Weldon on Lynd Ward

Lynd Ward's 'Woodcuts' Tell Novels Without Words by Glen Weldon, National Public Radio's Books We Like (November 1, 2010)

And in other NPR reviews, I liked these stories a lot as they appeared on the NY Times website:

In Hard Times, The Tenacious 'Pursuit Of Happiness' by Heller McAlpin
National Public Radio's Books We Like (November 2):

And The Pursuit Of Happiness
By Maira Kalman
Hardcover, 480 pages
Penguin Press HC
List price: $29.95

Zach Galifianakas recommends his cousin Nick's book

http://www.hulu.com/watch/190621/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-wed-nov-3-2010?c=863%3A954

Nate Beeler on Fox News

We still like him anyway. In fact, he's the reason I pick up the Examiner every day.

Yet another Megamind interview

These are popping up all over the web, although this is the first I've seen in a DC paper.

 

It Isn't Easy Being Blue: Will Ferrell on Voicing 'Megamind' [in print: Will Ferrell Is Kinda Blue]
Written by Express contributor Roxana Hadadi
Express (November 4 2010): E9
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/11/will-ferrell-megamind-dreamworks.php

 

Express on 'Naughty' Simpsons

Naughty Treehouse: 'Simpsons' Halloween Episode Gets Gratuitous
Written by Express contributor Marc Silver
Express  November 4, 2010
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/11/simpsons-treehouse-of-horror.php

 

Weldon on Flash vs The Flash; Caro on Hatfield's Alternative Comics

Your Handy Field Guide to the Spandex Set, Volume I: Space Guy or Speedster?
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog November 3, 2010
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/11/02/131022221/your-handy-field-guide-to-the-spandex-set-volume-the-first-space-guy-or-speedster


Blog Versus Professor: Aline Kominsky-Crumb is Authentic, Too
Posted by Caro
Hooded Utilitarian November 3 2010
http://www.tcj.com/hoodedutilitarian/2010/11/blog-versus-professor-aline-kominsky-crumb-is-authentic-too/

Small Press Expo Announces Dates for SPX 2011 and 2nd Annual Small Press Expo Animation Showcase

Small Press Expo Announces Dates for SPX 2011 and 2nd Annual Small Press Expo Animation Showcase

For Immediate Release                              Contact: Warren Bernard

                                                                          E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com

Bethesda, Maryland, November 3, 2010 - Small Press Expo, t

he preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce that 

SPX 2011 will be held

 Saturday, September 10, 2011 from 11AM to 7PM, and Sunday September 11, 2011 from 

noon-6PM

. Admission will be $10 for a single day and $15 for both days. 

Applications for Exhibitor tables can be submitted as of January 1, 2011 via our website at

 

http://www.spxpo.com. Early bird table prices will be $300 until February 28, 2011, after March 1, 2011 they will be $370.

We are also pleased to announce the return of the Small Press Expo Animation Showcase, which features the best in juried animation. Call for submissions will run from January 1, 2011 to May 1, 2011.

Stay tuned for more details on SPX 2011.

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/.  

Roger Langridge's The Shadow sketch

A late holdover from SPX 2010 - this great sketch Roger Langridge did for me. I just figured out how to use my new scanner/printer/copier/changing table.

PR: Fantom Comics Launches New Website: SubcultureForTheCultured.com

It's Halloween, and Fantom Comics is officially celebrating our 5th anniversary by launching a brand new website:   http://subcultureforthecultured.com/   This is the site that puts comic books at the center of the entertainment universe, and will provide our followers with all of the comic-related things that we at Fantom Comics are excited about ourselves.   The launch of the new site is timed to coincide with Halloween 2010, which brings something that we are very excited about: Tonight's premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC TV. At 10:00 PM tonight we will have the opportunity to experience the first true adaptation of a comic book to a TV series in recent memory - and possibly ever! We've been following this book since it was first published in 2003, and have been selling the monthly issues as well as the trade paperback collections like hotcakes since we opened Fantom Comics in 2005. Subculture for the Cultured is honoring this historic event by featuring 2 new columns dedicated to The Walking Dead. These columns are designed to enhance your appreciation of a series that is sure to be another hit for AMC. Could we see our first Eisner winner become an Emmy winner? Tune in or at least hit the record button on your DVR to find out.   Subculture for the Cultured  also provides an ongoing column for The Comics Journeyman, an imaginary-yet-well-traveled comic book character who will serve as the de facto host of Subculture for the Cultured. Check out The Comics Journeyman's post on the historical significance of tonight's The Walking Dead premiere, as well as a design contest inviting any artistically inclined folks to submit designs for exactly what The Comics Journeyman will look like. For a character who is as colorful as all of the comic books he has read in his life, the dude needs a visual representation....   We hope you like what you find at SubcultureForTheCultured.com and return often. To ensure that you don't miss anything, be sure to add each column to your RSS feed by subscribing to posts, or follow each column by using the Google Friend Connect link which can also be used to link in your Twitter account.   And as always, please share this email with your friends by forwarding or clicking the "Share This" link above. The more people we can connect with through our email list, the better.   Happy Zombie Watching!   Fantom Comics Union Station - 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE | Washington, DC 20002 | 202-216-9478 www.fantomcomics.com

In Between the Panels: DC’s Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene

In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene

http://www.wnba-books.org/wash/events.php#graphicnovel

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC
Cost: FREE and open to the public!

The Women's National Book Association, DC Chapter will sponsor a panel discussion on the DC graphic novel scene. The panel for the event, to be held at Busboys & Poets in Mt. Vernon, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., will include Carolyn Belefski, Molly Lawless, Matt Dembicki, and Mike Rhode. The event is free and open to the public.

Carolyn Belefski is the mastermind behind the web comic Curls. She is also one of the creators of several other comic books: Kid Roxy, Black Magic Tales, and The Legettes, and an indefatigable (nightly) poster to her blog, Sketch Before Sleep. Her work has appeared in USA WEEKEND Magazine, The Commonwealth Times, Virginia Living Magazine, Magic Bullet, CROQ Zine, and The Pulse on COMICON.com. Ms. Belefski is a nominee for the Kim Yale Award for Most Talented Newcomer for 2010.

Matt Dembicki is a DC-based cartoonist whose work includes the award-winning nature parable Mr. Big, The Great White Shark Story, Xoc, and The Brewmaster's Castle, about legendary DC brewer Christian Heurich. His latest anthology, Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, has received rave reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and has been nominated as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. In addition to his own work, Dembicki also hosts kids' workshops in the DC area and beyond on making comic books.

Molly Lawless, a Boston native, moved to the DC area in 2005. She has self-published mini comics as well as a compilation, Infandum! Ad Infinitum. She is currently working on a full-length graphic novel for McFarland Publishing titled Hit by Pitch. She is an avid blogger and includes stories about her family in her daily posts.

Mike Rhode, panel moderator, is co-author of the comics research bibliography, editor of Exhibition and Media Reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art, and a contributing writer for Hogan's Alley. In 2008, he was named Best (Comics) Art Blogger by the Washington City Paper for his Comics DC blog. Rhode edited Harvey Pekar: Conversations, a book of interviews with the late underground comic book writer and author of American Splendor published by the University Press of Mississippi. He has written for the Comics Journal and was selected as an RFK Journalism Awards judge for the editorial cartoon division of Comics Journal in 2009 and 2010. Rhode currently writes about comics for the City Paper.

This event is FREE and open to the public!

Jim Dougan's "SAM & LILAH" webcomic updated

Jim DouganNovember 1, 2010 at 6:43pm Subject: SAM & LILAH: The Conclusion of Chapter 3! It's the conclusion of Chapter 3! http://www.facebook.com/l/06500yrQ6t7CdAgQ7JcYTEdfFgw;www.activatecomix.com/42-3-35.comic In case you were wondering, it's right after this where the story from the ACT-I-VATE PRIMER takes place. What? You mean you haven't read the PRIMER? What are you waiting for? Pick up a copy at your local comic shop, or here: http://www.facebook.com/l/065003nD3_w_CO3wlnXtsDr-iqw;www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600105289 If you're a little behind, get caught up here: Chapter 1: http://www.facebook.com/l/06500qXajBF284yvfLWXvcxhx7Q;www.activatecomix.com/42-1-1.comic Chapter 2: http://www.facebook.com/l/06500waiWvCRTE0rVYSnTPHvWKg;www.activatecomix.com/42-2-1.comic Chapter 3: http://www.facebook.com/l/06500zfzmMFivCf53IUYOarCMJw;www.activatecomix.com/42-3-1.comic We'll be back later this month with the beginning of CHAPTER FOUR!! In the meantime, here's where to go for all the OTHER great comix at ACT-I-VATE: http://www.facebook.com/l/06500VGvBgc_-CyfVtEthKDaiIg;www.activatecomix.com

News from KAL

Kal writes in:

I have finally posted some pics and info from my recent cartoon-related trip to Russia. I also wanted to mention the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco has now made the official announcement of the open of my show later this week. ( http://cartoonart.org/2010/11/drawn-from-the-economist-the-editorial-art-of-kal/) I will at a reception at the Museum November 12.

Many thanks!

Best

Kal

Kevin Kallaugher

kal@kaltoons.com

www.Kaltoons.com

New Luna Brothers interview online

Just a couple of days ago, I had a short interview with the Luna Brothers. Now one of the big comics sites has a longer one:

SWORD's Final Cut: The Luna Brothers & Their HC
By Chris Arrant, Newsarama 01 November 2010

Nov 11: Galifianakis returns to Falls Church

Well, actually he lives there. But on Nov 11th, he won't be hiding in his studio.

Cartoonist Nick Galafianakis at ArtSpace
By FALLS CHURCH TIMES STAFF
November 2, 2010

Fredericksburg's editorial cartoonist Clay Jones blogging on election

The Daily Cartoonist noted that Fredericksburg's editorial cartoonist Clay Jones is blogging on tonight on the election

Nov 3: Orson Scott Card chat at Washington Post

Nov 3 at 1 pm, Orson Scott Card will chat at the Washington Post website, but you can submit questions now. Card wrote Iron Man, among other titles.

Marvel recently (Oct 28) put out a press release about Card's return to writing comics:

Marvel & Orson Scott Card Bring FORMIC WARS To Life!

New York Times best-selling author Orson Scott Card revolutionized science-fiction with Ender's Game and now returns to write the most requested sci-fi story in the world with Marvel Entertainment in February's Formic Wars #1 (of 7). Selling millions of copies worldwide, Ender's Game is one of the most popular science fiction epics of all time, with fans begging for Card to tell the origins of this universe! Now Orson Scott Card himself, teaming with co-writer Aaron Johnston and rising star artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo, returns to write the prequel in graphic fiction format. Long before Ender Wiggin fought the Third Formic War, humans battled the Formics on our own turf. Twice. Outgunned and unprepared, the human race stands on the brink of total annihilation.

"I've been so happy with Marvel's comic-book adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Ender in Exile and Speaker of the Dead that I wanted my long-imagined story of the Formic Wars to appear first in this wonderfully visualized form," said Orson Scott Card, "With a whole new set of characters, putting together a ragtag fleet of improvised and adapted spacecraft to take on an alien invader, I think these are some of the best, most inspiring stories in the Ender's Game future history, and through the work of Marvel's great team of writers and artists, my tales are coming to life with a power and reality I never could have managed on my own."

This action-packed prequel to Ender's Game answers the questions fans have been asking while delivering a jaw-dropping story perfect for new  readers.

"There are few writers as prolific and popular as Orson Scott Card," said David Gabriel, SVP Sales & Circulation, Marvel Entertainment. "We're extremely thrilled to bring Formic Wars to life for the first time in any medium and even more excited to have Orson Scott Card at the helm. If you're a fan of the Ender's books, or just a fan of classic sci-fi, you won't want to miss this series."

The most requested sci-fi action-thriller of the century is now here-you can't afford to miss Formic Wars #1, hitting comic shops in February 2011.

Plus, don't miss the graphic fiction adaptations of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, now available in hardcover collections at comic shops and book stores nationwide!

For more on Orson Scott Card and Ender's Game, please visit www.hatrack.com and www.marvel.com

Cul de Sac picks up another paper

Comics page offers something new today*
Mansfield News Journal November 1, 2010

*i.e. a fine, fine strip produced here in America, and not outsourced to North Korea.

Nov 17: In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene

Matt Dembicki, Carolyn Belefski and Molly Lawless will talk about comics, moderated by me. 

 

In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
Wednesday, November 17 at 6:00pm
Location: Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets location

Reasons to pick up the Oct 28th Onion

The paper's still on the stands and has a cartoon by 'Kelly' (ie Ward Sutton) criticizing Bil Keane for licensing a Family Circus movie, an interview with Frank Darabont on the Walking Dead tv show, and an interview with Brendon Small of the animated Metalocalypse.

Post recommends 22-year-old out-of-print Dracula comic book

In the field of news you can't use, the Post recommended Scarlet in Gaslight a comic series published 22 years ago by a minor publisher, as a Dracula story you should read. I beg to disagree.