Wednesday, October 10, 2018

SPX - a few panels more

SPX 2018 Panel - Jules Feiffer: When A Legend Lives In The Shadows

A panel discussion with comics' greatest living Renaissance man! How do you top yourself after your work has received the Academy Award and the Pulitzer Prize — and you've been inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame? In the case of legendary Jules Feiffer, you enjoy a creative rejuvenation after age 80 by diving into noir graphic novels. Feiffer concludes his acclaimed noir trilogy with the new book The Ghost Script. Feiffer and moderator Michael Cavna, columnist/cartoonist at The Washington Post, delve into Feiffer's new burst of inspiration, including sci-fi fantasies for young readers, and cartooning in the age of Trump.

SPX 2018 Panel - Writing About Bipolar

As mental health is becoming a subject that's more openly discussed than ever, comics narratives are emerging about personal experiences with mental illness. Moderator Rob Clough discusses with Lawrence Lindell (Couldn't Afford Therapy, So I Made This), Ellen Forney (Rock Steady), and Keiler Roberts (Chlorine Gardens) their struggles with Bipolar Disorder, the choices they make in writing about it, and how this process affects how they think about it.

SPX 2018 Panel - Queer Romance

Romance comics have a long and storied history. However, a new generation of queer romance cartoonists is challenging assumptions, investigating & mainstreaming specific subcultures, and playfully subverting the genre's familiar cliches. Moderator Carta Monir joins panelists Ed Luce (Wuvable Oaf), Hazel Newlevant (Sugartown), Archie Bongiovanni (The Greasebats) and Shauna J. Grant (Princess Love Pon) as they discuss their own unique takes on romance comics.

SPX 2018 Panel - Feminist Futurism & Fantasy

Science fiction and fantasy have longed served as a way to couch deeper social, political and cultural meanings. Moderator Francesca Lyn and panelists Emma Ríos (Island), Carolyn Nowak (Diana's Electric Tongue), Aminder Dhaliwal (Woman World), and Fiona Smyth (Somnambulance) discuss how they use various genre tropes to explore topics related to feminism like a world without men, the implications of having a robot boyfriend, mystical searches in surreal environments and much more.
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Anne Ishii and Gengorah Tagame at Politics and Prose at Union Market

They're talking about his transition from gay erotic manga to the family friendly book My Brother's Husband.
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SPX 2018 panels

SPX 2018 Panel - Illuminating Legends

The adage "write what you know" has led to many beautiful and inspiring autobiographies; but when writing and/or drawing the life of another, you're given the chance to step into another's shoes. Ron Wimberly (Sentences), Hazel Newlevant (If This Be Sin), Max de Radiguès (Weegee) and Jérémie Royer (Audubon) dive into the research, editing, and artistic skills required to get someone else's life right. Moderated by Marc Sobel.

SPX 2018 Panel -Gekiga à la Mode: Ryan Holmberg on Baron Yoshimoto

Celebrating the recent publication of Baron Yoshimoto's The Troublemakers from Retrofit / Big Planet Comics, professor and historian Ryan Holmbergl offers a fresh perspective on the manga genre of gekiga. Though usually known for its gritty stories about underclass life and male frustration, gekiga was also plugged into the rise of young men's fashion and the popularity of Anglo-American playboy types in the 1960s. Baron Yoshimoto, Saito Takao, and Tatsumi Yoshihiro are among the artists whose work is discussed.


SPX 2018 Panel - The Practice of Diary Comics

Moderator Derek Royal joins a panel of cartoonists in discussing the nature of diary comics, one of the most popular forms of graphic memoir. Summer Pierre (Paper Pencil Life), Glynnis Fawkes (Greek Diary), Kevin Budnik (It's OK To Be Sad) and Dustin Harbin (Diary Comics) take a critical look at the definition of the subgenre, distinguish it from memoir and autobiography, talk about its history and discuss the problematic elements of the term.

SPX 2018 Panel - Roz Chast in Conversation

Published on Sep 29, 2018
Roz Chast is an artistic polymath. Her humorous single-panel cartoons on the tics and neuroses of everyday life have been entertaining readers of The New Yorker for years. Her first graphic novel, Can We Please Talk About Something A Little More Pleasant? garnered her both the Kirkus Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, amongst other honors. In this panel Roz talks about her affection for pysanka eggs, hooking rugs, needlepoint, William Steig, Charles Addams and drawing cartoons. Moderated by comics historian and SPX Executive Director, Warren Bernard.

SPX 2018 Panel - On the Ground: Reportage and Narrative

Published on Oct 2, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u098hpBDjKA

Comics journalism often takes the form of the cartoonist being on site as they report directly on what they see and hear, often in explosive or dangerous situations. Moderator Chris Mautner joins comics journalists Ben Passmore (Fighting For A Better History), Mike Dawson (Dispatch From A Sanctuary City), Whit Taylor (Finding Your Roots) and Josh Kramer (The Cartoon Picayune) as they discuss the storytelling and journalistic decisions they have to make in creating a narrative, striking a balance between advocacy and objectivity, and the ways in which the time lag between observation and publication can create a new perspective.

SPX 2018 Panel - Look Back and Laugh: Youth & Autobiography

Our renowned panelists Dash Shaw (New School), Kat Fajardo (Gringa!), Carta Monir (Secure Connect) and Nate Powell (Come Again) have all created beautiful books about the trials and triumphs of youth. Here with moderator Heidi MacDonald, they discuss what goes into making a book that's meant to capture the authenticity of an era you only see in hindsight.

SPX 2018 Panel - Teen Latinx Memoir

Join moderator Jason Rodriguez and the mentors and students of the Latin American Youth Center as they discuss their experience in creating the anthology Voces Sin Fronteras. This was the product of an intensive workshop with first-generation Latinx teenagers, teaching them how to make comics. The result is a book dedicated to "Our Stories, Our Truth" and is designed to "inspire, educate and motivate its readers and that changes the narrative about America's immigrants."

SPX 2018 Panel - Adventures in Publishing

Moderator Robyn Chapman (Paper Rocket) and publishers Taneka Stotts (Ascend Comics), Der-Shing Helmer (Ascend Comics) and Andrea Colvin (Lion Forge) discuss the challenges and rewards of publishing. What kind of models are there for publishing? What do publishers look for in a pitch from an artist? How are issues like distribution, markets, funding and editing addressed?

SPX 2018 Panel - Building the Jungle Gym

J.A. Micheline moderates this panel with Shannon Wright (Castor and Carina), Benji Nate (Catboy), Molly Ostertag (The Witch Boy), and Gale Galligan (Baby Sitters Club) as they discuss the structures and signifiers of kid's comics and animation. How do you know a kids comic when you see one? What structurally indicates a comic as being for kids? What decisions are made? And what does it mean to have those structures used in adult comics?

SPX 2018 Panel - Liv Strömquist: Fruit Of Knowledge

Liv Strömquist's new book, Fruit of Knowledge, is subtitled "The Vulva vs. the Patriarchy". The Embassy of Sweden's Cultural Counselor, Linda Zachrison, joins Liv in a wide-ranging discussion about how her bitingly satirical book details how men have denied, erased and stigmatized women's bodies and identities throughout history by making topics like menstruation and female genitalia taboo.

SPX 2018 Panel - Cutting Up: Julie Doucet's Reinventions From Dirty Plotte to Carpet Sweeper Tales

With her medium-defining comic Dirty Plotte now set to be available to fans in full for the first time since its original serialization, SPX is honored to host Julie Doucet for a conversation about her long and varied artistic career. At the forefront of a generation of artists whose work bridged the gap between the self-published underground of zines and minicomics and the alternative comics peddled by independent houses, Doucet's career nevertheless refuses to settle into one medium. Feminist media scholar Rachel Miller joins Julie for a free-wheeling exploration of her work from comics to collages, dreams to diaries, and all the talking Tampax and rowdy alley cats in between.

SPX 2018 Panel - Process Party Live: Josh Cotter

Veteran cartoonists Mike Dawson and Zack Soto host Process Party, the Internet's Only Podcast. It's the show where comics makers talk to other comics makers about the comics they make. Fantagraphics' Josh Cotter is the subject of this special episode recorded live at SPX, discussing Nod Away and ten years of Skyscrapers of the Midwest, in addition to his approach to craft and life.
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The Post's obituary for Walking Dead tv show actor

Scott Wilson, star of 'In Cold Blood' and 'The Walking Dead,' dies at 76 [in print as Scott Wilson, 76; Actor starred in 'Walking Dead,' 'Cold Blood'.]

By Harrison Smith
Washington Post October 9 2018.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/scott-wilson-star-of-in-cold-blood-and-the-walking-dead-dies-at-76/2018/10/07/7abf4076-ca3c-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html
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SPX 2018 videos going online at a good clip

There's 17 videos of the panels online now: https://www.youtube.com/user/SmallPressExpo/videos
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Tonight: Gengoroh Tagame - My Brother's Husband, Volume 2

Gengoroh Tagame - My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 — presented with Anne Ishii — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/gengoroh-tagame-my-brothers-husband-volume-2-presented-anne-ishii-politics-and-prose#moreinfo

Tagame is one of Japan's most influential gay manga artists and was one of the first to come out. He won the prestigious Japan Media Arts Award for Outstanding Work of Manga and a 2018 Eisner Award for the opening volume of My Brother's Husband. In this break-out work, he introduced Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and Mike, the widowed Canadian husband of Yaichi's late twin brother, Ryoji. While Kana and her mother immediately took to Mike, Yaichi, like Japan, was slower to shake his homophobia. In this sequel, Yaichi is still wary, but slowly grows closer to his brother-in-law as the two men trade memories of the different Ryojis they knew. Tagame will be presenting with his translator Anne Ishii, executive director of Asian Arts Initiative.

 

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for more information.

Politics and Prose at Union Market   1270 5th St NE   Washington   DC    20002
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Monday, October 08, 2018

Cartoon from artleytoons

An anthem for the new found Right; its new hour seen; its values expressed.

—Steven G. Artley, artleytoons
©2018 Steven G. Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Sunday, October 07, 2018

The Post's obituary for animator Will Vinton

Will Vinton, filmmaker and animator who created the California Raisins, dies at 70 [in print as Will Vinton, 70; Animator brought the California Raisins to life].

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Saturday, October 06, 2018

Comic Riffs talks Border Town

'Border Town' is a comic about immigration and Latino identity. But it's mainly about monsters.

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Comic Riffs talks to Venom's director ... and reviews the movie

The 'Venom' director's Hollywood path began when he saw 'Batman' as a D.C. teenager [in print as 'Venom' director's interest in superhero films took flight with 1980s 'Batman']

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Cartoon from artleytoons

"It's a hard knock Trump"
by Steve Artley from artleytoons

©2018 Steven G. Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Flugennocks' Latest'n'Greatest: "Pussy Hats II: This Time, It's Brunch"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, MIke Fluggenock


"Pussy Hats II: This Time, It's Brunch"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2612

Imagine my delight when I learned that the Million Hillary March was 
going to be returning here to Washington, DC next January – a fresh, 
new blue wave of vindictiveness, bitterness, denial, exploitation, and 
all the goddamn astroturf you can handle. Why, the very thought of all 
this vibrant feminist energy makes me want to charge into the streets 
and ask to speak to the manager.

Imagine also my amusement to discover that this chickenshit outfit has 
actually published an "oral history" with the assistance of their 
comrades at Condé Nast, which is about as grassroots as you can get, 
kids. Two whole epic years of demonstrative Liberal indignation, 
laying astroturf, and accomplishing absolute zero – now, there's some 
serious-ass oral history. Hot damn, hold me back.

https://www.womensmarch.com/togetherwerise
https://www.womensmarch.com/2019/
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Friday, October 05, 2018

Cartoon From Artleytoons

The double standard of Mitch McConnell and the GOP-controlled Congress. artleytoons
(click on image for larger view)
©2018 Steven G. Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Oct 18-19: Kevin McCloskey appearances

Kevin McCloskey - Snails Are Just My Speed!

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Politics & prose bookstore 5015 Connecticut Ave NW   Washington   DC    20008
https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/kevin-mccloskey-snails-are-just-my-speed

Why do snails have shells? Just how small is the smallest snail? And why do snails move soooo sloooooowly? (Spoiler alert: mucus is involved!) The latest installment in the Giggle and Learn series of fact-filled and fun early graphic novels reveals all sorts of astounding gastropod facts. Skillfully combining fascinating scientific information with cartoon art and irreverent humor, this book will delight and challenge budding naturalists. Ages 3 to 7.

This event is free to attend and open to the public, however, reservations are required for school groups interested in attending. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

The author will also be appearing at Takoma Park Library (MD) on Thursday, October 18th at 7 p.m. Click here for more information.

 

Kevin McCloskey - Snails Are Just My Speed! — at Takoma Park Library (MD)

Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 7 p.m.
https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/kevin-mccloskey-snails-are-just-my-speed-takoma-park-library-md

Why do snails have shells? Just how small is the smallest snail? And why do snails move soooo sloooooowly? (Spoiler alert: mucus is involved!) The latest installment in the Giggle and Learn series of fact-filled and fun early graphic novels reveals all sorts of astounding gastropod facts. Skillfully combining fascinating scientific information with cartoon art and irreverent humor, this book will delight and challenge budding naturalists. Ages 3 to 7.

The author will also be appearing in-store on Friday, October 19th at 10:30 a.m. Click here for details.

 

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for more information.

Takoma Park Public Library (MD)   101 Philadelphia Ave   Takoma Park   MD    20912
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OCT 25: Black Excellence Author Showcase: Two Ton Rock God #1!


OCT 25

Black Excellence Author Showcase: Two Ton Rock God #1!


· Hosted by Fantom Comics


  • Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 6 PM – 9 PM

  • Fantom Comics
    2010 P St NW, 2nd Floor, Washington, District of Columbia 20036
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Oct 06: Workshop with Georgia Webber: Living Voice, Listening Silence



Oct 06

Workshop with Georgia Webber: Living Voice, Listening Silence


by Rhizome DC
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Sat, October 6, 2018

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT

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Rhizome DC - Art Learning DIY Culture

6950 Maple Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20012

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Saturday October 6 * 5pm * $10-20 suggested donation

Living Voice, Listening Silence
A workshop by Georgia Webber

Workshop Description
You have a voice. What does that mean to you? What is it connected to? Where is it in your body? What does your voice do in the world? What would you do without it?

Comics artist Georgia Webber had never asked herself these questions before her severe vocal injury forced her to answer them. Now, six years into her rehabilitation, she wants to share her explorations with you.

Part workshop, part performance, Georgia will present you with an opportunity to feel your own voice in new ways, and engage in listening deeply to others'.

This workshop is offered on a donation/Pay-What-You-Can basis. If you would like to support Georgia's work further, she will have copies of her brand new book available to purchase at the event.

Georgia Webber is a comics artist and editor and vocal arts experimenter. She is best known for her debut graphic memoir, Dumb: Living Without A Voice (Fantagraphics 2018), the chronicle of her severe vocal injury and sustained vocal condition which causes her pain from using her voice. This difficult experience lead her to work as a Cranial Sacral Therapist, a meditation facilitator, and as an improvising musician, blending elements of healthcare, body awareness and creative expression within constraints. She has extended her love of the voice into the community with a project called MAW Vocal Arts. MAW hosts a vocal arts showcase event every few months in Toronto, Ontario, her home, as well as a regular practice session called Breathing Music where people can explore breath through deep listening, movement, meditation and sounding practices.

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Scoop on Baltimore Comic Con


Baltimore Comic-Con In Photos: Part I

With 175 artists and writers, media guests, dozens of vendors, and plenty of cosplayers, there was no shortage of photo opportunities during Baltimore Comic-Con. Here we present some of our favorites, taken by Gemstone Publishing Associate Editor Amanda Sheriff.

http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=219338




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Alex Fine replaces Eric Shansby in the Post Magazine

Alex Fine, an excellent illustrator from Baltimore, is the artist who replaces Eric Shansby in the Post Magazine. Shansby replaced Richard Thompson 15 years ago, when Richard moved on to other projects for the paper.
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Oct 29: Mignola in Richmond


Comic industry giant, Mike Mignola is coming to Richmond to join in conversation with TyRuben Ellingson, chair and professor of VCUarts Department of Communication Arts. Mignola is best known for his distinctive art style and creation of the pulpy genre-bending Hellboy, a multimedia franchise rooted in comics and spanning live-action movies, animation, games and more.

The event will be on Oct. 29, 2018 from 7-9 p.m. at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts.

Register to reserve your spot: https://arts.vcu.edu/calendar/event/master-of-the-hellboy-universe-a-conversation-with-mike-mignola/
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Thursday, October 04, 2018

John Gallagher signs Random House book deal

From Publisher's Weekly:


Shana Corey at Random House has bought, in a preempt, John Gallagher's Max Meow: Cat Crusader, three books in a full-color graphic novel series starring Max, a crime-fighting feline with Cat-itude who makes bad guys flea and kids cheer with glee. Publication will begin in fall 2020; Judy Hansen at Hansen Literary negotiated the deal for world rights.
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Audio from Spiked with Rogers & Telnaes and Barry Blitt (2017)

I got a request for these two files to be put in a permanent location on the web.

"Spiked": A Conversation with Rob Rogers & Ann Telnaes

Moderated by Corcoran School of the Arts and Design director Sanjit Sethi.

Washington, DC: Corcoran School of the Arts and Design @ GW 2018-10-03

Recording online at https://archive.org/details/Corcoran181003RobRogersAndAnnTelnaes and https://archive.org/download/Corcoran181003RobRogersAndAnnTelnaes/Corcoran%20181003%20Rob%20Rogers%20and%20Ann%20Telnaes.MP3

 

Barry Blitt in conversation with Mike Allen

by Barry Blitt and Mike Allen

Washington, DC: Politics and Prose Bookstore 2017-10-29

Recording online at https://archive.org/details/PP171029BarryBlitt

https://archive.org/download/PP171029BarryBlitt/P%2BP%20171029%20Barry%20Blitt.MP3

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