Dec 16: LOA LIVE: Celebrating the Peanuts gang at 70

No images? Click here LOA LIVE Join us for our final online event of the year         Peanuts at 70: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and The Meaning of Life A conversation with Sarah Boxer, Jonathan Lethem, Clifford Thompson, and Chris Ware; Andrew Blauner, moderator     In 1950 Charles M. Schulz debuted a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. The Peanuts characters continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Join editor Andrew Blauner and four distinguished contributors to the LOA collection The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, for a seventieth anniversary conversation reflecting on the deeper truths of Schulz's deceptively simple strip and its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.       Wednesday, December 16 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET REGISTER Presented in partnership with Peanuts World Wide and the Charles M. Schulz Museum       RELATED TITLE   Hardcover • 352 pages List price: $24.95 Web Store price: $18.95 Use coupon code LIB2020 today or tomorrow to receive 15% off the Web Store price: $16.11 The Peanuts Papers Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life Edited by Andrew Blauner In The Peanuts Papers, thirty-three writers and artists demonstrate just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers—and the ways it invites us to ponder, in the words of Sarah Boxer, "how to survive and still be a decent human being" in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays, memoirs, poems, and two original comic strips, here is the ultimate reader's companion for every Peanuts fan.       Image, above: Charles M. Schulz at his studio drawing table in 1978. (CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

PCHH asks Does 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Hold Up, Ten Years Later?

Does 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Hold Up, Ten Years Later?

Glen Weldon

Daoud Tyler-Ameen

Mallory Yu

Jourdain Searles

Pop Culture Happy Hour December 7, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/941558942/does-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-hold-up-ten-years-later

Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, Mark Webber are among the many stars of 2010's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Big Talk Productions/Kobal/Shutterstock

The 2010 film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World starred Michael Cera as a directionless and not terribly bright 22-year-old in Toronto. Despite an amazing cast and director Edgar Wright's kinetic visual style, the film underperformed. In the ten years since, it's attained cult status. But does it hold up?

The audio was produced by Mike Katzif and edited by Jessica Reedy.

Disney to rely heavily on Star Wars and Marvel media in 2021

Disney unveils huge cache of content, signaling it seeks to dominate both digital and theaters [in print as Disney unveils new content, signaling aim to dominate theaters and digital].

Steven Zeitchik

Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/disney-starwars-marvel-dominance/

Friday Night Comics: Holiday Special

Malaka Gharib, Amy Kurzweil, and GB Tran

Dec 4, 2020

Black Mountain Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn2J0bhLuAk

Join comics heroes Malaka Gharib, Amy Kurzweil, and GB Tran for a holiday special hosted by The Believer's art director Kristen Radtke, where we'll make cards and comics for the people we miss most. You'll leave the workshop with three handmade gifts.

For these you will need some of the following materials: Paper–colored paper, printed paper, cardstock, it doesn't matter. Drawing tools like a pencil or pen, or more ambitious tools like crayons, markers, eyeliner–whatever you have. A pair of scissors. Glue or tape (or gum!). Cuttable material. This could be regular paper, tissue paper, or a plastic bag.

******** All past comics workshops can be found here: https://believermag.com/comics-worksh... If you have the means, please consider supporting The Believer: http://believermag.com/support ******** Purchase the hosts' books: Vietnamerica by GB Tran: https://bookshop.org/a/271/9780345508720 I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib: https://bookshop.org/a/271/9780525575115 Flying Couch by Amy Kurzweil: https://bookshop.org/a/271/9781936787289 Amy Kurzweil's Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Amykurzweil

Multiversity's reviewer doesn't like Tom King's “Batman/Catwoman” #1

"Batman/Catwoman" #1

By Elias Rosner | December 4th, 2020

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/reviews/batman-catwoman-1/

The Post on Twins, an animated Zoom funeral, and Priya's Mask

Surprisingly Priya's Mask, a comic made in India, has a local tie.

She is the Brown girl superhero the world needs right now — and in recent days, she has gained fans from Mumbai to Maryland [in print as Teen superhero takes on covid, gaining fans from Mumbai to Md.]

Theresa Vargas

Columnist

Washington Post Dec. 10, 2020, p. B1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/she-is-the-brown-girl-superhero-the-world-needs-right-now--and-already-she-is-drawing-young-fans-from-mumbai-to-maryland/2020/12/08/9f5e8b06-38fa-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

Middle school worries inspired Varian Johnson's graphic novel 'Twins' [in print as Novelist's childhood inspired tale of rival twins].

By Mary Quattlebaum

Washington Post Dec. 9, 2020

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/middle-school-worries-inspired-varian-johnsons-graphic-novel-twins/2020/12/08/33ea912c-2aa8-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html

Together Alone at the Zoom Funeral

By Kolin Pope and Ted Muldoon

December 10, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/12/10/zoom-funeral/

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hang In There, Baby!"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

 "Hang In There, Baby!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3110

God, I miss Trump already — yeah, I said it, and I'd say it again if I had to. The sonofabitch isn't even out of office yet, and I already miss him. I miss the breathtaking, aggressive stupidity, the comical  blustering, and those tweets. Oh god, yeah, those tweets — every one a solid nugget of pure comedy gold.

I really was hoping for another four years of those little classics, but no luck. Instead, we're in for four years of banal, empty, platitudinous bilge  — like this little stinkburger, where he takes forever just to tell us that all we'll likely get for coronavirus relief is another measly-ass $1200 check, and that otherwise we can go fuck ourselves. Christ, it looks like something off an old 1970s cat poster.

David Miller's White Plague on Webtoons

Local cartoonist David Miller has let me know he's got a new webcomic out -

A mysterious disease wipes out the world's Anglo (white) population. Handing the reins of power to the black survivors as they try to carve a new society out of the carnage left from what they call the White Plague. Created, Written and Illustrated by David Neal Miller.

New Page Uploaded Every Monday

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/white-plague/white-plague-pilot/viewer?title_no=555890&episode_no=3

White Plague - White Plague: Pilot A mysterious disease wipes out the world's Anglo (white) population. Handing the reigns of power to the black survivors as they try to carve a new society out of the carnage left from what they call the White Plague. Created, Written and Illustrated by David Neal Miller www.webtoons.com

Our own Alexandra Bowman gets highlighted in the Daily Cartoonist

Mike Peterson likes her editorial cartoon. -http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/12/08/csotd-good-news-bad-news-our-news/

Formerly local PS Magazine editor Paul Fitzgerald RIP

Paul E. Fitzgerald – RIP

by D. D. Degg

December 6, 2020

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/12/06/paul-e-fitzgerald-rip/

Paul Edward Fitzgerald, November 26, 1926 ~ December 3, 2020 (age 94),Tribute

Rader Funeral Home (December 2020): https://www.rader-funeralhome.com/tributes/Paul-Fitzgerald

Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley

 

Recent Cartoons (click on Images for larger view)

"Obese Obsession"

©2020 Steven G Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Troy Allen talks to an Argentine cartoonist

 

Interview: Salvador Sanz Bares His Soul in 'Angela Della Morte' [Argentina].

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Nov 27, 2020

https://previewsworld.com/Article/247679-Interview-Salvador-Sanz-Bares-His-Soul-in-Angela-Della-Morte

Does Uncle Sam need a makeover?

Matt Wuerker

Does Uncle Sam need a makeover?

POLITICO December 3 2020

https://www.facebook.com/matt.wuerker.7/posts/10222597991551248

 

Does Uncle Sam need a makeover? He's evolved in small ways over the years, but fundamentally he's remained the same skinny white guy with a stringy goatee for a long time.

So our cartoonist Matt Wuerker hit the streets to learn how others feel about updating Uncle Sam to better reflect America

The Post on videogame animation voice actors

Call of Duty voice actors spent the summer on video calls like the rest of us [videogame animation voice actors; in print as Screams from the den? Just another day at the office.]

Mike Hume

Washington Post December 6, 2020  , p. E11

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/11/11/making-call-of-duty-cold-war/

Satirizing Crisis, Pt. 2 with Ann Telnaes and Kal

Satirizing Crisis, Pt. 2

Ann Telnaes (The Washington Post), KAL (The Economist, the Baltimore Sun) and moderated by Dave Folkenflik

Santa Fe Council on International Relations December 1 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCt2-DS3E6Y

Ann Telnaes (The Washington Post), KAL (The Economist, the Baltimore Sun) and moderated by Dave Folkenflik (NPR). Returning from their star turn at JUF 2018, these two extraordinary editorial cartoonists illustrate how they've gone about capturing crisis in their cartooning.

LOC blog on cartoon maps

That's Just Hysterical: The Lindgren Brothers' Tourist Maps

Kelly Bilz

Library of Congress Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps blog December 4, 2020

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/12/thats-just-hysterical-the-lindgren-brothers-tourist-maps/?loclr=eamap

Al Goodwyn's latest cartoon newsletter

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

December 2, 2020

NPR reviews Wild Minds animation history

'Wild Minds' Traces The Origins Of Animation — From Blackton And McCay To Disney

Adam Frank December 2, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/940115798/wild-minds-traces-the-origins-of-animation-from-blackton-and-mccay-to-disney

NPR talks to Setor Fiadzigbey

Misty Copeland Celebrates Ballet's Beautiful Friendships In 'Bunheads' [Setor Fiadzigbey]

Samantha Balaban

Weekend Edition Sunday November 29, 2020 

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/29/916365851/misty-copeland-celebrates-ballets-beautiful-friendships-in-bunheads

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2020/11/20201129_wesun_misty_copeland_celebrates_ballets_beautiful_friendships_in_bunheads.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/916365851

P&P Live! Nathan Hale | HAZARDOUS TALES #10: BLADES OF FREEDOM

Politics and Prose December 2 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38BD4b25I8

A discussion with author Nathan Hale about his new book BLADES OF FREEDOM, the latest Hazardous Tales graphic novel. Click here to purchase: https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9...

Join Nathan Hale—the graphic novelist, not the Revolutionary War spy—on a pulse-pounding adventure through the past! In a one-of-a-kind presentation, he'll draw scenes and characters on his iPad as he shares a fascinating tale from American history. Fans of Big Bad Ironclad might recognize the story of the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia, but they've never seen it quite like this. The event is part of a multi-city tour in celebration of the release of Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Lousiana Purchase, which explores the connection between the Haitian Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase.

Nathan Hale is the author and illustrator of Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, the Eisner-nominated, New York Times bestselling graphic novel series on American history. He also created the sci-fi horror comics One Trick Pony and Apocalypse Taco. He illustrated the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack, along with picture books including Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody and The Dinosaurs' Night Before Christmas. He lives in Utah.

tonight - How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter

The Society of Illustrators Hosts A Free, Online Lecture on 

How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter

(December 3, 2020) On Tuesday, December 8 at 6:00 PM ET, the Society of Illustrators will host a free, online lecture titled How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter. 

The lecture will feature artist and designer Ganzeer and Oriana Leckert, the Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing, Comics, and Journalism at Kickstarter.

About the Panel:

While comic books and the comic arts have long held a prominent place in mainstream popular culture, there has always been an "outsider art" streak in the medium, particularly in alternative and underground comix. And outsider comic artists tend toward a strong DIY ethos, up to and including funding their work. Learn about the medium's alt-history from artist and designer Ganzeer, who recently crowdfunded his debut graphic novel The Solar Grid on Kickstarter, and from Oriana Leckert, Kickstarter's Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing & Comics, about some of the ways the platform has facilitated innovation and experimentation by queer people, people of color, and other marginalized people whose work is situated outside of the mainstream comics world.

Register Now: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZVwzwpXWQUmxRcNeR1rdLQ[us02web.zoom.us] 

About the Speakers

Ganzeer

Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling; creating what he has coined: Concept Pop. His medium of choice as described in Artforum is "a little bit of everything: stencils, murals, paintings, pamphlets, comics, installation, and graphic design." With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer's work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki, and the V&A in London. His current project, a sci-fi graphic novel titled The Solar Grid is the recipient of Foreign Policy's prestigious Global Thinker Award.

Oriana Leckert

Oriana Leckert is the Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing, Comics, and Journalism at Kickstarter, where she helps creators bring a broad range of literary projects to life. She's written and edited for Vice, MTV News, Slate, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Atlas Obscura, and many more. Her first book, Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, grew out of a multi-year project chronicling the rise and fall of under-the-radar creative places across New York City.

NPR's best graphic novels of 2020 list includes Robin Ha

NPR's Book Concierge: Comics & Graphic Novels

Produced by Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer, Beth Novey and Meghan Sullivan | Executive Producer: Ellen Silva

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#tags=comics+%26+graphic+novels&view=list&year=2020

They say comics, but I think eveyone of these has a spine. Congratulations to local cartoonist Robin Ha for making the list!

Today at 2 PM: Nathan Hale at Politics and Prose

Wednesday, December 2 at 2 p.m.

Nathan Hale Hazardous Tales #10: Blades of Freedom | Ages 8-12

Register

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Kick Me Hard"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Kick Me Hard"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3097

Right about now, I'm sure most of you are laughing yourselves silly at all the Progressives out there who voted for Biden under the delusion that they could "push him left", when anybody with two brain cells to rub together could take a look at his record over the past 40 years — not to mention his lineup of Cabinet picks — and see that anybody who thought they could push that sonofabitch left is on some kind of weirded-out psychedelic voyage.

Take, for instance, this whiny-ass tweet from the knobs at DNC front group Sunshine Movement: "We elected you, Joe, now it's time you act"...

https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1328342256160485379

Oh, f'crissake, give me a big, fat break. The old bastard IS acting. He came right and said that "nothing would fundamentally change" and that he wouldn't ban fracking right out in front of God and everybody.

"Progressive" voters bought that horseshit like a bunch of ignorant-ass rubes, and now the DNC is doing the equivalent of taping a big "Kick me hard" sign onto their backs, like we used to do back in seventh grade — and I, for one, have sub-zero sympathy for those losers.

"Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a 'progressive' Biden administration", Gabriel Black at the World 
Socialist Web Site, 11.25.2020
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/25/jaco-n25.html

George Herriman political cartoon in Navy medicine history article

See 

President Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Rixey and the Brownson Affair of December 1907

By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED

https://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/13307

Alex Bowman talks to cartoonist Tommy Siegel

Viral Cartoonist Tommy Siegel on Drawing Political Comics in 2020 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGs28CPssk&t=2s

Viral Cartoonist Tommy Siegel on Why Social Media Is Terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsnN7QQhSCY&t=2s

Viral Cartoonist Tommy Siegel Drew a Cartoon Every Day for 500 Days, and Made a Book Out Of It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYZPm-gqhQE

Black Friday LIVE | Batman Catwoman discussion with Tom King

Black Friday LIVE | Batman Catwoman

John Suintres

 Nov 27, 2020 wordballoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsJHUPqvoc

LIVE: Join the creators of the new Batman Catwoman comic book series, Tom King, Clay Mann and Mitch Gerads, as they discuss the ins and outs of this exciting new series from DC.

Twenty Years Later, Is 'The Emperor's New Groove'... A Classic?

Stephen Thompson, Aisha Harris,Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 25, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/23/937948440/twenty-years-later-is-the-emperors-new-groove-a-classic

https://play.podtrac.com/510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2020/11/20201125_pchh_pchh_201125_emperor_s_new_groove_final.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/937948440

The Emperor's New Groove came out 20 years ago, during a time when Disney's animation department was going through an identity crisis. The plot is simple: David Spade is a bratty emperor. Eartha Kitt and Patrick Warburton turn him into a llama. And John Goodman is the peasant who helps make things right. It was originally gonna be an epic musical, but then it became a comedy, a box-office disappointment, and now, we would argue, a beloved classic.

Jon Scieszka &Steven Weinberg: National Book Festival 2020

Jon Scieszka & Steven Weinberg: National Book Festival 2020

September 25, 2020

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9377/

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/captions/2020/s087_a116_Scieszka_a117_Weinberg_Final.txt

Jon Scieszka & Steven Weinberg Live Q&A: National Book Festival 2020

Sasha Dowdy

September 26, 2020

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9531/?loclr=eanw

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/captions/2020/s687_a116_Scieszka_a117_Weinberg_QA_Final.txt

NPR talks about Welcome To The New World

Welcome To The New World

Gregory Warner and Jake Halpern

• NPR's Rough Translation podcast season 4, episode 6

November 25, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938581251/welcome-to-the-new-world

https://play.podtrac.com/510324/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/roughtranslation/2020/11/20201125_roughtranslation_1124_aldabaans_final_mix_published.mp3 

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/938581251

Jerry Craft Live Q&A: 2020 National Book Festival

September 26, 2020

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9529/?loclr=eanw

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/captions/2020/s626_a027_Craft_QA_Final.txt

Cavna talks to Doonesbury's Trudeau

As 'Doonesbury' turns 50, Garry Trudeau picks his 10 defining strips

By

Michael Cavna

November 27, 2020 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/11/27/doonesbury-garry-trudeau-anniversary/