Thursday, November 18, 2010
Nov 19: Party Crashers comic art exhibit opens in Arlington
I wrote up some details of the Party Crashers comic art exhibit for the City Paper.
Smurfs, Human Target and Peanuts in local papers
Macy's has a 1/2 page Smurfs ad in the Post, the Examiner has a wire story on the return of the Human Target tv show which has now lasted longer than any of the comic books -
'Human Target' adds characters -- and character
Rob Owen / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Washington Examiner November 18, 2010 , p. 28
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lifestyle/tv/Fox_s-retooled-_Human-Target_-adds-characters----and-character-1596570-108725999.html
Rob Owen / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Washington Examiner November 18, 2010 , p. 28
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lifestyle/tv/Fox_s-retooled-_Human-Target_-adds-characters----and-character-1596570-108725999.html
- and the Peanuts gang is available again -
Holidays with Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection on Blu-Ray
by Express contributor Sarah Anne Hughes
November 18 2010, p. E8
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/11/peanuts-deluxe-holiday-collection-blu-ray-charles-schulz.php
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
1969 editorial cartoon still rings true
I've got some old newspapers that I'm clipping the comics out of to send to Michigan State University. Here's John Fischetti's December 6, 1969 cartoon from the Chicago Daily News:
and here it is with one word edited out to make it relevant 40 years later:
Some may argue that you don't need to alter it to make it relevant, but I don't think extending tax cuts for the rich is a 'reform.'
and here it is with one word edited out to make it relevant 40 years later:
Some may argue that you don't need to alter it to make it relevant, but I don't think extending tax cuts for the rich is a 'reform.'
Colleen Doran on piracy at local blog
I'm posting this because it's in a local publication although I don't remotely agree with her conclusion about copyright. Or about DC's Vertigo's financial problems either.
The "real" victims of online piracy
By Colleen Doran
The Hill's Congress Blog 11/17/10
In my opinion, the carriage makers that survived started making cars, not by continuing to make horse carriages. Technology's changed the world and no matter how Draconian you'd like to make copyright law, it isn't going to matter. As Rob Pegora says in the Post today, apropos of the Beatles and mp3s, "This is a point that often gets overlooked in entertainment circles: The market continues to function even if the logical and rightful supplier of a product refuses to participate. The ease of duplicating and transmitting digital data ensures that somebody else will fill that vacancy.You can mope about the massive copyright infringement that results from this dynamic, but the best way for artists to reverse it is to get into the market themselves."
That's what's happened with comic book publishers and digital comics. As I like to point out, if the current copyright law was retroactive from when it passed, the Spanish-American War would still be in copyright. Anyone remember that war? No. Because it happened in 1898. On the other hand, Disney, the chief financier of the law, wouldn't have been able to make any of their movies based on Grimm's fairy tales like Snow White or Cinderella because those original tales would have been in copyright when the films were made in the 1940s.
The "real" victims of online piracy
By Colleen Doran
The Hill's Congress Blog 11/17/10
In my opinion, the carriage makers that survived started making cars, not by continuing to make horse carriages. Technology's changed the world and no matter how Draconian you'd like to make copyright law, it isn't going to matter. As Rob Pegora says in the Post today, apropos of the Beatles and mp3s, "This is a point that often gets overlooked in entertainment circles: The market continues to function even if the logical and rightful supplier of a product refuses to participate. The ease of duplicating and transmitting digital data ensures that somebody else will fill that vacancy.You can mope about the massive copyright infringement that results from this dynamic, but the best way for artists to reverse it is to get into the market themselves."
That's what's happened with comic book publishers and digital comics. As I like to point out, if the current copyright law was retroactive from when it passed, the Spanish-American War would still be in copyright. Anyone remember that war? No. Because it happened in 1898. On the other hand, Disney, the chief financier of the law, wouldn't have been able to make any of their movies based on Grimm's fairy tales like Snow White or Cinderella because those original tales would have been in copyright when the films were made in the 1940s.
NPR's Weldon also has an opinion on 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali'
Float Like a Snagriff, Sting Like a Fish-Snake: 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali'
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (November 17, 2010)
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (November 17, 2010)
Tonight: Between the Panels panel - Free!
In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
http://www.wnba-books.org/wash/events.php#graphicnovelWednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC
Cost: FREE and open to the public!
The Women's National Book Association, DC Chapter will sponsor a panel discussion on the DC graphic novel scene. The panel for the event, to be held at Busboys & Poets , from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., will include Carolyn Belefski, Molly Lawless, Matt Dembicki, and Mike Rhode. The event is free and open to the public.
Carolyn Belefski is the mastermind behind the web comic Curls. She is also one of the creators of several other comic books: Kid Roxy, Black Magic Tales, and The Legettes, and an indefatigable (nightly) poster to her blog, Sketch Before Sleep. Her work has appeared in USA WEEKEND Magazine, The Commonwealth Times, Virginia Living Magazine, Magic Bullet, CROQ Zine, and The Pulse on COMICON.com. Ms. Belefski is a nominee for the Kim Yale Award for Most Talented Newcomer for 2010.
Matt Dembicki is a DC-based cartoonist whose work includes the award-winning nature parable Mr. Big, The Great White Shark Story, Xoc, and The Brewmaster's Castle, about legendary DC brewer Christian Heurich. His latest anthology, Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, has received rave reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and has been nominated as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. In addition to his own work, Dembicki also hosts kids' workshops in the DC area and beyond on making comic books.
Molly Lawless, a Boston native, moved to the DC area in 2005. She has self-published mini comics as well as a compilation, Infandum! Ad Infinitum. She is currently working on a full-length graphic novel for McFarland Publishing titled Hit by Pitch. She is an avid blogger and includes stories about her family in her daily posts.
Mike Rhode, panel moderator, is co-author of the comics research bibliography, editor of Exhibition and Media Reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art, and a contributing writer for Hogan's Alley. In 2008, he was named Best (Comics) Art Blogger by the Washington City Paper for his Comics DC blog. Rhode edited Harvey Pekar: Conversations, a book of interviews with the late underground comic book writer and author of American Splendor published by the University Press of Mississippi. He has written for the Comics Journal and was selected as an RFK Journalism Awards judge for the editorial cartoon division of Comics Journal in 2009 and 2010. Rhode currently writes about comics for the City Paper.
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Brad Meltzer geeks out
Brad Meltzer, the formerly local comics writer, forever outs himself in "Why ‘Superman vs Muhammad Ali’ is still the greatest"
My friend Comics Professor Hatfield justifies his life...
...on YouTube no less! "Interesting Classes CSUN English 333 Comics and Graphic Novels with Prof. Charles Hatfield" - I'd take that.
Charles used to be in DC every year with ICAF and we'd hang around - the above is me, Claire, Charles and Spanish comics scholar Ana Merino, in October 2005, post-ICAF, lounging in my backyard.
Tomorrow: In Between the Panels - free!
In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
http://www.wnba-books.org/wash/events.php#graphicnovelWednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC
Cost: FREE and open to the public!
The Women's National Book Association, DC Chapter will sponsor a panel discussion on the DC graphic novel scene. The panel for the event, to be held at Busboys & Poets , from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., will include Carolyn Belefski, Molly Lawless, Matt Dembicki, and Mike Rhode. The event is free and open to the public.
Carolyn Belefski is the mastermind behind the web comic Curls. She is also one of the creators of several other comic books: Kid Roxy, Black Magic Tales, and The Legettes, and an indefatigable (nightly) poster to her blog, Sketch Before Sleep. Her work has appeared in USA WEEKEND Magazine, The Commonwealth Times, Virginia Living Magazine, Magic Bullet, CROQ Zine, and The Pulse on COMICON.com. Ms. Belefski is a nominee for the Kim Yale Award for Most Talented Newcomer for 2010.
Matt Dembicki is a DC-based cartoonist whose work includes the award-winning nature parable Mr. Big, The Great White Shark Story, Xoc, and The Brewmaster's Castle, about legendary DC brewer Christian Heurich. His latest anthology, Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, has received rave reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and has been nominated as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. In addition to his own work, Dembicki also hosts kids' workshops in the DC area and beyond on making comic books.
Molly Lawless, a Boston native, moved to the DC area in 2005. She has self-published mini comics as well as a compilation, Infandum! Ad Infinitum. She is currently working on a full-length graphic novel for McFarland Publishing titled Hit by Pitch. She is an avid blogger and includes stories about her family in her daily posts.
Mike Rhode, panel moderator, is co-author of the comics research bibliography, editor of Exhibition and Media Reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art, and a contributing writer for Hogan's Alley. In 2008, he was named Best (Comics) Art Blogger by the Washington City Paper for his Comics DC blog. Rhode edited Harvey Pekar: Conversations, a book of interviews with the late underground comic book writer and author of American Splendor published by the University Press of Mississippi. He has written for the Comics Journal and was selected as an RFK Journalism Awards judge for the editorial cartoon division of Comics Journal in 2009 and 2010. Rhode currently writes about comics for the City Paper.
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Nov 19: Party Crashers exhibit opens in Arlington
COMIC CULTURE INVADES THE ART WORLD
NOV 19, 2010 – JAN 16, 2011
Rosaire Appel - Victor Kerlow
Rina Ayuyang - Blaise Larmee
Derik Badman - Andrei Molotiu
Gabrielle Bell - Robert Pruitt
Jeffrey Brown - Jim Rugg
Joshua Cotter - Dash Shaw
Warren Craghead III - Deb Sokolow
Anton Kannemeyer - Olav Westphalen
OPENING RECEPTION:
November 19, 7 – 9pm
THE SHOW:
PARTY CRASHERS mashes up comic art and contemporary gallery culture, and features artists who pass back and forth between the two worlds. This massive two venue show results from a crosstown collaboration between AAC Director of Exhibitions Jeffry Cudlin and Artisphere Gallery Director Cynthia Connolly. The show's two independent halves feature different types of work: Connolly's show presents fine artists who mimic the appearance of comic art; Cudlin's show at AAC contains:•
alternative comic artists who also show their original pages and drawings in art galleries•
fine and comic artists working side-by-side on a national curated project (Creative Time Comics)•
fine and comic artists creating avante-garde, purely abstract sequential art without words or recognizeable imageryTHE BACKGROUND:
In the late 1960s, Andy Warhol, Pop Art, and Fluxus caused a radical shift in what could be shown in galleries or museums—art went from being rarefied, academic and anti-literary to embracing narrative, mass media, and the stuff of everyday life.Yet the underground comics that began to emerge at that same time were arguably more transgressive and more influential on a subsequent generation of fine artists than any gallery or museum show.
Now MFA students are as likely to be influenced by comics as by art history. In addition, many comic artists also show their original drawings in galleries alongside contemporary painters, sculptors, and photographers.
THE ARTISTS:
Philadelphia artist Jim Rugg's Afrodisiac refers to '70s blaxploitation and mimics the look of aging pop artifacts—each page features simulated yellowing and tattered edges. Rugg uses comic tropes in unexpected ways: advancing a narrative through fragments, covers for nonexistent stories, or sketched, incomplete splash pages.London-born, NY-based
Gabrielle Bell is known for her confessional autobiographical mini-comic, Lucky, which documents her life as a struggling twenty-something artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her style is decidedly unironic and disarmingly direct. Chicago artist Deb Sokolow contributed to Creative Time Comics. In her art, viewers must follow directional arrows through tangles of drawings and diagrams that describing outlandish conspiracy theories concerning pop culture, politics, and the artist's own neighborhood.
Philadelphia's Derik Badman is a critic, librarian, and comic artist, who transforms found texts, images, and even other comics to acheive unexpected results.
Chicago artist Robert Pruitt, another Creative Time Comics participant, creates large afro-futurist drawings in which isolated black figures are shown wearing the trappings of superhero and science fiction culture—as well as references to avante-garde early 20th century European art.
New York artist Victor Kerlow not only creates surreal stories that bridge the gap between urban ennui and paranoid fantasy, but also observes his environment with a reporter's eye, making energetic line drawings of the city in which he lives and places to which he has traveled.
Portland, Oregon artist Blaise Larmee creates washed-out black-and-white worlds populated by childlike young adults. His current book, Young Lions, highlights the artist's fascination with 'zine culture, bohemian lifestyles, and Yoko Ono. (Larmee also designed and illustrated the PARTY CRASHERS catalogue.)
Charlottesville, VA artist Warren Craghead III creates drawings, collages, books, and mail art inspired by his everyday life experiences. Craghead's stories are free associative and decidedly nonlinear.
Capetown, South Africa-based artist Anton Kannemeyer (aka Joe Dog) creates potent, troubling drawings that explore the legacy of Western colonialism in his home country; the hypocrisy and racism hiding beneath the surface of white society; and the corruption of South Africa's political elite.
Chicago artist Jeffrey Brown draws gently humorous autobiographical pieces, exploring not only the author's experiences with fantasy and comic culture, but also his relationships with his own wife and son. Brown was also featured in the Creative Time Comics series.
New York artist Dash Shaw pairs a powerful, reductive drawing style with sprawling, convoluted narratives. His latest book, Body World, follows botanist Professor Panther's encounters with a strange new psychedelic drug that threatens to turn humanity into a single hive mind, open to alien influences.
New York artist Rosaire Appel creates books and sequential images with asemic writing—a wordless form of writing that often resembles pictograms or reflects the mechanical act of producing text.
Bloomington, Indiana-based artist and scholar Andrei Molotiu is the editor of the award-winning Abstract Comics anthology. Molotiu offers digital animations, abstract comic drawings, and a catalogue essay about the uneasy relationships between comics, literature, and contemporary art in the present tense.
Oakland, California based Rina Ayuyang's Whirlwind Wonderland follows the daily life of a Filipino American girl, navigating, in the artist's words: "sleepy suburban sprawls, empty diners, fantasy-filled commuter traffic jams, misplaced football fanaticism, ethnic identity crash courses, and just good ole family hi-jinx."
Chicago artist Joshua Cotter's latest book, Driven by Lemons, is a sprawling sketchbook packed with ideas, story fragments, and intricate abstract exercises, all struggling against the boundaries of the comic form.
Hamburg, born, New York based artist Olav Westphalen uses the conventions of comics and caricatures to challenge the traditional baggage of fine art, creating outsized (and outlandish) sculptures, drawings, and performances. Westphalen was also featured in the Creative Time Comics series.
Founded in 1974, the AAC is primarily dedicated to supporting new work by contemporary artists in the Mid-Atlantic region. Located in the historic Maury School building, 3550 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, it mounts five exhibitions of contemporary art per year, rents studio spaces, and conducts educational programs for students of all ages. Normal public hours are Wednesday through Friday from 1 pm to 7 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5pm. For more information, call 703.248.6800 or visit www.findyourartist.org
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Molly Lawless
Now up at the City Paper -
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Molly Lawless
"As far as comic artists, the first one I really got into was Dan Clowes. I saw his work and it really resonated—it has that perfect combo of rational realism and absurdity that I love."
'Tangled' wire story in today's Express
Disney's next animated movie 'Tangled' is the subject of a wire story in today's Express.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Groening interview on Baltimore exhibit
Matt Groening leaves his mark on Baltimore
'Simpsons' creator co-curates AVAM exhibit
by Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun November 14, 2010
'Simpsons' creator co-curates AVAM exhibit
by Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun November 14, 2010
Sarah Glidden and Scott Pilgrim reviews in today's papers
Sarah Glidden's graphic book memoir on Israel, reviewed by Lisa Bonos
Washington Post November 14, 2010
Zadzooks: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Predators; Scott Pilgrim's progress is absurdist fun
By Joseph Szadkowski
The Washington Times, November 14, 2010
Washington Post November 14, 2010
Zadzooks: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Predators; Scott Pilgrim's progress is absurdist fun
By Joseph Szadkowski
The Washington Times, November 14, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip launches
Washington continues to be an incubator for comics strips, and they're not coming from the University of Maryland's Diamondback (Liberty Meadows, Boondocks, Watch Your Head) all the time now.
Local cartoonist Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip will launch soon from the Washington Post Writer's Group. The strip is described as "Reply All is about those moments in today's information-overloaded environment when you forget your adult-self and toss the megaphone to your fifth-grade inner child. The strip explores the value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one's self-perception." It launches on February 28. Donna recently told me that she's reworking her earlier webcomics because she thinks her art has improved.
Congratulations, Donna! My interview with her quoted in the PR is here.
Local cartoonist Donna Lewis' Reply All comic strip will launch soon from the Washington Post Writer's Group. The strip is described as "Reply All is about those moments in today's information-overloaded environment when you forget your adult-self and toss the megaphone to your fifth-grade inner child. The strip explores the value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one's self-perception." It launches on February 28. Donna recently told me that she's reworking her earlier webcomics because she thinks her art has improved.
Congratulations, Donna! My interview with her quoted in the PR is here.
New Trickster review online (again)
Graphic Youth: Trickster by Rich Kreiner, TCJ.com November 12th, 2010
Richard Thompson interview
There's a Richard Thompson interview embedded in this press release -
Web and Mobile Content Platform also Acquires First-Run Rights to Previously Unpublished Interviews with Today's Most Renowned Animators
NEW YORK & LONDON, November 11, 2010 | SHOOT Publicity Wire
which leads you to 'Gifted but not talented' and 'Frankenstein Monsters' and 'Cross-hatching' and 'Venn Diagrams' and 'High Point of Invention' and 'Meet the Otterloops' as well as a bunch of adaptations of Cul de Sac strips.
Web and Mobile Content Platform also Acquires First-Run Rights to Previously Unpublished Interviews with Today's Most Renowned Animators
NEW YORK & LONDON, November 11, 2010 | SHOOT Publicity Wire
which leads you to 'Gifted but not talented' and 'Frankenstein Monsters' and 'Cross-hatching' and 'Venn Diagrams' and 'High Point of Invention' and 'Meet the Otterloops' as well as a bunch of adaptations of Cul de Sac strips.
Groening and Panter curate exhibit in Baltimore
Matt Groening and Gary Panter worked on an exhibit for Baltimore's Visionary Art Museum-
By Robert DiGiacomo
Washington Post November 12, 2010; T25
Washington Post November 12, 2010; T25
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Pekar on NPR
There won't be new interviews with Harvey to print out and put in your copy of Harvey Pekar: Conversations, but here's another NPR piece on him.
Conan, Neal. 2010.
Harvey Pekar: Chronicler Of America's Everyman.
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation (November 10)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131220021&ft=1&f=1008
http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/totn/2010/11/20101110_totn_02.mp3?dl=1
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=131220021
Conan, Neal. 2010.
Harvey Pekar: Chronicler Of America's Everyman.
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation (November 10)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131220021&ft=1&f=1008
http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/totn/2010/11/20101110_totn_02.mp3?dl=1
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=131220021
LaSalle's Legacy, local webcomic
Jennifer Z Smith wrote in to tell me about her webcomic - "It's a manga-inspired fantasy graphic novel entitled "LaSalle's Legacy"
I've only just started looking at it, but the strip looks like fun with nice clean art. Check it out.
(http://lasalleslegacy.com) and has been online for a year and a half."
Art Sites:
http://lasalleslegacy.com
http://zyrenskistudios.com
http://bukittyan.deviantart.com/
Art Sites:
http://lasalleslegacy.com
http://zyrenskistudios.com
http://bukittyan.deviantart.com/
I've only just started looking at it, but the strip looks like fun with nice clean art. Check it out.
Comic Riffs on latest editorial cartoon layoffs
Pink-slipping the Pulitzer: Editorial cartoonists are cut in Election Day's wake
By Michael Cavna
Comic Riffs November 11 2010
Matt Davies and Marshall Ramsey - Davies won the Herblock award a couple of years ago.
By Michael Cavna
Comic Riffs November 11 2010
Matt Davies and Marshall Ramsey - Davies won the Herblock award a couple of years ago.
TONIGHT: Meet a Local Cartoonist - Nick Galifianakis
You can meet him tonight in Falls Church and you can read an interview beforehand -
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Nick Galifianakis
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Cohen and Dembicki visit site of their graphic story
Matt Dembicki and Andrew Cohen got invited to the Heurich Mansion's annual gala due to their comic book The Brewmaster's Castle and Matt's got the story on his blog.
Guarnaccia in the Post
Not the Picasso painting, but humorous illustrator Steve Guarnaccia is in the Post's Food section today. He's one of the greats that we don't see as often in Washington publications.
PR: Beyond Comics 5 DAY SALE!
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TCJ.com reviewer uses my Wertham City Paper article
It's always nice to see that one's writing hasn't completely gone into the void.
The Horror! The Horror!
Posted by Kent Worcester on November 9th, 2010
Kent reviews the latest coffee table slab from Abrams ComicArts.Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Rosenberg on Robinson auction
Scott A. Rosenberg, former DC-area reporter on comics, has a New York story - on Jerry Robinson's art auction
Comic art auction could break records
AMNY Urbanite blog November 9 2010
Comic art auction could break records
AMNY Urbanite blog November 9 2010
Post on Walking Dead tv
'Walking Dead,' alive with ratings and spin
By Lisa de Moraes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2010; C05
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Nick Galifianakis
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Nick Galifianakis
Monday, November 08, 2010
That darn Toles! (continued)
This time a blog called the Oregon Catalyst doesn't like Tom Toles' cartoon.
Death of USNWR lets Spurgeon dig up Richard Thompson's comics history
Tom Spurgeon looks at the end of US News & World Report through a peculiarly comics lens - he gets Richard Thompson to comment on his time working for them -
USN&WR Ending Its Print Iteration.
Comics Reporter (November 8 2010).
If you're not reading The Comics Reporter, you should be. It's one of three comics blogs I read every day.
USN&WR Ending Its Print Iteration.
Comics Reporter (November 8 2010).
If you're not reading The Comics Reporter, you should be. It's one of three comics blogs I read every day.
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Jamie Noguchi
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Jamie Noguchi
by Mike Rhode on Nov. 8, 2010
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/11/08/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-jamie-noguchi/
Nov 17: In Between the Panels reminder
Now with pictures!
In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
http://www.wnba-books.org/wash/events.php#graphicnovelWednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC
Cost: FREE and open to the public!
The Women's National Book Association, DC Chapter will sponsor a panel discussion on the DC graphic novel scene. The panel for the event, to be held at Busboys & Poets 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., will include Carolyn Belefski, Molly Lawless, Matt Dembicki, and Mike Rhode. The event is free and open to the public.
Carolyn Belefski is the mastermind behind the web comic Curls. She is also one of the creators of several other comic books: Kid Roxy, Black Magic Tales, and The Legettes, and an indefatigable (nightly) poster to her blog, Sketch Before Sleep. Her work has appeared in USA WEEKEND Magazine, The Commonwealth Times, Virginia Living Magazine, Magic Bullet, CROQ Zine, and The Pulse on COMICON.com. Ms. Belefski is a nominee for the Kim Yale Award for Most Talented Newcomer for 2010.
Matt Dembicki is a DC-based cartoonist whose work includes the award-winning nature parable Mr. Big, The Great White Shark Story, Xoc, and The Brewmaster's Castle, about legendary DC brewer Christian Heurich. His latest anthology, Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, has received rave reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and has been nominated as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. In addition to his own work, Dembicki also hosts kids' workshops in the DC area and beyond on making comic books.
Molly Lawless, a Boston native, moved to the DC area in 2005. She has self-published mini comics as well as a compilation, Infandum! Ad Infinitum. She is currently working on a full-length graphic novel for McFarland Publishing titled Hit by Pitch. She is an avid blogger and includes stories about her family in her daily posts.
Mike Rhode, panel moderator, is co-author of the comics research bibliography, editor of Exhibition and Media Reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art, and a contributing writer for Hogan's Alley. In 2008, he was named Best (Comics) Art Blogger by the Washington City Paper for his Comics DC blog. Rhode edited Harvey Pekar: Conversations, a book of interviews with the late underground comic book writer and author of American Splendor published by the University Press of Mississippi. He has written for the Comics Journal and was selected as an RFK Journalism Awards judge for the editorial cartoon division of Comics Journal in 2009 and 2010. Rhode currently writes about comics for the City Paper.
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Nov 9 and 11th: Nick Galifianakis signs his new book
Nick writes in,
Though the book doesn't officially come out until November 23, advance copies will be available at my book signing on November 11, Thursday, 7 pm at the Falls Church Art Space. The link is below:
http://www.fallschurcharts.org/
For those of you that happen to be traipsing around DC two night
before, I'll be at the National press Club Book Fair:
http://press.org/bookfair
Though the book doesn't officially come out until November 23, advance copies will be available at my book signing on November 11, Thursday, 7 pm at the Falls Church Art Space. The link is below:
http://www.fallschurcharts.org/
For those of you that happen to be traipsing around DC two night
before, I'll be at the National press Club Book Fair:
http://press.org/bookfair
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Richard Thompson on Barney Google
Here's the introduction to the Barney Google reprint book that Richard Thompson did.
http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2010/11/barney-google-and-aesthetics-of-bigfoot.html
http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2010/11/barney-google-and-aesthetics-of-bigfoot.html
Truitt on She-Hulk, Incognito
'She-Hulks': It ain't easy being a green goddess
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY 10/21/2010
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-10-21-She-Hulks_N.htm
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY 10/21/2010
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-10-21-She-Hulks_N.htm
'Incognito' powered by pulp ethos
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY November 6 2010
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-11-06-incognito_N.htm
Friday, November 05, 2010
How Ann Telnaes does it (modern edition)
Ann Telnaes: From sketch to animation
November 4 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/11/04/VI2010110405529.html
November 4 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/11/04/VI2010110405529.html
Barney and Clyde channels Doonesbury
The Weingartens and Clark strip Barney and Clyde is channeling 1971 Doonesbury yesterday and today. That's Marvelous Mark Slackmeyer before he became an NPR host. Gene W, a friend of Trudeau's, is undoubtedly paying tribute to the 40th anniversary celebration of the strip - which is still one of the absolute best running.
Post on Megamind and My Dog Tulip
Mwahahaha: Plenty of laughs, evil or otherwise
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 5, 2010
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 5, 2010
It's a fetching story. So sit, stay
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 5, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/my-dog-tulip,1168130/critic-review.html
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 5, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/my-dog-tulip,1168130/critic-review.html
Express compares Megamind to Paradise Lost
Now this is my kind of film reviewer -
Mega-Milton: 'Megamind,' In Theaters
By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express November 5, 2010
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/11/megamind-review.php
By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express November 5, 2010
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/11/megamind-review.php
Thursday, November 04, 2010
New website links for local creators
As I'm getting ready for some new City Paper interviews, here's some links to local creators sites.
Molly Lawless' Hooray For Mollywood blog: http://tyrnyx.wordpress.com/ Come meet Molly at Busboys and Poets on November 17th.
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones' Toon Talk blog: http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/toontalk/
Cartoonist Jamie Noguchi's Yellow Peril comic strip at http://ypcomic.com and blog at http://angryzenmaster.com
Molly Lawless' Hooray For Mollywood blog: http://tyrnyx.wordpress.com/ Come meet Molly at Busboys and Poets on November 17th.
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones' Toon Talk blog: http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/toontalk/
Cartoonist Jamie Noguchi's Yellow Peril comic strip at http://ypcomic.com and blog at http://angryzenmaster.com
Truitt on Batman, Inc.
'Batman and Robin' brings a 'game-changer' for Bruce Wayne
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY November 3 2010
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY November 3 2010
Intervention con putting panel videos online
Panel Video: We Are The Intervention
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/21/panel-video-we-are-the-intervention/
As part of our ongoing effort to place our panel content from the 2010 Intervention event online you can now view the following panel entitled "We Are The Intervention" which was hosted by Harknell and Onezumi, the Co-con chairs for the 2010 event.
Description: Why did Intervention happen? What motivated Harknell and Onezumi to create and get this con going? Come talk to the Co-Con Chairs of Intervention and find out directly from the founders the whats and whys of the con, and where it's going in the future.
Panelists: Harknell, Onezumi
Intervention Panel Video: Duel In The Somme Launch Event
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/23/intervention-panel-video-duel-in-the-somme-launch-event/
This video is of the Panel "A Duel in the Somme: Official Launch" which happened at Intervention 2010.
A Duel in the Somme is a 24-page standalone comic book co-written by Rob Balder (Erfworld, PartiallyClips) and Ben Bova (six-time Hugo winning SF author and editor), and illustrated by Bill Holbrook (Kevin & Kell, Safe Havens, On the Fastrack). The worldwide debut of the printed book happens here! Rob and Bill will be present to talk about the story behind the project, sign copies and answer questions.
Intervention Panel Video: Cell Shading And Other Advanced Photoshop Techniques
http://interventioncon.com/2010/11/01/intervention-panel-video-cell-shading-and-other-advanced-photoshop-techniques/
The next Intervention 2010 panel video we have available for view is "Cel Shading And Other Advanced Photoshop Techniques".
Description: Hawk, the artist for the comic Applegeeks, will be demonstrating some of the techniques he uses in Photoshop to create his comic and other digital output. Cel shading and comic composition are two of the major areas covered in this panel.
Panelists: Hawk
Intervention Panel Video: Digital Versus Traditional Art
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/27/intervention-panel-video-digital-versus-traditional-art/
The following panel occurred at Intervention 2010 and was entitled "Digital Vs. Traditional: The Pros And Cons Of Each"
Description: Some artists love digital. Some artists love pen and ink. Digital art gives you more flexibility, but traditional gives you the ability to sell originals at conventions. Come and listen to a FRIENDLY discussion about the pros and cons of each.
Panelists: Chris Flick, Ben McCormick, Ryan Thompson, Danny Valentini
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/21/panel-video-we-are-the-intervention/
As part of our ongoing effort to place our panel content from the 2010 Intervention event online you can now view the following panel entitled "We Are The Intervention" which was hosted by Harknell and Onezumi, the Co-con chairs for the 2010 event.
Description: Why did Intervention happen? What motivated Harknell and Onezumi to create and get this con going? Come talk to the Co-Con Chairs of Intervention and find out directly from the founders the whats and whys of the con, and where it's going in the future.
Panelists: Harknell, Onezumi
Intervention Panel Video: Duel In The Somme Launch Event
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/23/intervention-panel-video-duel-in-the-somme-launch-event/
This video is of the Panel "A Duel in the Somme: Official Launch" which happened at Intervention 2010.
A Duel in the Somme is a 24-page standalone comic book co-written by Rob Balder (Erfworld, PartiallyClips) and Ben Bova (six-time Hugo winning SF author and editor), and illustrated by Bill Holbrook (Kevin & Kell, Safe Havens, On the Fastrack). The worldwide debut of the printed book happens here! Rob and Bill will be present to talk about the story behind the project, sign copies and answer questions.
Intervention Panel Video: Cell Shading And Other Advanced Photoshop Techniques
http://interventioncon.com/2010/11/01/intervention-panel-video-cell-shading-and-other-advanced-photoshop-techniques/
The next Intervention 2010 panel video we have available for view is "Cel Shading And Other Advanced Photoshop Techniques".
Description: Hawk, the artist for the comic Applegeeks, will be demonstrating some of the techniques he uses in Photoshop to create his comic and other digital output. Cel shading and comic composition are two of the major areas covered in this panel.
Panelists: Hawk
Intervention Panel Video: Digital Versus Traditional Art
http://interventioncon.com/2010/10/27/intervention-panel-video-digital-versus-traditional-art/
The following panel occurred at Intervention 2010 and was entitled "Digital Vs. Traditional: The Pros And Cons Of Each"
Description: Some artists love digital. Some artists love pen and ink. Digital art gives you more flexibility, but traditional gives you the ability to sell originals at conventions. Come and listen to a FRIENDLY discussion about the pros and cons of each.
Panelists: Chris Flick, Ben McCormick, Ryan Thompson, Danny Valentini
Gutterbrawl - a new blog on the comics industry from the small press POV
Matt Rhodes (no relation) (also see my City Paper interview) just shot me the following note about a new blog he's started -
Gutterbrawl.org was created by Adam Knave and R.M. Rhodes as a place to discuss the state of the comics industry (especially the so-called Indirect Market of independant comics creators). After several weeks of laying out the issues, we've turned the corner and are making the suggestion that we, the Indirect Market, should create a common marketing platform. This week's post makes the case for what form that platform should take, but it will only work if we can get a large number of people talking about it and - ultimately - participating.
http://www.gutterbrawl.org/?p=19
We welcome thoughts and opinions about this topic and hope to start the conversation.
Class of '63
Oceanus Procellarum Book Two
the new webcomic
by R. M. Rhodes
http://oletheros.com
Gutterbrawl.org was created by Adam Knave and R.M. Rhodes as a place to discuss the state of the comics industry (especially the so-called Indirect Market of independant comics creators). After several weeks of laying out the issues, we've turned the corner and are making the suggestion that we, the Indirect Market, should create a common marketing platform. This week's post makes the case for what form that platform should take, but it will only work if we can get a large number of people talking about it and - ultimately - participating.
http://www.gutterbrawl.org/?p=19
We welcome thoughts and opinions about this topic and hope to start the conversation.
Class of '63
Oceanus Procellarum Book Two
the new webcomic
by R. M. Rhodes
http://oletheros.com
Weldon on Lynd Ward
Lynd Ward's 'Woodcuts' Tell Novels Without Words by Glen Weldon, National Public Radio's Books We Like (November 1, 2010)
And in other NPR reviews, I liked these stories a lot as they appeared on the NY Times website:
In Hard Times, The Tenacious 'Pursuit Of Happiness' by Heller McAlpin
National Public Radio's Books We Like (November 2):
And The Pursuit Of Happiness
By Maira Kalman
Hardcover, 480 pages
Penguin Press HC
List price: $29.95
And in other NPR reviews, I liked these stories a lot as they appeared on the NY Times website:
In Hard Times, The Tenacious 'Pursuit Of Happiness' by Heller McAlpin
National Public Radio's Books We Like (November 2):
And The Pursuit Of Happiness
By Maira Kalman
Hardcover, 480 pages
Penguin Press HC
List price: $29.95
Nate Beeler on Fox News
We still like him anyway. In fact, he's the reason I pick up the Examiner every day.
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