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Cartoon by Bill Day, PoliticalCartoons.com ( View more of Day's cartoons ) Bill Day Fundraising Update - $22,000 and climbing! by Daryl Cagle As our campaign to help unemployed cartoonist Bill Day from losing his home enters its third week, we need your help more than ever to achieve our goal of raising $35,000. So far, we've raised over $22,000, but we're also at the point where many campaigns start to lose steam. Don't let that happen to Bill! If you haven't donated yet, please consider doing so today. Not only would you be helping one of America's top political cartoonists continue working, you can receive some great gifts in return, such as an eBook featuring Bill's work, a signed print or even an original piece of Bill Day artwork. If you have already contributed, consider forwarding this email to a friend or co-worker. With Christmas approaching, what better gift can someone give than helping a brilliant cartoonist in his time of need? Thank you again for your generosity and commitment to political cartoons! The outpouring of support for Bill has been tremendous, and if we can keep this momentum going, I'm sure we'll be successful in keeping Bill drawing! |
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Repost: An unemployed cartoonist needs your help
As I've noted here before, Bill won the RFK Journalism award in DC a few years ago, but that didn't help keep his newspaper job.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Tom King's comic book story
Washingtonian Tom King wrote the superhero novel, A Once Crowded Sky, which I liked and recommend. He's got a story in an anthology comic coming out from DC's Vertigo imprint next spring.
TIME WARP #1
Written by DAN ABNETT, MATT KINDT, DAMON LINDELOF, PETER MILLIGAN, TOBY LITT, RAY FAWKES, SIMON SPURRIER, TOM KING and GAIL SIMONE
Art by MARK BUCKINGHAM, JEFF LEMIRE, M.K. PERKER, VICTOR SANTOS, JORGE CORONA, RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE, TOM FOWLER, I.N.J. CULBARD and others
Cover by EDUARDO RISSO
1:10 Variant cover by JAE LEE
One-shot • On sale MARCH 20 • 80 pg, FC, $7.99 US • MATURE READERS
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the Order Form for details.
Let's do the time warp again! It's time for another fantastic Vertigo anthology filled with spectacular sci-fi stories. Robots, deep space and lots of time travel twists by a bevy of comic greats and the up-and-coming stars of tomorrow. Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire bring us a blast from DC's past, plus another installment of the "Dead Boy Detectives" from Toby Litt, Buckingham and Victor Santos, Matt Kindt presents a stirring story of man vs. machine—and so much more!
TIME WARP #1
Written by DAN ABNETT, MATT KINDT, DAMON LINDELOF, PETER MILLIGAN, TOBY LITT, RAY FAWKES, SIMON SPURRIER, TOM KING and GAIL SIMONE
Art by MARK BUCKINGHAM, JEFF LEMIRE, M.K. PERKER, VICTOR SANTOS, JORGE CORONA, RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE, TOM FOWLER, I.N.J. CULBARD and others
Cover by EDUARDO RISSO
1:10 Variant cover by JAE LEE
One-shot • On sale MARCH 20 • 80 pg, FC, $7.99 US • MATURE READERS
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the Order Form for details.
Let's do the time warp again! It's time for another fantastic Vertigo anthology filled with spectacular sci-fi stories. Robots, deep space and lots of time travel twists by a bevy of comic greats and the up-and-coming stars of tomorrow. Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire bring us a blast from DC's past, plus another installment of the "Dead Boy Detectives" from Toby Litt, Buckingham and Victor Santos, Matt Kindt presents a stirring story of man vs. machine—and so much more!
Truitt on Avengers Arena and Green Lantern Corps...
...because you can't ever have too many spinoffs.
'Avengers Arena': Marvel kid heroes meet 'Hunger Games'
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY December 10. 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/12/10/avengers-arena-comic-book-series/1759577/
Guy Gardner proves his worth in 'Green Lantern Corps'
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY December 10. 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/12/10/guy-gardner-green-lantern-corps-comic-book-series/1757919/
'Avengers Arena': Marvel kid heroes meet 'Hunger Games'
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY December 10. 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/12/10/avengers-arena-comic-book-series/1759577/
Guy Gardner proves his worth in 'Green Lantern Corps'
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY December 10. 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/12/10/guy-gardner-green-lantern-corps-comic-book-series/1757919/
Tank McNamara writer obituary runs in the Post
Jeff Millar, creator of 'Tank McNamara' comic strip, dies at 70
By Marisa Gerber / Los Angeles Times
Washington Post December 11 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Obituary for local former comic book collector and book store owner Jacques Morgan
Jacques Morgan, opinionated bookstore owner, dies at 62 [in print as A Local Life: Jacques Morgan, 62 - 'He was in it for the books'.]
By Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post December 9 2012, p. C7
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Jan 16-17 Brad Meltzer signings
Sometime comic book writer Brad Meltzer is signing The Fifth Assassin, his new thriller novel (which I had a vague hand in helping with the research for).
January 16th at Politics & Prose in DC: http://politics-prose.com/event/book/fifth-assassin-brad-meltzer
January 17 at Barnes & Noble in McClean, VA: http://www.conventionscene.com/2012/12/07/va-the-fifth-assassin-signing/
January 16th at Politics & Prose in DC: http://politics-prose.com/event/book/fifth-assassin-brad-meltzer
January 17 at Barnes & Noble in McClean, VA: http://www.conventionscene.com/2012/12/07/va-the-fifth-assassin-signing/
Friday, December 07, 2012
3rd Eye Comics 12/8: Meet GREAT PACIFIC Writer JOE HARRIS 11AM-1PM
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Of Bear Cubs and Bookplates
Of Bear Cubs and Bookplates
By Michael Rhode (originally appeared on Hogan's Alley's website in 2006) |
Political cartoonist Clifford Berryman is largely forgotten today. When he is remembered, it is for his 1902 creation of the Teddy bear. President Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear cub while hunting, and Berryman drew his most famous cartoon, "Drawing the Line in Mississippi," showing Roosevelt's refusal. His cute cub drawing was turned into a toy Teddy bear and has comforted millions of children.
But in his day, Berryman was considered the dean of cartoonists and, according to Wendy Kail in an article on him in the International Journal of Cartoon Art, drew over 15,000 political cartoons. Like many other cartoonists, he worked in several fields including book illustration. Berryman may be the only cartoonist to have drawn bookplates--the small slip of paper glued in the front cover of a book to proclaim ownership.
Berryman's interest in doing this work may have been influenced by his daughter, Florence, who produced a slim book, Early American Bookplates (1926). The book, reprinting an article she did for the yearbook of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, included illustrations of American Revolution figures by her father.
Due to the generosity of a private collector, I'm pleased to be able to present these rare examples of a cartoonist's art.
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Oddity from the Library of Congress
Government librarian Sara Duke mentioned a bookplate collection today - so I did a quick look in the Library of Congress catalogue and came up with this Bookplate of English caricaturist Phil May.
It's part of the 14,000-piece Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. It's out of copyright so you can download a hi-res version.
Years ago I wrote a brief piece for Hogan's Alley about Clifford Berryman's bookplates. It doesn't appear to be online anymore, so I'll recreate it here in the next day or so.
It's part of the 14,000-piece Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. It's out of copyright so you can download a hi-res version.
Years ago I wrote a brief piece for Hogan's Alley about Clifford Berryman's bookplates. It doesn't appear to be online anymore, so I'll recreate it here in the next day or so.
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