Friday, July 09, 2010
'Despicable Me' reviews
Evil was never so heartwarming, By Ann Hornaday, Washington Post Friday, July 9, 2010
Lunar Toons and Cookie Capers, By A. O. SCOTT, New York Times July 9, 2010
Cul de Sac favored by comics historian Craig Yoe
The whole interview with pictures is at Print's new blog -
Craig Yoe Talks ICON, Krazy Kat, and Whether Today’s Cartoonists Ever Get Laid, by Michael Dooley, Imprint blog July 7 2010.
Superheroes Who Are Super at the Capital Fring Festival beginning tonight
Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man and Wonder Woman #1
Saturday, July 10 @ 10pm
Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man and Wonder Woman #1
Wednesday, July 14 @ 9:45pm
Batman Adventures: Mad Love
Friday, July 16 @ 10:15pm
The Uncanny X-Men #127-128
Sunday, July 18 @ 3:30pm
The Uncanny X-Men #127-128
Location
The Apothecary
1013 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Tickets: $15
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Book reviews up at City Paper
International Ink: War, Werewolves, Steampunk, Kung Fu, and Cap, Posted by Mike Rhode on Jul. 8, 2010. I squeezed five in.
Animator is finalist in Post's Real Art D.C. contest
Real Art D.C. Finalist: Adam Dwight,Washington Post.com Thursday, July 8, 2010.
Takoma Park, Md., artist Adam Dwight makes gouaches featuring figures that might populate gross-out comics, though they're more civilized than that. Think Mr. Smithers from "The Simpsons" as drawn by Dr. Seuss.
Finalist No. 4: Adam Griffiths a.k.a. Adam Dwight,Washington Post.com Thursday, July 8, 2010.
Bio: Adam Griffiths a.k.a. Adam Dwight,Thursday, July 8, 2010.
Dave Mitchell of American's Next Great Cartoonist Contest
By Hannah Coffman
Central Florida Future July 7, 2010
Truitt on Matt Fraction's Casanova
July 10: Matt Dembicki at Hooray for Kids bookstore
Hooray for Kids
An Independent Children's Bookstore
1555 King St. Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Ph. 703-548-4092 Fax 703-548-4094
Hours M-Sat. 10-6 Sun 11-4
Horn-tooting, posted in the dead of night
I would kill for more specific scene reporting like we get out of a couple of the Portland blogs, from the New York folks and from Mike Rhode in the Greater DC area.
As I've said before, Tom's Comic Reporter is a site I read every day, so I was tickled to see this.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
A little bit of Peanuts history
This ad for "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" is from the July 8th, 1969 Chicago Tribune - or 8 days before Apollo 11 took off and 12 days before it landed on the moon - thus explaining World War 1 ace Snoopy's spacesuit helmet.
Cavna on Nate Pierce and Jeff Kinney
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 7, 2010; C10
Weldon on Blacksad from France
PR: Wash Post Cartoonist Contest: Vote for the Winner Now
Washington Post's America's Next Great Cartoonist Contest is announcing the second round of its competition!
Our panelists picked 10 finalists and then thousands of readers voted to determine which five cartoonists would take on a second cartoon challenge: to create a color Sunday-style comic strip and a character sheet.
See the five finalists' second challenge materials, read our celebrity judges' critiques including one from Stan Lee, and vote for your favorite.
Evaluate 5 finalists here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/greatcartoonist
Vote here: http://postfun.washingtonpost.com/post/entry/americas-next-great-cartoonist-vote-ii
Be sure to come back July 15 to see the contest winner!
MJ's editorial cartoons get a Washington subscriber
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Brooke A. Allen at Big Planet Comics Vienna
She made a nice drawing in each book - the people in front of me got the bad magician.
My daughter got Mr. Easter.
And I got a self-portrait.
There was a darn big crowd for both Ms. Allen and the 4th of July sale.
She kept cranking through the drawings for people and I think the store expected to sell out of the book.
BP had these nice posters on sale for $3. I got mine.
DC Conspiracy exhibit at DC's Martin Luther King Library
Just wanted to let you know about an event I'm putting together with the DC Conspiracy, called Comic Book Boom, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
Basically, it's meant to show off some of the comic art that the DCC does in the city, and to put a spotlight on comics more generally. It will consist of an exhibit of comic book art, a comic book reading area, and a couple of how-to workshops for making comics.
There will be more than 20 framed pieces of comic book art that people in the DCC have drawn; spinning racks and shelves filled with books put out by the group and DCC members; and workshops on July 31 and August 21, led by Conspirators.
The facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=133445306667199&ref=mf
And the details of the show...
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street, NW
2nd Floor, West lobby
July 12 - August 27
Dragonball: Origins 2 videogame review in today's Examiner
Chat with Evan Keeling up at City Paper
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Evan KeelingPosted by Mike Rhode on Jul. 6, 2010
Evan Keeling is one of the Trickster anthology artists, a founding member of the DC Conspiracy comics co-op, and the person who puts together genre anthologies by the group. The next anthology, the fourth, will focus on romance. He also works for the Smithsonian, a quintessentially cool Washington job.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Graphic Content panel in pictures
"Graphic Content: A Conversation with Five DC Area Graphic Storytellers."
Shannon "G.I. Joe" Gallant, Matt "Politico" Wuerker, Andrew "Trickster" Cohen, Evan "DC Conspiracy" Keeling and Ben "Dirtfarm" Classen at Northwest One Neighborhood Library, June 26, 2010, Washington DC.
Andrew Cohen, Evan Keeling and then Matt Wuerker in far background. The pages Andrew is showing come from the graphic novel he and Matt Dembicki are doing on DC's Huerich mansion, and look lovely.
Matt Wuerker. Nobody asked him about the hat.
Ben Claassen and Shannon Gallant.
Shannon Gallant signing a 'Black Canary' sketch he gave to me.
Evan Keeling, Ben Claassen and Shannon Gallant comparing pencils.
Andrew Cohen, Evan Keeling and Ben Claassen.