PR: Fantom Comics Thanksgiving Weekend Sale

Perfect way to spend a holiday weekend?   Eating turkey.   Not working.   Reading comics.   And Fantom Comics is the perfect store to help you out with that. This weekend (including this Friday,) all hardcovers, trade paperbacks and t-shirts are 20% OFF!   That's right! Every single hardcover, trade paperback and tee: 20% OFF!   Our selection is, quite frankly, pretty awesome so please, stop by and check us out. BATMAN! BONE! SPIDER-MAN! THE WALKING DEAD! SUPERMAN/MUHAMMAD ALI! SUPERMAN:EARTH ONE!   All in stock, all on sale.   Yours to be had. So, come on in!   And, as a reminder, due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday, next week's new comics will be in-store Thursday instead of the normal Wednesday.   BEST! Union Station - 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE | Washington, DC 20002 | 202-216-9478 www.fantomcomics.com

Comicsgirl reviews Party Crashers exhibit

Comicsgirl reviews Arlington's Party Crashers exhibit - I saw the exhibit briefly last Friday on opening night. Anyone want to try to go together? I think it's a show that talking through with others would be interesting.

Also, there's a nice catalogue for only $5.

'Tangled' reviews in local papers

Disney's 'Tangled' is fun for the whole family
 Sally Kline
Washington Examiner: 11/24/10
http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/2010/11/disneys-tangled-fun-whole-family

'Tangled': Disney's take on Rapunzel is as gorgeous as it is engaging

By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/tangled-in-disney-digital-3d,1158941/critic-review.html

 

Movie Review | 'Tangled'
Back to the Castle, Where It's All About the Hair
By A. O. SCOTT
November 23, 2010
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/movies/24tangled.html

 

Mark Zaid's “Superheroes in Court!” exhibit featured in alumni mag

Lawyers and Superheroes—Now That's Comical!
—Karen McCally
Rochester Review November–December 2010 Vol. 73, No. 2
http://rochester.edu/pr/Review/V73N2/0504_zaid.html
http://rochester.edu/pr/Review/V73N2/pdf/zaid.pdf

thanks to Jeff R for the tip

Picture This Press' Lost Art Books get reviews

Joe Procopio's Picture This Press' Lost Art Books have begun getting reviews - from the Hooded Utilitarian on Zim's Cartoons and Caricatures, comic book creator Steve Bissette and Comics Worth Reading.

As someone who's interested in the history of cartooning, I applaud Joe's efforts. Here's the Washington City Paper interview with him.

PR: The 2011 Kal Calendar is here

The new award-winning* fully illustrated 2011 Economist Wall Kalendar is now available to order. At only $15.00 (plus shipping) the Kalendar is a very unique and popular item for the holidays. You can order copies direct from The Economist website:

https://www.economistsubscriptions.com/calnov_2011/?src=/cal_2011&ref=%2Fcal_2011

The Kalendars and other Kal related items will be available for purchase from my website, www.kaltoons.com from December 1, 2010.

Let me know your thoughts about this year's edition!

Best

Kal
Kevin Kallaugher
kaltoons@comcast.net
www.Kaltoons.com

The KAL iPhone App is now available at the iTunes store.

* Voted Most Original Calendar, US and International divisions, and Finalist, Calendar of the Year by the Calendar Marketing Association

Post on Wuerker's Berryman prize and Toy Story 3's Oscar bid

Politico cartoonist wins prestigious Berryman Award - that would be Matt Wuerker

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Staff Writer
November 23, 2010; C04

 

Disney to play serious for 'Toy' Oscar

By Rafer Guzman
Washington Post November 23, 2010; C04

 

Bringing your own stuffing? Cul de Sac and Miss Manners both address the issue in today's Post

Two views on the stuffing dilemna.

 

Miss Manners

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/08/AR2010110803971.html

DEAR MISS MANNERS -- Is it rude to bring your own stuffing because you don't like what the host is serving?

Annie musical in town

Annie, the musical based on Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip, is at the Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd unitl January 2nd. Call 301-924-3400 or visit www.olneytheatre.org.

 

The Post reviewed the show today -

Sunshine - amplified - in Olney Theatre's delightful 'Annie'

By Nelson Pressley
Washington Post November 23, 2010; C02

Truitt on Batman

Scott Snyder puts the 'detective' in 'Detective Comics'
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY November 22 2010
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-11-22-DetectiveComics_N.htm

Matt Wuerker of Politico wins Berryman Award

Matt Wuerker of Politico has won the Berryman Award for political cartooning. The award is from the National Press Foundation. An article on the NPF's website says that Matt beat out Tom Toles of the Post; Daryl Cagle of MSNBC and Jimmy Margulies of the Bergen Record in northern New Jersey. Matt's recently won the Funny Times' Irving Award, the Herblock Foundation's Herblock Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for the past two years. And he's a really nice guy. Here's a Washington City Paper interview with him and audio from a panel he was on this summer at the DC Public Library.

Congratulations, Matt!

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Jennifer Zyren Smith

A local webcomics creator speaks with us today -

 

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Jennifer Zyren Smith

 by Mike Rhode on Nov. 22, 2010

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2010/11/22/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-jennifer-zyren-smith/

 

 

Dec 4: DC Anime Club Presents StarBlazers Marathon Press Release

DC Anime Club

Presents

  StarBlazers Marathon

 

On Saturday December 4, 2010 DC Anime Club will be hosting  a Marathon of the Anime classic Star Blazers with special guest voice actress Amy Howard Wilson who is the voice of the character Nova from Star Blazers
at 2:00pm-5:00pm at Martin Luthur King, Jr Memorial Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 Room A10.

About Star Blazers: Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime series, Space Battleship Yamato I, II & III ( Uchū Senkan Yamato?). Star Blazers was first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular English-translated anime that had an over-arching plot and storyline that required the episodes to be shown in order. It dealt with somewhat more mature themes than other productions aimed at the same target audience at the time. As a result, it paved the way for future arc-based, plot-driven anime translations.

About Amy Howard Wilson: Detroit native AMY HOWARD WILSON had the honor of being cast as the voice of Nova (Mori Yuki) in the classic 1970s anime series STAR BLAZERS, Season 1 - The Quest For Iscandar and Season 2 - The Comet Empire. In 1997, after many years of thinking about Star Blazers only as a fond memory, she was delighted to learn that there are fans around the world who still enjoy it. Since 2002, she's been recording and producing audio books; has formed a family friendly, full service audio production company called  studio V.O.I.C..E., and coined a new title CVO (Chief Vocal Officer). Amy recently entered a new joint venture with Writers Exchange E-Publishers - http://www.writers-exchange.com/. Please visit her website - http://www,amysvoices.com/.

 

 

For more information please call (202) 262-2083 visit the DC Anime Club website at http://dcanimeclub.org.

 

 

About DC Anime Club:

DC Anime Club was established in 2003 to introduce and educate people in the Washington, DC area about East Asian culture, through viewing and discussion of Japanese animation (also known as anime) and Japanese comics (manga).

We also work to provide a positive, alternative activity to the youth in the area by exposing them to foreign culture, encouraging artistic expression and creativity, and providing opportunities for participation in community activities and leadership.

DC Anime Club is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. Contributions to DC Anime Club are tax deductible to the extent allowable under the law.

DC Anime Club has been featured in many newspapers and publications .

In addition to our bi-weekly meetings, the club holds an Art Show, a Cosplay Party fundraising event, and anime lectures at local schools . Our club works with the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, Smithsonian Freer Gallery and DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival on their anime screenings. Our Marketing Team has helped promote performances for several Japanese bands such as Puffy Ami Yumi, Pine am, The Slants, The Captains and Ayabie.

DC Anime Club was founded by Chris Wanamaker (President), Jules Chang (former Vice President) and Craig Vaughn (Vice President) on Saturday June 5, 2003. We have a strong membership that continues to grow. 

 

 

 

 

 

PR: November 21 Beyond Comics Pre-Black Friday Sale

Pre-Black Friday Sale! Not looking forward to standing in long lines, arguing with ignorant sales clerks, fighting for open parking spaces, and sweating like Niagara Falls? As a valued customer of Beyond Comics we wanted to offer you the opportunity to shop at our store and take advantage of prices even better than our Black Friday Discounts. 2 Hours Only!  Sunday, November 21st 6pm - 8pm Here Are Some of our Sales Specials! On the Rack Comics New Comics One Month or Older $1 Each Action Figures All Action Figures One Month or Older 30% OFF Apparel Excludes New Arrivals 50% OFF CHECK OUT THE FACEBOOK EVENT Unable to make it to our Pre-Black Friday Sale? Stop by for excellent discounts from Friday November 26th to Sunday November 28th. Gaithersburg                                       Frederick Gaithersburg Square                       Route 85 536 North Frederick Ave                  5632 Buckeystown Pike Gaithersburg, MD 20877                  Frederick, MD 21704 301-668-8202                               (301) 6668-8202 All Sales exclude recent arrivals, on hold merchandise, subscriptions, and special orders. *Graphic Novel sales does not include Walking Dead graphic novels.

1970s-era Atlas Comics exhibit at Geppi's Museum

Special Atlas Exhibit Slated for GEM
Scoop November 19 2010

I'm sure the only reason for this is the resurrection of the line, which wasn't that interesting in the first place, but the exhibit sounds worth seeing.

Followup to Colleen Doran's editorial on piracy and copyright

The Post's excellent tech columnist Rob Pegoraro explains what the bill that Doran editorialized in favor of actually is:

Congress's latest awful tech-policy idea: the Net-censorship bill
By Rob Pegoraro

Essentially it's a bill to force Internet providers to block traffic to sites accused of piracy, including aggragators of links to scans - like TCJ.Com's Journalista and multiple other comics sites that point out when something rare has gone online.

Another possible area cartoonist?

Masked Military Man Is Superhero for Troops
By THOM SHANKER
November 19, 2010

WASHINGTON — Faster than a fleeting bullet point in an Army briefing slide. Able to leap Pentagon jargon in a single bound. While he's not a classic superhero like the Man of Steel, he's certainly a man of irony. Meet Doctrine Man...

Dembicki's District Comics website

This sounds really cool to me too:

Matt Dembicki writes in:
District Comics is an online comics anthology that will feature stories about the history of Washington, D.C., from its beginnings to contemporary times. The site will be open to the public. We want schools, libraries, comics readers and everyone else to visit the site to read some really cool stories pertaining to the nation's capital. We're currently looking for story pitches. For more info: http://district-comics.blogspot.com/

Matt Dembicki on Inkstuds

Robin McConnell interviews Matt Dembicki
 November 15, 2010 by Inkstuds
http://www.inkstuds.org/?p=3247
http://www.inkstuds.org/wp-content/podcast/101113_Matt_Dembicki.mp3

Matt Dembicki has put together a great comic anthology collecting and adapting First Nations folklore stories called Trickster.

Pearls Before Swine gives stunning call out to Cul de Sac

Pastis likes Richard! He really likes him!

 

Honestly, I can't recall anything similar to this in the comics. Anyone?