Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Lauren Weinstein also draws the Women's March

Drawing the Women's March on Washington

By Lauren R. Weinstein January 23, 2017
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/drawing-the-womens-march-on-washington-9598796

Lauren Weinstein, an illustrator who draws the Normel Person strip for the Voice, attended the Women's March on Washington with her family this past weekend.

Another diary strip on the Women's March

Half a Million March on Washington

The Women's March drew people from all over the country - and the globe.

by Allyson Shwed

The Nib January 23 2017

https://thenib.com/half-a-million-march-on-washington

A Washington cartoon (presented without comment)

Courtesy of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97511830/

Title: "To begin with, 'I'll paint the town red'" / Hamilton.
Creator(s): Hamilton, Grant E., artist
Date Created/Published: 1885 January 31.
Medium: 1 print (2 pages) : chromolithograph.
Summary: Cartoon showing "Democracy" portrayed as the devil holding a bucket labeled "Bourbon Principles" and a paintbrush (in which appears a profile caricature of Grover Cleveland), both dripping red paint with which he plans to "paint the town"; he is standing on a wall overlooking a view of Washington, D.C. showing mostly government buildings.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-10482 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-5418 (color film copy transparency)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: Illus. in AP101.J8 1884-1885 Case X [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
- Illus. in: Judge, v. 7, no. 172, 1885 January 31, pp. 8-9.

March marches on

John Lewis' Graphic Memoir Wins 4 American Library Association Awards

NPR's The Two-Way blog January 23, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/23/511230924/john-lewis-graphic-novel-wins-4-american-library-association-awards

Privacy on Display exhibit at Goethe-Institut Washington

Privacy on Display

Wed, 01/25/2017 -
Tue, 03/07/2017

Goethe-Institut Washington

1990 K Street NW, Suite 03
(Entrance on 20th Street NW, lower level)
Washington, DC

Privacy today is not what it used to be. Digitalization is rapidly transforming our world – ranging from individual to governmental relationships - and this provides fertile ground for artists to probe questions such as "What does privacy mean in the digital age?," "Is privacy a right or a privilege?" and "Which takes precedence – privacy or security?"

Cartoons concisely capture different and new ways of thinking, thereby serving as an ideal medium for conveying various interpretations of a topic and stimulating crucial conversations. Inviting us to reflect upon what seems to be the normal order of things, they enlarge our worldview.

These cartoons by American and European artists Ann Telnaes, Farley Katz, Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott, KAL, LECTRR, Matt Wuerker, Mawil and Tom Meyer express a range of ideas and perspectives on privacy.

Ann Telnaes is editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post. She previously worked for Walt Disney Imagineering and other studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Taiwan. Her print work was shown in exhibitions in the Library of Congress in 2004 and also in Paris, Jerusalem, and Lisbon. Her first book, Humor's Edge, was published in 2004. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 2001.

Farley Katz has been a writer and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker since 2007. His cartoons and short comedy pieces have also appeared in Mad Magazine, on Saturday Night Live, and in the online literary magazine Narrative. Katz has published several books, including his latest, The Married Kama Sutra: The World's Least Erotic Sex Manual.

Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Borgman and Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Jerry Scott co-created Zits, a comic strip about sixteen-year-old Jeremy's adolescent dilemmas. Debuting in 1997, it now appears in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide and has won several prizes. In addition, Borgman has four political-cartoon anthologies to his credit and Scott is well-known for Baby Blues, the popular comic strip he co-produces with Rick Kirkman.

KAL (Kevin Kallaugher) is the editorial cartoonist for The Economist and The Baltimore Sun. Over the past 37 years, he has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resumé includes six collections of his published work including Daggers Drawn (2013). In 2015, KAL was awarded the Grand Prix for Cartoon of the Year in Europe and the Herblock Prize for Cartoonist of the Year in the US, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.

LECTRR (Steven Degryse) is a Belgian cartoonist best known for his daily political cartoons in De Standaard. Over the past decade he has been published all over Europe, both as an editorial cartoonist and a syndicated single panel cartoonist, in magazines such as Helsingsborgs Dagblad (Sweden), Prospect Magazine (UK), Nieuwe Revu (The Netherlands), Veronica Magazine (The Netherlands), Kretèn (Hungary) and others.

Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for POLITICO. Over the past 36 years, his cartoons have been used widely in dailies like the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor, and in magazines including Newsweek and The Nation. In 2010, Wuerker was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress and the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award; he received a Pulitzer Prize in 2012.

Mawil (Markus Witzel) is a Berlin-based comic artist. His books have been published nationally and internationally. He works as an illustrator for magazines and newspapers including Der Tagesspiegel, teaches at art schools and gives workshops. Mawil has received the ICOM Independent Comic Prize several times.

Tom Meyer's cartoons have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and in magazines such as The New Republic and the Smithsonian. He is a regular contributor to Capitol Weekly, a website devoted to California politics. Meyer was editorial cartoonist at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1981 until 2009. He has received a Fischetti Award and a James Madison Freedom of Information Award.

Organized in conjunction with the Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-Minute Plays. An accompanying book launch and film premiere evening, "Power and Privacy," takes place on January 25.

Monday, January 23, 2017

A cartoonist on the Inaugural protests

The First Day of the Resistance

Dispatches from the front lines at the inauguration

by Sophie Yanow

The Nib January 23 2017

https://thenib.com/welp-people-came-out-to-protest

Another cartoon diary of the Women's March

Cartoonist Katie Fricas draws the march on Washington – in pictures

Katie Fricas interviewed women at the anti-Trump march in DC on Saturday – here's what they had to say

Katie Fricas

Sunday 22 January 2017 11.51 EST Last modified on Monday 23 January 2017 05.05 EST

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2017/jan/22/cartoonist-katie-fricas-draws-the-march-on-washington-in-pictures

A cartoon diary of the Women's March

My Cartoon Diary of the Women's March on Washington

Migraines, bad signs, and heartbreak.

By Liana Finck

January 22 2017
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/liana_finck_s_cartoon_diary_of_the_women_s_march_on_washington.html

Former DC resident Robert Aguirre-Sacasa on his Archie fandom

Archie and Betty and Veronica and Zombies

How a 76-year-old gang of teenagers wound up fighting the undead, meeting the Ramones, and starring in a sex-infused murder-mystery show on the CW.

By Abraham Riesman

*A version of this story appears in the January 28, 2017 issue of New York Magazine.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/archie-riverdale-cw-c-v-r.html

Big Planet Comics January Hardcover SALE!

Big Planet Comics January Hardcover SALE!

Local cartoonist Chip Beck interviewed

but as a military artist.

Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

Falls Church News-Press January 19, 2017

https://fcnp.com/2017/01/17/our-man-in-arlington-203/

Covering Donald Trump as an editorial cartoonist

CBC News January 22, 2017

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/860179011996/

06:13

Host John Northcott speaks with Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post about the role of an editorial cartoonist today.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

'Magic Bullet' on the streets

The DC Conspiracy on Friday and Saturday fanned out across the city to distribute its new issue of the Magic Bullet comics newspaper during the inauguration and Women's March. Below MB Editor Andrew Cohen provide a brief account of the days' distort via Facebook:

"David Ross and I took Magic Bullet 14 to the Inauguration protests this weekend. At the Capitol, a guy from CSPAN ran up to us because he recognized the newspaper from picking it up at the comic stores. Later, near the security check in Chinatown, someone else flagged us down because his mother, an art teacher, would read it. Further west, around Franklin Square, we had a pleasant conversation with an anarchist, while the police set off concussion bombs and tear gas, beside us. We gave our last issues to a guy in McPherson Square, who told us that when he was in high school, his bedroom walls were decorated with show posters, and Magic Bullet pages."

Photos from Andrew Cohen

MB contributor Jason Rodriguez heads to the inauguration with bundles of MB14.

MB contributor Jason Axtell reports he flew through his bundles at the Women's March.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Comic Riffs talks to editorial cartoonists about Joe Biden

It's at the end - Rob Rogers and Michael Ramirez.

As Joe Biden exits, comedy bids farewell to a one-man gold mine

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 19 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/01/19/as-joe-biden-exits-comedy-bids-farewell-to-a-one-man-gold-mine/

Comic Riffs talks to women creators before the March

Women's March: 8 great creative thinkers offer this advice for the sisters who follow in their footsteps

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 21 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/01/21/womens-march-great-creative-thinkers-offer-this-advice-for-the-sisters-who-follow-in-their-footsteps/

Today: Mocomcon at the Silver Spring library.

Beginning at noon is Mocomcon at the Silver Spring library.
January 21, 2017

12–4 pm

Doors open for registration at 11 am.

Silver Spring Library

900 Wayne Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20910

We are very excited to be holding our very first comic convention, MoComCon. This event is open and accessible to all. We want to attract seasoned comic conventioneers, novices, and the curious of all ages. The event will include a variety of panels, workshops, programs, displays, exhibits and cosplay — all free of charge.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Glen Weldon on superhero fashion

Jacket Required: With The Return Of 'The Ray,' Superhero Fashion Gets Layered

NPR's Monkey See blog January 18, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/01/18/510264892/jacket-required-with-the-return-of-the-ray-superhero-fashion-gets-layered

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Tom Toles revisits Herblock's clean shave for new presidents

A Washington Post editorial cartooning tradition continues, sort of

Fantom Comics is safe haven during protests

Comic book store provides safe space for DC inauguration protesters

by Edie Nugent

The Beat 01/19/2017
http://www.comicsbeat.com/comic-book-store-provides-safe-space-for-dc-inauguration-protesters/

'Pigheaded' at DC Indie Film Fest next month

Local comics creator/filmmaker John Kinhart will have his film Pigheaded — a documentary about underground cartoonist Skip Williamson — shown at the DC Independent Film Festival Feb. 15-20.