Announcing SPX 2013 Ignatz Award Nominees

Small Press Expo Announces the Ignatz Award Nominees for SPX 2013 For Immediate Release:         Contact: Warren Bernard                                                 Phone: 301-537-4615                                                 E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com Bethesda, Maryland; August 15, 2013 - 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 seventeenth 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 from his long running comic strip Krazy Kat, 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, Lisa Hanawalt, Jason Shiga, Dustin Harbin, Damien Jay and Sakura Maku, with the votes cast for the awards by the attendees during this years SPX. The Ignatz Awards will be presented at the gala ceremony hosted by New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly and is to be held on Saturday, September 14, 2012 at 9:30 PM. This year the Ignatz Awards gala ceremony will be sponsored by our friends at comiXology and their self-publishing portal Submit, more information on Submit can be found at https://submit.comixology.com. Additional information on the nominees and previews (as available) can be found at http://www.spxpo.com/ignatz-awards-2013. SPX will be held Saturday, September 14 from 11AM to 7PM and Sunday, September 15, 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, please visit http://www.spxpo.com. Outstanding Artist Lilli Carre for Heads or Tails Michael DeForge for Lose #4 Miriam Katin for Letting It Go Ulli Lust for Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life Patrick McEown for Hair Shirt Outstanding Anthology or Collection Freddie Stories by Lynda Barry Heads or Tails by Lille Carré Peter Bagge's Other Stuff by Peter Bagge Stark #1 by Tusen Hjartan Very Casual by Michael DeForge Outstanding Graphic Novel The Property by Rutu Modan Susceptible by Genevieve Castree Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael You'll Never Know Vol. 3: A Soldier's Heart by Carol Tyler Outstanding Story "Arid" (Secret Prison #7) by Tom Hart Birdseye Bristoe by Dan Zettwoch "The Carnival" (Heads or Tails) by Lilli Carre Gold Star by John Martz "Neighbors" (Stark #1) by Joanna Hellgren Promising New Talent Sam Alden for  Hawaii 1997 & Haunter Nathan Bulmer for Eat More Bikes Philippa Rice for Looking Out Diana Thung for August Moon Angie Wang for "The Teacup Tree" (Secret Prison #7) Outstanding Series The Hive by Charles Burns Lose by Michael DeForge Madtown High by Whit Taylor Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan Outstanding Comic Hyperspeed to Nowhere 2: Return to Entropy by Lale Westvind The Life Problem by Austin English Looking Out by Philippa Rice Pope Hats #3 by Ethan Rilly St. Owl's Bay by Simon Hanselmann Outstanding Minicomic The End of the Fucking World: Part 16 by Charles Forsman Il Cammino Delle Capre by Kris Mukai and Zachary Zezima Hawaii 1997 by Sam Alden Layaway by Joseph Lambert Powdered Milk Vol. 10: The Man Who Could Not Read by Keiler Roberts Outstanding Online Comic Bird Boy by Annie Szabla - http://bird-boy.com/ Haunter by Sam Alden - http://studygroupcomics.com/main/haunter-part-1-by-sam-alden/ Gabby's Playhouse - Ken Dahl/Gabby Schulz - http://www.gabbysplayhouse.com/ July Diary by Gabrielle Bell - http://gabriellebell.com/2012/07/01/july-diary-day-one/ SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki - http://mutantmagic.com/ Copyright © 2013 Small Press Expo, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail as a result of your being on our long standing press release list. Our mailing address is: Small Press Expo P.O. Box 447 McLean, VA 22101

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2013

Contact:

 

Joe Procopio, joseph.procopio@lostartbooks.com, (240) 643‐8714

Matt Baker’s

Canteen Kate collected for first time

in volume one of new series debuting at Small Press Expo 2013

Lost Art Books revives important African American artist’s seminal 1950s work

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND—Picture This Press, a publishing house devoted to the graphic arts, will release the first volume in a planned three book set devoted to golden age “good girl” artist

Matt Baker. As part of the ongoing Lost Art Books imprint, The Lost

Art of Matt Baker: The Complete Canteen Kate

will debut in paperback and hardcover formats at this year’s Small Press Expo on September 14-15 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Every Canteen Kate story ever published—22 in all—is collected for the first time in

The Lost Art of Matt Baker, Volume 1,

judiciously restored

and enlarged 20 percent over their original published size. A rich introduction by veteran comics writer Steven

Ringgenberg

provides insightful historical and biographical context, and a bonus gallery spotlights Baker’s skills as a cover artist.

Best of all, Baker and his good

-time gal bring you weapons‐grade guffaws as well as art that will leave you eager to see more from

this master draftsman.

Matt Baker is considered by comics historians and aficionados to be the preeminent “good girl” artist working in the medium during the 1940s and 1950s. But beyond his gift for drawing some of the most beautiful women in comics, Baker’s accomplishments include

two firsts: (1) he is the medium’s

first important African American comics artist, and (2) he drew in 1950 what has been argued was

the

first graphic novel, It Rhymes with Lust.

Baker honed his skills through the 1940s for several comics publishers, but his tremendous talents came to fruition at St. John Publications, where his realistic style was showcased in western, mystery, and especially romance comics. But regardless of the comics’ genre, one quality emerged in whatever Baker drew: his naturalistically gorgeous women. During this prolific period in his career, this master of "good girl" art latched onto one of St. John’s only recurring characters, Kate of

Canteen Kate. Baker drew every installment of the candid wartime cutie, from her premiere in

Fightin’ Marines (1951) to her final bow in Anchors Andrews (1953).

Unlike the jingoistic comics typically published during the Korean War,

Canteen Kate tales were designed to be morale‐boosting screwball fun. Without radically changing his style, Baker managed to make Kate equal parts comely and kooky in a series of stories that leaned heavily on silly hijinks in a military mess hall. Volume 2 in

 

The Lost Art of Matt Baker series will collect his entire output for the Wartime Romances comic, and Volume 3 will

provide a sampling of his best war, western, and suspense stories. Both of those volumes are slated for a 2014 release. Volume 1 of the series is available now for pre

 

‐order directly from the publisher (www.LostArtBooks.com) and from Amazon.com, and will ship

in mid

‐September immediately after the Small Press Expo.

Details

The Lost Art of Matt Baker, Vol. 1: The Complete Canteen Kate

160 pages • 8 ½ x 11” • full color • paperback and hardcover editions

ISBNs:

978‐0‐9829276‐6‐3 (hardcover), 978‐0‐9829276‐8‐7 (paperback)

About

Picture This Press

is dedicated to broadening the appreciation and awareness of artists who work in the fields of illustration,

cartooning, graphic arts, photography, and poster design. Picture This Press founder Joseph Procopio and co

‐publisher Ellen Levy

have a combined 35 years of publishing experience as writers, managing editors, and publications directors for a variety of

organizations.

Lost Art Books

the flagship series from Picture This Press, collects and preserves the works of illustrators and cartoonists from the

first half of the 20th century. Too many of these artists have gone underappreciated for too long, with much of their work uncollected or unexamined for decades, if at all. The Lost Art Books series aims to preserve this cultural heritage by re

‐introducing these artists to new generations of working artists, historians, and admirers of things beautiful.

Links

Pre-order and sample art page:

http://tinyurl.com/pegt8qz

Lost Art of Matt Baker

book trailer on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/lostartbooks/mattbaker

Home page:

www.LostArtBooks.com

Facebook group:

http://tiny.cc/2uw2i

Interview with the publisher in the
Washington City Paper: http://tiny.cc/47nl4

Chicago Reader on Rep. Lewis's March

John Lewis's long march
With the help of illustrator Nate Powell, a civil rights legend's memoirs become a striking graphic novel.
By Dominic Umile
Chicago Reader August 4 2013
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/congressman-john-lewis-nate-powell-march-memoir/Content?oid=10515381

Game On! Comics Summer's Deal

A message from Game On! Comics         Promotion starts Aug 13, 2013 and ends Aug 31, 2013 Game On! Comics 310 Dominion RD NE, Vienna, VA, 22306 (703) 242-3838 | louis@gameoncomics.com | gameoncomics.com 0987226555

Game On! Comics | 310 Dominion RD NE | Vienna | VA | 22306

Neal Adams at Beyond Comics on Sept. 5

Comics legend Neal Adams will appear at Beyond Comics in Frederick, Md., on Sept. 5 from 4-7 p.m. (Adams will also be at Baltimore ComicCon that weekend, but apparently you can get his signature at the Beyond Comics event for half the convention price.) The store will have “prints, books, sketches and all kinds of awesome Adams merchandise. First signature is free.”

Peter Beagle's appearance at AFI

From guest blogger Bruce Guthrie

Peter Beagle's appearance at AFI/Silver last night went well.  He did Q&A and signing after a screening of "The Last Unicorn".

The audience, which had been raised on the book and/or cartoon, saw beyond those and loved every minute of the movie.

Unusual for a film screening, almost everyone at the sold-out 7:15 screening stuck around for the Q&A.  (This was in Theatre II which holds about 250 people.)  The audience was mostly adult although an earlier 4 pm screening had been added and that was apparently more kid-centric.  A lot of questions were about the story or the subsequent pieces in the same universe, but there were also a large number dealing with the other things he had written.  He was enjoyable to listen to and his publishing partner, Connor Cochran, filled in details and interesting subtexts.

The line of fans when I left during the signing around 10 looked like it would go on for at least an hour.  I found both Peter and Connor to be very personable and approachable and enjoyed myself considerably despite my lack of familiarity. 

Pictures are up on http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2013_08_12A_Beagle

--
Bruce Guthrie
Photo obsessive
http://www.bguthriephotos.com

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Underground Comix Legends Frank Stack and Denis Kitchen at the Baltimore Comic-Con

Underground Comix Legends Frank Stack and Denis Kitchen at the Baltimore Comic-Con BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - August 13, 2013 - The Baltimore Comic-Con is proud to announce that two prominent figures who originated in Underground Comix, Frank Stack and Denis Kitchen, will be coming to the 14th annual show, taking place September 7-8, 2013.    Frank Stack is credited by some comics historians with creating the very first underground comic (The Adventures of Jesus) back in 1962, well before R. Crumb's first ZAP in 1967. Frank is not merely a respected cartoonist -- he is an accomplished painter and for many years was a tenured art professor at the University of Missouri. But we know him in our corner of the world as the creator of such comics as his iconoclastic Jesus series, Feelgood Funnies, Amazon, and Dorman's Doggie, and contributions to underground anthologies like Rip Off Comix and Snarf. Frank collaborated with the late Harvey Pekar on American Splendor and the graphic novel My Cancer Year.  Frank, who very rarely attends any comics conventions, is making his first appearance at Baltimore Comic-Con. Though now retired from teaching, Frank continues to paint, make prints in his own print-making studio, and has a new comics project underway.   Denis Kitchen wears many hats in comics ("Too many," he tells us). Like Frank, he began as a self-published underground cartoonist (Mom's Homemade Comics, 1969), but quickly became primarily a publisher. His Kitchen Sink Press for three decades published such legendary and diverse artists as Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Mark Schultz, Charles Burns, Al Capp, Scott McCloud, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, Dave McKean, Howard Cruse, and countless others. Kitchen also founded the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and chaired it for eighteen years. A monograph of his cartoons (The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen) was recently published. Kitchen curates exhibitions, is an art agent, a literary agent, a comics historian and author (The Art of Harvey Kurtzman and a brand-new biography Al Capp), and just last month announced with partner John Lind that they are bringing back Kitchen Sink Books as an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. This is Denis's 4th appearance at Baltimore Comic-Con where he has a special connection: as the representative of the Kurtzman estate, he was responsible for bringing the annual Harvey Awards to us.      "It is very exciting to have Denis Kitchen returning to Baltimore, and a rare privilege to be hosting Frank Stack at our show this year," said Marc Nathan, show promoter of the Baltimore Comic-Con. "Their combined contributions to the Underground Comix movement can't be overstated, and we're glad they've chosen to represent at the Baltimore Comic-Con."    Stack and Kitchen joins our previously announced guests, including: Josh Adams (Doctor Who); Neal Adams (First X-Men); Art Baltazar (Aw Yeah Comics!, Tiny Titans); Brian Bolland (Dial H); Harold Buchholz (Archie Comics); Mark Buckingham (Fables); Sal Buscema (Amazing Spider-Man); Frank Cammuso (Knights of the Lunch Table, Otto's Orange Day); Jimmy Cheung (Avengers vs. X-Men); Frank Cho (Savage Wolverine); Steve Conley (Bloop); Amanda Conner (Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre); Jamie and Tyler Cosley (Cody the Cavalier, Ninja Squirrel); J.M. DeMatteis (Phantom Stranger); David Finch (Justice League of America); Franco (Aw Yeah Comics!, Tiny Titans); John Gallagher (Buzzboy, Roboy Red); SL Gallant (GI JOE); Zack Giallongo (Broxo); Chris Giarrusso (G-Man); Keith Giffen (Masters of the Universe); Jimmy Gownley (Amelia Rules!, The Dumbest Idea Ever!); Joe Hill (Locke and Key); Jason Horn (Ninjasaur); Adam Hughes (Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan); Barry Kitson (Empire); Roger Langridge (Popeye); Paul Levitz (World's Finest); Kevin Maguire (World's Finest); Mike Maihack (Cleopatra in Space); Mark Mariano (Happyloo); Dave McDonald (Hamster Sam); Mark McKenna (Star Wars, Banana Tail); Jason Mewes (Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie); Mike Mignola (Hellboy In Hell); Jamar Nicholas (Leon: Protector of the Playground); Chris O>Matic (The Chris O>Matic Show!); Jimmy Palmiotti (Batwing); Dan Parent (Archie, Veronica, Kevin Keller); George Perez (World's Finest); David Petersen (Mouse Guard); Joe Prado (Earth 2); Ivan Reis (Aquaman); Dave Roman - Saturday only (Astronaut Academy, Teen Boat); Chris Samnee (Daredevil); Jeff Schultz (Archie, Jughead); Louise Simonson (X-Factor); Walt Simonson (The Mighty Thor); Kevin Smith (Batman: The Widening Gyre); Allison Sohn (sketch card artist); Bobby Timony (Night Owls, Detectobot); Mark Waid (Indestructible Hulk), and Bill Willingham (Fables).     In the coming weeks, look for more announcements from the Baltimore Comic-Con. We are looking forward to highlighting our guests, the Harvey Awards, industry exclusives, and programming. The latest developments can always be found on our website, Twitter, and Facebook pages.    Contact Information Please use the following e-mail addresses to contact the Baltimore Comic-Con: press@baltimorecomiccon.com - for any general press inquiries or to be added to our PR distribution promoter@baltimorecomiccon.com - for requesting exhibitor, publisher, and Artist Alley applications registrar@baltimorecomiccon.com - for inquiries about submitted registrations harveys@baltimorecomiccon.com - for the Harvey Awards ceremony and banquet general@baltimorecomiccon.com - for general Baltimore Comic-Con inquiries    About The Baltimore Comic-Con The Baltimore Comic-Con is celebrating its 14th year of bringing the comic book industry to the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. For more information, please visit www.baltimorecomiccon.com. About The Harvey Awards The Harvey Awards are one of the comic book industry's oldest and most respected awards. With a history of over 25 years, the last 7 in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con, the Harveys recognize outstanding achievements in over 20 categories. They are the only industry awards nominated and selected by the full body of comic book professionals. For more information, please visit www.harveyawards.org .

Baltimore Comic-Con | P.O. Box 917 | Reisterstown | MD | 21136

Teresa Logan (aka the Laughing Redhead) opens Etsy shop

ANGELS FOR SALE: my Etsy shop be open by LaughingRedhead

I have opened my ETSY shop and filled it with drawings and collages of iconic women and angels.

More cartoons to come, of course! I'm always doing my cartoon humor . . . but I obsessively draw angels and women, too. (You'll probably see some similarities!)

Here's the link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LaughingRedhead

The Post on Norway's Jason

Book review: Graphic novel 'Lost Cat'
By Douglas Wolk,
Washington Post August 14? 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-graphic-novel-lost-cat/2013/08/13/8d5a31ae-ff6d-11e2-96a8-d3b921c0924a_story.html

The Post on Lewis' March

In the graphic novel 'March,' Rep. John Lewis renders a powerful civil rights memoir
By Michael Cavna,
Washington Post August 13 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-graphic-novel-march-rep-john-lewis-renders-a-powerful-civil-rights-memoir/2013/08/12/744698a0-0388-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html

Sept 4: FIVE FANTASTIC CARTOON ILLUSTRATORS! exhibit opens

• FIVE FANTASTIC CARTOON ILLUSTRATORS!

  · By Tyler Arts Life
• 
  
• Wednesday, September 4, 2013
• 

  5:30pm

A Look at Art, Process, Story and Design FEATURING: The art of Marty Baumann (movie and advertising illustrator/Disney and Pixar), Steve Conley (Independent Cartoonist/Astounding Space Thrills, Bloop, Star Trek, Adventure Time, The Escapist etc.) Nick Galifianakis (syndicated illustrator for The Washington Post), Kevin Rechin (syndicated illustrator - Crock Comic Strip) and Matt Wuerker (2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner illustrator for POLITICO) OPENING RECEPTION: 9/4/2013 from 5:30pm - 7:30 in The Tyler Teaching Gallery at the Tyler Building at Northern Virginia Community College/Alexandria Campus. 3001 N. Beauregard Street. Parking lot B has paid parking $2.00 per hour. For more information, please contact curators Britt Conley (bconley@nvcc.edu) and Lisa Hill (ehill@nvcc.edu)

Frederick's Flying Dog's Steadman artwork copied (sort of)

Dog fight: Flying Dog Brewery in packaging spat with brewing giant
Jim Galligan TODAY Aug. 9, 2013
http://www.today.com/food/dog-fight-flying-dog-brewery-packaging-spat-brewing-giant-6C10885572

I've been collecting these Ralph Steadman bottles for years at this point. This weekend I bought a Flying Dog beer pull.

That darn Sheneman

Letter to the Editor: Loving the sinner, hating the cartoon
Mary Martin, Alexandria
Washington Post (August 10 2013)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/loving-the-sinner-hating-the-cartoon/2013/08/08/65937dda-fe08-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html

Aug 28: District Comics at Politics and Prose book group

Graphic Novel Book Group (4th Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.)

Next Meeting

District Comics by Dembicki

Graphic Novels Book Group

Wednesday, August 28 at 7:30 p.m.

District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC (Paperback)

By Matt Dembicki, Scott O. Brown, Rebecca Goldfield

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9781555917517
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Fulcrum Publishing, 8/2012

Wednesday, August 28, 2013	Graphic Novel Book Group	District Comics by Dembicki
Wednesday, September 25, 2013	Graphic Novel Book Group	Rust, Vol. 1 by Lepp

The Graphic Novel Bookgroup is the newest public bookgroup at Politics and Prose. We read, you guessed it, graphic novels! But what is a graphic novel?  Isn't it just a comic book? Cartoons? Superhero in tights and capes? Occasionally, but not always. There are as wide a range of graphic novels as there are literary genres. The one commonality is that they all involve stories told with the aid of pictures - sequential storytelling. Obviously, this definition does not limit the content, and, if you were to browse several graphic novels, you'd find striking variety: memoir, journalism, literary fiction, humor, experimental, abstract, underground comix, sketchbook/journaling, superhero, mainstream, manga, manwha, the list goes on. Like any form of art, graphic novels  often push the limits in terms of content and methodology—engaging the reader/viewer in the act of creating and communicating the story.

 

That's all to say that the Graphic Novel Bookgroup is interested in all of the above. From the popular and lauded to the obscure, we try to read and discuss books which offer enough of a substantial story to encourage discussion, disagreement, and criticism. We focus as much on the story (narrative and dialogue) as we do on the art (drawing style and layout of the frames). The group is composed of young and old, male and female, those who've spent their lives immersed in the genre and others who've only read a few. Excellent graphic works are becoming increasingly available—thanks to a growing readership and reviewers who are willing to praise this expanding field—so come and join us, and read our recommendations at www.politics-prose.com/graphic-novels.