Flugennock latest cartoon: "Obama's AIPAC Speech, Condensed

Click through to see his thoughts on the cartoon -

http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=856

Obama AIPAC Speech, Condensed

Wash Examiner blog whacks at Ted Rall

What Ted Rall tells us

Christopher Taylor

Washington Examiner 05/23/11 : http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/05/what-ted-rall-tells-us

Bill Rechin obituary wirestory runs in Post

Cartoonist Bill Rechin, co-creator of 'Crock' comic strip, dies at 80
Washington Post May 24 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cartoonist-bill-rechin-co-creator-of-crock-comic-strip-dies-at-80/2011/05/23/AFSmt89G_story.html

NPR's Monkey See returns to Sandman

Book Club: Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman: Dream Country,' Part Four

by Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon

National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (May  24, 2011)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/05/24/136611702/book-club-neil-gaimans-the-sandman-dream-country-part-four

Hogan's Alley likes Richard Thompson's chances at the Reuben awards

The National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Awards ceremony is next weekend and Tom Heintjes at Hogan's Alley likes Richard Thompson's chances in the two categories he's nominated in.

3rd Finder article at Sequential Tart

Self-Discovery/ies in Finder: Voice
By Rebecca Buchanan
May 23, 2011    
http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=1985

Washington Post Magazine article on Richard Thompson reprinted in Express

Michael Cavna's long profile from yesterday is now a 8-paragraph Reader's Digest-type versionon page 25 of today's free Express.

Richard Thompson and Michael Cavna on NPR

Coping With Disease While Capturing Childhood
National Public Radio's Tell Me More May 23, 2011
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579290/-coping-with-disease-while-capturing-childhood
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/tmm/2011/05/20110523_tmm_03.mp3?dl=1

Artist Richard Thompson's "Cul de Sac" is a daily watercolor comic strip in 140 newspapers. It centers on a young girl's experiences with her friends on a cul-de-sac. The Washington Post's Michael Cavna has written a profile on Thompson's career and struggles with Parkinson's disease. Host Michel Martin speaks with Cavna and Thompson about this latest article in the Washington Post Magazine.

Annapolis paper looks at comic book deaths

The end is just the beginning
Comics fans discuss the demise - and resurrection - of superheroes
By THERESA WINSLOW
 The Capital 05/22/11
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/lif/2011/05/22-12/The-end-is-just-the-beginning.html

Truitt on Shinku

'Shinku' pits a female samurai vs. Japanese vampires
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY May 19 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-05-19-Shinku-pits-female-samurai-vs-Japanese-vampires_n.htm

Bill Rechin's funeral arrangements

A Mass celebration will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 25 at St. Matthew's Catholic church located at 8200 Robert E Lee Drive, Spotsylvania, VA with Father Augustine Tran officiating. Burial will follow in Laurel Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 24  at Covenant Funeral Service, 4801 Jefferson Davis Highway, Fredericksburg, VA.

Bill Rechin's obituary in his local paper

Death claims cartoonist Bill Rechin

By MICHAEL ZITZ

Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star May 22, 2011 

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/052011/05222011/628177

Richard Thompson and Michael Cavna on NPR on Monday morning

Richard Thompson and Michael Cavna will be on NPR's Tell Me More on Monday morning at 11 am.

Bill Rechin has died

Formerly-local 'Crock' cartoonist Bill Rechin has died today of complications from cancer. He's survived by his son, cartoonist Kevin Rechin of Falls Church, whom will be drawing the strip now.

Our sympathies go out to Kevin and his family.

Comic Riffs on Team Cul de Sac, Bill Watterson and Peter Dunlap-Shohl

'Calvin and Hobbes' creator BILL WATTERSON: On painting a portrait of 'Cul de Sac's Petey
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 20 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-on-painting-a-portrait-of-cul-de-sacs-petey/2011/05/18/AF7W1m7G_blog.html

THE 'RIFFS INTERVIEW: How cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl adapted after the 'unexpected impact' of Parkinson's
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 20 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-riffs-interview-how-cartoonist-peter-dunlap-shohl-adapted-after-the-unexpected-impact-of-parkinsons/2011/05/18/AFUQ6l7G_blog.html#pagebreak

PR: ACT-I-VATE’s SAM & LILAH MOVES TO MTV GEEK, GIVES AWAY FREE STUFF

From: Jim Dougan

Gentle readers, friends, family, and acquaintances:

 

We are pleased to announce that, as part of the continuing relationship between webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE (http:www.activatecomix.com) and MTV GEEK, Jim Dougan and Hyeondo Park's SAM & LILAH will be part of growing new comics lineup at the MTV site.

 

The first three chapters of S&L that have previously appeared on ACT-I-VATE will now also appear on MTV GEEK, with future installments to follow, likewise, on both sites.

 

You can read more about it, and even see video of Jim being interviewed at this year's MoCCA Festival, here:

 

http://geek-news.mtv.com/2011/05/19/star-crossed-lovers-read-act-i-vates-sam-and-lilah-now-on-mtv-geek/

 

And read (or re-read, as the case may be) the first installment of SAM & LILAH here:

 

http://www.mtv.com/geek/comic/issue/1111/sam-and-lilah-1-pt-1.jhtml

 

SO WHAT ABOUT THAT FREE STUFF?

Here's the deal: each week we will be asking a question, or asking you to tell us a story relevant to that week's Sam & Lilah update.  The best response will get the writer our Weekly Prize: a signed print of a page from that week!  Then, for each Chapter, we'll pick a winner to receive the Chapter Prize: a signed copy of the ACT-I-VATE PRIMER from IDW Publishing, which contains an exclusive Sam & Lilah story that will not appear on MTV Geek (or on ACT-I-VATE).  Finally, we'll choose from among all the responses over 11 weeks to receive the Grand Prize of a page (our choice) of Hyeondo Park's original art!

How do I reply:  you can post here on Tumblr, on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/samandlilah), Tweet us @samandlilah, link to a blog post, or e-mail us at samnlilah AT gmail DOT com.  Extra points for audio/visual responses!

Week 1's question is here:

http://samandlilah.tumblr.com/post/5642511600/weekly-contest-question-week-1

We look forward to hearing from you!

NOTE:  To be eligible for a Weekly Prize, you need to have responded during the first week the update appeared.  To be eligible for the Chapter Prize, you only need to have provided a response that we like to any of the questions during the time the Chapter first appeared (winners of the Weekly Prizes will be automatically included).  Finally, to be eligible for the Grand Prize, you only need to have provided a response that we like to any of the questions during the time that all three Chapters appeared (winners of the Weekly and Chapter Prizes will be automatically included, though, so if you're a latecomer it better be good!.)

So in summary: 11 free prints, 3 signed books, 1 page of original art, and an unlimited amount of Jim and Hyeondo's good will and appreciation.  Good luck!

Thanks again for your time and interest!

 

Sincerely,

 

Jim Dougan and Hyeondo Park

www.facebook.com/samandlilah

www.twitter.com/samandlilah

samandlilah.tumblr.com

samnlilah AT gmail DOT com

 

--

MTV GEEK:  http://www.mtv.geek.com

 

ACT-I-VATE:  http://www.activatecomix.com

 

Jim Dougan:  http://chatterbox-dc.livejournal.com

 

Hyeondo Park:  http://www.hanaroda.net

 

--

 

Romance.  Adventure. Curses. Cupcakes.

 

SAM & LILAH.

Washington Examiner article on comics movies

The Washington Examiner cover story article on comics movies is a bait-and-switch with just a couple of paragraphs of descriptions about movies coming out this summer.  

OT: Comics and health and medicine

Martha's got an excellent bibliography online now, that's of interest to me due to Harvey Pekar's Our Cancer Year, as well as my day job in a medical museum. I've presented a paper on comics and cancer, but haven't published it yet.

 

Here's Martha's list -

 

Graphic Novels Short Takes: Health & Medicine
By Martha Cornog May 19, 2011
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/newslettersnewsletterbucketbooksmack/890594-439/graphic_novels_short_takes_health.html.csp

Martha would also like people to know about this year's Graphic Medicine conference.

Comic Riffs' massive Richard Thompson profile

THE 'COMIC RIFFS' / POST MAGAZINE PROFILE: 'Cul de Sac' creator Richard Thompson faces life's cruel twists with artful wit
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 19 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-comic-riffspost-magazine-profile-cul-de-sac-creator-richard-thompson-faces-lifes-cruel-twists-with-artful-wit/2011/05/18/AFiNaT7G_blog.html#pagebreak

Note that this version is longer than the one appearing in Sunday's print Post Magazine.

 

Great job, Michael!

"A portrait of ‘Cul de Sac’ cartoonist Richard Thompson" photos online

A portrait of 'Cul de Sac' cartoonist Richard Thompson

Dustin Fenstermacher
Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-portrait-of-cul-de-sac-cartoonist-richard-thompson/2011/05/18/AFHTxQ7G_gallery.html#photo=1

and there's a big article coming this weekend.