Baltimore's Otakon Draws 28,000 Anime, Manga Fans
By Erin Finnegan
Aug 03, 2010
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
PR: Small Press Expo Announces Kate Beaton and Dean Haspiel as guests for SPX 2010
Small Press Expo Announces Kate Beaton and Dean Haspiel as guests for SPX 2010.
Bethesda, Maryland; August 3, 2010 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons is pleased to announce Kate Beaton and Dean Haspiel as guests for SPX 2010, which will be held September 11 and September 12 at the Marriott North Bethesda Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland, across from the White Flint Metro stop.
Kate Beaton is the winner of the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. She recently had her first cartoon published in The New Yorker, and drew a poster for Janus Films. She will be part of the next issue of Marvel Strange Tales, due out in October. Her History Comics takes an irreverent and comical view of history and historical figures, this leading to coverage in Wired Magazine, Bitch and Macleans. Kate is responsible for a number of the banners on the SPX site, for which SPX has received rave reviews. Kate's work can be viewed at her web site http://harkavagrant.com/.
Dean Haspiel is the one of the founders of the renowned web comic cooperative ACT-I-VATE , as well as a having collaborated with the late, great, Harvey Pekar on The Quitter and American Splendor. He has worked for such outlets as New York Times, Marvel, DC/Vertigo as well as Dark Horse, where he illustrated Michael Chabon's The Escapist. He was recently nominated for an Emmy for his title design for the HBO series, Bored To Death, for which he also drew a seven page comic called The Birth of Super Ray, available on the Bored to Death web site. See Dean's work on the ACT-I-VATE web site at
SPX culminates with the presentation of the Ignatz Awards for outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning on Saturday night, September 11 at 9PM. Attendees at SPX get in free to the Ignatz Awards. The Ignatz is the first Festival Prize in the US comic book industry, with winners chosen by balloting by attendees during SPX.
For detailed information about guests, panels and the Ignatz Awards, visit the SPX web site at www.spxpo.com.
SPX is a registered 501(c)3 which brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators.
As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org/.
The hours for SPX 2010 are 11AM-7PM Saturday, September 11, and noon-6PM Sunday, September 12. Admission is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Aug 7: Ryan Claytor in town this weekend
Autobio minicomics creator Ryan Claytor is in town this weekend for his US tour at Union Station -
Ryan Claytor In-Store Signing
August 7th, 2010 from 4-7pm
at Fantom Comics
50 Mass Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
I've bought all of Ryan's minicomics and recommend them.
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Herblock exhibit in Indiana
Evansville African American Museum to display signature 'Herblock' pieces
By Roger McBain
Evansville Courier & Press August 1, 2010
By Roger McBain
Evansville Courier & Press August 1, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
DC Anime Club Press Release - August 7th event
DC Anime Club and It’s Gosu Presents Video Game Tournaments and Anime
DC Anime Club in association with It’s Gosu invites all Anime and Video Game Enthusiast to our event video game tournaments and anime on Saturday August 7, 2010 2pm-5pm at the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 in Room A5 on the A Level of the Library.
The event will include activities such as Super Street Fighter IV Tournament for Playstation 3, Yugioh Tournament for duelist, Anime Swap Meet for anime enthusiast to trade anime related items, learn how to create your own costumes based on your favorite Japanese Animated/Comic Book characters at Cosplay (costume play) corner,
free style Video Gaming where attendees are encouraged to bring their own video games, systems and even televisions.
There is a $5 entry fee for the Super Street Fighter IV Tournament while all other
activities are free and open to the public.
Age rang for this event is 13 and up.
For more information please visit the DC Anime Club website at http://dcanimeclub.org or call 202 262 2083.
DC Anime Club in association with It’s Gosu invites all Anime and Video Game Enthusiast to our event video game tournaments and anime on Saturday August 7, 2010 2pm-5pm at the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 in Room A5 on the A Level of the Library.
The event will include activities such as Super Street Fighter IV Tournament for Playstation 3, Yugioh Tournament for duelist, Anime Swap Meet for anime enthusiast to trade anime related items, learn how to create your own costumes based on your favorite Japanese Animated/Comic Book characters at Cosplay (costume play) corner,
free style Video Gaming where attendees are encouraged to bring their own video games, systems and even televisions.
There is a $5 entry fee for the Super Street Fighter IV Tournament while all other
activities are free and open to the public.
Age rang for this event is 13 and up.
For more information please visit the DC Anime Club website at http://dcanimeclub.org or call 202 262 2083.
PR: Top Cow Brings Top Talent to the 2010 Baltimore Comic-Con!
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Baltimore Biz Journal on Otakon
Otakon and soccer mean big business for Baltimore
by Rachel Bernstein
Baltimore Business Journal July 30 2010
by Rachel Bernstein
Baltimore Business Journal July 30 2010
Baltimore Sun on Otakon
Where fashion meets fantasy
Otakon -- annual celebration of Asian pop culture -- inspires creativity with costumes
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Zadzooks on Batman's Red Hood and The Losers
Zadzooks: Batman: Under the Red Hood, The Losers, Clash of the Titans
Blue over Batman's 'Red Hood'
By Joseph Szadkowski - The Washington Times July 28, 2010
Greg's recommendations popped up this week too -
Bennett's Best: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Welcome to Tranquility
By Greg Bennett, Special to Zadzooks
Monday, July 26, 2010
Otakon 2010 in Baltimore this weekend
Their website has all the information. Including a pretty complex schedule.
And here's how they describe it:
About Otakon
Otakon is the convention of the otaku generation: by fans, for fans; and we're back for our 17th year in 2010!
Join thousands of your fellow fans as we descend on Baltimore to celebrate all anime, manga, and all facets of Asian pop culture!
Ever since 1999, we've taken over a sizable chunk of Baltimore's Inner Harbor for a 3-day festival celebrating the pop culture that's brought us everything from Astroboy to Yu-Gi-Oh, from the Seven Samurai to Spirited Away.
And here's how they describe it:
About Otakon
Otakon is the convention of the otaku generation: by fans, for fans; and we're back for our 17th year in 2010!
Join thousands of your fellow fans as we descend on Baltimore to celebrate all anime, manga, and all facets of Asian pop culture!
Ever since 1999, we've taken over a sizable chunk of Baltimore's Inner Harbor for a 3-day festival celebrating the pop culture that's brought us everything from Astroboy to Yu-Gi-Oh, from the Seven Samurai to Spirited Away.
PR: TOKYOPOP Tour @ Otakon
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Xavier Xerses on Ken Dahl
Somehow I missed buying this from him at HeroesCon even though I was recommending his Monsters book - Welcome to the Dahlhouse by Ken Dahl.
Weldon on Scott Pilgrim movie and Comic-Con
A Fan's Notes: Being A Non-Spoilery Nonreview Of The 'Scott Pilgrim' Movie
by Glen Weldon
July 27, 2010
The 2nd Annual Monkey See Comic-Con Post-Mortem
by Glen Weldon
July 28, 2010
by Glen Weldon
July 27, 2010
The 2nd Annual Monkey See Comic-Con Post-Mortem
by Glen Weldon
July 28, 2010
Weingarten on Callahan
By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 28, 2010; C01
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 28, 2010; C01
I'm a big fan of Callahan's work. A quadraplegic cartoonist - amazing.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Comic Riffs interviews Breen, memorializes Callahan
WORKING IN OILS: Pulitzer winner STEVE BREEN visits Gulf to create 'spill' cartoons out of BP's own crude
By Michael Cavna | July 27, 2010
A CARTOONIST'S TRIBUTE: Let us not forget the unflinching wit of John Callahan
By Michael Cavna | July 27, 2010
By Michael Cavna | July 27, 2010
A CARTOONIST'S TRIBUTE: Let us not forget the unflinching wit of John Callahan
By Michael Cavna | July 27, 2010
Speed Racer animation voice obituary in Post
Today's print Post ran this obituary from the Times -
Fernandez voiced the main character of 'Speed Racer' and adapted the concept from the Japanese anime children's series in the 1960s.
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
July 25, 2010
That darn Beeler
From readers: Outrage felt over cartoon
Washington Examiner July 27, 2010
Re: "The Prophet Palin," cartoon, July 23
I did not expect such an expression of treason-like appeasement in your newspaper. According to this cartoon, we should agree to erect a monument for murderers in the place of their crime at our own home.
Why not build an O.J. Simpson statue in the front yard of Nicole Simpson's house, or a statue of Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City? Or Hitler's statue in Auschwitz?
It is not Sarah Palin who is a "religious intolerance bomb," but those Islamic jihadists who murdered Americans by the thousands. Now they want to have their temple at the scene of the crime as a symbol of their coming conquest and rule. It's horrific.
Margaret Young
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