I've survived working from home in a studio apartment for 6 months. Here's how.
My boyfriend and I had some misadventures along the way
(Margaret Flatley)
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Fantom Comics newsletter excerpt
THE LAST FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER SATURDAY COMES SEPTEMBER 12TH AT FANTOM:
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, September 12th:
Kodansha Comics - Sue & Tai Chan Preview
**We also have ALL previously released FCBS titles in stock - check out freecomicbookday.com to view them and all can be picked up in store (open for Phase Two) or via fantomcomics.com!**
For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about
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/), Capital Area Food Bank (https://www.capitalareafoodbank.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.
- SEPTEMBER IS LATINX HERITAGE MONTH:
We're kicking off with another monthly theme, Latinx Heritage Month! Just like we did with Pride Month, Independent Publishers Month, and Back to School Month, we are highlighting great reads that represent or touch upon these subjects! To start off, we have a hot new release set in Miami! Dry Foot is a brand new series out THIS WEEK by Jarred Lujan & Orlando Caicedo Add the series via customer.comichub.com or email fantomhq@fantomcomics.com to request it to be added to your pull!
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, September 12th:
Viz Media - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show
Humaniods - Enter the IncalKodansha Comics - Sue & Tai Chan Preview
**We also have ALL previously released FCBS titles in stock - check out freecomicbookday.com to view them and all can be picked up in store (open for Phase Two) or via fantomcomics.com!**
For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about
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/), Capital Area Food Bank (https://www.capitalareafoodbank.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.
- SEPTEMBER IS LATINX HERITAGE MONTH:
We're kicking off with another monthly theme, Latinx Heritage Month! Just like we did with Pride Month, Independent Publishers Month, and Back to School Month, we are highlighting great reads that represent or touch upon these subjects! To start off, we have a hot new release set in Miami! Dry Foot is a brand new series out THIS WEEK by Jarred Lujan & Orlando Caicedo Add the series via customer.comichub.com or email fantomhq@fantomcomics.com to request it to be added to your pull!
PR: Tom King returns to Batman and Catwoman
Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle's 80-Year Romance Continues
in 'Batman/Catwoman' by Tom King, Clay Mann and Tomeu Morey…
…and Phantasm Debuts in Batman/Catwoman #1 on December 1!Gotham City. Today. Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle have rekindled their long-running, on-again, off-again relationship. Believing all obstacles are removed from their path, they once again begin operating as a duo in their secret lives: Batman and Catwoman working together to fight crime. InBatman/Catwoman,a crime story told across three separate timelines,Tom King, Clay Mann and Tomeu Morey return to the romantic saga of Batman and Catwoman, continuing the story they began in the pages of Batman!
There's the past, when The Bat and The Cat first fell in love. Did they meet on the street? Or was it on a boat? Rooftops, ramparts and gargoyles, and over 80 years of fans that have read their comics, are their only witnesses.
There's the distant future, where after a long and happy marriage Bruce Wayne has passed away. Selina Kyle decides to settle an old score without having to worry about the Batman objecting. Catwoman is serving a very cold dish: Revenge.
And in the present, Bruce and Selina's union is threatened by the arrival of one of Batman's past flings, Andrea Beaumont,a.k.a. Phantasm. Beaumont's return calls into question how each character chooses to operate in their costumed, and personal, lives, and any move by Phantasm could change the fate of Bruce and Selina's future.
The only other person besides Bruce and Selina to have been along for the whole ride has been the Joker, and what he did in the past is going to have direct consequences on today and tomorrow. Batman's greatest foe will intervene any time Batman and Catwoman try to take steps towards peace—he already robbed fans of a Bat/Cat wedding celebration! Any change in the Caped Crusader's life will be matched with the chaos of the Clown Prince of Crime…
…and the Joker's not leaving any witnesses. Not even a gargoyle. Will Selina make good on her final kill?
Batman/Catwoman, by Tom King, Clay Mann, Tomeu Morey and Clayton Cowles, edited by Jamie S. Rich and Brittany Holzherr, will launch a 12-issue run on December 1, 2020, with a cover by Mann and Morey and a variant cover by Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair. New issues will ship monthly with a skip month planned for aBatman/Catwoman Specialin June 2021, and the series will carry DC's Black Label content descriptor, indicating content appropriate for readers ages 17+.
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
The Post obituary for animator Joe Ruby finally appears in print
Joe Ruby, TV writer and producer who co-created Scooby-Doo, dies at 87 [in print as Co-created Scooby-Doo, who solved mysteries with meddling kids]
Washington Post (September 9 2020) B6
The Post on Christian Cooper's new comic story
Christian Cooper has written a comic book partly inspired by his viral Central Park moment
September 9, 2020
The comic is free on multiple platforms.
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "You're Helping Trump!"
By Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -
"You're Helping Trump!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3062
OK, just so we're clear on this: if I ask the Democratic Party what plans they have to deal with any of the major issues of this Presidential campaign — or question their previous record on any of these issues — I'm helping Trump, and I'm a Russian asset.
Is that more or less where we're at, here?
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3062
OK, just so we're clear on this: if I ask the Democratic Party what plans they have to deal with any of the major issues of this Presidential campaign — or question their previous record on any of these issues — I'm helping Trump, and I'm a Russian asset.
Is that more or less where we're at, here?
PR: Small Press Expo Announces 2020 Virtual Programming Slate
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Book Review: Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World
reviewed by Cathy Hunter
YOSHI YOSHITANI is an illustrator based in California who has done work for The Walt Disney Company, Image Comics, Valiant Comics, IDW Publishing, DreamWorks Animation, and Rebellion Publishing. Illustrator of the graphic novel Zatanna and the House of Secrets, Yoshi is currently working on a young adult graphic novel for DC Comics. Yoshi regularly appears on panels at comic book conventions such as Emerald City Comic Con, New York Comic Con, C2E2, HeroesCon, LightBox Expo, WonderCon, DesignerCon, Thought Bubble, and Dragon Con.
Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World
by Yoshi Yoshitani.
(Ten Speed Press, $18; hardcover)
The 78 stories gathered in Beneath the Moon show the universality of themes that frequently appear no matter what the culture—searching for love, searching for riches, and overcoming evil. For readers who grew up reading fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen or the Brothers Grimm, there are old favorites represented here along with stories not as widely-known. One I particularly enjoyed meeting for the first time was “Matsuo’s Sake,” explaining how sake became the preferred drink of the kami in Shintoism, and that dragons covet sake.
The artist, Yoshi Yoshitani, has created rich, crystalline illustrations presented alongside each one-page retelling. The colors are jewel-like: amethyst, ruby-red, and particularly lovely shades of blues and greens that are especially striking in “Yemoja,” a Nigerian tale of a Yoruba deity, and “Rainbow Crow,” a Native American story. (I don’t know what medium she used for this art, but Ten Speed Press did a good job reproducing the saturated colors.) Beneath the Moon is a lovely compilation for anyone who enjoys stories from all four corners of the world.
From the press release -
YOSHI YOSHITANI is an illustrator based in California who has done work for The Walt Disney Company, Image Comics, Valiant Comics, IDW Publishing, DreamWorks Animation, and Rebellion Publishing. Illustrator of the graphic novel Zatanna and the House of Secrets, Yoshi is currently working on a young adult graphic novel for DC Comics. Yoshi regularly appears on panels at comic book conventions such as Emerald City Comic Con, New York Comic Con, C2E2, HeroesCon, LightBox Expo, WonderCon, DesignerCon, Thought Bubble, and Dragon Con.
Cavna talks to Knight about Woke
Keith Knight's show 'Woke' feels right on time. But he's been drawing about police brutality for decades.
Washington Post September 8, 2020
The Post continues Mulan articles
Less singing, more fighting: How Disney's live-action 'Mulan' differs from the classic animated film
Washington Post September 8, 2020 : C1-2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/09/05/mulan-live-action-animated-differences/
Why Disney's new 'Mulan' is a scandal
Washington Post September 8, 2020 p A23
Free Virtual Orientation to the LoC's Prints & Photographs Division on Tuesday, Sept 15 at noon EDT
Sara Duke, one of the curators of the original comic art, will be presenting.
The Prints & Photographs Division, after 6 months of being closed to the public, is offering a virtual tour of our digitized collections, finding aids, and guides on Tuesday, September 15 at noon EDT. Register for free through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prints-photographs-division-virtual-orientation-tickets-119513390769 . The platform will be via WebEx Events. The orientation won't be recorded.
Saturday, September 05, 2020
Smee on Guston in The Post
Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It's happened before. [Guston's brilliant political cartoons].
Washington Post September 6, 2020 p. E1, 5
The Post likes The Boys
'The Boys' is still a bloody good time. Really bloody. [in print as 'The Boys' is still a bloody good time]
Washington Post September 5, 2020 p. C1-2
That darn WuMo
Utter lack of appreciation
Lou Ann Brubaker
However, WuMo is done by a pair of Danes.
Friday, September 04, 2020
The Post's opinion on Charlie Hebdo massacre trial
The Charlie Hebdo trial serves as a reminder that we can't have freedom without solidarity
The Post reviews Mulan... and Pepe the Frog
The new 'Mulan' is somber and serious-minded — and spectacular [in print as A heroic battle that is worth revisiting]
Washington Post September 4, 2020 : Weekend 16-17
and not apparently on their website is ...
[The documentary "Feels Good Man" tells the story of Pepe the Frog...]
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post September 4, 2020 : Weekend 17
... but he liked it.
'Mulan': A Beloved Disney Classic Reimagined As Martial Arts Epic
Liu Yifei stars in the live-action reimagining of Disney's Mulan.
The biggest movie so far to be bumped from theaters to home viewing during the pandemic is Disney's Mulan. The live-action reimagining of the 1998 animated musical doesn't have songs or a cartoon dragon. But the story still finds young Mulan disguising herself as a man so she can fight in her father's place.
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