Friday, September 10, 2021

Flying Dog beer's Ralph Steadman label banned in North Carolina

North Carolina Banned This Beer Because Bureaucrats Dislike the Label [Ralph Steadman]

Now they'll have to explain to a federal judge how this isn't a violation of the First Amendment.

| 9.8.2021

https://reason.com/2021/09/08/north-carolina-banned-this-beer-because-bureaucrats-dislike-the-label/

 

 

Ralph Steadman Ale Art Banned in North Carolina

Raging Bitch, Good Shit, and Flying Dog Beer's Fight for Free Speech

Nick Gillespie
May 10, 2017


LadiesCon 2021 - History in Comics! (Panel) with Sierra Barnes

LadiesCon 2021 - History in Comics! (Panel)

History in Comics Panel Discussion: Ned Barnett, history cartoonist (expertise WWI) Meggie Ramm, cartoonist and comics educator Sierra Barnes, historian & cartoonist (expertise WWII)

Sept 23; With Great Responsibility: The Spider-Man Origin Story in Art and Comic Books



With Great Responsibility: The Spider-Man Origin Story in Art and Comic Books

Date and Location

Part of 2021 National Book Festival

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

Before Spider-Man leaped off the pages of comic books into the movies, Steve Ditko, a cartoonist, and Stan Lee, a scriptwriter, sat down at their desks and invented him. The Library of Congress possesses the original drawings for their collaboration, which appeared in the August 1962 issue of "Amazing Fantasy." Together we look at the moment the radioactive spider bit Peter Parker, turning him from a lonely teenager into a superhero. We discuss how Steve Ditko changed his art in reaction to Stan Lee's editorial notations in the margins of the drawing. Specialists present the art in an interactive format, highlighting the artistic creative process, including how Ditko drew the costume for the first time and how it differs from what Spider-Man wears today. We also discuss how Peter comes to learn "with great power there must also come — great responsibility!" Conceived as an interactive event aimed at children and young adults who may be aware only of the Marvel movies, Library staff will highlight and discuss that the story came from a book — a comic book — and the imaginative possibilities of a talented writer and artist working as a team.

Learn more about the Library of Congress experts participating in the National Book Festival, including Sara W. Duke from the Prints and Photographs Division and Megan Halsband from the Serial and Government Publications Division.

NPR on Q-Force


In 'Q-Force,' Queer Agents Find Agency

Glen Weldon Mallory Yu and Cyrena Touros

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour  Sep 9, 2021

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1033968840:1034831981

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1033968840

Thursday, September 09, 2021

Patricia Maginnis, trailblazing abortion rights activist (and amateur editorial cartoonist), dies at 93

Patricia Maginnis, trailblazing abortion rights activist, dies at 93

2 more Cartoonist Kayfabe with Warren Bernard

The First Comics Were From The Platinum Age! We're Looking at 100+ Yr Old Books With Warren Bernard!

Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Warren Bernard, Tom Scioli
Sep 3, 2021

CGC SNUFF FILM: Mad issue 10 (and a bonus history of Lampoon from Warren Bernard).

Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Warren Bernard,
Sep 4, 2021
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrGaNDZsM_U

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 ------------------------- E-NEWSLETTER: Keep up with all things Cartoonist Kayfabe through our newsletter! News, appearances, special offers, and more - signup here for free

YouNeek Studios' artist Godwin Akpan interviewed by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Get Graphic: Godwin Akpan Creates a World of Wonder [Iyanu: Child of Wonder; YouNeek Studios]

Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco gets money from John Oliver

John Oliver is helping museums through the pandemic — by lending them rat erotica [Cartoon Art Museum]

The Post on family animated movies and superhero franchises

The delta variant may be slowly killing the family movie

A staple of the entertainment business is in trouble because of the new coronavirus strain, among other factors

Ann Telnaes on cartooning during social media madness

(written by a local student cartoonist too!)

4 top political cartoonists. 1 virtual room. Here's what they had to say about virtual satire in the age of social media.

By

SPJ News

SPJ President Matthew Hall moderated the panel "Editorial Cartooning in an Age of Cancel Culture and Death Threats" — a conversation between Pulitzer-winning cartoonists Darrin Bell, of the King Features Syndicate, Steve Breen, of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Ann Telnaes, of The Washington Post, and Pulitzer finalist Marty Two Bulls Sr., a freelancer. 

No Halloween comics for handing out this year

Diamond Cancels Halloween ComicFest For 2021

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-cancels-halloween-comicfest-for-2021/

Sept 11: BOOK SIGNING WITH JANET HARVEY at Fantom Comics

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>>>IN-STORE EVENTS


>>>Saturday, September 11th @ 12pm to 2pm

>>>BOOK SIGNING WITH JANET HARVEY


We're having an in-store signing with lovely comics writer Janet Harvey!

She wrote the super cool graphic novel Curie Society, where a covert team of young women—members of the Curie society, an elite organization dedicated to women in STEM—undertake high-stakes missions to save the world.

Harvey also wrote a story in the recently released Wonder Woman Black & Gold #3! We'll have copies of it in the store during the signing!

Get copies of Curie Society on our website here: https://stores.comichub.com/.../products/the-curie-society

Check out more about Janet here: https://www.janetharvey.com/aboutmenew

As usual, masks are required at the event.

Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Latest Goodwyn editorial cartoons.

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

Welcome to this (usually) twice-monthly newsletter containing a sampling of nonsense, satire and commentary in the form of the latest Goodwyn editorial cartoons.

September 8 2021

Baltimore Comic-Con's COVID policy, and additional guests



COVID Precautions, New Guests for the 2021 Baltimore Comic-Con
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - September 7, 2021 - The Baltimore Comic-Con, taking place October 22-24, 2021 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, is thrilled to be returning to an in-person, live event, and we have determined steps that will be taken in protecting our attendees, guests, exhibitors, and staff from further spread of the COVID-19 virus.
The health and safety of our attendees, vendors, and staff are of the utmost importance to us. Due to concerns over the spread of COVID, we will be putting some safety measures in place.
  • Approved face coverings will be worn by all while indoors at the convention
  • Must fit properly and snugly, fully covering both the nose and mouth and secure under the chin.
  • Face coverings with valves, mesh, costume masks, damaged masks, neck gaiters, and face coverings that cannot be secured under the chin will not be allowed.
  • Face coverings must be visible at all times. Any headwear or cosplay pieces that cover the face in a way that does not visibly follow the face covering policy will not be allowed.
  • Proof of vaccination with any vaccine approved or authorized by the WHO or the FDA, or proof of a negative COVID test within 72 hours of admission to the convention for all attendees, vendors, guests, and convention staff.
  • Proof of vaccination may be presented on a smart phone, or with a physical copy of the card along with a government issued ID that matches the name on the proof.
  • Self-test results will not be accepted as proof of a negative COVID test.
We appreciate everyone following these extra steps to keep everyone - particularly our older and more vulnerable attendees - as safe as possible.

As noted on the website, tickets are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend due to these guidelines, please reach out to us so we can make alternate arrangements.
The Baltimore Comic-Con is thrilled to announce that John Beatty, Brett Breeding, Howard Mackie, Carla Speed McNeil, and Alex Saviuk will be joining us in 2021!

Tuesday, September 07, 2021

SPX announces more guests for virtual con

Small Press Expo Announces Dash Shaw, Bill Campbell, Bizhan Khodabendeh and Joe Kessler as Special Guests for SPX 2021
 
Bethesda, Maryland - September 7, 2021
 
Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce the final group of Special Guests for SPX 2021. The virtual festival takes place on Saturday September 18 with live and pre-recorded programming about the amazing world of independent and small press comics, as well as a livestream of the annual Ignatz Awards.

See the Special Guest page on the SPX 2021 web site for more information.
 
SPX 2021 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show:


Dash Shaw
Dash Shaw's latest, Discipline from the New York Review Books, takes place during the Civil War, when many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Quaker from Indiana, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community.

Discipline is told largely through the letters exchanged between the Cox siblings—incorporating material from an actual Quaker and soldier journals of the era—and drawn in a style that combines modern graphic storytelling with the Civil War–era battlefield illustrations of the likes of Thomas Nast and Winslow Homer. The result is a powerful consideration of faith, justice, and violence, and an American comics masterpiece.

Photo courtesy Joanna Morrissey
Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell's author of The Day The Klan Came To Town from PM Press, which is a fictionalized, graphic retelling of a KKK riot that occurred in Bill's hometown of Carnegie, PA in 1923, at the height of the power of the KKK in America, and the community resistance to it as seen through the eyes of Primo Salerno, a Sicilian immigrant.




Bizhan Khodabandeh
Bizhan Khodabendeh is the illustrator of The Day the Klan Came to Town, a fictionalized, graphic retelling of a KKK riot that occurred in Carnegie, PA in 1923 and the resistance to it. 
Joe Kessler
Joe Kessler's Windowpane from London-based Breakdown Press, is a one-man-anthology of critically acclaimed narrative and experimental comics by London based artist, Joe Kessler. The book contains new work, along with reprints of Windowpane 3 and Windowpane 4.




Monday, September 06, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Happy Trails"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist on Sun, Sep 5, 2021



"Happy Trails"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3306

Is it just me, or has The Atlantic become our one-stop shop for 
tone-deaf shit takes? My current favorite clunker concerns the fascist 
abortion law in Texas, and its potential to turn out the vote for the 
Democrats. Yeah, that's right — Texas has gone full-on fascist with 
this shit, a fistful of other states are reportedly considering going 
that way, and the Democrats' number one priority is — exploiting 
encroaching fascism to rustle up votes and money for the midterms, and 
herd the Left back into the Party. Git along, little dogies. H'yahhh.

      if you are playing games with reproduction rights to stick it to 
the other side in the midterms then you're not fighting for anyone's rights, 
you're fighting for your own power.
      And while we see you doing nothing in power except offering 
empty promises for when you get more, no
      — vegan honk thinks it's fucked, @VeganHonk666 on Twitter

C'mon, Trigger, we can still ketch 'em...! Yippie Ty yi yayy!
Time for a song, now...

11x13 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 934kb

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"Happy Trails", closing credits to "The Roy Rogers Show", 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqUyNaSdvg

"Is This How Democrats Break Their Midterm Curse?" Elaine Godfrey in 
The Atlantic, 09.03.2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/texas-abortion-law-means-midterms/619966/

"if you are playing games with reproduction rights to stick it to the 
other side in the midterms then you're not fighting for anyone's 
rights, you're fighting for your own power.
And while we see you doing nothing in power except offering empty 
promises for when you get more,
no" — vegan honk thinks it's fucked, @VeganHonk666 on Twitter
https://twitter.com/VeganHonk666/status/1434146247368052736

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

The Post's Shang-Chi review, a few days late

Marvel's 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' breaks new ground, and has fun doing so [in print as Marvel's latest is actually a kick to watch]

That darn Prickly City & Candorville

Opinion: A poignant question in the funny pages [ Scott Stantis  "Prickly City" letter]

Sunday, September 05, 2021

Cavna on Ed Asner in Up

Ed Asner's most beloved roles were curmudgeons with soft hearts [in print as Curmudgeon with a soft heart; Up animation]

Saturday, September 04, 2021