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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Jan 23: Animezing: Garden of Words animation at JICC
Jan 29: Malaysian political cartoonist, Zunar is in town
Location: Cullen Room @ Busboys and Poets, 5th & K
date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014time: 7:30pm - 9pm
Cullen Room @ Busboys and Poets
Dialog with Zunar, the controversial Malaysian political cartoonist
Zunar is Malaysian political cartoonist. He uses his drawing pen as a weapon to fight state corruption and abuse of power. He was arrested and detained under the Sedition Act, seven of his cartoon books had been banned by the government, his office has been raided twice, the printing factories are constantly raided and vendors are often warned not to sell his books.
Zunar is the recipient of 2011 "Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award" by the Cartoonist Rights Network International, Washington.
Clich here for full bio http://www.zunar.my/to-fight-through-cartoon/.
The Post reviews Polly and Her Pals
Decades later, Cliff Sterrett's 'Polly' cartoons still tickle the funny bone
By Michael Taube,
Washington Post January 15 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Meltzer interview by Truitt
Meltzer dives into kids' books with historical gusto; Tomes about Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln kick off series by the best-selling author.
Brian Truitt, USA TODAYJanuary 13, 2014 http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/01/13/brad-meltzer-childrens-books/4445229/
Brad used to live around here, and is signing his books at Barnes and Noble in Tyson's Corner tomorrow. Brian Truitt must live around here somewhere.
Brandon Graham interview by DC's David Dissanayake
Brandon Graham Returns To Prophet With Who's Who, Launches 8House And Develops Diversity Anthology – The Bleeding Cool Interview At Image Expo
By David Dissanayake
Posted on January 13, 2014http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/13/brandon-graham-returns-to-prophet-with-whos-who-launches-8house-and-develops-diversity-anthology-the-bleeding-cool-interview-at-image-expo/
Jan 14: Kal at Library of Congress
Sara Duke reports, "Kevin Kallaugher talk about his most recent publication, Daggers Drawn, in the Pickford Theater (3rd floor, Madison Building) next Tuesday - January 14, at noon. For those of you who don't already have a copy of Daggers Drawn, the Library of Congress offers them at a discounted price. The Madison Building is located at 101 Independence Avenue, SE. The nearest Metro station is Capitol South. This event is free and open to the public."
Monday, January 13, 2014
Jan 22: Graphic Novel Bookgroup at P&P!
Hey all!
Just so you know I'll be hosting the Graphic Novel Bookgroup this month. We're reading PAYING FOR IT by Chester Brown. Sure to be a fun conversation!
Hope to see you there at 7:30 on Wednesday 22nd.
Here's the meetup link: http://www.meetup.com/Politics-and-Prose-Graphic-Novel-Bookgroup/events/160437082/
See you soon,
Adam Waterreus
Director of Operations
Politics and Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
The Post reviews Chozen
'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
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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