The Post on Disney's Jungle Book remake

'The Jungle Book' leaps off the screen — to dazzling effect [in print as Beauty and awe roar to life].

 

By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post April 15 2016, p. Weekend 30-31
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-jungle-book-leaps-off-the-screen--to-dazzling-effect/2016/04/14/9a1c5d36-00d7-11e6-b823-707c79ce3504_story.html

Big Planet Comics Washington is picked in 10 Best list

10 Best Comic Book Stores in the US

written by Michelle Rae
April 13, 2016
https://anotherspur.com/2016/04/13/10-best-comic-book-stores-in-the-us/

Don't try to find this comic book

A couple of weeks ago (April 3, 2016), the Washington Post published this illustration by Oliver Munday. The comic book is of particular interest to us.

Because it doesn't exist. I think it's a melange of existing comic books, but I can only place the logo and the word "Assemble" both of which (along with "mightiest heroes") come from an Avengers comic book, probably from the 1970s. Any crowdsourcing suggestions?

Ridgway Award honor to Juana Medina

Juana didn't win the first price, but she was one of three honorable mention awards as noted below.

Established in 1993, the Ridgway Award is given each year to an author or illustrator in recognition of an outstanding debut in the world of children's picture books.
The award is given in memory of Marion Vannett Ridgway, a beloved artists' representative who worked in the New York City publishing community for more than forty years, and who extended generous support and encouragement especially to artists just making their way into children's book publishing.




Juana Medina
Illustrator of
Smick!

Every page of Smick! sustains a kind of joy. Medina masterfully captures doggy exuberance in her loosely scrawled thick black lines, and the contrast of her
drawing with collage elements like a stick or a flower petal bird creates a delightful visual surprise. Doreen Cronin’s rhyming text provides a terrific match for such energetic art.

April 16: Cherry Blossom Anime at American Art Museum

April 16, 2016

Cherry Blossom Anime: "Miss Hokusai" Saturday, April 16, 1 pm This screening is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Watch the trailer.  Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most famous Japanese artists. His woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa and series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (both of which have been exhibited in the Freer|Sackler) are iconic the world over. Few people know, however, that Hokusai had a talented daughter, O-ei, who sometimes collaborated with…

Cherry Blossom Anime: "From Up on Poppy Hill" Saturday, April 16, 3 pm This screening is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Watch the trailer.  Written by the legendary founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), and directed by Goro Miyazaki, From Up on Poppy Hill marks the first feature film collaboration between this father and son. The results are stunning: a pure, nuanced, and heartfelt film that signals yet another triumph for the esteemed studio. Set in 1963,…

 

Cherry Blossom Anime: "A Letter to Momo"

Saturday, April 16, 5 pm

This screening is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Watch the trailer. From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and humor with deeply felt emotion. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight; now, all she has left to remember him is an incomplete letter he wrote, penned with the words "Dear Momo" but nothing…

Comic Riffs in the Express on Batman movies

Ben Affleck will star in and direct a solo Batman film, in his apparent master plan to rule DC's Gotham [in print as Affleck's plan to rule DC's Gotham,' Express (April 14, p. 46)

By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 12 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/04/12/ben-affleck-will-star-in-and-direct-a-solo-batman-film-in-his-apparent-master-plan-to-rule-dcs-gotham/

Comic Riffs on black superheroes

Rise of the Black Superhero

By David Betancourt, Michael Cavna and Shelly Tan

Washington Post Comic Riffs April 14, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/black-superheroes/

The lack of any Milestone characters (Static, etc) is a major omission in this list.

2 Graphic Novels high on list of books to ban

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and Habibi by Craig Thompson

The books Americans want removed from libraries [in print as Americans wanted these books removed from libraries in 2015].

By Niraj Chokshi
Washington Post April 12 2016, p. C3

Counting down 2015's 10 most challenged books

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/12/the-holy-bible-and-two-boys-kissing-the-10-most-challenged-books-of-2015/

Comic Riffs talks to Mexican cartoonist Raúl Treviño

Cartel violence hit this artist's family. So he illustrated a comic book about it

By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 13 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/04/13/scarred-by-cartels-mexican-artist-finds-healing-in-the-forthcoming-drug-war-comic-sombra/

The Post's obituary for caricaturist Vint Lawrence

Vint Lawrence, CIA officer who became a sharp-eyed caricaturist, dies at 76

By Harrison Smith April 12 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/vint-lawrence-cia-officer-who-became-a-sharp-eyed-caricaturist-dies-at-76/2016/04/12/745b8382-00ba-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html

John Kelly on Squirrel Girl

A modern Marvel: The latest hit comics character is the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

By John Kelly Columnist April 13 2016
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-modern-marvel-the-latest-hit-comics-character-is-the-unbeatable-squirrel-girl/2016/04/13/8c0198ac-00c2-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html

Comic Riffs talks Wonder Woman

Grant Morrison's new Wonder Woman: 'You don't give up sex just because you gave up men.'

By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comics Riffs blog April 12 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/04/12/grant-morrisons-new-wonder-woman-you-dont-give-up-sex-just-because-you-gave-up-men/

Comic Riffs talks to Alex Segura

With new book, Alex Segura cracks the case of balancing his lives in comics and mystery novels

By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comics Riffs blog April 12 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/04/12/with-new-book-alex-segura-cracks-the-case-of-balancing-his-lives-in-comics-and-mystery-novels/

Bloom County at National Book Festival this year

Berkeley Breathed's Facebook page is reporting he'll be in DC on September 24th.

Sewall-Belmont House, and apparently Nina Allender's cartoons, become National Monument

A few years back, I wrote about the Sewall-Belmont house's collection of Nina Allender cartoons.

Today, the House, and presumably the cartoons, became a National Monument, under the Park Service.

Here's the Washington Post on it, and here's the White House, which says, "help preserve an extensive archival collection that documents the history, strategies, tactics and accomplishments of the movement to secure women's suffrage and equal rights in the United States and across the globe." so I guess the cartoons were transferred too.

The new Belmont-Paul Monument is well-worth visiting. I saw it with my daughter in 2012 and was quite impressed by it.

Tom King interviewed

From the CIA to Gotham: Meet The Real Life Spy Who's Now Writing "Batman"

Former CIA agent Tom King is mining his own experiences for the Dark Knight's war on crime.

Susan Karlin 03.31.16
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3058410/from-the-cia-to-gotham-meet-the-real-life-spy-whos-now-writing-batman

Glen Weldon on Robin

A Brief History of Dick: Unpacking the gay subtext of Robin, the Boy Wonder.

By Glen Weldon
April 3 2016
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2016/04/the_history_of_the_gay_subtext_of_batman_and_robin.html

That darn Argyle Sweater

We wouldn't trivialize cancer this way

Anne Atwood

Washington Post April 9 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-wouldnt-trivialize-cancer-this-way/2016/04/08/63c9ba98-fcdc-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html

Tom Toles LIVE on Facebook right now

Tom Toles

https://www.facebook.com/tomtoles?fref=nf

I'll be here on Facebook live around 1:30 today. I'l do some sketching, answer questions, and maybe even take a sketching suggestion, if it isn't too hard. See you then! Tom

A Gareth Hinds interview, short on words but long on images

 

Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Gareth Hinds

Julie Danielson (a.k.a. Jules)

Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog March 29th, 2016

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=4022