Fantom Comics offers fed employees a discount

Fantom Comics is offering 20% off all graphic novels for government employees during the government shutdown. Just present a federal employee ID for the discount. Contractors with federal IDs are also eligible.

The Post reviews Gene Yang and David B.

The Surreal Stuff of Dreams ['Incidents in the Night,' by David B.]

By Douglas Wolk

Washington Post October 9 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/incidents-in-the-night-david-b/2013/10/08/3c576d6e-2b80-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

Visions of Glory, Bloody Realities [BOXERS & SAINTS, Gene Luen Yang]

By Douglas Wolk

Washington Post October 9 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/boxers-and-saints-gene-luen-yang/2013/10/08/6764060c-2b80-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

Comic Riffs on Green Arrow

GREEN ARROW: Jeff Lemire, David Ramsey shed light on the new synergy between CW hit and the DC comic

By David Betancourt 

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 9 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/green-arrow-jeff-lemire-david-ramsey-shed-light-on-the-new-synergy-between-cw-hit-and-the-dc-comic/2013/10/09/20063d78-308c-11e3-9ccc-2252bdb14df5_blog.html

Sean Hill comics in the works

Local comics artist Sean Hill is illustrating a science fiction/action comic called Vegas Baby. There's a sample page below. The book is created/written by Chris Ward, who has a Kickstarter campaign going to fund the book. Sean also did the pencils and inks for the comic Route 3 (Terminus Media), which is debuting this weekend at New York Comic Con (Booth 574 in Artist Alley). Its creator/writer is Robert Jeffrey II.

Courtesy of Sean Hill and Chris Ward

Courtesy of Sean Hill and Robert Jeffrey II

 

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Essa Neima

by Mike Rhode on Oct. 8, 2013 

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2013/10/08/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-essa-neima/

Conley's alternative 'Action Comics' No. 1

Artist Steve Conley shares with us this detail of a commissioned drawing of an alternative Superman via an alternative cover to Action Comics No. 1.  "Went with a strongman-style costume with vest and toned-down action," Steve said on his Facebook page. 

Courtesy of Steve Conley

Afterlife With Archie special variant cover at Big Planet Comics

Big Planet Comics has an Archie exclusive comic book with their logo on the cover.... it's the new book Afterlife with Archie that features a zombie Jughead also on the cover.

I shop at the one at

Big Planet Comics
4849 Cordell Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814

In time for Halloween: 'Afterlife With Archie'

Archie Comics Gets Horror Makeover in "Afterlife"
NBC4 Washington
In "Afterlife With Archie," a series debuting Wednesday, publisher Archie Comics is launching not just its first horror title, but also its first book carrying a rating for teens and older sold only in comic shops.

Oct 10: Paul Pope at Politics and Prose

Paul Pope will be at Politics and Prose and Takoma Park Library on October 10th.

Paul Pope - Battling Boy

Oct 10, 2013, 10:30 a.m.

Best known for his graphic novels, Pope—in his new book for younger readers—vividly depicts Acropolis, where child-eating monsters roam the streets. The townspeople pin their hopes on Battling Boy, a demigod sent to save them—if he can. Ages 10 and up.

Battling Boy (Paperback)

By Paul Pope

$15.99

ISBN-13: 9781596431454
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: First Second, 10/2013 

Other Editions of this Title

 

5015 Connecticut Ave NW

Washington

, 

District Of Columbia

20008

United States

Paul Pope - Battling Boy — at Takoma Park Library

Oct 10, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Best known for his graphic novels, Pope—in his new book for younger readers—vividly depicts Acropolis, where child-eating monsters roam the streets. The townspeople pin their hopes on Battling Boy, a demigod sent to save them—if he can. Ages 10 and up.

Battling Boy (Paperback)

By Paul Pope

$15.99

ISBN-13: 9781596431454
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: First Second, 10/2013 

Other Editions of this Title

 

Takoma Park Library

101 Philadelphia Avenue

Takoma Park

, 

Maryland

20912

Here's the press release from his publisher:

PAUL POPE'S "ADVENTURE OF THE YEAR" BATTLING BOY IS IN STORES TODAY

 

 

"A new generation superhero." – Entertainment Weekly

 

Boing Boing says, "You're going to love this," while The Huffington Post calls it "an instant classic," and MTV Geek "a rip-roaring superhero adventure for the ages."  "This book is a number one stunner," says Junot Diaz, while Brian K. Vaughan says, "there's more imagination in each page of this book than in whole years of other comics," and Jeff Smith calls it "the adventure of the year."

 

When Battling Boy's father (a warrior god) drops him on a world infested with bloodthirsty monsters, he leaves his son with nothing but a magic credit card, a trunk full of enchanted tee shirts, and instructions not to come home until he's liberated the planet from its plague of monsters.

 

It's one kid versus an entire world full of monsters – and the monsters don't stand a chance.

 

PAUL POPE is the New York Times bestselling author/illustrator behind the fiercely beloved comics The One Trick Rip-Off, Batman Year 100, Heavy Liquid, and100%. A master of gritty sci-fi epics, he's known for genre-bending storytelling and frenetic, stylish artwork. Paul Pope's art has been featured in places as diverse as LucasArts, Diesel Industries, and Cartoon Network, and DKNY. Widely considered to be one of the best and most influential cartoonists today, Paul Pope's comics storytelling has its roots in the classic superhero stories he read as a child, from his lifetime devotion to the classic stories of Asimov and Bradbury — and the epic storytelling of Star Wars.  At age 25, Pope embarked on a career creating comics for the Japanese manga publisher Kodansha, living and working in Tokyo.  His comics have since reflected the effortless pacing, breathless emotional storytelling, and widespread accessibility that the manga form is so well known for, while retaining an aesthetic that is truly Pope's own. The protégé of Moebius, the legendary grand master of the French comics industry, Pope's current work integrates all these influences into a heady concoction with a uniquely American sensibility.

 

Review copies are available.

 

BATTLING BOY

by Paul Pope

First Second Books

Middle Grade Graphic Novel

Trade Paperback: 9781596431454, $15.99 / $18.50

Hardcover: 9781596438057, $24.99 / $28.99

6 x 8 1/2, 208 pages, Ages 10 - 14

On Sale 10/8/13

 

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Gina Gagliano

Associate Marketing & Publicity Manager

First Second Books

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646.307.5388

gina.gagliano@firstsecondbooks.com

 

Oct 21-22: Brian Biggs at local bookstores

Cartoonist turned children's book illustrator Brian Biggs will be at Hooray for Kids in Alexandria on Monday afternoon Oct 21 at 4 pm, and at Politics and Prose on Tuesday Oct 22 at 10:30 am.

Wire stories on comic book readers and The Simpson's from yesterday's Post's Style section

Comic book heroes are hot. Comic books are not. And that's OK with their fans
Melissa Rayworth / Associated Press
Washington Post October 6 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/comic-book-heroes-are-hot-comic-books-are-not-and-thats-ok-with-their-fans/2013/10/01/a58780ee-2aa9-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html

'The Simpsons' to kill off a character this season
By Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times
Washington Post October 6 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/the-simpsons-to-kill-off-a-character-this-season/2013/10/03/dee2d488-2ac2-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html

Julian Lytle featured on The Beat

NYCC '13: Artist Julian Lytle offers prints of JLA members eating yummy foods
by Heidi MacDonald
10/07/2013
http://comicsbeat.com/nycc-13-artist-julian-lytle-offers-prints-of-jla-members-eating-yummy-foods/

SpookyFest begins Thurs.

The 10-day Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival begins Thursday at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Md., with a bigfoot film, "Willow Creek" (Pretty cool poster). Director Bobcat Goldthwait will be there. Here's your comics angle: John Dimes, a local TV personality and artist (and sometimes cartoonist) will be screening his film "Bald Headed Blues: A Doctormentary on Sarcofiguy." It's described as "the hysterical true-life story of reluctant local television pioneer and artist John Dimes and his 'charming̕' alter-ego 'Dr. Sarcofiguy' as they navigated for more than 15 years the diverse D.I.Y. worlds of modern television horror hosting with cutting edge improv, humor and wit. Featuring interviews with television hosts past and present, including Dick Dyszel ('Count Gore De Vol'), Jerry Moore II ('Karlos Borloff'), Bob Hinton ('A. Ghastlee Ghoul'), Leanna Chamish ('Boo dePest'), and narrated by New England horror host 'Penny Dreadful.'

Flea Market finds this weekend

I found some material by formerly famous cartoonists over the weekend.

Digby Bell in The Education of Mr. Pipp by Augustus Thomas: The Charles Dana Gibson Play postcard
New York: Carter & Gut, 1905

The Road to Paradise sheet music (missing middle pages)
New York: G. Schirmer
Cover by Raeburn van Buren

Donald Hessler Said "Hello" original cartoon
Richard Yardley, Baltimore Sun cartoonist

Comic Riffs on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

JEFF SMITH: Why the bestselling 'Bone' creator is a great addition to CBLDF board
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 4 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/jeff-smith-why-the-bestselling-bone-creator-is-a-great-addition-to-cbldf-board/2013/10/04/ec289a0e-2d12-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_blog.html

Oct 6: Capicons convention

The Capicons convention is on Oct 6 from 10-3 at the Dun Loring Fire Hall off Gallows Road.

Zadzooks: Scribblenauts Unmask

Washington Times review of the DC Comics-based video game "Scribblenauts Unmasked—A DC Comics Adventure." 

Brian Ralph interview from SPX

'I always want to be joking': a chat with 'Reggie-12′s' Brian Ralph
by Chris Mautner | October 3, 2013
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/10/i-always-want-to-be-joking-a-chat-with-reggie-12s-brian-ralph/

Today: 'Arcana' at Telegraph

Telegraph in Charlottesvilles, Va., is holding a reception and release today (5 p.m.) for "Arcana," an exhibit fof ive interpretations of iconic cards from the Major Arcana of the Tarot. One of the artists participating is cartoonist Benjamin Marra. Prints will also be available online for sale. (You should check out the amazing array of prints the store has, with several by cartoonists such as Zach Soto, Warren Craghead and Michael DeForge.

Dust Elves at Capicons on Sunday

October 4, 2013 Visit Gordon at Capicons Sunday If you missed Gordon at the Small Press Expo last month, here's your chance to get a copy of The Secret Origin of The Dust Elves (and more). He'll be there this Sunday, October 6 from 10 am to 3 pm. Capicons is a small comic book convention in Dunn Loring, VA. It's at The Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Station at 2148 Gallows Rd. Come on by and say hi. And don't forget to check out the new Dust Elves website.

Oct. 11: George R.R. Martin at Beyond Comics

George R.R. Martin, author of the best-selling series of novels that HBO adapted into the hit TV show Game of Thrones, will be visiting Beyond Comics at the Gaithersburg, Md., on Friday, Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. Nuff said! (Keep up to date on the event through the store's Facebook event page.) BTW, Meathouse Man, an e-comic adaptation of Martin's short story of the same name, will be available for Kindle readers on Oct. 15. 

Noguchi at Artisphere on Oct. 3 and 5

Cartoonist Jamie Noguchi will be the artist in resident tomorrow at the Artisphere in Arlington, Va., as part of the D.C. Conspiracy’s Comics Making Workshop in the Works in Progress Gallery. Jamie will be there from about 6:30-9ish p.m. (depending on how long it takes him to finish his chalkwall drawing, which each resident artist has done each week). Jamie will also be there on Saturday from 1-4 p.m. Below is a recent episode of his online comic Yellow Peril.

Courtesy of Jamie Noguchi