Friday, January 27, 2017

Jan 28: Joshua Williamson at Third Eye Comics

Comic Riffs calls out the Times, in spite of the Post's shortcomings

Like killing their Book World section...

The New York Times just killed its graphic novel bestseller lists — and authors aren't happy

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 27 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/01/27/the-new-york-times-just-killed-its-graphic-novel-bestseller-lists-and-authors-arent-happy/

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Riverdale' and Teen Soaps

Linda Holmes

Pop Culture Happy Hour

January 27, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/01/27/511682110/pop-culture-happy-hour-riverdale-and-teen-soaps and
https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/npr.mc.tritondigital.com/PCHH_PODCAST/media/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2017/01/20170126_pchh_322.mp3

KJ Apa plays Archie Andrews on the CW's Riverdale.

'Archie Got Hot' Is A Sentence You'll Hear In New, Noir 'Riverdale'

Ari Shapiro All Things Considered January 26, 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/26/511672776/archie-got-hot-is-a-sentence-youll-hear-in-new-noir-riverdale and
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/01/20170126_atc_archie_got_hot_is_a_sentence_youll_hear_in_new_noir_riverdale.mp3 and
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=511672776

Jan 29: NewsPrints Book Release Party! at Fantom comics

NewsPrints Book Release Party!

Tomorrow at 2 PM - 4 PM

Fantom Comics

2010 P Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20036

Details

In celebration of the release of Ru Xu's graphic novel from Scholastic, NewsPrints, Fantom Comics will be holding a release party! There will be a presentation by the author, a Q&A, and a book signing! Also, feel free to enjoy our newsie themed photo area!

Synopsis for NewsPrints:

"Blue is an orphan who disguises herself as a newsboy. There's a war going on, and girls are expected to help the struggling economy by selling cookies. But Blue loves living and working at the Bugle, the only paper in town that tells the truth. And what's printed in the newspapers now matters more than ever.

But Blue struggles with her secret, and worries that if her friends and adopted family at the Bugle find out that she's a girl, she'll lose everything and everyone she cares about. And when she meets and befriends Crow, a boy who is also not what he seems, together they seek the freedom to be their true selves... and to save each other."

The Post on 'The Red Turtle' cartoon

'The Red Turtle,' from Studio Ghibli, is a lyrical escape into silence and solitude [in print as Cast away with no words... and a rosy reptile].

By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post January 27 2017, p. Weekend 29

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-red-turtle-from-studio-ghibli-is-a-lyrical-escape-into-silence-and-solitude/2017/01/26/fdd4ff70-e193-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html

Q&A: 'The Red Turtle' director talks about making his first feature film

By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post January 26 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/qanda-the-red-turtle-director-talks-about-making-his-first-feature-film/2017/01/26/aee3465a-e266-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Washington Blade contributing editorial cartoonist papers donated

Mike Ritter Collection donated to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

January 24, 2017 / Caitlin McGurk /
https://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/2017/01/24/mike-ritter-collection-donated-to-the-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum/

He did cartoons for the Washington Blade and the library would like to hear from you if you knew him or own original art.

Real life continues to get comic book weird

A comic book nerd won a city council seat — and was sworn in holding his Captain America shield

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Washington Post Post Nation blog January 25 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/25/a-comic-book-nerd-won-a-city-council-seat-and-was-sworn-in-holding-his-captain-america-shield

Another cartoon diary of the Women's March

Drawing the Women's March and the Way Forward

By Ali Fitzgerald

January 24, 2017

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/drawing-the-womens-march-and-the-way-forward

The Post (and NY Times) on Archie's Riverdale tv show

Both liked it.

There's something arch about 'Riverdale' [online as 'Riverdale' isn't about the same old Archie. (For starters, he's having sex with Ms. Grundy.)]

By Hank Stuever
Washington Post January 26 2016 p. C1

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/riverdale-isnt-about-the-same-old-archie-for-starters-hes-having-sex-with-ms-grundy/2017/01/25/9dcfedd6-e1c2-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html

In 'Riverdale,' Archie Is Hot and Haunted

By JAMES PONIEWOZIK

A version of this review appears in print on January 26, 2017, on Page C2 of the New York edition with the headline: Sex, Drugs and Archie

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/review-in-riverdale-archie-is-hot-and-haunted.html

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Comic Riffs rounds up editorial cartoonists on Obama

What America's cartoonists will miss — and won't miss — about drawing President Obama

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 20 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/01/20/what-americas-cartoonists-will-miss-and-wont-miss-about-drawing-president-obama/

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

"March: Book Three" Makes History at the YMAs | ALA Midwinter 2017

By Christina Vercelletto and Sarah Bayliss
January 24, 2017
http://www.slj.com/2017/01/industry-news/march-book-three-makes-history-at-the-ymas-ala-midwinter-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.