Beyond Comics Snow Closure - Thursday, February 18th!

It's not safe to mess with Mother Nature!

Mother Nature decided to through everything at us but the kitchen sink Therefore We Will Not Open Today! Beyond Comics Will Be Closed Today Thursday, February 18, 2021 The safety of our customers and employees is extremely important to us and therefore we will be closed today. We will reopen Monday. If there are any changes, we will update our Facebook page and send out additional email.  We expect to be open tomorrow (Friday) for normal hours. If we do not open, we will provide updates.  Gaithersburg 301-216-0007 Frederick 301-668-8202 Follow the Link Below For Updates! Snow Updates! Connect with us ‌ ‌ ‌

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Tonight: Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

Wednesday February 17 07:00PM-8:00PM ET

https://www.strandbooks.com/events/event153?title=julia_kaye__emily_vanderwerff_my_life_in_transition_a_super_late_bloomer_collection

This is a ticketed event. All book purchases come with a signed bookplate from the author.

Please purchase a ticket HERE.

Join Julia Kaye as she presents her newest book My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection. Joining Julia in conversation is critic-at-large and TV editor Emily VanDerWerff. This event will be held on Crowdcast.io.

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The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.

My Life in Transition is a story that's not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman--about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need, and finding peace in the fact that life keeps moving forward.

After the nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden early transition period has ended and the hormones have done their thing, this book shows how you can be trans and simply exist in society. You can be trans and have a successful future. You can be trans and have a normal life full of ups and downs. In our current political and social climate, this hopeful, accessible narrative about trans lives is both entertaining and vital.

Julia Kaye is an award-winning artist and illustrator whose webcomic Up and Out has garnered hundreds of thousands of readers and wide critical praise. Her commitment to activism has led to collaborations with non-profit organizations such as The Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. Her work has appeared on Webtoon, GoComics, Buzzfeed, and the Disney animated show Big City Greens. Julia lives in Los Angeles.

Emily VanDerWerff is the critic-at-large for Vox and the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Grantland. She is the host of the Vox Media podcasts I Think You're Interesting and Primetime. Her first book, Monsters of the Week, published in 2018. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and an ever fluctuating number of cats.

Feb 18: Take a Break with Chuck Wendig

The days are loooooong. So take a quick break and pop in on our Q&A with author Chuck Wendig (Star Wars: Aftermath, the Miriam Black thrillers). We'll chat about his extensive work and whatever else comes up, plus you can even submit a question over on Twitter. Put it in your schedule as Very Important Meeting and we'll see you there!   Join us on tomorrow @ 1pm ET! RSVP FOR FREE NOW p.s. This month, Chuck Wendig's Unclean Spirits is available free for members. Download our app: iOS | Android  Serial Box 115 Broadway, Floor 5, New York, NY 10006

Feb 25: Writing Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King

Feb 25

Writing Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King

Thu. Feb 25, 2021 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST

https://www.showclix.com/event/blackpanthersins/tag/nyplconnect?

All Ages

Co-authors of the new Serial Box exclusive discuss joining forces in the Marvel Universe.

Featuring

• Steven Barnes
• Tananarive Due
• Geoffrey Thorne

• In the new Black Panther: Sins of the King, the Black Panther has a terrible secret. T'Challa strives for excellence—to be a fair and worthy king, a global citizen, an Avenger. But when an army of undead threatens Wakanda, the Black Panther turns to his long-lost father in the fight against his most lethal opponent yet—the demons of his past.

This serialized standalone Black Panther story was collaboratively co-created by multiple authors taking turns writing different chapters. They will discuss that process—and how they landed on the end result.

LIVE from NYPL is made possible by the support of Library patrons and friends, as well as by the continuing generosity of Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.

GET THE BOOK
If you have a NYPL library card—or live in New York state and want to apply for one now—you can borrow Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King for free with our e-reader app SimplyE, available for iOS and Android devices.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Steven Barnes is a New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and educator who has written more than thirty science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels. The NAACP Image Award winner has also written for The Outer Limits, The New Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, and Ben 10: Alien Force. He has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace Awards. Barnes has lectured at UCLA, Mensa, Pasadena JPL, taught at Seattle University, hosted the "Hour 25" radio show on KPFK, and has been Kung Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine. An avid yogi and martial artist with three black belts, Steven is also a pioneer in the human potential movement, creating the groundbreaking "Lifewriting" creativity system, making writers the heroes of their own stories.

Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

This program will be streamed on Zoom and simulcast to YouTube. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. Please check your email shortly before the discussion to receive the link. Captions for this event will be provided.

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Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc.) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Sara Beth Joren at sarabethjoren@nypl.org.

For all other questions and inquiries, please contact publicprograms@nypl.org.

2/18: Over the Moon: Glen Keane in conversation with Robert Kondo

Over the Moon: Glen Keane in conversation with Robert Kondo
Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 4pm (PST)

Tickets: Free (via Zoom) RSVP below

The Cartoon Art Museum and Netflix present animation legend Glen Keane (Oscar®-winning director of Dear Basketball) in conversation with director Robert Kondo (The Dam Keeper, Tonko House) as they discuss Keane's storied animation career and his latest feature film, the Netflix/Pearl Studio production Over The Moon. This discussion will be followed by a brief Q&A session with our live audience.

This presentation is free and open to the public thanks to the generous sponsorship of Netflix. Advance registration is required. Please visit the Cartoon Art Museum's Zoom event page for reservations.

Cavna on editorial cartooning

Newspaper cartooning is dominated by White men. Will a new White House spark change?

Michael Cavna

Feb. 16, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/02/16/political-cartoons-diversity/

Flugennock;s Latest'n'Greatest: "Sweethearts"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Sweethearts"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3147
Mastodon link: https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105730347492271674


I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this. Don't ask me to explain why, but watching the Democrats faceplanting has been a guilty pleasure of mine for some years now.

The Democrats have built a stellar reputation on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and this week's impeachment circus didn't disappoint. Caught Trump dead to rights instigating mob violence and an attempted putsch, and the Senate GOP told the Democrats to pound sand as per usual, leaving the Democrats once again stomping their little feet, blustering and whining like Joe Besser.

Well, I just hope the Dems have finally gotten this shit out of their system. Maybe now that this shitshow is over, they can get to work getting us some decent COVID relief... and maybe some friggin' healthcare...?

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"Trump Found 'Not Guilty' At Impeachment Trial", Al Jazeera 02.13.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/13/senate-readies-to-vote-on-trump-impeachment-live

"Read the Article Of Impeachment", New York Times 01.11.2021
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/11/us/articles-impeachment-trump.html

"Joe Besser" bio at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Besser



Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Covid love at the Post

Love at Six Feet

by Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg

Washington Post February 12 2021, p. C2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/interactive/2021/pandemic-dating/

Otakon, local manga/ anime con, needs help

Otakon Seeks Donations for Future Conventions

Scoop February 5 2021

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=249246

The Post's obit for cartoon free speech defender Larry Flynt

Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78

By Paul W. Valentine

Feb. 10, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

Clay Jones on Larry Flynt and freedom of speech

Larry Flynt

Clay Jones

Claytoonz blog February 11 2021

https://claytoonz.com/2021/02/11/larry-flynt/

The Lily's latest comic strip

Tarot cards are helping me rediscover magic — and myself

Each morning, I do a tarot reading

https://www.thelily.com/tarot-cards-are-helping-me-rediscover-magic-and-myself/

(Katie Wheeler)

Katie Wheeler

Feb. 7, 2021

Fantom Comics launches a podcast

THE FANTOMCAST ARRIVES ON WEDNESDAY 2/17:

We are very proud to announce the upcoming launch of a brand new podcast series - The FantomCast - created by longtime Fantom staffers Leah and Raven. What's it about? Well, it's part book discussion, part pop culture commentary, and all fun. Kinda like book reports, but with FRIENDSHIP! Available everywhere that matters next Wednesday.

Read a full description of FantomCast at: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/Blogs/Detail/581



*SPECIAL OFFER*

To help support the endeavor that is The FantomCast, we are celebrating / raising money by releasing a limited-edition t-shirt featuring the new FantomCast logo.

Designed by Sarahti, and based on the now classic "Ghost Eating Toast" logo originally created by Jade Lee, it's a must-have for your Spring ensemble. Available now in five fetching colors.

Order here: http://bonfire.com/fantomcast

Al Goodwyn's latest cartoon newsletter

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

February 11, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Impeachment II: The Reheated"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Impeachment II: The Reheated"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3137

"We have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the Senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present"
—Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), 02.08.2021

Well, hot damn diggety; nothing fills me with confidence quite like the poetic, sage pronouncements of Mr. Russiagate, himself. Meanwhile, Jamie Raskin is cementing his role as the Tired-Ass Cliché User In-Chief:

"...Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became 
inciter in chief."

This hot mess isn't exactly going to be last night's lasagna, that's for goddamn sure — and those of you who love leftover lasagna like I do know what I'm talking about, and I'm the goddamn Leftover Lasagna Lover In-Chief.


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Mastodon link:
https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105710229253560559

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"Lead house manager Raskin: Trump 'inciter in chief'," Al Jazeera 02.10.2021
"...Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became 
inciter in chief."
—Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/10/arguments-to-begin-in-trump-senate-impeachment-trial-live

"Trump's lawyers blast impeachment trial as 'political theater'," PBS News Hour, 02.08.2021
"We have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the Senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present"
—Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lawyers-blast-impeachment-trial-as-political-theater




Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage

and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Arlington-born Sharon Rudahl on A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

Sharon Rudahl on Ballad of an American – A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

291; Dec 16, 2020

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

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

 

The 291st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 at 7pm ET. Intro: Ben Katchor

Veteran graphic storyteller Sharon Rudahl discusses her checkered career, her hot-off-the-press graphic biography of black athlete performer and activist Paul Robeson, and political action in time of plague. Sharon Rudahl was born in Arlington, Virginia, in 1947. As a teenager, she marched with Martin Luther King. She studied art at the Cooper Union in New York City, living in the East Village in its heyday. Proceeds from her feminist erotic novel Acid Temple Ball paid for her art supplies and rent. After college, she helped start the anti-Vietnam War underground newspaper Take Over. She worked on underground newspapers in San Francisco in the early 1970s and began drawing comics in the first Wimmen's Comix. Her major works include A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, The Adventures of Crystal Night – reprinted in Abrams' Art in Time, Lincoln For Beginners, and large portions of the graphic version of Studs Terkel's Working, Harvey Pekar's Yiddishkeit, and Bohemians with Paul Buhle. She is married to a professional chessplayer and has two adult sons and two lynx point cats. They live in a 110-year old Hollywood bungalow so overgrown by foliage it cannot be seen on Google Earth, threatened on all sides by developers.

The Post's obit for S. Clay Wilson

S. Clay Wilson, who helped launch the underground comix movement, dies at 79

Harrison Smith

Washington Post Feb. 9, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/s-clay-wilson-dead/2021/02/09/8c37e3f0-6af6-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

Jason Chatfield appreciation for Richard Thompson

Artist Spotlight: Richard Thompson

Jason Chatfield

February 9, 2021

https://www.jasonchatfield.com/blog/artist-spotlight-richard-thompson

Latest comics from The Lily

3 terrible (but hilarious) bad dates in comic form

We asked you to send us your awful dating stories. Then we had an illustrator draw them.

https://www.thelily.com/3-terrible-but-hilarious-bad-dates-in-comic-form/

Tess Smith-Roberts

Feb. 6, 2021

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I experienced homelessness as a teen. I'm still processing the trauma.

Homeless people are often treated as if they don't exist. It's dehumanizing.

https://www.thelily.com/i-experienced-homelessness-as-a-teen-im-still-processing-the-trauma/

Sage Coffey

Jan. 31, 2021

Troy-Jeffrey Allen talks My Hero Academia

Interview: Get Ready for 'My Hero Academia Team Up Missions' [Editor Hope Donovan]

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

PREVIEWSworldFeb 04, 2021

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/249249-Interview-Get-Ready-for-My-Hero-Academia-Team-Up-Missions

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Go Fish"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock-

"Go Fish"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3131

Wow, that two grand sure went away in a hurry, didn't it? I know I'm 
sure not feeling too grand right now. But, enough of this gay banter.

In a trademark eleventy-dimensional chess move, the Democrats' 
promised $2000 stimulus checks promptly turned into $1400 shortly 
after the special runoff election in Georgia. Needless to say, your 
"progressive" voters — along with the millions about to lose their 
homes — are not amused.

Meanwhile, up here on Capitol Hill, shit's gettin' real. We'll be back 
down to $600 before we know it.


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"Georgia voters enraged after Democrats promise of '$2,000 checks' 
becomes $1,400", Fox News 01.20.2021
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-democrats-2000-checks-1400

"Biden sparks backlash among some progressives over $1,400 stimulus 
checks in coronavirus relief proposal", Fox News Business, 01.15.2021
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/biden-sparks-backlash-progressives-covid-relief-proposal

"Biden Faces Test Of Unity Call On COVID-19 Relief Bill", Al Jazeera 
02.01.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/1/biden-faces-test-of-unity-call-on-covid-19-relief-bill

"Eviction looms for struggling US renters as stimulus talks drag", Al 
Jazeera 12.07.2020
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/7/millions-in-us-face-eviction-when-moratorium-ends-whats-next



Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage

and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Feb 16: JOHN JENNINGS and DAVID BRAME

JOHN JENNINGS and DAVID BRAME

Tuesday, February 16, 2021,
5:30 pm Central
Crowdcast

Rain Taxi is proud to present a virtual conversation with John Jennings and David Brame, the adaptor and illustrator, respectively, of the debut title from MEGASCOPE, a new line of graphic novels from Abrams ComicArts dedicated to showcasing speculative works by and about people of color. After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning novelist Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road." The presenters will discuss the new book, new imprint, and the importance of increasing access to great speculative writing by people of color. Free to attend, registration required.

Books can be purchased during the event, or in advance here, from Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis; click designated link below.

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About the Authors:

John Jennings is the curator of the Megascope list and has previously created graphic novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Parable of the Sower. Also the co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, Jennings is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Learn more at creativedisturbance.org.

David Brame is a comics creator who has worked on titles such as Box of Bones and Necromancer Bill. An afrofuturist and a scholar, he recently contributed to the book Sanford Biggers: CODESWITCH published by Yale University Press. He lives in Alaska.

Troy-Jeffrey Allen talks to Chris Samnee

Interview: The Samnee Family Take on the Unpossible!

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Jan 28, 2021

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/249104-Interview-The-Samnee-Family-Take-on-the-Unpossible

Feb 16: Julia Kaye in Conversation With Shena Wolf

Julia Kaye in Conversation With Shena Wolf Tuesday, February 16 @ 5pm (PT) Register for the Zoom event   Buy the Book

My Life in Transition (Andrews McMeel) is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection, Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition. My Life in Transition is a story that's not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman — about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need, and finding peace in the fact that life keeps moving forward. After the nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden early transition period has ended and the hormones have done their thing, this book shows how you can be trans and simply exist in society. You can be trans and have a successful future. You can be trans and have a normal life full of ups and downs. In our current political and social climate, this hopeful, accessible narrative about trans lives is both entertaining and vital. Kaye will be joined in conversation with Shena Wolf, director of comics and acquisitions at Andrews McMeel Syndication.