Tuesday, January 21, 2014

FLugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Almost Hell"

"Almost Hell"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1444

Back in the '70s, the entire DC Metro area -- especially the Virginia suburbs -- was awash in T-shirts promoting West Virginia tourism, with the two-word slogan "Almost Heaven" taken from the notorious John Denver song being beaten to death on Top 40 radio at the time. As I let my mind chew on the Al Jazeera America news reports on the continuing chemical spill situation in West Virginia, I somehow stumbled over the memory of this cheesy T-shirt art.

http://america.aljazeera.com/topics/topic/us-location/west-virginia.html

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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

Jan 23: Triplets of Belleville @ NPG/SAAM , 7pm

The American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are sponsoring a free showing of "Triplets of Belleville" in their courtyard at 7pm on Thursday 1/23.

http://americanart.si.edu/calendar/event.cfm?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D107947001

Courtyard Cinema Classics: The Triplets of Belleville


When	Thursday, January 23, 2014, 7 – 8:30pm
Categories	After Five, Films
Location	American Art Museum, Portrait Gallery
Event Location	Kogod Courtyard

Note	An orphaned boy who was raised by his grandmother, Mme. Souza, makes it to the Tour de France, but is kidnapped by a pair of mysterious criminals during the race. Along with her faithful dog, Bruno, Mme. Souza sets off on an epic adventure to rescue her beloved grandson. Food and beverages will be available for purchase in the Courtyard Café. Jointly presented with the National Portrait Gallery (animated, 2003, 78 minutes).

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SPX lottery opens Jan. 24

The lottery for exhibitor tables at the Small Press Expo 2014 opens on Jan. 24. If you’re considering putting your name in the hat, SPX recommend you take a few moments to read its lottery FAQs.

Image: SPX

more cARToons: Feb. 6-27

cARToons hosts its second exhibit in D.C. next month. The show runs from Feb. 6-27 at the University of the District of Columbia (Gallery 42), with an opening reception on Feb. 6 from 6:30-8 p.m. Featured work by Steven Artley, Carolyn Belefski, Matt Dembicki, Teresa Roberts Logan, Michael Auger, Andrew Cohen, David Hagen and Rafer Roberts.

Ladies' Night at Fantom Comics

Fantom Comics at Union Station will host an Intro to Comic Books and Graphic Novels at its next Ladies’ Night, Jan. 26, 6-8:30 p.m.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Comic Book Resources interviews Nate Powell about March

CBR TV: Artist Nate Powell Goes on a "March"

Jonah Weiland

Comic Book Resources January 20 2014
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50385

Jason Axtell exhibit in Sterling

Keep Looking: The Works of Jason E Axtell
Art Institute of Northern VA

My first ever solo exhibition is on display now at the Art Institute of Washington-Dulles Gallery. Featuring a variety of work, including figure studies, fan art, and comic art.

On display until February 24th.

Reception: Thursday January 30th at 6pm.

Art Institute of Northern VA
21000 Atlantic Blvd, Sterling, Virginia 20166-2495

Pictures of KAL at Art Soiree this weekend

Courtesy of Steve Artley, who noted, "I mostly hung with Sue Kallaugher and Gretchen Toles, while Kevin worked the crowd — as he does so well."

Thanks for letting us run these, Steve.

Feb 15: Gregory Benton's B+F Tour at Big Planet Bethesda

Big Planet Comics Bethesda
Saturday, February 15, 2014
4:00pm until 6:00pm

It's with excitement and pleasure that we announce the B+F Tour to promote Gregory Benton's latest creative endeavor.

"B+F," Gregory Benton's MoCCA Award of Excellence-winning fable, explores an otherworldly forest with a woman and a dog as they encounter its denizens, both benevolent and malicious. A wordless meditation on goodwill, hostility, and isolation

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Scott McCloud on Google Dooldles

The case against the Google Doodle

By Justin Moyer,

Washington Post January 19 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/from-gandhi-to-mlk-historys-giants-have-become-marketing-tools/2014/01/17/a7f23a24-77cd-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Chris Christie Festival"

Chris Christie Festival
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1438

It's not as if there hasn't been a metric shit-ton of important news happening in the past week or so. You've got the Mexican "autodefensas" battling the drug cartels, the Fullerton, California cops who beat and tasered a homeless man to death, Obama's worthless tap-dancing NSA speech -- but probably the biggest story of the week has to be the massive chemical spill in Elk River, West Virginia, which left 300,000 people in nine counties without fresh water.

Of course, you wouldn't know that from watching the Democratic Party noise machine in action at MSNBC, which has spent almost all of its available air time this week on the trumped-up "Bridgegate" scandal in New Jersey involving Governor Chris Christie, who's also considered a major hopeful for the 2016 GOP Presidential nomination. Coincidence? Naaahhhh.

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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

Jan 18-19: Little Mermaid Jr. on stage in Arlington

The Little Mermaid Jr.

Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater
Book by Doug Wright
Based on the Hans Christian Andersen Story and the Disney Film produced by Howard Ashman & John Musker and written & directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

http://www.encorestageva.org/on-stage/20132014-season/

January 10-19, 2014
Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre
125 S. Old Glebe Road Arlington, VA 22204

Splash into this classic story of Ariel, the mermaid princess, who wishes to live in the world above rather than the ocean floor. To explore life on land, Ariel disobeys her father, King Triton, and makes a deal with the evil sea witch Ursula. Ransoming her singing voice, she must convince Prince Eric that she is indeed the girl who rescued him or risk losing her voice forever. Sing along to your favorite songs and watch as Ariel, with the help of her friends, tries to break Ursula's curse and win the heart of the Prince. Recommended for ages 4 and up.

Comic Riffs on Bill 'Batman' Finger

Batman's 'secret' co-creator died 40 years ago today. What's it take to get him some credit? *(A.: Author hopes Google can help.)

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 18 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/batmans-secret-co-creator-died-40-years-ago-today-whats-it-take-to-get-him-some-credit-a-author-hopes-google-can-help/2014/01/18/15291010-8050-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_blog.html

That darn Doonesbury

Letter to the Editor

Protecting the vote

W. Scott Butcher, Potomac

Washington Post (January 18 2014)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/protecting-the-vote/2014/01/17/cd4f0422-7d64-11e3-97d3-b9925ce2c57b_story.html

Friday, January 17, 2014

Tom Arvis' Mercenary Pig video

From: THOMAS ARVIS II

Below is a link to a Mercenary Pig YouTube video produced by Gary Beatty to promote my comic, which will be solicited in the February 2014 Previews magazine. A graphic of the video window from YouTube is also attached.

I have been posting preliminary sketches and revised pages to FaceBook to build interest in the book, and will probably be posting something every day or so from now until Preview comes out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRustur6wtE

Below is also a link to the Aazurn Newsroom page Gary Beatty prepared.

http://aazurn.com/newsroom/mercenary-pig.html

Tom Arvis
Sureshot Comics

Tall Tale Radio and Michael Cavna

Tom Racine

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tom-racine/2014/01/17/tall-tale-radio-and-michael-cavna

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tom-racine/2014/01/17/tall-tale-radio-and-michael-cavna.mp3

Michael Cavna, the guru behind "Comic Riffs" on The Washington Post, joins me to talk about the best graphic novels of 2013, the place of graphic novels and comics in school libraries and classrooms, and pretty much any comic book/strip related stuff you want to talk about! Join us!