Friday, August 16, 2019
The Post reviews The Angry Birds Movie 2
'The Angry Birds Movie 2' is better than you think. Wait, we're serious [in print as A sequel that flies above what most expect from video-game films].
RVA's latest comics column
RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 25
Ash Griffith | August 13, 2019
https://rvamag.com/art/zines-books/rva-comics-x-change-issue-25.html
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Pokemon in DC this weekend
The planet's best Pokémon players will face off at the 2019 World Championships in D.C. [in print as Ready for battle: The planet's best Pokémon players will face off this weekend at the 2019 World Championships]
Express August 15 2019, p. 19
Local artists Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson profiled
They've been SPX attendees for years.
They left their corporate jobs to write kids' books in a barn. But a fairy-tale life is hard work. [in print as Balancing act: Making kids' books is a dream. It's also hard work.]
By Amy Joyce
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
LoC blogs on samurai animals in comics
I can't believe they have Samurai Penguin.
Let's Talk Comics: Samurai Animals
Library of Congress Headlines and Heroes blog August 13, 2019
Aug 17: Art Lab: Creating Comics with Julian Lytle
Art Lab: Creating Comics with Julian Lytle
Aug 17 1-2 pm
Apple Carnegie Library
801 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Create a comic that tells your story with cartoonist and podcast creator Julian Lytle. He'll share his belief that comics are a contemporary way to share stories regardless of technical experience and take you through the steps to creating a comic in the Procreate app. Using creative prompts from Lytle, you'll sketch characters and scenes on iPad with Apple Pencil.
J. Michael Straczynski photos by Bruce Guthrie
From the event at Politics and Prose -
J. Michael Straczynski - Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood
Straczynski is best known as the creator of the Babylon 5 and Sense8 TV shows, but his amazing four-decade career also encompasses screenwriting—Changeling, Thor, and World War Z—writing for several D.C. and Marvel Comics' series, and creating his own award-winning graphic works. Now in this stunning memoir he tells his own story—perhaps his most fantastic feat yet. Straczynski grew up in the care of adults variously damaged by addiction, mental illness, and poverty. His only refuge from the misery was comic books, and he gradually realized that he, too, could invent alternate worlds. But even as he managed to take power over his future, a terrible secret in his family's past continued to haunt him.
Straczynski is best known as the creator of the Babylon 5 and Sense8 TV shows, but his amazing four-decade career also encompasses screenwriting—Changeling, Thor, and World War Z—writing for several D.C. and Marvel Comics' series, and creating his own award-winning graphic works. Now in this stunning memoir he tells his own story—perhaps his most fantastic feat yet. Straczynski grew up in the care of adults variously damaged by addiction, mental illness, and poverty. His only refuge from the misery was comic books, and he gradually realized that he, too, could invent alternate worlds. But even as he managed to take power over his future, a terrible secret in his family's past continued to haunt him.
Mo Willems at the Kennedy Center
Mo Willems brings a little silliness into the Kennedy Center's storied halls
The 'Pigeon' author and illustrator is the center's first education artist-in-residence.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Friday, August 09, 2019
Shawn Martinbrough interviewed on More To Come 380: SDCC 2019 Interview Special Pt. 4
More To Come 380: SDCC 2019 Interview Special Pt. 4
Calvin Reid
on 07/22/2019
Live from San Diego, in part four of More To Come's San Diego Comic-Con special, Calvin Reid interviews the veteran comics creators and collaborators writer Andy Diggle and artist Shawn Martinbrough about Promethee 13:30,' a new three issue prequel to Christophe Bec's epic science fiction bande desinee 'Promethee,' published by Comixology Originals. Check out PublishersWeekly.com/comics for more SDCC coverage from Publishers Weekly!
More on Otakon from Scoop
Carrie Wood
Scoop August 9 2019
Otakon 2019 in Photos, Part II
Carrie Wood
Scoop August 9 2019
http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=232288
The Post and Express review live-action Dora
It's good to see that the Express has a new movie critic, replacing Page-Kirby who moved to the Post.
'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' brings positive Latino roles to the big screen [in print as Uncharted territory].
There's no treasure to be found in the boring 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' [in print as Live-action reboot is an adventure that is all over the map].
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