The Post spotlights Sherman's Lagoon comics running in the Post

Cartoon shark from 'Sherman's Lagoon' lobbies for underwater research lab
Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post September 19 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/cartoon-shark-from-shermans-lagoon-lobbies-for-underwater-research-lab/2012/09/18/4b98612a-fb7f-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story.html

Public Radio International interviews Kal and Patrick Chappatte

This was also recorded at the editorial cartoonist con at George Washington U

Cartoonists Wrestle with the Freedom to Insult
By Joyce Hackel
Public Radio International's The World (September 14, 2012)
http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/cartoonists-freedom-to-insult/

Kal interviewed in DC last weekend

Political Satire: Cartooning President Obama, Mitt Romney, and the rise of 3D animation

By Jake Tapper, Richard Coolidge & Sherisse Pham

Political Punch blog September 18 2012

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/political-satire-cartooning-president-obama-mitt-romney-rise-111626281.html

Here's Kal at the Editorial Cartoonist convention at George Washington University.

Kal on TV, Radio and In Person!

From Kal:

I have some news that thought you may find of interest.

I have just returned a cartoonist's convention in DC  (fun as you can imagine). While there, I did various media interview's including this video on ABC and Yahoo.com with White House correspondent Jake Tapper

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/political-satire-cartooning-president-obama-mitt-romney-rise-111626281.html

I was honored to appear on Public radio's "the World" last week with another great cartoonist colleague, Patrick Chappatte. You can hear our interview here.

http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/cartoonists-freedom-to-insult/

For those of you in the greater Baltimore area, I will be giving a public lecture this Thursday evening at Towson University. You can learn mere about it here.

http://events.towson.edu/event/bringing_politcal_cartoons_to_life_an_evening_with_cartoonist_kevin_kal_kallaugher

Many thanks!

Kal

Kevin Kallaugher

kal@kaltoons.com

www.Kaltoons.com

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

NPR's Talk of the Nation on The Influencing Machine

TotN comes out of DC, so I should start linking to their stories...

...Josh Neufeld did the cartooning for this.

What 'The Influencing Machine' Teaches College Kids
Neal Conan
Talk of the Nation September 17, 2012
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161294597/what-the-influencing-machine-teaches-college-kids
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/totn/2012/09/20120917_totn_04.mp3
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=161294597

Richard Thompson's gold Ignatz Award speech at SPX

Richard Thompson's Statement Accepting A Special Ignatz
Tom Spurgeon
September 18, 2012
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/richard_thompsons_statement_accepting_a_special_ignatz/

Philip Nel on SPX

Clear Lines and Comics Luminaries: A Report from SPX
Nine Kinds of Pie: Philip Nel's Blog
http://www.philnel.com/2012/09/17/spx-2/

Publishers Weekly on SPX success

SPX Smashes Sales Records
By Heidi MacDonald
Sep 17, 2012
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/53994-spx-smashes-sales-records.html
   

PR: SEAS Superheroes Alert

GW's School of Engineering and Applied Science publishes a new episode of IMPACT: The SEAS Superheroes.  Today, we published our latest adventure, featuring SafetyMan, which you can view at www.seas.gwu.edu/IMPACT. 

 

Donna Lewis on Tall Tales Radio

Donna tells me: There's a link up to the video at my Reply All comic strip website.  I love talking to Tom Racine.  He makes me laugh.  He's really fun.  And funny.

That's PRESIDENT Captain America, to you

Marvel elects our next president: Captain America [in print as Square-jawed hero for an Oval Office, p. C1, 9]

By Michael Cavna,

Washington Post September 18, 2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/marvel-has-our-next-president-captain-america/2012/09/17/279a6bd0-00fa-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_story.html

Sherman's Lagoon goes to Washington

Cartoonist Jim Toomey is an advocate for the oceans, and he's sent his Sherman's Lagoon characters to Washington. They arrived last Saturday (having magically gotten legs and lungs), and today Sherman met with oceanographer Sylvia Earle at National Geographic.

Baltimore Comic-Con 2012 pictures

I only took a few pictures this year, but here's some photographs of Team Cul de Sac members as well as cosplayers at Baltimore Comic-Con - groups that rarely mingle thankfully. Who knows what kind of children would result...

You can hear the Team Cul de Sac panel here.

SPX Day 2!

The SPX con yesterday was great - lots of people, lots of great guests, and lots of energy.

SPX is in North Bethesda, 2 blocks from the White Flint metro on the Red Line.

http://www.spxpo.com/

Marriott Bethesda North Hotel &
Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road.
North Bethesda, MD 20852
301-822-9200

National Academy of Engineering sponsors Bleeker comic strip

"Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog" Promotes Engineering Education in New Storyline

September 13, 2012

KING FEATURES AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
TO PROMOTE ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN
"BLEEKER THE RECHARGEABLE DOG" COMIC STRIP

Special Two-Week Storyline Debuts in Newspapers and Online from Sept. 17-29, 2012

 

 New York, Sept. 13, 2012 – Starting on Monday, Sept. 17, the digital-themed comic strip, BLEEKER: THE RECHARGEABLE DOG, in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), will launch a special two-week comic series that shines a spotlight on engineers and highlights the growing importance of engineering on future innovation. A new strip from the storyline will run in newspapers in the U.S. and Canada and on the NAE website at www.nae.edu and on www.BleekerComics.com.

Just like students across the country, the comic strip's characters, Lila and Skip, are back in school. These two fifth graders are assigned an early class project that focuses on perhaps the least talked-about part of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education—engineering. With Skip's electronic pet Bleeker tagging along, Skip and Lila learn what engineers do and how they might make positive impacts in the world by pursuing engineering as a career path.

Created by cartoonist Jonathan Mahood and distributed by King Features Syndicate, BLEEKER: THE RECHARGEABLE DOG is a funny strip about the friendship that exists between a boy and his dog, all with a contemporary 21st century twist. Bleeker is a rechargeable dog—he comes with his own battery pack and touch screen belly. Bleeker is a walking cell phone, music player, camera, printer, smoke detector, global positioning system and scanner all rolled into one user friendly device. He is like a typical canine, in that he can play fetch and do tricks like any other dog…except he needs to be recharged at the end of the day.

"Since I draw a comic strip about robots, I was really excited to join forces with the National Academy of Engineering and create an engineering-focused storyline in Bleeker," said Mahood. "It was a chance to highlight, for readers young and old, the essential role engineering plays in our daily lives and how it will help shape our future. On a personal note, my dad was an electrical engineer and as kids we really had no idea what he did at his job all day. Creating these comics helped me to reconnect and realize what a creative and hands-on profession he had."

The inspiration for Bleeker himself came partly from an engineering innovation with wide-ranging impact, because he is a combination of Mahood's favorite companions: his dog and his iPod.

On Sept. 21, the BLEEKER comic strip will feature a mention of the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering. These game-changing opportunities, which are identified by an international committee of some of this generation's leading technological thinkers including Google CEO Larry Page, NOAA head Jane Luchenco, Nobel Prize-winner Mario Molina, genome pioneer J. Craig Venter, and former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry among others, are proving to be inspirational in education through activities like the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program taking root at colleges and universities across the nation.

"By opening young people's eyes—even through fun avenues like the 'BLEEKER' comic strip—to ways engineers make a difference in the world, we are sure to attract a more diverse group of the best and brightest students to pursue this career path and help drive our nation's innovation engine," said NAE senior communications officer Randy Atkins. "It's great to see a female character like Lila excitedly leading her friends on a path to learning more about engineering."

The "BLEEKER" series utilizes research from the NAE's Changing the Conversation report, which identifies messages likely to promote the public understanding of engineering.

BLEEKER: THE RECHARGEABLE DOG is distributed to newspapers, websites and mobile applications by King Features Syndicate, and can be read daily on more than 100 Comics Kingdom sites, www.DailyINK.com/features/Bleeker and www.Bleekercomics.com.

About The U.S. National Academy of Engineering

The mission of the National Academy of Engineering is to advance the wellbeing of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. The NAE is part of the National Academies, which also include the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

About Jonathan Mahood

After years of sending cartoon submissions to newspaper syndicates (and receiving the corresponding rejection letters) Jonathan decided to launch his first comic online in July 2006 called "Hoover: The Rechargeable Dog." The strip combined his two favorite companions: his dog and his iPod. In 2007, the comic was picked up by GoComics and Mahood renamed it BLEEKER, after his grandfather's middle name. Since then the comic has built a strong daily audience, attracted interest for an animated television series and has been translated weekly for Die Zeit, Germany's largest national weekly newspaper. In 2010, BLEEKER: THE RECHARGEABLE DOG was signed by King Features Syndicate for worldwide syndication. Mahood, his dog and his iPod, live in a small town north of Toronto.

About King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate is a member of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication Group, which combines Hearst Corporation's network partnerships, television programming activities, and newspaper syndication and merchandise licensing operations. King Features is the world's premier distributor of comics, columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games, distributing in print and online some 150 features to nearly 5,000 newspapers and other outlets around the globe. It is one of the largest and most experienced organizations in merchandise licensing and entertainment. It represents some of the most recognizable global brands, including Popeye the Sailor Man, Olive Oyl and Betty Boop. For more information, please visit http://www.kingfeatures.com.

You say #!&% Cartoons!! - I say Damn! Cartoons

The American Association of Editorial Cartoonists has opened its annual convention to the public for the first time and called it either #!&% Cartoons!! or Damn! Cartoons. Local cartoonists Matt Wuerker, Anne Telnaes, Tom Toles, and Nate Beeler will be attending. Also appearing are Bob Staake who draws for the Washington Post, Kevin 'Kal' Kallaugher from our sister city of Baltimore along with New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly and many others from the dwindling field. Censored Malaysian cartoonist Zunar will be presented an award by the Cartoonists Rights Network (which is based in NoVa). On Saturday, the day is filled with chalk talks where a cartoonist draws while speaking. At least 12 Pulitzer Prize winners will be there, so bring your autograph book.

 

September 14-15, George Washington University, $10.

DC papers on Satrapi's Chicken with Plums and re-Finding Nemo

Love and death in prerevolutionary Iran
Kelly Jane Torrance
The Washington Examiner September 14, 2012
http://washingtonexaminer.com/love-and-death-in-prerevolutionary-iran/article/2507937#.UFPkqFFceSo

Enjoying a feast
By Ann Hornaday
Friday, September 14, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/chicken-with-plums-poulet-aux-prunes,1228812/critic-review.html

Dreams of a Father
'Chicken With Plums' embraces the light and darkness of love
By Shauna Miller
 September 14, 2012          
http://www.expressnightout.com/2012/09/dreams-of-a-father/

and a bit on 3-D'ing Finding Nemo:

Don't Touch the Art
By Kristen Page-Kirby
September 14, 2012
http://www.expressnightout.com/2012/09/dont-touch-the-art/

Must-sea?: 'Finding Nemo' returns in 3-D
By Jen Chaney
September 14, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/finding-nemo-3d,1216209/critic-review.html

Comic Riffs polls editorial cartoonists

OBAMA vs. ROMNEY: Whom would the nation's cartoonists rather satirize? The winner is . . .
By Michael Cavna
Comic Riffs September 14 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/obama-vs-romney-whom-would-the-nations-cartoonists-rather-satirize-the-winner-is/2012/09/13/eae19e62-fd51-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_blog.html#pagebreak

The Post on children's how-to-cartoon books

With pictures, tell your own stories [online as Graphic novels and comic books your parents won't object to]
By Tracy Grant,
Washington Post September 12, 2012, p. C10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/graphic-novels-and-comic-books-your-parents-wont-object-to/2012/09/11/c471fef4-f2e1-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html

Meelee at Malaysia, by Joe Sutliff

"Representatives of Amnesty International, Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) and the AAEC joined Malaysian cartoonist Zunar for a demonstration in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Northeast Washington on Wednesday evening. The protest was to draw attention to a lack of freedom of the press in Malaysia. Mr. Zunar is in Washington DC to receive an award from the AAEC for courage in political cartooning. Representatives of the embassy came out and spoke with Zunar for a few minutes through the embassy gate. Extra police were on hand, but the protest remained peaceful."

Matt Wuerker and the fuzz

Matt Wuerker holds sign as Zunar speaks

Matt Wuerker in rear, Iran's Nik Kowsar in front of his sign, CRNI's Bro Russell (in blue shirt w/ beard), Zunar in yellow shirt, CRNI's Drew Rougier-Chapman in blue shirt and blazer.