Friday, October 12, 2012
Keeping up with Cyborg Richard Thompson's treatment part 4
Richard is doing well enough to be released from the recovery room but there isn't a room available for him yet in the neuro ICU.
His vitals are all good (although he keeps setting off the low-heart-rate alarm because he has the resting heartrate of a hibernating whale). He's hungry but they haven't signed off on him having solids yet. Ginger ale is the only treat.
He currently looks like a Buddhist monk.
Meanwhile, Amy Thompson says:
Richard is awake and looks a little bit like a very skinny Dalai Lama. One of the first things he told me (other than it was the weirdest thing he'd ever been through) was that the neurosurgeon told him he had a very active thalamus. We think that's a good thing.
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - 12 October 2012
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Meet Two Local Cartoonists: Barb Fischer and Chris Impink of Studio Unseen
Barb Fischer and Chris Impink are webcomics creators who have worked on two long-running webcomics strips. On their Studio Unseen website, they describe their respective roles: "Barb Fischer does the writing as well as merchandise assembly and convention spotting; when not plotting out the nuts and bolts of Sledgebunny, she takes care of her nine-year-old son which gives her just enough time in the day to take one or two breaths before plunging back into the fray. At some point, she’s hoping to find the time to use up the boxes and boxes of fabric she owns. Chris Impink does the artwork and web design; he has been featured in Antarctic Press and did much of the graphic work forThe Babylon Project role-playing game. Additionally, his work has been featured at various conventions such as Katsucon, Technicon, and Rising Star. He is also mildly notorious for co-founding Katsucon, though his team of spin doctors has kept that under wraps for many years. In his rare moments of free time, Chris works with the crew from Super Art Fight, running the Wheel of Death and notching up wins on the championship belt." I met them at Intervention con this year and they agreed to answer my usual questions.
ComicsDC: What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
ComicsDC: What is your training and/or education in cartooning?
Chris: While I have a degree in graphic design, my training in cartooning is largely self-taught.
ComicsDC: Who are your influences?
Barb: Monty Python, Terry Pratchett, the Marx Brothers, and Joss Whedon.
Barb: We'd be a bit more aggressive in marketing ourselves; we tend to be a bit quiet.
ComicsDC: What work are you best-known for?
Chris: To revisit "The Vince Posthumous Files", which was a story-within-a-story in our last comic.
ComicsDC: What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?
Chris: Content delivery is being changed so much by tablets and smartphones that it's difficult to predict, but clearly comics will drift further away from traditional forms.
ComicsDC: What local cons do you attend ? The Small Press Expo, Intervention, or others? Any comments about attending them?
Barb: Intervention, Katsucon, Otakon, Anime USA, Balticon -- and that's just the ones in the DC metro area. We're very lucky that there are so many choices for fans here.
ComicsDC: . What's your favorite thing about DC?
Barb: The fact that there's so much to try out and do at almost any time of the year.
ComicsDC: Least favorite?
Both: The traffic.
ComicsDC: What monument or museum do like to take visitors to?
Both: The Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum.
ComicsDC: How about a favorite local restaurant?
Barb: Korshi.
Chris: Jaleo.
ComicsDC: Do you have a website or blog?
Barb: Our webcomic can be found at http://www.sledgebunny.com; we're also there on Facebook and Twitter.
Keeping up with Cyborg Richard Thompson's treatment part 3
Nick Galifianakis @ 11:59
Keeping up with Cyborg Richard Thompson's treatment part 2
Nick Galifianakis @ 11:25
Surgery started at 9:35. Richard is conscious (yoicks!) and doing great; they're testing as they go, and everything is good so far. They are about to start on the second hemisphere. The next update will probably include comments from the surgeon.
For those of you that have not had this kind of brain surgery: Richard is having a chip implanted in his brain in hopes of greatly alleviating his Parkinson's symptoms. Because everyone is different, his brain must be "listened to" and monitored while they search for just the right spot for maximum impact.
More later...
Keeping up with Cyborg Richard Thompson's treatment
Fantom Comics' Comics Journeyman interviewed at Wash Examiner
Fun fact: The last question on the website wasn't published in the paper.
PR: PEDESTRIAN update
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Weldon on Sailor Twain
The Refreshingly Murky, Mysterious, Mist-Shrouded 'Sailor Twain'
by Glen Weldon
October 11, 2012
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/10/11/162629786/the-refreshingly-murky-mysterious-mist-shrouded-sailor-twain
Richard Thompson - Cyborg
OT: David Wasting Paper 2013 Young Cartoonist Contest
The contest is in honor of his mother (who didn't throw away his comics), and provides art supplies and how-to books for the winning teenage submission.
Rafer Roberts' Kickstarter campaign
The Post on the National Gallery's Lichtenstein exhibit
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Post on tonight's Green Arrow tv series
'Arrow' review: A vigilante with good aim
By Hank Stuever,
Washington Post October 10 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/arrow-review-a-vigilante-with-good-aim/2012/09/13/6c973962-fdcf-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html
Daumier and Oliphant at the Phillips
WHAT: Political Wits, 100 Years Apart: Daumier and Oliphant at the Phillips
A master of caricature and satire, Daumier so lampooned King Louis-Philippe that the artist was charged with sedition and imprisoned for six months in 1832. Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Oliphant—whose work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Library of Congress and published in the New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post—had a deep and longstanding admiration of Daumier. During a Daumier retrospective at the Phillips in 2000, Oliphant produced a lithograph inspired by the exhibition and proclaimed in his Washington Post review, "Monsieur Daumier, you certainly are a humbler."
WHEN: On view through the Presidential Inauguration, Jan. 20, 2013
$10 for adults, $8 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under
Weekends (Oct. 6, 2012–Jan. 6, 2013):
$12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under
Weekdays: by donation
1600 21st St., NW. Metro: Dupont Circle (Q St. exit)
A flea market miscellany
Bull of the Woods by J.R. Williams cartoon desk blotter / calendar from Vogt Roller Co, Chicago, IL in March 1953.
Bill Clinton superhero caricature on an Inauguration '93 button.
A counterfeit Bart Simpson saying "I belong to The Johns Hopkins Health Plan. Why In The Hell Don't You!" on an advertising button.
Nutty Awards #4 postcard by Jack Davis. Topps produced 30 of these in 1965.