Today: Cuddles and Rage at Fantom Comics on Zoom

APR 29 2020

Fantom Comics presents: Bites of Terror by Cuddles and Rage

https://www.facebook.com/events/246053166536255/

· Hosted by Fantom Comics and 2 others

• Today at 6 PM – 7:30 PM Starts in about 8 hours

• Fantom Comics 2010 P St NW, 3rd Floor, Washington D.C. 20036

Details

So we originally intended for this to be an in person event, but we're doing a work around and hosting it virtually! Fantom Manager Leah will be doing a Q&A with local Fantom friends Liz and Jimmy Reed of Cuddles and Rage via Zoom! We will be streaming, so stay tuned for details!

BITES OF TERROR is a collection of 10 creepy-cute short stories starring Cuddles and Rage's signature high quality diorama photographs of their hand-sculpted creations which are always delicious and sometimes diabolical. Follow The Cake Creeper through this macabre anthology of cautionary tales!

BITES OF TERROR is available now at Fantom Comics. Check out our website, fantomcomics.com! https://www.fantomcomics.com/products/bites-of-terror-graphic-novel

If you'd like to make a mail order request please contact us at fantomhq@fantomcomics.com or call us at 202-241-6498!

DCist on virtual Awesome Con

Awesome Con Goes Online To Offer Some Comic Relief

Colleen Grablick

DCist April 28 2020

https://dcist.com/story/20/04/28/awesome-con-goes-online-to-offer-some-comic-relief/

Re: 3 pm today: Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!

https://www.facebook.com/satire2020/videos/221179919185344/ is live now

Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!

https://www.facebook.com/satire2020/videos/221179919185344/

KAL

April 28 2020

This episode Interviews Australian cartoonist Jason Chatfield who has published a diary about his brutal battle with Coronavirus. Very much worth a watch.

3 pm today: Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!

Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!

https://www.facebook.com/satire2020/

KAL

April 28 2020

This episode Interviews Australian cartoonist Jason Chatfield who has published a diary about his brutal battle with Coronavirus. Very much worth a watch.

April 30: P&P Live! Christopher Eliopoulos - The Yawns Are Coming

P&P Live! Christopher Eliopoulos - The Yawns Are Coming

Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 10 a.m.

https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/pp-live-christopher-eliopoulos-yawns-are-coming

It's sleepover night, and two best friends have a lot on their to-do list. They can't wait to stay up all night to accomplish it all. But everywhere they turn, the dastardly Yawns threaten to overtake them. Those Yawns might even bring Dozes, Snores, and Sleepies! Will two pajama-clad heroes be able to outrun them? This witty, adorable picture book succinctly captures the magic of best-friendship and childhood sleepovers. Ages 4-8.

Click here to join the event.

Politics and Prose Live!   5015 Connecticut Ave NW   Washington   DC    20008

The Yawns Are Coming! (Hardcover)

By Christopher Eliopoulos, Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator)

$17.99

9781984816306

Coming Soon—Pre-Order Now

Dial Books - April 28th, 2020

PR: With Garth Ennis and PJ Holden’s The Stringbags, Dead Reckoning Maintains May 20th On-Sale Date and Establishes Comic Store Terms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

With Garth Ennis and PJ Holden’s The Stringbags,

Dead Reckoning Maintains May 20^th On-Sale Date and Establishes

Comic Store Terms

Dead Reckoning, the graphic novel imprint of Naval Institute Press, will maintain the on-sale date of May 20, 2020 for The Stringbags by Garth Ennis, PJ Holden, and Kelly Fitzpatrick. Considering the current upheaval in the comics distribution pipeline, Dead Reckoning has established comic store terms for those shops that may wish to order direct and advises thatThe Stringbags is also available from Ingram Content Group.

Based on the Royal Navy’s combat squadrons who flew the Fairey Swordfish aircraft during World War II, The Stringbags is a subject Ennis has wanted to write about for years. Because of an extensive partnership effort during May and June 2020 with Wargaming.net and its hit game, World of Warships (whose combined reach is one half billion users worldwide), Dead Reckoning believes that those comic stores operating on an online or curbside basis will receive requests for this book. Robin Noonan, director of sales and marketing, and Jack Russell, sales and marketing manager, are reaching out to comic retailers to inform them of the newly created terms. Shops interested in purchasing The Stringbags or any other Dead Reckoning titles direct are encouraged to contact  sales@deadreckoning.org.

“We believe that if ever there was a time when books and the stores who sell them are considered ‘essential services,’ it is now,” says Noonan. She adds, “In their pre-publication reviews, comic and book critics agree The Stringbags story and art are stellar. We think those retailers who want new titles should be able to order this book from us or from Ingram in the timeframe originally promised.”

Dead Reckoning’s warehouse, Books International, remains open. It operates under guidelines set forth by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the State of Virginia, and local authorities.

Jacqline Barnes, Publicity Manager, 410-295-1028, publicity@deadreckoning.org

291 Wood Road  Annapolis, MD 21402  www.deadreckoning.org

Cartoon Carousel with Joel Pett

Matt Wuerker

04/24/2020

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/04/24/cartoon-carousel-with-joel-pett-073270

Aftertime Comics closes; SPX is on

Aftertime Comics Folds Up, Waits for Pandemic to End Before Reopening in New Space
James Cullum
April 27 2020

https://www.alxnow.com/2020/04/27/aftertime-comics-folds-up-waits-for-pandemic-to-end-before-reopening-in-new-space/

SPX 2020 Is Still On — For Now

BY Michael O'Connell Apr 27, 2020

http://www.tcj.com/spx-2020-is-still-on-for-now/

Steve Brodner's Portraits of the victims [in print as The Lives Ended by COVID-19]

Steve Brodner

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Portraits of the victims [in print as The Lives Ended by COVID-19]

Steve Brodner

Washington Post Apr 26, 2020: B6

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/opinions/outlook/2020/04/24/amp-stories/portraits-victims/

Zoom wallpaper from Ann Telnaes

Just right-click 'Save As' for the image at the top of this story - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/24/rats-are-coming-heres-how-we-can-keep-them-away/

That darn Lio

'Lio' blows it [letter, coronavirus].

Christine Stelloh-Garner, Huntingtown

Washington Post April 25 2020

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-strange-photo-for-a-serious-subject/2020/04/24/2c1aeeb2-8574-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html

Cavna on cartoonist Chatfield's coronarivus

A New Yorker cartoonist got covid-19. So he drew this public warning.

Michael Cavna 

Washington Post April 25, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/04/25/jason-chatfield-covid-diary-cartoon-comic/

Cavna tells me he talked to Chatfield just yesterday, so he must be feeling better. Because Michael does a grueling interview...

PR: David Miller's The Comics Prisoner

David Miller writes in,

I'm announcing my new YouTube show: The Comics Prisoner! It's a review and commentary show about comic art and artists. It will be filled with OpEd pieces by yours truly and I hope you'll check it out and share feedback. Here's the link to the inaugural episode. Please watch, comment, hit like and subscribe. That's it for now! More news to come!

David Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrKuj-LnD90&t=8s

Episode 1 - Klaus-trophobia In the inaugural episode of the Comics Prisoner, he finds himself both incarcerated and enraptured by the epic pairing of penciler Bob Brown and inker extrao... www.youtube.com

NPR comics on coronavirus

COMIC: Looking For A 'Helper' In The Age Of Coronavirus

Malaka Gharib

NPR April 18, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/18/836770847/comic-looking-for-a-helper-in-the-age-of-coronavirus

Comic: Fake News Can Be Deadly. Here's How To Spot It

Connie Hanzhang Jin

NPR's Life Kit April 20, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/837202898/comic-fake-news-can-be-deadly-heres-how-to-spot-it

Third Eye Comics interviewed

Comic Retailers on the State of Comics and How They're Adjusting to the New World Order

By David Harper

April 21, 2020

https://sktchd.com/column/comic-retailers-on-the-state-of-comics-and-how-theyre-adjusting-to-the-new-world-order/

NPR reviews 'Apsara Engine'

'Apsara Engine' Doesn't Break The Graphic Novel Rules — It Ignores Them

Etelka Lehoczky

April 18, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/837026665/apsara-engine-doesnt-break-the-graphic-novel-rules-it-ignores-them

Matt Wuerker's first Punchline: Cartooning through coronavirus

Cartooning through coronavirus with Matt Wuerker

04/22/2020

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/04/22/cartooning-through-coronavirus-with-matt-wuerker-072871

4/24: Updated with correct link.

Matt Wuerker's 2nd Punchlines: Cartoonists against Covid

Punchlines: Cartoonists against Covid

Matt Wuerker

Politico 04/23/2020 05:54 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/04/23/cartoonists-against-coronavirus-073120

Matt noted on Facebook - "Had a lot of fun chatting with the always charming and terribly erudite Wes Tyrell about the Canadian Cartoonist's gallery of Covid cartoons on our second installment of "Punchlines" @politico"

Petra Mayer of NPR talks to Tom Gauld

Scientists Are Human, Too: Questions For Cartoonist Tom Gauld

Petra Mayer

NPR April 19, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/19/837107945/scientists-are-human-too-questions-for-cartoonist-tom-gauld

Latest Liz at Large in the City Paper

Liz At Large: "Rest"

And relaxation.

Liz Montague

Apr 23, 2020

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21129983/liz-at-large-rest