12/31: SHIELD comic launch at Third Eye Comics

Join us New Year's Eve for our SHIELD #1 Launch Party!

 

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Comic Riffs on Doonesbury

'Doonesbury' and the U-Va. campus-rape strip: Garry Trudeau says that Rolling Stone's 'flaws' didn't change point of yesterday's comic

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 29 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/12/29/doonesbury-and-the-u-va-campus-rape-strip-garry-trudeau-says-that-rolling-stones-flaws-didnt-change-point-of-yesterdays-comic/

Comic Riffs on Stan Lee

STAN LEE'S BIRTHDAY: As the comics legend turns 92 today, here are our 20 Favorite Stan Lee Quotes…

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 28 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/12/28/stan-lees-birthday-as-the-comics-legend-turns-92-today-here-are-our-20-favorite-stan-lee-quotes/

Herblock on C-Span2 Book TV

Herblock: A Political Cartoonist - History, Cartoons, Civil Rights, McCarthyism, Nixon (1993)

 Apr 12, 2014

The Book Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnuQWz6fm-Q

Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 -- October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on national domestic and foreign policy from a liberal perspective

SCAD student cartoonists from our area

Randy T says these young women are in comics upcoming from BOOM!

Jenna Ayoub

Ashburn, Virginia, United States

www.minnienslug.com

Kristina Ness

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

kristinaness.com

Washington Times on Little Nemo

Book Review: Complete Little Nemo
by Michael Taube for Washington Times, Thursday, Dec 25, 2014
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/25/book-review-the-complete-little-nemo/>

Tom Spurgeon's SPX recollections

Tom Spurgeon posted his SPX recollections at his excellent The Comics Reporter blog.

The Year in Cartoons in today's Post

Editorial cartoons, that is. I can't be bothered finding it on their website, since it's not immediately obvious on the Opinion page. And honestly, with all due respect to the cartoonists selected, it's not a very interesting group of cartoons either. Go watch Ann Telnaes' latest video on the site instead.

Toles' Year should appear in a few days.

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.