Truitt on Witch Doctor

'Witch Doctor' melds horror and medicine
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY May 26 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-05-26-witch-doctor-sneak-peek_n.htm

Post reviews Kung Fu Panda 2

Kung Fu Panda 2 packs less kapow.
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post May 26, 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/kung-fu-panda-2,1158871.html

Flintstones article in today's Express

Yabba Dabba Do!: Flintstones Getting Modern Reboot
 by Marc Silver
Express May 26 2011 p. 29
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/05/flintstones-reboot-fox-seth-macfarlane.php

 

Examiner runs AP review of Kung Fu Panda 2

Lemire, Christy / Associated Press.  2011.

'Panda 2' is lovely but lacks fresh kick.

Washington Examiner (May 26): 32

 

...if you're interested.

'Trickster' featured at American Library Association conference

Authors, illustrators discuss "Trickster" graphic novel and honoring cultures
Mon, 05/23/2011
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/authors-illustrators-discuss-trickster-graphic-novel-and-honoring-cultures

- the press release says that Matt Dembicki will be on hand to talk about the anthology.

Kevin Rechin on his cartoonist father Bill

RIP, Bill Rechin: Artist son memorializes 'Crock' cartoonist
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog (May 25 2011)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/rip-bill-rechin-artist-son-memorializes-crock-cartoonist/2011/05/24/AGZZQGBH_blog.html

Bill Blackbeard recalls his career

Comic strip savior & historian Bill Blackbeard died earlier this year. An article by him about his career is now available online for the first time -

 

The Four Color Paper Trail: A Look Back

Bill Blackbeard

Reprinted from the International Journal of Comic Art, 5:2 (Fall 2003).

http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2011/05/bill-blackbeard-reminisces-2003.html

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.