Rawlings on Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter

Cartoonist Dale Rawlings takes a jab at Kirby Delauter, a Fredrick County (Md.) councilman who threatened to sue the Frederick News-Post if it printed his name or photo without his permission. His Facebook posting, along with a brilliantly funny New-Post editorial on the matter, have gone viral.

Courtesy of Dale Rawlings

Je Suis Charlie by Steve Artley

I offer my quickly rendered tribute to the satirists of Charlie Hebdo. Rather than a cleverly glib commentary, here I offer a serious statement. I proudly stand in plain view and loudly utter the phrase, "je suis Charlie (I am Charlie)!" This is what editorial cartoonists do; stand and show ourselves. On every one of our rendered opines we proudly inscribe our names for all to see. Yes, I drew this. Yes, I wrote this. I said this. Me, an individual with a voice. And, I published it, sent it to my syndicate, posted it on the Internet for all the world to see.

The cartoonists killed in the Paris attack today were not hiding unseen in the bushes. Unlike their murderers, the people killed were not nameless clandestine cowards who hide their identity under balaclavas and secret themselves away into hiding after perpetrating extreme violence on unarmed targets. They didn't use guns or bombs. No weapons were among their tools, nor were threats of violence issued. They openly drew pictures that lampooned, that provoked thought, that made a statement through satirical renderings. For that they were gunned down.I appeal to those who cherish freedom to stand united against these cowards, against those who aid them and against those who applaud them. Silence allows them to flourish, so speak out. Let your voices be heard, your pencils unsheathed, your keyboards tapped. ‪#‎JeSuisCharlie‬ ‪#‎CharlieHebdo‬

- Steve Artley

January 14: Cards, Comics & Collectibles Star Wars Party with Frank Cho Exclusive Cover Signing!

Cards, Comics & Collectibles Star Wars Party with Frank Cho Exclusive Cover Signing!

Press Release For Immediate Release

Cards, Comics & Collectibles STAR WARS Party with Frank Cho Exclusive Cover Signing! From the Store that Brings You the Baltimore Comic-Con... Andy Smith Adventure Time Variant Cards, Comics & Collectibles, the official retailer and news source for the Baltimore Comic-Con, will host a STAR WARS Party on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 from 5pm-7:30pm in honor of the release of Marvel Comics' new Star Wars #1 issue! While many stores are having Star Wars parties, none of them can offer our store-exclusive STAR WARS #1 Cover by celebrated artist, Frank Cho. Frank will be at the store during the event to sign issues! As part of the celebration, we will have various refreshments available, including a cake featuring Frank's cover in icing! Mmmm...delicious Frank Cho artwork! And be sure to wear your best Star Wars cosplay! Stop by to meet Frank at the store, and be sure to pick up his HOT store-exclusive cover! You can get it on eBay, but not for the price that we're selling it! If you can't come in person, make sure you buy it from our website at cost! This book is going to be huge, written by Jason Aaron with art from John Cassaday, and it looks great! Cards, Comics & Collectibles is located at 100A Chartley Drive, Reisterstown, MD. For more information, please visit cardscomicscollectibles.com or call 410-526-7410.

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

Charlie Hebdo vigil happening at Newseum right now

DC's Newseum to Hold Vigil for Charlie Hebdo

By Damon Marx on January 7, 2015
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/dcs-newseum-to-hold-vigil-for-charlie-hebdo_b137555

Comic Riffs on Ant-Man

ANT-MAN #1′s DEBUT: Nick Spencer aims to deliver a tiny fighter who's largely accessible to new readers

By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 7 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/01/07/ant-man-1s-debut-nick-spencer-aims-to-deliver-a-tiny-fighter-whos-largely-accessible-to-new-readers/

The Post on Charlie Hebdo terrorism

Gunmen storm Paris satirical newspaper, killing at least 12

By Virgile Demoustier, Anthony Faiola and Brian Murphy January 7 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/gunmen-storm-paris-satirical-newspaper-killing-at-least-11/2015/01/07/f358b17a-9660-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html

Assailants in Paris appear heavily armed with military-style equipment

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff January 7 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/07/assailants-in-paris-appear-heavily-armed-with-military-style-equipment/

#JeSuisCharlie: Cartoonists react to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris

By Abby Ohlheiser
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 7 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/01/07/cartoonists-react-to-charlie-hebdo-massacre-in-paris/

What is Charlie Hebdo, the provocative satirical newspaper attacked by gunmen in Paris?

By Abby Phillip and Abby Ohlheiser January 7 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2015/01/07/what-is-charlie-hebdo-the-provocative-satirical-magazine-attacked-by-gunmen-in-paris/

Comic Riffs on Charlie Hebdo terrorism

CHARLIE HEBDO: American cartoonists condemn today's attack, hail slain satirists as 'heroes' [UPDATED]

By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 7  2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-american-cartoonists-condemn-todays-attack-hail-slain-satirists-as-heroes/

Today: KAL on Kojo Nnamdi show at 1 pm

From: Kevin Kallaugher


I will be on the Kojo Nnamdi show today during the 1 o'clock hour to discuss the tragedy in Paris. Please call in with any observations.

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2015-01-07/an_attack_on_a_french_newspaper_an_attack_on_political_satire

January 9: The Art of Richard Thompson at Politics and Prose

Richard tells me he will be in the audience, as will I and Bono Mitchell.

Nick Galifianakis, Gene Weingarten,and David Apatoff - The Art of Richard Thompson

Jan 9 2015 7:00 pm

Named the Outstanding Cartoonist of 2010 by the National Cartoonists Society, Richard Thompson is best known for his syndicated series, Cul de Sac. But his work encompasses much more, and in this colorful career retrospective, six of his peers present the different facets of Thompson's art. Join Galifianakis, Washington Post cartoonist and author of If You Loved Me, You'd Think This Was Cute, Weingarten, Pulitzer-winning journalist who writes The Washington Post's "Below the Beltway" column, and Apatoff, an illustration scholar whose recent work includes a biography of illustrator Robert Fawcett. They will be interviewed by Michael Cavna, writer, artist, and lapsed cartoonist now producing The Washington Post's "Comic Riffs." (Andrews McMeel)

The Art of Richard Thompson (Hardcover)

By Bill Watterson, Chris Sparks, Nick Galifianakis

$35.00

ISBN-13: 9781449447953
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 11/2014

Want more than just ComicsDC?

 The D.C. Area Comic Scene  by Eden Miller is at http://dc-area-comics-scene.tumblr.com/

Ben Hatke's 'Return of Zita the Space Girl' best-seller for First Second

MARK SIEGEL INTERVIEW, PART 1

First Second's Big 2014 Books, and the Numbers

January 7, 2015 @ 5:18 am EST
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/30577/mark-siegel-interview-part-1

The Year According to Toles

The Year According to Toles ran in the Post on December 28th, but try to find it on their website. Instead here's Tom's main page at the paper

Jeff Kinney's DC roots mentioned on CBS News

​"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" author's better dream

Talk about an unlikely story: A failed cartoonist writes a book for adults that ends up on the CHILDREN'S best-seller list! Unlikely or not, it's the story our Rita Braver has to tell.

CBS News' Sunday Morning January 4, 2015

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-authors-better-dream/

New blog: Upcoming Week at Fantom Comics

Here's what's coming up at Fantom over the next week Upcoming Week at Fantom News, Reviews and Ted Cruz* Gooood Mooooorning Fantom Fans! From now on you have an email from the folks at Fantom to look forward to every Tuesday morning. It'll be short and sweet. Honest! It'll just be a link to our once a week blog post laying out everything that's going on in the store in the coming week. A one-stop shop, if you will. Without further ado, here's the link. *Ted Cruz inserted for rhyming purposes only

Jon McNaught in the Post

I missed it, but Wim Lockefeer caught that British comics artist Jon McNaught did a bunch of illustrations for the Post on December 26th.

So who was Bill Talburt? [UPDATED]

This question came up a few days ago. I knew who to turn to for answers.

Sara Duke, ace Library of Congress curator and author of a biographical dictionary ComicsDC put online, tells us:

In addition to being Dan Perkin's (Tom Tomorrow's) grandfather-in-law:

Talburt, Harold M., 1895-1966

American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator, born in Toledo, Ohio on February 19, 1895. He began his career as a correspondent for the Toledo Times. He joined the staff of the Toledo News-Bee. In 1921 he became a cartoonist for the Scripps-Howard news bureau in Washington, which had just opened. He cartooned for the Washington Daily News while he served as chief Washington cartoonist for Scripps-Howard. He also created the comic strip Casey the Cop around 1922. In 1933, he received a Pulitzer Prize for one of his Washington Daily News cartoons. He published two compilations of his work: Talburt (1943) and Cartoons: Largely Political (ca. 1943). He retired from cartooning in 1966, and died of cancer in Kenwood, Maryland on October 22, 1966.

Info from: "Our Comic Artists," chapter 38 in Our American Humorists / Thomas L. Masson. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1922, p. 430, viewed online:  10/29/2010; Harold Talburt Cartoons: an inventory of his cartoons at Syracuse University, Syracuse University Library, viewed online: 11/27/2010 [Art Wood Collection]

Here is an example of Sunstroke! an editorial cartoon that was put into production as a World War II propaganda poster.

A fanzine called Cartoonews #15 reprinted an 8-page Scripps-Howard article on him. A copy is in Michigan State's Comic Art Collection and they're mailing me a copy of the article.

Ryan Holmberg on early Tezuka frictions

The Fukui Ei'ichi Incident and the Prehistory of Komaga-Gekiga

BY Ryan Holmberg Jan 5, 2015
http://www.tcj.com/the-fukui-eiichi-incident-and-the-prehistory-of-komaga-gekiga/

January 6: Ripley: Believe It or Not: American Experience on tv

Ripley: Believe It or Not: American Experience

Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd made him one of the richest men in America. Over three decades his "Believe It or Not" franchise grew into an entertainment empire, and the eccentric, globetrotting playboy became a national celebrity. Watch an in-depth profile on American Experience.

Ripley: Believe It or Not: American Experience airs Tuesday, January 6 at 9pm on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD.

Tue., January 6, 2015
9:00 pm
(60 minutes)

Ripley: Believe It or Not  

A profile of Leroy Robert Ripley (1890-1949), aka Robert L. Ripley, the man behind the famed "Believe It or Not!" franchise, which began as a comic strip before expanding into radio, film and TV.

Tue., January 6, 2015
9:00 pm
(60 minutes)

Ripley: Believe It or Not  

A profile of Leroy Robert Ripley (1890-1949), aka Robert L. Ripley, the man behind the famed "Believe It or Not!" franchise, which began as a comic strip before expanding into radio, film and TV.

Wed., January 7, 2015
7:00 am
(60 minutes)

Ripley: Believe It or Not  

A profile of Leroy Robert Ripley (1890-1949), aka Robert L. Ripley, the man behind the famed "Believe It or Not!" franchise, which began as a comic strip before expanding into radio, film and TV.

Wed., January 7, 2015
8:00 am
(60 minutes)

Tupperware  

"Modern dishes for modern living" (and they "burped," no less), sold by women at "home parties." This slice of 1950s Americana is recalled in "Tupperware!" "The era and the product were made for each other," says one of the Tupperware "ladies" who are interviewed throughout the hour. Husbands are interviewed too because Tupperware was oftentimes a family affair, with the men working behind the scenes. The man in charge: Earl Tupper, who invented the sealable plastic containers. But a woman, Brow

Wed., January 7, 2015
10:00 am
(60 minutes)

Ripley: Believe It or Not  

A profile of Leroy Robert Ripley (1890-1949), aka Robert L. Ripley, the man behind the famed "Believe It or Not!" franchise, which began as a comic strip before expanding into radio, film and TV.

- See more at: http://www.weta.org/tv/program/american-experience-0#sthash.VPX7Grkf.dpuf

New International Journal of Comic Art issue is shipping to subscribers

Go to http://www.ijoca.com to order a copy or renew your subscription for 2015.

Rawlings' cartoon for ALEA award

A few months ago, local cartoonist Dale Rawlings was commissioned to do a cartoon on the 2014 Airborne Law Enforcement Association's Aircrew of the Year Award. This week, Dale received a nice email from one of the award recipients, U.S. Park Police Sgt. Kenneth Burchell, who was part of the crew that responded to the 2013 shooting at the Navy Yard. Dale let us reprint the comic, below.

That darn Doonesbury

Letters to the Editor

The Post lost sight of the audience [online as A subject not fit for the comics pages]

Debbie Shelton, Manassas

Washington Post January 3 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-subject-not-fit-for-the-comics-pages/2014/12/31/b470ee3c-8fd5-11e4-a66f-0ca5037a597d_story.html

Comic Riffs still likes Richard Thompson in 2015

12 DAYS OF GRATITUDE: #2. Twelve months (and counting) of projects celebrating cartooning genius Richard Thompson [+Q&A]

Robot 6 checks in with Rafer Roberts and Carla Speed McNeil...

...as well as some other cartoonists who aren't fortunate enough to live in ComicsDC's coverage area.

Creators weigh in on 2014 and 2015 (Part 1) [Al Ewing, Alison Sampson, Christopher Golden, Corinna Bechko, Enrica Jang, Jane Irwin, Jen Van Meter, Judith Stephens, Matthew Petz, Rafer Roberts, Ross Campbell, Seth Kushner,].

by Tim O'Shea | December 31, 2014 http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/12/creators-weigh-in-on-2014-and-2015-part-1/

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/12/creators-weigh-in-on-2014-and-2015-part-1/2/

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/12/creators-weigh-in-on-2014-and-2015-part-1/3/

Creators weigh in on 2014 and 2015 (Part 4) [G. Willow Wilson, Tom Spurgeon, Paul Maybury, Chris Roberson, Carla Speed McNeil, Claire Connelly, Patrick Dean, Michael Allred, Amy Chu, Jamie S. Rich, David Lopez and Jeff Loveness].

by Tim O'Shea | January 1, 2015

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/01/creators-weigh-in-on-2014-and-2015-part-4/

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/01/creators-weigh-in-on-2014-and-2015-part-4/2/

Richard Thompson is another positive on Tom Spurgeon's year-end roundup

50 Comics Positives For 2014: Richard Thompson Had Two Giant Books Out
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/50_comics_positives_for_2014_richard_thompson_had_two_giant_books_out/

Jan 17 in Richmond: Leading Illustrator's Poe Art Surveyed in Major Exhibit

1914-16 E. Main St. Richmond, VA 23223 Phone 804-648-5523 Fax 804-648-8729

News Release

Contact: Chris Semtner Phone: 804-648-5523 chris@poemuseum.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Exhibit Surveys Four Decades of Richard Corben's Poe Artwork

From January 17 until April 19, 2015, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia will host Reimagining Poe: The Poe Illustrations of Richard Corben a major exhibit surveying forty years of illustrations to Poe's works by Eisner Award-winning artist Richard Corben. This, the first retrospective of Corben's Poe illustrations, will feature several original drawings from the artist's personal collection.  The exhibit will open with a lecture about Corben's illustrations by Randolph Macon College professor M. Thomas Inge on January 17 at 5p.m. The exhibit opening and lecture will be part of the Poe Museum's annual Poe Birthday Bash, the world's largest celebration devoted to the nineteenth century author's birthday.

Richard Corben (born 1940) is a comic book artist and illustrator named   Corben began his career in animation before turning to underground comics. In 1976 he adapted a Robert E. Howard story into what is considered the first graphic novel, Bloodstar. He is best known for his comics appearing in Heavy Metal Magazine. His illustrious career has included work in album covers and movie posters, collaboration on a graphic novel with rock musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie, and an award-winning short film Neverwhere. He is the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award, and he was elected to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012.

For over forty years, Corben has established himself as one of the most extraordinary illustrators of Poe's works. His Edgar Allan Poe adaptations have appeared on the pages of the comic books Creepy, Edgar Allan Poe's Haunt of Horror, and Edgar Allan Poe's Spirits of the Dead. Among his dozens of comic book adaptations of Poe's tales and poems are popular favorites like "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado," as well as little known classics like "Alone" and "Israfel." Not content with literal illustrations of Poe's words, Corben's exquisite artwork is often paired with his own unusual and innovative reinventions of the stories. In the introduction to Corben's latest collection of Poe adaptations, Edgar Allan Poe's Spirits of the Dead, Dr. M. Thomas Inge states, "Corben has proven to be the most acute and creative interpreter of Poe in comics history."

Edgar Allan Poe is the internationally influential author of such tales of "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Black Cat." He is credited with inventing the mystery genre as well as with pioneering both the modern horror story and science fiction. Poe died under mysterious circumstances at the age of forty. Although much of his life is known through contemporary documents, some areas of his life remain shrouded in mystery.

Opened in 1922, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond is the world's finest collection of Edgar Allan Poe artifacts and memorabilia. The five-building complex features permanent exhibits of Poe's manuscripts, personal items, clothing, and a lock of the author's hair. The Poe Museum's mission is to interpret the life and influence of Edgar Allan Poe for a global audience. Edgar Allan Poe is America's first internationally influential author, the inventor of the detective story, and the forerunner of science fiction; but he primarily considered himself a poet. His poems "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells" are classics of world literature.

For more information, contact Chris Semtner at the Poe Museum at chris@poemuseum.org or 888-21-EAPOE. More information and a complete list of Poe-related activities can be found at http://www.poemuseum.org/events.php.

Jan 3: Shoff Promotions Comic Book & Sports Card Show

I'm sending you a last reminder of our upcoming Shoff Promotions
Comic Book & Sports Card Show together again SATURDAY JANUARY 3 10am-3pm at our new added location- the Annandale Fire House Hall 7128 Columbia Pike Annandale Virginia 22003

Plenty of great collectibles for sale such as Gold, Silver, Bronze & Modern Age

Comic Books, Nonsports cards from the 1880's to the present, PLUS Vintage to present day sports cards including a wide array of hockey cards, sports memorabilia & autographs PLUS Old Records and Hobby supplies of all types.

Artists Angela McKendrick & Dan Nokes and sports author Gary Sarnoff will also be joining us.

Directions: shoffpromotions.com

START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT- SEE YOU SATURDAY JANUARY 3

Nick Shoff

WITH THIS NOTICE ONLY ************ $1 Off All ADULT Admissions in your Party* (Regularly $3 NOW only $2) *** FREE - YES -FREE admission fee:18 years old and younger..

Jan. 20: Kidd, Ishii and Kolbeins at Fantom Comics

Chip Kidd, Graham Kolbeins and Anne Ishii will be at Fantom Comics on Jan. 20 (7-9 p.m.) for the launch of "Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It" (Fantagraphics). 

From the Facebook event post: "Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hyper-masculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi and Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of the irresistibly seductive, internationally renowned artists featured in Massive, as well as Gengoroh Tagame, the subject of The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga."

Art Hondros in Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection

When Art was demonstrating against gun violence outside Capitol Hill last month, he gave me copies of his Song of Sandy Hook comic book for a couple of comic libraries. MSU's librarian Randy Scott has received and cataloged their copy.

THE YEAR IN CARTOONS: Looking at 2014 through the prism of Cavna's editorial cartoons

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 31, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/12/31/the-year-in-cartoons-looking-at-2014-through-the-prism-of-cavnas-editorial-cartoons/

Local "Comics positives" by Tom Spurgeon

50 Comics Positives For 2014: The Bill Watterson/Richard Thompson Exhibit At The Billy Ireland

50 Comics Positives For 2014: March Won Special Recognition At The Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards

A couple or three old bits for the New Year

The Washington Post did something, probably not in the actual paper, on editorial cartoons in 2003.

In 1939, Charles Howard collected original cartoons from Washington newspaper cartoonists Clifford Berryman, H.M. Talbert and Gene Elderman. I have no idea why the Art Institute of Chicago has a 4-page finding aid to them on its website. Nor do I know who Talbert is.

Elderman, courtesy of GU

Harry Hopkins and the NewDeal: As Seen by the Cartoonists was an exhibit at Georgetown University in 1998. It also included Berryman, Elderman and Bill Talburt (note spelling)

Cartoon and comics deaths in 2014

Never a pleasant thing to have compiled, but people should be remembered for their achievements. Corrections and additions welcome. Updated with comic strip cartoonist Max Gwin, animation voice actor Christine Josephine Cavanaugh,

Deaths in 2014 included underground comix publisher and first comic book store owner Gary Arlington, Tony Auth, Dick Ayers, comics journalist Bill Baker, British car cartoonist Jim Bamber, Charles Barsotti, caricaturist Garrett Bender, underground comix store owner Stanley Bobrof, Brumsic Brandon, Jr., Prism Comics' David Paul Brown, Cambodian cartoonist Ung Bun Heang, Isabelle "Barbara" Hall Fiske Calhoun (aka Barbara Hall), Hamlet Campagna (aka Hal Camp), "Oyster Stew" cartoonist Michael Carpenter,  François Cavanna - cofounder of Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo, animation voice actor Christine Josephine Cavanaugh, Brazilian comics artist André Coelho, Scottish comic book store owner Neil Craig, Robert's ex-wife Dana Crumb, Blondie cartoonist Frank Cummings, comic book artist Jeremy Dale, editorial cartoonist Bill Dunn, Joseph Escourido, Socialist Worker cartoonist Phil Evans, Al Feldstein, Paul Flannery, San Antonio Express-News cartoonist Leo Garza, Stan Goldberg, El Chapulin Colorado Mexican television superhero Roberto 'Chespirito' Gómez Bolaños, Dandy cartoonist Charles Grigg, comic strip cartoonist Max Gwin, gag cartoonist David Harbaugh, Archie Andrews radio voice and tv voice actor Bob Hastings, comic book writer C.J. Henderson, New Zealand cartoonist David Henshaw, cartoonist turned children's book author Eric Hill, PS Magazine editor Don Hubbard, Etta Hulme, Egyptian cartoonist Mostafa Hussein, comics publisher Larry Ivie, store owner Brian Jacoby, gag and comic strip cartoonist Alexander Ralston "Bud" Jones, Jr. , Pinocchio voice actor Dick Jones, animation voice Casey Kasem, editorial cartoonist Jon B Kennedy, Fred Kida, "Super" Duper cartoonist Bill Kresse, editorial cartoonist Dan Lynch, comics historian and Little Orphan Annie writer Jay Maeder, Stroker McGurk cartoonist Tom Medley, British comic book writer Steve Moore, Esquire cartoonist Babette Beinfield Newburger, minicomics cartoonist Catherine Peach, Graphic Nature cartoonist Larry Pendleton, manga and anime researcher Timothy Perper, gag cartoonist Jeff Pert, Source Comics and Games store owner Dominic "Nick Post" Postiglione, animator Arthur Rankin, small press cartoonist Chris Reilly, editorial cartoonist Mike Ritter, Vijay Narain "Vins" Seth,  Pran Sharma, Joe Shuster Awards volunteer Debra Jane Shelly, Greek cartoonist Ilias Skoulas, animator Michael Sporn, Bhob Stewart, animator Robert Taylor, Dungeons & Dragons cartoonist David A. Trampier, Disney biographer Bob Thomas, Morrie Turner, Viz book designer Courtney Utt, Morris Weiss, British pocket cartoonist Frank Whitford, Aladdin voice actor Robin Williams, sports cartoonist Amadee Wohlschlaeger, collector Art Wood, Bermudan editorial cartoonist Peter Woolcock, political cartoonist George Edward Zeleski.