Sunday, February 25, 2024

Wendy MacNaughton in DC March 1-2

From her newsletter -

I am on my way to Washington DC today! If you're in the DC area (or want to head that way) I'll be drawing and speaking at the National Gallery of Art on March 1 and 2. Here are the deets:

  • Friday, March 1, 12pm-1pm: In conjunction with the National Gallery of Art exhibition Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, I'll give a talk on my work in conversation with Dorothea's work. I'll discuss our overlapping methodologies: how we each developed our artistic/journalistic practices, how we use our respective mediums to research, create visual stories, connect with people, and engage with social change, and some of the challenges inherent to our artistic/social practices as well. The talk is free, but registration is required. Sign up here. And bring your questions - we'll do Q&A for sure.

  • Saturday, March 2, 11am-3pm: I'll host DrawTogether Strangers inside the National Gallery! If you aren't familiar with this project, listen to the New York Times' audio piece, "A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times." Last week I trained 20 enthusiastic National Gallery staff members to co-host drawing tables, too, so there will be a bunch of us there to facilitate strangers (you! your family and friends! people you don't know!) drawing, looking and loving. There will also be a table to hang out and keep drawing beyond the Strangers experience, and a gallery wall to hang up your art. Yes, that's right, you get to hang your art in the National Gallery. PUT THAT ON YOUR ARTISTS RESUME! All ages welcome. Registration not required, but GUT peeps and DT kids, please come say hi and introduce yourself. COME DRAW! Interested in hosting a DrawTogether Strangers experience yourself?? Everything you need to set one up including the free toolkit is here!

Sean Damien Hill at Fantom Comics talking to Sarahti Gassmalla about his new Marvel and DC work

Today's Republican Party by Daniel Boris



This cartoon appeared originally on Politics Code Blue and was created in collaboration with PCB.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/23/2024

COMICSPRO: DC RETURNS TO WEDNESDAY FOR NEW COMIC BOOK DAY Beginning in July

 Johanna Draper Carlson on February 23, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56314/comicspro-dc-returns-wednesday-new-comic-book-day

 

Comic Shop Owners Applaud DC Comics Return To Wednesday On-Sale Date

DC Comics has told comic shop owners and employees that they will be moving back to comic books going on sale on Wednesdays.

Rich Johnston

 22 Feb 2024 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-shop-owners-applaud-dc-comics-return-to-wednesday-on-sale-date/

 

DC Comics Creates Its Own Version Of Marvel's Epic Line, DC Finest

DC Comics creates its own version of Marvel's Epic Line, DC Finest, a new way to collect classic character comics for new and old readers

by Rich Johnston

22 Feb 2024  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-creates-its-own-version-of-marvels-epic-line-dc-finest/

 

DC Comics Announces Schedule For New Elseworlds Imprint at ComicsPro

DC Comics announced the return of the Elseworlds imprint at New York Comic Con, last year. But we hadn't heard anything about them since.

by Rich Johnston

  22 Feb 2024
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-announces-schedule-for-new-elseworlds-imprint-at-comicspro/

 

Interview: Folio Society editorial head talks beautiful new book, DC: BATMAN

James Rose talks about the story selection and the design choices for a book spanning 85 years of Batman.

Zack Quaintance

02/23/2024 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-folio-society-editorial-head-talks-beautiful-new-book-dc-batman/

 

Manta Launches Digital French Language Comics Hub for Global Readers

Manta has expanded to a French language hub for French-speaking speakers in France, Canada and French-speaking countries.

  22 Feb 2024  

by Adi Tantimedh

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/manta-launches-digital-french-language-comics-hub-for-global-readers/

 

There Must Be More Than Batman & Spider-Man- Filip Sablik at ComicsPro

There must be more than Batman and Spider-Man, according to Boom Studios publisher Filip Sablik at ComicsPro Summit.

 22 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/there-must-be-more-than-batman-spider-man-filip-sablik-at-comicspro/

 

Image Comics Launch A New Retailer Award

The Image Select Retailer Award, announced for the ComicsPRO Summit, is intended to reward comic shops that go "above and beyond".

by Rich Johnston

 22 Feb 2024
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-launch-a-new-retailer-award-at-comicspro-summit/

 

Diamond Announces Flat Rate Shipping For Comic Book Stores

Today, for the ComicsPRO retailer summit, Diamond has announced a new flat rate for shipping within the USA served by UPS

by Rich Johnston

22 Feb 2024  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-announces-flat-rate-shipping-for-comic-book-stores/

 

ComicsPRO '24: DC goes back to Wednesdays, Diamond cuts shipping costs and more

Heidi MacDonald

02/23/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/comicspro-24-dc-goes-back-to-wednesdays-diamond-cuts-shipping-costs-and-more/

 

ComicsPRO '24: Coming to your LCS 'Marvel Must-Haves' free comics based on the MCU

A brilliant move to tie the movie fandom to comic books.

Christian Angeles

02/23/2024 
https://www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-must-have-comics-2024/

 

Neil Gaiman on the Collectibles He's Auctioning

Art by Moebius, a Christmas card by Gaiman and a Swamp Thing cover are among the items.

By George Gene Gustines

Feb. 23, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/arts/design/neil-gaiman-auction-collectibles.html

 

Madame Web: Studios Are Blaming Women Instead Of Themselves

According to studio insiders, women should be blamed for the box office and critical failure of Madame Web and not the studio for making a bad movie.

 19 Feb 2024 

by Kaitlyn Booth

https://bleedingcool.com/movies/madame-web-studios-are-blaming-women-instead-of-themselves/

 

Darko Macan & Igor Kordey's Marshal Bass in Ablaze May 2024 Solicits

Ablaze has issued its May 2024 solicits, including Marshal Bass, about the first Black Deputy US Marshal, by Darko Macan and Igor Kordey.

 22 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/darko-macan-igor-kordeys-marshal-bass-in-ablaze-may-2024-solicits/

 

David Malki !: Craft, Taste, & The Freedom To Make What You Like (Ep 38)

Isaac Bowen

Empowered Human Academy  Jul 27, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yKzXiZ2FnA

https://empoweredhumanacademy.com/38

 

Salon du Manga d'Épinay-sur-Seine, une 3e édition le 27 avril 2024

Jean-Laurent Truc

23 février 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/salon-du-manga-epinay-sur-seine-2024-288151.html

 

Retour en images - Salon du manga Epinay-sur-Seine 2022

Mairie d'Épinay-sur-Seine

  Apr 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKFe1PCeBEI

 

'Avatar: The Last Airbender': Been There, Saved That

Netflix's latest attempt to capture the magic of a beloved animated series has some strong performances but falls well short of the original.

By Maya Phillips

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 23, 2024, Section C, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Been There, Saved That, But Let's Try It Again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/arts/television/avatar-last-airbender-review-netflix.html

 

'Naruto' Movie in the Works with Destin Daniel Cretton Writing and Directing (Exclusive)

Lionsgate is behind the adaptation of one of the biggest mangas of all time.

Borys Kit

February 23, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/naruto-movie-in-the-works-1235833511/

 

'Stopmotion' Review: Her Dark Materials

A fraying animator becomes the victim of her own creations in this visually sophisticated horror movie.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 23, 2024, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Stopmotion

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/movies/stopmotion-review.html

 

Director Phoebe Jane Hart Talks about Her Buzzy Sundance Short, 'Bug Diner'

By Ramin Zahed

February 22, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/director-phoebe-jane-hart-talks-about-her-buzzy-sundance-short-bug-diner/

 

No More Supervillain Blues: DreamWorks' 'Megamind' Is Back with a New Movie & Series on Peacock

By Jeff Spry

February 22, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/no-more-supervillain-blues-dreamworks-megamind-is-back-with-a-new-movie-series-on-peacock/

This article was written for the April '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 339).

 

'Robot Dreams' Is Unconventional In Every Way, Including How It Was Storyboarded – Exclusive [Spain]

By Jamie Lang | 02/22/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/robot-dreams-is-unconventional-in-every-way-including-how-it-was-storyboarded-exclusive-238300.html

 

'Suzume,' 'Your Name' Producer Koichiro Ito Arrested For Soliciting Child Pornography

By Jamie Lang | 02/23/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/suzume-your-name-producer-koichiro-ito-arrested-for-soliciting-child-pornography-238364.html

 

'Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — To the Hashira Training' Review: Monster Mash-Up

The popular anime returns to the big screen in a somewhat lopsided feature presentation of two stand-alone episodes from the TV series.

By Calum Marsh

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 23, 2024, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — To the Hashira Training

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/movies/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-to-the-hashira-training-review.html

 

Producer of hit anime film 'Your Name.' arrested on child porn suspicions

February 22, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240222/p2a/00m/0na/023000c

 

Animation And The Shock Of War: Siblings Mariia And Rodion Shub Discuss Life, Art, And The Ukrainian Diaspora

By Jamie Lang | 02/22/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/animation-and-the-shock-of-war-siblings-mariia-and-rodion-shub-discuss-life-art-and-the-ukrainian-diaspora-238322.html

 

Cross-Border Conversation: Creating Animated Stories

Mariia Shub (production designer, artist, Ukraine, UK) Rodion Shub (animation director, producer, Ukraine, Canada) Tajha Winkle (animator, Jamaica) Connor Cook (composer, USA) Munzir Naqvi (writer, director, producer, India).

ScreenCraft Works  Oct 5, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flX9HhJQRQI

 

SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Strike Tentative TV Animation Deal

By Jamie Lang | 02/22/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/sag-aftra-amptp-reach-tentative-three-year-tv-animation-deal-238295.html

 

Grant Gustin shares what he misses most about The Flash

Mary Kate Carr

AV Club February 22 2024

https://www.avclub.com/grant-gustin-reveals-misses-most-about-the-flash-1851279637

 

Xmas in February – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | February 23, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/xmas-in-february-this-weeks-links/

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 606: Will Marvel and DC Team Up Again?

  Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons

on 02/19/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1297

 

GARY CLEMENT for K IS IN TROUBLE

Comix Experience

  Feb 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt2lEq2MVlY

 

Off Panel #437: You Do What You Do with Kazu Kibuishi

 David Harper

February 19 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel437-you-do-what-you-do-with-kazu-kibuishi

 

The ALEX ROSS Shoot Interview! His Best Conversation on the Record

Cartoonist Kayfabe

 Feb 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0v8F2xKwag

 

Hoshino Yukinobu

Manben: Behind the Scenes of Manga with Urasawa Naoki

Broadcast on January 13, 2024

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/5001407/

 

Defund Judge Dredd! And top tips for 2000 AD newbies

Steve Morris

2000 AD February 20 2024

https://soundcloud.com/2000-ad/defund-judge-dredd-and-top-tips-for-2000-ad-newbies

 

The first Black 'Peanuts' character finally gets his origin story in animated special

Barry Gordemer

February 19, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1231913808/the-first-black-peanuts-character-finally-gets-his-origin-story-in-animated-spec

 

Franklin, first Black character in 'Peanuts' strip has his own animated special

A MARTÍNEZ,

  Morning Edition February 16, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1231931428/franklin-first-black-character-in-peanuts-strip-has-his-own-animated-special
and https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1231931428

 

"We Want to Keep Giving Opportunities for Young People to Learn and Develop Skills" – mayamada's Nigel Twumasi on Comics Community and New Manga 'Against All Odds'

by Andy Oliver

February 16, 2024

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/mayamada-against-all-odds/

 

"Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…": An Exploration of the Unfulfilled 'Tales from the Quarantine' Kickstarter, Part 2 – TFTQ's Effect on Confidence in Crowdfunding Analysed

by Andy Oliver

February 20, 2024

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/tales-from-the-quarantne-backers/

 

It's the End of the World-- a look at Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys

It's weirdly prophetic to read 20th Century Boys in 2024, looking back on the last decade and wondering how we missed Urasawa's possible warning of all of this.

Scott Cederlund

From Cover to Cover Feb 20, 2024

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/20th-century-boys-by-naoki-urasawa/

 

ROSIE READS: Mayor Good Boy Turns Bad, 6 Quick Questions With Dave Scheidt

  Rosie Knight February 20, 2024

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/02/rosie-reads-mayor-good-boy-turns-bad-6-quick-questions-with-dave-scheidt/

 

Wolverine Turns 50. Here's Why 2024 Is Logan's Year

Scott King

Feb 17, 2024,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottking/2024/02/17/50-years-of-wolverine-why-2024-is-logans-year/

 

Tom Taylor talks about the Titans' future, inspirations, and threats on the horizon

Michael Guerrero

February 20, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/20/titans-issue-8-interview-24/

 

Dreaming big: Nicole Maines on amplifying queer voices in DC Comics

We chat with Nicole Maines about upcoming series 'Suicide Squad: Dream Team' and 'Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story' from DC Comics.

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

February 20, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/20/nicole-maines-dreamer-dc-comics-qa/

 

Woodard, Sean. 2024. Comics and the American West: An Interview with Dr. Christopher Conway. Global Insight: A Journal of Critical Human Science and Culture, 4. https://globalinsight.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/globalinsight/article/view/94 and https://doi.org/10.32855/globalinsight.2024.006


Dean Haspiel: Emmy & Ringo winning Cartoonist

Ramon Gil

 Feb 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6dKkidVA8

 

Words, Images, & Worlds: Andrea Molinari Returns!

Feb 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzP91PUaB1k

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Rich Woodall

Jason DeHart

Feb 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p1Ps1rSDxA

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Stefano Gaudiano (Part II)

Jason DeHart

Feb 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVb03M16vI

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Greg Smith

Jason DeHart

 Feb 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ARwKqwNmZA

 

Trying to Get Over My Fear of Self Promotion With My First Procreate Brush Set

Jamie Noguchi

Draw Jam

Feb 23, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9EAuGqNNOg

 

Finally Time2 With Howard Chaykin

wordballoon February 23 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nDqwRBK718

 

Man's Best With Pornsaak Picheteshote and Jesse Lonergan [PETS IN SPACE]

wordballoon February 22 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQGjK4jg3I

 

 

The Graphic Novel, "Black Justice: The Awakening," Sheds Light on the Concept of Privilege Using a Superhero Story

Dr. David Washington

23 Feb, 2024,

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-graphic-novel-black-justice-the-awakening-sheds-light-on-the-concept-of-privilege-using-a-superhero-story-302068952.html

 

When Lust Is a Lens to Understanding Ourselves: Two new graphic novels from Drawn & Quarterly tussle with self-knowledge and sexual identity. [Julie Delporte, Nino Bulling]

Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee February 23 2024

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/02/23/When-Lust-Is-Lens-Understanding-Ourselves/

 

Comic strip calling Trump 'evil' is disappointing [Clay Bennet letter]

Michael Hall

Cedar Rapids Gazette Feb. 23, 2024

https://www.thegazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/comic-strip-calling-trump-evil-is-disappointing/

 

The Garfield X Papa Don't Preach collection celebrates the iconic cartoon's 45th anniversary

The limited-edition collection comprises a 60s mod dress, jumpsuits, easy flowing skirts, and A-line dresses in vibrant prints

February 23, 2024

Priyadarshini Paitandy

https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/the-garfield-x-papa-dont-preach-collection-celebrates-the-iconic-cartoons-45th-anniversary/article67863350.ece

 

Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender Intro Is a Major Downgrade (With One Exception)

  By Alec Bojalad | February 23, 2024

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/netflixs-avatar-the-last-airbender-intro-is-a-major-downgrade-with-one-exception/

 

What to know about 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' (if you're confused by all the Avatars)

The live-action adaption of the cartoon phenomenon just premiered on Netflix. There's a sky bison!

By Olivia McCormack

February 22, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/02/22/avatar-last-airbender-netflix-explained/

 

Japanese Producer of Anime Hits 'Suzume,' 'Your Name' Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

Prominent anime industry figure Koichiro Ito stands accused of coercing a 15-year-old girl he met over social media into sending him nude selfies.

Partrick Brzeski

February 22, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/suzume-your-name-producer-arrested-child-pornography-charges-koichiro-ito-1235833536/

 

Kolkata witnesses a vibrant exhibition that celebrates the legacy of comics in Bengal

Poorna Banerjee

Times of India February 23 2024

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/107940719.cms

 

100 years of Bengali comics—100 years of history

An exhibition aims to gain old Bengali comics some new respect, but it seems like an uphill task as most contemporary artists prefer to work in English

By Sandip Roy

23.02.2024

https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/opinion/comics-in-bengal-exhibition-kolkata-111708610881821.html

 

"Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin" Namesake & Co-Writer Robb Armstrong on His Peanuts Immortality

By Leslie Combemale

The Credits February 22, 2024

https://www.motionpictures.org/2024/02/snoopy-presents-welcome-home-franklin-namesake-co-writer-robb-armstrong-on-his-peanuts-immortality/

 

In Conversation With Writer Neil Gaiman About His Upcoming Signature Auction at Heritage

Robert Wilonsky

Heritage Auctions

 Feb 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwCct125y7Y

 

Where Gots Got To

Two years on

William L Brown

Native Cpeaker Feb 23 2024

https://nativecpeaker.substack.com/p/where-gots-got-to

 

The Gannett 34 Comics Lineup – An Update: The Lockhorns Out, Sally Forth In

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/22/the-gannett-34-comics-lineup-an-update-the-lockhorns-out-sally-forth-in/

 

Comics Kingdom Relaunch Set For Feb. 28

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/23/comics-kingdom-relaunch-set-for-feb-28/

 

As 'Coyote vs. Acme' Hangs in the Balance, Warner Bros. Discovery Takes $115M Write-Down on Mystery Projects

The animated feature became the most talked about film in Hollywood for a moment in November, when Warners canceled the project, only to give it a temporary stay of execution.

Aaron Couch

February 23, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coyote-vs-acme-warner-bros-discovery-115m-write-down-mystery-projects-1235832120/


Eye on graphic novels: Four recently-published works showcase the changing themes in graphic novels [India]
The Hindu  February 23, 2024
 https://www.thehindu.com/books/four-new-graphic-novels-appupen-dream-machine-sarnath-banerjee-the-moral-contagion-joshy-benedict-the-pig-flip-we-the-citizens-khyati-pathak/article67873657.ece

Friday, February 23, 2024

NPR PCHH on Madame Web

Where Gots Got To by William L Brown

WaPo on ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ movie

What to know about 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' (if you're confused by all the Avatars)

The live-action adaption of the cartoon phenomenon just premiered on Netflix. There's a sky bison!

February 22, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/02/22/avatar-last-airbender-netflix-explained/

Herblock in History starts at Counterpoint

Herblock in History starts at Counterpoint with a cartoon every Friday from the massive archives of the Herblock Foundation.

...although I'm a little surprised they started off with a Ronald Reagan is out of touch cartoon from February 23, 1990.

March 14: Maurice Vellekoop - with Chip Kidd — at Union Market



Maurice Vellekoop — I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together - with Chip Kidd — at Union Market

Thursday, March 14, 7:00 pm
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Maurice Vellekoop Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780307908735
Availability: Coming Soon—Pre-Order Now
Published: Pantheon - February 27th, 2024

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a blue-collar suburb of Toronto. Despite their working-class milieu, the Vellekoops are devoted to art, music, and film, and they instill a deep reverence for the arts in young Maurice--except for literature. He'd much rather watch Cher and Carol Burnett on TV than read a book. He also loves playing with his girlfriends' Barbie dolls and helping his Mum in her hair salon, which she runs out of the basement of their house. In short, he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because the family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a strict Calvinist sect. They go to church twice on Sunday, and they send their kids to a private Christian school, catechism classes, and the Calvinist Cadet Corps. Needless to say, the church is intolerant of homosexuality. Though she loves her son deeply, Maurice's mother, Ann, cannot accept him, setting the course for a long estrangement.

Vellekoop struggles through all of this until he graduates from high school and is accepted into the Ontario College of Art in the early 1980s. Here he finds a welcoming community of bohemians, including a brilliant, flamboyantly gay professor who encourages him to come out. But just as he's dipping his toes into the waters of gay sex and love, a series of romantic disasters, followed by a violent attack, sets him back severely. And then the shadow of the AIDS era descends. Maurice reacts by retreating to the safety of childhood obsessions, and seeks to satisfy his emotional needs with film- and theatre-going, music, boozy self-medication, and prolific art-making. When these tactics inevitably fail, Vellekoop at last embarks on a journey towards his heart's true desire. In psychotherapy, the spiderweb of family, faith, guilt, sexuality, mental health, the intergenerational fallout of World War II, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, French Formula Hairspray, and much more at last begins to untangle. But it's going to be a long, messy, and occasionally hilarious process.

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together is an enthralling portrait of what it means to be true to yourself, to learn to forgive, and to be an artist.

Maurice Vellekoop was born in 1964 in a suburb of Toronto. A prolific artist and illustrator, he has worked non-stop for the last three decades. In addition to publications, his corporate clients include Swissair, Abercrombie & Fitch, Air Canada, Smart Car, LVMH, and Bush Irish Whiskey. He lives on Toronto Island with his partner Gordon Bowness.

Vellekoop will be in conversation with Chip Kidd, a writer and graphic designer in New York City. As Editor-At-Large for graphic novels at Pantheon books, he has published some of the world's best cartoonists, including Chris Ware, Charles Burns, David Mazzucchelli, Gengoroh Tagame, Michael Cho, Anita Kunz and Anders Nilsen. He has authored over a dozen books of his own, including the novels The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, and a Batman graphic novel called Death By Design. He is currently writing a graphic novel for Marvel.

This event is free with first come, first served seating.

1324 4th St NE
WashingtonDC 20002