'Anime Momotaro' is truly for kids of all ages [in print as 'Banzai caper is a crowd-pleaser].
By Jane Horwitz,
Washington Post February 11, 2013.
online at
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Comic Riffs on Kal's Kickstarter Campaign
KAL'S LAST KICK: With hours to go, Economist/Baltimore Sun cartoonist nears new Kickstarter goal
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog (February 11 2013)
Monday, February 11, 2013
Weldon on Stan Lee
The Man Behind Spider-Man? Stan Lee is a legend. But not for the reasons you think.
BY GLEN WELDON
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112342/stan-lee-launches-kids-comics-usual-he-didnt-write-them#
BY GLEN WELDON
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112342/stan-lee-launches-kids-comics-usual-he-didnt-write-them#
Third Eye Comics in Annapolis profiled
Reviewing your local shops: Third Eye Comics
By: Bryan Sinagra
02/08/2013
PR: Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis to launch graphic novel trilogy in August
Another DC-based (at least part-time) comic book writer!
Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis to launch graphic novel trilogy in August
Photo by Eric Etheridge
February 11, 2013
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, a man who has witnessed history in the making and helped make history himself as one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.
Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis is turning to the graphic novel format, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole, NY Times Bestseller for The Silence of Our Friends). The resulting graphic novel trilogy, entitled March, will be released by Georgia-based publisher Top Shelf Productions, known for the thoughtful and award-winning works of Alan Moore, Craig Thompson, and Jeff Lemire.
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights (including his key roles in the historic 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March), meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
The first volume, March (Book One), will appear in stores everywhere on August 13, 2013. Two weeks later, America will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom.
Throughout the year, Lewis and his co-creators will travel across the country to promote the book, including featured keynote appearances at BookExpo America in New York, the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Chicago, and Comic-Con International in San Diego.
March is a historic first, both for the U.S. Congress and for comics publishing as a whole, marking the first time a sitting member of Congress has authored a graphic novel. Top Shelf Productions is the first and only graphic novel publisher to be certified by the House Committee on Standards.
In March, a true American icon joins with one of America's most acclaimed graphic novelists. Together, they bring to life one of our nation's most historic moments, a period both shameful and inspiring, and a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.
March (Book One), a deluxe softcover graphic novel with french flaps and black & white interiors, 6.5" x 9.5", 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-60309-300-2, $14.95 US. August 13, 2013.
For more information and a 14-page preview, visit http://www.topshelfcomix.com/march.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Photo by Eric Etheridge
JOHN LEWIS is Georgia's Fifth Congressional District Representative and an American icon widely known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement.
As a student at American Baptist Theological Seminary in 1959, John Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. He was beaten severely by angry mobs and arrested by police for challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
From 1963 to 1966, Lewis was Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As Chairman, John Lewis became a nationally recognized leader. Lewis was dubbed one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and at the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963.
In 1964, John Lewis coordinated SNCC efforts to organize voter registration drives and community action programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The following year, Lewis helped spearhead one of the most seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Hosea Williams, another notable Civil Rights leader, and John Lewis led over 600 peaceful, orderly protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state. The marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as "Bloody Sunday." News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. After leaving SNCC in 1966, he continued his commitment to the Civil Rights Movement as Associate Director of the Field Foundation and his participation in the Southern Regional Council's voter registration programs. Lewis went on to become the Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP). In 1977, John Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency.
In 1981, he was elected to the Atlanta City Council. He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since then. In 2011 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Lewis' 1999 memoir Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement won numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy, Lillian Smith, and Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. His most recent book, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change, has received the NAACP Image Award.
ANDREW AYDIN, NATE POWELL & JOHN LEWIS
ANDREW AYDIN, an Atlanta native, currently serves in Rep. John Lewis' Washington, D.C. office handling Telecommunications and Technology policy as well as New Media. Previously, he served as Communications Director and Press Secretary during Rep. Lewis' 2008 and 2010 re-election campaigns, as District Aide to Rep John Larson (D-CT), and as Special Assistant to Connecticut Lt. Governor Kevin Sullivan. Andrew is a graduate of the Lovett School in Atlanta, Trinity College in Hartford, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
NATE POWELL is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes the critically acclaimed Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole (winner of the Eisner Award and Ignatz Award, finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), The Year of the Beasts, The Silence of Our Friends, and Sounds of Your Name.
Powell appeared at the United Nations in 2011, discussing his contribution to the fundraising fiction anthology What You Wish For: A Book For Darfur alongside some of the world's foremost writers of young adult fiction.
In addition to March, Powell is also currently drawing the graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan's #1 international bestseller Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, while writing and drawing his own forthcoming graphic novel Cover and assembling the short story collection You Don't Say.
TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS, based in Atlanta, GA, is the literary graphic novel and comics publisher best known for its ability to discover and showcase the vanguard of the comics scene. Founded by co-publisher Brett Warnock in 1995, and joined by co-publisher Chris Staros in 1997, Top Shelf has produced over 250 comics and graphic novels that have helped to revitalize interest in comics as a literary art form.
Among Top Shelf's most notable releases are Alan Moore's From Hell, Lost Girls, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Craig Thompson's Blankets; Andy Runton's Owly; Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele's The Surrogates; Jeff Lemire's Essex County and The Underwater Welder; and Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Literacy prof Katie Monnin likes District Comics... a lot
"Edited by Matt Dembicki, District Comics is already one of my all-time favorite graphic novels. Whether or not you read it in 2012, or plan to read it in 2013, it will most likely end up on your "favorites" list as well."
Read more at -
Katie's Korner: Graphic Novel Reviews for Schools and Libraries
Diamond Bookshelf February 2013
http://www.diamondbookshelf.com/Home/1/1/20/836?articleID=131069
Read more at -
Katie's Korner: Graphic Novel Reviews for Schools and Libraries
Diamond Bookshelf February 2013
http://www.diamondbookshelf.com/Home/1/1/20/836?articleID=131069
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Feb 10: Capicons comic con
- 10:00am until 3:00pm
| Featuring: Tim Dzon, DC/Marvel inker and cover artist http:// Chris Flick, Capes 'n Babes http:// Bill McKay, Zombies vs. Cheerleaders http:// Dan Nokes, 21st Century Sandshark Studios http://21sandshark.com/ Pete Tapang, http://fineartamerica.com/ and Rafer Roberts, of Plastic Farm Press and DC Conspiracy http://plasticfarm.com/ Admission $3 - Kids FREE! Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Dept. 2148 Gallows Rd, Dunn Loring, Virginia |
Friday, February 08, 2013
Feb 9: Charity event and Cody the Cavelier at Game On Comics!
This Saturday! Feb. 9th!
"SHARE THE COMICS LOVE" WITH GAME ON COMICS!
This Saturday, from 11am to 3pm at GAME ON COMICS, we will take donations of comics and money to split between St Jude's Children's Hospital and soldiers deployed overseas. We will also have signed books and art from creators like Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Gabriel Hardman and more for you to win through auctions and raffles. All monies collected through raffles and auctions, and in kind donations will be split between St Jude's and the Red Cross.
CODY THE CAVALIER creator Jamie Cosley will be here in the shop signing copies of his wonderful all ages books, and doing sketches and more for everyone, so make sure to bring your kids to say HI! and check out CODY the CAVALIER!
Back issues will be $2 for folks wanting to donate comics that don't have any. Just tell us at the register how many back issues you want to donate, and give a copy of your receipt to the folks collecting comics, and we'll send them out!
Thanks again for all of your interest and help! Email jr at gameoncomics dot com for more information, or swing by the shop.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Awesome Con newsletter
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SL Gallant sneaks himself into GI Joe
Dupont Circle'ish cartoonist SL Gallant snuck himself into GI Joe lately. See the last piece in this article:
Thanks to Randy T for the tip.
Kickstarter collection of Kal cartoons from The Economist
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Comic Riffs on the NRA's enemies list (which includes Tom Toles)
...but not Matt Wuerker or Ann Telnaes! More details at -
IN NRA's SIGHTS: A striking 14 cartoonists make 'anti-gun' list
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 6 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/in-nras-sights-a-striking-14-cartoonists-make-anti-gun-list/2013/02/06/d657806e-6fe4-11e2-a050-b83a7b35c4b5_blog.html#pagebreak
IN NRA's SIGHTS: A striking 14 cartoonists make 'anti-gun' list
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 6 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/in-nras-sights-a-striking-14-cartoonists-make-anti-gun-list/2013/02/06/d657806e-6fe4-11e2-a050-b83a7b35c4b5_blog.html#pagebreak
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Retrospective collection of Kal cartoons continues at Kickstarter
Kal's coming close to wrapping up his Kickstarter book campaign, but he's still adding goodies to it:
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Luna Brothers' The Sword headed for the movies
Berlin 2013: Lakeshore To Adapt 'The Sword' Graphic Novel; The tale of vengeance from the Luna Brothers follows Lakeshore's success with the "Underworld" franchise.
by Scott Roxborough
2/6/2013
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lakeshore-adapt-sword-graphic-novel-418701
by Scott Roxborough
2/6/2013
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lakeshore-adapt-sword-graphic-novel-418701
Bambi wants YOU
Disney's Bambi "Protect Our Forest Friends" by preventing wildfire poster, in Skyline, Falls Church, VA.
Our buddy Bernard examines Wertham's cold remains
Warren Bernard's Citations and Fredric Wertham Documents
BY Warren Bernard Feb 6, 2013
http://www.tcj.com/warren-bernard-1954/
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
That darn anti-gun Tom Toles
Alan Gardner of the Daily Cartoonist is reporting that Tim (sic, Tom) Toles is on an NRA blacklist with 13 other cartoonists. Toles is the Washington Post's editorial cartoonist.
Feb 13-18: Disney on Ice returns
Disney on Ice: Treasure Trove - A Live Celebration of Disney's Animated Gems! will be at the Verizon Center from February 13-18th. $20-$75 for tickets. Save $5 with "Examiner" offer code.
A Chat with Matt Rawson online now
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Matt Rawson
by Mike Rhode on Feb. 5, 2013
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