Monday, January 02, 2017

The Year According to Toles in The Post

Toles, Tom. 2017.
The Year According to Toles.

Washington Post (January 1): A17.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/12/27/the-best-tom-toles-editorial-cartoons-of-2016/

also in print was

The Year in Cartoons

Washington Post (December 30 2016): A17

Friday, December 30, 2016

The Vision on another best of list

The best comic books of 2016

Stop what you're doing and pick up The Flintstones.

by Alex Abad-Santos and Genevieve Koski Dec 28, 2016
http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/28/14009216/the-best-comic-books-of-the-year

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Glen Weldon on Love Is Love

'Love Is Love' Comics Anthology Offers Raw Expressions of Grief, Rage — And Defiance

NPR's Monkey See blog December 29, 2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2016/12/29/507237355/love-is-love-comics-anthology-offers-raw-expressions-of-grief-rage-and-defiance

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

More on Resist! which will be distributed at the inaugaration

Here's How Women Artists Are Reacting to a Donald Trump Presidency [Resist].

By Claire Landsbaum

Dec 21 2016

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/12/heres-how-women-artists-are-reacting-to-a-trump-presidency.html

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Carbon Footprint"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist (on Dec 23rd):

"Carbon Footprint"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2133

Congratulations, USA – another dirty, bloody regime-change proxy war down the crapper.

11x12 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 541kb.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Michael O'Connell interviews Jessica Abel

#231 – Jessica Abel: Words, images, storytelling and beyond

Michael O'Connell

It's All Journalism podcast,

December 15, 2016
http://itsalljournalism.com/231-jessica-abel-words-images-storytelling-and-beyond/

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to cartoonist Jessica Abel about the differences and surprising similarities in audio and graphic storytelling. Abel is the author of Out on The Wire, a graphic novel about the storytelling techniques behind the popular Radiolab and This American Life radio shows.

Apatoff on Victor Juhasz's combat art

THE "WITNESS ART" OF VICTOR JUHASZ

December 21, 2016

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-witness-art-of-victor-juhasz.html

Swann Foundation is accepting fellowship applications

The Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress is accepting applications for its graduate fellowship, one of the few in the field, for the 2017-2018 academic year. Deadline for applications is February 24, 2017. For criteria, guidelines, and application forms, please see:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html

Please email swann@loc.gov or call (202) 707-9115 if you have questions.

Martha Kennedy

Martha H. Kennedy

Curator, Popular & Applied Graphic Art

and poster acquisitions team member

Prints & Photographs Division

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, D.C. 20540-4730

Voice: 202-707-9115; fax: 202-707-6647

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/

Local comics writer JC Thomas (@SuperUltraGo) on Twitter

at https://mobile.twitter.com/superultrago

Look for "Gates of Dawn" in his feed. He's a Fairfax County Public Schools 4th grade teacher from Herndon and this is his 2nd graphic novel. Big Planet Comics, probably at Vienna, is carrying it according to his feed.

John Fantucchio's comic collection to be sold

From: Mary Fantucchio

Dear family and friends - as most of you know, John died in August of a stroke. Please pass this on to anyone you know who might be interested. For more information about John's work in fandom, see Aaron Caplan's website www.fantucchio.com.

CGC recognizes a new pedigree!

CGC has recognized a new Silver Age Pedigree. The John G. Fantucchio Pedigree features nearly every comic published by Marvel and DC Comics from the inception of the Marvel era in the early 1960s through the mid-70s. Rounding out the collection are numerous other high grade comics from other publishers including Charlton, Gold Key, Dell, ACG, Tower and many others.

"This collection was beautiful," said Paul Litch, CGC's Primary Grader, "It is a rare treat when a previously unseen collection of high grade comics becomes available to the public. It is even more rare for a collection to be recognized as a pedigree... a collection like this, cannot be denied."

The books were collected by artist John G. Fantucchio and stored in ideal conditions. The result is a collection of beautifully preserved comics with amazing color and page quality. John had been a serious collector since the 1940's and was an adult at the beginning of the Silver Age. These books had been stored for decades until being viewed by Rick Lowell of Casablanca Comics.

"I had known about these books for years, but nobody had ever seen them" says Lowell. "I was unsure what I was going to find and as I unpacked them I was amazed at the quality. I was also stunned at how complete the collection is."

John Fantucchio was one of the most prominent artists during the early days of comic fandom. He created hundreds of covers and illustrations for fanzines such as Rocket's Blast Comic Collector, Fantastic Fanzine, Comic Crusader and many others. John also did covers for the early issues of The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, including the very first issue.

"It has been over eight years since we've brought out an original owner collection dating back to the early Silver Age of comics with depth like this," stated Josh Nathanson, Founder and CEO of ComicLink. "There is a distinct beauty in looking at book after book with a homogeneous look and feel, having been stored in the same place in the same way for decades. It's one of the perks of this job that I relish. I'm thrilled that ComicLink is working with Rick to disperse the collection into the hands of today's collectors. We've decided that Amazing Spider-Man will be the first title to be offered, within the ComicLink.com Winter Featured Auction commencing on February 15th. I'm looking forward to the event!"

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Sunday, December 25, 2016

The Post reviews Sing animated movie

Saved by the singing, anthropomorphic animals [online as As crooning animals, Hollywood heavyweights give 'Sing' the boost it needs]By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post (December 23 2016)

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/as-crooning-animals-hollywood-heavyweights-give-sing-the-boost-it-needs/2016/12/20/7fcb953c-c6c0-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Cole Goco's first Billy the Pop collection out now

From Cole Goco, Arlington's hardest working student cartoonist,

"I have BIG news today. The first Billy the Pop BOOK is now available for purchase! It contains the first year and a quarter of Billy strips, and features never-before-seen illustrations, as well as an amazing foreword by Mike Rhode, the editor of ComicsDC! If you guys really love Billy, are looking for a last-minute Christmas present, or just want to support the strip, I would truly appreciate it if you would buy a copy. It's super exiting to be able to look at my own work in book form, and I hope you feel the same way!
Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Pop-Cole-Goco/dp/1539198022/ "