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Friday, August 07, 2020
August 18: Discussion of Graphic Memoirs with Malaka Gharib & Robin Ha with One More Page books
Josh Kramer's new project launches
Dispatches from 2120 Imagines D.C. a Century From Now
730DC is publishing Josh Kramer's six-week speculative fiction newsletter and its accompanying narrative comic.
Washington City Paper Aug 6, 2020
Thursday, August 06, 2020
David Apatoff's The Life and Art of Mead Schaeffer is out
David and I worked together on the Art of Richard Thompson book, and he's a talented guy. I've gladly bought most (all?) of his illustration history books. Plus I saw him in the Arlington Library parking lot today, and that reminded me to let people know about this.
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Catching up with The Lily's comics
Closing schools is essential. But students must be able to access mental health services.
Growing up in an impoverished community, free counseling was necessary for me
(Sage Coffey)
August 2 2020
My days are spent observing my 10-month-old baby. Here's what I've learned.
Babies suck everything
Dental cartoons featured on National Library of Medicine's blog
Dental Cartoons (ca. 1945)
By Alyssa Picard ~
Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011.
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/08/06/dental-cartoons-ca-1945/
Neil Gaiman talks music with David Mitchell via Politics and Prose
David Mitchell, "Utopia Avenue" (with Neil Gaiman)
•Aug 5, 2020
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Kismet, Man of Fate - Volume 2 Patreon
Formerly local comics historian and writer A. David Lewis has a new campaign to bring the second volume of his book series, Kismet, Man of Fate.
David would like you to know a bit about the series and consider funding the second volume:
Critically acclaimed, Kismet, Man of Fate - Volume 1 (2018) brought the very first Muslim superhero back into action after decades M.I.A. He returns as an activist, an advocate, and an anti-fascist. But that was only half the story. To finish the story, David has announced a uniquely crowdsourcing campaign. Rather than resorting to Kickstarter or IndieGoGo or GoFundMe, Lewis has arranged an atypical Patreon campaign: rather than supporting him, all pledges are directed to his art team and to accelerating the next volume's progress."This is a challenging time for a lot of people," says Lewis, "and I hate to press them for some big donation. This way, many hands make light work. For the cost each month of one comic book being purchased, they can contribute each month to a comic book being made."
I enjoyed the first book, and signed up to help fund the story's conclusion, and keep the artists employed. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/kismet2/
More to Come remembers John Lewis
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons—offer a tribute to the late Rep. John Lewis, go nuts over Ben Passmore's big book deal with Pantheon, recap the 2020 Eisner Awards, explain why Comic-Con@Home was not a bust, and survey Dynamite's ComicsGate debacle and an abrupt change of publisher at IDW. Photo of John Lewis: Jody Culkin.
Fantom Comics newsletter excerpts, 8/5/20
- DUPONT CIRCLE DC DOG DAYS: FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER COMES AUGUST 8TH AT FANTOM:
The DuPont Circle business district is taking their usual Dog Days event and going VIRTUAL, making it available to anyone across the city (or anywhere)!
Fantom Comics will be continuing our Free Comic Book Summer event 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 Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org), Casa Ruby (casaruby.org), So Others Might Eat (https://www.some.org/), or HIPS (https://www.hips.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 8th:
Artists, Writers & Artisans- The Resistance
Boom! Studios- Lumberjanes: Farewell To Summer
New England Comics- The Tick
Penguin Workshop- Zoo Patrol Squad: Kingdom Caper
TOKYOPOP- Bibi & Miyu/The Fox & Little Tanuki
Image Comics- Invincible #1
For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about
For further details on DC Dog Days: https://www.facebook.com/events/1149069008798021/?active_tab=about
- EVENTS:
TODAY, AUGUST 5TH @ 6PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Another chance for some community fun led by Sarahti, continuing to show you fun tricks of the trade, sharing artwork and making new friends during this isolated time!
For sign up and further details: https://bit.ly/AugustDrawAtHome
The DuPont Circle business district is taking their usual Dog Days event and going VIRTUAL, making it available to anyone across the city (or anywhere)!
Fantom Comics will be continuing our Free Comic Book Summer event 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 Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org), Casa Ruby (casaruby.org), So Others Might Eat (https://www.some.org/), or HIPS (https://www.hips.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 8th:
Artists, Writers & Artisans- The Resistance
Boom! Studios- Lumberjanes: Farewell To Summer
New England Comics- The Tick
Penguin Workshop- Zoo Patrol Squad: Kingdom Caper
TOKYOPOP- Bibi & Miyu/The Fox & Little Tanuki
Image Comics- Invincible #1
For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about
For further details on DC Dog Days: https://www.facebook.com/events/1149069008798021/?active_tab=about
- EVENTS:
TODAY, AUGUST 5TH @ 6PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Another chance for some community fun led by Sarahti, continuing to show you fun tricks of the trade, sharing artwork and making new friends during this isolated time!
For sign up and further details: https://bit.ly/AugustDrawAtHome
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Bill Brown's IT journalism in Ukraine (not comics)
President Bill cartoonist Bill Brown is in Ukraine for a while, and he's picked up a writing job - here's his first piece:
How to overcome Ukraine's IT industry brain drain
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-to-overcome-ukraines-it-industry-brain-drain/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
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