Dec 3: March book signing: civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis' #1 bestselling graphic novel

After a host of massively successful events and media coverage, US Congessman and civil rights icon John Lewis, the last living speaker from the March on Washington, is coming to the downtown DC Barnes & Noble for a book signing of his #1 bestselling graphic novel autobiography March: Book One, together with co-author Andrew Aydin, next Tuesday, December 3rd at 6:30pm!

Quick reference URL: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/82310

Recent updates on the amazing response to this graphic novel:

a sellout appearance at the National Press Club Book Fair last week
a glowing review in Sunday's New York Times
an in-depth appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show earlier this month
being named one of 2013's best books by the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, and Amazon

Currently in its 14th week on the NYT Bestseller list
As well as tons of earlier coverage from The Colbert Report to CNN and NPR appearances, and even breaking sales records at Comic-Con!

Lewis and Aydin will be speaking & signing Tuesday at the Barnes & Noble in downtown Washington DC, at 6:30pm.

Details: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/82310

Store address & phone number:

555 12th St NW, Washington, DC 20004, 202-347-0176

March: Book One, a 128-page softcover graphic novel. 

$14.95 print, $9.99 digital

ISBN 978-1-60309-300-2

http://www.topshelfcomix.com/march

Tom Arvis' Mercenary Pig comic book

Today's email from a local creator:

I will be publishing a nationally distributed version of the original Mercenary Pig Book One (currently still available on Amazon.com) through Gary Beatty's Indy Comics Magazine Presents, to be solicited in the February issue of Previews and distributed in April of 2014. This book will be priced at $4.99 (as opposed to the $12.50 Amazon price) for 48 full color pages.

I've recently sent final art, including a new cover, revised pages and a slightly different ending to Gary.

 
Tom Arvis
creator/publisher
Sureshot Comics
www.sureshotcomics.com

Carla Speed McNeil does monkey benefit story

MonkeyBrain Releases Digital 'Panels For Primates' Charity Anthologies

 11/25/2013 by Graeme McMillan

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/monkeybrain-releases-digital-panels-primates-659859

Creators with work in the two collections include Stan Lee, Carla Speed McNeil and John Byrne, with profits going to the Primate Rescue Center in Kentucky.

Feeling Minnesota

A copy of “Larry Smith’s Cartoon Map of Minnesota” hangs at Famous Dave’s BBQ restaurant in Oakton, Va. (The same place that has a Will Eisner gun-safety promo piece in another room). I wasn't able to find much on the web about this piece, except that it was made sometime in 1940s and the Minnesota Historical Library Society has a copy.

A close up of the framed poster

'Nightmare the Rat' is coming to the web

Cartoonist Rafer Roberts is taking his “Nightmare the Rat” cartoon from the pages of the Magic Bullet comics newspaper to the web, beginning Jan. 1. It will be updated weekly.

According to Roberts on the D.C. Conspiracy Tumblr, the first few weeks will reprint the strip up to date, and around mid-May the comic will start to publish a year’s worth of all new made-for-the-web content. ("It won’t be the larger 'Sunday' strips but a 'weekday' style adventure serial," he writes.) Roberts added that he will continue with the larger strips for Magic Bullet as well work on his comics series Plastic Farm.

Nightmare the Rat, courtesy of Rafer Roberts

Dec 10: Wolf Children Screening in Washington, DC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Wolf Children Screening in Washington, DC

WASHINGTON, DC – NOV 25, 2013 

Japan comes to you DC Metropolitan area! Through Tugg.com, we have arranged a potential screening for the WashingtonDC area of the English Dub of Wolf Children by Funimation Entertainment. The latest movie from Mamoru Hosoda, director of Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Here's your chance to see this amazing movie on the big screen in your area.

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! http://www.tugg.com/events/6318

Tugg.com is an amazing company which makes movies available for people interested in arranging a screening of certain movies through their network of theaters throughout the US.  For this particular screening, the threshold minimum number of reserved tickets needed is 58 people.  If this number is reached by Dec 3^rd, 2013, the screening will officially take place.  You will only be charged for reserving a ticket if the event reaches its threshold number.f 58 people buy tickets, then we'll be able to see Wolf Children on the American movie screen! WE NEED 58 PEOPLE BY DECEMBER 3rd!

What if we don't reach 58 people? Good question. You are not automatically charged until the event site recognizes that we reach the threshold.

You're tickets will be sent to you by email!

PLEASE JOIN IN ON THE FUN! COME SEE WOLF CHILDREN!
YOU'RE WELCOME TO INVITE PEOPLE!

Location: AMC Loews Georgetown 14, 3111 K St NW, Washington, DC20007 (202) 342-6033

Date: Tues, Dec. 10^th 2013 at 7:30 pm

Reserve ticket price: $11.00 (Last day to reserve tickets: Dec 3^rd)

Contact: Sahvin Panichpong (sahvin.panichpong@yahoo.com)

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Black Friday at Game On! Comics

Promotion starts Nov 29, 2013 and ends Nov 29, 2013

Game On! Comics 310 Dominion RD NE, Vienna, VA, 22306 (703) 242-3838 | louis@gameoncomics.com | gameoncomics.com facebook | twitter 0988790162

Black Friday at Third Eye Comics

THANKSGIVING HOURS, BLACK FRIDAY & SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SPECIALS & MORE

And, as many of you probably already guessed -- we've got all sorts of big plans for this weekend. We've got huge plans for Black Friday & Small Business Saturday at both locations.

 

Click here for info on our BLACK FRIDAY events.

Click here for our Small Business Saturday events.

Comic Riffs covers Cartoons and Cocktails auction

Political Auction Committee: D.C. cartoon sale raises more than $20K

By Michael Cavna 

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 25 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/political-auction-committee-dc-cartoon-sale-raises-more-than-20k-see-al-frankens-donated-nixon-caricature/2013/11/25/5db3b39a-55cf-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_blog.html

Scouting for comics

Earlier this month, cartoonist Carolyn Belefski visited with several local fourth-grade Girl Scouts to discuss the career path of a cartoonist and to help the young ladies create their own comic story. Check out Carolyn’s writeup of the visit on her blog.

Photo courtesy of Carolyn Belefski

The Post's best graphic novels of 2013

The Best Books of 2013: Graphic novels that tantalize the eye [online
as 'Top 10 graphic novels of 2013']
By Michael Cavna,
Washington Post November 24 2013, p. E9
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/top-10-graphic-novels-of-2013/2013/11/21/314be21c-35b5-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html

Walt Disney's daughter's obituary runs in The Post

Diane Disney Miller, daughter of Walt Disney and inspiration for
Disneyland, dies at 79 [in print as 'Dianne Disney Miller, 79;
Daughter was an inspiration for Disneyland'].
By Associated Press,
Washington Post November 21 2013, p. B7
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/diane-disney-miller-daughter-of-walt-disney-and-inspiration-for-disneyland-dies-at-79/2013/11/19/12246fe4-517b-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html

Those darn comic strips

Save room for the comics.
Thomas M. Barrett, Tom Ede, Natalie McManus
Washington Post November 23 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/save-room-for-the-comics/2013/11/22/9c017aae-509a-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html

Loya in 'The People vs. George Lucas"

Local cartoonist/artist Steve Loya’s childhood "Star Wars" drawings appeared in the 2010 documentary "The People vs. George Lucas." Steve talks about it on Facebook and links back to some postings on his blog.

"I'm so glad my mom and grandmother cherished and held on to my art from my childhood,” Loya writes.

Courtesy of Steve Loya

January 14: Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher coming to DC

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 14 at noon - Kevin will be speaking in the Pickford Theater - an intimate location in the Library of Congress, on the 3rd floor of the Madison Building - at noon. Copies of Daggers Drawn will be available for sale. Kevin will be signing.

 

Sara W. Duke

Curator, Popular & Applied Graphic Art

Prints & Photographs Division

Library of Congress

101 Independence Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20540-4730

Last night's Cartoons and Cocktails auction

The annual Cartoons and Cocktails charity auction was last night. I bought some art, and was a B-list local celebrity auctioneer with A-List cartoonist Matt Wuerker.

More pictures are here.

You'll have to go to Ohio's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to see a good collection of catalogs from previous years. I've given them the 2012 and 2013 catalogs which haven't been cataloged yet of course.