Monday, December 05, 2022

Al Goodwyn's latest cartoon newsletter

December 5, 2022

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Jonathan Thompson interviewed by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

'Night of the Comet' Interview: A Bloody, Metaphysical War Between Samurai and Yakuza

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Nov 28, 2022

https://previewsworld.com/Article/265476-Night-of-the-Comet-Interview-A-Bloody-Metaphysical-War-Between-Samurai-and-Yakuza

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Remember Richard, from 2016


Ciao, Richard (2016)
By Diego Ceresa of Turin, Italy
Cul de Sac blog
December 5, 2022
https://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2022/12/ciao-richard-2016.html
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Dec 15: Brian Basset Book Signing at Scrawl Books

Brian Basset Book Signing - Red And Rover

Drop by Scrawl Books on Thursday, December 15 between noon and 3PM for an impromptu surprise: A signing with award-winning cartoonist Brian Basset! Brian is in town for a limited time (we hear he has plans with NASA!), and will be signing copies of his newest collection of comics, Red and Rover: Fun's Never Over. The perfect gift, whether the recipient is eight or one hundred and eight! Order your copy below.

Event date: 
Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Event address: 
11911 Freedom Drive
Reston, VA 20190
Red and Rover: Fun's Never Over By Brian Basset Cover Image

Red and Rover: Fun's Never Over (Paperback)

By Brian Basset
$11.99
ISBN: 9781524874711
Availability: Available to Order. Usually arrives in 1-3 weeks.
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - June 7th, 2022

Store Hours:

Monday- Saturday 10am-8pm
Sunday 12-6 pm
Curbside Pickup Hours Daily 12-6

Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Open Christmas Eve 10am-4pm.

703-966-2111

Free Delivery in Reston, Herndon, Great Falls, Sterling & western Vienna

Reston Town Center
11911 Freedom Dr.
Reston, VA 20190

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Sunday, December 04, 2022

Werewolves vs Vampires by Daniel Boris [updated]



Herschel Walker recently said, "I don't know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not? Let me tell you something that I found out: A werewolf can kill a vampire."

Sometimes these cartoons write themselves...


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Daily Cartoonist on Bob Staake

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Saturday, December 03, 2022

Today: Jason Aaron at 3rd Eye Annapolis



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NPR on Wednesday (of the Addams family), Disenchanted, and Strange World

Is 'Wednesday' creepy, kooky, mysterious or ooky enough?

and Ella Cerón

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 28, 2022



Does 'Disenchanted' find the fairy tale magic?

and

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 30, 2022 


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Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/2/22


 

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who transformed comics first as a muse and then as a feminist artist, dies at 74

By Ron Kampeas December 1, 2022

https://www.jta.org/2022/12/01/obituaries/aline-kominsky-crumb-who-transformed-comics-first-as-a-muse-and-then-as-a-feminist-artist-dies-at-74

 

Aline Kominsky-Crumb – RIP

by D. D. Degg

December 1, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/12/01/aline-kominsky-crumb-rip/

 

Pioneering Underground Cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb Dies At 74

Rob Salkowitz

Nov 30, 2022

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/11/30/rip-pioneering-underground-cartoonist-aline-kominsky-crumb/

 

Lived a Bunch, Loved a Bunch: Remembering Aline Kominsky-Crumb

by Chloe Maveal

December 1, 2022

https://www.thegutterreview.com/lived-a-bunch-loved-a-bunch-remembering-aline-kominsky-crumb/

 

HUNTER GORINSON TO TAKE THE REINS AT ONI-LION FORGE

As President and Publisher

by Brigid Alverson on December 1, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52773/hunter-gorinson-take-reins-oni-lion-forge

 

George Perez's Shirts Up For Sale, To Help His Widow, Carol Flynn

December 1, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/george-perezs-shirts-up-for-sale-to-help-his-widow-carol-flynn/

 

A Life Remembered: Basset's political cartoons published in numerous newspapers

    By Edie Schmierbach

    Mankato Free Press Dec 1, 2022

    https://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_news/a-life-remembered-bassets-political-cartoons-published-in-numerous-newspapers/article_5fe9e004-6f32-11ed-ae44-e74867112b9a.html

 

SCRB Collection 015. Basset, Gene. Editorial Cartoons by Gene Basset, 1964-2005: Overview

Gustavus Adolphus College

Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library

https://libguides.gustavus.edu/SCRB015

https://gustavus.edu/library/archives/concertFiles/media/scrb/SCRB015.pdf

 

Dick Tracy Comic Character Tom De Haven Profiled

 D. D. Degg

December 2, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/12/02/dick-tracy-comic-character-tom-de-haven-profiled/

 

Author, retired VCU English professor featured in 'Dick Tracy' comic this Sunday

Tom De Haven, who wrote a series of novels centered around comics and cartoonists and taught creative writing in the Department of English at VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences, appeared as himself on Sunday in the comic he grew up admiring.

By Mary Kate Brogan

VCU News Dec. 1, 2022

https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/12/author-retired-vcu-english-professor-featured-in-dick-tracy-comic-this-sunday

 

Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | December 2, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/here-i-dreamt-i-was-an-architect-this-weeks-links/

 

Book Review: Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

reviewed by John A. Lent

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG  December 2, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-review-graphic-novels-and-comics.html

 

James Hodapp, ed. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature. New York:  Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 285 pp. US $130.00. ISBN:  978-1-5013-7341-1. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/graphic-novels-and-comics-as-world-literature-9781501373428/

 

Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog December 02, 2022

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/12/wash-post-presumably-fires-bob-staake.html

 

Bob Staake

[After 29 years of illustrating the Style Invitational, The Washington Post has killed the weekly humor/wordplay contest.]

December 1 2022

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid022gamYAj7dZxwJAEFtdGAZsSqZYA6t9rrtzvwbYHWLaHQvYZJcgsf3NKsSyP5DSFyl&id=100030913586756

 

Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope named Cartoonist of the Year Museum of Australian Democracy a second time for his razor-sharp commentary

By Sally Pryor

Updated December 1 2022 - 1:13am, first published November 30 2022 -

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8003543/david-pope-defines-democracy-as-cartoonist-of-the-year/

 

Daniel Clowes Conversation

Noah Van Sciver

Nov 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXf0c7byuY

 

Rick Louis & Lara Antal with Charlotte Greenbaum (November 16, 2022)[ Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars.]

GreenlightBookstore

Nov 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwPYnmv6Z8

 

Andrew S. Weiss — Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin - with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch

Politics and Prose Nov 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CEOpWeipv4

 

DAVE BAKER & NICOLE GOUX for FOREST HILLS BOOTLEG SOCIETY - Nov 2022 Graphic Novel Club Selection

Comix Experience Nov 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0GTgS1Mvs4

 

ISAAC LENKIEWICZ for ALCATOE AND THE TURNIP CHILD — November 2022 Kids' Club Selection

Comix Experience Nov 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4FWAMvRgUk

 

In Memoriam: Vic Carrabotta

Scoop December 2 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=265428

 

Geoff Johns, Mikel Janín explore past and present in new 'Justice Society of America'

The return of the Golden Age of DC continues with the first JSA book in ten-plus years.

Chris Coplan

November 29, 2022

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/11/29/justice-society-of-america-return-qa/

 

Paul Cornell Debriefs Us On "The Completed Saucer Country"

By Kyle Welch | November 23rd, 2022

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/saucer-country-interview/

 

Spacesuited Snoopy doll floats in zero-g on moon-bound Artemis 1 mission

By Robert Z. Pearlman

November 16 2022

https://www.space.com/snoopy-nasa-artemis-1-zero-g-indicator

 

Out With The Bang: Jason and The Art Of Silence

John McNamee

November 28, 2022

https://solrad.co/out-with-the-bang-jason-and-the-art-of-silence

 

Avery Hill Dreams Big for Graphic Novels

By Brigid Alverson 

Nov 23, 2022

A version of this article appeared in the 11/28/2022 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: At 10, Avery Hill Dreams Big

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91006-avery-hill-dreams-big-for-graphic-novels.html

 

Interview avec David Sala Prix Landerneau BD 2022 pour Le Poids des Héros

2 décembre 2022

https://www.ligneclaire.info/david-sala-2022-270985.html

 

Attack on Titan Creator Hajime Isayama at Anime NYC

by Lynzee Loveridge, Nov 30th 2022

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2022-11-30/attack-on-titan-creator-hajime-isayama-at-anime-nyc/.192086

 

Manga Industry Survey: Over 20% of Artists Fear Bankruptcy Due to Japan's New Invoice System

2022-11-25 11:45 EST by Kim Morrissy

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-11-25/manga-industry-survey-over-20-percent-of-artists-fear-bankruptcy-due-to-japan-new-invoice-system/.192250

 

Withstanding the Heat: Denis Kitchen On Comics, Curiosity, and Censorship

by Chloe Maveal

November 22, 2022 

https://www.thegutterreview.com/withstanding-the-heat-talking-censorship-and-comics-with-denis-kitchen/

 

Caretaker Blues and the Critic vs the Artist [Andrea Natalie, Wimmen's Comix, graphic medicine]

Edward Dorey

Synapsis November 18 2022

https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2022/11/18/caretaker-blues-and-the-critic-vs-the-artist/

 

Heartstopper author Alice Oseman: 'If you don't have sex and romance, you feel like you haven't achieved'

Lucy Knight

19 Nov 2022 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/19/alice-oseman-author-heartstopper-sex-romance-asexuality

 

Heartstopper review – possibly the loveliest show on TV

Rebecca Nicholson

22 Apr 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/22/heartstopper-review-alice-oseman-netflix-tv-drama

 

No drugs, booze, sex or swearing: will Heartstopper rewrite the young love rulebook?

Rachel Aroesti

18 Mar 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/18/no-drugs-booze-sex-or-swearing-will-heartstopper-rewrite-the-young-love-rulebook

 

Dr. IndigiNerd on Creating the World's Only Native Comic Book Shop

by Tai Gooden

Nov 28 2022

https://nerdist.com/article/red-planet-books-and-comics-shop-owner-dr-indiginerd-interview-native-indigenous-books/

 

Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning

Małgorzata Olsza 

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture No. 12 (2022): The Ecological Future /

http://www.czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/15305

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.03

 

Multi-Histories: Creative and Narrative Plurality in Graphic Novels Exploring Indigenous Histories

Pfunzo Sidogi

Junctures No. 22 (2022): multi-

Published: Nov 13, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34074/junc.22069

https://junctures.org/index.php/junctures/article/view/431

 

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' Review: Oh, Brother

By Calum Marsh

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 2, 2022, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/movies/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-rodrick-rules-review.html

 

Tributes pour in for legendary Andy Capp cartoonist Roger Mahoney who died aged 89

Sean Garnett

29 Nov 2022

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tributes-pour-legendary-andy-capp-28614075

 

Is 'Wednesday' creepy, kooky, mysterious or ooky enough? [Addams Family]

Glen Weldon and Ella Cerón

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 28, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1135768062/is-wednesday-creepy-kooky-mysterious-or-ooky-enough

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/11/20221128_pchh_827a0c44-36a5-4b7e-af95-690b9b8d9497.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1135768062

 

Does 'Disenchanted' find the fairy tale magic?

Linda Holmes and Cyrena Touros

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 30, 2022 

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139668805/does-disenchanted-find-the-fairy-tale-magic

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/11/20221130_pchh_07ee3ffb-aedb-477d-ac7e-0b43b7c57cb1.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1139668805

 

'Strange World' journeys to the center of an animated earth

Stephen Thompson and Ronald Young Jr.

Pop Culture Happy Hour December 1, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1136107713/strange-world-journeys-to-the-center-of-an-animated-earth

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/12/20221201_pchh_cf63229a-1fe1-419d-871f-c34023d12dec.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1136107713

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Friday, December 02, 2022

Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest

or, more accurately, “Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.”
 
by Mike Rhode (updated 12/3 with comments from Bob) 
 
Bob Staake has been illustrating the Style Invitational contest for well over a decade... actually it's been for three of them. Buried in this story about firing the Post's dance critic (another loss as the paper tries to shrink to greatness, AGAIN) is this nugget, "The paper has also eliminated its weekly Style Invitational humor contest, which involved ending the contract of former longtime Post editor and current contributor Pat Myers." Meyers wrote a column herself as well. And Bob wrote in correcting my headline (which is fair - I wrote it to get attention to the grievous loss of yet more cartooning), noting, "I wasn’t “fired,” the Post simply cancelled a humor column that I illustrated. They didn’t cancel ME. It seems to me the more apropos headline would be 'Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.' No matter how you look at it that’s a Hell of a run and all good things must come to an end." Bob is completely accurate, and we regret the misleading headline, but as they say in the news biz, "if it bleeds, it leads."
One of Staake's last illos

Staake has created an illustration for the contest which has run in color in the Style section (NOT the magazine which they also killed this week) since 1992 (or 1994) and has conservatively probably done 1500 cartoons for it over the thirty years. When he wrote to us here in 2009, he also noted that he'd been working for the Post for 25 years at that time, which puts him starting doing work for them in 1984.  You can find ComicsDC's coverage of him here and it goes across multiple pages. At one point when I mentioned him, out of the blue, he sent me a drawing of WWMRD (what would Mike Rhode do?) which hangs over my dining room table. When he was in town for the National Book Festival, after doing the poster for them, I interviewed him for "Illustrator Bob Staake on Dark Humor, New Yorker Covers, and Analog Art in a Digital World," Aug. 28, 2014, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2014/08/28/illustrator-bob-staake-on-dark-humor-new-yorker-covers-and-analog-art-in-a-digital-world/ and it was reprinted in the International Journal of Comic Art.

Empress Meyers writes of him, "To Bob Staake, Gene's and then my visual partner since 1994 — way longer than either of us. Over the decades while Bob gained wide renown as a New Yorker cover artist and bestselling children's book author and illustrator, Bob continued to send a cartoon to the Invite, as "really the only steady job I've ever had." Bob and I have met in person only once — he lives on Cape Cod — but every week we're the Invite version of the Kramdens, bickering and threatening to send each other to the moon, but aww we make up."

The end of this contest is probably the last vestige of all the Miami Herald staff and innovations that actually made the Post a must-read for many years beginning in the 1980s as the Watergate sheen was beginning to wear off. I've never entered the Invitational, but I know many people who have, and am sure the complaints about this have started. Personally, I'll miss seeing Staake's cartoon.

I used to compile a list of cartoonists appearing in local publications back when it was worth doing. Here's one from 2007, of which barely any of the publications still exist, and only Matt Wuerker at Politico is really soldiering on.

Cartoonists in Washington, DC area newspapers as of late May 2007

Washington Post
-Tom Toles - editorial cartoonist (semi-daily)
-Richard Thompson - Richard's Poor Almanac (Saturdays); Cul de Sac strip (Sunday's Magazine), illustrations for Joel Achenbach's Rough Draft column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Rob Shepperson, Tim Grajek - illustrations for Sunday's Business section
-Nick Galifianakis - cartoons for ex-wife Carolyn Hax's Tell Me About It advice column.
-Bob Staake - cartoons for Style Invitational contest (Sunday)
-Patrick M. Reynolds - Flashback comic strip; unique Washington version (Sunday comics)
-Eric Shansby - illustrations for Gene Weingarten's Below the Beltway column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Christopher Gash; Christopher Neimen - spot illos especially on Sunday
-Michael Cavna - editorial cartoons in Arts section, extremely irregularly
-Julie Zhu - Montgomery Blair High School student cartoonist for Extra Credit column in local Extra sections
-Saturday box of syndicated editorial cartoons
-Turkish cartoonist Selcuk Demirel illustrations in Book World, semi-regularly

Of the Post people, 15 years later Richard's dead, we gained Ann Telnaes as an online animated political cartoonist, Toles was replaced by Michael de Adder (on contract from Canada, and they're running his piece too small and in b&w on the opinion page), the Saturday box of 4 political cartoonists is still there, Nick Galifianakis continues to illustrate Carolyn Hax's column albeit from an undisclosed location that's not Northern VA, Reynold's retired his Flashbacks strip this fall, and Cavna and Dave Betancourt cover comics stories but far less than they did when their Comic Riffs blog existed. And the Post has 2 pages of comics daily, down from 3, and printed microscopically, and 1 section of Sunday comics, instead of 2. Awww, get the hell off my lawn already. 
 
Updated: Friend of ComicsDC, cartoonist Clay Jones pointed out that Staake had posted about this on his FB page.
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Sedition Conviction by Daniel Boris

 


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Andrew S. Weiss — Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin - with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch

Andrew S. Weiss — Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin - with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch

Nov 21, 2022
In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House Russia expert, and Brian "Box" Brown show how Putin has successfully cast himself as a cunning, larger-than-life political mastermind--and how the rest of the world has played into the Kremlin's hands by treating him as one. They shatter all of these myths and expose the man behind the façade.


Andrew S. Weiss served in various policy roles at the National Security Council, the State Department and Pentagon during both Democratic and Republican administrations. He is currently the James Family Chair and Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he oversees research on Russia, Ukraine, and the wider region. Weiss is in conversation with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch. Amb. Yovanovitch served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011), and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008) during the course of her 34 year career in the Foreign Service. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83...
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Seditious Grinch by Daniel Boris

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