Thursday, February 23, 2017

New interview with Jason Rodriguez on Colonial Comics

History, Comics, and Representation: An Interview with Jason Rodriguez

Sami Yuhas

Comics in the Classroom blog February 23 2017

https://www.comicsintheclassroom.org/2017/02/23/colonial-comics-interview-jason-rodriguez/

Orsini on Cosmunity

Herblock prize awarded to Ruben Bolling

'Tom the Dancing Bug' creator wins 2017 Herblock Prize for his original spoofs of Donald Trump

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 23 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/02/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-creator-wins-2017-herblock-prize-for-his-original-spoofs-of-donald-trump/

Local writer Ted White needs financial help

Local writer Ted White of Falls Church, VA needs financial help. He's got a GoFundMe campaign up to pay his taxes on his house at https://www.gofundme.com/44r62-save-my-house

Regarding comics, he edited Heavy Metal and wrote a Captain America novel.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

International Journal of Comic Art 18-2 Fall / Winter 2016 is out

See http://www.ijoca.com for ordering details. On a personal note, I have a remembrance of my friend Richard Thompson in it.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART

Vol. 18, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2016

 

Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship

My Drifting Manga Life

Frederik L. Schodt

1

Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship

I Am Just a Comic Book Reader Who Became Curious ...

Waldomiro Vergueiro

20

Heroism Reversed: Graphic Novels About the Great War

Sylvain Rheault

33

A Collaborative Journey: Malcolm Whyte, Troubador Press, and the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco

Kim Munson

61

How the French Kickstarted the Acceptance of Comics as an Art Form in the US: the Books and Exhibitions of Maurice Horn

Kim Munson

Ill

A Brief History of the Translation of American Comic Strips in Pre-World War II Japan and the Origins of Contemporary Narrative Manga

Eike Exner

156

Gene Luen Yang's Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town

Sheng-Mei Ma

175

From Phylacteries to Balloons: Consequences of Epistemological Evolution in Pictorial  Representation of Discourse Support

Fabio Mourilhe

196

Food in Post-Soviet Russian Comics

Jose Alaniz

216

The Influence of Cartoon and Animation for the Elaboration of Visual Art in the Electronic Dance Music Genre

Citlaly Aguilar Campos

234

Hippies, Rogues, and Urban Losers: Subjects of the Indian Graphic Novel

Preeti Singh

258

Graphic Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice: Pastiche, Parody, and Intertextuality

Kirsten Mollegaard

280

Comics Journalism: An Interview with Josh Neufeld

Dominic Davies

299

Poetics of Sound and Death: The Function of Nature and Effects in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Kay K. Clopton

318

I Will Not Bow: Analysis of the Feminine Refusal of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic in Jnuyasha

Robyn Johnson

337

An Interview with English Comic Book Artist Arthur Ranson

Jeffery KJaehn

354

Remembering Her 50 Years in Japanese Girls' and Ladies' Comics: An Interview with Chikae Ide

Kinko Ito

367

The Neurotic Gaze: Jules Feiffer Seen Through a Feminist Lens

Amadeo Gandolfo

384

Violence Representation in Horror Comic Books

Edilaine Correa

403

Remembering Richard Thompson (1957-2016)

Mike Rhode

417

How Realism is Shaping Korean Webtoons

Alyssa Kim

421

"YES SIR!" 50 Years of Nationalism and the lndo-Pak War in Narayan Debnath's Bnatul the Great

Sourav Chatterjee

434

Fiction, Transmedia Storytelling, and Cartoons: The Life and Death of Re Bordosa

Luiza Lusvarghi

453

How a Shojo (a Japanese Girl) Transcends National Borders Through an Incestuous Body: Shojo Manga from the 1970s to the 2000s

Fusami Ogi

463

An Interview with Comic Book Artist Paul Gulacy

Jeffery KJaehn

479

Writing the Picture: Ramayana Narrative in a Graphic Novel Form

Varsha Jha (Singh)

488

The Next Generation of Comics Researchers

The Visual Ideograph: The Advent and Departure of the Abu Ghraib "Hooded Specter"

Joseph Hancuch

504

(YA)ru, (O)kasu, (I)kaseru: Do Him, Rape Him, Make Him Cum: Rape, Loss, and the Silence of Queer Identity in Boys Love Manga

Zac Clifton

516

The Printed Word

John A. Lent

531

Book Reviews

Jose Alaniz

John A. Lent

534

Portfolio

540





Feb 26: Neal Adams in Tysons Corner

Tom King interview on Marvel's site

A Vision of the Past:Tom King opens up on his acclaimed comic book series!

Game-On Comics delivery service profiled

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

New Kickstarter from J. Robert Deans


Crass Fed Kids and Shakes the Cow Return With TWO New Books!

CFK returns with TWO new children's books! Shakes the Cow and the Bear From AUNT go racing in their latest adventures!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13694920/crass-fed-kids-and-shakes-the-cow-return-with-two


About this project

HI!  My name is J. Robert Deans, basically known online as "That Penguin Guy."  About two years ago, I ran a campaign to start a new series of children's books, CRASS FED KIDS, with the printing of MOO THOUSAND AND PUN.  MOO featured Shakes The Cow on an adventure in Space, and thanks to my wonderful 83 supporters, Shakes came to life!

Since then, I printed three more books using a preorder system to pay for printing. First was another Shakes adventure, TEMPLE OF MOO'D.  The other two books feature Stanley, The Bear From A.U.N.T., in the young reader spy adventures THE HONEY DON'T CASE and THE CASE OF THE PUSHY OCTOPUS.  When I wrote THE CASE OF THE PUSHY OCTOPUS, I combined the characters from both series when Shakes' friend Percie showed up to help Stanley during a mission under the sea.  (You can't read that without hearing Sebastian, can you?  Neither can I.)

My books.
My books.

My newest books, scheduled for release this Summer, tell one story, from two perspectives, for two different reader levels.  Shakes is a Formoola One racing driver in MOO FAST, MOO FURRYOUS, and in the latest Bear From A.U.N.T. book, Stanley and his friends investigate Formoola One race fraud in THE CASE OF THE CHICANE MUTINY.

The new books!
The new books!

(Yeah…I still like my puns.)

 

THE CAMPAIGN

My campaign for MOO THOUSAND AND PUN included several bells and whistles, like prints and coloring books.  This time, my campaign simply covers printing a modest number of both new books.  Included with the cost of printing, taxes and fees, and shipping, are funds to advertise my catalog with libraries and bookstores across the world.  I will also print extra copies to send out packages to a few agents and publishers to begin the process of moooving Shakes and Stanley to a greater stage.  This will hopefully get me closer to being a full-time writer of puns.  And books.  Not just puns, I swear.

Printing the books will cost about $1500, with the remaining funds covering promotion, shipping, and Kickstarter fees.  Stretch Goals will be determined shortly, but extra funds raised will at the very least mean printing extra books (woohoo!).


Monday, February 20, 2017

'Comics Studies Comes of Age'


Comics Studies Comes of Age

By Lee Konstantinou February 19, 2017
Chronicle of Higher Education

The year 1986 was a turning point in the history of comics. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons began publishing their acclaimed limited series, Watchmen. Frank Miller released his four-issue miniseries reimagining the Batman story, The Dark Knight Returns. And the first volume of Art Spiegelman’s comics memoir, Maus, was published by Pantheon Books. A year earlier, while it was still being serialized in RAW magazine, the critic Ken Tucker suggested that Maus’s existence might help "expand the very notion of what a comic strip can do, to make intelligent readers reconsider — and reject — the widespread notion of … ‘comics-as-kid-culture.’"

Read the full article

Lee Konstantinou is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park and author of Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (Harvard University Press, 2016).

 

Joe Simon's granddaughter on Captain America for The Post

My grandfather helped create Captain America for times like these

I used to think of Cap as all mine. Now I want to share him with the world.

[in print as My grandfather's superhero was made for times like these: Megan Margulies on the renewed relevance of Captain America].


Washington Post February 19, 2017, p. B2
online at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/16/my-grandfather-helped-create-captain-america-for-times-like-these/

Library of Congress comic book collection mentioned by New Yorker magazine

The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility

The values of Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first person of color in the position, can be seen in every aspect of the institution she runs.

Friday, February 17, 2017

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Legion'

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Legion' And 'Planet Earth 2'



Syd Barrett (Rachel Keller) and David Haller (Dan Stevens) in the FX series Legion.
Chris Large/FX
This week's show brings a new voice to our fourth chair: Alan Sepinwall, TV critic at Uproxx and author (of The Revolution Was Televised and, with Matt Zoller Seitz, of TV (The Book)), is with us to talk about two new shows.

First up is Legion, the FX adaptation of a somewhat lesser-known Marvel story compared to some that have come to the screen. The show stars Dan Stevens, whom you may remember as Matthew on Downton Abbey, and was created by Noah Hawley, who most recently did FX's adaptation of Fargo. We talk about its structure and characterizations, and its combination of psychiatric questions and superpower ones.

March 6: Curatorial Display - Will Eisner Centennial at Library of Congress

Monday, March 6, 2017

 

Curatorial Display - Will Eisner Centennial: Discovering His Legacy in the Library's Collections.

Join curators from the Prints & Photographs Division and the Serial & Government Publications Division in a celebration of noted cartoonist, comic book publisher, and graphic novelist Will Eisner. A selection of comic art and comic books will be on exhibit.

 

This event is co-sponsored by Prints & Photographs Division and the Serial & Government Publications Division.

 

Where: Room 139, Madison Building, 1st floor, Madison Building

When: Monday, March 6, 2017, 11:00-1:00 PM

 

Feb 22: Library of Congress Gallery Talk Wednesday, World War I Artists


On Wednesday, February 22 at noon please join curators Katherine Blood and Sara W. Duke in the exhibition World War I: American Artists View the Great War  to discuss highlights from a new rotation of artwork chronicling the First World War. The exhibition includes posters, photographs, cartoons, fine art prints, and drawings from the Library's Prints and Photographs Division and is located in the Graphic Arts Galleries, Ground Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building.

Sara Duke will be mentioning McKee Barclay, a Baltimore cartoonist.


Feb 18: Bmore Into Comics

The quarterly Bmore Into Comics hold "Issue 12" on Saturday, February 18, from 1-7 pm at the Windup Space in Baltimore.


Feb 17-19: Farpoint Con in Baltimore

"FARPOINT is an annual gathering for fans of all genres of imaginative fiction – Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, SuperHeroes – in all the media formats in which they might appear – Cinematic Movies, Television, Direct to DVD , Books on Tape, Podcasts, Web Video – you name it, we want to celebrate it!

The con was established in 1993, by a committee led by Bev Volker and Steve Wilson. Our focus is on Fandom, and all the wonderful, creative people who comprise it. Our mission is to encourage, to educate, to enable. So, while we certainly bring in some exciting professionals from the industries which bring imagination into the mainstream, our real goal is to give you the opportunity to meet others like yourself, to forge friendships, and to develop your own creative gifts."

Comics creators Peter David and David Mack are among the guests.

Feb 17-19: Katsucon at National Harbor

The anime and cosplay show opens today - http://www.katsucon.org/

"An annual 3-day fan convention held in the D.C. metro area for multicultural enthusiasts and entertainment."

Here's the schedule - http://www.katsucon.org/download-the-katsucon-schedule/