Monday, March 24, 2014
Box Brown interviewed on BPC podcast
That darn Prickly City
Film projects from local cartoonists John Dorsey and G.E. Gallas
A short film about Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) in San Francisco and on Mount Saint Helena.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
'Aquabats' in Silver Spring on May 10
Comic Riffs on Hellboy
Mike Mignola: As Hellboy turns 20, creator celebrates having been at ‘exact right place at the exact right time’
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By David Betancourt
- Washington Post Comic Riffs blog
March 20 2014
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/03/20/mike-mignola-as-hellboy-turns-20-creator-celebrates-having-been-at-exact-right-place-at-the-exact-right-time/
Awesome Con spreads its cloak
Guinness record in sights for D.C. comic book convention
- Jeff Clabaugh
- Broadcast/Web Reporter- Washington Business Journal March 19, 2014
- http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2014/03/19/guinness-record-in-sights-for-d-c-comic-book.html
'Panels in Frames' opening
Saturday, March 22, 2014
'Omega' on street patrol
Thursday, March 20, 2014
'Lumberjanes' signing at BPC on April 26
French graphic novel "Polina" reviewed by Economist blogger in DC
Pictures of delight: Graphic novels and ballet
by B.D. | WASHINGTON, DC
Prospero blog Mar 20th 2014,http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/03/graphic-novels-and-ballet
Comic Riffs on Eleanor Davis' Google Doodle
Rat Queen prints at Big Planet Comics College Park
Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson exhibit opens in Columbus, OH tomorrow
Caitlin McGurk of the Billy Ireland Library at Ohio State University says:
Here is the new and exclusive interview with Richard Thompson and Bill Watterson, taking the internet by storm on our blog:
The two images are from a clever brochure for advertising artists that Bono Mitchell recently gave me. Can you figure out which section of the cover Richard did?
New interviews with Watterson and Thompson
New Captain America movie poster
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
March featured in Lansing
Graphic history:‘One Book, One Community’ chooses graphic novel memoir of civil rights activist for 2014
by Bill Castanier
Lansing City Pulse March 19,2014
http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-10002-graphic-history.html
March 26: Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries at Warner Theatre
Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang have been called upon to help solve an epic mystery. It appears a trouble-making ghost is haunting a local theatre and Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma and Scooby-Doo are off in the Mystery Machine to solve it!
Filled with wacky new characters and hilarious antics, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! Musical Mysteries has young audiences on the edge of their seats the moment the lights go down.
Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse in new National Archives exhibit
Mickey and Minnie vs Milton and Mary:
Few cartoon characters are more recognizable around the world than Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie Mouse. This early copyright infringement case came just a few years after Mickey and Minnie Mouse had been copyrighted and trademarked. Walt Disney won his case against the creators of Mickey and Minnie look-a-likes Milton and Mary. The defendants, the Pathe Exchange and Van Beuren Corporation, were barred from ever using Milton or Mary in another animated film.