The Post on Red Guardian, Black Widow, streaming anime, and Superman's Richard Donner

The Red Guardian was a 'Black Widow' role David Harbour couldn't turn down

David Betancourt

Washington Post July 9, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/07/09/david-harbour-black-widow-red-guardian/

Marvel's Black Widow gets the spotlight she deserves, only to have it stolen from her by her co-star [An Avenger usurped by co-star, action]

Ann Hornaday

Washington Post July 9 2021, Weekend p. 15, 18

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/black-widow-movie-review/2021/06/29/149eb7a6-d81f-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html

Comic books have taken over the movies. Must they take our indie auteurs, too? [in print as Auteurs' Sundance-to-spandex pipeline]

Ann Hornaday

Movie critic

Washington Post July 9 2021, p. C1-2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/black-widow-auteur-director/2021/07/07/aff5a978-de67-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html

10 noteworthy anime series to stream, whether you're a longtime fan or first-time viewer [in print as Say 'hai' to these anime series]

Bethonie Butler

Washington Post July 9, 2021 C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/07/08/anime-streaming-2021/

Richard Donner, adaptable director of 'Superman' and 'Lethal Weapon,' dies at 91 [in print as Director's blockbusters include 'Superman' and 'Goonies']

Harrison Smith

Washington Post July 8, 2021, p. B6

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/richard-donner-dead/2021/07/06/c4912050-de63-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html

July 18: *COMIC CON**FREDERICK MD

COMIC BOOK SHOWS - SPORTS CARD SHOW

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Artists Alley: Angela McKendrick;
Jay Taylor; William Auch; Ori Avissar;
Lewis Greene; Christopher Lewis;
Joshua Sigler; Laura Inglis;
Writer John L. French in Ballroom

June 14: Comics Take on Hitler and the Nazis at Holocaust Memorial Museum virtual event

Comics Take on Hitler and the Nazis

Virtual Event

	Time: July 14, 2021, 9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. EDT https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/vefbcomics0714

Location: Virtual Event

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• A boy from Germany reads a comic book at a school for refugee children in New York, 1942. Library of Congress, Marjory Collins

ZAP! POW! BAM! These words jump off the page as Captain America and Superman attack the comic book version of Adolf Hitler, who in reality was anything but an imaginary evil.

Superheroes have always fought dangerous villains. Their battle against Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s taught children about World War II and the Nazis. But it took years before the Holocaust and Jewish victims were clearly illustrated and identified in popular comics and graphic novels. Join us to learn how artists like Joe Kubert and Art Spiegelman led the industry to shed light on one of the darkest chapters in history.

Guests
Dr. Samantha Baskind, Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University
Eli Rosenbaum, Director, Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy, US Department of Justice

Commentary
Adam Kubert, Comic Book Artist and Educator and son of Joe Kubert

Host
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Watch live at facebook.com/holocaustmuseum. You do not need a Facebook account to view our program. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum's Facebook and YouTube pages.

That darn Frank Cho

Frank Cho Fight Girls Cover Withdrawn Due To Frank Frazetta Estate

July 7, 2021

by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/frank-cho-fight-girls-cover-withdrawn-due-to-frank-frazetta-estate/

July 11 Comic Logic Lot Con

July 11

Comic Logic Lot Con

SUNDAY AT 12 PM EDT – 3 PM EDT

https://www.facebook.com/events/506628894124277/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D]%7D

Comic Logic Books & Artwork

Details

Event by Comic Logic Books & Artwork

Comic Logic Books & Artwork

Price: Free · Duration: 3 hr

 

Hey friends!

Things are opening back up, but we know many of us are missing conventions, so the Comic Logic crew has decided to put on a small outdoor event!

We will have local artists, authors, and comic vendors as well as a shaved ice truck.

This is a free, family, and pet-friendly event!

There will be a BIG announcement at the start of the event!

Masks will not be required for vaccinated guests.

Wash Times whines about Captain America recognizing reality

Marvel celebrates July 4 weekend by having Captain America say American dream 'isn't real'

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times - Friday, July 2, 2021

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/2/marvel-celebrates-july-4-weekend-by-having-captain/

Captain America and the American Dream in Doubt? Or More Propaganda?

 July 4, 2021

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/captain-america-american-dream-doubt-propaganda-marvel/

Goodwyn Cartoons 7/7/21

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

July 7, 2021

The Post on Jupiter Invincible

The newest comic book superhero: An enslaved man turned immortal  [Jupiter Invincible; in print as Enslaved, immortal Marylander is the newest comic book hero]

Theresa Vargas

Washington Post July 4, 2021 : C1, 7

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/enslaved-superhero-jupiter-invincible-komunyakaa/2021/07/02/460dc91c-db8f-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Kane & Able

Interview: Jack Kirby Meets UFOs in the Creeptastic 'Kane & Able'

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

PREVIEWSworld  Jun 29, 2021

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/252835-Interview-Jack-Kirby-Meets-UFOs-in-the-Creeptastic-Kane--Able

Michael O’Connell talks Library of American Comics

Bruce Canwell: A Conversation With a Comics Historian

BY Michael O'Connell Jul 06, 2021

http://www.tcj.com/bruce-canwell-a-conversation-with-a-comics-historian/

July 6: Justin A. Reynolds & Pablo Leon discuss Miles Morales: Shock Waves

Tuesday, July 6 at 4 p.m.

Justin A. Reynolds & Pablo Leon Miles Morales: Shock Waves / Ages 8+

Register

That darn Pulitzer and Frank & Ernest

Indifferent art unworthy of award [Pulitzer prize editorial cartoon letter]

Carl Thomason

Washington Post July 3 2021: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/02/readers-critique-post-examples-highly-effective-ineffective-art/

Shame we can't do the same thing with headlines [letter; "Frank and Ernest."]

Frank A. Aukofer

Washington Post July 3 2021: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/02/readers-critique-post-examples-highly-effective-ineffective-art/

The Post on Black Widow

The 7 Marvel movies you should see before 'Black Widow' [in print as Tracing the cinematic rise of Black Widow]

Watch her key moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from 'Iron Man 2' to 'Avengers: Endgame'

David Betancourt

Reporter

Washington Post July 4, 2021 p. E10-12

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/07/02/marvel-to-watch-before-black-widow/

Black Widow finally gets her own movie, one that poses the question: Who is she, really? [in print as Marvel hero gets her own film at last]

Michael Cavna

Washington Post July 4, 2021 p. E11-12

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/07/01/who-is-black-widow/

Marvel's Black Widow gets the spotlight she deserves, only to have it stolen from her by her co-star

Ann Hornaday

Movie critic

June 29, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/black-widow-movie-review/2021/06/29/149eb7a6-d81f-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html

The Post on Loki, Boss Baby, and America

Disney trademarked Loki, the Marvel movie character. Some fans of the Norse god were not happy.

By Heather Greene / Religion News Service

July 2, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/disney-loki-redbubble-trademark/2021/07/02/d59908ec-d9c0-11eb-8fb8-aea56b785b00_story.html

 

'Boss Baby' sequel offers decent return on investment, with savvy casting and pointed social satire [in print as A case of sequel-itis is helped by savvy casting and social satire]

Thomas Floyd

Washington Post July 2, 2021 , p. Weekend 20

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-boss-baby-family-business-movie-review/2021/06/30/d28c6758-d523-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html

 

A beefy George Washington avenges Lincoln's death in this cheekily inaccurate and dumb animated comedy ["America: The Motion Picture"; in print as Star-studded comedy is sometimes clever but mostly just lazy]

Inkoo Kang

Washington Post July 2, 2021 p. Weekend 19

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/america-the-motion-picture-review/2021/06/28/394f6d36-d520-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html

NPR's PCHH returns to Loki

'Loki' Is A Low-Key Character Study

GLEN WELDON, Christina Tucker, Margaret H. Willison

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour  Jun 29, 2021

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1009187736

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1009187736:1011037710

Sal Buscema is still drawing comics

Legendary artist Sal Buscema on his new Heroes Union project & six decades in the comics biz

Mike Avila

Jun 25, 2021 

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/sal-buscema-heroes-union-hulk

NPR reviews Cardboard Kingdom

'Cardboard Kingdom' Is About So Much More Than Just Cardboard

Juanita Giles

Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita June 28, 2021

 https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010436493/cardboard-kingdom-is-about-so-much-more-than-just-cardboard

Howtoons creator is now a climate engineer

An Australian inventor
wants to stop global warming
by electrifying everything [Saul Griffith; Howtoons; in print as Inventor has electrifying idea to solve warming]

Story by

Rachel Pannett

Washington Post June 29, 2021, p. E1, 5

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2021/saul-griffith-mass-electrification/

Library of Congress's comics collection late to Pride month, makes it on last day

Let's Talk Comics: LGBTQIA+ Titles

Library of Congress' Headlines & Heroes blog June 30, 2021 by Amber Paranick

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/06/lets-talk-comics-lgbtqia-titles/

Detail from interior, Love is Love (2016). Art by Rafael Alburquerque.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Low-Priority File"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Low-Priority File"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3245

...and apparently, for the Washington Post and the Democratic Party, holding their President to account for unfulfilled campaign promises is lodged in a low-priority file somewhere between "Can't Be Bothered" and "Tough Shit".



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

ALIEN (Marvel) – Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Jason Mojica (Host, Buy This Comic!)

March 24, 2021 by buythiscomic

https://www.buythiscomic.net/2021/03/24/alien-marvel-phillip-kennedy-johnson/

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In comics, no one can hear you scream. We talk to Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer of Marvel's new Alien series. It's compelling, it's canonical, and it's on the shelves of your local comics shop, right now!

Caption Contest commentator Lawrence Wood's Corcoran career

"Museum Tour" Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

April 27, 2021 by Lawrence Wood

https://blog.cartoonstock.com/museum-tour-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/

Years ago, I worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. In the summer of '89 I returned to D.C....

Lawrence Wood has won The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest a record-setting seven times and been a finalist four other times. He has collaborated with New Yorker cartoonists Peter Kuper, Lila Ash, Felipe Galindo Gomez, and Harry Bliss (until Bliss tossed him aside, as anyone would, to collaborate with Steve Martin). Nine of his collaborations have appeared in The New Yorker, and one is included in The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons.

The Lily catch-up

I'd always been baffled by people who wanted kids. Then my friend got pregnant.

Hearing her stories and seeing her baby has changed my thinking

https://www.thelily.com/id-always-been-baffled-by-people-who-wanted-kids-then-my-friend-got-pregnant/

Athena Naylor

May 30, 2021

Reentry is triggering my social anxiety. Here are my tips for coping.

Luckily, some of my pre-pandemic methods have come in handy

https://www.thelily.com/reentry-is-triggering-my-social-anxiety-here-are-my-tips-for-coping/

Christine Suggs

June 6, 2021

I used to feel like I was losing money if I wasn't working. Financial planning helped me find balance.

Money anxiety used to paralyze me with guilt and worry

https://www.thelily.com/i-used-to-feel-like-i-was-losing-money-if-i-wasnt-working-financial-planning-helped-me-find-balance/

Pepita Sándwich

June 13, 2021

A lot of my friends moved away during the pandemic. Here's why I'm staying put.

It feels complacent after a year of stagnancy, but I know it's the right choice for me

https://www.thelily.com/a-lot-of-my-friends-moved-away-during-the-pandemic-heres-why-im-staying-put/

Dabin Han

June 20, 2021

NPR on superhero cartoon sex and Tuca & Bertie

A Censored Sex Scene In 'Harley Quinn' Sparks Debate On Depictions Of Female Pleasure

AILSA CHANG and Glen Weldon

NPR's All Things Considered June 22, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1008857092/dc-blocked-a-scene-in-harley-quinn-setting-off-a-debate-about-sexism-in-comics

'Tuca & Bertie' Is Beak TV Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, Inkoo Kang

Pop Culture Happy Hour June 21, 2021

 https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006816792/tuca-bertie-is-beak-tv

Mark Wheatley's Frankenstein Mobster Kickstarter wrapping up soon

Tomorrow at 8pm ET, Mark Wheatley and Mark Redfield are going to start a live-stream video on Mark Wheatley's Facebook Page   And while the stream is running. Mark Wheatley is going to be drawing one Frankenstein Mobster after another. Why? 

Because EVERYONE who is backing this project at a physical reward level will be getting a free, original art sketch of FRANKENSTEIN MOBSTER!

You will be in the studio with Mark Wheatley, looking over his shoulder as he works at his drawing board. 

Meanwhile, please keep sharing the campaign link.  

https://bit.ly/FMdrama

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "For All Pigkind"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

Y'know, it says it right there in my social media profiles, so it's time for a little space geekery:


"For All Pigkind"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3241

In the space of about two weeks, I'm hit with the news that 
trillionaire serial worker abuser Jeff Bezos has found someone willing 
to throw down $28 mil for a suborbital joyride with him — and that 
Elon Musk will refuse to recognize Earth laws in his gated suburbs on 
Mars. Doubtless Musk will have some Space Force grunts on-call to keep 
a lid on things out there.

I'm especially bugged that Bezos has chosen July 20 as his launch 
date; I'm sure he thinks he's making some deep statement or something, 
but instead I'm just insulted somehow. Christ, 28 million dollars to 
go suborbital with Jeff Friggin' Bezos. Bah, I'd rather be a stowaway 
on Apollo 13.

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"Elon Musk's firm says they will not recognize Earth laws in planned 
Mars colony" Stacy Liberatore at London Daily Mail, 10.30.2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8897601/Elon-Musks-SpaceX-says-not-recognize-Earth-laws-planned-Mars-colony.html

"Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28 
million", Joey Roulette at The Verge, 06.12.2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/12/22530907/blue-origin-auction-new-shepard-jeff-bezos-space-28-million

"The Battle For Mars: How Elon Musk, Blue Origin and the US Could Set 
Up The First Extraterrestrial Government" Adam Smith at The London 
Independent, 06.19.2021
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-mars-spacex-nasa-b1777746.html


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