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Sunday, May 24, 2020
PR: Memorial Day Sale! - Beyond Comics!
Friday, May 22, 2020
Gharib comic on NPR
COMIC: A Lost Boy, A Snake Bite, A Lesson In Resilience
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Steve Geppi on his Library of Congress donation
Geppi gave a wide-ranging interview to ICv2 which is well worth reading.
He talked about his legacy in the Library of Congress at the very end...
When I closed my museum and donated a portion of my collection to the Library of Congress, part of the thought process was this.
Right now, I love it when somebody else breaks up their collection at estate time, and I get to buy it and sell or keep it. I didn't want my own collection to be something that I've spent my whole life building to be just dismantled, sold off in pieces, and have no identity.
So when I sat down and started doing my estate planning, I knew that my kids were going to be protected financially. Even if they have an interest or didn't have an interest in my collection for posterity, they're not going to live forever, just like I'm not going to live forever. So for the sake of the industry, if I might be so presumptuous, or for the sake of the collections themselves, knowing how rare they are, knowing how hard they are to get, I wanted to have arrangement where they would live on in perpetuity through an institution that in theory will live on in perpetuity. The idea was I'll donate a big chunk of my collection (keep in mind, I have plans to donate even more as times goes on to the Library of Congress) so there will be a place 100 years from now, 200 years from now, whatever, we don't know the future, where other people will look back on our industry and be happy to say, "God, I'm glad somebody preserved that."
In addition to that, what it does for the Library of Congress, they have stuff that nobody knows they have that just sits in a basement, in an archive, waiting for the big flood or fire to destroy it. They are so thrilled, the people particularly who work in the archives, that this is not only going to give them a place to put my stuff, but their stuff will also be part of the rotating exhibits, and the traveling exhibits.
There's an example of me looking past my lifetime.
Right now, I love it when somebody else breaks up their collection at estate time, and I get to buy it and sell or keep it. I didn't want my own collection to be something that I've spent my whole life building to be just dismantled, sold off in pieces, and have no identity.
So when I sat down and started doing my estate planning, I knew that my kids were going to be protected financially. Even if they have an interest or didn't have an interest in my collection for posterity, they're not going to live forever, just like I'm not going to live forever. So for the sake of the industry, if I might be so presumptuous, or for the sake of the collections themselves, knowing how rare they are, knowing how hard they are to get, I wanted to have arrangement where they would live on in perpetuity through an institution that in theory will live on in perpetuity. The idea was I'll donate a big chunk of my collection (keep in mind, I have plans to donate even more as times goes on to the Library of Congress) so there will be a place 100 years from now, 200 years from now, whatever, we don't know the future, where other people will look back on our industry and be happy to say, "God, I'm glad somebody preserved that."
In addition to that, what it does for the Library of Congress, they have stuff that nobody knows they have that just sits in a basement, in an archive, waiting for the big flood or fire to destroy it. They are so thrilled, the people particularly who work in the archives, that this is not only going to give them a place to put my stuff, but their stuff will also be part of the rotating exhibits, and the traveling exhibits.
There's an example of me looking past my lifetime.
You can read all 5 parts at
ICV2 INTERVIEW: GEPPI FAMILY ENTERPRISES CEO STEVE GEPPI, PART 1
Key March Decisions: Shutting Down and Delaying Payments
Posted by Milton Griepp on May 21, 2020
Diamond and DC Comics
Handling Product in the Pipeline, Diamonds New Competitive Landscape
Handling Rolling Shutdowns Going Forward, Plans for Free Comic Book Day
GFE's Restructuring and Rebranding, Future Plans for the Companies and Ownership
Jim Toomey and NOAA perfect together
Meet artist, conservationist, and NOAA friend Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman's Lagoon
By NOAA
May 16th, 2020
WTOP interviews DreamWorks animator Radford Sechrist prior to GWU event next week
DreamWorks creator of 'Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts' hosts virtual GW event
WTOP May 21, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Today: A Librarian in Conversation with Third Eye Comics
MAY 20
A Librarian in Conversation with Third Eye Comics
Public
· Hosted by Anne Arundel County Public Library
Details
Join us as we talk with Third Eye Comics about all things comics and graphic novels. Learn how you can access the library's collection of comics online and how to connect with Third Eye Comics during the time of social distancing.
Register at the link below to receive the Zoom login info via email.
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/librarian-conversation-third-eye-comics
Register at the link below to receive the Zoom login info via email.
https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/librarian-conversation-third-eye-comics
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Flyover"
DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock's latest cartoon -
"Flyover"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2998
USAF F-16 "Fighting Falcon" as used by "Thunderbirds" aerobatic team: Unit cost: $US29.1m; operational cost $US8k/hour
US War Budget FY 2021: $US934bn
US Total Deaths from COVID-19 (as of 05.19.2020): 90,340
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"25 Most Expensive Fighter Jets" Military Machine, 01.01.2020
https://militarymachine.com/most-expensive-military-jets/
"The Hourly Cost of Operating the US Military's Fighter Fleet", Forbes 08.16.2016
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/08/16/the-hourly-cost-of-operating-the-u-s-militarys-fighter-fleet-infographic/
"US Military Budget, Its Components, Challenges and Growth", The Balance, 03.03.2020
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320
"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Cases in the US", Centers for Disease Control, 05.20.2020
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2998
USAF F-16 "Fighting Falcon" as used by "Thunderbirds" aerobatic team: Unit cost: $US29.1m; operational cost $US8k/hour
US War Budget FY 2021: $US934bn
US Total Deaths from COVID-19 (as of 05.19.2020): 90,340
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"25 Most Expensive Fighter Jets" Military Machine, 01.01.2020
https://militarymachine.com/most-expensive-military-jets/
"The Hourly Cost of Operating the US Military's Fighter Fleet", Forbes 08.16.2016
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/08/16/the-hourly-cost-of-operating-the-u-s-militarys-fighter-fleet-infographic/
"US Military Budget, Its Components, Challenges and Growth", The Balance, 03.03.2020
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320
"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Cases in the US", Centers for Disease Control, 05.20.2020
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Beyond Comics in Frederick open tomorrow
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Monday, May 18, 2020
Punchlines: Talking 'Obamagate' with rare conservative cartoonist [Mike Lester]
Punchlines: Talking 'Obamagate' with rare conservative cartoonist [Mike Lester]
Matt Wuerker
Sunday, May 17, 2020
RIP Michael Kupperman's father, and graphic bio subject
Joel Kupperman, once-famous 'Quiz Kid' of radio and TV, dies at 83 of coronavirus [in print as Top 'Quiz Kid' of radio, TV became a professor]
Saturday, May 16, 2020
The Beat reviews Laura Lee Gulledge's new book
REVIEW: Get lost in THE DARK MATTER OF MONA STARR
The YA graphic novel is a meditation on overcoming darkness and spreading light.
Cavna talks to animator Peter Docter
Without movie theaters, we're missing communal laughter: 'You lose a check-in with humanity'
Washington Post May 16, 2020
Animation voice Frank Welker in the Post
You don't know his face. But voice actor Frank Welker likely ruled your childhood [in print as This voice actor probably ruled your childhood]
By Tim Greiving
Washington Post May 17, 2020 E1, 11
The Post on Snowpiercer
For Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs, the harrowing 'Snowpiercer' revival is more timely than ever [in print as What better time for an apocalyptic revival]
Washington Post May 17, 2020 : E12
Disney's Frozen melts off Broadway
Citing the pandemic, Disney puts Broadway's 'Frozen' permanently on ice [in print as Broadway's 'Frozen' gets put on ice permanently]
Washington Post May 15, 2020, p. C1, 3
Friday, May 15, 2020
TN paper issues an apology over a Clay Jones cartoon
The cartoon showed Pres. Obama jogging, while Trump pointed him out from a golf cart saying his crime was obvious (ie jogging while black). Here's the story -
To our readers
Blount County Daily Times May 15 2020
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Rosarium's e-books are half-price
The Rosarium Publishing
May 2020 Newsletter
It would be impossible to not acknowledge that the world is completely altered right now. Stay safe, everyone.
50% of all Rosarium Ebooks sale on our store! Use code ROSYFUTURES
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Tough Decisions at Tesla"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Tough Decisions At Tesla"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2993
So... after a week or two of stomping his little feet and threatening to hold his breath until he turned blue, spoiled rotten rich punk Elon Musk re-opened his Tesla plant in California in defiance of that state's "stay-at-home" order, because he couldn't stand to lose a penny of profit on his overpriced electric hot rods.
Subsequently, this past Tuesday, Sputnik International published this report on the situation headlined "Tesla Workers Faced With Tough Decisions as Elon Musk Re-Opens California Factory"...
"Tesla Workers Faced With Tough Decisions as Elon Musk Re-Opens California Factory", Sputnik International 05.12.2020
https://sputniknews.com/us/202005121079285941-tesla-workers-faced-with-tough-decisions-as-elon-musk-re-opens-california-factory/
"Tough Decisions At Tesla"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2993
So... after a week or two of stomping his little feet and threatening to hold his breath until he turned blue, spoiled rotten rich punk Elon Musk re-opened his Tesla plant in California in defiance of that state's "stay-at-home" order, because he couldn't stand to lose a penny of profit on his overpriced electric hot rods.
Subsequently, this past Tuesday, Sputnik International published this report on the situation headlined "Tesla Workers Faced With Tough Decisions as Elon Musk Re-Opens California Factory"...
"Tesla Workers Faced With Tough Decisions as Elon Musk Re-Opens California Factory", Sputnik International 05.12.2020
https://sputniknews.com/us/202005121079285941-tesla-workers-faced-with-tough-decisions-as-elon-musk-re-opens-california-factory/
May 15: Draw a Cartoon You with Leslie Stein and The Believer
Draw a Cartoon You with Leslie Stein and The Believer
Learn to draw a cartoon portrait with cartoonist Leslie Stein and The Believer
"Graphix Panel: Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan" from Politics and Prose
"Graphix Panel: Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan"
Carolyn
Politics and Prose Live! May 14 2020
Join us for an afternoon with three graphic novelists as they discuss their delightful new releases. Each artist will share their art onscreen or do a live drawing demonstration. In the first graphic novel starring the world-famous mystery-solving mouse, Geronimo Stilton tries to uncover the source of a terrible smell pervading New Mouse City. Self-doubt is a major theme in Nat Enough, which follows a middle schooler who constantly compares herself to others. Difficult decisions abound in Trespassers, as a 13-year-old and her new friend break into an abandoned lake house to investigate the disappearance of the wealthy couple who lived there. Ages 8-13.
Click here to join the Live! event.
Politics and Prose Live! Washington DC 20008
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Malaka Gharib at The Believer - twice
April 1st, 2020 | Issue one hundred thirty
The Miracle
https://believermag.com/the-miracle/
Quaranzine: A Workshop with Malaka Gharib
On April 10, 2020, The Believer hosted a digital workshop lead by comics artist Malaka Gharib. You can pick up a copy of Malaka's book I Was Their American Dream from our friends at Bookshop, where proceeds will help benefit The Believer and independent bookstores.
Follow the instructions in the video below to create a zine about your time in quarantine. Share the result using the hashtag #quaranzine and tag @believermag.
May 26: Corcoran Virtual Talkback with Animator Radford Sechrist
Corcoran Virtual Talkback with Animator Radford Sechrist
On Tuesday, May 26th, at 7 pm ET, you are invited to a special virtual talkback with animator Radford Sechrist, creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Netflix original series, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Radford is a well known professional animator who has worked on classic feature films including Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and Boss Baby. He also teaches his craft at the California Institute of the Arts, Academy of Art University, Concept Design Academy, and the Los Angels Academy of Figurative Art. This will be a video chat on May 26 from 7 - 8 pm ET (4 - 5 pm PT). RSVP here. Open to all GW students, alumni, and artists in the DC community.
(The times on the poster below are PT!)
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Student journalist Alexandra Bowman wins SPJ award
Alexandra Bowman of Georgetown University is the National Winner in Editorial Cartooning in the United States by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) in the annual Mark of Excellence Awards.
PR: Fantom Comics partnering with Tiki Taco for "Curbside Pickup"
Fantom Comics and Tiki Taco DC are teaming up to serve our customers during the pandemic shutdown! Fantom will be allowing for pickup of paid customer orders through our friends downstairs at 2010 P Street NW.
Order and pay for your comics on fantomcomics.com and choose Tiki Taco as your delivery method to get a coupon for: "Buy a Taco Trio and get one extra taco for free (valid thru 7/31/2020)".
Complete your purchase before 6:00 PM on Tuesday through Friday, and your package will be available at Tiki Taco for same day pickup.
Today at 3 pm: Kal interviews Ann Telnaes
From: Kevin Kallaugher-
If you get a chance, check out the newest episode of my webcast Satire Can Save Us All, where I have a fun interview with my good friend Ann Telnaes. It goes live Tuesday, 3PM here: https://www.facebook.com/satire2020/live/
If you miss it live, I will post it Tuesday evening on our Youtube site: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVdomcNEpDA1yS9Uddb5bg
Best
Kal
Monday, May 11, 2020
Clay Jones takes 3rd in 86th National Headliner Awards winners
Localish cartoonist Clay Jones (he keeps bouncing up and down I95 between DC and Fredericksburg) took 3rd place in an editorial cartoon award.
86th National Headliner Awards winners
The 86th National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United
States in 2019 were announced today. The awards were founded in 1934 by the Press Club ofAtlantic City. The annual contest is one of the oldest and largest in the country that recognizes
journalistic merit in the communications industry.
Editorial cartoons
First Place
Michael Ramirez
Las Vegas Review Journal
Judges' comments: Sharp, sophisticated, daring. Michael Ramirez skewers the pompous and
defends the vulnerable. Excellent work.
Michael Ramirez
Las Vegas Review Journal
Judges' comments: Sharp, sophisticated, daring. Michael Ramirez skewers the pompous and
defends the vulnerable. Excellent work.
Second Place
Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Third Place
Clay Jones
CNN/Claytoonz
Clay Jones
CNN/Claytoonz
The COVID-19 Playlist on NPR
COMIC: Hospitals Turn To Alicia Keys, U2 And The Beatles To Sing Patients Home [aka The COVID-19 Playlist]
Grace Farris
NPR May 9, 2020
May 14: P&P Live!: Graphix Panel - Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hands Across The Sea"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist - Mike Flugennock -
Name the two countries whose leadership has been the most comically ignorant and incompetent in the face of this crisis.
Give up...?
Name the two countries who currently lead the world in COVID-19 deaths.
Name the two countries whose public health services are the most ravaged by budget cuts and privatization.
Name the two countries whose leadership has been the most comically ignorant and incompetent in the face of this crisis.
Give up...?
Otakon 2020 cancelled
Message from the President & Con Chair
April 27, 2020
We are very sad to announce that we must join the countless other events around the world and announce the cancelation of Otakon 2020. While we had been clinging to the last bits of hope that our later dates would allow us the potential to hold an event, on April 17th it was announced that our venue, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, would be converted into an Alternate Care Facility. After discussing the timelines with the Convention Center staff and Destination DC, even in the most optimistic scenario that the facility is not needed to be used they would still be in the move-out/clean up process by the dates of our event.
We know this is not the news you wanted to hear. For those of you who may not know, Otakon, is run, planned, staffed, and organized by an ALL volunteer organization. As our staff have been trying to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, we have also continued planning, and holding out hope that Otakon 2020 would still happen. All of the best things that make up our community are needed more than ever right now. We need fandom, we need inclusion, we need acceptance, we need family and friendship, we need creativity and escape; we need FUN! We held out hope as long as we could that we could be all of that this year. Please know that this decision breaks our hearts as much as it does yours.
So, we are at least happy that we can announce our dates for next year:
Otakon will return to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, August 6-8, 2021
All registrations for 2020 will automatically be registered for 2021. No additional action will be needed.
If you are unable to attend in 2021, or need to request a refund for other reasons, we are making an exception to our standard no-refunds policy for this year. Please fill out the Refund Request form on our website before May 31st.
Dealers and Artists will have the option to transfer their registrations to next year, or request a refund.
Hotel reservations made through Experient (our official housing provider) will automatically be cancelled. According to our records, no deposits for any rooms booked inside our room block have been taken. If you booked outside our housing portal you will need to contact your hotel directly.
We'd like to say thank you to our partners at Destination DC, Events DC, Experient, Hargrove, DSL, Simmons Security, and more. Thank you to all of our industry partners and guests, both foreign and domestic, and thank you to all of our artists and dealers.
To our members, thank you for your support and encouragement through this crisis. Our motto has always been "for fans, by fans". This is truly a labor of love for us, and we will need your continuing support more than ever in the weeks and months to come.
Finally, we want to publicly thank all the volunteers who work behind the scenes to bring you Otakon and are working so right now to readjust things for 2021. Our volunteers are more than just a group of people who work to put on a convention each year; we're very much a family. We'll just need to wait till next year for our big reunion.
Stay safe, and we'll see you in 2021!
Nick Avgerinos, President
Andrew Zerrlaut, Convention Chair
Thursday, May 07, 2020
Cavna checks on the Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper shows up often in pandemic cartoons — whether to provoke or provide dark humor [in print as Grim Reaper rears its head for cartoonish purposes]
The Post on Disney's parks
Disney is about to reopen its Shanghai theme park. It could be a lot longer before that happens in the U.S. [in print as Disney takes cautious approach to reopening U.S. parks].
Washington Post May 7, 2020 , p. A26
Howl’s Moving Castle versions interpreted by DC's Elyse Martin
Elyse Martin is a Chinese-American Smith College graduate who lives in Washington DC with her husband and two cats. She writes reviews for Publisher's Weekly, and her essays and humor pieces have appeared in The Toast, Electric Literature, Perspectives on History, The Bias, Entropy Magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine. She spends most of her time writing and making atrocious puns—sometimes simultaneously—and tweets @champs_elyse. She's at work on several novels.
The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge: An Interview with Ryan Holmberg
The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge: An Interview with Ryan Holmberg
Tom Devlin
Erin Entrada Kelly and Terri Libenson, "We Dream of Space" and "Becoming Brianna" in conversation with Karen MacPherson
Erin Entrada Kelly and Terri Libenson, "We Dream of Space" and "Becoming Brianna" in conversation with Karen MacPherson
Politics and Prose Bookstore May 7, 2020Comics on The Lily - Sage Coffey and coronavirus
Coronavirus caused chaos. Cutting my hair gives me a sense of control.
Changing an aspect of my appearance is soothing, even if it doesn't come out perfectly
Wednesday, May 06, 2020
The Post on Disney's coronavirus problems
Disney sees profit drop because of coronavirus, but worst is likely yet to come
No plan yet for reopening U.S. theme parks, no stock dividend contemplated for next six months, executives tell analysts
Washington Post May 6, 2020
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Cooking Korean, Robin Ha, and Bulgogi
Cooking Korean, Robin Ha, and Bulgogi
I'll catch up with Robin Ha, author of Cook Korean! A Comic Book with Recipes, while making bulgogi.
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Recent Cartoon in mixed media (click on Image for larger view)
"Dystopia at the Piggly Wiggly"
Wash Post's coronavirus art call - a chance to appear in the Post
We'd like to see the artwork you're creating during the coronavirus crisis
Sunday, May 03, 2020
Telnaes' full-page Post cartoon on Trump
Trump's hunka hunka daily love
The president has turned his coronavirus briefings into an odd variety show.
By Ann Telnaes
Washington Post May 3 2020, p. A28
May 8: A Conversation with Roz Chast “Is Now When I Should Panic?"
The Museum of the City of New York is hosting a talk with Roz Chast online, on May 8th at 4 pm. Registration is encouraged.
In case any of you might be interested:
Friday, May 01, 2020
Library of Congress on preserving Captain America #1
Preservation Week: From Captain America to Thomas Jefferson
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