Black Friday LIVE | Batman Catwoman discussion with Tom King

Black Friday LIVE | Batman Catwoman

John Suintres

 Nov 27, 2020 wordballoon

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

LIVE: Join the creators of the new Batman Catwoman comic book series, Tom King, Clay Mann and Mitch Gerads, as they discuss the ins and outs of this exciting new series from DC.

Twenty Years Later, Is 'The Emperor's New Groove'... A Classic?

Stephen Thompson, Aisha Harris,Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 25, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/23/937948440/twenty-years-later-is-the-emperors-new-groove-a-classic

https://play.podtrac.com/510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2020/11/20201125_pchh_pchh_201125_emperor_s_new_groove_final.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/937948440

The Emperor's New Groove came out 20 years ago, during a time when Disney's animation department was going through an identity crisis. The plot is simple: David Spade is a bratty emperor. Eartha Kitt and Patrick Warburton turn him into a llama. And John Goodman is the peasant who helps make things right. It was originally gonna be an epic musical, but then it became a comedy, a box-office disappointment, and now, we would argue, a beloved classic.

Jon Scieszka &Steven Weinberg: National Book Festival 2020

Jon Scieszka & Steven Weinberg: National Book Festival 2020

September 25, 2020

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9377/

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/captions/2020/s087_a116_Scieszka_a117_Weinberg_Final.txt

Jon Scieszka & Steven Weinberg Live Q&A: National Book Festival 2020

Sasha Dowdy

September 26, 2020

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9531/?loclr=eanw

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/captions/2020/s687_a116_Scieszka_a117_Weinberg_QA_Final.txt

NPR talks about Welcome To The New World

Welcome To The New World

Gregory Warner and Jake Halpern

• NPR's Rough Translation podcast season 4, episode 6

November 25, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938581251/welcome-to-the-new-world

https://play.podtrac.com/510324/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/roughtranslation/2020/11/20201125_roughtranslation_1124_aldabaans_final_mix_published.mp3 

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/938581251

Jerry Craft Live Q&A: 2020 National Book Festival

September 26, 2020

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9529/?loclr=eanw

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/captions/2020/s626_a027_Craft_QA_Final.txt

Cavna talks to Doonesbury's Trudeau

As 'Doonesbury' turns 50, Garry Trudeau picks his 10 defining strips

By

Michael Cavna

November 27, 2020 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/11/27/doonesbury-garry-trudeau-anniversary/

Online comic art auction Dec. 5 will benefit Grannies Respond's work with asylum seekers at the border

Reposted by request from a granny

 Bid on artwork by John Stanisci, DC and Marvel Comics illustrator who has drawn Spider-Man, Superman, and many more superheroes!

Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden presents a very special Online Art Auction with artwork by JOHN STANISCI,  famed DC and MARVEL COMICS artist! This fundraising auction is a great opportunity to obtain unique gifts for yourself or your family members who are comic and superhero fans! These works of art have value and will be greatly appreciated by the superhero fans you may know!  You'll also be supporting The Grannies in our efforts to help asylum-seeking children and families at the U.S.-Mexico border.  John Stanisci has worked on characters such as Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Hulk, to name a few. In 2011, his book for DC Comics, "Batman Beyond: Hush Beyond," premiered at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for graphic novels. He recently released a new comic with Emma Kubert, "Foundlings." The bidding begins Saturday, December 5, at 7:30 p.m., EST.  RSVP at the link below.  LIVE STREAM:  https://www.facebook.com/events/431022728294908/  THE ARTIST: www.johnstanisci.com    INTERVIEW WITH JOHN STANISCI: https://youtu.be/7Z0qcAO1eM4 Copyright © NOVEMBER 2020, GRANNIES RESPOND/ABUELAS RESPONDEN, All rights reserved.   Our mailing address is:   Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden, Inc. P.O. Box 1106 Beacon, NY 12508

GB Trudeau's video from Politics & Prose

G.B. Trudeau, "DBURY@50"

David Stanford

Nov 25, 2020 Politics and Prose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVOoWg68U7I

and his last in-person appearance -

Garry Trudeau, "#SAD!"

Oct 3, 2018

Politics and Prose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8G-GPnMdP0

Library of Congress blog on Thanksgiving Comic Strips

A Feast of Funnies: Thanksgiving Comic Strips

by Malea Walker

Library of Congress Headlines and Heroes blog November 25, 2020

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/11/a-feast-of-funnies-thanksgiving-comic-strips/?loclr=easerb

Phillip Kennedy Johnson to write Superman

Future State: Superman writer says the Man of Steel "shows us who we're supposed to be"

By Michael Doran

November 23 2020

https://www.gamesradar.com/future-state-superman-writer-says-the-man-of-steel-shows-us-who-were-supposed-to-be/

Writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson describes his love for Superman and preview his two Future State Superman titles

The Post talks to Bliss and Martin

How Steve Martin and illustrator Harry Bliss ended up working on the 'upbeat book' we all need right now [in print as It's all in the timing, both comic and cosmic]

By Donald Liebenson

Washington Post November 24, 2020 C1-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/steve-martin-wealth-of-pigeons/2020/11/14/303fb986-25e3-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

Co-Creator of "Woke" Keith Knight talks politics

Brooke Minters

Politico 11/18/2020

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/11/18/cartoonist-keith-knight-talks-politics-no-one-can-be-woke-enough-101012

Local cartoonist Justin Benedict RIP

Justin Benedict Struck, Killed Crossing Street

by D. D. Degg
November 23, 2020

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/11/23/cartoonist-justin-benedict-struck-killed-crossing-street/

Beloved Cartoonist Struck, Killed While Crossing Street in Old Town

By Drew Wilder • Published November 23, 2020

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/beloved-cartoonist-struck-killed-while-crossing-street-in-old-town/2485543/

Dec 1: Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell at Politics and Prose (virtually)

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell with Isaac Fitzgerald Pirate Stew | For Families Tuesday, December 1 at 6 p.m. The first 100 purchases of Pirate Stew will receive a signed bookplate.

Purchase

Lala Alcaraz piece in new SAAM exhibit

by Bruce Guthrie 

There's a new Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit -- in the building with the National Portrait Gallery - that opened on Friday.

Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
November 20, 2020 – August 8, 2021
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period's social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

I did my normal obsessive coverage of it when I went in on Friday. 

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2020_11_20C1_SIPG_PrintRev

One of the pieces that's part of it is by Lalo Alcaraz.  It's a digital image, not an original piece of art, so it's shown on a screen rotating with other pieces.  Does anyone know if Lalo works mostly digitally?  The piece is from 2018 and was in response to the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

--

Bruce Guthrie
Photo obsessive
http://www.bguthriephotos.com

Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley

 

"Luna Tic Toc"

©2020 Steven G Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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

Nov 17, 2020

wordballoon

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?

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