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Thursday, October 22, 2020
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Lily's latest comic
I've been using public transit during the pandemic. I've encountered more harassment than ever before.
I feel more exposed, with fewer people to turn to
Fantom Comics Newsletter excerpts
THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH @ 4PM: BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB - BIG BLACK: STAND AT ATTICA
Fantom and Pop Culture Uncovered is together again to bring this month's read, Big Black: Stand at Attica; written by Frank Smith and Jared Reinmuth with art by Ameziane published by Boom Studios!
The uprising at Attica Prison remains one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in American history. ... but without Frank "Big Black" Smith it could have been even worse. Now for the first time, the late Frank "Big Black" Smith shares his experience at the center of this uprising, struggling to protect hostages, prisoners and negotiators alike.
Before his death, Frank "Big Black" Smith worked with Jared Reinmuth, the son of his lawyer, to share the true story of his time in Attica State Prison. Adapted to a graphic novel by Ameziane (Dark Horse's Muhammad Ali), this is an unflinching look at the price of standing up to injustice.
For further event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/452214572340102?active_tab=about
You can find Big Black: Stand At Attica for purchase on our website at https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/big-black-stand-at-attica-graphic-novel-mature-?top=0&from=product&rowNum=0&whereQuery=
or in store!
- SPOOKY MONTH BRINGS SPOOKY SALES:
Less than two weeks till Halloween! We've been sharing some boo-tiful recommendations on our social media platforms and in store now that we have a full display of wonderful horror books ranging from adult graphic novels to manga gn's to all ages reads!
We are also offering a number of horror books for up to 20% off through October 31st! Log onto FantomComics.com/SaleItem to see the highlighted discounted horror books or stop in store to grab some straight from our spooky table and take a gander at the festive decor!
- LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY RAFFLES:
Local Comic Shop Day ("LCSD") is the day celebrating the independent spirit of local comic book specialty shops, and it returns for its fifth annual event Wednesday, November 25th! LCSD is produced by ComicsPRO comic book specialty retailers to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture. Pop Culture begins in your Local Comic Shop! And this year we want to jazz it up by offering some raffles! Now through LCSD, each purchase of $20 or more from Fantom (online or in-store) through LCSD, Wednesday, November 25th, will make you eligible for one entry into our Local Comic Shop Day Full Run Raffles, which is a chance to win a full series start to finish. YOU MUST HAVE A COMICHUB ACCOUNT so we can track all eligible customers, and ComicHub accounts are easy to create, so if you need any assistance we are happy to help! Eligible Purchases made on Local Comic Shop Day itself will earn you double Fantom Club Reward Points as well!
Items up for LCSD Full Run Raffles:
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image Comics)
Volumes 1-6 (Complete)
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.
Sunstone by Stjepan Sejic (Image Comics)
Volumes 1-6 (Volume 7 comes out 2021)
Two women deal with modern themes of sex, relationships, and fetishism in this erotic romantic comedy. So beware all who enter, because, to quote a few hundred thousand readers on DeviantArt: "I'm not into BDSM... but this story... I get it."
Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz Media)
Volumes 1-6 (Complete)
What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It is the story of beating the odds, in ways that count, for a group of orphans who discover the care and let it take them to better places in their imagination. Sunny is the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan's most innovative and acclaimed manga artists. Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias!
Fantom and Pop Culture Uncovered is together again to bring this month's read, Big Black: Stand at Attica; written by Frank Smith and Jared Reinmuth with art by Ameziane published by Boom Studios!
The uprising at Attica Prison remains one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in American history. ... but without Frank "Big Black" Smith it could have been even worse. Now for the first time, the late Frank "Big Black" Smith shares his experience at the center of this uprising, struggling to protect hostages, prisoners and negotiators alike.
Before his death, Frank "Big Black" Smith worked with Jared Reinmuth, the son of his lawyer, to share the true story of his time in Attica State Prison. Adapted to a graphic novel by Ameziane (Dark Horse's Muhammad Ali), this is an unflinching look at the price of standing up to injustice.
For further event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/452214572340102?active_tab=about
You can find Big Black: Stand At Attica for purchase on our website at https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/big-black-stand-at-attica-graphic-novel-mature-?top=0&from=product&rowNum=0&whereQuery=
or in store!
- SPOOKY MONTH BRINGS SPOOKY SALES:
Less than two weeks till Halloween! We've been sharing some boo-tiful recommendations on our social media platforms and in store now that we have a full display of wonderful horror books ranging from adult graphic novels to manga gn's to all ages reads!
We are also offering a number of horror books for up to 20% off through October 31st! Log onto FantomComics.com/SaleItem to see the highlighted discounted horror books or stop in store to grab some straight from our spooky table and take a gander at the festive decor!
- LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY RAFFLES:
Local Comic Shop Day ("LCSD") is the day celebrating the independent spirit of local comic book specialty shops, and it returns for its fifth annual event Wednesday, November 25th! LCSD is produced by ComicsPRO comic book specialty retailers to call attention to locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, celebrating their vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture. Pop Culture begins in your Local Comic Shop! And this year we want to jazz it up by offering some raffles! Now through LCSD, each purchase of $20 or more from Fantom (online or in-store) through LCSD, Wednesday, November 25th, will make you eligible for one entry into our Local Comic Shop Day Full Run Raffles, which is a chance to win a full series start to finish. YOU MUST HAVE A COMICHUB ACCOUNT so we can track all eligible customers, and ComicHub accounts are easy to create, so if you need any assistance we are happy to help! Eligible Purchases made on Local Comic Shop Day itself will earn you double Fantom Club Reward Points as well!
Items up for LCSD Full Run Raffles:
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image Comics)
Volumes 1-6 (Complete)
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.
Sunstone by Stjepan Sejic (Image Comics)
Volumes 1-6 (Volume 7 comes out 2021)
Two women deal with modern themes of sex, relationships, and fetishism in this erotic romantic comedy. So beware all who enter, because, to quote a few hundred thousand readers on DeviantArt: "I'm not into BDSM... but this story... I get it."
Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz Media)
Volumes 1-6 (Complete)
What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It is the story of beating the odds, in ways that count, for a group of orphans who discover the care and let it take them to better places in their imagination. Sunny is the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan's most innovative and acclaimed manga artists. Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias!
Baltimore Comic Con's latest PR: Get Your Books Autographed, CGC/CBCS Rated at BCC 2020 Live
Wow, it's snuck up on me this year, but here's their latest piece of info. There's some panels listed here as well as the comics for sale.
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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]
Washington Post October 20, 2020 p. C1, 4
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
DC Zinefest: Please contribute to our HallowZine! (No experience required!)
From: DC Zinefest
Hey Zinesters!
Yours,
As you've probably seen on social media, we are putting together a HallowZine zine this month and we'd love you to participate. No experience required! Using 1+ prompts below as inspiration (even loosely so), express yourself via comic, poem, photo, collage, doodle, drawing, story, joke, meme, list, map, scribble, graph, found art, sculpture, etc. We want to empower EVERYONE to participate, regardless of where you live or whether you consider yourself a creator/maker/artist/writer or not
Send your thing(s) to dczinefest@gmail.com with "Hallowzine" in the subject line. Please format your thing as a 5.25 inch [W] X 8.25 inch [H] (or roughly so to help with assembling the zine but we can always resize on our end if needed). Image format is preferred! Include your name/pen-name, the title of your thing, and social media/website if you want people to find you and your stuff!
The official deadline is October 24th. If you can't make the deadline but still want to contribute, let us know -- the final-final-final deadline is October 30th.
Prompts:
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"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist
"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
"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
From: Kennedy, Martha
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
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.
PANELISTS
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].
Washington Post Oct. 17, 2020 P. C1, 4
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
Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Henry Barajas and reviews Aleister and Adolf
Interview: Henry Barajas' Brings His Heritage to Comics with 'Tata Rambo'
Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Oct 15, 2020
Get Graphic: ALEISTER AND ADOLPH is...
by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Oct 16, 2020
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