Ann Simon at Alliance Francaise (catching up)

Ann Simon spoke with Michael Cavna of the Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog a couple of weeks ago. I took some pictures, but am just now getting them onto Flickr.




(Translator is in the center)




Her drawing for Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection.

More pictures can be seen here.

Nov 12: DC Art Book Fair

Saturday, November 12 at 11 AM - 6 PM

Lab 1270

1270 5th Street Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia 20002

Details

The DC Art Book Fair is a first-of-its-kind event in the nation's capital. It's a one-day event designed to spotlight local (and whoever else wants to apply) makers of paper goods, from artistic photo prints to high-end artist publications and everything in between. A curated event, it will take place at Lab 1270 on Saturday, November 12.

Questions? Please email dcartbookfair@gmail.com
More info: http://dcartbookfair.tumblr.com/

This event is organized by the DC Art Book Fair Collective: Malaka Gharib of The Runcible Spoon zine and The Little Filipino Coloring Book, Alison Baitz of On Flora zine, illustrator LA Johnson of The Intentional and illustrator Elizabeth Graeber of A Field Guide For Redheads.

HERE ARE YOUR 2016 TABLERS:

The Runcible Spoon: The Runcible Spoon is a zine about food and fantasy. http://therunciblespoon.info/

Elizabeth Graeber: Elizabeth Graeber is DC's favorite illustrator. http://elizabethgraeber.com/

LA Johnson/The Intentional: LA Johnson is a visual journalist and illustrator in Washington, DC. She works for NPR as a visual producer by day, and works on illustration, comics and The Intentional by night. http://www.thelajohnson.com/

On Flora: The floral photo book you never knew you needed. http://onflora.tumblr.com/

Marcella Kriebel: Marcella Kriebel's collection of food-related art Illustrated Feast celebrates fried eggs to blue crab! Mix + Match to make your own series! http://marcellakriebel.com/

Fantom Comics: Fantom Comics brings a bit of the local comics flavor with zines, shirts, and totes made in partnership with local artists! http://www.fantomcomics.com/

Kate Zaremba: Kate Zaremba is a shape collector and patterns maker. Zaremba's illustrated zines include subjects like collecting shapes & making patterns, bringing pattern to life through stop motion, and a humorous collection of paper cut collage works. http://www.katezarembacompany.com/

Red Table Press: Red Table Press is Mike O'Brien screenprinting, illustrating and making things. http://redtablepress.com/

Chris Scott: Two Ton Rock God is a concentrated burst of illustrated adrenaline that celebrates blackness, robots, and rock music. http://chrisjamesscott.tumblr.com/

Fear: Thoughtful curation, hand-drawn illustrations, and high quality paper from Spencer Joynt. http://joyntnotjoint.com/

Ten09: "Landmarks" is a new series of Risograph books detailing an altered landscape of Northern Virginia while exploring a varied visual language. http://kardambikis.com/; http://jakelahah.com/; http://lillisart.com/; http://ldwyer1024.wixsite.com/dwyer-portfolio

Dumpling Heart: Dumpling Heart by Jade Feng Lee produces comics and stories inspired by fantasy, food, and her family's home culture. http://www.dumplingheart.com/

Project Dispatch: Project Dispatch is an artwork subscription service, with over 20 artist members. We will be selling all 6 volumes of our annual portfolios and curated books, showcasing works that have been included in subscriptions over the years, as well as artist made zines and limited edition trading card packs. http://projectdispatch.bigcartel.com/product/2015-artist-portfolio

Pellinore Press: Pellinore Press produces limited edition comics, artist books, & prints. We print primarily from original woodcuts and handset type. https://www.instagram.com/pellinorepress/

Hair Club: HAIR CLUB works with artists, writers and scholars to publish books where Hair acts as symbol, material, object or form. All books are designed by artist Suzanne Gold. http://suzanne-gold.com/

Girl Comix: Girl Comix is about a funny girl and the weird things that happen to her. She likes to talk about the issues! Things get real and surreal. http://dayanitababuramesh.com/

Becca Kallem: Making its debut: DC ABC! An illustrated book highlighting both local and national Washington DC. I'll also have other illustrated books: animals, Spain, space, and more! http://bit.ly/2cXGGmA

Trinadot: Trinadot is an adventure comic set in a fantastical world populated by talking naturalistic animals and sensuously drawn humans. Prints of painted works and a selection of original pieces will also be available and on display. http://trinadot.com/Trinadot/Trinadot.html

Mica Illustration MFA: Illustrated zines and objects from the hands and hearts of Maryland Institute College of Art's MFA Illustration Practice program. https://www.mica.edu/Programs_of_Study/Graduate_Programs/Illustration_Practice_(MFA).html

Robin Ha: Robin Ha Art and Comics: Robin Ha is the author and Illustrator for Cook Korean!: A Comic Book With Recipes which explains 64 Korean recipes through Comics. Along with her cookbook, you will find her mini comics about food and traveling and also Tarot card adult coloring book inspired by Art Nouveau style. http://robin.megaten.net/

Marmalade Umlaut: three projects, all based in a punk aesthetic of low/hi culture mash-ups and collage against a rhythmic background http://feudfood.blogspot.com/p/marmalade-umlaut.html

Hannah Renae & Marlena Chertock: We are disabled sisters who write and make art. Born with the same skeletal dysplasia, we use our art to reflect on our bone disorder, our chronic pain, and how invisible illnesses affect the body and interactions with others. Marlena explores the rich images in science and medicine, threading genetics and nature into her poetry. Hannah combines bodily and organic imagery to explore pain, the five senses, and consciousness. Her work features wood, plastic, and paper cut into organic shapes. http://hannahrenaephoto.wixsite.com/

In a Sense: Ten poems for people that don't like poetry. Ten poems for people that will say "this isn't poetry." Ten poems on vulnerability, innocence, anger, and of course, love. https://www.instagram.com/hereiyam/

Dandelion Wine Collective: We're a group of determined young illustrators and comic artists, currently finishing our last year at MICA. http://dandelionwinecollective.tumblr.com/

643 Collective: 643 is a Collective of 7 Photographers. We are working on several common projects and are based in different cities: Seoul, Paris, New York, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, Bucharest. http://643collective.com/City-Project

FourSixSix: A new Zine called "Tag", my children's book and all new prints. http://www.foursixsix.com/

Paul Hostetler: Satire, humor, fantasy, and funky surrealism, at shockingly affordable prices. https://www.facebook.com/phostetlerart/

The Face Zone: The Face Zone is a uniquely imaginative book of illustrated musings on everything from the stigma of liking scrapple to the meaning of life. https://www.facebook.com/TheFaceZone/

Elliott Junkyard: Elliott Junkyard makes comics, zines, and embroidered things. Most of his work is about tea and cats, often at the same time. https://www.instagram.com/elliottjunkyard

Ink Press Productions: We are a collaborative effort devoted to sharing art through our mission, which is to "blur the lines of genre in writing, visual, and performance art through the publication of handmade books, DIY / manual printing, and experimental events." http://www.inkpressproductions.com/papers

Joani Maher: Two zines on making life a little easier. http://www.hayrita.com/projects

Process: Hand bound, photo-based, art zines & prints that explore the creation of alternative process photography, love, and collage. http://www.claireharbage.com/#/process/

Three Fifty: Three Fifty is a group of artists working to create publications that open dialogue and engage with contemporary socio-political issues. Chase Carter - http://chasecarter.nu/ Margarita Kruchinskaya https://mkruchinskaya.carbonmade.com/ Chantal Zakari: http://www.thecorner.net/c/middle.html

Palabra Press/Black Lab: Works by Leda Black—Physical Language Laboratory :: Photo-Based Digital Originals :: the Female Power Project PLUS further experiments toward a science of the particular from the meta-physical makery called Black Lab. http://facebook.com/blacklab

Dana Jeri Maier: A collection of self-published comics and prints from Dana Jeri Maier, cartoonist of The Worried Well. http://www.danajerimaier.com/

Matthew Scott Gualco: My project is to use popularized text to invent new meaning and commentary about popular culture and the art world via books, posters, buttons, and other graphic items. http://www.matthewgualco.com/doom/

The Beat of Blossoms: The Beat of Blossoms is the creative work of Jamila Zahra Felton. Through bookbinding, collage, printmaking, and writing, I explore memory, identity, Blackness, gender, love, power, freedom, and African American history. http://www.thebeatofblossoms.com/work

Flycandy: The DMV's hottest visual artists are giving us a peek into their world in the COOL(ist) Grown-Up Coloring Book Evah! http://instagram.com/FLYCANDYTV

Alexander Atkinson: Canadiana 365cdn.Tumblr.com

Carmen Johns: Cuban-Lebanese-American disco zine queen making funky sculptures of boots and emotional sci-fi stories for all species to enjoy!!!! https://www.instagram.com/carmenvirginiajohns/

Joe Sutliff's webcomic Master Jeffrey now in print

It's available on Amazon.

Claude E. Toles exhibit at the Cosmos Club

Lieberman's favorite work by Toles (not exhibited)

by Mike Rhode

Randy Liebermann purchased a collection of Elmira, New York cartoonist Claude E. Toles a few years ago. A selection of the material is now on display at the Cosmos Club, which is only open to members and their guests. He kindly showed the exhibit to me last weekend and has agreed to let us feature it here.

Toles is barely known today. He worked for about 10 years from 1891-1901, before dying at age 26 of Bright's disease (ie kidney failure). In that time, he was stunningly prolific, doing over 6000 drawings, or 600 / year, or about 2 / day. Very few of these seem to have survived. The best source for information on Toles is John Adcock's article, A Remarkable Collection: C. E. Toles (1875-1901), and this link will take you to all of Adcock's articles on Toles, and more pictures. Alex Jay also did a fine job digging around on Tole's life, and Allan Holtz has another example on the same site. Liebermann had all of the pieces in this exhibit conserved, and they look very good indeed. The Library of Congress has a piece, described here.

The Cosmos Club's Art Committee chose Deja vu All Over Again: The Art of Claude E. Toles as the exhibit title because they felt that many of the political situations seen in Toles' 115-year-old cartoons were recurring now. Here's their exhibit text and Toles' editorial cartoons for the Elmira Telegram.

 

 

The first image a visitor sees is this one of a man who's too poor to have his shoes shined.

President Grover Cleveland and Congress were at odds over 

his Supreme Court nominees as the next four cartoons show. 

 

"David's Hornblower a Blasting Hoister for Grover's" depicts a modified Edison talking machine.

 

 

The President was at odds with Congress over his Supreme Court nominees.

 Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats were looking very good to voters.

Despair - Liebermann noted that there was a depression from 1893-1897 but no social net.

Liebermann usually collects material on technology, and Uncle Sam grasping this wet cell battery shows the electric shock of racism over the annexation of Hawaii.

Toles drew Congress as lost in a snowstorm

A standard end of year cartoon for 1893.

Like any other working cartoonist, Toles did a wide variety of work including sheet music,

gag cartoons,

original art, with tear sheet in lower right

tearsheet with 19th century style joke

magazine mastheads (Twain also lived in Elmira),

proto-comic strip pages,

...and illustration work which doubled as social commentary.

"A Varsity Crew. As It Isn't" ca. 1899. Women didn't row in college

His rowers were definitely influenced by Charles Dana Gibson's Gibson Girls...

But his babies preceded Rose O'Neill's Kewpies by a few years...

And what this art nouveau fairy coxswain means is anyone's guess.

The only known photograph of Toles

Besides being very prolific, and short-lived, Toles may confuse historians due to his multiple signatures...

...which he definitely did on purpose when he moved to Baltimore to set up The International Syndicate which would sell stock images to a newspaper or magazine.

Toles drew most, if not all of the cartoons and illustrations in this book, but signed a variety of names to cartoons of different styles as demonstrated in his scrapbook, which Liebermann brought in for us to see.

Photo by RL

Finally, one last piece also not in the exhibit is this unsigned painting, which Liebermann had extensively conserved. Randy thinks it's a one-off piece; I think it shows that Toles was considering moving into the newly-enlarged illustration market which was about to enter its golden age.

Cartoonists draw blood (donation) returns

Return of Cartoonists Draw Blood

October 24, 2016 ·

http://takomavoice.com/2016/10/24/return-of-cartoonists-draw-blood/comment-page-1/

SPX 2016 Panel - Graphic Content: Voices from Erotic Comics

SmallPressExpo

 Oct 20, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhhYApj21N0

From the emotional and sensual to the lewd and graphic, veteran comickers Jenova Silver, Celine Loup, Shivana Sookdeo, Kori Michele, and Kendra of Team KK explore their experiences and perspectives creating and consuming erotica. This panel delves into their work, early influences, the challenges they've faced, and the changing landscape of the industry. Moderated by Dechanique.

Oct 26: Glen Weldon speaks in Columbus, Ohio at Thurber House

Glen Weldon: Evenings with Authors

Wednesday, October 26, 2016
7:30 pm

Steve Canyon in the Falls Church Echo in 1950

 

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet in DC

Rocket Expert Advises Artist, Keeps 'Space Cadet' Plausible.
Washington Star November 1951

That darn Candorville and Lio

Letters to the Editor

This broke him up [in print as Braking Bad]

Alan Peterson, Springfield

Washington Post (October 22 2016).

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-broke-him-up/2016/10/21/cf733df2-9573-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html

Hey, Mr. Nobel man, play a song for me

Maryanne Kendall, Reston

Washington Post (October 22 2016).

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hey-mr-nobel-man-play-a-song-for-me/2016/10/21/cc4c8b1a-9573-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html

Nov 5: German-language animated films at Landmark's E Street Cinema

Only the animation descriptions are included in this repost...

New Short Films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Saturday, November 5, 2 pm

With an introduction by Joe Bilancio, Director of Programming for DC Shorts

Who Will Pay the Bill? (Wer trägt die Kosten?)
Germany, 2015, animation, color, 4 min., German with English subtitles, Director/Screenplay: Daniel Nocke, World Rights: Studio FILM BILDER GmbH
In this talk show satire moderated by a hyena, two lions, a vulture and a lonely zebra debate about justice in a society of eating and being eaten.

• Short Tiger Award 2016
• FBW-rating: "exceptionally valuable"

Daniel Nocke (b. 1968 in Hamburg, Germany) studied at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg from 1994 to 1999. He lives in Hamburg, where he works as an author and animation artist.

Domino
Austria, 2014, animation, color, 2 min., without dialogue, Director/Screenplay: Anna Vasof, World Sales Rights: Not for sale, all rights are reserved by Anna Vasof
A video camera continuously follows and films a progression of dominoes falling, creating the illusion of the movement in an imaginary space. Domino is a video which combines the mechanism of a progression of dominoes falling with stop-motion animation technique and introduces a new animation technique, the "Non-stop stop motion".

• Best Austrian Animation (ASIFA AUSTRIA 2014)

Anna Vasof (b. 1985) is an architect and media artist. She studied architecture at the University of Thessaly in Greece and Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2004, her videos and short films have been presented in several festivals and have won some prizes.

Uncanny Valley
Austria, 2015, animation, color, 13 min., without dialogue, Director/Screenplay: Paul Wenninger, World Sales Rights: Sixpack Films
In Uncanny Valley, we are immediately bombarded by the psychological and physical intensity of a battle fought between desperate soldiers during the First World War. Within the scope of a physiological apparatus looking in the direction of war, Uncanny Valley develops a dramaturgy of interrupted images - stuttering pictures that interrupt the narrative structure of a sequence of scenes.

• Public Award and Best Austrian Animation (ASIFA AUSTRIA 2015)

Paul Wenninger (b. 1966 in Vienna, Austria) is father of three daughters, a filmmaker with a focus on pixilation and animation, a freelance dancer and the author of choreographical works. He was part of international productions, having worked and lived from 1994-1998 in France.

Flirt
Switzerland, 2015, animation, color, 6min., without dialogue, Director/Screenplay: Rahel Gerber, World Sales: Interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
Dreams woven from airy fabrics make wishes tangible. Walter is a loner. Hanging up his laundry the resident sees how easily his shirt contacts his neighbor's dress. Might he be closer than ever to his own happiness?

• Berner Filmpreis 2015 Category Animation

Rahel Gerber (b. 1977 in Switzerland) received her master's degree in illustration and animation from Lucerne School of Art and Design. Flirt is her thesis project.

Related links

Purchase tickets for this film on Landmark's E Street Cinema's website  

Uncanny Valley Trailer  

Flirt Trailer