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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Game On! newsletter
Local webcartoonist Kerry G. Johnson profiled
by Raychelle Muhammad
Raychelle Writes blog March 5, 2012
http://raychelle-writes.blogspot.com/2012/03/writers-block-interviews-kerry-g.html
His website is http://kerrykraft.com/ and his webcomic Harambee Hills is at http://www.gocomics.com/harambeehills
Comic Riffs interviews the retiring Tony Auth
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 7 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-riffs-interview-pulitzer-winning-tony-auth-to-leave-inquirer-after-a-great-ride-of-40-years/2012/03/07/gIQAnwnPxR_blog.html#pagebreak
Politics and Prose's Graphic Novel Bookgroup books! (UPDATED)
Here's the list for the next 6 months.
As for the April book: Delisle will be coming to store on the 26th…so I think we'll probably have the group then. Maybe he'll join us for the discussion. Also, this book has not been released yet, but I'll let you all know when it is…probably mid-April.
April 25/26th
Jerusalem by Delisle
May 23rd
Are you My Mother by Allison Bechdel
June 27th
Dylan Dog: Case Files by Sclavi
July 25th
Local by Brian Wood
August 22nd
Understanding Comics by McCloud
September 26th
The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes
October 24th
Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mignola
April 3: Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Early Release Party
Tuesday, April 3 at 8:00pm
Location: all 4 Big Planet Comics stores!
I was somewhat surprised to get this Facebook invitation. So surprised that I might actually go!
March 14: Comics Exhibit at UMBC
"All Lurid, Unsavory, Gruesome Illustrations Shall Be Eliminated: The Comics Code as seen through the UMBC Comics Collection," currently on display in the Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is a chance to see how self-censorship shaped the way comic books have developed over the past 70 years. Visitors will see rare pre-Code, Silver Age, and underground titles as well as non-Code magazines and modern graphic novels.
Also part of the exhibit is rarely seen original 1970s comic book art from legendary artists such as Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott and John Romita, Sr. Recently unearthed from the Special Collections vault, these pieces have rarely been seen in public. Shown with their published counterparts, the works provide a fascinating insight into the comic book production process.
The exhibit runs until May 16th. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, March 14th, from 12-1pm. Special Collections is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-4 pm, and Thursdays from 1-8 pm. Other weekday hours are available by appointment- call 410-455-2353. More information on UMBC's Special Collections can be found at http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/ .
Steve Ammidown
Special Collections Student Assistant
Albin O. Kuhn Library, UMBC
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Truitt on Green Arrow
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 5 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-03-05/Green-Arrow-comic-book-series/53368296/1
Truitt on Manhattan Projects
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 6 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-03-06/The-Manhattan-Projects-comic-book-series/53388376/1
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March 29: Early Comics and the Nature of the Child Lecture, Library of Congress
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington DC 20540
March 6, 2012
Public contact: Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115, mkenn@loc.gov
Swann Foundation Fellow Lara Saguisag to Discuss
How Early American Comic Strips Shed Light on the Nature of the Child
Swann Foundation Fellow Lara Saguisag, in a lecture at the Library of Congress, will examine how early 20th-century comic strips that featured child protagonists revealed the nature of the child during that era.
Saguisag will present "Sketching the 'Secret Tracts' of the Child's Mind: Theorizing Childhood in Early American Fantasy Strips, 1905-1914," at noon on Thursday, March 29, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C. The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are needed.
Saguisag will focus specifically on fantasy strips such as Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and Lyonel Feininger's "Wee Willie Winkie's World." These strips featured child characters who inhabited dream worlds and transformed their environments through their imaginations. According to Saguisag, central to these works is the idea that a child's perception and experience of the world was shaped by his/her proclivity for fantasy. This natural connection with fantasy, moreover, made the child a complex, sometimes inscrutable figure, one who was essentially different from an adult.
Comic strips that linked childhood and fantasy drew from and built on themes of late-19th and early-20th-century children's books such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" and Frank L. Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Such literature portrayed and celebrated the child as a highly imaginative being who enters and sometimes creates fantasy worlds that an adult could not readily access.
According to Saguisag, during the same period, psychologists and practitioners associated with the Child Study Movement were also intrigued by what G. Stanley Hall termed the "secret tracts" of the child's mind. Many psychologists concluded that imaginative play and reverie were healthful childhood activities and advised parents to take an active role in cultivating the child's imagination. The intersection of children's literature and psychology encountered in early American "kid strips" helped perpetuate and naturalize the image of the imaginative child.
Born and raised in the Philippines, Saguisag completed an M.A. in Children's literature at Hollins University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The New School. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, where she held a University Presidential Fellowship from 2007-2009.
This presentation is sponsored by the Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon of the Library of Congress and the Library's Prints & Photographs Division. The lecture is part of the foundation's continuing activities to support the study, interpretation, preservation and appreciation of original works of humorous and satiric art by graphic artists from around the world. The foundation strives to award one fellowship annually to assist scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. Applications for the 2013-2014 academic year are due Feb. 15, 2013. More information about the fellowship is available through the Swann Foundation's website: www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/ or by e-mailing swann@loc.gov.
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PR12-48
3/6/12
ISSN: 0731-3527
Local bits
Bill Brown has a calendar out of cartoons from his local paper - Citizen Bill 2012, Takoma Park, MD: Takoma Voice. I bought mine directly from him last weekend.
I also met Jason E. Axtell who just colored Mr. Big for the Dembicki's reissue. His website is http://www.jasoneaxtell.com
Magic Bullet #4, Washington's cartoon newspaper is out, and has an ad for ComicsDC that Rafer Roberts kindly drew for me. Pick it up at finer comics stores in the area.
Monday, March 05, 2012
Post article on Lorax merchandising and advertising...
Brown, Emma. 2012.
At a school near you, the Lorax now speaks for SUVs.
Washington Post (March 5): B2