Sunday, November 22, 2020

Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley

"Luna Tic Toc"

©2020 Steven G Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Friday, November 20, 2020

Crime Comics With Eddie Muller, Tom King and The Noir City Team

Crime Comics With Eddie Muller Tom King and The Noir City Team

Nov 17, 2020

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHMrjO9Pf8

Featuring Steve and Mike Kronenberg and Eddie Of Of TCM's Noir Alley and the founder of Noir City . We'll discuss great crime comics and our favorite noir films and TV

Is The Rebooted 'Animaniacs' Still Zany To The Max?

Aisha Harris, Margaret H. Willison, J.C. Howard

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 20, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936185289/is-the-rebooted-animaniacs-still-zany-to-the-max

https://play.podtrac.com/510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2020/11/20201120_pchh_pchh_201120_animaniacs_final.mp3

After 22 years off the air and locked in the Warner water tower, Dot, Yakko and Wakko, return for more wild antics and meta references!

Because everything in Hollywood must be revived these days, the Animaniacs are back after being locked in that Warner studio water tower for more than 20 years. Led by the fictional siblings Yakko, Wakko and Dot, the super-meta cartoon featured slapstick humor and cultural references that appealed to both kids and adults alike. Hulu has released a new batch of Animaniacs episodes and much of the original voice cast returns — though this time around you should expect fewer Goodfellas jokes and more cracks about presidential elections.

Glen Weldon on Star War's holiday specials

A Tale Of 2 Star Wars Holiday Specials: 2020 (LEGO) Vs. 1978 (Oh, No)
Glen Weldon
November 17, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/934507936/a-tale-of-2-star-wars-holiday-specials-2020-lego-vs-1978-oh-no

Formerly local cartoonist Malaka Gharib draws a sharable covid zine

COMIC: A Kids' Guide To Coping With The Pandemic (And A Printable Zine)
Malaka Gharib

Cory Turner

NPR's Goats and Soda blog November 17, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/11/17/933920696/comic-a-kids-guide-to-coping-with-the-pandemic-and-a-printable-zine

NPR talks to Bliss and Martin about gag cartoons

Comedian Steve Martin Partners With Cartoonist Harry Bliss For New Book

Rachel Martin

Morning Edition

November 17, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/935655867/comedian-steve-martin-partners-with-cartoonist-harry-bliss-for-new-book

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2020/11/20201117_me_comedian_steve_martin_partners_with_cartoonist_harry_bliss_for_book_of_cartoons.mp3

Chris Pitzer from Richmond's AdHouse Books interviewed at Solrad

Publishing During A Pandemic: Daniel Elkin interviews Chris Pitzer from AdHouse Books

https://solrad.co/publishing-during-a-pandemic-daniel-elkin-interviews-chris-pitzer-from-adhouse-books

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Daniel Elkin

November 18, 2020

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Cavna's picks for 2020's best of comics

2020 graphic novels and comic books: Five trends that defined the year

Michael Cavna

Washington Post November 19, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2020-graphic-novels/2020/11/16/f8c1c876-242c-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

P&P Live! Tommy Siegel | I HOPE THIS HELPS with Ben Thornewill

Nov 11, 2020 Politics and Prose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mtqRwQyAEs

Join cartoonist, Tommy Siegel as he discusses his new book, "I Hope this Helps" in conversation with Ben Thornewill on P&P Live!

Tommy Siegel's debut book collection includes 200+ pages of comics, essays, and extremely helpful guides to coping with 21st-century panic. With comics titled "Choose your social anxiety coping mechanism" and "What your coffee drink of choice says about you," I Hope This Helps offers clever and sardonic commentary on our phone-obsessed, social media-driven culture, as well as a series of devastatingly funny relationship comics starring his popular Candy Hearts characters.

Tommy Siegel is a cartoonist and musician who tries his best to juggle both pastimes with assistance from copious amounts of coffee. As lead guitarist and singer for his solo projects and his power pop trio Jukebox The Ghost, Tommy has played over 1,000 shows around the world, including festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza and late-night television programs like Letterman and Conan. As a cartoonist, his challenge to draw 500 consecutive days of comics led to a viral fanbase of hundreds of thousands worldwide.

In addition to his own solo work, Ben Thornewill is a singer/songwriter/pianist in Jukebox the Ghost (alongside Tommy Siegel), an internationally-touring cult pop/rock band. In addition to festivals like Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, and Bottlerock, Jukebox the Ghost has also performed on The Late Show with David Letterman and Conan. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where you can find him working out of his home studio as a songwriter and audio engineer for TV, film, and musical theater. You can find him across social media platforms under @benthornewill.

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Fantom Comics newsletter excerpts

>>> SATURDAY, 11/21 ONLY - "FILL-A-BAG" DEAL:
Come in Saturday, 11/21, and buy a Fantom Tote Bag for $5 (normally $20) and fill it with as much product from the store as possible to get 25% pff your entire purchase! Only items excluded are Magic the Gathering and we will have a limit of one bag per customer, so that means anything else you can fit into one Fantom Tote is good for the discount! With many families unable to see their loved ones this season, graphic novels are the perfect gift that can be mailed and keep your loved ones entertained while quarantining! Not to mention some early Black Friday goodness!

>>> SUNDAYS ARE BACK AT FANTOM COMICS:
Beginning this Sunday, 11/22, we'll be open Sundays again! In store Sunday hours will be 11am-6pm with requirements of a face mask and social distancing! We know it can be tough to get in during the week, so we're super excited about helping folks out on another day of the weekend!

Tommy Siegel, I Hope This Helps: Comics and Cures for 21st Century Panic

This is an interesting talk by a part-time webcomics musician who posts his cartoons on social media.

Tommy Siegel, I Hope This Helps: Comics and Cures for 21st Century Panic

Liz Warner

One More Page Books November 18 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6CySzON6Cw

Tommy Siegel and his new book are here to help! I Hope This Helps: Comics and Cures for 21st Century Panic has had our staff laughing since it arrived last month, and we are pleased to bring him to you (virtually) in November!

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Beyond Comics in-store sales

Beyond Comics New Arrivals

Wednesday - November 18, 2020

Masks Required - Maintain 6 Foot Distances - Customer Capacity Limits

Facebook Live Sale!

Thanksgiving Night (Thursday, November 26th) 7pm to 9pm

Live Sale Page Link!

HOLIDAY SALE SALES!

Graphic Novels 20% Off

All In Stock Graphic Novels

Board Games

Buy One Get One 40% Off

November 11th to November 30th

In Stores Only!

Fredericksburg political cartoonist Clay Jones has covid-19

Clay Jones, who is a friend of mine, has announced via his blog and other media that he's contracted covid-19. Fortunately he appears to be doing ok and has put up a new cartoon and blog today discussing his thoughts on having it and the wider epidemic.

We at ComicsDC send our best wishes to Clay and his family, and since that won't buy him a cup of coffee, I'm sending him $40 for a print of yesterday's cartoon, Goodbye, Dumpster.

Tip Jar: if you want to support the cartoonist, please send a donation through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com. You can also snail it to P.O. Box 9103, Fredericksburg, VA 22403. And since someone asked this morning, yes. You can still get a signed print for $40.

Monday, November 16, 2020

NPR checks in on Judge Parker's election

'Judge Parker' Cartoonist On Comic Strip's Election Storyline

Michel Martin

All Things Considered November 14, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/935018312/-judge-parker-cartoonist-on-comic-strip-s-election-storyline

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Nov 18: P&P Live!: G.B. Trudeau — DBURY@50 - in conversation with David Stanford

P&P Live!: G.B. Trudeau — DBURY@50 - in conversation with David Stanford

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 6 p.m.

https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/pp-live-gb-trudeau-dbury50-in-conversation-david-stanford

This event will be streamed online as part of our P&P Live! Series.

The ultimate Doonesbury package celebrating a half-century of G.B. Trudeau's celebrated comic strip. This limited-edition deluxe set includes: A USB flash drive with all 50 years of Doonesbury comics, including 26 years of Sunday comics available for the first time in digital format. Includes a searchable calendar archive, character biographies, and a week-by-week description of the strip's contents. The Dbury@50 User's Guide, a 224-page wire-bound book taking readers through each year of the strip's storied history, with historical trivia, milestone strips, featured storylines and characters, and much more. A commemorative 16" x 20" poster featuring a grid with new sketches of all the strip's characters.

G. B. Trudeau has been drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip for more than forty years. In addition to cartooning, Trudeau has worked in theater, film, and television. He also has been a contributing columnist for the New York Times op-ed page and later an essayist for Time magazine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane Pauley. They have three grown children.

David Stanford is an independent editor who has worked on books by authors ranging from Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs to Charles Schulz, Art Spiegelman, and G.B. Trudeau. For the past 40+ years he has worked with Garry Trudeau on innumerable fascinating projects, and since1995 has served as Duty Officer of Doonesbury.com. For eight years he oversaw the Doonesbury milblog The Sandbox, editing over 700 posts by more than 150 soldiers, spouses, and caregivers. On Fridays, he works at Oblong Books and Music in Millerton, New York.

Instead of a set ticket price, we have provided a couple different ways for you to attend this event. If you'd like to purchase a copy of the book, you will not be charged an extra fee for a ticket, and we can either ship your copy, or you can retrieve it at one of our stores.