Thursday, December 28, 2023
Jan 5: Upcoming exhibition at Dwightmess Comics & Cartooning gallery in Silver Spring
Upcoming Illustration Exhibition, "Devour Hour" Features Bizarre Drawings & Paintings of Corcoran Graduate Nami Oshiro ::::
We are proud to announce our first exhibition of 2024, "Devour Hour," a selection of color paintings and black & white ink drawings by emerging Washington, D.C. area-based artist Nami Oshiro!
In her art, Oshiro uses storytelling informed by her Ryukyan background and her upbringing in California and Florida as a Jehovah's Witness to craft ambiguous, unsettling narratives with a doomsday tinge. Additionally, these lyrical and sometimes humorous narratives are given voice through her self-published comics, which meditate on her family heritage and relationship to Japanese culture as an Okinawan.
Oshiro earned her Bachelor's of Fine Art from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2012, and has exhibited her work in the region widely, including Foundry Gallery (DC), Workhorse Arts Center (VA), Rhizome DC, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery (DC), and Art Enables (DC). She was awarded an Arts Bank Grant by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2023 and also teaches comics.
Additional Info: Copies of Oshiro's minicomics "Mama's Epilogue" & "Fart Stories" will be for sale during the exhibition.
"Devour Hour" | January 5 - January 31, 2024
DWIGHTMESS Cartooning & Comic Arts
805 Silver Spring Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910 [entrance on Ripley Street]
******Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 5, 7-9pm
Light refreshments & beverages served; Artist will be present.
Gallery Hours: By Event & Appointment. Contact adam@dwightmess.com to schedule a viewing.
Oshiro will be the Featured Artist in the January edition of our newsletter :: Subscribe at http://thegraffobroadsheet.substack.com
See more about Oshiro: http://namioshiro.com
******Hope to see you at our first opening for 2024!!
We are proud to announce our first exhibition of 2024, "Devour Hour," a selection of color paintings and black & white ink drawings by emerging Washington, D.C. area-based artist Nami Oshiro!
In her art, Oshiro uses storytelling informed by her Ryukyan background and her upbringing in California and Florida as a Jehovah's Witness to craft ambiguous, unsettling narratives with a doomsday tinge. Additionally, these lyrical and sometimes humorous narratives are given voice through her self-published comics, which meditate on her family heritage and relationship to Japanese culture as an Okinawan.
Oshiro earned her Bachelor's of Fine Art from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2012, and has exhibited her work in the region widely, including Foundry Gallery (DC), Workhorse Arts Center (VA), Rhizome DC, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery (DC), and Art Enables (DC). She was awarded an Arts Bank Grant by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2023 and also teaches comics.
Additional Info: Copies of Oshiro's minicomics "Mama's Epilogue" & "Fart Stories" will be for sale during the exhibition.
"Devour Hour" | January 5 - January 31, 2024
DWIGHTMESS Cartooning & Comic Arts
805 Silver Spring Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910 [entrance on Ripley Street]
******Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 5, 7-9pm
Light refreshments & beverages served; Artist will be present.
Gallery Hours: By Event & Appointment. Contact adam@dwightmess.com to schedule a viewing.
Oshiro will be the Featured Artist in the January edition of our newsletter :: Subscribe at http://thegraffobroadsheet.substack.com
See more about Oshiro: http://namioshiro.com
******Hope to see you at our first opening for 2024!!
Third Eye Comics Annapolis is hiring
Hey Third Eye Faithful!
We are looking to hire TWO more team members for our new addition to Third Eye Annapolis, THIRD EYE
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POSITION INFO!
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WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR!
- Solid availability for 8-10 hour shifts!
- Friendly & outgoing - great people skills are a must! :)
- Excited to learn new things & great at asking questions!
- Organizational skills for task-related work
- Retail experience or service industry experience (waiting tables, bartending, etc) is a plus, but not required!
AND, FOR THE EXTRA CREDIT!
BONUS POINTS - not essential, but please let us know if these apply! :)
- PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Tabletop games & other items we'd normally sell at Third Eye Games!
- PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Music! Two of these positions will be for our department that works a lot with vinyl records, and an enthusiasm for good tunes will come in handy!
- PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: General knowledge of other products we carry, like comic books, graphic novels, manga, and more!
We know Third Eye carries a TON of stuff, and it's hard to know everything about everything we carry, so don't feel intimidated by that - just let us know the stuff we do carry that you really love the most! :)
If you have already submitted your resume prior, please do so again, as we get many resumes daily, and it's always good to have a fresh one handy!
Interested? Please email your resume to hiring@thirdeyecomics.com
Beyond Comics really, really wants subscribers to buy the books they ordered
They sent this message out to their entire email list today. I don't actually subscribe from them though. While I'm pointing out their use of a blast email to everyone, this is a serious problem for small businesses like comic book stores that operate on thin margins. If you've ordered it, pay for it and don't ghost your store.
Please Catch-up on your Subscriptions at Beyond Comics!
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Hannah Good to edit comics pages & Daily Cartoonist adds to WaPo buyout news
Michael Cavna tells me that Hannah Good is staying at the Post and will be taking over David Betancourt's comics page editing duties. She's been good for the WaPo's cartoon journalism this past year, so I'm very glad she's staying.
Here's her Post page info:
Hannah Good
Washington, D.C.
Education: Western Kentucky University, BA in English
Hannah Good is a Designer curating comics journalism and illustrated reporting with teams around the newsroom. She's also an illustrator and comic artist who has worked with HarperCollins Publishers, Apple TV+, Barnes and Noble and the BLINK art festival. Previously, she was an Opportunity Fellow on the Next Generation Audience Development team focused on comics and a social producer and comics editor for The Lily. Before joining The Post, she was a social media producer at Washingtonian Magazine. She's a proud graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Talisman magazine.
In the meantime, DD Degg has dug deeper into the WaPo's latest "shrinking to greatness" moment so I don't have to.
But for the record, of the Style and Metro staff, my current tally of departures is: Cavna, Betancourt, exhibit reviewer Marc Fisher, media reporter Paul Farhi, theater critic Peter Marks and Metro's John Kelly and Courtland Milloy. Editors Jeff Leen, Sydney Trent and Lynda Robinson are going. Hank Stuever is staying as an editor for Style. As I've noted to a few people, owner Jeff Bezos could literally pay everyone in America to write for the paper without really noticing.
Updated: My friend Lisa's colleague Ann Maloney is also leaving the Food section.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/27/2023
CBS updates its iconic "Season's Greetings" animation [R.O. Blechman]
Anthony Mason
CBS Mornings
Dec 23, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZMIyGEz60
WB Live With Paul Jenkins
wordballoon Decenber 27 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_6_AQMk-g
Knights and Ninjas: Using History to Design to Your Characters with Chris Schweitzer
CXC Festival
Dec 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u80vyqUuDE
#144: Ryan Cady and Andrea Mutti - Haunt You To The End
Justin Soderberg
Capes and Tights
Dec 27, 2023 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT8F4_y4fzA
Joshua Williamson presents DUKE issue one! [G.I. Joe]
Joshua Williamson
Forbidden Planet TV
Dec 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXosYz0stic
Dave Gibbons' Christmas Day Message 2023!
Andrew Sumne
Forbidden Planet TV
Dec 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRozKVBPGIo
Life Studied Episode 5: What should this look like?
Mike Hawthorne
Nov 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7W0x2fSIjQ
Batman 140 Digital inking demo
Mike Hawthorne
Dec 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4nWtqw5kVw
ICV2 INTERVIEW: LARRY CHARET OF LARRY'S COMIC BOOK STORE
Early Chicago Comics Retailer, Co-Founder of Chicago Comicon
Brigid Alverson on December 27, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55895/icv2-interview-larry-charet-larrys-comic-book-store
CSotD: Corrections, Clarifications & Road Apples [honesty in editorial cartoons]
Mike Peterson
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/27/csotd-corrections-clarifications-road-apples/
Jerry Buckley cartoon donated to Library of Congress
December 27, 2023
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/12/jerry-buckley-cartoon-donated-to.html
DC Round-Up: The 10 Best DC Comics of 2023
Beat Staff
12/26/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-round-up-the-10-best-dc-comics-of-2023/
Tilting at Windmills #296: We're One Success Away From Saving Comics
What can reverse the decline of the periodical?
By Brian Hibbs
12/27/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-windmills-296-were-one-success-away-from-saving-comics/
Edmonton comic creator makes the CBC Books list for Best Canadian Comics of 2023
The Cree folklore-inspired graphic novel Bad Medicine also made the long list for Canada Reads 2024.
Ishita Verma · CBC News Dec 25, 2023
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-comic-cbc-books-1.7066812
Sousa, Erin. 2023.
Bad Medicine by Edmonton's Christopher Twin makes it to CBC Books' list of best comics.
CBC News Edmonton AM (December): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-comic-cbc-books-1.7066812
Marvel opens 2nd 'What If...?' season with episode in almost entirely Mohawk language
Ava Pukatch
All Things Considered December 27, 2023
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/12/20231227_atc_marvel_native_american.mp3
WaPo loses all writers about comics as Cavna and Betancourt depart
Mike Rhode
December 27, 2023
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/12/wapo-loses-all-writers-about-comics.html
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
WaPo loses all writers about comics as Cavna and Betancourt depart
Michael Cavna just confirmed to me that both he and David Betancourt are taking the Post buyout offer, and there will be no specialists on comics on the staff now.
Here's their staff bio pages before they disappear.
Michael Cavna
Washington, D.C.
Covering visual culture and storytelling: comedy/satire, graphic and comic art/illustration and animation.
Education: University of California, San Diego, Literature/Writing
Writer-artist-recovering-syndicated-cartoonist
Michael Cavna is a man of many hyphenates. His articles on visual
artists and comic art/illustration have been honored by the Sigma Delta
Chi Awards, the National Headliner Awards and the international Harvey
Awards.
Cavna is creator of The Post's Comic Riffs online column, which has
twice been named the best newspaper blog in the country by the Society
for Features Journalism.
A San Francisco native and University of California at San Diego
graduate, Cavna wrote the main text for the Eisner Award-nominated
anthology book "Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at
Parkinson's."
Cavna's "Wise Up" cartoon launched the viral #Draw4Atena campaign in
2015 on behalf of jailed Iranian artist Atena Farghadani. He is also
emcee and co-programmer of the Library of Congress/National Book
Festival's Graphic Novel Pavilion.
"Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz once told Cavna at a black-tie
awards dinner: "You do funny things"; to this day, he does not know for
sure whether Schulz was referring to Cavna's syndicated comic "Warped"
(Andrews McMeel) or to his tragically askew cummerbund.
Honors and Awards: National
Headliner Award, writing/illustration, 2017, 2019 & 2021 ; Ink
Bottle Award, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 2023;
Eisner Award finalist, journalism, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2021; Society
of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award, audio/visual
storytelling, 2018; Society for Features Journalism awards, Arts/feature
coverage and commentary, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2021;
Harvey Awards finalist, biography/journalism, 2012
Professional Affiliations: Society for Features Journalism, National Society of Newspaper Columnists
Books by Michael Cavna:
"Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's" (text)
David Betancourt
Washington, D.C.
Reporter focusing on comic book culture
Education: Radford University, BA in media studies
David Betancourt writes about all aspects of comic book culture for The Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog.
Honors and Awards: Two-time Eisner Award nominee
Languages spoken in addition to English: Spanish
More to Come (as a 'competitor' says, on a day when I haven't driven 600 miles)
Marvel opens 2nd 'What If...?' season with episode in almost entirely Mohawk language
Marvel opens 2nd 'What If...?' season with episode in almost entirely Mohawk language
Season Two of Marvel's animated series What If...? introduces us to Kahhori, a Mohawk woman who goes on a quest to discover her power. The episode takes place almost entirely in the Mohawk language.
Jerry Buckley cartoon donated to Library of Congress
This Jerry Buckley political cartoon was batched with an influenza cartoon that I wanted. My loss is the nation's gain.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/26/2023
Rob Liefeld's Jungle Pin Up For Tim Sale's Girlfriend Found On eBay
Rob Liefeld says "Hey anyone looking to purchase this, I illustrated this in the middle of a sketchbook for Tim Sale's girlfriend back in 1999."
by Rich Johnston
25 Dec 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rob-liefelds-jungle-pin-up-for-tim-sales-girlfriend-goes-on-ebay/
How to Disappear Your Partner's Ugly Sweater
By Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn
December 26, 2023
The best of Kal's view, year in review.
WhoWhatWhy's Best Jon Richards Cartoons of 2023
Jon Richards 12/25/23
https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/whowhatwhys-best-jon-richards-cartoons-of-2023/
Top Free Press editorial cartoons of 2023
Michael Ramirez and Lisa Benson
December 23, 2023
https://www.timesfreepress.com/photos/galleries/2023/dec/20/top-free-press-cartoons-2023/
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/dec/23/top-free-press-editorial-cartoons-of-2023/
Artist/Writer Peter Kuper Politically Tinged Worldview Spotlighted This December at Christmas Con
December 25, 2023
Brad Balfour
Visionary Artist/Creator Paul Kirchner Celebrates The Weird and Psychedelic In His Work
December 16, 2023
Brad Balfour
Les 65 ans d'Astérix en 2024, des albums en belle livrée et une série sur Netflix
Jean-Laurent Truc
26 décembre 2023
https://www.ligneclaire.info/asterix-65-ans-285809.html
The Cartoon Pad Holiday Show
Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw
The Cartoon Pad December 2023
https://www.spreaker.com/user/weeklyhumorist/cp-holidayshow
https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58108090/cp_holidayshow.mp3
Aquaman 2 Review: The King of Atlantis Limply Buries DCEU at Sea
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom provides not so much a coda to the DCEU as it does a pathetic epitaph. This ship is good and sunk.
By David Crow | December 22, 2023
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/aquaman-2-buries-dceu-at-sea/
Comics Research Bibliography 2022 E-book Edition
Mike Rhode; John A. Lent; Tony R. Rose
Arlington, VA: ComicsDC.
Online at https://archive.org/details/crb-2023-ebook-edition-final-v.-1.0 or
https://www.academia.edu/112376882/Comics_Research_Bibliography_2022_E_book_Edition#
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Unboxing Comics Research Bibliography 2023 ebook for Boxing Day
It's a free download. * marks entries or articles that are new since 2022’s
published version – 2,262 of them. The derivation hasn't quite finished but it should be done before the night is over.
I
expect to update this to version 1.1 with updating a list of the people
who died in 2023 when DD Degg and the animation sites produce their
lists and I can compare them to the one included in this.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/24-25/2023
NPR staffers illustrate their love for graphic novels off the 2023 Books We Love list
Beth Novey, Meghan Collins Sullivan, Nicolette Khan, Chloe Veltman
Weekend Edition Sunday December 24, 2023
Bleeding Cool's Mystery Retailer Responds To Brian Hibbs
Brian Hibbs is one of the more influential and respected comic book retailers in the direct market. And he had things to say.
by Rich Johnston
23 Dec 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bleeding-cools-mystery-retailer-responds-to-brian-hibbs/
Chip Zdarsky talks Batman and striking out at Comic Con!
ComicPop Returns
Dec 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWotr3Bvlfc
PICOF 2023 Interview: Jimmy Palmiotti
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
Dec 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm8q4KZ_7_U
Christopher Priest On Vampirella Superman and More
wordballoon December 23 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAyo6SivK6k
Nemesis the Warlock: Terror Tube
We liked Valerian – a French series which may have influenced Star Wars – but Caza was the most relevant here. Each month Caza would produce a self-contained story featuring a crazy fantasy world.
Pat Mills
Dec 24, 2023
https://iconoblast.substack.com/p/nemesis-the-warlock-terror-tube
Trump and Taylor Swift! The Best Political Cartoons about TRUMP and TAYLOR!
Jeff Koterba, Rick McKee, Taylor Jones, Daryl Cagle, and Jase Graves
Caglecast 34; Dec 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCw-n3uvHE
Comic Creators Who Got Special Thanks in Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom credits creators Paul Norris, Mort Weisinger, Geoff Johns, Erik Larsen, Peter David, Ivan Reis and more
by Rich Johnston
22 Dec 2023
Off Panel #228: Trust the Process with Jonathan Hickman
David Harper
October 28, 2019
https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-228-trust-the-process-with-jonathan-hickman/
http://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/Jonathan_Hickman_2019.mp3
A Bicentennial Visit From St. Nicholas
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/23/a-bicentennial-visit-from-st-nicholas/
Letter: Trump cartoon might be the best [Mike Luckovich]
Madeline Augustine
Dec 23, 2023
Disappointed and frustrated by cartoonist's critiques [Jeff Darcy letter]
Chris Holmes,
Dec. 22, 2023,
https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2023/12/disappointed-and-frustrated-by-cartoonists-critiques.html
IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode sixty-seven | Christopher Cantwell, part one
Dec 25, 2023
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/in-most-respects
Not Funny Or True [Gary Varvel editorial cartoon letter]
Mark Okolowsky
Toronto Sun
Dec. 22, 2023
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/letters-to-the-editor-dec-22-2023/ar-AA1lS5og
Ukraine Is Bravely Fighting [Gary Varvel editorial cartoon letter]
Barbara Langmaid
Toronto Sun
Dec. 22, 2023
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/letters-to-the-editor-dec-22-2023/ar-AA1lS5og
Leo D. Sullivan, Pioneering Black Animator, Dies at 82
Mike Barnes
March 29, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/leo-sullivan-dead-animator-1235363671/
Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: 'It's Finally Happening'
Gene Maddaus
Dec 22, 2023
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/mickey-mouse-public-domain-disney-copyright-lawsuits-1235844322/
100 Years of Illustration and Design blog
2004-2016.
Paul Giambarba
https://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/
Paul Giambarba Obituary
Legacy Remembers from May 12 to May 14, 2023.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/paul-giambarba-obituary?id=51896247
Disparition de Jean-Claude Cassini
10 octobre 2023
Addio a Carlo Ambrosini, creatore di Napoleone e Jan Dix e di molte storie di Dylan Dog
Luca Raffaelli
La Repubblica 01 Novembre 2023
A requiem for Aquaman and the last gasp of the Snyderverse
A decade after Zack Snyder's Man Of Steel, we look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly from the grimdark era of DC films
Cindy White
AV Club December 24 2023
https://www.avclub.com/diablo-ivs-developers-talk-to-us-about-its-big-year-bi-1851041506
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Merry Christmas from Mike and ComicsDC!
from Puck Christmas 1896 / C.J. Taylor. Puck, v. 40, no. 1031, (1896 December 9), cover.
Courtesy of Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/item/2012648493/
NPR staffers illustrate their love for graphic novels off the 2023 Books We Love list
[thanks to regular contributor Rich P. for this]
NPR staffers illustrate their love for graphic novels off the 2023 Books We Love list
NPR staff suggest graphic novels and memoirs from our Books We Love list: "I Must Be Dreaming," "Mimosa," and "Artificial: A Love Story."
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