Thursday, November 14, 2019

PR: New political cartoon book from Clay Jones


Impeach This Book! Cartoonist Clay Jones collects his smartest, funniest Donald Trump cartoons in one ridiculously long-tied, deluxe volume!


 

(IMPEACHMENT DAY, November 13, 2019) -- Editorial cartoonist ClayJones has been drawing the world around him for more than two decades, but his style and humor caught fire at the beginning of the Trump Administration.

An award-winning artist whose work is seen on CNN as well as newspapers and news sites across the United States and beyond, Jones collected his best Trump-related 'toons in one full-color, 270-page deluxe collection titled Tales From the Trumpster Fire: A Cartoon Anthology ($39.95US; Mr. Media Books, 2019).

Among his fans, Jones is perhaps best known for distinctive north and south caricature of Donald J. Trump: the hair goes on and on to the north while the ever-present red tie flows ever-further south. The book features a Foreword by fellow editorial cartoonist Matt Davies and endorsements from TV personality Rosie O'Donnell and fellow cartoonists Ann Telnaes and Mike Peters.

Clay Jones is a self-syndicated political cartoonist whose work is distributed to newspapers and news sites across the United States and around the world. He also draws a weekly cartoon for CNN Opinion’s weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. Clay was represented by Creators Syndicate (2000-13) until he left to start his own syndicate. His career began in 1990 at The Panolian, a weekly newspaper in Batesville, Mississippi. Clay also worked for the Daily Leader in Brookhaven, Mississippi, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He previously worked as a freelance cartoonist for The Daily Dot, The Seattle Times and The Costa Rica Star.
Clay won “Best Cartoon” in the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest (2018), as well as several state awards in Mississippi, Hawaii and Virginia. Additionally, he was the finalist for the Herblock Award (2019), and rejected a weird “free speech” award from the government of Iran.
A collection of his work is archived at the Mattie Sink Memorial Library at Mississippi State University. An early collection of his cartoons, titled “Knee-Deep inMississippi,” was distributed by Pelican Publishing (1997). And his work was displayed in an exhibit at the Jewish Museum Berlin (2017).
His daily cartoons are featured in about 50 newspapers and have been reprinted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Dallas Morning News, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Ottawa Citizen, the Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, Newsweek and Time Magazine. They’ve been seen on CNN, MSNBC and C-SPAN.
Clay plays and writes 90s-style alt-rock on guitar. He released the album “No Thanks To Hancock” with the band Corporate T-Shirt.
He lives somewhere in the Washington, D.C, suburbs of Northern Virginia.


Mr. Media Books is an independent publisher known for its wide array of unrelated titles, from business titles such as Mean Business by “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap and Determined by Atlanta business legend Felker Ward to You’ll Need a Guide by Marshall Craig and the pulp fantasy noir series Tales of the Annigan Cycle (imagine if Edgar Rice Burroughs collaborated with Quentin Tarantino). The St. Petersburg, Florida-based imprint, started by writer Bob Andelman in 2014, also published the politically brutal humor of The Wages of Sin by cartoonist Keith Brown.

Tom Spurgeon, RIP

Photo by Bruce Guthrie at the 2019 Baltimore Comic Con.
Tom Spurgeon died yesterday, presumably in his adopted city of Columbus, Ohio where he was recruited by Jeff Smith to be the organizer of the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) festival. He was literally one of the giants of the field of comics journalism (as he stood well over 6 feet tall), and his passing is a major loss to everyone who knew him, or appreciated his work. I think his editorship of The Comics Journal was its golden age. I followed his Comics Reporter religiously and I'll miss his knowledge of and love for the field.


Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Comics lawyer and editor Mitch Berger has passed away

Mitch Berger's Facebook page is full of people noting that he passed away on November 12, 2019. Comments from Jackie Estrada, Steve Bissette, Ed Hall, Karen Green, Michael Gilbert, Craig Yoe, and Ted Rall in particular attest to his influence in the comics world.

Last month, we ran a notice that Mitch was in hospice, and tried to begin to get a handle on his career. 

We at ComicsDC share our condolences to Mitch's wife and friends.



Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Cavna on Seuss and green eggs animation

'Green Eggs and Ham' showed us how to get along with people we don't understand

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Another Star For Their Flag"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock, commentary on Bolivia's political crisis -

"Another Star For Their Flag"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2865


F#ck the CIA.
That's pretty much all I've got for you on this one.

F%ck the CIA, and f@ck the USA.

Italy's Topo Gigio creator dies

...appeared in comic strips and magazines....

Maria Perego, Italian puppeteer who created the mouse Topo Gigio, dies at 95 [in print as Italian puppeteer created the mouse Topo Gigio, a fixture on 'Ed Sullivan Show].

By

Harrison Smith 

November 12, 2019 p. B6

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/maria-perego-italian-puppeteer-who-created-the-mouse-topo-gigio-dies-at-95/2019/11/10/448db904-03cc-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html

Gareth Hind's The Iliad reviewed in the NY Times

"a careful, informative and compelling rendering of the Greek epic poem of the legend of the Trojan War"

The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More.

By

That darn Peanuts

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Another New DC Flag"

From MIke Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist

"Another New DC Flag"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2841

Just the other night here in Your Nation's Capital, an off-duty cop shot and wounded a couple of people over in Southeast. Cripes, it's as if they get even worse when they go off-duty; what's the damn deal with THAT?

I don't know about anybody else in this town, but I didn't like living in the "Murder Capital" the FIRST time around.

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"Off-Duty Officer Shoots Man, Teen in Southeast DC", NBC Washington 11.08.2019
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Off-Duty-Officer-Shoots-Man-Teen-in-Southeast-DC-564689211.html



"@DCPoliceDept officer (off duty🙄 sounds too familiar) just shot 2 
people in SE...
REMEMBER #DQuanYoung
Watch each story after this one and watch the discrepancies and 
character assassination begin. @ChiefNewsham is a pathological liar. 
#StopMPD"

—Black Lives Matter/DC on Twitter, 11.08.2019
https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1193003251848712192