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Thursday, October 03, 2019
Loudon County Library selects Hey, Kiddo for 1book 1community
Two more SPX panels online
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
PW Comics World: More To Come at SPX
More To Come 389: Hannah Templer and James Romberger at SPX 2019
on 09/20/2019
This week on More to Come, in interviews recorded at SPX, Heidi talks with graphic novelist Hannah Templer (G.L.O.W.) about her new graphic novel 'Cosmoknights,' a feminist space opera from Top Shelf; and Calvin talks to James Romberger ('7 Miles a Second') about his new series from Uncivilized Books, For Real, and his story 'The Oven,' an imaginary take on Jack Kirby's WWII combat experiences. Plus a Star Gazing segment on Chris Ware's 'Rusty Brown' and Travis Dandro's 'King of King Court.'
More To Come 388: Amazon Controversy at SPX
Produced by Kate Fitzsimons
on 09/13/2019
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons— discuss the Amazon controversy at the Small Press Expo and the retailer's role in the indie comics market; ICv2's Insider Edition event at NYCC to highlight comics shop sell-through data; the Young Avengers comic banned by Rio's mayor for a gay kiss and the protests that followed; PW's profile of Lynda Barry; and they discuss the growth of Webtoon's webcomics platform.
Kevin Panetta will be co-writing Archie
Katy Keene Is Heading to Riverdale This January In "Archie and Katy Keene" [Exclusive]
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Ann Telnaes wins Ink Bottle Award from AAEC (via Twitter)
AAEC @AAEC_Cartoonist A big congrats to @washingtonpost cartoonist @AnnTelnaes on receiving this year's Ink Bottle Award from @AAEC_Cartoonist. Telnaes was cited for her tireless work with @CRNetInt, her outreach to younger political cartoonists, and curating the 1st Amendment show at @CartoonLibrary.
In accepting the award, Ann said she wanted to share the honor with friend and fellow cartoonist Signe Wilkinson @SigneWilk. Both women are Pulitzer winners, and were key planners of this year's AAEC convention at the @CXCFestival
The Post reviews a Rick and Morty science book
'Rick and Morty's' cartoon world is absurd and hilarious. But one of its premises may be real: The multiverse [in print as 'Rick and Morty's' cartoon world is crazy and hilarious. But one of its premises may be real.]
Monday, September 30, 2019
Mike Jenkins highlighted by Daily Cartoonist in Billy Ireland exhibit
Mike Jenkins, who's turned to caricature from editorial cartooning, was singled out in Mike Peterson's coverage of an editorial cartoon exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum:
CSotD: Remembering why this matters
Sunday, September 29, 2019
1st 3 SPX panels of 2019 online
SPX 2019 Panel - Hard Thoughts And Visual Metaphors
SmallPressExpo
SmallPressExpo
Published on Sep 28, 2019
Cartoonists whose work differs in tone, style, and subject matter are often united in their visual solutions to the problem of trying to get at difficult thoughts, feelings, and concepts. Scholar and moderator Isaac Cates explores the idea of cartoonists pushing themselves to express uncomfortable and enigmatic ideas with Rikke Villadsen (The Sea), Kevin Huizenga (The River At Night), Eleanor Davis (Why Art?), and Simon Hanselmann (Bad Gateway).
Friday, September 27, 2019
The Post reviews Abominable
'Abominable' is adorable. The story may be standard, but the film is a visual delight. [in print as Animated adventure is beautiful - though a little formulaic].
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Local failed cartoonist Jake Tapper is drawing Dilbert this week
Jake Tapper is drawing Dilbert for charity. Not everyone is happy about it.
J. Michael Straczynski discussing "Becoming Superman" video online
The Politics and Prose video of J. Michael Straczynski discussing "Becoming Superman" in August has been posted on YouTube by the store. The direct link is
Thanks to Bruce Guthrie for the tip.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Lynda Barry won a MacArthur Genius grant
The Washington Post just mentions her in a list in its story.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
WAMU's 1A talks to Chris Ware and Melanie Gillman
A Graphic Novel Nearly Two Decades In The Making
Joshua Johnson
WAMU's 1A September 23 2019
A Graphic Novel About A Transgender Southerner Of The Old West
Joshua Johnson
WAMU's 1A September 23 2019
Meet a Local Book Designer: A Chat with Barbara Sutliff
by Mike Rhode
Barbara Sutliff is a book and magazine designer and art director who recently worked on an editorial cartoon book for the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). On a tip from her husband, cartoonist Joe Sutliff, Barbara and I got together for an informal email interview.
I heard that local editorial cartoonist Matt Wueker was doing a book for a Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum exhibit in Columbus, OH? They have an editorial cartoon show that's only up for another month. Is that what it's for?
Yes it is based on the show, the AAEC has their conference there this coming weekend. The AAEC will have the book for sale. It was a very small print run for the conference, and the association plans to show it to some of the large book publishers that will be there in hopes of interesting them in publishing it on a larger scale, perhaps even an expanded version.
What's the title, and who's the author?
The title is Front Lines: Political Cartooning and the Battle for Freedom of Speech by The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. This is similar to the title of the exhibition, which was Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment.
The editor of the book is Matt Wuerker, award winning political cartoonist from Politico and former president of the AAEC, and a friend of ours (Joe and I).
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| Back and front covers |
How did you get involved? What did you do for them?
Matt saw Joe at an event and mentioned the project and asked whether I might be interested in designing the book. We talked and I was very excited to work on such a fun and important project. Matt was terrific to work with. After hearing his ideas for the look of the book, we talked back and forth as I showed different options for the chapter design treatments, Once chosen, it was a really smooth collaboration—Matt was just finishing up getting the essays edited and finalized, while collecting hi-res versions of the many cartoons that he was organizing to go with each chapter/essay.
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| Liz Donnelly drawing and table of contents |
In the meantime I roughed out the book to get a firmer idea on page count for each chapter and for the overall book, including many cartoons chosen to go with each chapter. As I have designed and produced hundreds of publications over the years—this project was a great fit—Matt and I had a smooth back and forth with emails including pdfs of pages with notes attached with my questions, suggestions as well as his corrections, answers and suggestions. We also had periodic phone calls to go over the status chapter by chapter. I worked in InDesign and sent pdf proofs which as I mentioned, we added electronic sticky notes to for specific questions and to provide me with credit info for each piece etc. When everything was approved I made hi-res print quality pdfs for the printer. Matt already had this idea in mind for the cover—he provided my with his mockup in InDesign which I tweaked (I am a stickler when it comes to kerning and typography and Matt was thrilled with that attention to detail on my part!) It was a great experience, I loved designing and producing the book. Matt just told me he is putting a printed copy in the mail for me and I am so glad to hear that he is very happy with the printed edition.
How many images are in the book? Is everything from the exhibit in it? Was there anything tricky or difficult about the layout?
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| Pillars by Jimmy Margulies. August 16, 2018 from the exhibit |
I counted 100 cartoons in the book not counting Matt’s cover cartoon. It also has essays by Joel Pett, Lucy Caswell, Roslyn Mazer, Rob Rogers, Ann Telnaes and Matt.
I didn’t know whether the book included everything from the exhibit, since I didn't see the show, but Matt says, "No.... And many of the cartoons in the book are not in the show. It's by no means a catalog of the show. We just used that as a jumping off point.”
The tricky thing for me was incorporating many horizontal cartoons into the design without having the option of going across the gutter of a perfect bound book like I might when designing with photographs, which can have impact across a spread—but obviously that doesn’t work with cartoons with words. I created a grid with an appropriate width for type, on a square page which allowed for a narrow outside column to be used for pull quotes and to have the flexibility to use the full width including the narrow column for cartoons to jut out beyond the type column. It works as many of the cartoons are horizontal and allows for variety in the design of each spread with varying sized art along with the text and pull quotes drawing the reader to important ideas from the chapter and that act as design elements on the page as well. I guess the other tricky thing that comes to mind is that the chapters were mostly cartoons with an essay flowing through them as opposed to a text-heavy book punctuated by spot illustrations. So the challenge was to keep the continuity of the words flowing around the cartoons which meant jumping the words around a spread or two of just art so that the cartoons and words complemented one another.
Oliphant exhibit opens at UVa
UVa exhibit explores works of editorial cartoonist Oliphant
https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/uva/uva-exhibit-explores-works-of-editorial-cartoonist-oliphant/article_b4bdc8fe-5a48-5592-8706-14b3248b3dde.htmlOct 6: Bob Mankoff at Politics and Prose
Bob Mankoff - Have I Got a Cartoon for You!: The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons
Sunday, October 6, 2019 - 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Mankoff, cartoon and humor editor for Esquire, former New Yorker cartoon editor, and author of the memoir How About Never—Is Never Good For You?, introduces this collection of his favorite Jewish cartoons by quipping that the People of the Book are also "the People of the Joke." Exploring how Jewish humorists have drawn on traditions such us Talmudic disputation for material, Mankoff surveys the long tradition of Jewish humor and the cartoon's place in it and reflects on how his own Jewish heritage—which included early experiences of Borscht Belt comedians like Jerry Lewis and Buddy Hackett—shaped his career as a cartoonist.
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