President Bill cartoonist Bill Brown is in Ukraine for a while, and he's picked up a writing job - here's his first piece:
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Warren Bernard returns to Cartoonist Kayfabe
Comic Tabloids, with Warren Bernard, Episode 2: The Underground Weekly's of the '60s and '70s
Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor
•Jul 30, 2020
Monday, August 03, 2020
That darn Doonesbury and Flashbacks
We no longer have to conduct ourselves by George [Flashbacks].
Nicholas Carrera
Purple prose? Ditto. [Doonesbury]
Leon Steinberg
Al Goodwyn's latest cartoon newsletter is out
...and you can see the Aug 3 edition here - http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5ri0h.html
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum
The Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center | National Air and Space Museum has reopened via tickets, so I stopped by yesterday. It's mostly very large aircraft, but there are a few interesting small things including a ballooning exhibit that includes some early editorial cartooning prints.There is a very nice exhibit case of space-toys including a lot from Buck Rogers (soon converted from a novel to a comic strip) and Flash Gordon (originally a comic strip). Here's my set of photos.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Al Hirschfeld papers, in the Archives of American Art, and online
A Finding Aid to the Al Hirschfeld Papers, 1931-1983, in the Archives of American Art
Jean Fitzgerald
November 2006
https://sova.si.edu//record/AAA.hirsal
https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.hirsal.pdf
These were digitized and can be read online. Thanks to Bruce Guthrie for the tip
NPR talks to Tomine
Adrian Tomine's New Memoir: 'The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Cartoonist'
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Hopefully the last of the Tom King / Jae Lee Twitter kerfuffle
Tom King Issues Full Apology to Jae Lee, Removes Tweets
Adrian Tomine talks to Politics and Prose
Adrian Tomine – The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Jason Zinoman.
Jul 30, 2020
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Tom King, Robin Ha, Greg Pak, formerly live at Fantom Comics
Catching up with some Fantom Comics videos. I was at two these events, but didn't think to check Facebook for the recordings.
It's Tom King talking about his new DC Comics series Strange Adventures
Julian Lytle
ROBIN HA LIVE Q&A W/ SOUTHERN FRIED ASIANS KEITH CHOW
Fantom Comics February 8, 2020
Greg Pak Q&A Live!
Leah Ly
Fantom Comics February 16, 2020
and previously posted here, are these Zoom pandemic talks -
Leah Ly
Leah Ly
Fantom Comics July 17,, 2020
Fantom Comics newsletter excerpts
- NEW COMIC WEDNESDAY SURPRISE: FCBS FIRE POWER ISSUE & TRADE COMBO:
A Free Comic Book Summer special available today, July 29th! It's Robert Kirkman and Chris Samnee's Fire Power #1 Free Comic Book Day Special Edition - this is the beginning of a brand new series, so grab your free first issue this week! And to celebrate, we are offering the previously released Fire Power Volume 01 trade - Prelude for the special price of $5 - a complete six issue story that lays the groundwork for the ongoing series. Supplies are limited for this $5 offer, so act fast!
You can find both items on fantomcomics.com by searching "Fire Power" at the top or stop by the shop since we're open for Phase 2!
- ANOTHER FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER SATURDAY COMES JULY 25TH AT FANTOM:
FCBDay was cancelled, but we have FCBSummer to help us get through this strange time! FCBS will take place at Fantom Comics on Saturdays from July 18th through September 12th and will release up to six titles weekly. You can either pick up FCBS titles in store or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "Store Exclusives" at the top of the page.
This year has caused a great deal of hardship, so we're suggesting that anyone who'd like to grab some free books to donate to DC non-profits like this week's partner: Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org). You can donate in store at checkout or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "FCBS" at the top of the page, with minimum starting at $5 and no max threshold.
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, August 1st:
Archie Comics- Archie Blue Ribbon Presents
Dark Horse Comics- Stranger Things/Minecraft
Dynamite Entertainment- The Boys #1
- EVENT RESCHEDULE! MOVED FROM 8/1 TO 8/22:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22nd @ 4PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB: FIRE!! THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON STORY WRITTEN & DRAWN BY PETER BAGGE:
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
If you would like to pre-order the book to have in time for the event, please reach out to us via email (fantomhq@fantomcomics.com), phone (202-241-6498) or coming into the store since we're open for Phase 2 and reserve your copy today!
For further details, check out the events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/214589706340688/?active_tab=about
- 2020 EISNER WINNERS HAVE BEEN REVEALED - CONTINUING THE 2020 EISNER NOMINEE SALE:
To view the winners, check out: https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info
Every year, the Eisner Awards nominate material published in the US in 31 categories, representing more than 170 printed and online titles from over 60 publishers! We're continuing the Eisner Nominee sale, so check out www.fantomcomics.com/saleitem for up to 20% off!
- MISSED AN EVENT? WATCH PAST EVENTS AT YOUR CONVENIENCE!
Swing on over to our Facebook page and check out the "LIVE" tab (https://www.facebook.com/FantomComics/live_videos/?ref=page_internal) to view any of the virtual events we've hosted in the last several months like our Draw At Home With Fantom event led by Sarahti and Minh Le's discussion with Leah on his book, Green Lantern: Legacy!
- OPEN FOR PHASE 2:
As of Monday, June 22nd, we are open to the general public and can allow up to 5 customers in the shop at a time as long as everyone WEARS A MASK! Just come through the main entrance, walk up the stairs to the third level, knock on the glass door to let us know you've arrived, and as long as we're not at capacity and you have your MASK ON, we'll let you in so you can browse the shelves and rack!
In Store Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-6pm
A Free Comic Book Summer special available today, July 29th! It's Robert Kirkman and Chris Samnee's Fire Power #1 Free Comic Book Day Special Edition - this is the beginning of a brand new series, so grab your free first issue this week! And to celebrate, we are offering the previously released Fire Power Volume 01 trade - Prelude for the special price of $5 - a complete six issue story that lays the groundwork for the ongoing series. Supplies are limited for this $5 offer, so act fast!
You can find both items on fantomcomics.com by searching "Fire Power" at the top or stop by the shop since we're open for Phase 2!
- ANOTHER FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER SATURDAY COMES JULY 25TH AT FANTOM:
FCBDay was cancelled, but we have FCBSummer to help us get through this strange time! FCBS will take place at Fantom Comics on Saturdays from July 18th through September 12th and will release up to six titles weekly. You can either pick up FCBS titles in store or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "Store Exclusives" at the top of the page.
This year has caused a great deal of hardship, so we're suggesting that anyone who'd like to grab some free books to donate to DC non-profits like this week's partner: Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org). You can donate in store at checkout or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "FCBS" at the top of the page, with minimum starting at $5 and no max threshold.
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, August 1st:
Archie Comics- Archie Blue Ribbon Presents
Dark Horse Comics- Stranger Things/Minecraft
Dynamite Entertainment- The Boys #1
- EVENT RESCHEDULE! MOVED FROM 8/1 TO 8/22:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22nd @ 4PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB: FIRE!! THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON STORY WRITTEN & DRAWN BY PETER BAGGE:
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
If you would like to pre-order the book to have in time for the event, please reach out to us via email (fantomhq@fantomcomics.com), phone (202-241-6498) or coming into the store since we're open for Phase 2 and reserve your copy today!
For further details, check out the events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/214589706340688/?active_tab=about
- 2020 EISNER WINNERS HAVE BEEN REVEALED - CONTINUING THE 2020 EISNER NOMINEE SALE:
To view the winners, check out: https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info
Every year, the Eisner Awards nominate material published in the US in 31 categories, representing more than 170 printed and online titles from over 60 publishers! We're continuing the Eisner Nominee sale, so check out www.fantomcomics.com/saleitem for up to 20% off!
- MISSED AN EVENT? WATCH PAST EVENTS AT YOUR CONVENIENCE!
Swing on over to our Facebook page and check out the "LIVE" tab (https://www.facebook.com/FantomComics/live_videos/?ref=page_internal) to view any of the virtual events we've hosted in the last several months like our Draw At Home With Fantom event led by Sarahti and Minh Le's discussion with Leah on his book, Green Lantern: Legacy!
- OPEN FOR PHASE 2:
As of Monday, June 22nd, we are open to the general public and can allow up to 5 customers in the shop at a time as long as everyone WEARS A MASK! Just come through the main entrance, walk up the stairs to the third level, knock on the glass door to let us know you've arrived, and as long as we're not at capacity and you have your MASK ON, we'll let you in so you can browse the shelves and rack!
In Store Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-6pm
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Back To School"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Back To School"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3042
Capital and the State are trying to whip the working class back to work during a pandemic, but it won't be entirely successful unless they can whip the kids back to school.
Unsurprisingly, Texas and Arizona — two states leading the nation in Covid-19 cases and stupidity — are whole-hog into it.
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http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3042
Capital and the State are trying to whip the working class back to work during a pandemic, but it won't be entirely successful unless they can whip the kids back to school.
Unsurprisingly, Texas and Arizona — two states leading the nation in Covid-19 cases and stupidity — are whole-hog into it.
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Warren Bernard continues talking with Cartoonist Kayfabe
Master Race - Krigstein's EC Comics Masterpiece with Warren Bernard
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg
•Jul 26, 2020
Comic Tabloids, with Warren Bernard, Episode 1: Will Eisner Spirit Sections from the Newspapers
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg
Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Quarantining Coronavirus through Comics at MSU's Comic Art Collection
by Mike Rhode
Like many of us, Michigan State University librarian Randy Scott was sent to work from home when covid-19 began shutting down schools and libraries across the country. To be able to work from home, he had to get creative, since he couldn't take parts of the Comic Art Collection home with him. Scott began clipping comic strips from the Lansing, MI papers that dealt with coronavirus and setting up new subject headings in the collection's Reading Room Index (RRI).
When I checked in with him, and heard that he was doing this, I began sending the daily Washington Post comics pages (I'd been sending the Sundays for years, continuing what crack comics historian Ian Gordon had begun years ago). He's picked coronavirus as his main subject heading, noting "The first mention of the coronavirus (covid 19) pandemic appeared in this collection in the February 13, 2020 episode of Prickly City. Newspaper strips are added here when 5 examples of a title with pandemic-related content are located, clipped and filed in the Library's collection." As of today, he's collected about 600 strips, 400 of which are in the RRI, and 200 waiting to be added.
Strips he's collected include:
Special collections work over the long run and most of this collection probably won't be of interest to users for a few years, and then again after a few decades, most likely for the fiftieth anniversary of the pandemic. But just a cautionary note for those who think they can find everything on the web... this Chris Ware strip from the New York Times from April 26, 2020, has disappeared from the Times' website (and Randy would like a tearsheet if you have it).
Like many of us, Michigan State University librarian Randy Scott was sent to work from home when covid-19 began shutting down schools and libraries across the country. To be able to work from home, he had to get creative, since he couldn't take parts of the Comic Art Collection home with him. Scott began clipping comic strips from the Lansing, MI papers that dealt with coronavirus and setting up new subject headings in the collection's Reading Room Index (RRI).
When I checked in with him, and heard that he was doing this, I began sending the daily Washington Post comics pages (I'd been sending the Sundays for years, continuing what crack comics historian Ian Gordon had begun years ago). He's picked coronavirus as his main subject heading, noting "The first mention of the coronavirus (covid 19) pandemic appeared in this collection in the February 13, 2020 episode of Prickly City. Newspaper strips are added here when 5 examples of a title with pandemic-related content are located, clipped and filed in the Library's collection." As of today, he's collected about 600 strips, 400 of which are in the RRI, and 200 waiting to be added.
Strips he's collected include:
- Arlo & Janis (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Baldo (starting Apr. 4, 2020)
- Barney and Clyde (starting Mar. 4, 2020)
- Blondie (starting May 7, 2020)
- Brevity (starting Apr. 7, 2020)
- Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
- Candorville (starting Mar. 23, 2020)
- Curtis (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Dilbert (starting Apr. 20, 2020)
- Family Circus (starting Apr. 15, 2020)
- Frank and Ernest (starting Mar. 13, 2020)
- Frazz (starting Apr. 18, 2020)
- Lio (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Non Sequitur (starting Mar. 9, 2020)
- Off the Mark (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
- On the Fastrack (starting Apr. 13, 2020)
- Pearls Before Swine (starting Apr. 6, 2020)
- Prickly City (starting Feb. 13, 2020)
- Reply All Lite (starting Mar. 30, 2020)
- Sally Forth (starting Apr. 13, 2020)
- Speed Bump (starting Apr. 27, 2020)
- Contagion
- Covid 19
- Hand Sanitizer
- Hand Washing
- Hazmat Suits
- Hoarding
- Home Schooling
- Lockdowns
- New Normal
- Quarantine
- Reopening
- Shaking Hands
- Social Distancing
- Staying Home
- Surgical Masks
- Toilet Paper
- Vaccines
- Working from Home
- Zoom
Social Distancing. "Boo Cat Lives and Breathes Social Distancing" (Reply All Lite, Apr. 26, 2020) / by Donna A. Lewis. -- Call no.: oversize PN6726.S79 Apr. 26, 2020
Special collections work over the long run and most of this collection probably won't be of interest to users for a few years, and then again after a few decades, most likely for the fiftieth anniversary of the pandemic. But just a cautionary note for those who think they can find everything on the web... this Chris Ware strip from the New York Times from April 26, 2020, has disappeared from the Times' website (and Randy would like a tearsheet if you have it).
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| Picture from Twitter |
Monday, July 27, 2020
NPR, and Andrew Aydin, remember John Lewis
'March' Comic's Creator Remembers Late Rep. John Lewis
'Good Trouble': A New Generation Of Activists On John Lewis' Indelible Legacy
Aug 1: Black Excellence Book Club: Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story
AUG 1
Black Excellence Book Club: Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story
Public · Hosted by Fantom Comics
- Saturday at 4 PM – 5:30 PM
We continue our Black Excellence book club series with Fire!! the Zora Neale Hurtson Story by Peter Bagge.
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
Hurston went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost forgotten by the end of her life. With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-color.
This event will be livestreaming on our Facebook!
Please let us know if you would like to order a copy for you!
Phase Two In Store Hours & Requirements:
Mon-Sat 11am-6pm
MUST wear face mask and social distance!
Offering curbside pickup, after hours pickup and shipping services! Inquire by email (FantomHQ@fantomcomics.com) or phone (202-241-6498)!
As always, we at Fantom believe in a space where folks can feel safe and discuss how they feel about the difficult circumstances caused by institutional oppression. We're here. We're listening. We support you. Black Lives Matter.
Mark Wheatley on SDCC panel
Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book: You Make the Call | Comic-Con@Home 2020
•Jul 24, 2020
Malaka Gharib in History Goes Graphic SDCC video
History Goes Graphic | Comic-Con@Home 2020
•Jul 24, 2020
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