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TCJ.com reviewer uses my Wertham City Paper article

It's always nice to see that one's writing hasn't completely gone into the void.

The Horror! The Horror!

Posted by Kent Worcester on November 9th, 2010

Kent reviews the latest coffee table slab from Abrams ComicArts.

http://www.tcj.com/review/the-horror-the-horror-2/

Rosenberg on Robinson auction

Scott A. Rosenberg, former DC-area reporter on comics, has a New York story - on Jerry Robinson's art auction

Comic art auction could break records
AMNY Urbanite blog November 9 2010

Post on Walking Dead tv

'Walking Dead,' alive with ratings and spin
By Lisa de Moraes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2010; C05

 

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Nick Galifianakis

Posted by Mike Rhode on Nov. 9, 2010

 

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/11/09/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-nick-galifianakis/

That darn Toles! (continued)

This time a blog called the Oregon Catalyst doesn't like Tom Toles' cartoon.

Death of USNWR lets Spurgeon dig up Richard Thompson's comics history

Tom Spurgeon looks at the end of US News & World Report through a peculiarly comics lens - he gets Richard Thompson to comment on his time working for them -

USN&WR Ending Its Print Iteration.
Comics Reporter (November 8 2010).

If you're not reading The Comics Reporter, you should be. It's one of three comics blogs I read every day.

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Jamie Noguchi

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Jamie Noguchi
by Mike Rhode on Nov. 8, 2010
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/11/08/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-jamie-noguchi/

 

Nov 17: In Between the Panels reminder

Now with pictures!

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 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC, 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!

Nov 9 and 11th: Nick Galifianakis signs his new book

Nick writes in,
Though the book doesn't officially come out until November 23, advance copies will be available at my book signing on November 11, Thursday, 7 pm at the Falls Church Art Space. The link is below:

http://www.fallschurcharts.org/

For those of you that happen to be traipsing around DC two night
before, I'll be at the National press Club Book Fair:

http://press.org/bookfair

Richard Thompson on Barney Google

Here's the introduction to the Barney Google reprint book that Richard Thompson did.

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2010/11/barney-google-and-aesthetics-of-bigfoot.html

Truitt on She-Hulk, Incognito

'She-Hulks': It ain't easy being a green goddess
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY 10/21/2010
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-10-21-She-Hulks_N.htm

'Incognito' powered by pulp ethos
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY November 6 2010
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-11-06-incognito_N.htm

How Ann Telnaes does it (modern edition)

Ann Telnaes: From sketch to animation
November 4 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/11/04/VI2010110405529.html

Barney and Clyde channels Doonesbury

The Weingartens and Clark strip Barney and Clyde is channeling 1971 Doonesbury yesterday and today. That's Marvelous Mark Slackmeyer before he became an NPR host. Gene W, a friend of Trudeau's, is undoubtedly paying tribute to the 40th anniversary celebration of the strip - which is still one of the absolute best running.

Post on Megamind and My Dog Tulip

Mwahahaha: Plenty of laughs, evil or otherwise
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 5, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/megamind,1158922/critic-review.html

 

It's a fetching story. So sit, stay
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 5, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/my-dog-tulip,1168130/critic-review.html

Express compares Megamind to Paradise Lost

Now this is my kind of film reviewer -

 

Mega-Milton: 'Megamind,' In Theaters
 By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express November 5, 2010
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/11/megamind-review.php

 

New website links for local creators

As I'm getting ready for some new City Paper interviews, here's some links to local creators sites.

Molly Lawless' Hooray For Mollywood blog: http://tyrnyx.wordpress.com/ Come meet Molly at Busboys and Poets on November 17th.

Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones' Toon Talk blog: http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/toontalk/

Cartoonist Jamie Noguchi's Yellow Peril comic strip at http://ypcomic.com and blog at http://angryzenmaster.com

Truitt on Batman, Inc.

'Batman and Robin' brings a 'game-changer' for Bruce Wayne
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY November 3 2010

Intervention con putting panel videos online

Panel Video: We Are The Intervention
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/21/panel-video-we-are-the-intervention/
As part of our ongoing effort to place our panel content from the 2010 Intervention event online you can now view the following panel entitled "We Are The Intervention" which was hosted by Harknell and Onezumi, the Co-con chairs for the 2010 event.

Description: Why did Intervention happen? What motivated Harknell and Onezumi to create and get this con going? Come talk to the Co-Con Chairs of Intervention and find out directly from the founders the whats and whys of the con, and where it's going in the future.
Panelists: Harknell, Onezumi

Intervention Panel Video: Duel In The Somme Launch Event
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/23/intervention-panel-video-duel-in-the-somme-launch-event/
This video is of the Panel "A Duel in the Somme: Official Launch" which happened at Intervention 2010.

A Duel in the Somme is a 24-page standalone comic book co-written by Rob Balder (Erfworld, PartiallyClips) and Ben Bova (six-time Hugo winning SF author and editor), and illustrated by Bill Holbrook (Kevin & Kell, Safe Havens, On the Fastrack). The worldwide debut of the printed book happens here! Rob and Bill will be present to talk about the story behind the project, sign copies and answer questions.


Intervention Panel Video: Cell Shading And Other Advanced Photoshop Techniques
http://interventioncon.com/2010/11/01/intervention-panel-video-cell-shading-and-other-advanced-photoshop-techniques/
The next Intervention 2010 panel video we have available for view is "Cel Shading And Other Advanced Photoshop Techniques".

Description: Hawk, the artist for the comic Applegeeks, will be demonstrating some of the techniques he uses in Photoshop to create his comic and other digital output. Cel shading and comic composition are two of the major areas covered in this panel.

Panelists: Hawk


Intervention Panel Video: Digital Versus Traditional Art
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/27/intervention-panel-video-digital-versus-traditional-art/
The following panel occurred at Intervention 2010 and was entitled "Digital Vs. Traditional: The Pros And Cons Of Each"

Description: Some artists love digital. Some artists love pen and ink. Digital art gives you more flexibility, but traditional gives you the ability to sell originals at conventions. Come and listen to a FRIENDLY discussion about the pros and cons of each.

Panelists: Chris Flick, Ben McCormick, Ryan Thompson, Danny Valentini

Gutterbrawl - a new blog on the comics industry from the small press POV

Matt Rhodes (no relation) (also see my City Paper interview) just shot me the following note about a new blog he's started -

Gutterbrawl.org was created by Adam Knave and R.M. Rhodes as a place to discuss the state of the comics industry (especially the so-called Indirect Market of independant comics creators). After several weeks of laying out the issues, we've turned the corner and are making the suggestion that we, the Indirect Market, should create a common marketing platform. This week's post makes the case for what form that platform should take, but it will only work if we can get a large number of people talking about it and - ultimately - participating.

http://www.gutterbrawl.org/?p=19

We welcome thoughts and opinions about this topic and hope to start the conversation.



Class of '63
Oceanus Procellarum Book Two
the new webcomic
by R. M. Rhodes
http://oletheros.com