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Iyanu - Child of Wonder Volume One

A teenage orphan girl with no recollection of her past suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient gods!

Iyanu chronicles the journey of a teenage orphan girl with no recollection of her past, who suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient deities of her people. It is these abilities that are the key to bringing back the age of wonders and saving a world on the brink of destruction at the hands of The Corrupt — Cursed Wildlife and Divine Beasts desperate to destroy humanity.

Catching up with the Lily's comics

In self-quarantine, my alarm and calendar stopped running my life. I hope that sticks.

Time is different now

Rachel Orr

Washington Post's The Lily May 24 2020

https://www.thelily.com/in-self-quarantine-my-alarm-and-calendar-stopped-running-my-life-i-hope-that-sticks/

Cavna on Trump golfing during coronavirus cartoons

Cartoons are skewering Trump's golfing against the backdrop of covid-19 deaths

By

Michael Cavna 

May 27, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/05/27/cartoons-trump-golf-coronavirus-covid/

SATIRE CAN SAVE US ALL episode 9: Special guest Nick Anderson

SATIRE CAN SAVE US ALL episode 9: Special guest Nick Anderson

KAL

Satire Can Save Us All May 26 2020

https://www.facebook.com/satire2020/videos/256936912220220/

The Post on the return of the Justice League

The #SnyderCut of 'Justice League' was an Internet joke. Cinephiles should root for it.

Sonny Bunch 

Washington Post May 22, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/22/snydercut-justice-league-was-an-internet-joke-cinephiles-should-root-it/

Tre Johnson on masking and superheroes

The coronavirus has made the waking world into a dreamscape [in print as The virus has turned our waking lives into a dreamscape]

Our masks make us look like superheroes. So why do we still feel so helpless?

By Tre Johnson 

Washington Post May 24, 2020 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/20/coronavirus-has-made-waking-world-into-dreamscape/

That darn Dustin

People aren't exotic

Molly Jackman, Kensington

Washington Post May 23 2020

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/readers-critique-the-post-a-photograph-of-otherworldly-beauty/2020/05/22/9327ebd8-9c4d-11ea-ad09-8da7ec214672_story.html

Miller interviews Rubenstein

 David Miller writes in, "I just did an interview with Joe Rubinstein on my new Comics Prisoner show." 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fgiiyjQ04Y&t=8s

Episode 11 - Incredible Inkers: A Talk With Joe Rubinstein - YouTube Today Joe Rubinstein drops by the paper prison to check out his wares and discovers the Comics Prisoner squatting in one of his pages. We have a nice talk and learn a lot. Drop by and enjoy! While ... www.youtube.com

The Washington School of Cartooning, just about a century ago

Warren Bernard  wrote in, "When Maryland re-opened some stuff, my sister and I went out to an antiques mall in Hagerstown. She spotted this gem:

"I had never seen a cartoon course diploma, no less one from 1924  from the only DC area cartoon school, run by Will Chandlee, who worked for the Evening Star in the 19th Century. The office for the cartoon school was on 15th St for a while and the most famous graduate was Frank Godwin. I also have a promo booklet from the school, and that's how I found out about Godwin."

Thanks to Warren for sharing this bit of The Secret History of Comics.

PR: Memorial Day Sale! - Beyond Comics!

It Has Been A Difficult Year, But BEYOND COMICS IS OPEN Our Frederick Location So Far MEMORIAL DAY SALE! Monday, May 25th 11am to 5pm   Wear your mask! Keep Socially distant! Not feeling well - Please stay home! 20% OFF Comics - Graphic Novels Action Figures - Bin Back Issues Collecting Supplies Excludes All Recent Arrivals!         Not combinable with any other sale or promotion. Available for in stock items only. Only Our Frederick Location Is Open 5632 Buckeystown Pike Frederick, MD 21704 (301) 668-8202   Hours: Monday - Tuesday: 11am to 5pm Wednseday: 10am to 8pm  Thursday to Saturday: 11am to 7pm  Sunday: 12noon to 5pm W We Greatly Appreciate Your Continued Patronage & Loyalty!     Beyond Comics                                                      Beyond Comics 18749 B North Frederick Rd.                                    5632 Buckeystown Pike Gaithersburg, MD 20879                                          Frederick, MD 21704 301-216-0007                                                          301-668-8202

Beyond Comics, 18749 B. North Frederick Rd, 5632 Buckesytown Pike (Frederick), Gaithersburg, MD 20879

Gharib comic on NPR

COMIC: A Lost Boy, A Snake Bite, A Lesson In Resilience

Malaka Gharib

NPR's Goats and Soda blog May 17, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/17/854937429/comic-a-lost-boy-a-snake-bite-a-lesson-in-resilience

LAST CALL! We’d like to see the artwork you’re creating during the coronavirus crisis - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/05/05/wed-like-see-artwork-youre-creating-during-coronavirus-crisis/

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. 

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

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45779/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-1

 

PART 2

Diamond and DC Comics

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45778/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-2

 

PART 3

Handling Product in the Pipeline, Diamonds New Competitive Landscape

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45777/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-3

 

PART 4

Handling Rolling Shutdowns Going Forward, Plans for Free Comic Book Day

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45776/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-4

 

PART 5

GFE's Restructuring and Rebranding, Future Plans for the Companies and Ownership

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45775/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-5

 

Jim Toomey and NOAA perfect together

Meet artist, conservationist, and NOAA friend Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman's Lagoon

By NOAA

 May 16th, 2020

http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/05/16/meet-artist-conservationist-noaa-friend-jim-toomey-creator-shermans-lagoon/

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

Jason Fraley | @JFrayWTOP

WTOP May 21, 2020

https://wtop.com/entertainment/2020/05/dreamworks-creator-of-kipo-and-the-age-of-wonderbeasts-to-join-gw-virtually/

https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GW-DREAMWORKS-jfray.mp3

https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/radford-sechrist-interview.mp3

https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/gw-professor-interview.mp3

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

• Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 7 PM – 8 PM EDT Starts in about 3 hours

• Zoom

• Hosted by Anne Arundel County Public Library

https://www.facebook.com/events/240504340518707/

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

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

Beyond Comics in Frederick open tomorrow

Beyond Comics New Arrivals Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Frederick Location Open Wednesday! Social Distancing Measures In Effect! 10am To 8pm

Masks Required - Maintain 6 Foot Distances - Customer Capacity Limits

Due to Shipping Problems Many of our DC Comics May Arrive Later in the Week!

Satire Can Save Us All: Episode 8 Patrick Chappatte

Satire Can Save Us All: Episode 8 Patrick Chappatte

KAL

May 19 2020

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=566434850952550

KAL's live on Facebook in 30 minutes

https://www.facebook.com/satire2020/

Punchlines: Talking 'Obamagate' with rare conservative cartoonist [Mike Lester]

Matt Wuerker

05/15/2020

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/05/15/obamagate-conservative-cartoonist-mike-lester-075575

Today at 2: Rob Harrell at Politics and Prose

Monday, May 18 at 2 p.m.

Rob Harrell Wink | Recommended for ages 9-12

Register

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]

Matt Schudel 

Washington Post May 17, 2020, p. C9

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joel-kupperman-once-famous-quiz-kid-of-radio-and-tv-dies-at-83-of-coronavirus/2020/05/15/4e88b6c8-95ff-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html

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.

Avery Kaplan

04/14/2020

https://www.comicsbeat.com/review-the-dark-matter-of-mona-starr/

Cavna talks to animator Peter Docter

Without movie theaters, we're missing communal laughter: 'You lose a check-in with humanity'

Michael Cavna 

Washington Post May 16, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/05/16/laughter-movie-theaters-comedy/

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

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scoob-frank-welker-scooby-doo-interview/2020/05/13/9ec23390-93dd-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

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]

By Valentina Valentini 

Washington Post May 17, 2020 : E12

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/snowpiercer-jennifer-connelly-daveed-diggs-interview/2020/05/13/523baf78-93de-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

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]

Peter Marks 

Washington Post May 15, 2020, p. C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/citing-the-pandemic-disney-puts-broadways-frozen-permanently-on-ice/2020/05/14/2cf12920-95fd-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html

Fleen reviews Maker Comics: Grow A Garden (words and pictures by Alexis Frederick-Frost

http://fleen.com/2020/05/14/fleen-book-corner-01-catch-up-twofer/

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

https://www.thedailytimes.com/opinion/to-our-readers/article_4fd1fada-81d6-5898-a11b-6adb65064232.html

Rosarium's e-books are half-price

The Rosarium Publishing 

May 2020 Newsletter

Read any of our works lately? Post a review on Amazon or Goodreads! We'd love to hear from you!

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

https://rosarium.bookstore.ipgbook.com/

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/

May 15: Draw a Cartoon You with Leslie Stein and The Believer

Topic

Draw a Cartoon You with Leslie Stein and The Believer

Description

Learn to draw a cartoon portrait with cartoonist Leslie Stein and The Believer

Time

May 15, 2020 07:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdu2hqTIiGddTBPgiZTMEVOHUc39Yq0W1

"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

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/graphix-panel/1

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

Malaka Gharib at The Believer - twice

April 1st, 2020 | Issue one hundred thirty

The Miracle

by Malaka Gharib

https://believermag.com/the-miracle/

Quaranzine: A Workshop with Malaka Gharib

by Malaka Gharib

April 15th, 2020

https://believermag.com/logger/quaranzine/

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!)

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.

Find Fantom Comics at:

www.FantomComics.com

www.Twitter.com/FantomComics

www.Facebook.com/FantomComics

www.Instagram.com/FantomComics

www.fantomcomics.tumblr.com

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

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 of
Atlantic 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.

Second Place
Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Third Place
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

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/09/852078068/comic-hospitals-turn-to-alicia-keys-u2-and-the-beatles-to-sing-patients-home

May 14: P&P Live!: Graphix Panel - Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan

P&P Live!: Graphix Panel - Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 2 p.m. 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. Thursday, May 14 at 2 p.m.

Graphix Panel with Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan | Recommended for ages 8-13

Register

That darn Prickly City

Feeling prickly

Charles Patch, Baltimore

Washington Post May 9 2020

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-instead-of-euthanizing-pigs-lets-work-to-give-them-a-better-life/2020/05/08/38783578-9098-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hands Across The Sea"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist - Mike Flugennock -

"Hands Across The Sea"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2987

A quick quiz:

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...?