Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Writing contest for 'Trickster' prize
Scholastics' Storyworks magazine holds writing contests with the prize often being books. For the November/December contest, 10 winners will receive a copy of Trickster: Native American Tales (an Eisner-nominated comics anthology I edited for Fulcrum Publishing). The deadline for entries is Jan. 15, 2014.
Monday, October 28, 2013
The Tumbleweed book illustrated by Kevin Rechin
Here's the trailer for The Tumbleweed Came Back by Carmela LaVigna Coyle and Kevin Rechin, as well as an announcement for a book signing.
'District Comics' wins Shel Dorf Award
District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington. DC (Fulcrum Publishing) won the 2013 Shel Dorf Award for Original Graphic Novel of the Year, a category that included Building Stories and Parker: The Score, among others.
Comic Riffs on Inside Mad
Best Books of 2013: Judd Apatow leads celebs, creators who joyously go 'Inside MAD'
Washington Post Comic Riffs October 27 2013http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/best-books-of-2013-judd-apatow-leads-celebs-creators-who-joyously-go-inside-mad/2013/10/27/42898eda-3f7e-11e3-9c8b-e8deeb3c755b_blog.html#pagebreak
Oct. 30, Gallery Talk: The works of Audrey Niffenegger
The National Museum of Women in the Arts on Wednesday will host a free lunchtime chat about its popular Audrey Niffenegger exhibition.
"Digital Media Specialist Laura Hoffman discusses selections from Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger," according to the museum's website. "The gallery talk will cover the mid-career retrospective of Niffenegger, featuring her book art, works on paper, and paintings with a specific focus on the more morbid works in the exhibition. Discover a fantastic, strange, and mysterious world created by the artist and bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. The talk and exhibition will reflect Niffenegger’s captivating narrative talent as well as her spooky yet humorous portrayal of death."
"Digital Media Specialist Laura Hoffman discusses selections from Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger," according to the museum's website. "The gallery talk will cover the mid-career retrospective of Niffenegger, featuring her book art, works on paper, and paintings with a specific focus on the more morbid works in the exhibition. Discover a fantastic, strange, and mysterious world created by the artist and bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. The talk and exhibition will reflect Niffenegger’s captivating narrative talent as well as her spooky yet humorous portrayal of death."
Sunday, October 27, 2013
October owl
Cartoonist Andrew Cohen is back to occasionally drawing some feathered friends. His most recent post on his blog is a dark-eyed owl, just in time for Halloween. BTW, Andrew will be at the Artisphere this Thursday as the final artist in resident for the Comics Making Workshop/Magic Bullet exhibit in the Works in Progress Gallery.
Courtesy of Andrew Cohen
'Magic Bullet' thank-you card
The D.C. Conspiracy mails thank-you cards to folks who advertise its semi-annual Magic Bullet comics newspapers. For the current issue, MB #7--which has a Halloween theme--local cartoonist Matt Rawson did a Halloween illustration for the thank-you card. (It is loosely based on the Universal monsters chalk wall drawing he did this fall at Artisphere in Arlington, Va., as part of the D.C. Conspiracy's Comic Making Workshop and MB exhibit, which ends next weekend).
Courtesy of Matt Rawson and Joe Carabeo (photo)
Friday, October 25, 2013
Events next week sponsored by Fantom Comics
Fantom Comics is hosting a discussion--one of its regular, informal, coffee house chats--on Oct. 28 at Chinatown Coffee from 7-9 p.m. The book: Watchmen. "Who watches the Watchmen? This month, we do. Alan Moore's subversive work on the perils of superhero power in the hands of the righteous continues to shape our understanding of the role of superheroes in a cynical and broken world. If you've ever read Watchmen or was looking for an excuse to read it, now's the time!"
Fantom Comics is also teaming with Fridge Gallery, which is hosting a Halloween Arty Party. "Come for the cosplay and stay for the party. Deejay Oso Fresh will be rocking the turntables all night and the Costume Contest takes place at 10 p.m. (with $100 Fantom Comics shopping spree as a prize). We will have cool prizes, a raffle and giveaways all night long. No cover charge!"
Fantom Comics is also teaming with Fridge Gallery, which is hosting a Halloween Arty Party. "Come for the cosplay and stay for the party. Deejay Oso Fresh will be rocking the turntables all night and the Costume Contest takes place at 10 p.m. (with $100 Fantom Comics shopping spree as a prize). We will have cool prizes, a raffle and giveaways all night long. No cover charge!"
Halloween ComicFest - Free Comics at Beyond Comics
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Saturday & Sunday
Cartoonist-sponsored blood drive featured in Takoma Voice
Cartoonists want your blood!
Artley's Aphelion Arc's Exiles of Nod story is expanded version
"The Exiles of Nod story can be viewed in its entirety, laid out in slide format for online viewing. Some new panels were added and the story has been enhanced from its original condensed version. Other stories are currently in production. I'm anticipating at least one full story per month to be completed, with previews appearing on the website. The print version will be a compilation of three stories, plus the "nerds' appendix." This special section provides a bit of insight and back story on the stories in each issue. Currently, I'm investigating funding options for printing and distributing the magazine. Michael Auger was the webmaster who brought vast plethora of my web artwork to life. "
Halloween ComicFest comes to Game On!
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Fwd: Tomorrow is Halloween ComicFest at Third Eye!
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Comic Riffs on new Jaime Hernandez book
Best Books of 2013: Junot Diaz & Jaime Hernandez team up deftly on deluxe illustrated 'This Is How You Lose Her'
Steve Artley's Aphelion Arc webcomic is live
Editorial cartoonist Steve Artley is branching into science fiction comics and his Aphelion Arc webcomic is live now.
Brad Meltzer's book talk - guest blog post by Bruce Guthrie
I went to Brad Meltzer's talk at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library last night. He's definitely a crowd pleaser! He was promoting his new book "History Decoded" based on the History Channel show. Wonderful speaker who even brought junk food for the signing line. Scott Rolle from the show was also there.Several questions dealt with his comic book work. He said he was very excited to be working on the Batman 75th anniversary retelling of the Batman origin story due out in January. As http://bigstory.ap.org/article/batman-turns-75-dc-plans-weekly-title-events says,
The Bob Kane and Bill Finger-created character's origin will get a "modern-day retelling" in the 104-page issue by Brad Meltzer and Bryan Hitch, along with new stories and art from Snyder, Frank Miller, Sean Murphy, Peter J. Tomasi and Guillem March, Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen, Gregg Hurwitz and Neal Adams.
"We want to bring him closer to his roots and be more of a street-level type of hero," Manapul said about their plans. "His super heroics will still be present, but the investigative part of Batman will be at the forefront."
He also showed some pages from his upcoming "I Am Amelia Earheart" kids graphic book and he showed covers for "I Am Abraham Lincoln" and "I Am Rosa Parks". Apparently there will be at least six book in the "I Am..." treatment.
The signing event was fun as he appeared to recognize a bunch of his fans. He's great at establishing personal connections with his fans through social media and in person. He's got a lot of fan loyalty. I talked with three people about many times they had seen him before and two of them said five or more times.
There were about 250 people in the audience. The signing lasted over 90 minutes. Pictures are up on http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2013_10_23B_Meltzer
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Seth Goldman and Talkin' About Toons photos
Seth Goldman on his graphic biography of Honest Tea, "Mission in a Bottle" at One More Page Bookstore in Arlington. More photographs are here.And two pictures of the Talkin' About Toons panel:
Talkin' Bout Toons panel with Matt Wuerker, Kevin Rechin, Steve Conley and Marty Baumann. NOVA Community College.
Oct. 26: Loya workshop at Winchester bookstore
Cartoonist/artist Steve Loya will be hosting his wonderful “Splotch
Monster”-making workshop Oct. 26 from 12:30-2:30 p.m. at the Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, Va. He’ll show you how to turn a random watercolor painting into a unique
monster, then you make your own for Halloween!
Art courtesy of Steve Loya
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