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Monday, December 05, 2022
Dec 10: Gallas and Barnes in Richmond
Jonathan Thompson interviewed by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
'Night of the Comet' Interview: A Bloody, Metaphysical War Between Samurai and Yakuza
Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Nov 28, 2022
Remember Richard, from 2016
Ciao, Richard (2016)
By Diego Ceresa of Turin, Italy
Cul de Sac blog
December 5, 2022
https://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2022/12/ciao-richard-2016.html
Dec 15: Brian Basset Book Signing at Scrawl Books
Brian Basset Book Signing - Red And Rover
Drop by Scrawl Books on Thursday, December 15 between noon and 3PM for an impromptu surprise: A signing with award-winning cartoonist Brian Basset! Brian is in town for a limited time (we hear he has plans with NASA!), and will be signing copies of his newest collection of comics, Red and Rover: Fun's Never Over. The perfect gift, whether the recipient is eight or one hundred and eight! Order your copy below.
Event date:
Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Event address:
11911 Freedom Drive
Reston, VA 20190
$11.99
ISBN: 9781524874711
Availability: Available to Order. Usually arrives in 1-3 weeks.
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - June 7th, 2022
Store Hours:
Monday- Saturday 10am-8pm
Sunday 12-6 pm
Curbside Pickup Hours Daily 12-6
Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Open Christmas Eve 10am-4pm.
Free Delivery in Reston, Herndon, Great Falls, Sterling & western Vienna
Reston Town Center
11911 Freedom Dr.
Reston, VA 20190
Sunday, December 04, 2022
Werewolves vs Vampires by Daniel Boris [updated]
Herschel Walker recently said, "I don't know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not? Let me tell you something that I found out: A werewolf can kill a vampire."
Sometimes these cartoons write themselves...
Saturday, December 03, 2022
NPR on Wednesday (of the Addams family), Disenchanted, and Strange World
Is 'Wednesday' creepy, kooky, mysterious or ooky enough?
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/2/22
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who transformed comics first as a muse and then as a feminist artist, dies at 74
By Ron Kampeas December 1, 2022
Aline Kominsky-Crumb – RIP
by D. D. Degg
December 1, 2022
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/12/01/aline-kominsky-crumb-rip/
Pioneering Underground Cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb Dies At 74
Rob Salkowitz
Nov 30, 2022
Lived a Bunch, Loved a Bunch: Remembering Aline Kominsky-Crumb
by Chloe Maveal
December 1, 2022
https://www.thegutterreview.com/lived-a-bunch-loved-a-bunch-remembering-aline-kominsky-crumb/
HUNTER GORINSON TO TAKE THE REINS AT ONI-LION FORGE
As President and Publisher
by Brigid Alverson on December 1, 2022
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52773/hunter-gorinson-take-reins-oni-lion-forge
George Perez's Shirts Up For Sale, To Help His Widow, Carol Flynn
December 1, 2022
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/george-perezs-shirts-up-for-sale-to-help-his-widow-carol-flynn/
A Life Remembered: Basset's political cartoons published in numerous newspapers
By Edie Schmierbach
Mankato Free Press Dec 1, 2022
SCRB Collection 015. Basset, Gene. Editorial Cartoons by Gene Basset, 1964-2005: Overview
Gustavus Adolphus College
Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library
https://libguides.gustavus.edu/SCRB015
https://gustavus.edu/library/archives/concertFiles/media/scrb/SCRB015.pdf
Dick Tracy Comic Character Tom De Haven Profiled
D. D. Degg
December 2, 2022
Author, retired VCU English professor featured in 'Dick Tracy' comic this Sunday
Tom De Haven, who wrote a series of novels centered around comics and cartoonists and taught creative writing in the Department of English at VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences, appeared as himself on Sunday in the comic he grew up admiring.
By Mary Kate Brogan
VCU News Dec. 1, 2022
Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | December 2, 2022
https://www.tcj.com/here-i-dreamt-i-was-an-architect-this-weeks-links/
Book Review: Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature
reviewed by John A. Lent
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG December 2, 2022
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-review-graphic-novels-and-comics.html
James Hodapp, ed. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 285 pp. US $130.00. ISBN: 978-1-5013-7341-1. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/graphic-novels-and-comics-as-world-literature-9781501373428/
Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest
by Mike Rhode
ComicsDC blog December 02, 2022
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/12/wash-post-presumably-fires-bob-staake.html
Bob Staake
[After 29 years of illustrating the Style Invitational, The Washington Post has killed the weekly humor/wordplay contest.]
December 1 2022
Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope named Cartoonist of the Year Museum of Australian Democracy a second time for his razor-sharp commentary
By Sally Pryor
Updated December 1 2022 - 1:13am, first published November 30 2022 -
Daniel Clowes Conversation
Noah Van Sciver
Nov 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXf0c7byuY
Rick Louis & Lara Antal with Charlotte Greenbaum (November 16, 2022)[ Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars.]
GreenlightBookstore
Nov 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwPYnmv6Z8
Andrew S. Weiss — Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin - with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch
Politics and Prose Nov 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CEOpWeipv4
DAVE BAKER & NICOLE GOUX for FOREST HILLS BOOTLEG SOCIETY - Nov 2022 Graphic Novel Club Selection
Comix Experience Nov 30, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0GTgS1Mvs4
ISAAC LENKIEWICZ for ALCATOE AND THE TURNIP CHILD — November 2022 Kids' Club Selection
Comix Experience Nov 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4FWAMvRgUk
In Memoriam: Vic Carrabotta
Scoop December 2 2022
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=265428
Geoff Johns, Mikel Janín explore past and present in new 'Justice Society of America'
The return of the Golden Age of DC continues with the first JSA book in ten-plus years.
Chris Coplan
November 29, 2022
https://aiptcomics.com/2022/11/29/justice-society-of-america-return-qa/
Paul Cornell Debriefs Us On "The Completed Saucer Country"
By Kyle Welch | November 23rd, 2022
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/saucer-country-interview/
Spacesuited Snoopy doll floats in zero-g on moon-bound Artemis 1 mission
By Robert Z. Pearlman
November 16 2022
https://www.space.com/snoopy-nasa-artemis-1-zero-g-indicator
Out With The Bang: Jason and The Art Of Silence
John McNamee
November 28, 2022
https://solrad.co/out-with-the-bang-jason-and-the-art-of-silence
Avery Hill Dreams Big for Graphic Novels
By Brigid Alverson
Nov 23, 2022
A version of this article appeared in the 11/28/2022 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: At 10, Avery Hill Dreams Big
Interview avec David Sala Prix Landerneau BD 2022 pour Le Poids des Héros
2 décembre 2022
https://www.ligneclaire.info/david-sala-2022-270985.html
Attack on Titan Creator Hajime Isayama at Anime NYC
by Lynzee Loveridge, Nov 30th 2022
Manga Industry Survey: Over 20% of Artists Fear Bankruptcy Due to Japan's New Invoice System
2022-11-25 11:45 EST by Kim Morrissy
Withstanding the Heat: Denis Kitchen On Comics, Curiosity, and Censorship
by Chloe Maveal
November 22, 2022
Caretaker Blues and the Critic vs the Artist [Andrea Natalie, Wimmen's Comix, graphic medicine]
Edward Dorey
Synapsis November 18 2022
https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2022/11/18/caretaker-blues-and-the-critic-vs-the-artist/
Heartstopper author Alice Oseman: 'If you don't have sex and romance, you feel like you haven't achieved'
Lucy Knight
19 Nov 2022
Heartstopper review – possibly the loveliest show on TV
Rebecca Nicholson
22 Apr 2022
No drugs, booze, sex or swearing: will Heartstopper rewrite the young love rulebook?
Rachel Aroesti
18 Mar 2022
Dr. IndigiNerd on Creating the World's Only Native Comic Book Shop
by Tai Gooden
Nov 28 2022
Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning
Małgorzata Olsza
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture No. 12 (2022): The Ecological Future /
http://www.czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/15305
https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.03
Multi-Histories: Creative and Narrative Plurality in Graphic Novels Exploring Indigenous Histories
Pfunzo Sidogi
Junctures No. 22 (2022): multi-
Published: Nov 13, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34074/junc.22069
https://junctures.org/index.php/junctures/article/view/431
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' Review: Oh, Brother
By Calum Marsh
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 2, 2022, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/movies/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-rodrick-rules-review.html
Tributes pour in for legendary Andy Capp cartoonist Roger Mahoney who died aged 89
Sean Garnett
29 Nov 2022
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tributes-pour-legendary-andy-capp-28614075
Is 'Wednesday' creepy, kooky, mysterious or ooky enough? [Addams Family]
Glen Weldon and Ella Cerón
Pop Culture Happy Hour November 28, 2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1135768062/is-wednesday-creepy-kooky-mysterious-or-ooky-enough
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1135768062
Does 'Disenchanted' find the fairy tale magic?
Linda Holmes and Cyrena Touros
Pop Culture Happy Hour November 30, 2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139668805/does-disenchanted-find-the-fairy-tale-magic
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1139668805
'Strange World' journeys to the center of an animated earth
Stephen Thompson and Ronald Young Jr.
Pop Culture Happy Hour December 1, 2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1136107713/strange-world-journeys-to-the-center-of-an-animated-earth
Friday, December 02, 2022
Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest
or, more accurately, “Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.”
by Mike Rhode (updated 12/3 with comments from Bob)
Bob Staake has been illustrating the Style Invitational contest for well over a decade... actually it's been for three of them. Buried in this story about firing the Post's dance critic (another loss as the paper tries to shrink to greatness, AGAIN) is this nugget, "The paper has also eliminated its weekly Style Invitational humor contest, which involved ending the contract of former longtime Post editor and current contributor Pat Myers." Meyers wrote a column herself as well. And Bob wrote in correcting my headline (which is fair - I wrote it to get attention to the grievous loss of yet more cartooning), noting, "I wasn’t “fired,” the Post simply cancelled a humor column that I illustrated. They didn’t cancel ME. It seems to me the more apropos headline would be 'Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.' No matter how you look at it that’s a Hell of a run and all good things must come to an end." Bob is completely accurate, and we regret the misleading headline, but as they say in the news biz, "if it bleeds, it leads."
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| One of Staake's last illos |
Staake has created an illustration for the contest which has run in color in the Style section (NOT the magazine which they also killed this week) since 1992 (or 1994) and has conservatively probably done 1500 cartoons for it over the thirty years. When he wrote to us here in 2009, he also noted that he'd been working for the Post for 25 years at that time, which puts him starting doing work for them in 1984. You can find ComicsDC's coverage of him here and it goes across multiple pages. At one point when I mentioned him, out of the blue, he sent me a drawing of WWMRD (what would Mike Rhode do?) which hangs over my dining room table. When he was in town for the National Book Festival, after doing the poster for them, I interviewed him for "Illustrator Bob Staake on Dark Humor, New Yorker Covers, and Analog Art in a Digital World," Aug. 28, 2014, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2014/08/28/illustrator-bob-staake-on-dark-humor-new-yorker-covers-and-analog-art-in-a-digital-world/ and it was reprinted in the International Journal of Comic Art.
Empress Meyers writes of him, "To Bob Staake, Gene's and then my visual partner since 1994 — way longer than either of us. Over the decades while Bob gained wide renown as a New Yorker cover artist and bestselling children's book author and illustrator, Bob continued to send a cartoon to the Invite, as "really the only steady job I've ever had." Bob and I have met in person only once — he lives on Cape Cod — but every week we're the Invite version of the Kramdens, bickering and threatening to send each other to the moon, but aww we make up."
The end of this contest is probably the last vestige of all the Miami Herald staff and innovations that actually made the Post a must-read for many years beginning in the 1980s as the Watergate sheen was beginning to wear off. I've never entered the Invitational, but I know many people who have, and am sure the complaints about this have started. Personally, I'll miss seeing Staake's cartoon.
I used to compile a list of cartoonists appearing in local publications back when it was worth doing. Here's one from 2007, of which barely any of the publications still exist, and only Matt Wuerker at Politico is really soldiering on.
Cartoonists in Washington, DC area newspapers as of late May 2007
Washington Post
-Tom Toles - editorial cartoonist (semi-daily)
-Richard Thompson - Richard's Poor Almanac (Saturdays); Cul de Sac strip (Sunday's Magazine), illustrations for Joel Achenbach's Rough Draft column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Rob Shepperson, Tim Grajek - illustrations for Sunday's Business section
-Nick Galifianakis - cartoons for ex-wife Carolyn Hax's Tell Me About It advice column.
-Bob Staake - cartoons for Style Invitational contest (Sunday)
-Patrick M. Reynolds - Flashback comic strip; unique Washington version (Sunday comics)
-Eric Shansby - illustrations for Gene Weingarten's Below the Beltway column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Christopher Gash; Christopher Neimen - spot illos especially on Sunday
-Michael Cavna - editorial cartoons in Arts section, extremely irregularly
-Julie Zhu - Montgomery Blair High School student cartoonist for Extra Credit column in local Extra sections
-Saturday box of syndicated editorial cartoons
-Turkish cartoonist Selcuk Demirel illustrations in Book World, semi-regularly
Washington Post
-Tom Toles - editorial cartoonist (semi-daily)
-Richard Thompson - Richard's Poor Almanac (Saturdays); Cul de Sac strip (Sunday's Magazine), illustrations for Joel Achenbach's Rough Draft column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Rob Shepperson, Tim Grajek - illustrations for Sunday's Business section
-Nick Galifianakis - cartoons for ex-wife Carolyn Hax's Tell Me About It advice column.
-Bob Staake - cartoons for Style Invitational contest (Sunday)
-Patrick M. Reynolds - Flashback comic strip; unique Washington version (Sunday comics)
-Eric Shansby - illustrations for Gene Weingarten's Below the Beltway column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Christopher Gash; Christopher Neimen - spot illos especially on Sunday
-Michael Cavna - editorial cartoons in Arts section, extremely irregularly
-Julie Zhu - Montgomery Blair High School student cartoonist for Extra Credit column in local Extra sections
-Saturday box of syndicated editorial cartoons
-Turkish cartoonist Selcuk Demirel illustrations in Book World, semi-regularly
Of the Post people, 15 years later Richard's dead, we gained Ann Telnaes as an online animated political cartoonist, Toles was replaced by Michael de Adder (on contract from Canada, and they're running his piece too small and in b&w on the opinion page), the Saturday box of 4 political cartoonists is still there, Nick Galifianakis continues to illustrate Carolyn Hax's column albeit from an undisclosed location that's not Northern VA, Reynold's retired his Flashbacks strip this fall, and Cavna and Dave Betancourt cover comics stories but far less than they did when their Comic Riffs blog existed. And the Post has 2 pages of comics daily, down from 3, and printed microscopically, and 1 section of Sunday comics, instead of 2. Awww, get the hell off my lawn already.
Updated: Friend of ComicsDC, cartoonist Clay Jones pointed out that Staake had posted about this on his FB page.
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