One of the panels:
Sean T. Collins.
SPX 2012 - Gilbert Hernandez: Love From The Shadows
Oct 4, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpdpz4KKUQ
Gilbert Hernandez and his brothers launched the alternative comics era with their epoch-defining series Love and Rockets. Gilbert first made his mark with his Palomar stories, an intergenerational saga detailing life and love in a fictional Central American town. But a parallel strand of Gilbert's restless oeuvre has since taken center stage in new graphic novels and stories that combine formal play with genre experimentation to open another window into the workings of the human heart. Gilbert will discuss his work with critic Sean T. Collins.
Here's the local cartoonists:
SPX 2012: Warren Bernard
Oct 1, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1scTlk3Viy4&feature=plcp
With the show over, the guys sit down with SPX Executive Director Warren Bernard to talk about how everything went: the challenges, the successes, the surprises, and, most importantly, the exhaustion.
SPX 2012: Ben Claassen III
Oct 1, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuk1SYeDo_g&feature=relmfu
Well after the show ends, Rusty and Joe sit down with Ben Claassen III and reflect on the show. It's SPX After Dark and things get saucy with a quickness as we discuss the future and how to make comics FOREVER.
SPX 2012: Matt Dembicki
Sep 30, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeVXfBCjNvY&feature=plcp
The guys talk to Matt Dembicki and the trio commiserate about a life of hard to pronounce last names. They also talk about Matt's new graphic novel, "XOC", as well as the recently released anthology, "District Comics". Also, learn about stealing!
SPX 2012: Adam Bomb and Rome
Sep 30, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VirRr4gA0TQ&feature=plcp
Joe and Rusty sit down two fantastic young comic makers, brothers Adam Bomb and Rome, sons of Matt Dembicki. This is the second year the guys have talked with Adam and the first with Rome and both are absolutely adorable!
and out-of-town participants:
SPX 2012: Catherine Peach
Sep 30, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWy5vJSEUM&feature=plcp
Rusty and Joe chat with Catherine Peach, an exhibitor without a table but not without high fives! Learn about nomadic selling, possibly earned badges and dangerous high fives!
SPX 2012: Jeff and Adam Zwirek
Sep 30, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7qq0_PHHE&feature=plcp
Joe and Rusty sit down with the brothers Zwirek, Jeff and Adam, to talk about one of the big debuts of the show, Burning Building Comix! Learn about the challenge of making really tall books, the danger of a slutty Yoda, free cake at CAKE, and pornographic stick figures!
SPX 2012: Cara Bean and Sally Carson
Sep 30, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuS9g0UfJ7M&feature=plcp
For the second year in a row, Joe and Rusty talk to Cara Bean but mix it up a little bit by adding Sally Carson to this powder keg of small press spectacularity! The topics covered are numerous and, even more harrowing, they answer more than just one Mysterious Question! Change your life and change your heart with this quad-copter of love!
SPX 2012: Michael Bracco
Oct 1, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyJ51Saz3sA&feature=plcp
Joe and Rusty talk to Michael Bracco about his return to SPX after years away. Learn about his new book, "The Creators", how SPX has treated him upon his big return, and the power of creating crap! Also, a very important discussion of Rusty and Joe's idea for Splash 2 (CGI John Candy!).
SPX 2012: Justin Rivers
Oct 1, 2012 by SmallPressExpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nBYZK5aCfQ&feature=plcp
Rusty and Joe chat with SPX sophomore Justin Rivers about his book, "The Wonder City", creeping out Chris Ware, and the pure love of taking a bullet for someone.
Monday, October 08, 2012
The Post adds Dustin strip, dumps Tank McNamara
Although Michael says only that Tank has moved 'online', we call a spade a spade here at PokerDC...
POST ADDS 'DUSTIN' COMIC: Creators think 'boomerang son' strip reflects 'modern American family'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog (October 8 2012):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/post-adds-dustin-comic-creators-think-boomerang-son-strip-reflects-modern-american-family/2012/10/08/f1f4318a-0f74-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_blog.html#pagebreak
... and I will not that Tank was not well-served by the most-recent shrinkage of the comics page, which made it too small to actually read.
POST ADDS 'DUSTIN' COMIC: Creators think 'boomerang son' strip reflects 'modern American family'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog (October 8 2012):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/post-adds-dustin-comic-creators-think-boomerang-son-strip-reflects-modern-american-family/2012/10/08/f1f4318a-0f74-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_blog.html#pagebreak
... and I will not that Tank was not well-served by the most-recent shrinkage of the comics page, which made it too small to actually read.
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Recent Sal Buscema interview
Sal Buscema, the longtime Marvel penciller, lives in Northern Virginia.
Stroud, Brian D. 2012.
Sal Buscema interview.
Silver Age Sage: http://www.wtv-zone.com/silverager/interviews/buscema.shtml
Stroud, Brian D. 2012.
Sal Buscema interview.
Silver Age Sage: http://www.wtv-zone.com/silverager/interviews/buscema.shtml
Saturday, October 06, 2012
The Post on new Marvel history book
Marvel Comics' heroic history
By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post October 7, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/heroic-history-of-marvel-comics/2012/10/05/d8100a32-f692-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html
By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post October 7, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/heroic-history-of-marvel-comics/2012/10/05/d8100a32-f692-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Middle Class First"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1179
Middle Class First
"We do best when the middle class is doing well."
--Barack Obama, Presidential Debate 10.03.2012
So, I'm seeing a lot of footage of Obama rallies on TV lately showing us lots of raving Dembots waving signs reading "Middle Class First".
Now, on the surface, this sounds really nice and progressive populist and all, until you stop and think of how Obama bailed out the banks and Wall Street and left the foreclosed and unemployed hanging out to dry, and when you think about how the Presidential candidates of both wings of the Party pander to the middle class while totally ignoring the working class and the poor. In fact, at my count, at last Wednesday night's "debate", I heard the phrase "middle class" spoken at least fifteen times in the first half hour -- until I had to stop watching because my eyes were glazing and my brain was dribbling out of my ears.
To be honest, I'm actually becoming really annoyed at the amount of fawning and gushing and pandering directed at the Middle Class™ by politicians at the media, even as they display indifference -- or, in some cases, flat-out hostility -- towards the working class, the poor, and the formerly middle-class who've fallen into poverty owing to extended unemployment or foreclosure.
Let's also not forget that generally, the Middle Class™ is where all the narrow-mindedness, conformity, materialism and selfishness live.They consume the most resources and complain the most about taxes while demanding the best of everything -- roads, schools, public services -- while joining in the villification of the poor and identifying with the rich, even as the rich continue to screw them royally.
So, perhaps a more accurate slogan for the Obama campaign might be "Middle Class First, And Throw The Poor A Bone If There's Any Left".
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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"
--grateful dead.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Middle Class First
"We do best when the middle class is doing well."
--Barack Obama, Presidential Debate 10.03.2012
So, I'm seeing a lot of footage of Obama rallies on TV lately showing us lots of raving Dembots waving signs reading "Middle Class First".
Now, on the surface, this sounds really nice and progressive populist and all, until you stop and think of how Obama bailed out the banks and Wall Street and left the foreclosed and unemployed hanging out to dry, and when you think about how the Presidential candidates of both wings of the Party pander to the middle class while totally ignoring the working class and the poor. In fact, at my count, at last Wednesday night's "debate", I heard the phrase "middle class" spoken at least fifteen times in the first half hour -- until I had to stop watching because my eyes were glazing and my brain was dribbling out of my ears.
To be honest, I'm actually becoming really annoyed at the amount of fawning and gushing and pandering directed at the Middle Class™ by politicians at the media, even as they display indifference -- or, in some cases, flat-out hostility -- towards the working class, the poor, and the formerly middle-class who've fallen into poverty owing to extended unemployment or foreclosure.
Let's also not forget that generally, the Middle Class™ is where all the narrow-mindedness, conformity, materialism and selfishness live.They consume the most resources and complain the most about taxes while demanding the best of everything -- roads, schools, public services -- while joining in the villification of the poor and identifying with the rich, even as the rich continue to screw them royally.
So, perhaps a more accurate slogan for the Obama campaign might be "Middle Class First, And Throw The Poor A Bone If There's Any Left".
--
.
"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"
--grateful dead.
________________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Stephan Pastis at Politics and Prose Bookstore (October 6, 2012)
(October 6, 2012)
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis speaks about his comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC.More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42072348@N00/sets/72157631708410406/with/8061262204/
Audio: http://archive.org/details/StephanPastisAtPoliticsAndProseBookstore
Truitt on Mouse Guard
A mythic hero gets the spotlight in new 'Mouse Guard'
Brian Truitt
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/10/05/mouse-guard-the-black-axe-comic-book-series/1615957/
Brian Truitt
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/10/05/mouse-guard-the-black-axe-comic-book-series/1615957/
Friday, October 05, 2012
The Post on Frankenweenie cartoon
One deliciously dark tale
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post October 5, 2012
Comic Riffs talks to Pearls' Pastis
'PEARLS' BEFORE AN AUDIENCE: 'Pearls Before Swine' creator Stephan Pastis keeps reaching for new readers
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 5 2012
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Matt Wuerker on Voice of America
Political Cartoonists Worried About Future
Jerome Socolovsky
Voice of America News October 03, 2012
http://www.voanews.com/content/political-cartoonists-worried-about-future/1519470.html
Matt and other cartoonists were interviewed during their recent convention in DC.
Jerome Socolovsky
Voice of America News October 03, 2012
http://www.voanews.com/content/political-cartoonists-worried-about-future/1519470.html
Matt and other cartoonists were interviewed during their recent convention in DC.
Catoon political ad in the Post today
There's another of those Life without Fossil Fuel cartoon political ads on page A5 of today's Washington Post.
Ann Telnaes new app featured on Comic Riffs
CHOOSING OBAMA OR ROMNEY: Ann Telnaes's new 'POTUS Pick' app puts the interactive choice in your hands
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 4 2012
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
October 6: Pastis at Politics and Prose
Stephan Pastis - Pearls Freaks the #*%# out
Oct 6 2012 1:00 pm
Oct 6 2012 2:00 pm
The latest Treasury from the attorney-turned-cartoonist includes all strips from Larry in Wonderland and Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left Hand, along with responses from readers and Pastis's own remarks about the sources of particular themes and motifs.
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Library of Congress' Swann Foundation accepting fellowship applications
The Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress is accepting applications for its graduate fellowship, one of the few in the field, for the 2013-2014 academic year. Deadline for receipt of applications is February 15, 2013. Please email swann@loc.gov or call (202) 707-9115 if you have questions. For criteria, guidelines, and application forms, please see: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html
Animator Seth MacFarlane to host Oscars
MacFarlane to host Oscar telecast
By Lisa De Moraes, Washington Post October 2 2012
Monday, October 01, 2012
PR: Announcing our new Fantom Red sale!
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Captain America movie to be set in DC
The DCist has the story that the next Captain America movie will be filmed here.
Comic Riffs talks to The Oatmeal about preserving Tesla
TESLA MUSEUM: 'The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman on his latest successful Indiegogo campaign
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 1 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/tesla-museum-the-oatmeals-matthew-inman-on-his-latest-successful-indiegogo-campaign/2012/09/30/669e3188-0b5c-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 1 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/tesla-museum-the-oatmeals-matthew-inman-on-his-latest-successful-indiegogo-campaign/2012/09/30/669e3188-0b5c-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html
Ryan Holmberg's latest manga article
Manga Finds Pirate Gold: The Case of New Treasure Island
BY Ryan Holmberg Oct 1, 2012
http://www.tcj.com/manga-finds-pirate-gold-the-case-of-new-treasure-island/
I re-met Ryan at SPX this year, and it turns out he's living in suburban Maryland for a while. So for now, he counts for ComicsDC's links - as he writes good history, I'm glad to be able to!
BY Ryan Holmberg Oct 1, 2012
http://www.tcj.com/manga-finds-pirate-gold-the-case-of-new-treasure-island/
I re-met Ryan at SPX this year, and it turns out he's living in suburban Maryland for a while. So for now, he counts for ComicsDC's links - as he writes good history, I'm glad to be able to!
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