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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Free Comic Book Day at Beyond Comics - May 2nd
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Cartoonists will be at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg Book Festival offers world-class authors in a small-town setting
Style Blog April 28 2015
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/04/28/gaithersburg-book-festival-offers-world-class-authors-in-a-small-town-setting/
Monday, April 27, 2015
Politics and Prose bookstore's summer comics classics
Scribbler's Cabal & Comics Jam (1561/1561T) »
Scribbler's Cabal and Comics Jam (1561/1561T)
At Politics & Prose on Connecticut Ave: August 3 – 7, 10 a.m. to noon
At Busboys and Poets in Takoma: August 10 – 12, 10 a.m. to noon
Price:
$105/$75 (10% off for members)
Scribbler's Cabal & Comics Jam is a read-aloud session and drawing free-for-all for ages 8 and up. Like a book club for comic fans, with more emphasis on fun than on analysis. It's less of a How to Draw class than a Why to Draw and How to Keep Enjoying It class, so kids should feel free to bring in their own drawings to share. We'll read and draw comics, discuss each other's work, make up our own characters, draw each other's characters, and have a blast.
Bring pencils or pens, paper, and a love of either comics or drawing—or both!
About the Instructor(s):
A graduate of the drama program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dave Burbank has worked for the Takoma Park Maryland Library for over 15 years. An illustrator and comics enthusiast, he is the curator of the library's remarkable graphic novel collection (over 3,000 titles) having built it from scratch and read every panel. He teaches a yearly seminar on the History and Importance of Comics to students of the University of Maryland's graduate College of Library and Information Sciences; to Montgomery County Public School media specialists at their In-Service Learning Day; and to various area schools. He has appeared on a panel discussion on "Graphic Novels in Libraries" at the independent comics' premier convention The Small Press Expo (SPX 2011).
As an illustrator and writer he is the creator of the Takoma Park Library's SummerQuest interactive reading game, as well as stacks and stacks of pads full of half-finished comics and fascinating doodles. He keeps an occasional blog on issues relating to comics in libraries at comixtakoma.wordpress.com. A father of three, he lives in suburban Maryland.
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 5-7 (1564B/1564T) »
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 5-7 (1564T/1564B)
Busboys and Poets in Brookland: Wednesday, June 24, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Busboys and Poets in Takoma: Wednesday, June 17, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Price:
$40 (10% off for members)
Through the art of creating comics, kids can learn to think and communicate through this visual medium. We'll start with some cave-painting basics, and go from there to develop characters and environments, before eventually turning these exercises into our own mini-comic books.
Kids will also learn that there are various ways to tell stories, all with the goal of depicting their own visual narratives.
About the Instructor(s):
T.R. Logan is a Reuben Award nominated cartoonist, and has been a professional writer/artist for over 30 years, making a living from her words, as well as her pictures. She has been a regular storyteller at Storytalks (Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) for the last two years, and her personal stories have been published in chapter books from a variety of publishers, including the upcoming Dirty Diamonds, an All-Girl Comics Anthology, Her own book of cartoons, The Older I Get, The Less I Care, is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 8-10 (1565B/1565T) »
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 8-10 (1565B/1565T)
Busboys and Poets in Brookland: Monday, June 22, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Busboys and Poets in Takoma: Monday, June 15, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Price:
$40 (10% off for members)
Through making our own comics, we can learn to think within, and communicate through, the visual medium of comics, with the goal of telling our own (true or fantasy) stories. We'll start with some cave-painting basics, and go from there to develop characters and environments. By the end, the kids will be making their own mini-comic books!
The goal of this workshop is to teach the kids that there are various ways to tell stories, all with the goal of depicting their own visual narrative, where they decide the content, through editing and pictures.
About the Instructor(s):
T.R. Logan is a Reuben Award nominated cartoonist, and has been a professional writer/artist for over 30 years, making a living from her words, as well as her pictures. She has been a regular storyteller at Storytalks (Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) for the last two years, and her personal stories have been published in chapter books from a variety of publishers, including the upcoming Dirty Diamonds, an All-Girl Comics Anthology, Her own book of cartoons, The Older I Get, The Less I Care, is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Four Fridays: July 17, 24, 31, August 7, 6 – 8 p.m.
Price:
$105 (10% off for members)
The medium of graphic novels is a great way to combine words and pictures to tell a story, and can bring a personal memoir to life.
The class will delve into the ways the graphic novel can be an advantageous medium for writers exploring difficult themes. For instance, Ellen Forney uses humor in her work Marbles to depict her struggles in identifying and coping with bipolar disorder, whereas Marjane Sartrapi relies on the visual aspect of the narrative to make the political more personal in Persepolis, which is a moving depiction of the Iranian revolution. Graphic novel basics will also be covered, as well as how to put your own stories down in a way which will capture your readers' imaginations.
Suggested Reading:
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Marbles, Ellen Forney
About the Instructor(s):
T.R. Logan is a Reuben Award nominated cartoonist, and has been a professional writer/artist for over 30 years, making a living from her words, as well as her pictures. She has been a regular storyteller at Storytalks (Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) for the last two years, and her personal stories have been published in chapter books from a variety of publishers, including the upcoming Dirty Diamonds, an All-Girl Comics Anthology. Her own book of cartoons, The Older I Get, The Less I Care, is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
April 29-30: Jay Hosler at Politics and Prose and Takoma Park library
Wednesday, April 29, 10:30 a.m.
Entomologist
Hosler’s action-packed graphic novel depicts the tale of Lucy, a
curious and tenacious scientist, who happens to be a beetle. She leaves
New Coleopolis, her urban home at the edge of a vast desert in the
protective shade of a palm tree, to discover something new about the
world. With a team of researchers, consisting of a firefly, a stag
beetle, and a variety of kin at her side, Lucy’s quest is rendered in
sweeping pen and ink illustrations and filled with information on the
scientific method and its applications. Ages 10 – 14
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C.DC20008
Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Thursday, Apr. 30, 7:30 p.m.
Graphic
novelist Jay Hosler will present his newest book, "Last of the
Sandwalkers," on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Hosler, who teaches
biology at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, is known for his unique
blend of science and comics. Politics & Prose will be selling copies
of Hosler's books, but the program is free and no purchase is required
to attend.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Democracy IS 'Disorderly'!"
Democracy IS Disorderly!
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1700
This past week, at a Congressional Oversight (plantation masters) Committee meeting about to overturn a DC local law, my long-time BBF, comrade and DC freedom fighter Adam Eidinger was snatched from his seat by police, hustled out of the hall and placed under arrest. The charge is, for all intents and purposes, Giving A Dirty Look To A Politician -- not joining an organized disruption, or jumping up during the proceedings -- nothing conventionally "disorderly", but basically just being there, with his Phrygian Cap and throwing a quick side-eye at DC's new plantation overseer.
And so, it's in honor and solidarity that I present this portrait of Adam, on the occasion of this bizarre and disturbing arrest.
"House Republicans Descend To New Lows", Huffington Post Politics 04.23.15
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-frydl/gop-potentates-house-republicans_b_7119864.html
"Jason Chaffetz Will Be DC's New Boss In Congress", Washingtonian 11.19.14
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/politics/jason-chaffetz-will-be-dcs-new-boss-in-congress.php
Adam Eidinger on Twitter
https://twitter.com/aeidinger
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Fantastic Forum Visit to Cartoon Art Museum
Fantastic Forum Visit to Cartoon Art Museum
Apr 24, 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGBhL00h9o&feature=youtu.be
Special Correspondent Daphne O'Neal tours Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 1987 with an endowment from Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz, the museum is only one in the western US devoted to the preservation and exhibition of cartoon art in all its forms. Boasting a permanent collection of 6,000 original works the museum also features a complete research/library facility. Cartoon Art Museum has been in existence for over 29 years and has produced over 100 exhibitions and 20 publications examining the diversity of cartoon art in comics, graphic novels, book illustration, animation and more.
Comic Riffs talks to Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow: What does it mean when a true outlier is a Pulitzer Prize finalist?
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 25 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/04/25/tom-tomorrow-what-does-it-mean-when-a-true-outlier-is-a-pulitzer-prize-finalist/
From Dan Perkins's 2015 Pulitzer Prize entry.
Friday, April 24, 2015
April 25: Creator Con in Silver Spring, Md.
Creator Con 2015 (2-8p.m. at James Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring, Md.) will feature comics galleries, workshops, panels, video gaming, technology expo and more. Several local comics creators will exhibit in artist alley. Admission is $5 for students and $8 for adults.
April 25: Rodriguez at Fantom Comics
Local comics writer/editor Jason Rodriguez (Colonial Comics) runs another comics-making workshop Sat., April 25, at Fantom Comics at Dupont Circle at 4 p.m.
The Post on an educational comic Kickstarter
How comics helped one woman translate her chemistry thesis for the masses
By Sarah LarimerWashington Post Speaking of Science blog April 21 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/21/how-comics-helped-one-woman-translate-her-chemistry-thesis-for-the-masses/
April 25: Comic Logic store grandopening in Ashburn, VA
GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH 2015 NOON
44031 Ashburn Shopping Plaza #281
Ashburn, Virginia 20147
703-723-1925
Compleating Cul de Sac draft in hand - a new Richard Thompson book coming soon
A Team Cul de Sac fundraiser book is coming soon!
Including all the art that was left out of Eisner-award-nominated The Complete Cul de Sac, it's 150 pages of strips, interviews and sketches.
We're pleased to provide more Richard Thompson for your viewing pleasure while supporting Parkinson's disease research.
Ordering
information will be available soon after our crack team of editors
(Richard, Mike Rhode, Chris Sparks and Bono Mitchell) carefully
scrutinize the book to decide which errors and mistakes we can let slip
through.Including all the art that was left out of Eisner-award-nominated The Complete Cul de Sac, it's 150 pages of strips, interviews and sketches.
We're pleased to provide more Richard Thompson for your viewing pleasure while supporting Parkinson's disease research.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Tony Millionaire sold in Target?
The cartoonist Tony Millionaire has something sold in Target? The scatological cartoonist just dropped by the Baltimore City Paper?I may have bought the last one at Skyline's Target today though.
June 23: Lynda Barry in Richmond
- at 9:00am
- University of Richmond's Robins School of Business1 Gateway Rd, Richmond, Virginia 23173
- Tickets Availablegoo.gl
Join us for Lynda Barry's keynote presentation about our innate creative ability to work with images and what the biological function of this thing we call the arts may be. The first 50 registrants will receive a copy of Barry's most recent book Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor.
Open to the public, $15 admission. To register use the tickets available link above.
Co-sponsored by The Writer's Series and Cultural Affairs Committee of University of RIchmond.
Book sponsors are the UR graduate programs in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Curriculum & Instruction.
Roz Chast's new tax bracket noted by Comic Riffs
New Yorker's Roz Chast stunned by $250,000 Heinz Award for her 'uncompromising' work
By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs April 23 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/04/23/new-yorkers-roz-chast-stunned-by-250000-heinz-award-for-uncompromising-work/
With all due respect to Roz, this is what happens when a group of people who know nothing about comics and graphic novels read the news and hear about an interesting singleton.
I quote:"These remarkable men and women come from different fields and diverse backgrounds, but they share a bedrock conviction in their ability and responsibility as individuals to make a transformative impact on the world and the lives of others," foundation chair Teresa Heinz says today in a statement, by way of announcing the news. "They offer an inspiring reminder that the most precious kind of change always comes from those who see past today's limitations to a world of new possibilities and discoveries."
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Dale Rawlings has a new Facebook page
Dale Rawlings - Illustrator/Graphic Designer/ Comic Book Maker
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dale-Rawlings-IllustratorGraphic-Designer-Comic-Book-Maker/180282225404624
Local Eisner Award nominees
Several D.C.-area comics creators and writers are on the 2015 Eisner Award shortlist, including:
- Lumberjanes, art by Brooke Allen (Best New Series and Best Publication for Teens)
- The Complete Cul de Sac, by Richard Thompson (Best New Humor Publication)
- Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay, by Katherine Roeder (Best Scholarly/Academic Work)
- Former D.C. resident A. David Lewis also got a nom in the same category for American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife.
The Post considers Daredevil yet again
'Daredevil' and the fantasy of an easy fight against gentrification
Washington Post Act Four blog April 21 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/04/21/daredevil-and-the-fantasy-of-an-easy-fight-against-gentrification/
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