ages book Fangbone! 3: The Birthday Party of Dread! Michael Rex is a New York Times best-selling illustrator for his many excellent kids books, including Firefighter, Furious George Goes Bananas, Jack the Builder, and of course the first two excellent Fangbone books, Fangbone! 1: Third Grade Barbarian and Fangbone! 2: The Egg of Misery!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
I've got a new article out on cancer and comics
Rhode, M and JTH Connor. "Graphic Tales of Cancer,"International Journal of Comic Art 14:1 (Spring 2012): 112-156.
Coincidentally, Atrium #10 has some relevant articles not cited in mine of course.
Our local Batman has a new Batmobile
Rt. 29 Batman, with new Batmobile, vows to continue mission after massacre
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post (July 25 2012)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/rt-29-batman-with-new-batmobile-vows-to-continue-mission-after-massacre/2012/07/24/gJQAy2aW6W_blog.html
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post (July 25 2012)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/rt-29-batman-with-new-batmobile-vows-to-continue-mission-after-massacre/2012/07/24/gJQAy2aW6W_blog.html
July 27-28: Beyond Comics Heroclix Tournament in Gaithersburg
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Washington writer Daniel Snyder on superhero movies
What's Next for Superhero Movies?
By
The Atlantic's Entertainment channel. Jul 24 2012,
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
'Xoc' signing /Magic Bullet 5 debut, this Sat.
From: Matt Dembicki:
Just a quick plug for a signing I'm doing this Saturday, July 28, at Big Planet Comics in College Park, Md., and Vienna, Va. It's for my new graphic novel Xoc: The Journey of a Great White. Here's a review of the book.
I'll also have freshly printed copies of the 56-page Magic Bullet #5, which, of course, is FREE!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Weldon on Batman and viole
Catharsis In A Cape: On Comic-Book Heroes And Real-World Violence
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (July 20, 2012)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/07/20/157115707/catharsis-in-a-cape-on-comic-book-heroes-and-real-world-violence
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (July 20, 2012)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/07/20/157115707/catharsis-in-a-cape-on-comic-book-heroes-and-real-world-violence
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - July 20, 2012
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July 25 - Animezing: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Embassy of Japan | 1150 18th St., NW | Suite 100 | Washington | DC | 20036 |
Friday, July 20, 2012
Reason on Clowes
Turning Comic Books Into Art
The world of high art celebrates pioneering comics creator Daniel Clowes.
Greg Beato | July 19, 2012
http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/19/turning-comic-books-into-art
(the magazine is based around Dupont Circle)
The world of high art celebrates pioneering comics creator Daniel Clowes.
Greg Beato | July 19, 2012
http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/19/turning-comic-books-into-art
(the magazine is based around Dupont Circle)
Wash Examiner on Batman movie
From the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street: 'Dark Knight Rises' tackles collapse of civilization
Kelly Jane Torrance
The Washington Examiner July 18, 2012
Can a 'Dark Knight' rise to save us from ourselves?
Kelly Jane Torrance
The Washington Examiner July 19, 2012
http://washingtonexaminer.com/can-a-dark-knight-rise-to-save-us-from-ourselves/article/2502632
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Politics and Prose launches anthology; calls for comics
Announcing District Lines
Politics & Prose is excited to announce the launch of its P&P imprint, starting with an anthology of original, local work to be called District Lines. The anthology is intended to capture a sense of people and place in DC and the surrounding metropolitan area.
We are now soliciting submissions—poems, essays, short stories, coherent musings and ramblings, scribbles, comics, or graphics—that describe a particular DC metropolitan neighborhood. Work must be original and previously unpublished. Prose should be under 3,000 words. Graphics must be in a PDF file that can be reproduced in black and white.
The deadline for submissions is September 22, 2012. All entries must be accompanied by a $10 entry fee, which will allow us to give each author of a submission that is selected for publication a free copy of the anthology. We hope to hold an event at the store once the anthology is published and will ask selected contributors to join us for an open reading.
Please submit entries in a word document, double-spaced, using Times New Roman, 12-point font. For graphics or art please submit work in a PDF file.
To submit work please visit http://politicsprose.submittable.com/submit.
City Paper doesn't like Addams Family play either
Standard & Horror [online title: At Studio and the Kennedy Center, buzzy and commercial musicals with a dose of the macabre]
By Trey Graham Washington City Paper July 20, 2012
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42975/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson-and-the-addams-family-reviewed-at/
By Trey Graham Washington City Paper July 20, 2012
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42975/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson-and-the-addams-family-reviewed-at/
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Comics lead to air conditioning
Wandering a bit afield from Washington, but the New York Times has noted that comics led to the invention of air conditioning. "It was built for a company that printed the humor magazine Judge, which carried fanciful illustrations" aka political cartoons.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Flegennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Based On A True Story"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1132
No, really, it is, at least parts of it.
I was on my way downstairs for a sandwish one late morning last week or so, and I passed by the bedroom, where the DW is catching up on some impresario chores on her laptop while the satellite box is nailed down to MSNBC. As aiways, I stop for a minute or two just to check out what they're emitting, and it's some woman who looked as if she were made entirely of plastic babbling an item about Hill leadership's reaction to the discovery that the US Olympic Team's uniforms had been made in China. Faster than you could say "eight percent unemployment", Harry Reid and John Boehner had crapped their drawers loudly while blurting out carefully crafted Tourette's episodes on the subject of the export of US jobs to China. After offering up this news, the anchorbabe said -- for real, I shit you not -- "At last, something that Democrats and Republicans can agree on."
"...along with war, torture, censorship, warrantless surveillance, assassinations, detention without trial..." the anchorbabe neglected to add.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
PR: Gordon Harris's new graphic novel Pedestrian
Monday, July 2, 2012
Gordon Harris, AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR
"PEDESTRIAN"
An Original Full-Color Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel WITHOUT Zombies or Vampires
Ray, the pedestrian, wanders the post-apocalyptic suburbs and discovers a mysterious package, an elaborate tree house, and carrier pigeons. He meets Tamaya, a self-acclaimed, closet-conspiracy theorist who lives in the tree-house, and they soon embark on a search for the origins to a mysterious map carried by...er, one of the carrier pigeons.
About the author
Gordon Harris lives in Annandale, Virginia with his wife Judy, twin daughters Violet and Silver, and three gerbils whose names escape him. He graduated from Parsons School of Design but his day job is NOT writing, drawing and painting graphic novels. He's always had a desire to, but it seemed like a lot of work, so instead his day job consists of watching TV shows like Curious George or Wild Kratts and writing promos for them - among other tasks.
If you'd like to see more, here is a preview link for PEDESTRIAN, and you can visit my Facebook page (Ray, the pedestrian) for more info.
Notes about PEDESTRIAN from Ray, the pedestrian
Gordon Harris doesn't like to look back. He usually dismisses regrets within a few thoughts. It's just not good for the soul. However, he admits to one sole regret that would prove difficult for anyone to redeem, which is; "that I will not be around for the apocalypse." Morbid? Not so much - considering the current landscape of the undead and living dead that's infected our pop-culture. At the age of seven (that's not a typo), one of Gordon's daughters posed the quintessential question, "What's the difference between the undead and the living dead?"
If your tastes for entertainment don't always include fresh brains and/or blood, this beautifully drawn, full-color, 54-page graphic novel is a fresh approach to the postapocalyptic theme. The world and its inhabitants haven't gotten off easy in PEDESTRIAN but like it says above, there are no zombies or vampires around.
I'm not so much alone in the world, I'm just searching for that elusive garment bag. My bellhop attire seems to suit me, and harkens back to simpler days of spare change and another bellhop named Ace Face. As luck would have it, I eventually discover a mysterious package. Tamaya is nearly as curious a character as the tree house she lives in. She collects miscellaneous, odd objects and displays them in small, zip-lock bags adorning the walls of her tree house. My introduction to her comes by way of the mysterious package and a persistent pigeon.
Map in hand, Tamaya and I eventually journey to the countryside and beyond, in search of the maps origin, and anything else for that matter.
-Ray
ICAF 2013 Announcement
ICAF 2013 Announcement
The International Comic Arts Forum to hold 16th Annual Conference at the University of Oregon from May 23-25, 2013 with guest artists Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
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The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is very pleased to announce that the University of Oregon will host the forum's next academic conference from May 23-25, 2013 at the White Stag Building in Portland, Oregon. A call for conference papers will be forthcoming this September. Updates on guest artists and other conference information can be found on the ICAF Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/icafcomic.
Since 1995, ICAF has been dedicated to promoting the scholarly study and appreciation of comic art, including comic strips, comic books, comics albums and graphic novels, magazine and newspaper cartooning, caricature, and comics in electronic media. The forum provides a supportive, collegial environment to showcase innovative comics scholarship and comic art for critics, historians, teachers, and comics professionals from around the world. For more information on ICAF's mission, previous programs, and scholarships, visit: http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org.
ICAF is proud to welcome the University of Oregon as its host institution in 2013. This premiere public university will begin offering a new undergraduate minor in Comics and Cartoon Studies in Fall 2012 under the direction of Professor Ben Saunders. The interdisciplinary minor, the first of its kind in the country, emphasizes the international history, interpretation, and appreciation of the comic art form. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art also supports the development of Comics Studies on campus through exhibitions and public lectures. Previous ICAF conferences have been held at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Georgetown University, and the Small Press Expo in Maryland. Additional information about the University of Oregon and its new Comics and Cartoon Studies program can be found by visiting: http://comics.uoregon.edu.
Brazilian artists and twin brothers, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, have also been confirmed as guest presenters for ICAF 2013. The winners of multiple Eisner Awards, Moon and Bá are best known for their work together on the series Casanova and Daytripper. Learn more about Brazil's self-proclaimed "Wonder Twins" at their blog: http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com.
Posted by Qiana Whitted, ICAF Promotions and Communications
Carolyn Belefski's latest con report
Carolyn Belefski's latest con report in on her Curls webcomic site.
The Post on Dark Knight, Tesla and Fringe superheroes
'The Dark Knight Rises' brings trilogy to a satisfying close
By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post July 19, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/the-dark-knight-rises,1208568/critic-review.html
Capital Fringe Festival review: 'Superhero Celebrity Rehab'
By Stephanie Merry, Washington Post July 17 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/capital-fringe-festival-review-superhero-celebrity-rehab/2012/07/16/gJQA6Uz1oW_story.html
Graphic novel stars Nicola Tesla, inventor of AC power and an oddball physicist
By Aaron Leitko, Washington Post July 16 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/graphic-novel-stars-nicola-tesla-inventor-of-ac-power-and-an-oddball-physicist/2012/07/16/gJQAphtApW_story.html
By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post July 19, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/the-dark-knight-rises,1208568/critic-review.html
Capital Fringe Festival review: 'Superhero Celebrity Rehab'
By Stephanie Merry, Washington Post July 17 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/capital-fringe-festival-review-superhero-celebrity-rehab/2012/07/16/gJQA6Uz1oW_story.html
Graphic novel stars Nicola Tesla, inventor of AC power and an oddball physicist
By Aaron Leitko, Washington Post July 16 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/graphic-novel-stars-nicola-tesla-inventor-of-ac-power-and-an-oddball-physicist/2012/07/16/gJQAphtApW_story.html
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