Friday, April 20, 2018
April 18-22: 'Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play'
Per the event's website: "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play explores what it would be like to take a TV show and push it past an apocalypse, to see what happens. A group of apocalyptic survivors, when they're not protecting themselves from raiders, pass the time recalling and retelling stories. One story in particular is 'Cape Feare,' an episode from the television show The Simpsons. Through the survivors, the play also examines how the story has changed after seven years. Things get even weirder when, 75 years later, the reenactments have become more elaborate and distorted due to a variety of cultural references and callbacks from earlier scenes. Don't miss the interesting take of one of TV's classic shows."
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Newseum gives award to Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Riss
1968 Olympics Protesters, Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist, and Reporters Who Uncovered Workplace Harassment Awarded the Newseum Free Expression Awards
New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Received the Lifetime Achievement Award
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
From the Artleytoons Vault
From the Vault of Artleytoons
Comics Riffs on the debate over the cartooning Pulitzer Prize
This year's cartooning Pulitzer is sharply dividing the comics community. Here's why.
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 17 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/04/17/this-years-cartooning-pulitzer-is-sharply-dividing-the-comics-community-heres-why/
National Library of Medicine blogs on graphic medicine exhibit
Graphic Medicine: A Personal Story
By Jill L. Newmark
National Library of Medicine's Circulating Now blog
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/04/17/graphic-medicine-a-personal-story/
Monday, April 16, 2018
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Blast From Yer Past: 'A16' Remembered'"
Blast From Yer Past: "A16"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=24
Oh, that good old Spirit Of Seattle. Turtles'n'Teamsters everywhere.
The mood and solidarity between different parts of The Movement — folks like old-skool unionists and environmentalists discovering common goals and realizing they were fighting the same fight against the same enemy — were electric and invigorating in the months following Seattle, and none quite like the personal charge I got when, just a couple of weeks afterwards, I saw the action call posted in alt.activism for the April IMF/World Bank Mobilization in Washington, DC, for April 16, 2000 — the now-legendary "A16″.
At last, the revolution circus was coming to my town, and I was going to actually be in it, and photographing and taping it, and telling the story of that week for everybody else out there -- and the wheatpasting...
"A16" edited highlights "Anniversary Cut" from original Hi8 masters for DC Independent Media Center:
https://vimeo.com/33671847
Comic Riffs on 2017 Pulitzer Prize for cartooning
Cartooning Pulitzer goes to a game-changer: An electronic comic book by two creators
by Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 16 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/04/16/cartooning-pulitzer-goes-to-a-game-changer-an-electronic-comic-book-by-two-creators/
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Mission Accomplished, no.3"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=24
Just before the latest round of US bombing in Syria, I found myself appalled at a sabre-rattling op-ed in the Washington Post bearing the bloodthirsty declaration "We Need To Go Big In Syria. North Korea Is Watching". Never mind that we're bombing Syria again despite no real evidence of chemical attacks, and before the OPCW inspectors could get in to investigate -- hell, evidence is for squares these days -- the US media have totally shifted from the issue of fabricated chemical attacks to this tinhorn in North Korea who we're supposed to be scared to death of despite not being able to get his missles to work and whose nuclear arsenal isn't even 1/10 the size of the US -- the only nation in history to have actually used nuclear weapons.
Yeah, let's make an example of this tinhorn in order to put the fear of god into this other tinhorn -- classic crass schoolyard bullying. What else could you expect from an old GW Bush flunkie?
Friday, April 13, 2018
NPR's Monkey See on the Simpson's Apu
'The Simpsons' To 'The Problem With Apu': Drop Dead
https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/04/09/600794630/the-simpsons-to-the-problem-with-apu-drop-dead
Roy Doty spot illo
Washington gets no respect in superhero movies
When Superheroes Battle Evil, Why Does Washington Always Lose?
By EMILY COCHRANE
A version of this article appears in print on April 15, 2018, on Page AR17 of the New York edition with the headline: Saving the World, but Not Set in the Capital
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/movies/superhero-movies-washington-dc.htmlThe Post reviews Sgt. Stubby
'Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero' is a tale of canine courage and companionship [in print as True war story follows a stray who went from the streets into the trenches].
Washington Post April 13 2018, p. Weekend 27
Comic Riffs on the cult of Nancy
'Nancy' has a cult following among many top comics pros. Here's why.
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 12 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/04/12/nancy-has-a-cult-following-among-many-top-comics-pros-heres-why/
Thursday, April 12, 2018
May 9: Steve Artley talk
An evening with award-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Artley
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Date and Time
Wed, May 9, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Location
The Fund for American Studies
1706 New Hampshire Ave., NW
(Dupont Circle Metro station)
Washington, DC 20009
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About this Event
The pen is mightier than the sword, especially when it is in the hands of a skillful political cartoonist, such as Steve Artley. Based in Alexandria, VA, he skewers the foibles of the world with his bold and powerful strokes.
Artley's editorial work has appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, TIME Magazine, Newsweek and NPR's "Double Take," with his cartoons syndicated throughout the United States and Canada. Artley has twice earned the "Best Editorial Cartoonist of the Year" award from the Minneapolis New Association. Three years in a row, he won First Place in the Virginia Press Association News Contest. He is also a former board member of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. You can get a preview of his work at: http://artleytoonsonline.blogspot.com.
A highlight for the evening will be a drawing for an original cartoon, donated by the artist.
This program is co-sponsored by the D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and our host, the Institute on Political Journalism.
For any questions, contact SPJ-DC board member Kathleen Burns at burnskathy1036@gmail.com.
Dirda on Edward Lear in The Post
A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know [in print as Edward Lear, picturing a world of Jumblies and Pobbles].
Washington Post April 12 2018, p. C3
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-plump-victorian-gentleman-who-was-so-very-pleasant-to-know/2018/04/11/7911e92a-3c0e-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Comic Riffs talks to Cathy
She's ba-AACK! 'Cathy' creator returns to humor writing with her first book of essays.
Andrew Looney of Looney Labs interviewed at Awesome Con
MR: I’ve noticed a certain fondness for puns in your goals…
Star Fluxx has goal bloat because I had just invented the goal mill, and the goal mill is such a useful card. Anytime a great new card comes along, I’ll start putting it into all versions I design after that, but I don’t usually like to retro-change the cards. Now the game cards have a new design without boilerplate and with a wraparound border, but older Fluxx games like Star, Monty Python, Zombie … they still have the old design and probably never will be updated. There is a heritage there that I like to be able to see – how the patterns and designs have changed and evolved.