Jan 29 Tonight: Zunar, a censored Malaysian cartoonist, at Busboys and Poets in DC

Location: Cullen Room @ Busboys and Poets, 5th & K

date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
time: 7:30pm - 9pm

Cullen Room @ Busboys and Poets

Dialog with Zunar, the controversial Malaysian political cartoonist

Zunar is Malaysian political cartoonist. He uses his drawing pen as a weapon to fight state corruption and abuse of power.  He was arrested and detained under the Sedition Act, seven of his cartoon books had been banned by the government, his office has been raided twice, the printing factories are constantly raided and vendors are often warned not to sell his books. 

Zunar is the recipient of 2011 "Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award" by the Cartoonist Rights Network International, Washington.

Clich here for full bio http://www.zunar.my/to-fight-through-cartoon/.

and here's articles about him from my Comics Research Bibliography:

Zunar

  *Lee, Melissa.  2012. Poetic justice: Rosmah on month-long London 'cartoon show' with Altantuya. Malaysia Chronicle (January 17): http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=26429:poetic-justic-zunar-takes-rosmah-on-month-long-london-exhibtion-together-with-altantuya&Itemid=2

  *Lee, Patrick.  2012. EC ban won’t stop me, says Zunar; Controversial cartoonist Zunar is miffed that the Election Commission has deemed political cartoons illegal during the next general election. Free Malaysia Today (June 6): http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/06/06/ec-ban-wont-stop-me-says-zunar/

  *Lee, Patrick.  2012.  Zunar: M’sian satirists play it safe. Free Malaysia Today (June 8): http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/06/08/zunar-msian-satirists-play-it-safe/

  *Mahtani, Shibani.  2012. Malaysian Cartoonist Takes Fight to London. Wall Street Journal's Southeast Asia Realtime blog (January 18): http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2012/01/18/malaysian-cartoonist-takes-fight-to-london/

  Sen, Teoh El.  2011. Zunar's arrest a comic act for cartoonists. Free Malaysia Today (June 23): http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/06/23/zunars-arrest-a-comic-act-for-cartoonists/

  Soon Chuan Yean.  2010. The other side of Zunar: A personal note. Aliran.com (December 23): http://aliran.com/3694.html

  Spurgeon, Tom.  2010. CR Holiday Interview #7 – Zunar. Comics Reporter (December 27): http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_holiday_interview_7_zunar/

  Unknown.  2010. CIJ supports legal challenge over cartoon book ban. Sun Daily.com (July 31): http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=50078

  *Unknown.  2012. Cartoonist cites loss of collage on Rosmah's hairstyle. Malaysiakini (January 18): http://my.news.yahoo.com/cartoonist-cites-loss-collage-rosmahs-hairstyle-084209681.html

  *Unknown.  2012. Zunar's Book Incites Hatred Towards Leaders – Witness. Bernama Media (January 18): http://my.news.yahoo.com/zunars-book-incites-hatred-towards-leaders-witness-125617798.html

  Yutim, Haider.  2011. Don't Be a Political Tool, Zunar Tells Cartoonists. Malaysian Digest (January 2): http://www.malaysiandigest.com/news/14435-do-not-be-a-political-tool-zunar-tells-cartoonists.html

  Zunar (Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque).  2010. Is Altantuya a forbidden issue? Aliran.com (February 10):  http://www.aliran.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1168:is-altantuya-a-forbidden-issue-&catid=95:2010&Itemid=48

Jeet Heer on Herblock

Herblock Was a Fine Political Cartoonist. Liberals Don't Need to Deify Him.

BY JEET HEER

New Republic January 26 2014
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116345/hbo-documentary-herblock-deifies-liberal-cartoonist

March wins Library Association award

March, Relish win awards at ALA Midwinter

 BY BRIGID ALVERSON 

HTTP://BLOGS.SLJ.COM/GOODCOMICSFORKIDS/2014/01/28/MARCH-RELISH-WIN-AWARDS-AT-ALA-MIDWINTER/

Pre-ordering Mercenary Pig #1- Meatcutter!

From: THOMAS ARVIS II

The February 2014 issue of Previews Magazine is about to be released and I need everyone within earshot of this e-mail to use the comic shop locator link below:

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

To find the shop nearest you (just type your zip code into the search bar), go there and tell them: "Mercenary Pig #1: Meatcutter is listed for order in February's Previews under Aazurn Publishing, order #FEB140868. It's a pork-humor filled, action packed origin story, and I WANT MINE!!!"

Order multiple copies if you like, but you'll want to do this THIS WEEK, as most shops place their orders the first week of the month (in this case Feb. 2014). Then you'll need to go back there in the first week of April 2004 and pick up your copy. That's the ONLY way to get this comic book. This is a $4.99 investment into what will surely become a COLLECTOR'S ITEM!

Here's the link to the Mercenary Pig Facebook Page to see what I'm talking about:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercenary-Pigs-New-FB-Page/254389564584019?ref=hl

Meanwhile, here also is the link to the teaser video created for YouTube by editor Gary Beatty. Enjoy- then go order your copy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRustur6wtE

Thanks!
Tom Arvis- creator/publisher
Mercenary Pig & Sureshot Comics
www.sureshotcomics.com

Feb 2: Rep. Lewis on March in Annapolis

John Lewis, March

Author Event
John Lewis is GA's 5th Congressional District Representative and an American icon known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement. The first volume of March, a graphic novel trilogy is co-authored by the Congressman and Andrew Aydin. Signing from 1:00 to 3

Sunday February 02, 2014 1:00 PM

Annapolis
2516 Solomon's Island Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401, 410-573-1115

'The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer'

Coming to the Artisphere in Arlington, Va., Feb. 6-9.

Kids comics on Smudge Jr.

Doug Fahrman, a blogger for Smudge Jr., the blog of the D.C. indie comics expo Smudge, posts about some cool kids comics he recently got in the mail.

“Today there was a surprise in the mail! A few months back I traded a copy of my zine (name inappropriate for Smudge Jr!) for some art made by some friends’ kid. I was expecting great stuff after the collage he made with a fish acting as knife wound, but I got even more than I thought! Inside were 2 mini comics along with a bunch of other one pagers created with the grammar of comics.”

National Archives features Batman from 1966

Batman for U.S. Savings Bonds, ca. 1966

US National Archives  Jan 24, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGnfqLyyQoQ

Creator(s): Department of the Treasury. (1789 - ) (Most Recent)

Series : Savings Bonds and Stamps Promotional Moving Images, compiled ca. 1950 - ca. 1977
Record Group 56: General Records of the Department of the Treasury, 1775 - 2005

Production Date: ca. 1966

Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted
Use Restriction(s): Restricted - Possibly
Note: Some or all of this material may be restricted by copyright or other intellectual property rights restrictions.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov

National Archives Identifier: 5716995
Local Identifier: 56-BONDS-67

AV Club on Herblock documentary

HBO's Herblock doc supplies a one-man history of editorial cartooning

Phil Dyess-Nugent

Jan 27, 2014
http://www.avclub.com/review/hbos-herblock-doc-supplies-a-one-man-history-of-ed-200937

Ryan Holmberg on Japanese-American comics links, as seen at U of Maryland

Seduction of the Innocent, Hiroshima 1950

BY Ryan Holmberg Jan 27, 2014
http://www.tcj.com/seduction-of-the-innocent-hiroshima-1950/

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Happy Anniversary, President Drone!"

"Happy Anniversary, President Drone!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1452

It was five years ago this week -- this past Thursday, to be exact -- that President Sparkle Pony kicked off his murderous drone warfare campaign. Not even a week in office, and already we had some change -- you've got to give him that.

So, I was reading this article over at the Bureau Of Investigative Journalism and saw a graph showing President Sparkle Pony's massive escalation of remote-control murder compared to President Chimp, and on viewing the layout of the bars showing the figures for Obama, I couldn't help noticing something...

________________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

The Post on tonight's Herblock documentary

HBO's 'Herblock': The finest line from Washington's surest hand

Nancy Andrews/AP - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Herbert L. Block.

By Hank Stuever, 

Washington Post January 27 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/hbos-herblock-the-finest-line-from-washingtons-surest-hand/2014/01/26/c073ac36-8551-11e3-8099-9181471f7aaf_story.html 

The Atlantic on Herblock

'This Shop Gives Every New President of the Unites States a Free Shave'

In 55 years as the Washington Post's editorial cartoonist, Herblock coined "McCarthyism," helped take down Nixon, and delivered pointed commentaries that remain relevant today.

David A. Graham Jan 26 2014,
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/this-shop-gives-every-new-president-of-the-unites-states-a-free-shave/283131/

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Herblock in his office after winning his third Pulitzer Prize, in 1979. (Charles Tasnadi/Associated Press)

The Post on the Spider-Musical's tell-all book

Wishing to soar but only stumbling

By Mark Berman, 

Washington Post January 26 2014, p. B7

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/song-of-spider-man-the-inside-story-of-the-most-controversial-musical-in-broadway-history-by-glen-berger/2014/01/24/5b5505e6-7a22-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html

SONG OF SPIDER-MAN: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History

By Glen Berger

Simon & Schuster. 370 pp. $25

That darn Doonesbury continued

Letter to the Editor

Politics is at home in the comics

Washington Post January 25 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/politics-is-at-home-in-the-comics/2014/01/24/3a52f77a-82d5-11e3-a273-6ffd9cf9f4ba_story.html

William Craig, Washington

Scott Kallman, Silver Spring

Allan R. Hoffman, Reston

Frozen in today's Express

No tiaras required for 'Frozen'

• BY KRISTEN PAGE-KIRBY

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• [Washington Post's] Express January 24 2014 http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2014/01/24/reelist-frozen/

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Elsa is one of TWO female heroines in "Frozen." (Disney)

Library of Congress Releases Collection and Services Statistics

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Email:  pao@loc.gov

January 24, 2014

The Library of Congress By the Numbers in 2013

The Library of Congress today released statistics for fiscal year 2013. The daily business of being the world's largest library, home of the U.S. Copyright Office and a supportive agency to the U.S. Congress resulted in the Library adding 2.65 million physical items to its permanent collections, registering more than 496,000 copyright claims and responding to 636,000 congressional reference requests in fiscal year 2013.

Some notable items newly cataloged into the Library's collection include the papers of astronomer Carl Sagan; eight rare U.S. city plans; Pope Clement V's Constitutiones, printed in 1476; the Bob Wolff sports broadcasting collection; the collection of Sharon Farmer, the first woman and the first African American to serve as chief White House photographer; and a list of books that Thomas Jefferson asked newspaper publisher William Duane to buy in Paris for the recently established Library of Congress.

The U.S. Copyright Office registered work in fiscal year 2013 from authors in all 50 states. Grammy Award-nominated songs such as "Locked Out of Heaven," registered in November 2012, by Bruno Mars, and such box-office toppers as  "Iron Man 3," registered in April and "Despicable Me 2," registered in June, were among the nearly half-million novels, poems, films, software, video games, music, photographs and other works submitted.

Reference librarians and Congressional Research Service staff responded to more than 1 million reference requests from patrons both on-site and via phone and email – an average of 4,600 every business day. Researchers sought information this year about World War I, trade data, early exploration of the Americas, household management in the ancient world, the timing of the federal fiscal year, family history and how many languages Thomas Jefferson could speak.

In fiscal year 2013, the Library of Congress …

   ■ Responded to more than 636,000 congressional reference requests and delivered to Congress approximately 23,000 volumes from the Library's    collections;

■ Registered 496,599 claims to copyright;

■ Provided reference services to 513,946 individuals in person, by telephone and through written and electronic correspondence;

■ Circulated more than 25 million copies of Braille and recorded books and magazines to more than 800,000 blind and physically handicapped reader accounts;

■ Circulated more than 1 million items for use within the Library;

■ Preserved more than 5.6 million items from the Library's collections;

■ Recorded a total of 158,007,115 physical items in the collections:

     23,592,066            cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system

     13,344,477            books in large type and raised characters, incunabula (books printed before 1501), monographs and serials, music, bound  newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports and other print material

   121,070,572            items in the nonclassified (special) collections, including:

       3,530,036      audio materials (discs, tapes, talking books and other recorded formats)

      68,971,722      manuscripts

           5,507,706      maps

        16,816,894      microforms

        1,697,513      moving images (film, television broadcasts, DVDs)

        6,751,212      items of sheet music

      14,472,273      visual materials, as follows:

13,728,116       photographs

    104,879        posters

    639,278        prints and drawings

 3,323,216        other (including machine-readable collections)

■ Welcomed more than 1.6 million onsite visitors and recorded 84 million visits and more than 519 million page-views on the Library's web properties. At year's end, the Library's online primary-source files totaled 45.2 million.

            Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs, publications and exhibitions. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov.

PR 14-009
01/24/14
ISSN 0731-3527

Sun-Gazette on former Arlingtonian animator

O'Connell Alum Finds Success in Field of Animation

by SCOTT McCAFFREY, 

Lyz Holder has followed her dreams from Arlington out to Los Angeles, where she works in the animation world. (Photo by Scott McCaffrey)

Arlington Sun-Gazette January 22, 2014

http://www.sungazette.net/arlington/education/o-connell-alum-finds-success-in-field-of-animation/article_ae379ed2-8368-11e3-9f96-001a4bcf887a.html

Fantom Comics Book Club: Saga

The Fantom Comics Book Club will meet Jan. 30 for a discussion on the comic Saga, Vol. 1 and 2 at the Chinatown Coffee Co. on H Street NW.

Herblock documentary profiled

'HERBLOCK' DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS AMERICA'S MOST FEARED EDITORIAL CARTOONIST

COURTESY IMAGE: NIXON BY HERBLOCK

By Enrique Lopetegui

SAN ANTONIO CURRENT JANUARY 22, 2014

HTTP://SACURRENT.COM/SCREENS/FILM/HERBLOCK-DOCUMENTARY-HIGHLIGHTS-AMERICA-S-MOST-FEARED-EDITORIAL-CARTOONIST-1.1620292

"In opposing corruption, the political cartoon has always served as a special prod, a reminder to public servants that they are, after all… public servants." —Herblock