Sunday, March 06, 2011
Google's Will Eisner tribute
Google's homepage logo today is a tribute to the great cartoonist, Will Eisner, on what would be his 94th birthday. Eisner was a guest at SPX and spoke at the Library of Congress at least once.
Thanks to Jeff R for the tip.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Katchor and Farmer reviewed in Post
By Dan Kois
Washington Post March 6, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030404735.html
That darn Mutts continued
Guard Dog takes a stand for abused animals
Washington Post March 5, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030405806.html
Regarding the Feb. 26 Free For All letter "It's a dog's life":
Hatke's Zita review with a lesson plan for school
Katie Monnin,
Diamond Bookshelf March 2011
http://www.diamondbookshelf.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=40&s=836&ai=106277&e=1
American Political Cartoons, 1754-2010 book
Friday, March 04, 2011
Comic Riffs on Rango
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 4 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/03/rango_bows_in_how_the_animated.html#more
Richard Thompson's popping up all over the place
You can see a poster he did for Arlington's Mardi Gras - St. Patrick's Day extravaganza.
Tom Richmond's drawn a caricature of him leading the pack to the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben awards.
We launched the Team Cul de Sac blog tonight to try to get more regular updates about this great project out to you.
Local cartoonist Mike Shapiro
Mike Shapiro just wrote in to let me know he's in the area:
I'm a magazine cartoonist (WSJ, Barron's, Nat. Law Journal, etc) that lives here in DC. I also do a weekly cartoon for the Post's Capital Business. I'm featured in the latest issue of Stay Tooned magazine (it's a small feature, but I'm in there).*
My site is: http://www.mikeshapirocartoons.com
My blog is: http://mikeshapirocartoons.blogspot.com
*#6, out now, with an interview of Mike by our friend David Paccia. And I'll be doing an interview with him for the Washington City Paper too.
Takoma Park librarian on Amy Ignatow's move from webcomics to prose
* By KAREN MACPHERSON, Scripps Howard News Service 03/02/2011
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/60043
Post review on Rango
March 4, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/rango,1158940/critic-review.html
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Mondello recommends Bambi
by Bob Mondello
National Public Radio's All Things Considered March 2, 2011
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/03/02/134176859/dvd-picks-bambi
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2011/03/20110302_atc_20.mp3
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=134176859
Comics return to the City Paper
- and we note that Ben Claassen is the cartoonist of Dirt Farm.
March 6: Feminist art leads to graphic novel at National Gallery of Art?
Jessica Roake
Express March 3 2011: E6
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/03/women-art-revolution-documentary.php
That it's taught at all is important. Believe it or not, there were no curriculum guides for this subject.
So you can go ask about it at:
March 5: Secret of Kells at Artisphere in Arlington
A little more on the Herblock Award, from two of the judges
Judging the Herblock award this year was really, really hard. There was too much good work in way too many inventive forms. It's good news for our readers ... but hard for judges. Different judges would have ended up with a different decision.
In the spirit of transparency, we'd like to lift the veil a little on the thinking that went into our judging this year. Think of this as a little WikiLeak of what happened on the path to awarding the 2011 Herblock Prize.
Before the judging, it was agreed that this year the finalist would also be recognized. We knew the job was to come up with two top cartoonists.
We had a great, broad sampling of political cartooning today: lots of traditional single-panel cartoons, plenty of stellar "altie" work, a number of great ventures into cartoon journalism and, of course, the animation submissions. We even had cartoons rendered with actual oil from the BP spill.
In the apples and oranges comparisons that are such a big part of the process, it was hard to measure the simple punchy genius of single panels by the likes of Pett and Britt against long-form docucomics that went beyond the headlines, like those submitted by Ohman, Wasserman and Varvel, or for that matter animated reporter's sketchbooks such as the engaging submission from Rex Babin.
Mike Thompson's finger on the pulse of Detroit crime and Bill Day's attention to child abuse were both powerful uses of our medium. For taking us where cartooning had not gone before, Ted Rall's enterprising trip to Afghanistan was particularly noteworthy. Pat Bagley's wonderful loose humor and engagement with his readers made him a contender. The "Alties," led by Bors and Sorensen, all made it to the semifinal pile, as did Ramirez, whose graphic punch and strong, clearly expressed political opinions kept him in the running right up to the end.
We all agreed that, to the best of our abilities, we'd not judge according to our political bent but solely on the quality and consistency of the cartooning found in the portfolios we were looking at.
Though Matt Davies had what we all agreed was the single best cartoon of the year, "WikiLeaks" (by the way, a non-animated black-and-white single panel), the quality and creativity of the Toles and Telnaes portfolios put them at the very top. Choosing between the two was excruciating and took a while, but in the end we felt the overall consistency of Toles's complete portfolio made him the winner, with Telnaes No. 2 by a hair ... or a .3 Micron line.
---- Signe Wilkinson and Matt Wuerker
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Donna Lewis interview on WBAL
Md. Woman Behind New 'Post' Comic.
Franciotti, Jennifer
WBAL March 1, 2011
http://www.wbaltv.com/video/27044999/detail.html
Washington Post readers may have noticed a new comic strip this week called Reply All that is written by a woman who grew up in the Baltimore area. Donna Lewis is an attorney with the Department of Homeland Security and tells 11 News all about what has inspired her to write it. To see her comic, go to ReplyAllComic.com.
Don Rosa's eye problems
Don Rosa and his eyesight
jeditrue Mar 1, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjuluT8W16k
Don Rosa tells us about how he sees objects. A big thank you to the Great Don Rosa for your time.
This video is from sparkingdesign.com and Chris Sparks
Daniel Boris and Hoxwinder Hall profiled by NBC
Local Cartoonist Draws on Inspiration
Sarah Pixley
NBC Washington March 2, 2011
http://www.nbcwashington.com/the-scene/events/Local-Cartoonist-Drawing-on-Inspiration-117193138.html
PR: Fábio Moon delivers ultra-rare variant cover for Dark Horse Presents #2!
Weldon on Peanuts
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog March 2, 2011
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/03/02/134176527/its-a-new-peanuts-comic-charlie-brown
Wash Post's Tom Toles Herblock Prize Winner 2011
According to Jennifer Lee of the Post, "Washington Post's Tom Toles is this year's winner of the Herblock Prize & Lecture for excellence in editorial cartooning: http://www.herbblockfoundation.org/herblock-prize-winner/737 "
Congratulations to Tom, and that's two Washington winners in a row, as Matt Wuerker took it last year.
Comic Riffs has additional details including noting that Ann Telnaes was a runner-up.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Nick Bertozzi fumetti
Truitt on Manapul and the Flash
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 1 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-03-01-FrancisManapul_N.htm
Comics-related photographs incidentally in the NY Times
Kevin Gentzel of Forbes says it benefits by selling its own ad space rather than delegating to third-party clearinghouses. and he's standing in front of what appears to be a wall of framed original comic strips and editorial cartoons. The clothing boutique Kitson sold twice as many books in 2010 as the year before. including the 75th anniversary DC Covers book.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Catching up with Comic Riffs
The 'Riffs Interview: 'FRAZZ' creator Jef Mallett on art, childhood -- and inspiration at the 10-year mark
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 27 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/the_riffs_inteview_frazz_creat.html
'ZUCKERBERG' writer likes 'Social Network's' Oscars chances tonight
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 27 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/mark_zuckerberg_comics_writer.html#more
THE 2011 OSCARS: Top 10 Quotes from the nominees for Best Animated Feature
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 27 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/the_2011_oscars_quoting_the_no.html
THE 2011 OSCARS: 10 Geeky Facts About the Academy Award winners & losers
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 28 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/the_2011_oscars_geeky_factoids.html
Live chat with Donna Lewis at Post right now (and an interview)
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 28 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/the_riffs_interview_post_syndi.html
Tom Arvis chat at City Paper
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Tom Arvis
Disney jazz reviewed in today's Express
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Gaithersburg painting exhibit described as 'graphic novel'
By Bora Mici
February 26, 2011
http://gaithersburg.patch.com/articles/a-portrait-of-the-artist-marcie-wolf-hubbard
Mici writes, "Mousetrapped," a 15-piece graphic novel about her seven-month-long effort to curb and permanently put an end to a mouse infestation in her 1923 SEARS home in Silver Spring, is currently on view at The Arts Barn in Gaithersburg.
If anyone goes to see this exhibit, I'd be interested in hearing from you.
Zadzooks on DC Universe Online videogame
Zadzooks: DC Universe Online review
Earth stands a chance in DC Universe
By Joseph Szadkowski
Washington Times February 22, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/22/zadzooks-dc-universe-online-review/
Wash Post obituary of interest for its photography
Note the family photograph of everyone reading the Sunday comics around 1955.
A Local Life: Alan L. Dean, 92, the 'Ideal Father'
Washington Post February 27, 2011http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/26/AR2011022603196.html
Tim Kreider on Ink Panthers show
Mike Dawson and Alex Ronbinson
The Ink Panthers Show February 22nd, 2011
http://www.mikedawsoncomics.com/the-ink-panthers-show-81-featuring-tim-kreider/
SPX tables sell out
Nick Bertozzi and Jason Little at Big Planet Comics
Big Planet Comics' Greg Bennett, Nick Bertozzi, Big Planet Comics' Joel Pollack and Jason Little.
Jason Little drawing Bee.
Nick Bertozzi looking for a spot to sign the Act-I-Vate anthology while Jason Little inks his Bee sketch.
More pictures are here.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Jef 'Frazz' Mallett interview in tomorrow's Post
by Michael Cavna
Washington Post February 27, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022406461.html
Dwayne McDuffie and Uncle Pai obits in today's Post
Dwayne McDuffie, comic books creator who championed diversity, dies at 49
By Michael Cavna
Saturday, February 26, 2011; B04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506815.html
Anant Pai, 81
'Uncle Pai' launched India's comics industry in 1960s
Associated Press
Washington Post February 26, 2011; B4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506814.html
That Darn Mutts!
It's a dog's life
Alice Lindsay, Chestertown, Md.
February 26, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506301.html
March 29: Trickster cartoonists at Busboys @ Poets
On March 29 I'll be at Busboys and Poets (14th and V in Washington, D.C., 6:30-8:30) discussing 'Trickster.' Joining me will be 'Trickster' contributing artists Michael Auger and Jacob Warrenfeltz, as well as Christopher Cardinale, illustrator of 'Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush,' who will be talking about that fantastic book.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Curls Studio video interview online
DieHardDerek
MMA, Wrestling and Gaming News February 25, 2011 /
http://slyparadox.org/2011/02/25/interview-with-curls-studio-at-ny-comic-con/
Front Royal's Ben Hatke interviewed
John Hogan
Graphic Novel Reporter (February 25 2011)
http://graphicnovelreporter.com/content/spacing-out-interview-ben-hatke-interview
Donna Lewis' Reply All starts in Post on Monday
Here's the interview I did with Donna last year. I'll be asking her another set of interview questions this coming week, but she'll be on the Washington Post's chat on Monday so you can ask your own questions.
March 11: Atlas comics exhibit opens at Geppi Museum
Scoop February 25 2011
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=265&ai=106118
Cartoon mascots - Mr. Peanut in Washington Examiner
THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Mr. Peanut
- Erica Redmond
- Washington Examiner (February 24 2011), p. 5: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/people/2011/02/3-minute-interview-mr-peanut
Oscar animated shorts reviewed in Express
Coming Up Short: This Year's Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts Are Lacking
By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express February 25, 2011, p. 31
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/02/the-reelist-coming-up-short.php
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Feb 25: JT Waldman exhibit opens in DC
From Politics and Prose's newsletter:
Friday, February 25, 1 p.m. (Exhibit opens)
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
JT WALDMAN
MEGILLAT ESTHER: The Book of Esther (Jewish Publication Society of America, $22)
JT Waldman turns The Book of Esther, with its twisting plot, into an illustrative masterpiece. The graphic novel is brought to life in an exhibit with interactive elements and an invitation for visitors to take part in the creative process. Waldman is a comic book illustrator and interaction designer. He is currently working on his next graphic novel, which he designed with the late Harvey Pekar. This exhibit will be on view from Monday through Friday, February 25 - April 29 during open tour hours from 1-2 p.m. Waldman will be speaking at 6th in the City Shabbat on March 11. Click here for information about attending this service. Click here for more information about the exhibit. Click here for a Google Preview of the book and its art.
Post blog on Dwayne McDuffie's death
By Lauren Wiseman
Washington Post's Post Mortem blog February 24 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/02/dwayne-mcduffle-comic-book-cre.html
'Henry and Glenn Forever' available at Big Planet Comics
"Henry & Glenn Forever" Art Show: How Did Rollins and Danzig React to the Gay Fantasy Comic?
By Lina Lecaro, Mon., Feb. 21 2011
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/02/feeling_the_love_at_the_henry.php
Feb 27: Disney Live: Mickey's Magic Show at Patriot Center
Comic Riffs on syndication merger
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 24, 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/big_news_united_media_to_outso.html