This appeared in the Washington City Paper last week. Click through for the comics-related answer:
Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?
Cecil Adams
The Straight Dope July 26, 2012
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3063/why-is-the-letter-z-associated-with-sleep
Dear Cecil:
Why is the letter Z, specifically, associated with sleeping? It seems silly to have a letter correspond with sleep at all, but even sillier that we don't do this with any other action. You don't hear being awake referred to as "catching some A's."
— Ethan Reber
Thursday, August 09, 2012
R.M. Rhodes on Kickstarter for Comics Reporter
Here's sequential artist R.M. Rhodes writing on Kickstarter for Tom Spurgeon's Comics Reporter.
For the record, I've funded about a dozen Kickstarter projects, all related to comic art.
For the record, I've funded about a dozen Kickstarter projects, all related to comic art.
SPX Announces Michael deForge, Dean Haspiel and Sammy Harkham as Guests of Small Press Expo 2012
SPX Announces Michael deForge, Dean Haspiel and Sammy Harkham as Guests of Small Press Expo 2012
For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard
E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com
Bethesda, Maryland; August 9, 2012 – Small Press Expo is pleased to announce Michael DeForge, Sammy Harkham and Dean Haspiel as honored guests of SPX 2012. They are in addition to the previously announced guests Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Francoise Mouly, Jamie & Gilbert Hernandez and Adrian Tomine.
Critically acclaimed Michael DeForge will be appearing at SPX for the very first time. We are honored to have the creator of the one-man anthology series Lose, from Koyama Press, at this years show.. DeForge won the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2010 Doug Wright Awards, Canada's most prestigious award in the comics field and provided the art for the cover to the SPX 2012 program.
Emmy award winning artist, Dean Haspiel, created the Eisner Award nominated, BILLY DOGMA, and illustrated for HBO's "Bored To Death." Dino has drawn many superhero and semi-autobiographical comix, including collaborations with Jonathan Lethem, Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, and Inverna Lockpez. Dino also curates + creates multimedia projects for TripCity.net, a Brooklyn-filtered literary arts salon.
Sammy Harkham is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology series Kramer's Ergot, 8th volume of which was released late last year. He is also the creator behind the comic Crickets and his new book, Everything Else, a compendium of his works, will be released this Fall from Picturebox.
About SPX
Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators, as well as a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.
As in previous years, profits from SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org.
SPX also supports the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress, which preserves the history of both the artistic output of the creators who come to SPX, as well as the art that SPX itself generates as part of its yearly festival. It the first program of its type by a major institution in the United States to preserve the works of the indie comics community.
SPX 2012 will be held Saturday, September 15 and Sunday, September 16. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.spxpo.com.
For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard
E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com
Bethesda, Maryland; August 9, 2012 – Small Press Expo is pleased to announce Michael DeForge, Sammy Harkham and Dean Haspiel as honored guests of SPX 2012. They are in addition to the previously announced guests Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Francoise Mouly, Jamie & Gilbert Hernandez and Adrian Tomine.
Critically acclaimed Michael DeForge will be appearing at SPX for the very first time. We are honored to have the creator of the one-man anthology series Lose, from Koyama Press, at this years show.. DeForge won the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2010 Doug Wright Awards, Canada's most prestigious award in the comics field and provided the art for the cover to the SPX 2012 program.
Emmy award winning artist, Dean Haspiel, created the Eisner Award nominated, BILLY DOGMA, and illustrated for HBO's "Bored To Death." Dino has drawn many superhero and semi-autobiographical comix, including collaborations with Jonathan Lethem, Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, and Inverna Lockpez. Dino also curates + creates multimedia projects for TripCity.net, a Brooklyn-filtered literary arts salon.
Sammy Harkham is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology series Kramer's Ergot, 8th volume of which was released late last year. He is also the creator behind the comic Crickets and his new book, Everything Else, a compendium of his works, will be released this Fall from Picturebox.
About SPX
Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators, as well as a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.
As in previous years, profits from SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org.
SPX also supports the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress, which preserves the history of both the artistic output of the creators who come to SPX, as well as the art that SPX itself generates as part of its yearly festival. It the first program of its type by a major institution in the United States to preserve the works of the indie comics community.
SPX 2012 will be held Saturday, September 15 and Sunday, September 16. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.spxpo.com.
Oct 6: Stephan Pastis of "Pearls Before Swine" in DC
Stephan Pastis of "Pearls Before Swine" is in DC on October 6th at 1 pm at Politics and Prose. See his blog post here.
PR: Heinrich Kley 2 volume set coming out
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 8, 2012
Contact: Joe Procopio, joseph.procopio@lostartbooks.com, (240) 643-8714
Renowned artist Heinrich Kley's life and work celebrated in
new two-volume set debuting at Small Press Expo 2012
Lost Art Books series spotlights first U.S. collection of German master's work in 40 years
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND—Picture This Press, a publishing house devoted to the graphic arts, will release two volumes on German cartoonist and illustrator Heinrich Kley as part of its ongoing series, Lost Art Books. Both books on Kley will debut simultaneously at this year's Small Press Expo on September 15-16 in Bethesda, Maryland. Although Kley has long been considered one of the world's great draftsman and a noted influence on Walt Disney's films, these are the first books of his work to appear in the United States in 40 years and are by far the most comprehensive representation to date, including a large number of his seldom-seen color works.
"There'll be a lot of excitement throughout the world once these books are available to the throng," said artist Michael Wm. Kaluta, who contributed the foreword to Volume One.
The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley Volumes One & Two collect over 450 drawings and paintings from a wide array of sources. Neither volume overlaps with past books on Kley, as nearly none of these drawings have been collected and reprinted since their original publication a century or more ago. Both volumes also provide groundbreaking scholarship on Kley's life and work by German art historian Alexander Kunkel—whose recent research is presented in these volumes for the first time in English—along with incisive appreciations by contemporary artists Michael Wm. Kaluta and Jesse Hamm.
Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as Jugend, Simplicissimus, and the historic Der Orchideengarten (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, over 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.
Volume Two also breaks new ground by being the first book to present a large number of Kley's paintings and preparatory drawings, some reproduced directly from the original art. These color works reveal a heretofore rarely glimpsed pool of talent and expand on the subject matter traditionally associated with the artist by including examples of his landscapes and industrial paintings. This volume's preparatory drawings are culled from the untapped Kley archive of the Library of Congress and show the artist working out concepts for book illustrations, reworking ink drawings into color paintings, and doodling for his own amusement. Approximately 150 drawings, many in color, appear in this volume.
Both of these volumes represent an important advancement to the English-language scholarship on Heinrich Kley, and the abundance of art within should delight his admirers, new and old alike. After debuting at the Small Press Expo, copies can be ordered directly from the publisher (www.LostArtBooks.com) and from Amazon.com.
About
Picture This Press is dedicated to broadening the appreciation and awareness of artists who work in the fields of illustration, cartooning, graphic arts, photography, and poster design. Picture This Press founder Joseph Procopio along with his co-publisher Ellen Levy have a combined 35 years of publishing experience as writers, managing editors, and publications directors for a variety of organizations.
Lost Art Books, the flagship series from Picture This Press, collects and preserves the works of illustrators and cartoonists from the first half of the 20th century. Too many of these artists have gone underappreciated for too long, with much of their work uncollected or unexamined for decades, if at all. The Lost Art Books series aims to preserve this cultural heritage by re-introducing these artists to new generations of working artists, historians, and admirers of things beautiful.
Links
Kley book trailer on YouTube: http://youtu.be/-DPdI1F5MoM
Home page: www.LostArtBooks.com
Facebook group: http://tiny.cc/2uw2i
Interview in the Washington City Paper: http://tiny.cc/47nl4
Fantom Comics: Another 50-60%-Off Graphic Novel Sale?! Yes!
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
DC backstory to Harlem Renaissance gn
Martinbrough, Illidge and Williamson Bring "The Ren" to Life
Alex Dueben,
Comic Book Resources August 8 2012
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=40210
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Truitt on Supurbia
'Supurbia' explores the drama of superheroes' personal lives
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY August 6 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-08-06/Supurbia-superhero-comic-book-series/56824234/1?csp=34life
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY August 6 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-08-06/Supurbia-superhero-comic-book-series/56824234/1?csp=34life
Distric Comics blog
Matt Dembicki is restarting his blog about Distric Comics, the new anthology of comic stories about greater Washington.
The book is for sale now. I've got a story on the Army Medical Museum in it.
The book is for sale now. I've got a story on the Army Medical Museum in it.
The Post on superhero movies as leadership lessons
The best summer movies that pack a leadership punch [in print as "These movies offer good lessons on leadership," July 31].
By Tom Fox, The Washington Post's Federal Coach blog 07/06/2012
The Post on our local Batman
Hospitals cancel Route 29 Batman visits
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post July 30 2012
Canceling Batman's hospital appearances hurts sick children
By Laurie Strongin and Allen Goldberg, Washington Post August 1 2012
Comics in the District recording online now
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Local New Yorker cartoon collector profiled
Background Check: Fred Hochberg.
By Al Kamen, Washington Post July 31 2012
Monday, August 06, 2012
Aug 18: SuPER POWERS: The ART of Comics
- SuPER POWERS: The ART of ComicsPublic Event · By K-Zillion
- 6:00pm until 9:00pm
| First of an annual art show featuring local artists themed around all things COMIC BOOK. Super powers was inspired from many trips to various comic book conventions and frequent walks i, what is known to convention goers as Artist Alley. Artist Alley showcases the art of up and coming comic artists. It's like walking in a museum of comic art! The purpose of the show is to provide a venue for comic book and art lovers to come together and see the beauty in the art of comics. |
Working Daze strip tip to Richard Thompson
http://www.gocomics.com/working-daze/2012/08/04 - thanks to Doug Wise for the lead.
VIDEO: Lost Art of Kley
Here's another publication from the local publisher Lost Art Books...
From: Joseph Procopio
Got a minute and twenty-six seconds to spare? Then check out the promo book trailer I just put together with my pal Dave Nuttycombe for the soon-to-be-released THE LOST ART OF HEINRICH KLEY, Volumes 1 & 2.
The books are slated for a mid-September release at the Small Press Expo.
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Xoc shark book interview with Matt Dembicki
Matt Dembicki's new graphic story Xoc focuses on the life of a great white shark. Here's an interview with him:
Xoc Takes Readers On A Shark's Journey
Diamond Bookshelf August 2012
http://www.diamondbookshelf.com/Home/1/1/20/835?articleID=124250
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - 3 August 2012
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Michael Rex, creator of Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian, will be appearing at both our Vienna and College Park stores on Saturday, August 18, for his new all-ages book Fangbone! 3: The Birthday Party of Dread! Michael Rex is a New York Times best-selling illustrator for his many excellent kids books, including Goodnight Goon, Furious George Goes Bananas, Runaway Mummy, and of course the first two excellent Fangbone books, Fangbone! 1: Third Grade Barbarian and Fangbone! 2: The Egg of Misery!
Summer in the 'burbs
This ice cream truck was parked for a couple of days in Arlington, VA. I think the grafitti-influenced paintings are pretty eye-catching.
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Aug 5: Capicons Comic Book and Pop Culture Con
Capicons Comic Book and Pop Culture Con
HERO INITIATIVE FUNDRAISER
Featuring:
Greg LaRocque
(Web of Spider-Man, The Flash, Avengers)
Matt Dembicki
(Xoc, Trickster, Magic Bullet)
Bob Downs, Former Marvel/DC inker and cover artist!
Bill McKay, "Zombies vs Cheerleaders"!
Tim Dzon, Former Marvel Inker and cover artist!
Dan Nokes, 21st Centiry Sandshark Studios!
Andrew Cohen
(Magic Bullet, Howzit Funnies)
...and Pete Tapang!!!!!!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
10 am - 3 pm
Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Dept.
2148 Gallows Rd,
Dunn Loring, Virginia
Admission $3 - Kids FREE!
HERO INITIATIVE FUNDRAISER
Featuring:
Greg LaRocque
(Web of Spider-Man, The Flash, Avengers)
Matt Dembicki
(Xoc, Trickster, Magic Bullet)
Bob Downs, Former Marvel/DC inker and cover artist!
Bill McKay, "Zombies vs Cheerleaders"!
Tim Dzon, Former Marvel Inker and cover artist!
Dan Nokes, 21st Centiry Sandshark Studios!
Andrew Cohen
(Magic Bullet, Howzit Funnies)
...and Pete Tapang!!!!!!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
10 am - 3 pm
Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Dept.
2148 Gallows Rd,
Dunn Loring, Virginia
Admission $3 - Kids FREE!
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