'Chozen': A hip-hop satire slips and falls [online as FX's 'Chozen': A bear on the loose steps into a trap of bad humor]
By Hank Stuever,
Washington Post January 13 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
Jan 22: Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels
On January 22 the Chemical Heritage Foundation will present a live webcast exploring how graphic novels, comic books, and animation are used to tell true stories about science. Titled "Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels," the webcast will feature graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and historian of science Bert Hansen. Our guests will discuss the power of visual media in telling history.
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is the author of Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, which merges text and imagery to vividly detail the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bombs.
Bert Hansen is professor of history of science and medicine at Baruch College of The City University of New York. His book, Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio, shows how mass-media images both shaped and reflected popular attitudes to medicine from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Professor Hansen has also contributed to Chemical Heritage magazine.
You are invited to watch this discussion via webcast. "Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels" will air at 6:30 p.m. EST at chemheritage.org/histchem.
For further information contact Michal Meyer via e-mail at MMeyer@chemheritage.org or call her at 215 873-8217.
Fantom Comics January Sale – Celebrating the Best Comics of 2013
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Jan 15: Brad Meltzer at Tyson's Corner
Brad Meltzer appears at Barnes &Noble to sign his new children's books I Am Abraham Lincoln and I Am Amelia Earhart on Wednesday January 15, 2014 at 6:30 PM!
Barnes & Noble – Tysons Corner Mall
Tysons Corner Center, 7851 L. Tysons Corner Center, McLean, VA 22102
703-506-2937
Courtesy of Convention Scene. Meltzer has a new Batman story in Detective Comics 27, and Eliopoulos is a comic book artist of course.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Lucky Safety Cards
Originally a set of 40 cards, distributed in New York newspapers. Thanks to Bert Hansen for giving me most of these.
Warner Bros.' Sylvester in the Naval History and Heritage Command
This is probably in storage down in the Navy Yard. Sylvester was into body piercings earlier than most Americans apparently.
Accession, 2010-96-1
Plaque, Ship, USS Alameda County, AVB-1
24" Diameter x 0.5 "H.
Wood, Paint.
Plaque, Ship, USS Alameda County.
The USS Alameda County was redesignated an Advance Aviation Base Ship in 1957. Prior to that the Alameda was originally designated a Tank Landing Ship LST-32. The Alameda was decommissioned in 1962.
Collection of Curator Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command.
Down the Gasoline Trail (1935)
Down the Gasoline Trail (1935)
Jam Handy
https://archive.org/details/DowntheG1935It's been years since I've seen this amusing industrial animation film, so I was glad to see it on the Internet Archive.
Thursday, January 09, 2014
Comic Riffs talks to Stan Lee
STAN LEE's 'MIGHTY 7': Marvel legend on his first starring role in new animated Hub movie: 'I've finally made it!'
Archie article in today's Express
This article that appeared on the Post's website is in the printed paper today:
'Afterlife With Archie': The Walking Jughead? The art of bringing zombies to Riverdale High
By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 7 2014
as
'Archie' Against the Undead: The goofball comic character battles zombies in 'Afterlife'.
[Washington Post] Express (January 9): 23
1991 National Library of Medicine caricature and French dentistry exhibit brochure online
I don't recall seeing the show, unfortunately...
Moskow, Bernard S. et. al. 1991.
The extravagant Georges Fattet: Caricature and French dentistry.Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine.
New Cataloging Guidelines for Pictures Now Available in Online Publication
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington DC 20540
January 9, 2014
Public contact: Erin Blake (202) 675-0323, eblake@folger.edu
New Cataloging Guidelines for Pictures Now Available in Online Publication
The Library of Congress and the Association of College and Research Libraries have updated the cataloging guidelines for describing pictures, and they are now available in a free, online book, "Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)."
The guidelines cover still images of all types: photographs, prints, drawings, born-digital pictures, book illustrations, posters, postcards, cartoons, comic strips, advertisements, portraits, landscape, architectural drawings, bookplates and more. Instructions for capturing core metadata elements—the titles, creators, dates, publishers, and media of pictures—are provided as well as helpful wording for explanatory notes.
"Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)" or DCRM(G) is available online as a free PDF at http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmg and as a hypertext document on "Cataloger's Desktop," https://desktop.loc.gov.
DCRM(G) can be used for graphic materials of any age or type of production, published or unpublished, especially when special treatment is useful because of fragility, rarity and enduring value or aesthetic, iconographical and documentary interest.
The book is a direct successor to Elisabeth Betz Parker's "Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections," published by the Library of Congress in 1982. Known to many simply as "Betz" or "The Yellow Book," the first "Graphic Materials" became a classic.
The new guidelines make records easier for a wide range of users to understand and, for published material, easier for libraries to share. For convenience, advice about cataloging unpublished groups of materials and collections is now gathered into a single appendix. In recognition of a wide audience wanting access to graphic materials, DCRM(G) also makes increased use of such everyday language as "publisher not identified" instead of the abbreviation "s.n."
While DCRM(G) is intended for use in a library context, it can also be a valuable supplement for description in archives, museums, historical societies, corporations and private collections.
The guidelines were written by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress. They were published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
DCRM(G) is one of a family of manuals providing specialized cataloging rules for various formats of materials typically found in rare book, manuscript and special-collection research centers. The suite is known as "Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials."
Instructions on using DCRM(G) will be offered through conference workshops. In addition to many examples in the book itself, a separate document of annotated and MARC-encoded examples is forthcoming. Questions can also be submitted at any time to DCRM-L, a users group at http://listserver.lib.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dcrm-l.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is the higher education association for librarians. Representing more than 11,500 academic and research librarians and interested individuals, ACRL (a division of the American Library Association) is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to help academic and research librarians learn, innovate and lead within the academic community. For more information, visit www.acrl.org.
The Library's Prints and Photographs Division includes more than 15 million photographs, drawings and prints from the 15th century to the present day. International in scope, these visual collections represent a uniquely rich array of human experience, knowledge, creativity and achievement, touching on almost every realm of endeavor: science, art, invention, government and political struggle, and the recording of history. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/rr/print/.
The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov.
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Reproduction antique Popeye bank
These reproduction antique Popeye banks are on sale at the Navy Memorial giftshop on Pennsylvania, Ave, NW. They come in 2 sizes.
PR: Jan 17-18: Art Soiree's 4th Annual Cartoonist Exhibit
We are delighted to announce our first event of the 2014 -
ART SOIREE'S 4TH ANNUAL POLITICAL CARTOON EXHIBIT
Always popular and always sold-out, this year we are turning it into a 2 Night Affair!
Fri, Jan 17 & Sat, Jan 18
You don't want to miss!
TICKETS: $10 each night or $15 for both nightsAND THIS TIMEIT'S ABOUT POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND PARTY LINESIT'S LEFT & IT'S RIGHTIT'S 2014 MIDTERM ELECTIONS EDITION AND YOU BETTER TAKE A SIDE(OR GET TICKETS TO BOTH NIGHTS AND HAVE A GREAT TIME)
JOIN US AS WE LOOK BACK THROUGH ARTISTIC COMMENTARY AND CRITIQUE ONDEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE DURING EACH RESPECTIVE NIGHT& PREDICT WITH YOUR ATTENDANCE WHO WILL WIN THIS YEAR
EXPLORE THE CARTOONS ON DISPLAY & MEET THE ARTIST BEHIND THE ARTWORKEXCLUSIVE TWO NIGHT SOLO EXHIBITION BY KAL (KEVIN KALLAUGHER)
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) is the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London and The Baltimore Sun. After graduating from Harvard College with honors in 1977, Kevin embarked on a bicycle tour of the British Isles, where he joined the Brighton Basketball Club as a player and coach. After the club hit financial difficulties, Kevin drew caricatures of tourists in Trafalgar Square and on Brighton Pier. In March 1978, The Economist recruited him to become their first resident cartoonist in their 145 year history.***Event will feature live painting presentation by Mr. Kal during the night!!***
ENJOY LIVE PERFORMANCE BY SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE
Continuing with the zany nature of the cartoons, the ticketed event will feature live musical performance by local journo-band Suspicious Package, comprised of reporters armed with their musical talent and rock star looks. Band members include Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist at The Washington Post Tom Toles, senior government officials Christina Sevilla and Bryan Greene, former TIME/Bloomberg correspondent and journalist Tim Burger and Director of Education and Outreach for the National Security Journalism Initiative at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Josh Meyer.
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT MUSIC BY DJ AGENT MAX
Republican Night - Fri, Jan 17 | 8pm-1amDemocrat Night - Sat, Jan 18 | 8pm-1amThe Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown, 3100 South Street NW, Washington DCTICKETS: $10 for each night or $15 to attend both - cartoonistexhibit2014.eventbrite.comPREDICT WITH YOUR ATTENDANCE WHO WILL WIN THIS YEAR OR GET TICKETS TO BOTH NIGHTS AND HAVE A GREAT TIME!
Photo credit to Bell Photo and Modeling Studio.
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014
John Kelly on ill teenager's superhero idea
Blood brothers: Hyattsville teen wants to create kidney dialysis superheroes
By John Kelly, Washington Post January 8, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/blood-brothers-hyattsville-teen-wants-to-create-kidney-dialysis-superheroes/2014/01/08/ed277204-77ea-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.htmlSpongeBob SquarePants mailbox in DC
This SpongeBob SquarePants mailbox in Washington, DC is on Constitution Ave, NW, outside of the National Museum of Natural History.
OT: Comics and safety
A friend of ComicsDC has an interesting article online -
New Year's Luck—and How to Keep Safe, 1950s Style
Bert Hansen
Books, Health, and History blog January 8, 2014
D.C. Conspiracy get-together this Sunday
The D.C. Conspiracy holds its monthly get-together Jan. 12 at 5:30 p.m.-ish at Buffalo Billards at Dupont Circle. All are welcome.
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