Scorsese is right about Marvel. Except when he's wrong. [You talkin' to us? Try lookin' in the mirror.]
By Ann Hornaday Movie critic
Washington Post November 8, 2019 , p. C1, 4
Friday, November 08, 2019
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour watches Watchmen
We're Watching 'Watchmen'
Linda Holmes; Glen Weldon; Daisy Rosario; Soraya Nadia McDonald
Regina King plays Tulsa Police detective Sister Night in the new HBO series Watchmen.
HBO's series Watchmen is not strictly an adaptation of the landmark comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons — it's technically a sequel. It stars Regina King as an ex-cop in Tulsa Oklahoma who's not-so-secretly the masked vigilante Sister Night. It also stars Don Johnson and Tim Blake Nelson, alongside Jean Smart and a very odd Jeremy Irons, who are both playing characters from the comic. Showrunner Damon Lindelof has set the show within a big, weird world that keeps getting bigger and weirder, even as it seeks to comment on some very contemporary, real-world issues.
Lawyer (and comic collector) Mark Zaid conspiracy theory
That Mark Zaid Hydra Quote That's Suddenly In The News
Thursday, November 07, 2019
The Post on Watchmen's former Silk Spectre
'Watchmen' actress Jean Smart on how Laurie has (and hasn't) changed since her Silk Spectre days [in print as Transition for Watchmen's' Laurie wasn't exactly silky]
Washington Post November 6, 2019 : C2
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Zach Weinersmith at the Cato video online now
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
(First Second, 2019)
Featuring the authors Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University; blogger, EconLog; and Zach Weinersmith, Illustrator, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic strip; New York Times bestselling author, with comments by Tim Kane, JP Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; moderated by Alex Nowrasteh, Director of Immigration Policy Studies, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
RJ Matson of Capitol Hill's CQ Roll Call wins Berryman Award
CQ Roll Call's RJ Matson wins Berryman Award for political cartoons
Matson's 2019 cartoons satirized McConnell's focus on Supreme Court, House Democrats' handling of impeachment and working for Trump
CQ Roll Call Nov 4, 2019
Off the Record bar has new coasters and artwork
I
stopped briefly into the Hay-Adams Hotel bar yesterday and saw a new
Trump caricature by Matt Wuerker on the wall of the stairway coming down
from the main hotel. I also got a new coaster of Kamala Harris , so I
checked with Matt to see what else he'd done with Kevin KAL Kalllaugher
and Ann Telnaes.
",,,you
missed the new Supreme Court! In the booth behind the bar we've done
the current bench. I also did some new coasters-- Elizabeth Warren,
Kamala Harris and a new Bernie Sanders. It was just me for this round of
coasters. They needed a quick turn around. The Supremes were evenly divided between the three of us."
Sunday, November 03, 2019
Nina Allender on exhibit in Ohio
We've mentioned DC's suffragette cartoonist Nina Allender here in the past. Some of her work is on display in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum's new exhibit.
Innovative women cartoonists get their due in 'Ladies First'
Joel Oliphint
Associate Editor, Columbus Alive Nov 1, 2019
Saturday, November 02, 2019
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Olympic-Sized FAIL"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist...
OK, folks, time for some good old straight editorial:
"Olympic-Size FAIL"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2835
"Current incident estimates published by the company say that 9,120 US
barrels (383,040 gallons) or 'approximately half the size of an
Olympic-sized swimming pool' of crude oil were released into an
impacted area of 2,500 square yards..."
— Sputnik International, 11.01.2019
This past week saw the latest — the LATEST — rupture and spill on
TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline, this time to the tune of 380,000
gallons near the town of Edinburg, North Dakota... a big ol'
Olympic-sized pool of Fail. Of course, it happened pretty much as
predicted by the thousands of people who spoke up, protested, and
tried to stop the pipeline from being built, and who are now
designated as "terrorists" by the US Government.
------
"Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After Leaking 383,000 Gallons of Crude
Oil Into US" Sputnik International 01.11.2019
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201911011077193369-photo-keystone-pipeline-shut-down-after-leaking-383000-gallons-of-crude-oil-into-us-/
TC Energy tweet re: Edinburg, N. Dakota spill 10.30.19
https://twitter.com/TCEnergy/status/1189709635315544064
OK, folks, time for some good old straight editorial:
"Olympic-Size FAIL"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2835
"Current incident estimates published by the company say that 9,120 US
barrels (383,040 gallons) or 'approximately half the size of an
Olympic-sized swimming pool' of crude oil were released into an
impacted area of 2,500 square yards..."
— Sputnik International, 11.01.2019
This past week saw the latest — the LATEST — rupture and spill on
TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline, this time to the tune of 380,000
gallons near the town of Edinburg, North Dakota... a big ol'
Olympic-sized pool of Fail. Of course, it happened pretty much as
predicted by the thousands of people who spoke up, protested, and
tried to stop the pipeline from being built, and who are now
designated as "terrorists" by the US Government.
------
"Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After Leaking 383,000 Gallons of Crude
Oil Into US" Sputnik International 01.11.2019
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201911011077193369-photo-keystone-pipeline-shut-down-after-leaking-383000-gallons-of-crude-oil-into-us-/
TC Energy tweet re: Edinburg, N. Dakota spill 10.30.19
https://twitter.com/TCEnergy/status/1189709635315544064
Friday, November 01, 2019
Thursday, October 31, 2019
NPR reviews Hex Wives
In 'Hex Wives,' The Witches Are Hunting You
Etelka Lehoczky
October 31, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774790626/in-hex-wives-the-witches-are-hunting-you
Halloween comics are being handed out
I think I'll have more comics than necessary this time around due to the weather. However I've given complete sets to the MSU and Library of Congress comics collections.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Portrait Gallery's 2019 Outwin Competition winner is stop-motion animated piece
by Bruce Guthrie
The Outwin portrait competition -- something that the National Portrait Gallery sponsors every 3 years -- opened on Saturday with 46 finalists this year. They announced the winner of the competition at the media preview on Friday -- "A Portrait of Sarmiento Chávez" by Hugo Crosthwaite, stop-motion drawing animation (3:12 min.).
A stop-motion winner is a first for them. The current winning piece is shown in its entirety on that site -- https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2019-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/portrait-berenice-sarmiento-chavez
Set to the soundtrack of a dissonant guitar and a raspy voice singing in Spanish, this animated video reveals the dreams and experiences of a young woman from Tijuana who seeks to take part in the American Dream. Black ink, gray wash, and white paint—applied by the invisible hand of the artist— take turns to expose Berenice Sarmiento Chávez's humble background and the threat of violence in her home country that pushed her to immigrate to the United States. The film suggests that the immigration journey is seeded with constant danger, especially for women and children.
This video is part of a series based on artist Hugo Crosthwaite's interviews with people who are living in or are passing through Tijuana. The resultant improvised drawings represent the collective memories and oral histories from that part of the Mexico-U.S. border.
Superhero costumes, especially Spider-Man, popular in DC area this year
The DCist has the story:
Here's What Everyone's Wearing This Halloween, According To Local Costume Shops
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