Oct 19: Harmony Becker, Himawari House, with Sloane Leong

Virtual Event: Harmony Becker, Himawari House, with Sloane LeongTuesday Oct 19 2021  7:00 PM EDT

East City Bookshop welcomes Harmony Becker with her new book Himawari House in conversation with Sloane Leong.

Tickets are available via Eventbrite here. Registration is required.
 

About Himawari House
 

A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan.

Living in a new country is no walk in the park—Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and family.
 

About Harmony Becker
 

Harmony Becker was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the illustrator of George Takei's graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy. She currently lives in Mexico City.
 

About Sloane Leong
 

Sloane Leong is a self-taught cartoonist, artist and writer of Hawaiian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Native American, and European ancestries. Her work aims to connect personally with individuals through storytelling and to cultivate a kinder, more understanding future. She has been self-publishing her own comics since she was sixteen and has done various work for companies like Image Comics, First Second, Top Cow, Cartoon Network, DC, Dark Horse, Boom!, Namco, and BuzzFeed. She is currently living near Portland, Oregon and her latest book is A Map to the Sun.

New Notfrombrazil graphic novel out from Vanessa Bettencourt

Vanessa sent me a copy of her slim NYC travelogue, about a pre-covid visit by her Portuguese mom and brother to America - their first time in NYC. I enjoyed it quite a bit - Vanessa used to live in Alexandria, so I know her personally and her webcomic. I also really enjoy slice-of-life and travel books, and she's in the great tradition of Mark Twain even if going in the opposite direction. The post-trip covid-19 notes gave the book an unfortunate current relevance. I'm continually amazed that she picked up and moved to America, and restarted her career as an artist here. Plus today's webcomic is on cicadas.

NFB Last Summer Vacation before Quarantine -AVAILABLE

NPR on Shang-Chi, What If...? and Q-Force

'Q-Force' Trafficks In Queer Stereotypes — Then Drives Through Them

• Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour September 2, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1032850162/q-force-trafficks-in-queer-stereotypes-then-drives-through-them

The Mighty Marvel Mashups Of 'What If...?'

• Glen Weldon, Christina Tucker

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR  •  Aug 31, 2021

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1030279487:1032583858

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1030279487

'Shang-Chi' Expands The Marvel Universe In More Ways Than One

Stephen Thompson, Daisy Rosario, Mallory Yu, and Laura Sirikul

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour  September 3, 2021

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1030290255:1033784968

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2021/09/20210903_pchh_pchh_210903_shang-chi_final.mp3

RM Rhodes on Paul Kirchner’s “The Bus”

The Everyman Commuter: On Paul Kirchner's "The Bus"

RM Rhodes

NeoText September 2021
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/the-everyman-commuter-on-paul-kirchners-the-bus/

Paul Kirchner's The Bus

More Warren Bernard videos on Cartoonist Kayfabe

Art Spiegelman's MAUS - Pulitzer Prize Winning graphic novel about the Holocaust

Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Warren Bernard and Tom Scioli

Aug 29, 2021

Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At32JFtbavE

How to Draw Comics the U.S. Army Way?

Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Warren Bernard and Tom Scioli

Sep 2, 2021

Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXFeDPYM5o

The Rarest Star Wars Trilogy of Comics You Can Buy. The Russ Cochran Hardcovers! Goodwin/Williamson!

Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Warren Bernard and Tom Scioli

Aug 31, 2021

Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v8SXS97fG8

The history of US Government propaganda comics

When Comic Books Were America's Secret Superpower

The cheaply produced, easily digestible stories were once the perfect cover for state-produced propaganda.

By Rebecca Onion

Aug 27, 2021

https://slate.com/culture/2021/08/american-comic-book-propaganda.html

Betancourt talks Shang-Chi

In 'Shang-Chi,' Simu Liu finally gets the role he always wanted

David Betancourt

Washington Post September 2 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/09/02/simu-liu-shang-chi/

NPR recommends Jerry Craft's New Kid

 

These 3 Books Are Perfect For Your Back-To-Middle-Schooler [Jerry Craft's New Kid]

    Asma Khalid and LeUyen Pham

Weekend Edition Sunday August 29, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/29/1031669152/3-great-middle-grade-book-recommendations

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2021/08/20210829_wesun_these_3_books_are_perfect_for_your_back-to-middle-schooler.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1031669152

Warren Bernard on Detective Comics issue 78

CGC SNUFF FILM: Detective Comics issue 78, Buy War Bonds!

Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg and Warren Bernard

Sep 1, 2021

Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-RtHnCyyAE

Ed's Links (Order RED ROOM!, Patreon, etc): https://linktr.ee/edpiskor Jim's Links (Patreon, Store, social media): https://linktr.ee/jimrugg Warren Bernard: https://www.smallpressexpo.com/

STAN LEE's Infamous Secrets Behind the Comics, featuring Warren Bernard

STAN LEE's Infamous Secrets Behind the Comics - 30 Years Before How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

Ed Piskor, JIm Rugg, Warren Bernard and Tom Scioli

Aug 30, 2021

Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUwNlh9W1TY

Ed's Links (Order RED ROOM!, Patreon, etc): https://linktr.ee/edpiskor Jim's Links (Patreon, Store, social media): https://linktr.ee/jimrugg Warren Bernard: https://www.smallpressexpo.com/ Tom Scioli: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=44878299

This week's comic from The Lily

I visited my family for the first time in a year. It shocked me how much I'd changed.

In a year of feeling stuck, it was difficult to see the ways I might have grown

(Dabin Han for The Washington Post)

Dabin Han

August 29, 2021

https://www.thelily.com/i-visited-my-family-for-the-first-time-in-a-year-it-shocked-me-how-much-id-changed/

Garry Trudeau quotes on GW Bush's presidency, 20 years later...

"People have a more benign, almost fond view of him — common to almost all ex-presidents," the comic-strip artist and frequent Bush critic Garry Trudeau told The Washington Post in an email, "and I assume he likes it that way."

Trudeau used to spend a lot of time thinking about Bush — and skewering him in his long-running newspaper comic, "Doonesbury."

"My view changed as he did," Trudeau wrote in an email. "What started as a feckless, unfocused presidency assumed under a mantle of privilege and legacy suddenly became operationalized by 9/11. Like his father, Bush didn't seem to know what presidents actually did in the absence of war."

quoted in

George W. Bush's wars are now over. He retreated a while ago

Ben Terris

Washington Post September 2 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/george-w-bush-wars/2021/08/31/72f9dee8-07f4-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html

That darn Mike Lester

Comically misinformed [ "Mike du Jour" letter]

Karin Chenoweth

Washington Post August 28 2021

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/27/readers-critique-post-are-only-dog-lovers-hired-editors/

PR: Bill Campbell's The Day the Klan Came to Town

$15.95 | 128 Pages ISBN: 9781629638720

The Day the Klan Came to Town Written by Bill Campbell Illustrated by Bizhan Khodabandeh Foreword by P. Djeli Clark Paperback: $15.95 $12.76 ebook: $8.95 $7.16 Save 20% with coupon code SEPTEMBER until 9/30/21

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The year is 1923. The Ku Klux Klan is at the height of its power in the US as membership swells into the millions and they expand beyond their original southern borders. As they continue their campaigns of terror against African Americans, their targets now also include Catholics and Jews, southern and eastern Europeans, all in the name of "white supremacy." Incorporating messages of moral decency, family values, and temperance, the Klan has slapped on a thin veneer of respectability and become a "civic organization," attracting new members, law enforcement, and politicians to their particular brand of white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant "Americanism." Pennsylvania enthusiastically joined that wave. That was when the Grand Dragon of Pennsylvania decided to display the Klan's newfound power in a show of force. He chose a small town outside of Pittsburgh named after Andrew Carnegie, a small, unassuming borough full of Catholics and Jews, the perfect place to teach immigrants a "lesson." Some thirty thousand members of the Klan gathered from as far as Kentucky for "Karnegie Day." After initiating new members, they armed themselves with torches and guns to descend upon the town to show them exactly what Americanism was all about. The Day the Klan Came to Town is a fictionalized retelling of the riot, focusing on a Sicilian immigrant, Primo Salerno. He is not a leader; he's a man with a troubled past. He was pulled from the sulfur mines of Sicily as a teen to fight in the First World War. Afterward, he became the focus of a local fascist and was forced to emigrate to the United States. He doesn't want to fight but feels that he may have no choice. The entire town needs him—and indeed everybody—to make a stand.

Praise

"A piece of American history in all its ugliness told as an astonishing coming together of misfits to stand up against a common threat. Bill brings an international scope to the history and a concise understanding of politics to the story. Bizhan's art is dazzling. This is a book for our times." —Thi Bui, author of The Best We Could Do "So often, in times of unrest, we raise our heads up from the crowds of protesters and clouds of tear gas and wonder, 'How did we get here?' Fortunately, Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khodabandeh are here to remind you of the history that so informs our present. With incisive dialog and inviting cartooning, the creative team brings you into a past where the construction of whiteness was contested, cross-cultural alliances kept the United States growing, and the people on the ground reminded those in power that fascism was an unwelcome plague that every real American will stand and fight. Despite being about the past, you will not find a timelier graphic novel." —Damian Duffy, author of Octavia Butler's Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation "A fearless, brutal account of American history filtered through one town's relationship to immigration, identity, and 'othering.' The Day the Klan Came to Town lays history bare, making centuries-long connections to today. Vital." —Nate Powell, illustrator of March "Bill Campbell continues to do society a service by sharing the important stories that help us to be better. Understanding American history will put us on a path to being better than our past selves. The Day the Klan Came to Town is an example of an uncelebrated story that show us where we have been and helps us grow into the society we need to be." —Joel Christian Gill, illustrator of Strange Fruit "Sound familiar?: An invading hate group, a corrupt police force, and ineffectual government force a diverse cross-section of town residents to fight back. Through the use of comics, intensive research, and their vivid imaginations, Campbell and Khodabandeh bring to life the infamous 'Karnegie Day' riot of August 25, 1923. Carnegie's largely Catholic townspeople resist internal resentments and infighting to band together against the Klan. Throughout the narrative we get a sense of the town's history and the immigrants who settled there—ironically many of them fleeing persecution in their home countries. This nearly-century-old story is echoed in today's movements for social change. —Josh Neufeld, author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

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About the contributors

Bill Campbell is the author of Sunshine Patriots; My Booty Novel; Pop Culture: Politics, Puns, "Poohbutt" from a Liberal Stay-at-Home Dad; Koontown Killing Kaper; and Baaaad Muthaz. Along with Edward Austin Hall, he coedited the groundbreaking anthology, Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. He has also coedited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; APB: Artists against Police Brutality (for which he won a Glyph Pioneer/Lifetime Achievement Award); and Future Fiction: New Dimensions of International Fantasy and Science Fiction. His latest anthology is a two-volume collection with over one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from around the world, Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Campbell lives in Washington, DC, where he spends his time with his family and helms Rosarium Publishing.

Bizhan Khodabandeh is a visual communicator who moves freely across the professional boundaries as designer, illustrator, artist, and activist. His works vary from small graphic art projects to major public campaigns. Khodabandeh is particularly fascinated by how art and design can catalyze social change. He has received numerous international and national awards for his work as both an illustration and designer through various institutions such as: The American Institute of Graphic Arts, Creativity International, Adbusters, and Creative Quarterly. Khodabandeh has had work featured in publications such as Print, Creativity International, Adbusters, and Comic Bastards among others. Currently Khodabandeh teaches full-time at VCU's Robertson School of Media & Culture and freelances under the name, Mended Arrow.

Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God's Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is a founding member of FIYAH literary magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

New minicomics bundle from Laura Lee Gulledge available

* N E W * C O M I C S * I just made a new trio of comics inspired by Reentry Anxiety! Read here:  * Sew Not Ready * Play Thru * Good Vibes Only   They're also in print: now around town & at The Bridge PAI. Click the around town link to order via Paypal

Sept 29: Black Panther YA writer Ronald Smith in conversation with Preeti Chhibber

Ronald Smith in conversation with Preeti Chhibber

BLACK PANTHER SPELLBOUND, the second book in the hit Young Prince series from Ronald L. Smith releases in September, and we are so excited to welcome him to our online platforms to talk about it with author, super fan and podcast host Preeti Chhibber!

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Join us online on Facebook or YouTube (links to come). If you register to attend, we will also email the direct links to you.

I'm T'Challa. The Prince of Wakanda. Son of T'Chaka. And one day, I will wear the mantle.

Thirteen-year-old T'Challa can't wait to go back to America to visit his friends Sheila and Zeke, who are staying with Sheila's grandmother in Beaumont, a small Alabama town, over their summer break. He's thrilled to be on vacation away from his duties as the Prince of Wakanda for a few weeks, and he's taking full advantage of his access to the amazing food and the South's rich history.

But as T'Challa continues to explore the town, he finds that a man who goes by the ordinary name of Bob happens to be everywhere he is—and T'Challa begins to think it's no coincidence.

When residents of the town begin flocking to Bob's strange message, and a prominent citizen disappears, the Young Prince has no choice but to intervene.

T'Challa and his friends start to do their own sleuthing, and before long, the three teens find themselves caught in a plot involving a rare ancient book and a man who's not as he seems.

Swept up in a fight against an unexpected and evil villain, T'Challa, Sheila, and Zeke must band together to save the people of Beaumont . . . before it's too late.

Ronald L. Smith is an award-winning writer of children's literature including the middle grade novels Black Panther: The Young Prince, The Mesmerist, The Owls Have Come To Take Us Away, and Gloom Town, a Junior Library Guild Selection. His first novel, Hoodoo, earned him the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award and the International Literacy Association Award for Intermediate Fiction. Before he became a full-time writer, he worked in advertising and wrote TV commercials for big corporations. He is much happier writing books for young people. Follow him on Twitter @RonSmithBooks or Instagram at @ronsmithwriter.

Preeti Chhibber has spent her life being a fan of being a fan. Hailing from Florida, she spent a decade working in children's publishing in New York before leaving to pursue writing full time. She's written for SYFY, BookRiot, BookRiot Comics, The Nerds of Color, and The Mary Sue, among others. Her short story, "Girls Who Twirl and Other Dangers" was published in the anthology A Thousand Beginnings and Endings (HarperCollins, 2018). You can find her co-hosting the podcasts Desi Geek Girls and Strong Female Characters (SYFYWire). She's appeared on several panels at New York Comic-Con, San Diego Comic-Con, and on screen on the SYFY Network. Honestly, you probably recognize her from one of several BuzzFeed "look at these tweets" Twitter lists. She usually spends her time reading a ridiculous amount of Young Adult but is also ready to jump into most fandoms at a moment's notice. (@runwithskizzers)

Event date: 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 7:00pm

Event address: 

online

VA

Black Panther Spellbound - SIGNED - by Ronald Smith (September 28, 2021)

$16.99

SKU: s9781368071246