John Kinhart notes on Facebook:
I recently self-published 2 issues of a comic and I'm now selling them online to raise money for diapers and baby wipes for Julia, who is due in 10 weeks or so! http://johnkinhart.storenvy.com/
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
April 3-4: Fantom Comics events
Sunday, April 3 at 12 PM - 4 PM – Fantom KidsCon – Come one, come all to Fantom's inaugural KidsCon! Comics conventions are fun for all ages, but if your littlest nerds aren't ready for the hustle and bustle of bigger venues, bring them to Fantom for a day of fun and activities! We'll have tons of workshops, kid-friendly vendors, a costume parade, and lots of "super" special guests!
Monday, April 4 at 6:30 PM – Faith Erin Hicks signing – Meet Faith Erin Hicks, comics creator and author of "Adventures of Superhero Girl" and "Friends with Boys" as she signs your copy of her new graphic novel "The Nameless City."
Patreon for Venus Winston to present at IGMC
Local cartoonist Venus Winston has been invited to present her comic "Cooking with Cancer" at Dundee University in Scotland this summer for the Annual International Graphic Medicine Conference and potentially also University College London for its "Encountering Pain" Conference.
"This is an awesome experience, but an expensive one. So I have started a Patreon page to help with some of the travel expenses," she writes. "Any help from you all is greatly appreciated and patrons will be receiving artwork made by me for their contributions."
This project started in July 2014 as her own therapy, while on chemotherapy, she writes on her Patreon page.
"I lost my ovaries to cancerous Krukenberg tumors and it is my belief I survived by enforcing a healthy diet and mindset within my personal environment. 'Cooking with Cancer' has now grown into a collection of short stories, recipes and informative pieces focusing on my experience with cancer and how food can help beat illness."
Venus contributed a "Cooking with Cancer" installment in the current issue of Magic Bullet, the D.C. Conspiracy's free comics newspaper.
"This is an awesome experience, but an expensive one. So I have started a Patreon page to help with some of the travel expenses," she writes. "Any help from you all is greatly appreciated and patrons will be receiving artwork made by me for their contributions."
This project started in July 2014 as her own therapy, while on chemotherapy, she writes on her Patreon page.
"I lost my ovaries to cancerous Krukenberg tumors and it is my belief I survived by enforcing a healthy diet and mindset within my personal environment. 'Cooking with Cancer' has now grown into a collection of short stories, recipes and informative pieces focusing on my experience with cancer and how food can help beat illness."
Venus contributed a "Cooking with Cancer" installment in the current issue of Magic Bullet, the D.C. Conspiracy's free comics newspaper.
Courtesy of Venus Winston
April 1: Teresa Roberts Logan at One More Page
One More Page Books
2200 N. Westmoreland Street, #101
Arlington, VA 22213
703-300-9746 Visit our website
Mon-Sat: 10 am - 8 pm; Sun: noon to 5 pm
Arlington, VA 22213
703-300-9746 Visit our website
Mon-Sat: 10 am - 8 pm; Sun: noon to 5 pm
Fri, April 1 at 6:30: Instead of April Fools how about Coloring Fools night? We have a super fun night planned with a wine tasting and professional artist and illustrator Teresa Roberts Logan. Teresa's adult coloring book Paisley Designs for Fun & Relaxation is filled with more than 100 gorgeous paisley designs to color. She'll talk with us about creating the book, answer questions and then we'll all color while tasting luscious new wines.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
President Truman meets the National Cartoonists Society
Local photographer Bruce Guthrie found a photograph of President Harry Truman and cartoonists and wrote to the Truman Library asking about it.
They sent him links to two versions - http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=37184 -- best one
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=37185 -- similar but some people cut off
For the following photo, they identify the folks as such:
President Harry S. Truman (center, wearing glasses) posing outside the White House with a group of visiting cartoonists, as they exhibit the sketches they have just made of the President. The cartoonists holding up drawings are: Ham Fisher (left), Milton Caniff (behind Fisher), Alex Raymond (behind Truman), Jo Fischer (behind Truman's left shoulder), Ray Van Buren (standing behind Pieretti), Alfred Andriola (standing at Mr. Truman's left, wearing bow tie), John Pierotti (second from right), Rube Goldberg (right), and Gus Edson (kneeling, right). All others are unidentified. October 3, 1949.
In case you're drawing blanks --
- Ham Fisher -- "Joe Palooka"
- Milton Caniff -- "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon"
- Alex Raymond -- "Flash Gordon"
- Jo Fischer -- "From Nine to Five"
- Ray Van Buren -- "Abbie 'n Slats" (and distant relative of President Martin Van Buren)
- Alfred Andriola -- "Kerry Drake"
- John Pierotti -- editorial cartoonist
- Gus Edson -- "The Gumps" and "Dondi"
TODAY: Glen Weldon on Batman at Kramer Books
Tuesday, March 29th 6:30pm
Tuesday, March 29th 6:30pm
A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman's rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.
Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim and gritty ninja of the urban night. For more than three quarters of a century, he has cycled from a figure of darkness to one of lightness and back again; he's a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who takes on the various meanings our changing culture projects onto him. How we perceive Batman's character, whether he's delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double-entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. It's this endlessly mutable quality that has made him so enduring.
And it's Batman's fundamental nerdiness—his gadgets, his obsession, his oath, even his lack of superpowers—that uniquely resonates with his fans who feel a fiercely protective love for the character. Today, fueled by the internet, that breed of passion for elements of popular culture is everywhere. Which is what makes Batman the perfect lens through which to understand geek culture, its current popularity, and social significance.
In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
Glen Weldon will be in conversation with Linda Holmes, host and editor of NPR's Monkey See blog.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Meet Molly Crabapple, an Artist, Activist, Reporter, and Fire-Eater All in One
Meet Molly Crabapple, an Artist, Activist, Reporter, and Fire-Eater All in One
With pen and brush, the talented journalist fights for justice in the Middle East, and closer to home
Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe
April 2016
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/molly-crabapple-artist-arctivist-reporter-fire-eater-180958502/?no-ist
April 2016
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/molly-crabapple-artist-arctivist-reporter-fire-eater-180958502/?no-ist
Juana Medina's immigration story on Fusion
A decade in immigration purgatory: My struggle to become an American citizen
by Juana Medina
http://fusion.net/story/264140/legal-immigration-purgatory-comic-colombia-american-citizen/
The Post on superhero movies
'Batman v Superman' broke records at the box office. But that doesn't justify its existence. [in print as An unmistakable superhero malaise].
By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post March 28 2016, p. C1, 3
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/batman-v-superman-broke-records-at-the-box-office-but-that-doesnt-justify-its-existence/2016/03/27/2d66b426-f2c1-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html
Locals noted for Comic and Cartoon Annual
Bizhan Khodabandeh, James Moffit, Paul Zdepski and Matt Dembicki were selected to have their work displayed at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art at the Society of Illustrators in New York as part of the 2016 Comic and Cartoon Annual. Khodabandeh and Moffit's comic book Red Fish #2 was selected for the short form category. Zdepski and Dembicki were selected for the comic strip category. (Both of their strips appeared in the D.C. Conspiracy's free comics newspaper Magic Bullet.) Below are panels from the selected works.
Khodabandeh
Zdepski
Dembicki
Saturday, March 26, 2016
The Post on the Walking Dead tv show
Who will be next to go on 'Walking Dead?' Maybe it's you. [in print as Hoping for Sweet Relief: 'Walking Dead's' interminable story is exhausting its devotees.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/who-will-be-next-to-go-on-walking-dead-maybe-its-you/2016/03/24/1af27944-f076-11e5-89c3-a647fcce95e0_story.htmlMore from The Post on Batman v Superman
If 'Batman v Superman' achieves only one great thing, this is that mighty feat
By David BetancourtWashington Post Comic Riffs March 25 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/25/if-batman-v-superman-achieves-only-one-great-thing-this-is-that-mighty-feat/
Why 'Batman v Superman's' Lex Luthor reminds you of every other Jesse Eisenberg character
By Michael CavnaWashington Post Comic Riffs March 25 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/25/why-batman-v-supermans-lex-luthor-reminds-you-of-every-other-jesse-eisenberg-character/
Why are Superman and Batman so sad in their new movie?
By Stephanie Merry March 25 2016
Student cartoonist wins award
Arlington student Cole Goco has won a gold medal in the National Scholastic Art and Writing competition. His cartoon is on display at Central Library.
Friday, March 25, 2016
PW Weekly talks to Glen Weldon about Batman
PW Radio 166: Glen Weldon and London Book Fair Preview
with Rose Fox and Mark Rotella
Author Glen Weldon discusses his new book, 'The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture.' PW senior writer Andrew Albanese previews the London Book Fair.
DC papers on Batman v Superman
'Batman v Superman' is so desperate to be taken seriously, it forgets to have fun
By Ann HornadayWashington Post March 25 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/batman-v-superman-is-so-desperate-to-be-taken-seriously-it-forgets-to-have-fun/2016/03/23/3fb28f10-f0f5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html
Crime and Punishment: On both large and small scales, two films explore the moral consequences of right and wrong—and the gray area in between.
By Tricia Olszewski Washington City Paper March 25, 2016, p. 23
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/48016/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-and-the-clan-reviewed/
Real-life journalists have no place in the fictional world of 'Batman v Superman' [in print as Trust-us league? Journalists, stay out of Metropolis]
By Kristen Page-Kirby Express March 25 2016, p. 13
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/03/25/real-life-journalists-have-no-place-in-the-fictional-world-of-batman-v-superman/
The fanboy review: 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' is flawed yet fearless
By David BetancourtWashington Post Comic Riffs blog March 23 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/23/the-fanboy-review-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-is-flawed-yet-fearless/
How Batman vs. Superman represents the age-old battle between man and god
By David BetancourtWashington Post Comic Riffs blog March 22 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/22/batman-v-superman-how-its-man-vs-god-themes-exert-a-gravitational-pull-on-fans/
'Batman v Superman' reviews are in, and it's 'scattered,' 'annoying' and 'joyless'
By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 23 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/23/batman-v-superman-is-incoherently-structured-and-other-nuggets-from-early-reviews/
'Batman v Superman': This could be Superman's most heroically generous act yet
By David BetancourtWashington Post Comic Riffs blog March 24 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/24/batman-v-superman-this-could-be-supermans-most-heroically-generous-act-yet/
'Batman v Superman' reviews are in, and it's 'scattered,' 'annoying' and 'joyless'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 23 2016
'Batman v Superman': This could be Superman's most heroically generous act yet
By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 24 2016
Washingtonian recalls the Superman movie premiere
"Superman"'s 1978 American Premiere at the Kennedy Center Was…Something
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