Edward Blanton, Arlington
Washington Post October 2 2021
Rebecca Frank, Oakton
Washington Post October 2 2021
What an exciting episode! Former Inkstuds host and VanCAF Executive Director Robin McConnell is back in the game for a sprawling conversation with ANDREW AYDIN! Andrew is creator and co-author of the graphic memoir series, MARCH, which chronicles the life of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award. Robin and Andrew talk comics, politics, Run, Batman, who the creative team on specific Uncanny X-Men issues were, taking John Lewis to SDCC and lots more!
Steve Artley Transitions From Cartooning to Podcasting
[ALEXANDRIA VA] Following a 30-year political cartooning career, Steve Artley has transitioned his satirical prowess to another form: radio. A few weeks ago, journalist and Public Radio broadcaster Michael Pope contacted Artley with a request to be a regular contributor to the podcast Transition Virginia, hosted by Pope and political strategist, Thomas Bowman. Artley’s background in music, theater, and voice work go into the development of the two minute segments that are a mix of comedic skits and musical parody. Artley himself scripts, performs the music, voices the characters, and mixes the audio spots for broadcast.
Artley continues to maintain his illustration, advertising and marketing strategy support company, saying this new venture is “a reasonable fix for my political satire addiction” left vacant from retiring his "political cartooning pen” earlier this year.
Transition Virginia Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Twitter, YouTube, and other media outlets. For more information, link to: Transition Virginia podcast or
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/transition-virginia/id1498833592
--Steve Artley
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Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
PREVIEWSworld Sep 21, 2021 https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/254797-Interview-The-Spirit-World-Goes-Up-In-Smoke-in-Dirtbag-Rapture
COMIC BOOKS have permeated almost every popular entertainment medium in the United States. When Stephen A. Geppi opened the Geppi Entertainment Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006, he sought to show how comic books—much like newspapers, television, motion pictures, music and sports—have shaped and influenced the culture of the United States.
When the Geppi Entertainment Museum closed its doors in 2018, Mr. Geppi generously donated a large portion of its contents to the Library of Congress, knowing that thousands of people would be able to access his collection and relive their own childhood memories or share in his excitement about comic book superheroes and pop culture icons.
The Library of Congress honors Mr. Geppi's generosity with a selection of the collection's gems. They represent themes from the museum, including Walt Disney's iconic characters, westerns, superheroes, science fiction, horror, sports, music, and entertainment.
View the exhibition brochure (PDF, 4.64MB)
Geppi Gems online exhibit information, Sept. 2021.
The following is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division.
DIVISION 3 | Circulation 200,000 and up
DIVERSITY IN DIGITAL FEATURES
The coverage of any A&E, features or lifestyle topic that highlights the diversity within a publication's audience.
Third place: Michael Cavna and David Betancourt, The Washington Post, "Creative Trailblazers in a Year of Reckoning"
Judge's comments: These essays do an excellent job of highlighting the creativity and passion behind Black creators in comics – especially during a year that saw the losses of both Rep. John Lewis and actor Chadwick Boseman. Comics and graphic novels may be growing in popularity and as legitimate storytelling media, but these essays make it clear they would not have gotten to that point without the input, dogged determination and vision of Black creative types who were trailblazers in that aspect of pop culture.
Honorable mention: Staff, The Hechinger Report, The Washington Post and NBC News, "Gifted Education's Race Problem"
The first of Dark Horse and YouNeek Studios's 10-book deal, MALIKA: WARRIOR QUEEN Volume 1, arrived in stores earlier this month.
An anti-fascist fairytale about a World War II fighter pilot navigating the afterlife by Sierra Barnes.
Hans Vogel is Dead: Vol I is a 272 -page full colour original graphic novel from writer and artist Sierra Barnes, and the latest project from independent publisher Cast Iron Books.
Hans Vogel is Dead: Volume I by Sierra Barnes This campaign is to fund production and distribution costs, to get this story printed and out into the world and as many hands as possible.
The year is 1940, the Blitz is raging, and Hitler's forces are sweeping across Europe.
At the front of the invasion is the victorious Luftwaffe, and at the front of the Luftwaffe is Hans Vogel: fighter pilot, ace, and recipient of the prestigious Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. Young, painfully shy, and with the backbone of a jellyfish, Hans keeps his head down and does what he's told – but something still feels… off.
One night on a routine raid, Hans experiences a freak radio malfunction, is separated from his unit, and is shot down and killed.
That's where his problems start.
Hans finds himself carried out of his world by the Valkyrie Brynhildr, but instead of Valhalla, he's brought to the mysterious Märchenwald, the world of the fairy-tales. Märchenwald has been transformed by the war Hans left behind and taken over by the malevolent and cruel Erlking, a monster who traps people within a sinister web of Stories. Stripped of everything he was and forced to confront the consequences of the evil he served, Hans finds himself faced with a choice: give in to the same evil a second time, or try and make things right.
Hans Vogel is Dead is an anti-fascist fairy tale with elements of historical fantasy about the power of narratives, the question of individual responsibility in a totalitarian regime, and the struggle to become a better person.
