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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Baltimore Comic Con's latest PR: Get Your Books Autographed, CGC/CBCS Rated at BCC 2020 Live
Cavna looks at a Pepe the Frog documentary
How a Pepe the Frog movie speaks powerfully to this moment in divisive American politics [in print as A ribbiting take on a culture war]
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Clay Jones updates It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for today's reality
DC Zinefest: Please contribute to our HallowZine! (No experience required!)
Prompts:
- They opened the door and …
- Every Hallow's Eve _____ walks the earth.
- Drink one vial of _____ and …
- They looked in the mirror and their eyes were now …
- My skeleton in the closet
- Stare into the darkness and ____ stares back at you.
- My skin was crawling with …
- Little did they know there was a painting of ____ was in the attic.
- Did you know that kids have more bones than adults?
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "In Trump's Orbit"
"In Trump's Orbit"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3083
"In Trump's orbit" seems to be the favorite phrase of all the "cool
kids" in the media right now after his positive COVID-19 test, rapidly
gaining ground on the ever-popular "existential threat". Without even
trying, I returned an entire page of search results from newspapers,
magazines, media all over the country sporting headlines or ledes with
the phrase "in Trump's orbit". You could play a drinking game with it
on cable news, but you'd end up in the ER.
So, while the media were beating this poor, misbegotten phrase to
within an inch of its life, I had to ask — what, exactly, is "in
Trump's orbit"? The answer, of course, was instantly clear — spent
rocket stages, dud rocket stages, derelict satellites, tools lost
overboard from ISS spacewalks, the odd NRO top-secret payload,
drifting fields of orbital collision debris, a Tesla roadster... wait,
wut?
Search for "Trump's orbit" at DuckDuckGo, 10.14.2020:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22trump%27s%20orbit%22
Monday, October 19, 2020
Library of Congress' Swann Foundation accepting fellowship applications
To graduate students--future scholars of visual satire and comic arts—
The Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress is accepting applications for its graduate fellowship, one of the few in the field, for the 2021-2022 academic year. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2021. Please see the following for criteria, guidelines, and application forms:
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html
Please email swann@loc.gov if you have questions.
We appreciate the opportunity to share this information. Thank you!
Martha Kennedy
Martha H. Kennedy
Curator, Popular & Applied Graphic Art
Prints & Photographs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540-4730
Oct 21: JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION
JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION
- Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM
- https://www.improvconferencenola.com/jules-feiffer-a-conversation/2020/10/21/jules-feiffer-a-conversation-virtual-world-premiere-amp-panel-discussion
World Premiere & Live Panel Discussion
Jules Feiffer is an American legend, whom the Library of Congress has recognized for his "remarkable legacy" as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor. Feiffer's Pulitzer-winning comic strip ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice, revolutionizing the notion of what a mainstream cartoonist might dare to address in print.
Join us for an intimate filmed portrait of the legendary cartoonist, screenwriter and author JULES FEIFFER in conversation with Michael Tisserand, author of Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White. In the film, the 91 year old Feiffer looks back over his extraordinary life and long, varied career, offering his opinions and views on arts, culture, politics and improvisation — central to his work.
The screening is followed by a live panel discussion of leading cartoonists. Moderated by Michael Tisserand, panelists include award winning cartoonist for The New Yorker Liza Donnelly, Hulu's Woke co-creator and cartoonist Keith Knight, and POLITICO cartoonist Matt Wuerker.
Screening 6:30PM (CST) followed by live panel discussion. This event is FREE. Pre-registration is required. Register HERE. Upon registration, you will receive access to both the screening and post discussion. NOTE: This film is for mature audiences only and contains strong language that may be unsuitable for children or young adults.
Liza Donnelly is an award winning cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Medium, CBS News and CNN. An innovator of a form of visual journalism, covering news and cultural events by digitally drawing them in real time, Donnelly travels globally speaking on freedom of speech and women's rights and served as a U.S. State Department cultural envoy. She delivered a popular TED talk that was translated into 38 languages and received 1.4 million views online. The author of 17 books; her latest, Women on Men was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Keith Knight is an award winning artist/cartoonist, whose comic strips include The Knight Life, (th)ink, and The K Chronicles. He is the co-creator of the Hulu comedy series Woke, inspired by his life and work. Knight's work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post and MAD Magazine. Knight is also a rapper and a founding member of the "nerdcore hip-hop band" the Marginal Prophets.
Michael Tisserand is a New Orleans-based author whose most recent book is Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, the Eisner Award-winning biography of cartoonist George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat. Tisserand's other books include The Kingdom of Zydeco and Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Oxford American, the Nation, Daily Beast and Lit Hub. He is currently working with director Jonathan Hock on a documentary about the life of George Herriman.
Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist at POLITICO and was part of the team that launched the site in 2006. Over the past 40 years, the Pulitzer Prize winner's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, The Nation and The Smithsonian — to name a few.
In 2010 he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress and later that year won the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award.
ABOUT JULES FEIFFER
Jules Feiffer is the author of a wide range of additional creative work, including the Obie Award-winning play Little Murders, the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge, and the Oscar-winning short animation, Munro. Other works include the plays Knock Knock (a Tony award nominee) and Grown-Ups; the novels Harry, the Rat with Women and Ackroyd; the screenplays Popeye and I Want to Go Home (winner of the best screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival); and the children's books The Man in the Ceiling, Bark, George and the illustrations for Which Puppy? by his daughter, Kate, and the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
The Post's Smee on the NGA's Guston exhibit censorship
Absolutely no one has asked my opinion on this, but I think Smee has it right.
The Philip Guston controversy is turning artists against the National Gallery [in print as A portrait of NGA's flawed reasoning].
Charlie Hebdo discussion leads to teacher's death in France
Gruesome details emerge in beheading of French teacher who showed students Muhammad cartoons [in print as Beheading of teacher horrifies France].
Lewiston Tribune doesn't pick Al Goodwyn for conservative cartoonist
[The Lewiston Tribune has added A.F. Branco of Creators Syndicate to its lineup of political cartoonists.]
Lewiston Tribune October 17 2020
Live NOW - Elsa Charretier talks to Tom King
Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Henry Barajas and reviews Aleister and Adolf
Interview: Henry Barajas' Brings His Heritage to Comics with 'Tata Rambo'
Oct 15, 2020
Get Graphic: ALEISTER AND ADOLPH is...
Virtual Sip, Chat & Shop with G&G Guest Artist: Robin Ha
Virtual Sip, Chat & Shop with G&G Guest Artist: Robin Ha
KAL: Daggers Drawn /Baltimore Sun & Economist Cartoonist Artist Reception.
Yesterday's live tour is still available on Facebook -
KAL: Daggers Drawn / Baltimore Sun & Economist Cartoonist Artist Reception.
Crystal Moll
Crystal Moll Gallery October 17 2020
https://www.facebook.com/295981781034/videos/3311959008929451
Q&A with Matt Fraction & Elsa Charretier
Q&A with Matt Fraction & Elsa Charretier
Leah Ly
Fantom Comics October 16 2020
Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier sit with us from their homes to talk comics, life during the pandemic, and their series NOVEMBER from Image Comic
Cartoonist Liza Donnelly unlikely heir to Norman Rockwell
In a sacred space [in print as A special place to reflect - and create]
Islam cartoons claim another innocent victim
Teacher in Paris suburb decapitated, allegedly after showing cartoons of prophet Muhammad in class [in print as High school teacher decapitated in suburban Paris]
Friday, October 16, 2020
Weldon on what Marvel's Son of Satan is doing now
Damned If You Do: Hulu's Less-Than-Marvelous 'Helstrom'
Pop Culture Happy Hour October 16, 20205
Big Planet Comics Bethesda moving to due to covid-19
Turns out, Big Planet Comics is not immune to the economic effects of the pandemic.
So that we may continue offering you the reliable service you've come to expect, on Oct. 27 & 28 we are moving to a new space only a half block away.
Our new address will be 7939 Norfolk Ave. For the foreseeable future, we will continue operating curbside only, with the same hours we've had since reopening.
Please note that due to the move we will be closed on Wednesday, Oct. 28 and be open on Thursday, Oct. 29 from 11-7.
Thank you for your support.
BIG PLANET COMICS
CLOSED to walk-in traffic
Curbside pickup:
Wednesday 11-7
Thursday 11-3
Friday 3-7
Saturday 1-5
Closed other days
Curbside policy: Wait outside and call us, we will then charge your total and put a bag of your comics out on a table; don't approach if we or any other folks are at the table! Wear a mask. Thank you.