More on Frank Cho drawing women

And Finally... Frank Cho Draws Wonder Woman

Posted April 16, 2015 by by Rich Johnston

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/04/16/and-finally-frank-cho-draws-wonder-woman/

Frank Cho Gives Wonder Woman Her Own Pose, Finally

Posted April 17, 2015 by by Rich Johnston

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/04/17/frank-cho-gives-wonder-woman-her-own-pose-finally/

Frank Cho Donates $1000 Sale Of Spider-Gwen Art To Domestic Violence Charity

Posted April 19, 2015 by by Rich Johnston

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/04/19/frank-cho-donates-1000-sale-of-spider-gwen-art-to-house-of-ruth-maryland/

WJLA features Comic Logic store

Comic Logic store opens in Ashburn, Va.
WJLA 04/20/2015
http://www.wjla.com/video/2015/04/comic-logic-store-opens-in-ashburn-va-.html

Photos can be seen on Facebook.

Post's Health & Science section reviews a graphic novel

In graphic — and footnoted — terms, an alternative history of computers [in print as Lovelace and Babbage: A story about a computer in the 19th century].

 

By Nancy Szokan Washington Post April 21 2015 , p. E2

online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-graphic--and-footnoted--terms-an-alternative-history-of-computers/2015/04/20/b048cc76-e1e7-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html

and refers to the author as a "Visual effects artist" - huh?

Another honor for Baltimore's KAL

Sun cartoonist KAL is a Pulitzer finalist

By Tim Smith The Baltimore Sun April 20 2015

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-kal-pulitzer-finalist-20150420-story.html

and earlier this year: 

KAL wins Herblock award

Baltimore Sun March 2 2015

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-kal-herblock-20150302-story.html

Cartoonist ads in World War II's Look Magazine (Updated)

Yesterday we published some articles on cartoonists from World War II-era Look Magazine. Here's some advertising from the same issues. I can't identify the cartoonist for Aunt Jemima (although the style appears to be lifted from Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time strip) or the Briggs tobacco ads which are signed "F". They're not by Clare Briggs because he was already dead.

Updated 11/23/2017: The Aunt Jemima artist was Dudley Fisher, who did a regularly syndicated single-panel cartoon, “Right Around Home,” featuring multi-generational family members and neighbors in multiple brief conversational exchange against a usually large outdoor (say, neighborhood) setting. Speakers were usually paired; even a dog and cat, or two birds might be interlocutors. —Arthur Vergara

Not Jimmy Hatlo? 12/15/1942

Not Jimmy Hatlo? 4/6/1943

Paul Webb, drawing hillbillies, 4/6/1943

Keith Ward, 2/23/1943. Was Ward only an advertising cartoonist?

R. Taylor, 2/23/1943

Otto Soglow, 2/23/1943

Rube Goldberg, 4/6/1943

Rube Goldberg, 2/23/1943

Richard Decker, 2/23/1943

Richard Decker, 12/15/1942

Briggs tobacco, but not by Clare Briggs, 4/6/1943

Briggs tobacco, but not by Clare Briggs, 2/23/1943

Review of William Steig's book, 2/23/1943

Comic Riffs talks to Pulitzer-winner Zyglis

Zyglis says cartooning win is 'surreal'

By Michael Cavna
April 20 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/04/20/2015-pulitzer-prizes-buffalo-news-adam-zyglis-wins-for-cartooning-honor/

Look's Cartoonist Series - Charles Addams, Hilda Terry and Fred Neher

This doesn't have much to do with comics in the DC area except that I bought 3 old Look Magazine issues at Arlington's library sale this weekend because they had articles on cartoonists. The magazines themselves are going to Michigan State U's Comic Art Collection later this week, but here's scans of the articles (with a bonus Rollin Kirby editorial) and some of the ads by cartoonists will be online later this week. Does anyone know how many of these profiles Look did? Or have scans of other ones to share?

Charles Addams, Look's 5th Cartoonist Series, 12/15/1942

Fred Neher, Look's 8th Cartoonist Series, 2/23/1943

Hilda Terry, Look's 9th Cartoonist Series, 4/6/1943

Rollin Kirby's 5th editorial, 12/15/1942

Telnaes on Trudeau and Charlie Hebdo

Garry Trudeau's dangerous logic about Charlie Hebdo

By Ann Telnaes April 20 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2015/04/20/garry-trudeaus-dangerous-logic-about-charlie-hebdo/

May 12: Teresa Logan, aka The Laughing Redhead on stage

Teresa writes in,

I'm a confirmed performer on the SPEAKEASY DC show in May 12. 

The theme is COLOSSAL FAIL, and my story is about how I ALMOST got on The Tonight Show.

Hope y'all can make it! 

Here are a few details: 

May 12, 2015 Speakeasy on the theme: Colossal Fail--Stories about Total Flops and Massive Wipeouts

Note: May's SpeakeasyDC event will be held at our regular venue,"Town," located at 2009 8th St NW (on 8th at the corner of U St NW.) To arrive by metro, take the Green Line to the U St Cardozo station, using the Vermont Ave Exit, (not the 13th St exit), which will put you at the intersection of Vermont, U, and 10th streets. When you hit ground level, make a U-turn and walk to the right (East) along U Street until you make a left on 8th St. The club is on your right. If you're driving, there's a decent amount of street parking within 3 - 4 blocks of Town, or you can use either one of the 2 paid parking lots for $15.

April 21: Leila Abdelrazaq at Busboys and Poets

Busboys and Poets and Middle East Institute welcomes author Leila Abdelrazaq

14th & V | Langston Room | April 21, 2015 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/event/busboys-and-poets-and-middle-east-institute-welcomes-author-leila-abdelraza

Busboys and Poets in collaboration with the Middle East Institute presents Palestinian American Chicago based author Leila Abdelrazaq with her new graphic novel Baddawi.

Baddawi is a coming-of-age story about a boy named Ahmad finding his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel.

In this visually arresting graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father's childhood in the 1960s and '70s from a boy's eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty.

Leila Abdelrazaq is a Chicago-based Palestinian artist and organizer. She double majors in Theatre Arts and Arabic Studies at DePaul University, and is expected to graduate in 2015. During her time at DePaul, Leila served in her chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), helping to pass the DePaul Divest referendum. She is also a member of the National Students for Justice in Palestine Steering Committee. When not drawing comics, studying Arabic, or working with SJP, Leila enjoys carpentry, painting, breaking things, and making a mess. Her website is lalaleila.com and she tweets @lalalaleila.

Free and open to all!

Supporting Mohammad Saba'aneh

by Nik Kowsar and the Cartoonists Rights Network International

 

Technevis Khodnevis

Apr 17, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK0W8ttxND0

Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba'aneh, talks about how global support can help cartoonists in distress. Kal, Mike Rhode, Ann Telnaes and Matt Wuerker talk about the importance of putting the spotlight on cartoonists like Mohammad.

The cartoon that gave Saba'aneh such a problem can be seen here.

A good British article is here.

So why did the pig with a banjo cross the road?

Today's Non Sequitur comic strip by Wiley Miller features a chicken and a pig with a banjo crossing the road  - a joke that won't make any sense to anyone unfamiliar with Stacy Curtis. Curtis, a former inker on Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac, recently suffered a stroke and continues to have vision problems. Wiley also labelled the street as 'Stacy Ave.' One of Curtis' favorite things to draw is a pig with a banjo and cartoonists have been sending drawings along to him, as Alan Gardner has noted.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hillary sez: 'This Starts With You'"

"Hillary sez: 'This Starts With You'"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1695

So, anyway, last Sunday afternoon, Adam, Ben and I were hanging around the DCCC office, passing one, knocking back a DC Brau and helping Adam write his op-ed for CNN -- and after that carnage was hosed off the floor, Adam decided to try to sign up on the Hillary Campaign Site for cheap lulz.

The headline on the masthead announced "This Starts With You", which was bad news right from the git-go. After being asked for our full name, address, phone number, zip code, email address, credit card information, Twitter handle, HIV status and blood type -- and dismissing half a dozen exhortations to send cash and sign up for an email list -- we took ourselves a semi-ironic click on the Terms Of Use and the Privacy Policy buried deep therein. Hilarity ensued.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/privacy/


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

Make some Splotch Monsters at The Griffin Art Center

Hey all, tomorrow (4/18) I'll be doing a Splotch Monster-making workshop from 3-5pm at The Griffin Art Center​ in downtown, Frederick, MD. It's free and open to the public, and it'll be a pretty laid-back, casual event. I'll also be staying by the gallery a couple extra hours, for anyone who missed the big show, which will be up for one more week, as of tomorrow. Saturday's going to be a beautiful day, and there's lots to see and do in Frederick, in addition to the show. Hope to see folks there!-Steve

The Post on Presidential doodling

Presidential Doodles: What we see when we look closely at the hand of power.

By Michael Cavna
April 17 2015
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/04/17/presidential-doodles-what-we-see-when-we-look-closely-at-the-hand-of-power/

Artisan Politics

By Bonnie Berkowitz and Samuel Granados

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/magazine/doodles/

Bazooka Joe gag slides into Barney and Clyde

Topps is reinventing its Bazooka Joe character, and the Weingartens slide a gag into Barney and Clyde.

April 18: Alex de Campi and Carla Speed McNeil in Annapolis

 

at THIRD EYE ANNAPOLIS

Click here for event info on FACEBOOK.

First 25 in Line Receive A Special FREE Gift Limited to this Event!

The Post on Home's non-white protagonist

How 'Home' made a family's first trip to the movies special

By Stacia L. Brown
Washington Post Act Four  blog April 15 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/04/15/how-home-made-a-familys-first-trip-to-the-movies-special/
 

Lucy, left (voiced by Jennifer Lopez), and Tip (voiced by Rihanna) in "Home." (DreamWorks Animation/Associated Press)

NPR podcast reviews Daredevil

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Daredevil' And Credulity

The gang discusses the new Netflix superhero series, what happens when the audience knows too much and, as always, what's making us happy this week.

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Jason Rodriguez, with Colonial Comics, live in Philadelphia

On Facebook, Jason notes he'll be appearing in Philly today:

First heading to Philly and Big Blue Marble Bookstore for a 4PM comics making workshop, then Locust Moon Comics for a 7PM signing. I won't be posting much here, maybe some photo albums and stuff, but you can follow the tour on the Colonial Comics FB page (that'll be the G-rated feed), twitter (https://twitter.com/JayRodriguez) or Instagram (https://instagram.com/thebombbag/) for the PG-13 feed, tumblr for the occasionally R-rated feed (http://thebombbag.tumblr.com/) and I won't have an X-rated feed but you may see Cotton Mather on Tinder in a town near you...