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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
I've got a new article out on cancer and comics
Rhode, M and JTH Connor. "Graphic Tales of Cancer,"International Journal of Comic Art 14:1 (Spring 2012): 112-156.
Coincidentally, Atrium #10 has some relevant articles not cited in mine of course.
Our local Batman has a new Batmobile
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post (July 25 2012)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/rt-29-batman-with-new-batmobile-vows-to-continue-mission-after-massacre/2012/07/24/gJQAy2aW6W_blog.html
July 27-28: Beyond Comics Heroclix Tournament in Gaithersburg
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Beyond Comics | Gaithersburg Square | 18749 B North Frederick Rd | Gaithersburg | MD | 20879 |
Washington writer Daniel Snyder on superhero movies
What's Next for Superhero Movies?
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
'Xoc' signing /Magic Bullet 5 debut, this Sat.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Weldon on Batman and viole
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (July 20, 2012)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/07/20/157115707/catharsis-in-a-cape-on-comic-book-heroes-and-real-world-violence
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - July 20, 2012
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July 25 - Animezing: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Embassy of Japan | 1150 18th St., NW | Suite 100 | Washington | DC | 20036 |
Friday, July 20, 2012
Reason on Clowes
The world of high art celebrates pioneering comics creator Daniel Clowes.
Greg Beato | July 19, 2012
http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/19/turning-comic-books-into-art
(the magazine is based around Dupont Circle)
Wash Examiner on Batman movie
From the French Revolution to Occupy Wall Street: 'Dark Knight Rises' tackles collapse of civilization
Kelly Jane Torrance
The Washington Examiner July 18, 2012
Can a 'Dark Knight' rise to save us from ourselves?
Kelly Jane Torrance
The Washington Examiner July 19, 2012
http://washingtonexaminer.com/can-a-dark-knight-rise-to-save-us-from-ourselves/article/2502632
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Politics and Prose launches anthology; calls for comics
Announcing District Lines
Politics & Prose is excited to announce the launch of its P&P imprint, starting with an anthology of original, local work to be called District Lines. The anthology is intended to capture a sense of people and place in DC and the surrounding metropolitan area.
We are now soliciting submissions—poems, essays, short stories, coherent musings and ramblings, scribbles, comics, or graphics—that describe a particular DC metropolitan neighborhood. Work must be original and previously unpublished. Prose should be under 3,000 words. Graphics must be in a PDF file that can be reproduced in black and white.
The deadline for submissions is September 22, 2012. All entries must be accompanied by a $10 entry fee, which will allow us to give each author of a submission that is selected for publication a free copy of the anthology. We hope to hold an event at the store once the anthology is published and will ask selected contributors to join us for an open reading.
Please submit entries in a word document, double-spaced, using Times New Roman, 12-point font. For graphics or art please submit work in a PDF file.
To submit work please visit http://politicsprose.submittable.com/submit.
City Paper doesn't like Addams Family play either
By Trey Graham Washington City Paper July 20, 2012
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42975/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson-and-the-addams-family-reviewed-at/
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Comics lead to air conditioning
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Flegennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Based On A True Story"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1132
No, really, it is, at least parts of it.
I was on my way downstairs for a sandwish one late morning last week or so, and I passed by the bedroom, where the DW is catching up on some impresario chores on her laptop while the satellite box is nailed down to MSNBC. As aiways, I stop for a minute or two just to check out what they're emitting, and it's some woman who looked as if she were made entirely of plastic babbling an item about Hill leadership's reaction to the discovery that the US Olympic Team's uniforms had been made in China. Faster than you could say "eight percent unemployment", Harry Reid and John Boehner had crapped their drawers loudly while blurting out carefully crafted Tourette's episodes on the subject of the export of US jobs to China. After offering up this news, the anchorbabe said -- for real, I shit you not -- "At last, something that Democrats and Republicans can agree on."
"...along with war, torture, censorship, warrantless surveillance, assassinations, detention without trial..." the anchorbabe neglected to add.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
PR: Gordon Harris's new graphic novel Pedestrian
Monday, July 2, 2012
Gordon Harris, AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR
"PEDESTRIAN"
An Original Full-Color Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel WITHOUT Zombies or Vampires
Ray, the pedestrian, wanders the post-apocalyptic suburbs and discovers a mysterious package, an elaborate tree house, and carrier pigeons. He meets Tamaya, a self-acclaimed, closet-conspiracy theorist who lives in the tree-house, and they soon embark on a search for the origins to a mysterious map carried by...er, one of the carrier pigeons.
About the author
Gordon Harris lives in Annandale, Virginia with his wife Judy, twin daughters Violet and Silver, and three gerbils whose names escape him. He graduated from Parsons School of Design but his day job is NOT writing, drawing and painting graphic novels. He's always had a desire to, but it seemed like a lot of work, so instead his day job consists of watching TV shows like Curious George or Wild Kratts and writing promos for them - among other tasks.
Notes about PEDESTRIAN from Ray, the pedestrian
Gordon Harris doesn't like to look back. He usually dismisses regrets within a few thoughts. It's just not good for the soul. However, he admits to one sole regret that would prove difficult for anyone to redeem, which is; "that I will not be around for the apocalypse." Morbid? Not so much - considering the current landscape of the undead and living dead that's infected our pop-culture. At the age of seven (that's not a typo), one of Gordon's daughters posed the quintessential question, "What's the difference between the undead and the living dead?"
If your tastes for entertainment don't always include fresh brains and/or blood, this beautifully drawn, full-color, 54-page graphic novel is a fresh approach to the postapocalyptic theme. The world and its inhabitants haven't gotten off easy in PEDESTRIAN but like it says above, there are no zombies or vampires around.
I'm not so much alone in the world, I'm just searching for that elusive garment bag. My bellhop attire seems to suit me, and harkens back to simpler days of spare change and another bellhop named Ace Face. As luck would have it, I eventually discover a mysterious package.
Tamaya is nearly as curious a character as the tree house she lives in. She collects miscellaneous, odd objects and displays them in small, zip-lock bags adorning the walls of her tree house. My introduction to her comes by way of the mysterious package and a persistent pigeon.
Map in hand, Tamaya and I eventually journey to the countryside and beyond, in search of the maps origin, and anything else for that matter.
-Ray