Tuesday, June 07, 2016
June 15: World War I: American Artists View the Great War talk
World War I: American Artists View the Great War
Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at Noon
Co-Curators Katherine Blood and Sara W. Duke,
Prints and Photographs Division,
Present Selected Highlights in the Exhibition
Graphic Arts Galleries, Ground Level
Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E., Library of Congress
Sponsored by the Interpretive Programs Office, Stacie Moats, 202-707-0185
ADA ACCESSIBILITY: Request ADA accommodations
5 business days in advance 202-707-6362 or ada@loc.gov
June 8: Brad Meltzer at Tysons
http://bradmeltzer.com/appearances/
MCLEAN, VA
Wednesday, June 8th – 7:00 pm
BARNES & NOBLE
Tysons Corner
7851 Tysons Corner Center
Robin Ha's new book reviewed in the NY Times
Cooking: Gwyneth Paltrow's 'It's All Easy,' and More
By JENNY ROSENSTRACH
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/books/review/cooking-gwyneth-paltrows-its-all-easy-and-more.htmlA version of this review appears in print on June 5, 2016, on page BR30 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Cooking.
COOK KOREAN! A Comic Book With Recipes (Ten Speed, paper, $19.99; available in early July), by Robin Ha,
Ben Hatke's upcoming book tour
Monday, June 06, 2016
OT: Peter Kuper exhibit in NYC
"Outside the Box" A career retrospective opens on Thursday, June 16th, with an artist reception from 6-9 PM.
The exhibition continues through August 17th.
http://www.scottedergallery.com/PeterKuper.pdf
Scott Eder gallery is located at:
18 Bridge St., 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Dumbo)
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 1-6
Ann Telnaes profiles Pat Oliphant
Mooning the Pulitzer board
By Ann Telnaes
Columbia Journalism Review Spring 2016 1454 wordshttp://www.cjr.org/the_feature/mooning_the_pulitzer_board.php
David Lamb has passed away
David Lamb, longtime L.A. Times correspondent who covered Vietnam War, dies at 76
Sunday, June 05, 2016
Josh Kramer covers D&d in the Post
An illustrated guide to why grown-ups are playing Dungeons & Dragons again
The role-playing game is having a new adventure.
By Josh Kramer June 1 2016 [in print as Why grown-ups are playing D&D, June 5, 2016, p. B2, with 25% edited out]https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/01/why-dungeons-dragons-is-popular-again-in-one-comic/
Saturday, June 04, 2016
That darn Mark Trail (continued)
Some people don't appreciate 'Mark Trail.' Making it is a childhood dream come true. [in print as Drawing 'Mark Trail' is a childhood dream come true].
James Allen, Gainesville, Ga.
Washington Post (June 4 2016), p. A11
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/some-people-dont-appreciate-mark-trail-making-it-is-a-childhood-dream-come-true/2016/06/03/1625a07e-2755-11e6-8329-6104954928d2_story.htmlFriday, June 03, 2016
Library of Congress' Edward Gorey collection
X-Men on NPR's Monkey See blog
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'X-Men' And Supervillains
This week's show takes us back to a franchise we've neglected and into the heart of villainy. And as always, we tell you what's making us happy this week.
The Post reviews Kirkman's Outcast tv show
Hardly heaven, West Virginia: Demons lurk in 'Outcast [online as In 'Outcast,' the creator of 'Walking Dead' finds demons in downtrodden America]
The Post reviews TMNT
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' franchise finds a sense of fun again
Washington Post.com (June 2 2016):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-franchise-finds-a-sense-of-fun-again/2016/06/02/9c5678e6-28de-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html
Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello are back, along with Raphael and some fun new villains, in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows." (Lula Carvalho/Paramount Pictures)
Feeling the Bern: Grassroots Artists Capture Bernie Sanders
Feeling the Bern: Grassroots Artists Capture Bernie Sanders
By Matt Wuerker and Brianna Gurciullo
06/02/16
Cul de Sac play premieres tonight in Arlington
Cul de Sac
Play by Amy Thompson
Adapted from the Comic Strip, Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
Four-year-old Alice Otterloop and her older brother, Petey, learn about friendship and the importance of being yourself in this world premiere play adaptation of Richard Thompson's nationally syndicated Cul De Sac comic strip. When Alice decides to help Petey become more exciting she risks sending Petey further into his shell. With the help other their parents, teachers, and new and old friends the Otterloop children just might be able to learn something from each other. We recommend this production for ages 4 and older.
Performance Dates and Times:
Friday, June 3, 2016 at 7:30pm
Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 11am and 3pm
Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 3pm
Friday, June 10, 2016 at 7:30pm
Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 11am and 3pm
Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 3pm
About the comic strip and artist: "He never wanted to be anything other than a cartoonist," says playwright Amy Thompson in describing her husband Richard Thompson. Richard, a long-time Arlington resident, had created thousands of illustrations and cartoons for dozens of magazines and newspapers before Cul de Sac debuted in The Washington Post Magazine in 2007. Thompson drew on incidents from his own childhood ("there's a lot of him in Petey, the withdrawn artist" says Amy), and the lives of his family, including two daughters, Emma and Charlotte. Everything from Charlotte's unbounded exuberance, to Emma's discovery that a manhole cover made a great stage, to the reluctant introduction of a guinea pig in their home was fodder for Thompson's re-imagined suburban Washington. Thompson's Cul de Sac drew the attention of comic fans worldwide including some very famous fans.
"[The comic strip] is one of those rare visions that shows how surprising the ordinary world really is. Richard Thompson's wonderfully peculiar Otterloop family is closely observed with deep sympathy and rings absolutely true, I'm a huge fan." – Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson stated Watterson
"If Cul de Sac isn't French for 'wonderfully loopily sincerely life-affirmingly stupendously hilarious' then there is something wrong with the French language." -Children's book author Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Elephant & Piggie series)
"Cul de Sac is the funniest strip to appear in decades. Inside Out. It's full of great characters, well-observed truths that most of us have forgotten about, and is so beautifully and funnily drawn that it is an absolute joy to look at even if you can't read. (Of course, if you can't read, then you'd better stop right now.)" -Pixar director and Oscar-winner Pete Docter (Films include Inside Out, Monsters, Inc. and Up.)
Click here for full press release.
Location:
All performances are held at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre (125 S. Old Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA 22204)
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Thursday, June 02, 2016
Comic Riffs talks to Tom King
How one man went from the CIA to writing Batman's adventures
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog June 2 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/06/02/how-one-man-went-from-the-cia-to-writing-batmans-adventures/
June 9: Ben Hatke at Politics and Prose and Takoma Park
Ben Hatke - Nobody Likes a Goblin
Goblin lives a quiet but happy life in a dungeon. He has everything he needs: boots to eat for breakfast, rats to care for as pets, and Skeleton to have as his Very Best Friend. Together, the two buddies do what they love best: namely, counting the bats hanging from the ceiling and telling stories. One day, however, disaster strikes: a band of adventurers storms the dungeon and, as Goblin hides, they steal absolutely everything—including Skeleton. Goblin immediately leaves his comfortable home and embarks upon a rescue mission. But how can he succeed when everyone he meets keeps running away from him? Ages 4 – 8
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