Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Cartoonist Jeremy Dale passes away according to SL Gallant

Shannon's got a post up about his friend:

Gallant, Shannon. 2014.

Jeremy Dale, too soon.

Art of S.L. Gallant blog November 4, 2014

http://slgallant.com/2014/11/04/jeremy-dale-too-soon/

Make the Art of Richard Thompson a Goodreads' Best Graphic novel!

Go to https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-graphic-novels-comics-2014 and put the book in as a write-in choice at the bottom of the page.

Another satisfied reviewer of The Complete Cul de Sac

Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac in 5 favourite things

by Zainab

Comics & Cola blog 3 November 2014

http://www.comicsandcola.com/2014/11/richard-thompsons-cul-de-sac-in-5.html

The Post on Peanuts, Daumier and Springsteen & Caruso

'Scandal' sex scene airs right after 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,' making parents angry

By Emily Yahr
Washington Post Style Blog November 3 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/11/03/scandal-sex-scene-airs-right-after-its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-making-parents-angry/

Dark wood, bright lights: Two artists' varied visions [online as Sculpture shows by Emilie Brzezinski, Bernardi Roig diverge sharply in theme]

By Philip Kennicott Art and architecture critic
Washington Post November 4 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/sculpture-shows-by-emilie-brzezinski-bernardi-roig-diverge-sharply-in-theme/2014/11/03/66ccc2a4-6114-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html

The Boss's new book: No average kiddie tale [online as Bruce Springsteen on 'Outlaw Pete' and not sheltering kids from the realities of life]

By Nora Krug
Washington Post November 4 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bruce-springsteen-on-outlaw-pete-and-not-sheltering-kids-from-the-realities-of-life/2014/11/03/877967a0-6394-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html

NPR: The man behind Wonder Woman

Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviews Harvard professor and New Yorker contributor Jill Lepore about her new book The Secret History of Wonder Woman and how it related to suffragists and centerfolds.

"I got fascinated by this story because I'm a political historian and it seemed to me there was a really important political story that had been missed that's basically as invisible as Wonder Woman's jet," Lepore says.

Listen to the program.

Monday, November 03, 2014

Nov 22: Nightmare The Rat Signing with Rafer Roberts and John Shine

Nightmare The Rat Signing with Rafer Roberts and John Shine

Saturday, November 22 at 12:00pm

Beyond Comics in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Rafer Roberts will be meeting fans and signing his new Nightmare The Rat collection, from 12 to 4, along with Beyond Comics' own John Shine, Nightmare pin-up contributor.

"Jewish War Heroes" Canadian comic book here in DC

Rare 'Jewish War Heroes' comic from 1944 found in box of donated used books

Sarah B. Hood, Special to National Post | October 31, 2014

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/31/rare-jewish-war-heroes-comic-from-1944-found-in-box-of-donated-used-books/

The article says that the Holocaust Museum has a copy.

Sunday, November 02, 2014

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "This Time, Next Year?" on marijuana legalization

"This Time, Next Year?"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1589

Last week, I was over at a friend's house when he pulled out this lid of something really fresh, pulled out this big stinky bud, handed it to me and invited me to take a good smell -- and man, was that some stanky-ass stuff.

So, anyway, my buddy asked me to guess where it was from; I ran down the standard guesses -- Humboldt, Maui -- but you could've knocked me over with a feather when he told me that sticky, smelly bud was grown right here in DC, in Ward 8.

All I could think of is how things could possibly be, this time next year, if Prop 71 goes through, allowing three mature plants. It also reminded me that DC has a state fair now. Can't wait to see next year's Blue Ribbon Ward 8 Skunk Bud.

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

Saturday, November 01, 2014

SPX 2014 Panel - Bob Mankoff: The Past, Present and Future of The New Yorker Cartoons

SmallPressExpo

Oct 17, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiYVd8sJwEE

Sunday, September 14, 2014 - White Oak Room 1:00 PM. Bob Mankoff is a cartoonist and has been the Cartoon Editor for The New Yorker magazine since 1997. He has written and edited many books including The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, The Naked Cartoonist, and his new memoir How About Never--Is Never Good for You? In this special presentation, Mankoff discusses the historical development and evolution of the iconic single panel cartoon form and the magazine that perfected and popularized it--with an eye towards the future.

SPX 2014 Panel - Spanish Language Comics

SmallPressExpo

Oct 27, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxb_dOSKnY&feature=em-subs_digest

The world of Spanish-language comics from South America to Europe is examined in this SPX 2014 panel. Colombian comics editor Daniel Jiménez Quiroz (Revista Larva) discusses Colombian and South American comics and leads the discussion that includes Spanish comics critic Santiago Garcia, Colombian comics critic Pablo Guerra, and North American editor Scott O. Brown

That darn WuMo, redux

Letters to the Editor: Save the lemmings

Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

Washington Post November 1 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/save-the-lemmings/2014/10/31/6e28e4aa-5d3c-11e4-827b-2d813561bdfd_story.html

Friday, October 31, 2014

Comic Riffs on Wytches and Halloween reading recommendations

HALLOWEEN READING: Bewitching 'Wytches' summons some of Scott Snyder's deepest real-life fears

By David Betancourt

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 31 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/10/31/halloween-reading-bewitching-wytches-summons-some-of-scott-snyders-deepest-real-life-fears/

HALLOWEEN WEEKEND READING: Wanna good (graphic) scare? Here are 10 Dark and Spooky Picks for hiding between their covers

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 31 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/10/31/halloween-weekend-reading-wanna-good-scare-here-are-12-dark-and-spooky-picks-for-hiding-between-their-covers/

The Post reviews ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’

Not a Disney princess story

[in print in the Express as "A fairy tale made for grown ups"; 'The Tale of the Princess Kaguya' movie review]

By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post October 31, 2014, p. EZ 34 and Express, p. 22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-tale-of-the-princess-kaguya-movie-review/2014/10/29/bd63986c-5e1d-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html

Chloë Grace Moretz gives voice to the title character in the dubbed version of the animated "The Tale of Princess Kaguya." (Hatake Jimusho/GKids)

Daumier, in passing, at the Phillips

Schlump in the Night: An invasion of bald everymen lights up the Phillips ["NO/Escape" At the Phillips Collection to March 8, 2015]

By Kriston Capps
Washington City Paper October 31, 2014, p. 31
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46485/bernardi-roigs-noescape-at-the-phillips-collection-reviewed/

Those darn corporate animators

For families of color, diversity is a fantasy [online as In the land of make-believe, racial diversity is a fantasy]

By Amina Luqman
Washington Post October 31 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-the-land-of-make-believe-racial-diversity-is-a-fantasy/2014/10/30/ee206b6c-5b23-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Swann Foundation Announces Awards for 2014-2015

NEWS from the LIBRARY of CONGRESS
October 30, 2014

Public contact: Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115, mkenn@loc.gov

Swann Foundation Announces Awards for 2014-2015

The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress, is awarding fellowships to three applicants for the academic year 2014-2015. Recipients are affiliated with McGill University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Northwestern University.
Andrew Benjamin Bricker, a postdoctoral fellow in English at McGill University, recently completed his doctorate in English at Stanford University. He will expand on part of his dissertation "Producing and Litigating Satire, 1670-1792," as he investigates a shift in satire in the second half of the 18th century, when changes in British libel laws made printed political and personal satire legally precarious. Bricker contends that, at mid-century, satire began to migrate from print to visual media, especially caricature and visual satire, and plans to study the wealth of examples held at the Library of Congress. These visual works were executed by key British satirical artists who offered personalized, nasty and popular critiques of their often well-known human targets.
Paul Hirsch is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also completed his doctorate in American history. Building on his dissertation "Pulp Empire: Comic Books, Cartoons, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1941-1955," he will examine the dissemination of and impact made by millions of American comic books and cartoon booklets from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s. Hirsch contends that these popular publications, whether uncensored commercial ones or government-sanctioned, worked to define, for a global audience, what it meant to be American—presenting American policymakers with both an opportunity and a challenge. The American government, he contends, met this challenge through a combination of repression and co-optation.
Maureen Warren, a doctoral candidate in art history at Northwestern University, analyzes works of art about domestic political disputes in the Northern Netherlands during the 17th century in her dissertation "Politics, Punishment, and Prestige: Images of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and the States Party in the Dutch Republic, 1618-1672." The artists creating such work used caricature and satire to mock politicians and religious leaders in Dutch and German news prints and illustrated broadsides. These include the Hauslab Album, a rare collection of prints that depicts European armed conflicts from 1566-1711. Study of the Hauslab imagery and Dutch prints in the Library's collections will contribute to Warren's goal of contextualizing later examples of Dutch political art.
During the coming academic year, the three recipients will collectively conduct research at the Library, in the General Collections and in the Prints and Photographs, Serial and Government Publications, and Rare Book and Special Collections divisions.
New York advertising executive Erwin Swann (1906-1973) established the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon in 1967. An avid collector, Swann assembled a large group of original drawings by over 500 artists, spanning two centuries, which his estate bequeathed to the Library of Congress in the 1970s. Swann's original purpose was to build a collection of original drawings by significant creators of humorous and satiric art and to encourage the study of original cartoon and caricature drawings as works of art. The foundation's support of research and academic publication is carried out, in part, through a program of fellowships.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division holds 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 158 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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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Oct. 30: 'Wolf Children' at JICC

‘Wolf Children’ will show Oct. 30 at the Japanese Information and Cultural Center (1150 18^th St. NW) at 6:30 pm.

Click on image to see trailer

Why not watch Gahan Wilson for Halloween?

Steven-Charles Jaffe sent me a copy of his movie this summer to review, and I still haven't gotten around to it, even though Gahan Wilson is one of my favorite gag cartoonists. So I'm passing along his notification that "Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird is now available on DVD in time for Halloween with some bonus interviews at http://amzn.to/1nO31Cp.It's still available on iTunes, X-Box, Amazon Prime." And, because I prefer to own the object and support projects like this, I'm going to buy a copy too.