Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Warren Bernard continues talking with Cartoonist Kayfabe
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Quarantining Coronavirus through Comics at MSU's Comic Art Collection
Like many of us, Michigan State University librarian Randy Scott was sent to work from home when covid-19 began shutting down schools and libraries across the country. To be able to work from home, he had to get creative, since he couldn't take parts of the Comic Art Collection home with him. Scott began clipping comic strips from the Lansing, MI papers that dealt with coronavirus and setting up new subject headings in the collection's Reading Room Index (RRI).
When I checked in with him, and heard that he was doing this, I began sending the daily Washington Post comics pages (I'd been sending the Sundays for years, continuing what crack comics historian Ian Gordon had begun years ago). He's picked coronavirus as his main subject heading, noting "The first mention of the coronavirus (covid 19) pandemic appeared in this collection in the February 13, 2020 episode of Prickly City. Newspaper strips are added here when 5 examples of a title with pandemic-related content are located, clipped and filed in the Library's collection." As of today, he's collected about 600 strips, 400 of which are in the RRI, and 200 waiting to be added.
Strips he's collected include:
- Arlo & Janis (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Baldo (starting Apr. 4, 2020)
- Barney and Clyde (starting Mar. 4, 2020)
- Blondie (starting May 7, 2020)
- Brevity (starting Apr. 7, 2020)
- Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
- Candorville (starting Mar. 23, 2020)
- Curtis (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Dilbert (starting Apr. 20, 2020)
- Family Circus (starting Apr. 15, 2020)
- Frank and Ernest (starting Mar. 13, 2020)
- Frazz (starting Apr. 18, 2020)
- Lio (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Non Sequitur (starting Mar. 9, 2020)
- Off the Mark (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
- On the Fastrack (starting Apr. 13, 2020)
- Pearls Before Swine (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
- Prickly City (starting Feb. 13, 2020)
- Reply All Lite (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Sally Forth (starting Apr. 13, 2020)
- Speed Bump (starting Apr. 27, 2020)
- Contagion
- Covid 19
- Hand Sanitizer
- Hand Washing
- Hazmat Suits
- Hoarding
- Home Schooling
- Lockdowns
- New Normal
- Quarantine
- Reopening
- Shaking Hands
- Social Distancing
- Staying Home
- Surgical Masks
- Toilet Paper
- Vaccines
- Working from Home
- Zoom
Social Distancing. "Boo Cat Lives and Breathes Social Distancing" (Reply All Lite, Apr. 26, 2020) / by Donna A. Lewis. -- Call no.: oversize PN6726.S79 Apr. 26, 2020
Special collections work over the long run and most of this collection probably won't be of interest to users for a few years, and then again after a few decades, most likely for the fiftieth anniversary of the pandemic. But just a cautionary note for those who think they can find everything on the web... this Chris Ware strip from the New York Times from April 26, 2020, has disappeared from the Times' website (and Randy would like a tearsheet if you have it).
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Monday, July 27, 2020
NPR, and Andrew Aydin, remember John Lewis
'March' Comic's Creator Remembers Late Rep. John Lewis
'Good Trouble': A New Generation Of Activists On John Lewis' Indelible Legacy
WBUR's On Point
Jul 27, 2020Aug 1: Black Excellence Book Club: Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story
Black Excellence Book Club: Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story
- Saturday at 4 PM – 5:30 PM
We continue our Black Excellence book club series with Fire!! the Zora Neale Hurtson Story by Peter Bagge.
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
Hurston went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost forgotten by the end of her life. With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-color.
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Mark Wheatley on SDCC panel
Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book: You Make the Call | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Malaka Gharib in History Goes Graphic SDCC video
History Goes Graphic | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Malaka Gharib talks to Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine Spotlight Panel | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "U.S. Out Of Portland!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3039
Here's one in solidarity with the Moms and Dads of Portland, hitting the streets against the US invasion of their city and being radicalized in real time.
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"Portland's Wall of Moms Joined by Dads With Leaf Blowers Against Trump's Police" Truthout, 07.21.2020
https://truthout.org/articles/portlands-wall-of-moms-joined-by-dads-with-leaf-blowers-against-trumps-police/
Mark Wheatley in SDCC panel
Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book: You Make the Call | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Minor Tom King kerfuffle over new Watchman book cover
Tom King Speaks Out About DC Comics Rorschach #1 Cover (UPDATE x2)
Friday, July 24, 2020
Tom King in DC panel at SDCC
DC@Home Day One | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Calvin Reid's March interviews rerun at PW
More To Come 431: Rep. John Lewis 'March' Memorial Special
Robin Ha's appearances on San Diego CC videos
Raina and Robin in Conversation | Comic-Con@Home 2020
New Kids Comics from Eisner Award publishers (CCEL) | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Malaka Gharib, among others on, SDCC video
History Goes Graphic | Comic-Con@Home 2020
Warren Bernard talks about John McCutcheon
Satrapi's Radioactive movie based on Redniss' graphic novel
Rosamund Pike shines in this stylized-but-rote biopic about the life of Marie Curie [in print as The elemental problems of Curie's story].
Rating: (2 stars)
Jamie Noguchi YA book coming from Papercutz
Health and Inclusivity: Embracing the New in SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS
Remembering Congressman John Lewis for 'March'
'March' Comic's Creator Remembers Late Rep. John Lewis
John Lewis, Heroic Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80
Remembering Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
Remembering the legacy of the congressman and co-author of the MARCH trilogy.