June 29: Meet Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo for our DC Comics RAVEN Signing

Plus: special guest Danielle Paige, writer of the DC Ink MERA Graphic Novel!

Meet the writer & artist of the new DC Ink Graphic Novel, RAVEN, tomorrow at Third Eye Annapolis JUNE 29th, 2019! Click here to read all about the new DC Ink RAVEN graphic novel, and our big signing! STAY CONNECTED   ‌ ‌ ‌

Third Eye Comics | 2027A WEST ST, Suite 102, Annapolis, MD 21401

July 7: DC Art Book Fair at National Museum of Women in the Arts

JUL 7

 

DC Art Book Fair Organized by the DC Art Book Collective, more than 40 local artists will sell handmade creations including zines, books, comics, prints, and plenty more. Free.

  

National Museum of Women in the Arts

1250 New York Ave NW | Washington, DC 20005 | 866-875-4627 | enews@nmwa.org

We Spoil 'Avengers: Endgame', says Pop Culture Happy Hour

We Spoil 'Avengers: Endgame'

POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR

June 26, 2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/24/735494439/we-spoil-avengers-endgame  

LINDA HOLMES

STEPHEN THOMPSON

GLEN WELDON

Women superheroes unite in Avengers: Endgame.

Marvel Studios

When Avengers: Endgame came out in late April, it got good reviews and it did huge business. As with everything we talk about, we didn't want to spoil it for you, so some of its biggest developments went un-analyzed. But no more. We thought this one deserved a second look before we bid this chapter of the Marvel Universe farewell. So today, we're discussing and revealing with abandon.

The audio was produced and edited by Jessica Reedy.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "The Plant Belongs to the People"

The latest from Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist.

"The Plant Belongs To The People!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2754

Another whack at Mayor Bowser's flaw-riddled Safe Cannabis Sales Act, this time on the provisions limiting homegrow, inspired by this tweet from DC lawyer and activist Paul Zukerberg:

"DC's new Tax & Regulate bill would kill home grow - cut the heart out of Initiative 71 & force everyone to buy mass produced marijuana - no way"
https://twitter.com/DCBrainLawyer/status/1142842982162423812

PR: Small Press Expo 2019 Announces More Special Guests

Check out who is coming to SPX 2019

For Immediate Release Contact: Eden Miller Email: press@smallpressexpo.com   Small Press Expo Announces Chris Ware, Sylvia Nickerson, Simon Hanselmann, Richie Pope, Jessica Abel and Scott Morse as Special Guests for 2019.   Bethesda, Maryland - June 27, 2019   Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce the first group of Special Guests for SPX 2019. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 14-15, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, over 20 programming slots and additional hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced soon.   SPX 2019 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show: Visit the SPX 2019 Website for More Info Chris Ware Chris Ware is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London) in 2009. Building Stories was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both The New York Times and Time magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli. His most recent work is the upcoming Rusty Brown, a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. Sylvia Nickerson Sylvia Nickerson is a comics artist, writer, and illustrator who lives in Hamilton, Canada. Her focus is storytelling in community arts and writing comics examining parenthood, gender identity, social class and religion. Her illustrations have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post and her comics have been nominated for a Doug Wright Award. In Creation, a new mother takes us on a tour of Hamilton, a Rust Belt city born of the Industrial Revolution and dying a slow death due to globalization. Creation looks at gentrification from the inside out—an artist mother making a home and neighborhood for her family, struggling to find her place amid the existing and emerging communities. Simon Hanselmann Simon Hanselmann was born in 1981 in Launceston, Tasmania. His New York Times best-selling Megg & Mogg series has been translated into thirteen languages, nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner awards, and won "Best Series" at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018. His latest addition to the series is Bad Gateway. He currently lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife and a rotating cast of small animals. Richie Pope Richie Pope is a cartoonist, character designer, and illustrator from Newport News, VA. Since 2012 he's created illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Nib as well as book covers for publishers like HarperCollins, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster, recognized by The Society of Illustrators and American Illustration. He's also created comics for LAAB Magazine, Superitis for Shortbox and Fatherson for the award-winning Frontier series from Youth In Decline, as well as self-published comics like That Box We Sit On which won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist. Richie is currently living and working in Los Angeles. Jessica Abel Cartoonist and coach Jessica Abel is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop, and works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to stop grinding and start carving out deep focus time to finish—and launch—their major, game-changing projects. Abel is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida (winner of the 2002 "Best New Series" Harvey Award), as well as two collections of stories from her 1990s omnibus comic book Artbabe. She co-authored the graphic novel Life Sucks, and is the author of the graphic documentary (and podcast), Out on the Wire, about how the best radio producers in the world use story to keep us listening. Her latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. Scott Morse Scott Morse is an award-winning storyteller with a career spanning the worlds of feature animation, television, children's literature, and graphic novels. As a story artist contributing to both writing and visuals, Morse has helped craft the Pixar films Ratatouille, WALL-E, Brave, Toy Story 4, and multiple entries in the Cars franchise, where he also contributed on multiple short films as director, and story supervisor on Cars 3. With creator-owned work for multiple publishing houses world-wide, Morse has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal fan base of all ages. His 6-book Scholastic series, Magic Pickle, has helped pave the way for his newest Scholastic offering, Dugout, out in June. Morse lives in Northern California with his wife and two sons. Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests. The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌

Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704, Bethesda, MD 20824

July 2: Meet Authors Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo at Barnes and Noble

Meet Authors Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo

Tuesday, July 2 Event starts at 7:00 PM

Join us in welcoming New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia and illustrator Gabriel Picolo to celebrate the launch of their new graphic novel book Teen Titans: Raven – a riveting tale of finding the strength to face who you are and learning to trust others—and yourself.

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NPR talks to BTTM FDRS authors

Of Tenants And Tentacles: 'BTTM FDRS' Confronts Gentrification In Comic Horror Form

Etelka Lehoczky

June 27, 2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736317209/of-tenants-and-tentacles-bttm-fdrs-confronts-gentrification-in-comic-horror-form 

Ann Telnaes' live sketches of the first Democratic debate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/27/live-sketches-first-democratic-debates-big-moments/

Terry Flippo's new children's book

From his Deliver Me comic strip Facebook page:

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.....

For the last couple of months, between working on Deliver Me! and doing retirement drawings, I've been working on a project I'd like to share with everyone....my first kid's book!

It's called Nevin Nickelbottom Fights Monsters, and it features 12 black and white drawings accompanied by 12 short stories told in rhyme. It's 44 pages, and is suitable for kids 4 and up (depending, of course, on maturity level). The books are $6 postpaid and will be signed to your child (or grandchild!) along with an original sketch on the back cover. You can read a sample story below. Anyway, if you're interested, just paypal me at jmflip4@verizon.net. Don't forget to include your address, and the name of the child the book is for. Thanks!