Friday, February 14, 2020
Clifford Berryman cartoon in National Archives' Suffragette exhibit
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Keeping up with the Post's The Lily's comics
I was scared to try the menstrual cup. But it changed everything.
Here are four reasons I prefer it to tampons and pads
Pepita Sándwich
February 11 2020
How baking shows changed my relationship with my daughter
Our cake-making days are all the more precious now
Galadriel Watson
February 2 2020
March 12: Margaret Atwood at LoC, March 13: Mariko Tamaki at LoC
Now Available: Tickets for March Events in National Book Festival Presents Series
Today's the day: You can now reserve tickets for March events in the National Book Festival Presents series!
First, though, make sure you've snagged free tickets for tonight's event, "Rosa Parks: The History and the Heart," celebrating Parks' life and legacy. NPR host Michel Martin will moderate a panel conversation featuring Parks biographers Douglas Brinkley ("Rosa Parks: A Life") and Jeanne Theoharis ("The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"). Act fast!
Now, on to the literary superstars who will take the Coolidge Auditorium stage throughout the month of March:
On Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m., join us for "Great American Editors," a new National Book Festival Presents series kicking off with legendary fiction editor and publisher Nan Talese alongside one of her most legendary novelists, Margaret Atwood, in a conversation about their work together. The new "Great American Editors" series will explore the vital role of editors in the writing and publishing process.
Register now for your free tickets via Eventbrite. Signed copies of Atwood's latest novel, "The Testaments," are available for pre-purchase with ticket registration, and ticketholders are also invited to view a pre-event display of items from the Library's extensive collections related to "Great American Editors."
The following morning, at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, March 13, we invite you to attend the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature and Symposium. The event, emceed by award-winning writer Grace Lin and co-sponsored by We Need Diverse Books, will feature the honorees and winners of the Walter Award.
Tickets are not required for this event, which is free and open to the public. Book sales and signing will follow the symposium.
Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer of comics and prose, and the winner of the 2020 Walter Award (Teen Category) for "Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me," with Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (illustrator).Roll Call's cartoonist RJ Matson wins Berryman award
Matson to accept 2019 Berryman Award
CQ Roll Call's political cartoonist honored by the National Press Foundation
Post's Mueller Report Illustrated is still online
The Mueller Report Illustrated
A book and six-part digital series on the obstruction investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/mueller-report-illustrated/about/
New manga translation by Ryan Holmberg of Yoshiharu Tsuge
It's on sale for 30% off for a few days at https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-man-without-talent
The Man Without Talent
by Yoshiharu Tsuge, translated from the Japanese and with an essay by Ryan Holmberg
"Tsuge's work represents a groundbreaking apotheosis of comics fiction at its most humane, literary, and poetic. I am thrilled that it is finally reaching the Western audience which has longed to read it for so many decades." —Chris Ware
Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with.
Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from the translator Ryan Holmberg which discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.
This NYRC edition is a paperback and features the first-ever English release of Tsuge's work, carefully relettered in English with minimal intrusion on the original art, and with the traditional right-to-left manga format preserved.
REVIEW: THE MAN WITHOUT TALENT and the grind of poverty
The Man Without Talent allows the author and the reader to explore the fantasy of leading a contemplative life while remaining honest about the consequences
01/13/2020
https://www.comicsbeat.com/review-the-man-without-talent/
What's to Be Believed in Yoshiharu Tsuge's 'The Man Without Talent'?
15 Jan 2020
https://www.popmatters.com/yoshiharu-tsuge-man-without-talent-2644307800.html
The Latest Liz at Large at the City Paper
Liz At Large: "Skip"
Blink and you'll miss it.
Matea Gold, Rosalind Helderman, and Katherine Lee talking about the Mueller Report Illustrated
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Up Against The Wall"
"Up Against The Wall"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2924
This is pretty much my prediction for the New York Primary, based on the revelations from a recording of former New York City Overlord and prospective White House purchaser Mike Bloomberg leaked by blogger and podcaster Benjamin Dixon, in which Bloomberg defends NYC's horrific "stop and frisk" measures directed at poor communities and communities of color in NYC.
So, anyway, I'm for real serious about this. I'll bet you for real that on New York Primary day, the NYPD are going to be stopping'n'frisking black people on their way to the polls, throwing 'em to the wall, and snatching their voter registration cards.
I'm not joking, folks. Get yer money out.
Feb 16: Greg Pak at Fantom Comics
Greg Pak Signing | Darth Vader #1
Our friend Greg Pak returns for a surprise visit! To celebrate the release of Darth Vader #1, Greg is coming back to Fantom Comics to hang out, talk shop, and sign books! So stop on by, come chat with us, and grab some books! We'll talk Star Wars, comics, and have an all around great time.
We ask that customers please limit themselves to 2 items for Greg to sign with the possibility that he will have time to sign more later after everyone has had a chance to get through the line.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Annie Lunsford, Arlington illustrator, has passed away
Linda and Annie Lunsford at Washington-Lee High School, December 2015.
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Her contribution to the Team Cul de Sac book for Richard Thompson. |
Robin Ha's Cook Korean! is important part of Ten Speed Press' comics line
Ten Speed Builds a Graphic List
Monday, February 10, 2020
Feb 12: The Mueller Report Illustrated
- Wednesday, February 12, 2020
- 7:00 PM 8:00 PM
- Solid State Books 600 H Street Northeast Washington, DC, 20002 United States (map)
This event is free and open for all to attend! Kindly RSVP here!
March 8: Maira Kalman at Politics and Prose
Maira Kalman - Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
Click here for more information.
Grand Comics Database Comics History Awards
The Grand Comics Database is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Many of you are probably familiar with our database, at https://www.comics.org/. But in addition to the database we have a related educational mission: expanding and improving the public's understanding and appreciation of comics.
As a part of our educational mission we would like to announce the creation of the Grand Comics Database Comics History Awards. Awards will be given in three categories, best book, best article, and best reprint collection for works published, in English, between January and December, 2020.
Eligibility
Eligible works should be published in English or accompanied by a translation into English. All types of comics are suitable as source material: comic books, strips (including single-panel and editorial cartoons), and webcomics. Anthologies, as a whole, are not eligible, however individual chapters from anthologies will be accepted. Subjects such as history of publishers, of characters, of publications, of trends or tropes, or biographies of creators are all acceptable. Works deemed by the judges to be outside the discipline of history are not eligible. Works by members of the GCD Board of Directors or the awards panel of judges or their immediate families are not eligible.
Evaluation Criteria
We will use these criteria:
Serious scholarship representing a significant contribution to the discipline
Relevant topic of continuing importance to fans, readers, and scholars
Authority in interpretation: depth and breadth of expertise represented
Spirit of objectivity
Research findings handled with skill and assurance
Accurate, thorough, clear cross-referencing and indexing
Well-written and readable writing style
The best reprint collection will include an essay, introduction, or annotations that place the reprinted material in the historical context of comics and/or pop culture.
Awards
The award committee will consist of a GCD board officer, two GCD members, and two academic scholars selected by the GCD Board. The author of the best book will be awarded $750. The authors of the best reprint collection and best article will be awarded $200 each. In the event of works authored by more than one person, the monetary prize will be divided among the authors; each award will also include an appropriate plaque for each author. The GCD reserves the right to present no award in any of the three categories.
Nominations can be made by publishers or authors. Five copies of each nominated book should be sent to GCD Awards, 34 Overby Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205. A pdf of a traditionally published book is acceptable and should be sent to awards-chair@comics.org.
For the best article award, please send a pdf of the article that includes the name and date of the publication wherein it appeared to awards-chair@comics.org.
All entries should be accompanied by a cover letter that includes a brief vita for the writer and appropriate contact information. Nomination will be accepted 1 January 2020 through 31 January 2021 with the awards being made on 1 March 2021.
Questions may be directed to the awards panel at awards-chair@comics.org or at GCD Awards, 34 Overby Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205.
Library of Congress comics blogs for Black History Month
Rosa Parks: In Newspapers and Comic Books
Love in the Comics: The Star-Crossed Story of "Negro Romance"
New Rosarium Kickstarter: Box of Bones launches today
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754730215/box-of-bones
HISTORY IS HORROR!!!
This Black History Month Rosarium Publishing cordially invites you to see our history like you never have before.
FROM THE MINDS OF AYIZE JAMA-EVERETT
AND JOHN JENNINGS!!!
When Black graduate student, Lyndsey, begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide if she really wants to see what's inside the Box of Bones.
Described as "Tales from the Crypt Meets Black History," Box of Bones is a supernatural nightmare tour through some of the most violent and horrific episodes in the African Diaspora.
Volume 1 contains art from John Jennings, Sole Rebel, Damian Duffy, Frances Olivia Liddell-Rodriguez, Tommy Nguyen, Jarmel and Jamal Williams, and Bryan Christopher Moss with covers by Stacey Robinson!!!
Help us raise $10,000 to bring this book to print.