Sept 6: Ben Hatke at Politics and Prose

I'll be there tonight, in spite of the weather. I'm a big fan of his work. Mike

Ben Hatke - Things in the Basement - at Conn Ave in the Children and Teens Department

Upcoming Event

Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 6:00pm

https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/ben-hatke-things-in-basement-conn-ave-in-children-and-teens-department

Chasing his little sister's lost pink sock, Milo delves deeper and deeper into the basement through the layers of history, meeting scary creatures along the way.   Milo must lead his new friends against the ultimate danger to save the Things in the Basement and retrieve the lost sock, while his quest teaches him about bravery and friendship in this riveting, suspenseful graphic novel.    

About the Author:

Ben Hatke is the author and illustrator of the New York Times–bestselling Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the picture books Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a Goblin, and the graphic novels Little Robot and Mighty Jack. He lives and works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and their boisterous pack of daughters. 

Ages 8-12

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5015 Connecticut Ave NW

Washington, DC 20008

Child & Teen

Children

Teens

Things in the Basement (Hardcover)

By Ben Hatke

$22.99

ISBN: 9781250836618

Availability: Not On Our Shelves—Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: First Second - August 29th, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/5/2023

"Lefty Cartoonists Boycott Walkley Awards" [Australia]

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/09/04/lefty-cartoonists-boycott-walkley-awards/

 

Another American Librarian Fired For Refusing To Remove Gender Queer

Campbell County Public Library director Terri Lesley in Wyoming has been fired after 27 years after she refused to remove Gender Queer.

Published Mon, 04 Sep 2023 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/another-american-librarian-fired-for-refusing-to-remove-gender-queer/

 

Now Ohio Parents Object To Heartstopper in Scholastic Book Fairs

Fox19 reports that a group of parents in, Ohio are complaining about the presence of Heartstopper graphic novels at a Scholastic Book Fair.

  04 Sep 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/now-ohio-parents-object-to-heartstopper-in-scholastic-book-fairs/

 

Bill Griffith on Love, Loss and the Lives of Ernie Bushmiller and Diane Noomin

John Kelly | September 5, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/bill-griffith-on-love-loss-and-the-lives-of-ernie-bushmiller-and-diane-noomin/

 

Nathan Louis Jackson, 'Luke Cage' Writer and Producer, Dies at 44

The Kansas native also wrote several plays, including the Wendell Pierce-starring 'Broke-ology,' which played at Lincoln Center.

Mike Barnes

September 5, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nathan-louis-jackson-dead-luke-cage-playwright-1235582452/

 

Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds

by Ellen Kirkpatrick

08/24/2023

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/recovering-the-radical-promise-of-superheroes-un-making-worlds/

 

Book Review: Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted
Reviewed by Michael Kobre
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG September 5, 2023
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-review-desegregating-comics.html

 

Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 358 pp. ISBN: 9781978825017. U.S. $34.95. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/desegregating-comics/9781978825017

Birth Of The Comics Code Authority, And Death Of EC Comics [Seduction Of The Innocent; theater; Fredric Wertham]

wordballoon

Sep 4, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXTiV8m0Ee4

 

Disenchantment's Ending Shows The Simpsons What It's Missing

Matt Groening's opportunity for closure and finality in Disenchantment opens the door for how The Simpsons may one day end.

  By Daniel Kurland | September 2, 2023

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/disenchantments-ending-shows-the-simpsons-what-its-missing/

 

INTERVIEW: Takehiko Inoue in 2007

Pulled from the archives, a short interview with Takehiko Inoue to compliment this week's episode of Mangasplaining

Christopher Woodrow-Butcher

MSX: Mangasplaining Extra

Sep 5, 2023

https://mangasplaining.substack.com/p/bonus-interview-with-takehiko-inoue

 

Deadlines and My Relationship With Them

Spoiler Alert: It's a toxic one!

Ray-Anthony Height

Studio SKYE-TIGER Sep 5, 2023

https://www.studioskyetiger.com/p/deadlines-and-my-relationship-with

"Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz" tells the life story of the "Peanuts" creator through his own medium

Ruben Bolling

Aug 31, 2023

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/funny-things-a-comic-strip-biography-of-charles-m-schulz-tells-the-life-story-of-the-peanuts-creator-through-his-own-medium.html

Sept 21: Arlington Reads: Art Spiegelman

Arlington Reads: Art Spiegelman

  https://arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/10735868

An Arlington Reads Signature Author Event. 

Join us for a conversation between award-winning author Art Spiegelman, Library Director Diane Kresh, and Director of Human Services Anita Friedman about Art Spiegelman's work "Maus." The presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A. Signed books will be available for purchase courtesy of One More Page Books. Please note: the author will not be available for book signing after the program. 

Location: This Arlington Public Library event will take place in Kenmore Middle School's Auditorium (200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington, VA 22204)

RSVP for an event reminder email.  Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. Attendance is first-come, first-served until seating capacity is reached.

The event will also be livestreamed and available as a recording for 30 days on Arlington County's Youtube channel; please RSVP to receive the online link.

For more information, contact LibraryPrograms@arlingtonva.us

This event supports Arlington Public Library's celebration of Banned Books Week.

Date:

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Time:

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location:

Kenmore Middle School, 200 S Carlin Springs Rd, Arlington VA, 22204

Library:

*Off-Site

Audience:

Events for Adults Events for High Schoolers Events for Middle Schoolers

Categories:

Author Talk

Calendar:

Arlington Public Library

Sept 7: Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki at DC Public Library's MLK branch

Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki for ROAMING *IN-PERSON*

Join Loyalty Bookstores, DC Public Library, and Small Press Expo for a live, in-person event with Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, in conversation with Melissa Scholes Young, to celebrate the release of Roaming! This event will take place at DCPL's MLK Library location. **This event is free to attend, but registration is encouraged—please register on DCPL's website.** You can purchase the book from Loyalty below or borrow a copy from DCPL, and we will have additional copies for sale at the event. Please email events@loyaltybookstores.com with any questions.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship off-balance. Emotional tensions vibrate wildly against the resplendently illustrated backdrop of the city, capturing a spontaneous queer romance in all of its fledgling glory. Slick attention to the details of a bustling, intimidating metropolis are softened with a palette of muted pastels, as though seen through the eyes of first-time travelers. The awe, wonder, and occasional stumble along the way all come to life with stunning accuracy in this sumptuous softcover with gorgeous jacket.

Roaming is the third collaboration from the critically acclaimed team behind Skim and Governor General's Literary Award winner This One Summer. Moody, atmospheric, and teeming with life, the magic of this comics duo leaks through the pages with lush and exquisite pen work. The Tamakis' singular, elegant vision of an urban paradise slowly revealing its imperfections to the tune of its visitors' rhythms is a masterpiece–a future classic for generations to come.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless, and the author-illustrator of two picture books, including most recently Our Little Kitchen. With her cousin Mariko Tamaki, she is the co-creator of the young adult graphic novels SKIM and This One Summer, which won a Governor General's Award and Caldecott Honor. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.  

Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer living in California. She is the co-creator of the graphic novels Skim and This One Summer with Jillian Tamaki, and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me with Rosemary Valero-O'Connell.  She writes superhero comics for DC Comics, Darkhorse and Marvel. Mariko was the recipient of the Eisner for Best Writer in 2020.  Collectively, her works have received Printz Honors, Eisner, Ignatz, Ringo and Prism awards. She is the curator of the Abrams LGBTQ imprint, Surely Books.

ABOUT THE IN CONVERSATION PARTNER

Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood, and editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity, two anthologies of new writing by D.C. women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship and the Center for Mark Twain Studies' Quarry Farm Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is currently an associate professor in Literature at American University.

Please note Loyalty has a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during virtual or in-person events. 

Event date: 

Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 7:00pm

Event address: 

MLK Library

901 G St. NW

Washington, DC 20001

Sept 7: Live! at the Library: Kent State & Recreating History with Comics with Derf Backderf

Live! at the Library: Kent State & Recreating History with Comics with Derf Backderf

Date and Location

• When: Thursday, September 7, 2023

  6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
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• Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - LJ 119

  10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

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Part of Live at the Library

The event is free, but tickets are required, and there may be special restrictions. Click the "Get Tickets" link below for more information and to secure your ticket.

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

Award-winning artist and author Derf Backderf will discuss his latest published graphic novel: "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio." He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially "My Friend Dahmer", the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip "The City", which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990 to 2014.

In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning, and has won awards for his other work including" Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio", which received the Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division of the American Library Association, the 2021 Eisner Award for best reality-based work, and the 2021 Ringo Award in the same category.

This event is free, but timed-entry passes are required to enter the Library of Congress. Click the "Get Tickets" link above and select a timed-entry pass for your preferred entry time.

Sept 10: Ellen Lindner for “Baseball and Bagels”

Ellen Lindner for "Baseball and Bagels"

September 10 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Come to a delicious lecture and Q&A with Ellen Lindner, cartoonist for the comic Lost Diamonds, A History of Gender Rebellion in American Baseball. Enjoy a bagel while listening to her unique perspective. Free to attend. This is an in-person event.

Ellen Lindner is a cartoonist, illustrator, editor, and educator, living in Upper Manhattan. Her comics have been seen on MoMA.org, Medium.com, The Washington Post, and in many anthologies and collections, including The Strumpet and World War III Illustrated. Ellen is the author of two graphic novels, The Black Feather Falls and Undertow, and her love-hate relationship with baseball history has turned into the award-winning series Lost Diamonds, a comics study of people who are not men playing baseball in America.

Website: http://www.littlewhitebird.com

Instagram: @ellenlindna

Sept 8: Meet and Greet with Bill Griffith

Friday, September 8 at 6 p.m.

Meet and Greet with Bill Griffith Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy at Union Market In partnership with Small Press Expo (SPX) meet Bill Griffith, who Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, calls  "...the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time."

Details

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/4/2023

Bro! Heathcliff is 50!

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/09/03/bro-heathcliff-is-50/

 

Why Are All Those Characters in the Wrong Comic Strips? It Must Be Reubens Week.

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/09/03/why-are-all-those-characters-in-the-wrong-comic-strips-it-must-be-reubens-week/

 

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode fifty-one | Becky Cloonan, part one

Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan

Sep 4 2023

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/artoo-deetoo-it-is-you-it-is-you

Darko Macan comic collection for free on Amazon

Until the end of the week, my buddy's

Darko Macan is an IDIOT (Idiocy)

is available for free from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Darko-Macan-IDIOT-Idiocy-Book-ebook/dp/B0CF2RG5ZB/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

If you can't draw...
...just add more lines.

Darko Macan can't draw* but when has that ever stopped anyone from making comics?
IDIOT is a comic about doing comics and doubting yourself every step of the way. A delightful descent into depression from the writer of Marshal Bass, Star Wars, Soldier X and other comics completely unlike this one.

About the Author

Darko Macan is a Croatian writer/cartoonist/translator/editor specialized in not specializing. Despite hundreds of titles he contributed to, he is not quite famous (maybe notorious on a good day), but is quite an idiot.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/2-3/2023

Commission Overview: Doctor Strange and Shuma-Gorath

Deep dive and step by step

André Lima Araújo

Castrum Lusitania, Sep 2, 2023

https://andrelimaaraujo.substack.com/p/commission-overview-doctor-strange

 

The Punisher's Gerry Conway On His Cancer, Induced Coma And Surgery

Gerry Conway, co-creator of The Punisher, Carol Danvers and Jason Todd, has been bringing the internet up to date on his current health issues.

 01 Sep 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-punishers-gerry-conway-on-his-cancer-induced-coma-and-surgery/

 

CHARLES SCHULZ – LETTERER

Todd Klein

Todd's Blog August 24 2023

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/charles-schulz-letterer/

 

CARL (and Garé) BARKS – Letterers

Todd Klein

Todd's Blog August 22 2023

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/carl-and-gare-barks-letterers/

 

IRA SCHNAPP – LETTERER

Todd Klein

Todd's Blog August 29 2023

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-letterer/

 

GASPAR SALADINO – Letterer

Todd Klein

Todd's Blog September 1 2023

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/gaspar-saladino-letterer/

 

'Peanuts,' Charles Schulz, and the state that started it all

Colette Davidson

August 29, 2023

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2023/0829/Peanuts-Charles-Schulz-and-the-state-that-started-it-all

 

Q&A with Matt Emmons

Rick

Sequential Philly Sep 3, 2023

https://sequentialphilly.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-matt-emmons

 

Finding a New Path: The shape of what a career as a direct market comics creator might be changing. Let's look at what that means exactly.

By David Harper

January 11, 2022

https://sktchd.com/longform/finding-a-new-path/

 

Off Panel #414: Five Hour Energy with Nadia Shammas

David Harper

Aug 28, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel414-five-hour-energy-with-nadia-shammas

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Nadia_Shammas.mp3

 

Letting the cat out of the bag [Mark Trail letter]

Melissa Yorks,

Washington Post September 2 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/01/bomb-morally-grey-world-war-blitz/

 

Behind the Scenes of Action-Comedy Anime Undead Unluck

by Bamboo Dong, Aug 30th 2023

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2023-08-30/behind-the-scenes-of-action-comedy-anime-undead-unluck/.199775

That darn Mark Trail

The Aug. 20 "Mark Trail" comic strip. (Jules Rivera for The Washington post)

Letting the cat out of the bag [Mark Trail letter]

Melissa Yorks, Gaithersburg

Washington Post September 2 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/01/bomb-morally-grey-world-war-blitz/

The Aug. 20 "Mark Trail" comic strip continued the series' descent into awfulness. The scruffy replacement for the original Mark Trail tells us that bobcats and lynx are the same species. They aren't, which a simple internet search will tell you. They are the same genus, which is Lynx, but bobcats are Lynx rufus and lynx are Lynx canadensis.

The lynx's home territory is Canada and the northern United States, while the bobcat lives mainly in the United States with an extension into southern Canada and northern Mexico. There are apparently two other species of Lynx: one that lives in Europe and Asia, and one that lives in Spain and Portugal.

Third Eye Labor Day sale

Announcing City Wide Events at SPX 2023

Check out the books debuting at SPX 2023

For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard Email: exhibitor-inquiries@smallpressexpo.com   City Wide Events at Small Press Expo 2023   Bethesda, Maryland - August 29, 2023   Media Release - Small Press Expo is thrilled to announce numerous events that take place throughout the surrounding area during SPX 2023. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 9-10, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 500 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 22 programming panels and 14 hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. These city wide events, can also be found on the SPX web site. Thursday September 7, 2023 Live! At The Library: Kent State - Recreating History with Comics with Derf Backderf Derf, the award winning author of Kent State and My Friend Dahmer, will give a talk a as part of the Library of Congress's Live at the Library program on Thursday September 7 at 6PM. Tamaki Fall Tour makes a stop at the MLK Jr. Memorial Library Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal-winning authors Jillian Tamaki (Boundless) and Mariko Tamaki (Cold). The Tamakis will be in conversation with Melissa Scholes Young at the MLK Jr. Memorial Library on Thursday, September 7 at 7PM. The Tamakis will be at SPX on Sunday only. Friday September 8, 2023 World Premiere of Married To Comics at the AFI Silver Theatre Married to Comics, by veteran documentarian John Kinhart, is the story of graphic novelist Carol Tyler and her husband, the ground-breaking and influential cartoonist Justin Green, who passed away last year. Small Press Expo has announced the sponsorship of the World Premiere of Married To Comics, which will be held at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center on Friday, September 8, at 7PM. Bill Griffith Meet & Greet at Union Market From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy.  09/08/2023 | 6:00pm – 7:30pm | Poilitics & Prose - Union Market Sunday September 10, 2023 Visit the SPX 2023 Website for More Info About This Years Show Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests. The Ignatz Awards are held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED

Izar Lunaček of Slovenia at SPX

Holy Fools and Funny Gods: The Hidden Link Between Religion and Humor

In Holy Fools and Funny Gods, philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the eternal iconoclast. This conflict between jokers and the faithful frequently marks our present-day culture.

But in pre-Christian times, pagan pantheons included holy clowns precariously positioned at the right side of the main deity. Among many tributes paid to gods, at least one ritual was reserved for the trickster who destroyed the world order only to rebuild it refreshed and new.

What if the priest and the jester are enemies only because they are siblings? What if they are two sides of the same social taboos? When we put gods on pedestals, we also expose them to communal mockery. When we laugh at clowns, we worship their disregard for social convention.

Lunacek's Holy Fools and Funny Gods skillfully blends philosophy with the irreverence of the comics medium into a treatise that is both hilarious and profound.

Izar Lunaček is a Slovenian cartoonist and philosopher. After years of studying comedy and religion, he has recently retired from academia to focus on comics. His first international success was the IDW-published Animal Noir - a series starring a hardboiled giraffe detective. He lives in Ljubljana.