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Friday, March 10, 2017
PR: Meet Quantum Teens are Go creators Magdalene Visaggio & Eryk Donovan at Third Eye Annapolis Tomorrow
Gabby Rivera writes America
Marvel hired Gabby Rivera, a queer Latina writer, for its queer Latina superhero. That matters. [in print as A Latina writer shares traits with her superhero, March 9, 2017, p. C1-2]
Comic Riffs blog
Gabby Rivera 
Fantom Comics drops ComiXology
I actually have very little idea what that means. I got to stores to buy actual comic books, not e-comics.
However, they have a long explanation for their subscribers at http://www.fantomcomics.com/comichub/New Redistricted Comic online - history of Dupont Circle
staying stylish
https://www.redistrictedcomics.com/dupont
Story by Matt Dembicki
Art by Adam Griffiths
Dupont Circle is a historic and hip neighborhood with a park encompassed by a traffic circle at its center. It was actually part of city planner Pierre Charles L'Enfant's plan for Washington, but it wasn't full developed until after the Civil War. Initially called Pacific Circle, Congress renamed it in 1882 in honor of Civil War Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont. Like nearly all memorials at the time, it was bronze statute of his likeness. But times changed and not everyone appreciated it, including members of his own family.
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Alex Ross exhibit in Winchester, VA; April 1: Ross appearance
Click through to read the whole PR.
New MSV Exhibition to Feature Original Works by Renowned Comic Book Artist Alex Ross
Superheroes and Superstars: The Works of Alex Ross Opens on February 11
Winchester, VA 02/7/17…Superheroes and Superstars: The Works of Alex Ross—a new exhibition featuring the work of one of the world's greatest comic book artists—will be on view in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) from February 11 through May 14, 2017.
The MSV is the first venue to host this traveling exhibition, which has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The exhibition's MSV display is sponsored by Shenandoah Country Q102.
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From 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, the MSV will host Alex Ross for a rare signing event. Prints and Alex Ross merchandise will be available for purchase in the Museum Store. Those interested in attending the signing may bring up to three items per person (no sketches and/or portfolio reviews). While a fee is not required to attend the signing event, MSV admission will apply to view Superheroes and Superstars.
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Sara Duke's courtroom art exhibit opens in late April
Ffom one of our local comics curators:
"Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom Illustrations" Opens April 27
A new exhibition at the Library of Congress, "Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom Illustrations," will feature original art that captures the drama of high-profile court cases in the last 50 years.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, April 27, 2017, and close on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, in the South Gallery on the second floor of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. It is free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Tickets are not needed.
"Drawing Justice" is made possible by Thomas V. Girardi and the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon. In addition, Girardi—the founding partner of Girardi Keese, a Los Angeles law firm—funded the acquisition of 95 high-profile trial drawings by Aggie Kenny, Bill Robles and Elizabeth Williams for the Library's collection. As a result of this benefaction, the Library's courtroom illustrations are the most comprehensive in any American institution.
The exhibition's illustrations—part of the Library's extensive collection of more than 10,000 courtroom drawings—are the work of talented artists hired by both newspapers and broadcast outlets to capture the personal dynamics of legal trials, which for many decades were off-limits to photographers and television cameras. The artwork brings the theater of the courtroom to life, capturing gestures, appearances and relationships in a way that humanizes the defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers, judges and witnesses.
The 98 illustrations on display will represent court cases dating from 1964 to the present day, including trials for murder, crime and corruption, terrorism, political activism and landmark legal issues. Among those depicted will be Jack Ruby, James Earl Ray, Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, John Gotti, the Chicago Seven and Bernie Madoff. Artifacts from the Library's Manuscript Division and the Law Library will supplement the drawings from a legal perspective.
Also on view will be an introductory video and an interactive video station that show the actual drawings from the exhibition being featured on television nightly news broadcasts. This footage demonstrates the important contribution courtroom illustrators make in bringing the drama of the court, and an understanding of the day's events, into the homes of millions of Americans.
The exhibition begins with the work of Howard Brodie, who popularized reportage-style courtroom illustrations with his documentation of the Jack Ruby trial in 1964 for CBS Evening News. Ruby had been charged with killing Lee Harvey Oswald, who allegedly assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Brodie supported and encouraged the first generation of artists who created the artwork for television and print media. Brodie donated his trial drawings to the Library of Congress, which spurred the development of the courtroom-illustration collections.
In addition to Brodie, the artists represented in the exhibition include Marilyn Church, Aggie Kenny, Pat Lopez, Arnold Mesches, Gary Myrick, Joseph Papin, David Rose, Freda Reiter, Bill Robles, Jane Rosenberg and Elizabeth Williams.
The exhibition is curated by Sara W. Duke, curator of applied and graphic art in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Assistant curator is Margaret M. Wood, a senior legal reference librarian in the Library of Congress Law Library. Betsy Nahum-Miller and Carroll Johnson, from the Library's Interpretative Programs Office, are the exhibition directors.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division preserves and provides access to nearly 16 million photographs, drawings and prints from the 15th century to the present day. International in scope, these visual collections represent a uniquely rich array of human experience, knowledge, creativity and achievement, touching on almost every realm of endeavor: science, art, invention, government and political struggle, and the recording of history. For more information, visit loc.gov/rr/print/.
The Library of Congress is the world's largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States—and extensive materials from around the world—both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit at loc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information at congress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
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Ann Telnaes nominated as Cartoonist of the Year
2016 CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR NOMINEES ANNOUNCED!
National Cartoonists Society March 2nd, 2017http://www.reuben.org/2017/03/2016-cartoonist-of-the-year-nominees-announced/
Local pop-inspired artist receives D.C. arts grant
Per press release from College of Southern Maryland
A College of Southern Maryland art professor known for his affinity to superheroes, childhood nostalgia and science fiction has been honored with a fellowship grant.
Professor Andrew Wodzianski has received an artist fellowship grant for 2017 by the District of Columbia’s Commission for the Arts and Humanities.
“The grant is wildly important in part because it has no funding restriction. With no unallowable costs, I can choose how to best spend this award for my art practice,” Wodzianski said. “A portion of the grant will certainly pay for expendable materials, but I'll also use the funds to travel and conduct research.”
The honor and the funding that comes along with the artist fellowship
grant came at an opportune time for Wodzianski, who will be on sabbatical from
CSM from June through January 2018. During that time, he plans to pursue his
own art projects and hopes to be selected for a residency. He is also scheduled
to curate two fine art shows. “These exhibits are an exciting balancing act
between rose-colored nostalgia and newly transcendent images,” he said. “The
artists I've selected have one foot planted in their childhood, and another
dangling over a pool of prophetic slime. That may sound horrifying to some, but
I assure you — it's a fun position to find yourself.”.
Both Wodzianski and his art are quirky and memorable. The art he creates reflects pop culture, particularly pop culture from his childhood growing up in northwest Pennsylvania. He is a fan of film ephemera, and he incorporates that interest into his art. For instance, this summer he created a series of color theory exercises on blueprints of vehicles that were used in the television show “Star Trek.” That series was juried into a group exhibit “Emulsion” that will take place in March at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery in Washington, D.C. His office at CSM reflects his interest in film, science fiction and horror as well. Students who visit his office are met with walls covered with posters from old horror movies, skulls placed amid the books and games on his shelves, and fantasy and superhero collectible figures studding the walls, shelves and ceiling.
In 2011, the Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery at CSM hosted an exhibit of Wodzianski’s work, “Games We Play,” that was inspired by board games and drawing toys from Wodzianski’s childhood. In 2010, Wodzianski himself became art when he lived in a storefront window for two weeks on U Street NW in Washington, DC.
A College of Southern Maryland art professor known for his affinity to superheroes, childhood nostalgia and science fiction has been honored with a fellowship grant.
Professor Andrew Wodzianski has received an artist fellowship grant for 2017 by the District of Columbia’s Commission for the Arts and Humanities.
“The grant is wildly important in part because it has no funding restriction. With no unallowable costs, I can choose how to best spend this award for my art practice,” Wodzianski said. “A portion of the grant will certainly pay for expendable materials, but I'll also use the funds to travel and conduct research.”
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College of
Southern Maryland Art Professor Andrew Wodzianski
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Both Wodzianski and his art are quirky and memorable. The art he creates reflects pop culture, particularly pop culture from his childhood growing up in northwest Pennsylvania. He is a fan of film ephemera, and he incorporates that interest into his art. For instance, this summer he created a series of color theory exercises on blueprints of vehicles that were used in the television show “Star Trek.” That series was juried into a group exhibit “Emulsion” that will take place in March at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery in Washington, D.C. His office at CSM reflects his interest in film, science fiction and horror as well. Students who visit his office are met with walls covered with posters from old horror movies, skulls placed amid the books and games on his shelves, and fantasy and superhero collectible figures studding the walls, shelves and ceiling.
In 2011, the Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery at CSM hosted an exhibit of Wodzianski’s work, “Games We Play,” that was inspired by board games and drawing toys from Wodzianski’s childhood. In 2010, Wodzianski himself became art when he lived in a storefront window for two weeks on U Street NW in Washington, DC.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
PR: March 13: Join us for WHAM-BAM-POW night of comic books & literature!
I've just bought my ticket - Mike
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Prize for Fiction, and the novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! He teaches creative writing for the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Yona Harvey is the author of Hemming the Water, which won the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and is a co-author of the Marvel Comics series Black Panther: World of Wakanda. She has just been announced as an author of the upcoming Black Panther & The Crew series for Marvel Comics, which will make her the first black woman to write Marvel's Storm character.
Gary Jackson is the author of Missing You, Metropolis which was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
Monday, March 06, 2017
New Kickstarter by Arsia Rozegar
Shahnameh For Kids - New books about Rostam and Gordafarid!
Children's book series inspired by Ferdowsi's Persian Epic Myth, The Shahnameh. Featuring THE MIGHTY ROSTAM & THE BRAVERY OF GORDAFARID
As the story continues...
This Kickstarter campaign is intended to help fund the production of two brand new Shahnameh For Kids books; The Mighty Rostam to be followed by The Bravery of Gordafarid.
Sunday, March 05, 2017
Maryland cartoonists Kane and Gallagher interviewed
Women in Comics Month: Interview with Kata Kane
Mar 01, 2017
https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/191091-Women-in-Comics-Month-Interview-with-Kata-KaneWomen in Comics Month: Interview with Monica Gallagher
Mar 01, 2017
https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/191110-Women-in-Comics-Month-Interview-with-Monica-GallagherWillow Wilson reviews The Animators
Can a friendship between two cartoonists survive their own success? [in print as Will fame burst the cartoon bubble of two aspiring artists?]
Comic Riffs on 'Logan'
'Logan': Thank you for your service to the X-franchise, Sir Patrick Stewart. You were a gift most sublime.
'Logan' is the Wolverine movie Hugh Jackman always deserved
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