Saturday, November 13, 2010

Apparently Anime USA is going on in Crystal City this weekend.

http://www.arlnow.com/2010/11/12/anime-conventional-invades-crystal-city/

Friday, November 12, 2010

Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip launches

Washington continues to be an incubator for comics strips, and they're not coming from the University of Maryland's Diamondback (Liberty Meadows, Boondocks, Watch Your Head) all the time now.

Local cartoonist Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip will launch soon from the Washington Post Writer's Group. The strip is described as "Reply All is about those moments in today's information-overloaded environment when you forget your adult-self and toss the megaphone to your fifth-grade inner child. The strip explores the value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one's self-perception." It launches on February 28. Donna recently told me that she's reworking her earlier webcomics because she thinks her art has improved.

Congratulations, Donna! My interview with her quoted in the PR is here.

New Trickster review online (again)

Graphic Youth: Trickster by Rich Kreiner, TCJ.com November 12th, 2010

Richard Thompson interview

There's a Richard Thompson interview embedded in this press release -

Web and Mobile Content Platform also Acquires First-Run Rights to Previously Unpublished Interviews with Today's Most Renowned Animators
NEW YORK & LONDON, November 11, 2010 | SHOOT Publicity Wire

which leads you to 'Gifted but not talented' and 'Frankenstein Monsters' and 'Cross-hatching' and 'Venn Diagrams' and 'High Point of Invention' and 'Meet the Otterloops' as well as a bunch of adaptations of Cul de Sac strips.

Groening and Panter curate exhibit in Baltimore

Matt Groening and Gary Panter worked on an exhibit for Baltimore's Visionary Art Museum-

Hey, what's so funny? You'll see.

By Robert DiGiacomo
Washington Post November 12, 2010; T25

Xavier Xerexes reviews 2 books

Two All Ages Comics: Guinea PI and Adventures in Cartooning

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Pekar on NPR

There won't be new interviews with Harvey to print out and put in your copy of Harvey Pekar: Conversations, but here's another NPR piece on him.

Conan, Neal. 2010.
Harvey Pekar: Chronicler Of America's Everyman.
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation (November 10)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131220021&ft=1&f=1008
http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/totn/2010/11/20101110_totn_02.mp3?dl=1
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=131220021

LaSalle's Legacy, local webcomic

Jennifer Z Smith wrote in to tell me about her webcomic - "It's a manga-inspired fantasy graphic novel entitled "LaSalle's Legacy"

(http://lasalleslegacy.com) and has been online for a year and a half."

Art Sites:
http://lasalleslegacy.com
http://zyrenskistudios.com
http://bukittyan.deviantart.com/

I've only just started looking at it, but the strip looks like fun with nice clean art. Check it out.

Comic Riffs on latest editorial cartoon layoffs

Pink-slipping the Pulitzer: Editorial cartoonists are cut in Election Day's wake
By Michael Cavna
Comic Riffs November 11 2010

Matt Davies and Marshall Ramsey - Davies won the Herblock award a couple of years ago.

TONIGHT: Meet a Local Cartoonist - Nick Galifianakis

You can meet him tonight in Falls Church and you can read an interview beforehand -

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/

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Cohen and Dembicki visit site of their graphic story

Matt Dembicki and Andrew Cohen got invited to the Heurich Mansion's annual gala due to their comic book The Brewmaster's Castle and Matt's got the story on his blog.

Guarnaccia in the Post

Not the Picasso painting, but humorous illustrator Steve Guarnaccia is in the Post's Food section today. He's one of the greats that we don't see as often in Washington publications.

PR: Beyond Comics 5 DAY SALE!

Wednesday - Sunday
November 10th to 14th
GRAPHIC NOVEL SALE!
Buy 1 Get 10% OFF
Buy 2 Get 20% OFF
Buy 3 or More Get 25% OFF

(Use cash for 3 or more and get 30% OFF)

Excludes new arrivals (last two weeks). Excludes Walking Dead.
Not redeemable for subscriptions, special orders, or on hold items.
All books must be purchased...we will not hold any books.

Please Note, some items are not available at all store locations. For more information please speak with any store representative. Some items may also be allocated by the manufacturer and may not be available. Beyond Comics does not guarantee items being in stock; however we will do our best to keep them available.

Email:
Gaithersburg
John Shine Mgr
or
Frederick
Jon Cohen Mgr

Gaithersburg Store
536 North Frederick Ave
Gaithersburg, MD
(301) 216-0007
Hours: M,Tu 11-8;
W-Sat 10-9; Sun 12-6

Frederick Store
5632 Route 85
Frederick, MD
(301) 668-8202
Hours: M,Tu 10-8;
W-Sat 10-9; Sun 12-6

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/

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

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