Ten reasons why you need "The Complete Cul de Sac"
By Andy Mansell
09/17/2014
http://culturemass.com/2014/09/17/ten-reasons-need-complete-cul-de-sac/
Wed, Sept 24 at 4 pm: In El Deafo, her funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator CECE BELL chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear--sometimes things she shouldn't--but also isolates her from her classmates. Show Map |
Fall TV 2014
Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what's worth watching.
By Hank Stuever, Washington Post Sept. 21, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/entertainment/2014-fall-tv-shows/
Letters to the Editor
Rape jokes do not belong in the comics [in print as 'Hagar' gets even more horrible]
Susan J. Popkin, Vienna
Washington Post September 20 2014
Bell's graphic memoir recounts her childhood experience of hearing loss, which included struggling with an unwieldy aid that ironically allowed her to hear some things she shouldn't have. But her disability also let her find her quasi-superhero persona, and as "El Deafo, Hearer for All," Bell made friends and found respect. Ages 8 – 12 (Amulet)
'BLACK COMICS': Fresh off milestone Eisner Award, (Howard alumna) scholar goes deep beneath black-and-white of comics page at Fall for the Book [Q&A]
By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs September 18 2014
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Gene Weingarten and Eric Shansby collaborated on the new children's book "Me and Dog," which was released Sept. 16.
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Each week, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten and illustrator Eric Shansby team up to create the often hilarious "Below the Beltway" column that runs in newspapers across the country. Now the duo unleashes their humor and wisdom on young readers with a children's book, "Me & Dog." We talk with the pair about the dynamics of their collaboration, the questions of faith they raise in the book and the importance of knowing your audience.
Small Press Expo 2014: A Wedding, A Prom, and Lots of Comics
By Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid
Sep 17, 2014
CARTOON OF THE DAY: Signe Wilkinson memorializes her mentor, Tony Auth (RIP)
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 16 2014
Tony Auth, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who satirized political figures, dies at 72
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post September 17 2014
The Lost Art of Ray Willner: The Adventures of Robin Hood
All 14 stories collected for the first time
Introduction by Joseph V. Procopio
Career-spanning bonus gallery
Ray Willner was a casualty of the culture wars. With a comics career dating to 1939, Willner produced impressive work for publishers small and large throughout the 1940s. By 1949 he landed one of the only steady gigs in his career for an unusual publisher: The Brown Shoe Company. It was there that Willner found a simpatico spirit in fellow artist Reed Crandall. Although their collaboration on the Brown Shoe Co. series The Adventures of Robin Hood lasted less than a year — cancelled in the wake of the scaremongering backlash against comics in the 1950s — the seven issues produced by Willner with Crandall represent a seldom seen high-water mark in comics art. They were the last comics Willner would ever draw.
The Lost Art of Ray Willner collects these comics for the first time since their original publication in 1956 and includes an introductory essay on Willner's life and career.
- See more at: http://www.picturethispress.com/the-lost-art-of-ray-willner-the-adventures-of-robin-hood/#sthash.9AXhas7n.dpuf
Robin Ha is a new local cartoonist. She's just moved to the area. I met her today at SPX. Here's her info:
