Matt Dembicki's let me know that Carolyn Belefski of Curls is nominated for a Lulu Award - Carolyn has the story on her site. It looks like anyone who wants to can vote.
She also has her report on SPX up where she notes that she's publishing Elizabeth Watasin's return to comics. (whoo-hoo! I loved Charm School). She also discusses her new anthology which has a lot of local creators in it.
I interviewed Carolyn a few weeks ago for the City Paper - coming up soon, her writing partner Joe Carabeo.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Joe Sutliff's Ark design
is now designing an Ark for his family's Temple. We chatted at SPX and Joe sent me his design, noting, "Here's what it's gonna be - based on Exodus - a Burning Bush stained glass in the face of a Torah table, with a Moses and staff image made out of cut steel, that has added copper and brass elements (guess who gets to do that part?). I will also probably have to do the Hebrew lettering over the doors. Growing up Spanish Catholic, that urge to do something for a church is pretty strong. I'm planning on doing a limited edition woodblock print of the door art as a fundraiser for the temple."
Pretty cool, huh? Joe, let us know when the woodblock is out.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Lost Art Books promo video online now
Lost Art Books promo video here. I bought all the books at SPX and am glad to have them (although they remain in a giant pile with everything else I bought there).;
Sept 18: Audrey Niffenegger at Politics and Prose
Anyone going to this? I'm going to try to make it.
Audrey Niffenegger - The Night Bookmobile
Start: September 18, 2010 - 3:30pm
End: September 18, 2010 - 4:30pm
Readers know Niffenegger from The Time Traveler’s Wife, but her involvement with books is visual as well as literary. A professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, she has produced two “novels-in-pictures,” and now a graphic novel. First serialized in The Guardian, this is the story of Alexandra, a reader who becomes a librarian in order to find the elusive night bookmobile containing everything she has ever read.
Audrey Niffenegger - The Night Bookmobile
Start: September 18, 2010 - 3:30pm
End: September 18, 2010 - 4:30pm
Readers know Niffenegger from The Time Traveler’s Wife, but her involvement with books is visual as well as literary. A professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, she has produced two “novels-in-pictures,” and now a graphic novel. First serialized in The Guardian, this is the story of Alexandra, a reader who becomes a librarian in order to find the elusive night bookmobile containing everything she has ever read.
A bit more on SPX
I still haven't pulled the pictures off my camera, but here's a nice video that features some of our local creators in the DC Conspiracy, including RM Rhodes in the purple -
Small Press Expo - Canon 7D
by Steven Greenstreet
September 13 2010
The video was recommended by David Malki, whose webcomic Wondermark is excellent. Here's his account.
Small Press Expo - Canon 7D
by Steven Greenstreet
September 13 2010
The video was recommended by David Malki, whose webcomic Wondermark is excellent. Here's his account.
Comics Riffs sourced for NY Times article
Cartoonist in Hiding After Death Threats
By BRIAN STELTER
New York Times September 17, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17cartoon.html
Thursday, September 16, 2010
PR: 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art
Off-topic, but I'm going with local cartoonist Richard "CdS" Thompson.
The 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art
October 14-17, 2010
Spaces are still available for the tenth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art, which will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH from October 14-17, 2010. The Festival will feature presentations by acclaimed cartoonists Steve Breen, Roz Chast, Tony Cochran, Jan Eliot, Matt Groening and Tom Gammill, Dave Kellett, Paul Levitz, Dan Piraro, Jen Sorensen, Art Spiegelman, James Sturm, and Gene Luen Yang. The Festival will also include an academic conference, a tribute to Jay Kennedy, cartoon exhibitions, special receptions, and much more! For a complete list of speakers and events see http://cartoons.osu.edu/fca2010/schedule.html.
The Festival is limited to 275 participants. Registration is available online through October 12 or until it sells out. The registration fee is $125 ($100 for members of the National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists). The registration fee for students and senior citizens aged 65 and over is $25 (ID will be required).
The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Columbus. Reservations can be made at the conference rate through September 24. Transportation from the Hyatt Regency to campus for the Festival will be provided.
For further information about the Festival, see http://cartoons.osu.edu/fca2010 or contact us at cartoons@osu.edu or 614-292-0538.
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USA Today's Dark Horse
USA Today bills itself as the nation's newspaper so I rarely think about them actually being in the DC area - are they still in Rosslyn? Anyway, here's an interesting article on a partnership between the paper and Dark Horse Comics -
Defining Dark Horse's Partnership With USA TODAY-TOSHIBA
By Chris Arrant
posted: 15 September 2010
Defining Dark Horse's Partnership With USA TODAY-TOSHIBA
By Chris Arrant
posted: 15 September 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
More SPX from local folks
Matt Dembicki has a few pictures up.
Comicsgirl was there, but we've avoided another potentially hazardous blogger meeting again. Although I did meet Xavier Xerses at Intervention, and apparently the universe still exists. And "Comic Riffs" Cavna and I talked. Maybe it'll only be a problem if 3 of us meet at one time...
Comicsgirl was there, but we've avoided another potentially hazardous blogger meeting again. Although I did meet Xavier Xerses at Intervention, and apparently the universe still exists. And "Comic Riffs" Cavna and I talked. Maybe it'll only be a problem if 3 of us meet at one time...
Weldon on Moto Hagio's manga
'A Drunken Dream': What it Feels Like For a Girl. (And a Boy. And an Iguana.)
by Glen Weldon
September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Mark Zaid's comic book lawyer exhibit profiled in Times
Read the article here -
Superheroes in Court at Yale Show
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
September 15, 2010
-and watch for an upcoming interview with Mark.
Superheroes in Court at Yale Show
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
September 15, 2010
-and watch for an upcoming interview with Mark.
Jim Dougan's "SAM & LILAH" webcomic updated
I spoke to Jim at SPX who says they're almost 1/2 through and the Act-I-Vate Primer story occurs next.
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Sept 15: Beyond Comics signing - Sean Anderson (Skyscraper)
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Bruce Guthrie's Small Press Expo photos
Bruce has two pages of pictures up - one from panels and one from the floor. When you go to one of his pages, the little pencil icon under the picture lets you create a caption for the image. Some caption fairies would be helpful, because Bruce doesn't do that - he's too busy taking more pictures.
That's is the great New Zealand expat Roger Langridge being interviewed.
And this is Kate Beaton and Julia Wertz on Dustin Harbin's panel blowing attendance for my counter-programmed one out of the water.
But we looked gooood.
Me, Richard Thompson, Marguerite Dabaie and Keith Knight.
Oooh, and Spurgeon linked to a video of Dean Haspiel's shirtless SPX moment.
And Dirk Deppey pointed out Brian Heater's con report. I love the Daily Cross Hatch and have never managed to run into Brian at the show.
Thompson and Rhode outed by Devlin
Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly's Tom Devlin's posted his SPX memories here, and outed Richard and I. It's true - we do love comics.
Seriously, James Sturm's talk was really interesting and I was glad to pick up his new book Market Day. Dinner with James, Tom and Kevin Huizenga as well as a local poetess was a lot of fun too. Thanks to Thad at Politics and Prose for the restaurant recommendation. And thanks to D&Q for putting out such a great line of books - I already had most everything they had on their table, but bought Kevin's new book as well as Vanessa Davis'.
Seriously, James Sturm's talk was really interesting and I was glad to pick up his new book Market Day. Dinner with James, Tom and Kevin Huizenga as well as a local poetess was a lot of fun too. Thanks to Thad at Politics and Prose for the restaurant recommendation. And thanks to D&Q for putting out such a great line of books - I already had most everything they had on their table, but bought Kevin's new book as well as Vanessa Davis'.
Truitt on Spider-Man video game
'Spider-Man' scribe talks 'Shattered Dimensions'
By Brian Truitt
USA Today's Game Hunters blog Sep 14, 2010
It's an interview of Dan Slott.
By Brian Truitt
USA Today's Game Hunters blog Sep 14, 2010
It's an interview of Dan Slott.
Amazing Fantasy 15 original art going on the road
Here's a press release with the relevant part highlighted. Long-time readers may recall that ComicsDC broke the story of the donation in 2008:
September 13, 2010
Library of Congress Takes to the Road, Bringing Rolling Exhibition to the Heartland
The Library of Congress will launch a new traveling exhibition late in September that will bring facsimiles of many of its top treasures and information about the millions of resources in its unparalleled collections to the heartland of America. "Gateway to Knowledge," an exhibition that will travel in a specially fitted-out 18-wheel truck, will launch from the site of the National Book Festival on the National Mall late in September, and will initially travel to sites in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
Ultimately, "Gateway to Knowledge" is expected to visit up to 60 sites in states across the Midwest and South over the next year.
The exhibition was the idea of philanthropists Abby and Emily Rapoport, the granddaughters of Audre and Bernie Rapoport, founding members of the Library's private-sector support organization, The James Madison Council. The young Rapoports have donated $1 million to the Library to make the "Gateway to Knowledge" exhibition possible and bring the Library's riches to areas of the nation – particularly rural areas – that may not be aware of their access to the wealth of information in this publicly funded institution.
"As both a storehouse of world knowledge and primary resource for the U.S. Congress, the Library is energized by the prospects of the Abby and Emily Rapoport Traveling Exhibition playing an important role in sharing the national collection with the people to whom it belongs," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
The exhibit will include programming especially for teachers and students and provide relevant and engaging learning experiences for lifelong learners. The truck, which will be staffed and driven by two docents well-versed in the Library and its collections, will be parked at various schools, libraries, community centers and other public venues.
The trailer expands to twice its road width, and visitors will enter from a central staircase to find several areas of museum-style exhibits including a welcoming multimedia display, computer terminals displaying Library of Congress websites including the main site, www.loc.gov and other library websites including the Center for the Book/ Literacy Programs site www.read.gov and sites pertaining to U.S. collections, exhibitions and a special site for use by teachers.
The exhibition will also outline the history of the Library, including Thomas Jefferson's role in allowing its re-establishment following the burning of the U.S. Capitol in 1814 by providing his personal book collection to the nation. Jefferson's organization of his books by "Memory, Reason and Imagination" will inform the organization of the exhibition, which will feature facsimiles of such treasures as the 1507 Waldseemüller Map (the first document to use the word "America"); the 1455 Gutenberg Bible; the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson's hand with edits by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams; the original 1962 drawings for the comic book that introduced Spiderman to the world; the handwritten manuscript to jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton's "Frog-i-More Rag"; and Walt Whitman's poem "Leaves of Grass."
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions.
Tour Stops for the Library of Congress "Gateway to Knowledge"
Traveling Exhibition
• Sept. 25, 2010, Library of Congress National Book Festival, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
• Sept. 27-28, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Va.
• Sept. 30, Canal Place, Cumberland, Md.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Brave New Comic Strips panel at SPX audio is online
I had a good time doing this, and I think everyone was happy with it, so here's my recording for those who couldn't make it.
Brave New Comic Strips (September 12, 2010)
Small Press Expo panel from September 12, 2010.
The newspaper industry, long the home of American comics first popular dedicated format, faces an existential crisis presented by the emergence and proliferation of digital media. Against all odds, artists interested in the daily strip format continue to produce work with an eye for print. Mike Rhode will discuss the present and the future of the newspaper comic strip with Marguerite Dabaie, Keith Knight, and Richard Thompson.
Brave New Comic Strips (September 12, 2010)
Small Press Expo panel from September 12, 2010.
The newspaper industry, long the home of American comics first popular dedicated format, faces an existential crisis presented by the emergence and proliferation of digital media. Against all odds, artists interested in the daily strip format continue to produce work with an eye for print. Mike Rhode will discuss the present and the future of the newspaper comic strip with Marguerite Dabaie, Keith Knight, and Richard Thompson.
Patriot-News comics poll considers adding Cul de Sac
Vote on the comic strip that will replace 'Cathy' in The Patriot-News
CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News September 12, 2010.
No ballot stuffing now. My friend Chris is undoubtedly technically savvy enough to detect that, and the fact that he undoubtedly spent time in Richard's vicinity at SPX this weekend doesn't mean anything.
CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News September 12, 2010.
No ballot stuffing now. My friend Chris is undoubtedly technically savvy enough to detect that, and the fact that he undoubtedly spent time in Richard's vicinity at SPX this weekend doesn't mean anything.
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