Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Comic Riffs on caricaturing Hillary Clinton
Guardians of the Galaxy go into space with NASA
Marvel’s Groot and Rocket will head to space on NASA’s newest mission patch
Washington Post Speaking of Science July 25 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.
One famous comics linkup not mentioned in the story above is Peanuts and the Apollo 10 mission.
Charles Schulz used Snoopy and his other characters in support of NASA for many years around the Apollo missions.
Window dressing at Second Story Books
Second Story Books at Dupont Circle on occasion displays some of its pop culture books in its street windows. This week, it features of some graphic novels and comics-related books.
Monday, July 25, 2016
Eisner Awards - local winners and Comic Riffs coverage
Here's the local winners:
Best publication for early readers (up to age 8)
"Little Robot," by Ben Hatke (First Second)Best reality-based work
"March: Book Two," by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)and here's a couple of Comics Riffs stories:
Comic-Con: 'Overjoyed' Rep. John Lewis wins 'the Oscar of comics' for his civil rights memoir (+ winners' list)
Washington Post Comic Riffs
Comic-Con: Eisner nominee Tom King turned five months in Iraq into a Vertigo Comics hit
Washington Post Comic Riffs
Comic Riffs on new books from Drawn & Quarterly
Exclusive: New DeLisle and Trondheim graphic memoirs to be offered in English, via Drawn & Quarterly
Comic Riffs talks to Dream Jumper creators
Greg Grunberg's son had a dream. Now it's a high-flying graphic-novel series and Paramount project
Sunday, July 24, 2016
July 24: Deadline for 'Magic Bullet' 13
Today is the deadline for comics submissions and ads for Magic Bullet 13, the semi-annual comics newspapers of the D.C. Conspiracy. To whet your appetite, here's a work-in-progress of the cover for the new issue by Dale Rawlings.
Friday, July 22, 2016
July 23: Zinefest DC
Zinefest DC is tomorrow from 11-5, in NW on 16th and Newton. There's at least 5 cartoonists tabling, and Fantom Comics too.
Names I recognize are:3a-G. E. Gallas
5-Katie McDermott
27a-Andrew Cohen
27b-Michael Cowgill
29b-Mike Brace
32-Robin Ha
Comic Riffs talks to cartoonists about Trump
Here is the true secret to mocking newly minted nominee Donald Trump
The Post doesn't like the new Ice Age animation
'Ice Age: Collision Course': It's time for this franchise to become extinct
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Kickstarter for The Protectorate graphic novel begins today
Former local resident Christian Farmer has written in about a new graphic novel planned in collaboration with J.C. Williams. Farmer tells ComicsDC:
My wife and I moved to DC in the winter of 2008. We lived in Old Town Alexandria for about 3 years actually, but we were in the city a lot. I played in a r&b/jazz band for a while there. Mostly we were just figuring out how to grow up. We decided not to. My wife grew up in the Annapolis area and went to school in Tampa, where we met. When she graduated she wanted to spend some time in DC.
The Protectorate story is so incredible and we've been extremely lucky with the art team we found. With the success of our Kickstarter we will be able pay the amazing artists that we've hired to make our story come to life.
Our story follows a group of unlikely heroes as they reform the Protectorate. The previous Protectorate was a band of warriors that guarded the civilized planets of the universe from an evil overlord; whom relentlessly sought to destroy everything good in place of greed, pain, fear, and suffering. After 120 years of the evil overlord's rule a new Protectorate begins to slowly emerge and build an army to restore the balance of peace.
We launched our Kickstarter campaign today, July 19th! The successful funding of our Kickstarter will allow us to hire our art team at Inkstand Studios, and print the first run of Limited Edition books for our backers. This 140 page graphic novel is the first book of what will be over 1500 pages of art, telling a story that blends science fiction with the world's events as we see them. We seek to use this epic story as a way of opening peoples eyes to the problems of today's world, and showing readers a path to positive societal change.
The link to our Kickstarter is https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/525399862/protectorate-awakening-volume-1 Our rewards start at only $1, and at that level you get the first 26 pages of our story in PDF form!
Hilary Clinton in Faith comic book
Faith and politics will collide when Hillary Clinton appears in Valiant Comics
Monday, July 18, 2016
New webcomic from Steve Conley
Steve's left NoVA for FLA but he's just let me know that he's got an attractive new strip that launched today.
The Middle Age is a new comic strip from cartoonist Steve Conley which launched today, Monday, July 18. Click here to read the very first episode!
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
Amateur DC cartoonists owns political webdomains and posts cartoons there
D.C. Lawyer Squatting On Clinton Website Domains With 'Hillary Potter' Cartoons
by Rachel Kurzius DCist Jul 15, 2016
http://dcist.com/2016/07/dc_lawyer_owns_clinton_website_domains.php
http://dcist.com/2016/07/dc_lawyer_owns_clinton_website_domains.php
Cavna talks to Atena Farghadani, Iranian cartoonist
Exclusive: Iranian cartoonist opens up about her captivity — and new freedom. #Draw4Atena
Washington Post Comic Riffs July 15 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/07/15/exclusive-iranian-cartoonist-opens-up-about-her-captivity-and-new-freedom-draw4atena/
July 15-17: Shore Leave con in MD
This is a science fiction con, but some of the authors write comic books too.
'Fight the Bite' and Zika
While at a pool in Fairfax, I noticed a public announcement regarding mosquitoes and Zika that included art very similiar to the work of local cartoonist Joe Sutliff. And it looked like it might be re-purposed from some of his previous work for Fairfax County. I asked Joe, and sure enough it was his work and it was re-purposed. Here's his email reply (with his permission to post):
"Yes, that's my art from some of the projects I've done for them. Because it's sold to the VA government, they get to use it as much as they want. They showed the posters to me after they did them - the CDC is getting slammed with requests for Zika materials, and they don't have anything ready, so these were thrown together. All public pools in Fairfax will soon feature one."
"Yes, that's my art from some of the projects I've done for them. Because it's sold to the VA government, they get to use it as much as they want. They showed the posters to me after they did them - the CDC is getting slammed with requests for Zika materials, and they don't have anything ready, so these were thrown together. All public pools in Fairfax will soon feature one."
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Robin Ha interviewed by Metro
This author uses comics to showcase Korean cuisine
Robin Ha is not your typical kitchen scribe.
Carly Olson
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