Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays when appropriate) from ComicsDC

By Samuel D. Ehrhart, and courtesy of the Library of Congress' Prints & Photographs department.

The Post has a wire story on religion and cartoons

Despite death threats, cartoonists challenge religious hatred and censorship online

By Brian Pellot | Religion News Service
Washington Post.com (December 24 2014)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/despite-death-threats-cartoonists-challenge-religious-hatred-and-censorship-online/2014/12/24/f12f747c-8ba4-11e4-ace9-47de1af4c3eb_story.html

Comic Riffs suggests you contribute to Norm Breyfogle's health costs

I sent in $20 a couple of days ago. Although in his 50s, he's had a stroke, which has affected his drawing side. - Mike

12 DAYS OF GRATITUDE: #6. The gift of comics generosity–from crowd-funded films to helping the ailing Batman artist Norm Breyfogle

By Michael Cavna and David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 24 2014
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/12/24/12-days-of-gratitude-6-the-gift-of-comics-generosity-from-crowd-funded-films-to-helping-the-ailing-batman-artist-norm-breyfogle/

Michael Dooley recommends The Complete Cul de Sac

And some other fine-looking books.

7 Outstanding Comics and Cartoon Books of 2014

By: Michael Dooley | December 23, 2014

 http://www.printmag.com/imprint/7-comics-and-cartoon-books/

Post's columnist decries Disney's making an honest dollar on Frozen dolls

Doll world's new royalty could cost parents a fortune

By Courtland Milloy
Washington Post.com December 23 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/doll-worlds-new-royalty-could-cost-parents-a-fortune/2014/12/23/da0c4854-8a02-11e4-9e8d-0c687bc18da4_story.html

I'm, shocked, shocked to learn that Disney is charging what the market will bear on Frozen dolls.

Jan 9: The Art of Richard Thompson at Politics and Prose

Nick Galifianakis, Gene Weingarten,and David Apatoff - The Art of Richard Thompson

Jan 9 2015 7:00 pm

Named the Outstanding Cartoonist of 2010 by the National Cartoonists Society, Richard Thompson is best known for his syndicated series, Cul de Sac. But his work encompasses much more, and in this colorful career retrospective, six of his peers present the different facets of Thompson's art. Join Galifianakis, Washington Post cartoonist and author of If You Loved Me, You'd Think This Was Cute, Weingarten, Pulitzer-winning journalist who writes The Washington Post's "Below the Beltway" column, and Apatoff, an illustration scholar whose recent work includes a biography of illustrator Robert Fawcett. They will be interviewed by Michael Cavna, writer, artist, and lapsed cartoonist now producing The Washington Post's "Comic Riffs." (Andrews McMeel)

Jan 26: Roz Chast at Washington DCJCC

Roz Chast: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Monday, January 26
7:30 pm

Famed New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast does such a comical, fluent job of conveying the things that keep her up at night that many readers are convinced she is somehow mapping their own inner lives. Her latest book, which tackles the subject of growing up in Brooklyn as an only child and of her efforts, decades later, to help her parents navigate the jagged shoals of old age, is by turns grim and absurd, deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.

John Gallagher's shopping mall Christmas comic

John's Holiday Comic... (from his Facebook post)

This was created for Westfield Shopping Malls, from a few years ago-- super fun! Thanks to Debbie Young for giving me a chance to do this, and the 2 sequel books right after it... http://www.skydogcomics.com/pdf/westie.pdf

Donna Lewis profiles herself on GoComics

Meet Your Creator: Donna Lewis (Reply All, Reply All Lite)

 by Donna Lewis
GoComics on December 20, 2014
http://blogs.gocomics.com/2014/12/meet-your-creator-donna-lewis-reply-all-reply-all-lite-.html

At the end, Donna buries the news that her first book will be out in February.

African-American artist began career as a cartoonist

Artist's paintings of Amistad slave mutiny tell of African triumph over slavery

By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post December 21 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/artists-paintings-of-amistad-slave-mutiny-tell-of-african-triumph-over-slavery/2014/12/20/cba33942-7fc8-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html


Artist Hale Woodruff's murals are featured at the National Museum of American History.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "The Fire This Time"

"The Fire This Time"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1629

Finally. Why didn't this happen sooner? Happy New Year, everybody.

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SPX 2014 Panel - Charles Burns Q+A

SmallPressExpo

 Dec 18, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMtye0sGWd

Charles Burns is among the world's most distinguished cartoonists whose work first gained notice in the pages of RAW Magazine in the 1980s. His meticulously drawn early stories reflected upon and transformed the tropes of historical genre comics. Burns then spent ten years drawing his graphic novel masterpiece Black Hole, which dissolved literal horror into the true horror of everyday life. His latest work, Sugar Skull, which concludes the serialized narrative in his new trilogy of full color comics albums debuted at SPX 2014. Burns discusses his work in a spotlight session moderated by Alvin Buenaventura.

Bill Brown's 2015 Citizen Bill calendar on sale now

As Bill says, "You gotta have a calendar, anyway, right?"

Friends of The Voice - Citizen Bill Calendar

Monkey See reviews new Annie movie

A Different 'Annie,' But Still A Good Kid

Linda Holmes

National Public Radio's Monkey See blog December 19, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/12/19/370932001/a-different-annie-but-still-a-good-kid

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Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis star in the latest incarnation of the musical Annie.

Barry Wetcher/Sony Pictures

Latest Little Orphan Annie movie reviewed in The Post

'Annie' movie review: An uneven remake that promises not to be timeless

By Stephanie Merry
Washington Post December 19 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/annie-movie-review-an-uneven-remake-that-promises-not-to-be-timeless/2014/12/18/512c2f4e-846d-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html

'Stick Girl' animation covered on Post's site

Sandra Oh moves from 'Grey's' to producing the new animated film 'Window Horses'

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
Washington Post's Morning Mix blog December 19 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/19/sandra-oh-moves-from-greys-to-producing-with-the-new-the-animated-film-window-horses/

An award for tying science to superheroes

 Photo courtesy of University of California, Riverside

The Reston, Va.-based American Association of Engineering Societies is giving its prestigious Norm Augustine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications to a California university research professor who uses superheroes to explain science.

Suveen Mathaudhu, 39, an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department and materials science and engineering program at University of California, Riverside, will be in Washington, D.C., on April 20 to receive the award. It is given to individuals who speak with passion about engineering, allowing the public to better understand the field and better appreciate how engineers improve our quality of life.

Previous winners include military leaders, a congressman, a Secretary of Defense and astronauts, including Neil Armstrong.

Mathaudhu helped to create a museum exhibit called Comic-Tanium. The exhibit, which is on display through Jan. 5 at the ToonSeum in Pittsburgh, combines the real world of materials science and the fictional worlds of comic book heroes, such Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man and Batman. The exhibit was previously shown in San Diego and Washington, D.C.

The society and Mathaudhu are updating the exhibit so that it would include video and also modules that could be used by elementary school teachers teaching science and math.

Click for full press release

Bat-beer?

Actually it is "NaNaNaNa Man Drink" by Ric Garcia, acrylic on canvas, $1300 although one can buy a print for $275.

Spotted today at The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. The post-Civil War hospital was built on Pennsylvania Ave, SE and 8th St, and is now a community center.

Dean Haspiel, SPX and the Library of Congress

Independent Comix Art & Mini-Comix

 May 8, 2013

LibraryOfCongress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDl9D3acP4E

A discussion by comics creator Dean Haspiel on the new Small Press Expo (SPX) collection of the Serial & Government Publications Division. The collection of mini-comics -- "small in size but impressive in cultural impact" -- will contain, among other worthy selections, past and future Ignatz Award nominated works.

Christmas with Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson has repurposed some of his art to make nifty Christmas cards.

After one buys The Art of Richard Thompson, one can tip-in the cards to the appropriate section that they weren't reprinted in. Because there wasn't enough room for everything...