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December 2, 2020

NPR reviews Wild Minds animation history

'Wild Minds' Traces The Origins Of Animation — From Blackton And McCay To Disney

Adam Frank December 2, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/940115798/wild-minds-traces-the-origins-of-animation-from-blackton-and-mccay-to-disney

NPR talks to Setor Fiadzigbey

Misty Copeland Celebrates Ballet's Beautiful Friendships In 'Bunheads' [Setor Fiadzigbey]

Samantha Balaban

Weekend Edition Sunday November 29, 2020 

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/29/916365851/misty-copeland-celebrates-ballets-beautiful-friendships-in-bunheads

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2020/11/20201129_wesun_misty_copeland_celebrates_ballets_beautiful_friendships_in_bunheads.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/916365851

P&P Live! Nathan Hale | HAZARDOUS TALES #10: BLADES OF FREEDOM

Politics and Prose December 2 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38BD4b25I8

A discussion with author Nathan Hale about his new book BLADES OF FREEDOM, the latest Hazardous Tales graphic novel. Click here to purchase: https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9...

Join Nathan Hale—the graphic novelist, not the Revolutionary War spy—on a pulse-pounding adventure through the past! In a one-of-a-kind presentation, he'll draw scenes and characters on his iPad as he shares a fascinating tale from American history. Fans of Big Bad Ironclad might recognize the story of the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia, but they've never seen it quite like this. The event is part of a multi-city tour in celebration of the release of Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Lousiana Purchase, which explores the connection between the Haitian Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase.

Nathan Hale is the author and illustrator of Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, the Eisner-nominated, New York Times bestselling graphic novel series on American history. He also created the sci-fi horror comics One Trick Pony and Apocalypse Taco. He illustrated the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack, along with picture books including Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody and The Dinosaurs' Night Before Christmas. He lives in Utah.

tonight - How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter

The Society of Illustrators Hosts A Free, Online Lecture on 

How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter

(December 3, 2020) On Tuesday, December 8 at 6:00 PM ET, the Society of Illustrators will host a free, online lecture titled How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter. 

The lecture will feature artist and designer Ganzeer and Oriana Leckert, the Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing, Comics, and Journalism at Kickstarter.

About the Panel:

While comic books and the comic arts have long held a prominent place in mainstream popular culture, there has always been an "outsider art" streak in the medium, particularly in alternative and underground comix. And outsider comic artists tend toward a strong DIY ethos, up to and including funding their work. Learn about the medium's alt-history from artist and designer Ganzeer, who recently crowdfunded his debut graphic novel The Solar Grid on Kickstarter, and from Oriana Leckert, Kickstarter's Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing & Comics, about some of the ways the platform has facilitated innovation and experimentation by queer people, people of color, and other marginalized people whose work is situated outside of the mainstream comics world.

Register Now: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZVwzwpXWQUmxRcNeR1rdLQ[us02web.zoom.us] 

About the Speakers

Ganzeer

Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling; creating what he has coined: Concept Pop. His medium of choice as described in Artforum is "a little bit of everything: stencils, murals, paintings, pamphlets, comics, installation, and graphic design." With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer's work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki, and the V&A in London. His current project, a sci-fi graphic novel titled The Solar Grid is the recipient of Foreign Policy's prestigious Global Thinker Award.

Oriana Leckert

Oriana Leckert is the Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing, Comics, and Journalism at Kickstarter, where she helps creators bring a broad range of literary projects to life. She's written and edited for Vice, MTV News, Slate, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Atlas Obscura, and many more. Her first book, Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, grew out of a multi-year project chronicling the rise and fall of under-the-radar creative places across New York City.

NPR's best graphic novels of 2020 list includes Robin Ha

NPR's Book Concierge: Comics & Graphic Novels

Produced by Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer, Beth Novey and Meghan Sullivan | Executive Producer: Ellen Silva

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#tags=comics+%26+graphic+novels&view=list&year=2020

They say comics, but I think eveyone of these has a spine. Congratulations to local cartoonist Robin Ha for making the list!

Today at 2 PM: Nathan Hale at Politics and Prose

Wednesday, December 2 at 2 p.m.

Nathan Hale Hazardous Tales #10: Blades of Freedom | Ages 8-12

Register

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Kick Me Hard"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Kick Me Hard"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3097

Right about now, I'm sure most of you are laughing yourselves silly at all the Progressives out there who voted for Biden under the delusion that they could "push him left", when anybody with two brain cells to rub together could take a look at his record over the past 40 years — not to mention his lineup of Cabinet picks — and see that anybody who thought they could push that sonofabitch left is on some kind of weirded-out psychedelic voyage.

Take, for instance, this whiny-ass tweet from the knobs at DNC front group Sunshine Movement: "We elected you, Joe, now it's time you act"...

https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1328342256160485379

Oh, f'crissake, give me a big, fat break. The old bastard IS acting. He came right and said that "nothing would fundamentally change" and that he wouldn't ban fracking right out in front of God and everybody.

"Progressive" voters bought that horseshit like a bunch of ignorant-ass rubes, and now the DNC is doing the equivalent of taping a big "Kick me hard" sign onto their backs, like we used to do back in seventh grade — and I, for one, have sub-zero sympathy for those losers.

"Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a 'progressive' Biden administration", Gabriel Black at the World 
Socialist Web Site, 11.25.2020
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/25/jaco-n25.html

George Herriman political cartoon in Navy medicine history article

See 

President Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Rixey and the Brownson Affair of December 1907

By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED

https://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/13307

Alex Bowman talks to cartoonist Tommy Siegel

Viral Cartoonist Tommy Siegel on Drawing Political Comics in 2020 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGs28CPssk&t=2s

Viral Cartoonist Tommy Siegel on Why Social Media Is Terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsnN7QQhSCY&t=2s

Viral Cartoonist Tommy Siegel Drew a Cartoon Every Day for 500 Days, and Made a Book Out Of It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYZPm-gqhQE

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