Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Comic Riffs on the new New Yorker cover
The New Yorker's art director sheds light on the magazine's new augmented-reality cover
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 10 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/05/10/the-new-yorkers-art-director-sheds-light-on-the-magazines-new-augmented-reality-cover/
Interviews with KAL and Maris Wicks
April 21, 2016
by Megan Wessell, A Bookish Affair
http://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/qa-noted-cartoonist-kal/Free Comic Book Day: 'Science Comics' creator leads an inviting dive into deep marine wonders
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 7 2016
Monday, May 09, 2016
Frank Cho interview online
Talking To Frank Cho, Man Of Outrage, About Attracting Women
Posted May 3, 2016 by Rich Johnston
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/05/03/talking-to-frank-cho-man-of-outrage-about-attracting-women-comics-entertainment-wonder-woman/Gareth Hinds book reviewed in NY Times
'Samurai Rising,' by Pamela S. Turner
By SARAH MILLER
A version of this review appears in print on May 8, 2016, on page BR32 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Slash and Burn.
SAMURAI RISING
The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
By Pamela S. Turner
Illustrated by Gareth Hinds
236 pp. Charlesbridge. $16.95. (Middle grade; ages 10 and up)
NPR on Civil War, and black superheroes
2016: Age Of The On-Screen Black Superhero
Eric Deggans
Weekend Edition Saturday May 7, 2016
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/07/477089249/2016-age-of-the-on-screen-black-superhero
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=477089249
'Captain America: Civil War' Is The Mightiest Marvel Movie
Chris Klimek
NPR.org May 6, 2016
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/06/476490464/captain-america-civil-war-is-the-mightiest-marvel-movie
Comic Riffs continues to talk to Civil War directors
How 'Captain America' is just one piece of Disney's plan to reinvent entertainment
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 9 2016
Comic Riffs talks to Gene Yang
Exclusive: Gene Luen Yang to publish his first nonfiction graphic novel ever ('Dragon Hoops') in 2018
Joe Procopio on Small Press Expo in 2000
Procopio, Joseph . 2000.
online at http://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2016/05/joe-procopio-on-small-press-expo-in-2000.html
Comic Riffs talks to Civil War directors
'Captain America: Civil War' directors reveal how their movie flexes these political meanings
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 8 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/05/08/captain-america-civil-war-directors-explain-the-movies-political-meaning/
DC Conspiracy in 'Gift Shop' show at Transformer
By beginning at the most accessible point of entry for most elite art spaces - Gift Shop explores the sociocultural context of the museum gift shop environment - wherein the sacred and the mundane, the Mona Lisa and the coffee cup, become one. As ‘fine art’, increasingly isolates itself from the general public, drawing repulsion from the air of pretension necessary to maintain its integrity - Gift Shop serves as a gateway to support exceptional fine art by adapting the language of mass marketing, branding and cheap affordable commodification.”
:::::Gift Shop Artists include:::::
Amber Eve Anderson
Amy Hughes Braden
Wilson Butterworth
James Cole
Meagan Coleman
Kaliq Crosby
Stephen Crouch
Adrienne Gaither
Felippe Goncavles
Myles Loftin
joseph orzal
Georgie Payne
Justin Poppe
PLAKOOKEE
Bonner Sale
Alex Von Bergen
Meena Yi
The DC Conspiracy.
Sunday, May 08, 2016
Screenprint poster for Artshow 15: Comix
That darn Hagar, Toles and Flashbacks
This cartoon really was horrible [in print as This comic really was horrible]
Mary Ann Ryan, Adamstown
Washington Post May 7 2016, p. A15
Letters to the Editor
He carried the reins in his teeth [Flashbacks].
Marshall Dearden,
Washington Post May 7 2016, p. A15
The Trump criticism hasn't worked
Victor E. Schwartz, Alexandria
Washington Post May 7 2016, p. A15
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-criticism-hasnt-worked/2016/05/06/70ab321e-1159-11e6-a9b5-bf703a5a7191_story.htmlSaturday, May 07, 2016
Reminder Free Comic Book Day starts at 10 am today
Joel Pollack
BIG PLANET COMICS
4849 Cordell Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814
Friday, May 06, 2016
Jok Church of Beakman & Jax has died
Jok Church, of Beakman and Jax cartoon strip for kids, dies at 67.
By Steve Rubenstein
SFGate.com (May 5): http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jok-Church-Beakman-and-Jax-cartoon-strip-for-7396400.php
This is only tangentially-related, as Mr. Church is survived by his brother Jim here in Washington, DC.
Tobin, Suzanne. 2003. Comics: Meet the Artist With Jok Church, Cartoonist, 'You Can With Beakman and Jax'. Washingtonpost.com (May 30): http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_style_cartoon053003.htm
Tobin, Suzanne. 2006. Comics: Meet the Artist - Jok Church, Cartoonist, 'You Can with Beakman and Jax'. Washingtonpost.com (June 30): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/06/20/DI2006062000567.html
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Weed War Is Race War"
"Weed War is Race War"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1939
The initial decision to criminalize marijuana in 1937 wasn't based on a study of the science and biology of addiction or pharmacology, but purely on politics and racism. Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics -- precursor to today's DEA -- was a notorious racist and liar who based his opinions on marijuana on pure, raw racist stereotypes and who believed that marijuana was a sure gateway to violence, sedition and social discontent. It was Anslinger's inflammatory lies which led to the passage of state marijuana laws as a component of Jim Crow and stoked the hype for propaganda films such as Marihuana: The Devil's Weed and Reefer Madness.
As a follow-up to their wildly epic April 2nd event and their historic meeting with White House representives from the Office of National Drug Control Policy, DCMJ -- the people who brought you legal weed in DC -- are throwing a sequel to April 2 on May 20, the one-month anniversary of 4/20, to highlight the fact that Obama is late on descheduling cannabis, and to remind folks of the racism behind the 1937 marijuana ban which is still a major component of the War On Drugs.