Comic book heroes are hot. Comic books are not. And that's OK with their fans
Melissa Rayworth / Associated Press
Washington Post October 6 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/comic-book-heroes-are-hot-comic-books-are-not-and-thats-ok-with-their-fans/2013/10/01/a58780ee-2aa9-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html
'The Simpsons' to kill off a character this season
By Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times
Washington Post October 6 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/the-simpsons-to-kill-off-a-character-this-season/2013/10/03/dee2d488-2ac2-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html
Monday, October 07, 2013
Julian Lytle featured on The Beat
NYCC '13: Artist Julian Lytle offers prints of JLA members eating yummy foods
by Heidi MacDonald
10/07/2013
http://comicsbeat.com/nycc-13-artist-julian-lytle-offers-prints-of-jla-members-eating-yummy-foods/
by Heidi MacDonald
10/07/2013
http://comicsbeat.com/nycc-13-artist-julian-lytle-offers-prints-of-jla-members-eating-yummy-foods/
SpookyFest begins Thurs.
The 10-day Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival begins Thursday at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Md., with a bigfoot film, "Willow Creek" (Pretty cool poster). Director Bobcat Goldthwait will be there. Here's your comics angle: John Dimes, a local TV personality and artist (and sometimes cartoonist) will be screening his film "Bald Headed Blues: A Doctormentary on Sarcofiguy." It's described as "the hysterical true-life story of reluctant local television pioneer and artist John Dimes and his 'charming̕' alter-ego 'Dr. Sarcofiguy' as they navigated for more than 15 years the diverse D.I.Y. worlds of modern television horror hosting with cutting edge improv, humor and wit. Featuring interviews with television hosts past and present, including Dick Dyszel ('Count Gore De Vol'), Jerry Moore II ('Karlos Borloff'), Bob Hinton ('A. Ghastlee Ghoul'), Leanna Chamish ('Boo dePest'), and narrated by New England horror host 'Penny Dreadful.'
Flea Market finds this weekend
I found some material by formerly famous cartoonists over the weekend.
Digby Bell in The Education of Mr. Pipp by Augustus Thomas: The Charles Dana Gibson Play postcard
New York: Carter & Gut, 1905
The Road to Paradise sheet music (missing middle pages)
New York: G. Schirmer
Cover by Raeburn van Buren
Donald Hessler Said "Hello" original cartoon
Richard Yardley, Baltimore Sun cartoonist
New York: Carter & Gut, 1905
The Road to Paradise sheet music (missing middle pages)
New York: G. Schirmer
Cover by Raeburn van Buren
Donald Hessler Said "Hello" original cartoon
Richard Yardley, Baltimore Sun cartoonist
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Comic Riffs on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
JEFF SMITH: Why the bestselling 'Bone' creator is a great addition to CBLDF board
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 4 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/jeff-smith-why-the-bestselling-bone-creator-is-a-great-addition-to-cbldf-board/2013/10/04/ec289a0e-2d12-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_blog.html
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Oct 6: Capicons convention
The Capicons convention is on Oct 6 from 10-3 at the Dun Loring Fire Hall off Gallows Road.
Friday, October 04, 2013
Zadzooks: Scribblenauts Unmask
Washington Times review of the DC Comics-based video game "Scribblenauts Unmasked—A DC Comics Adventure."
Brian Ralph interview from SPX
'I always want to be joking': a chat with 'Reggie-12′s' Brian Ralph
by Chris Mautner | October 3, 2013
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/10/i-always-want-to-be-joking-a-chat-with-reggie-12s-brian-ralph/
by Chris Mautner | October 3, 2013
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/10/i-always-want-to-be-joking-a-chat-with-reggie-12s-brian-ralph/
Today: 'Arcana' at Telegraph
Telegraph in Charlottesvilles, Va., is holding a reception and release today (5 p.m.) for "Arcana," an exhibit fof ive interpretations of iconic cards from the Major Arcana of the Tarot. One of the artists participating is cartoonist Benjamin Marra. Prints will also be available online for sale. (You should check out the amazing array of prints the store has, with several by cartoonists such as Zach Soto, Warren Craghead and Michael DeForge.
Dust Elves at Capicons on Sunday
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Thursday, October 03, 2013
Oct. 11: George R.R. Martin at Beyond Comics
George R.R. Martin, author of the best-selling series of novels that HBO adapted into the hit TV show Game of Thrones, will be
visiting Beyond Comics at the Gaithersburg, Md., on Friday, Oct. 11 at 1 p.m.
Nuff said! (Keep up to date on the event through the store's Facebook event page.) BTW, Meathouse Man, an e-comic adaptation of Martin's short story of the same name, will be available for Kindle readers on Oct. 15.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Noguchi at Artisphere on Oct. 3 and 5
Cartoonist Jamie Noguchi will be the artist in resident
tomorrow at the Artisphere in Arlington, Va., as part of the D.C. Conspiracy’s Comics Making Workshop in the Works in Progress Gallery. Jamie will be there
from about 6:30-9ish p.m. (depending on how long it takes him to finish his
chalkwall drawing, which each resident artist has done each week). Jamie will
also be there on Saturday from 1-4 p.m. Below is a recent episode of his online
comic Yellow Peril.
Courtesy of Jamie Noguchi
The Post on the (lack of) popularity of comics
The Washington Post ran an article about how
comics characters are popular, but comics themselves…not so much. Quoted in the piece is
Lina Krueger of Washington, D.C., who is a contributor to the comics
blog Girls Read Comics, Too (Comics From a Female Point of View).
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Mills/Hondros team to tell a tale of a terrible tsar
Local cartoonist Art Hondros has teamed with cartoonist/writer Scott Mills (a former Marylander) on a historical comic about tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, aka Ivan the Terrible. "In an effort to combine my love of Russian history and old Gold Key comics I’ve joined forces with artist Art Hondros to create Terrible: Tsar Ivan IV," Scott writes on the blog he created for the comic. The book will comprise 10 six-page chapters "detailing what I see as the most salient–or at least most interesting–aspects of history’s most notorious tsar." The first chapter is up online today, and Scott also posted some of Art's black-and-white drawings for the project.
Image courtesy of Scott Mills/Art Hondros
Image courtesy of Scott Mills/Art Hondros
15 days to get submissions in for the Berryman Award
CLIFFORD K. AND JAMES T. BERRYMAN AWARD FOR EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Open to editorial cartoonists of newspapers, websites, magazines and blogs in the U.S. for printed or animated work that exhibits power to influence public opinion, plus good drawing and striking effect. The winner will receive a $2,500 prize and an engraved crystal vase.
To learn more, CLICK HERE
Monday, September 30, 2013
Fantastic Forum on DC Conspiracy's exhibit at Artisphere
DC Conspiracy Comics Making Workshop at Artisphere
Ulysses Campbell
Fantastic Forum· Sep 28, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWQS6Ax7n8E&feature=youtu.be
Matt Dembicki, Evan Keeling, Eric Gordon and Jake Warrenfeltz of TheD.C. Conspiracy talk about the group during the artists' reception for its Comics Making Workshop at Artisphere in Arlington, VA.
Ulysses Campbell
Fantastic Forum· Sep 28, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWQS6Ax7n8E&feature=youtu.be
Matt Dembicki, Evan Keeling, Eric Gordon and Jake Warrenfeltz of TheD.C. Conspiracy talk about the group during the artists' reception for its Comics Making Workshop at Artisphere in Arlington, VA.
Darn, I'm sorry I missed this. September is just too busy in DC.
Rob Steibel's new Kirby column
Jack Kirby: Behind the Lines
"I'm Gonna Open Sealed Door to Negative Zone!"
BY Robert Steibel Sep 30, 2013
http://www.tcj.com/im-gonna-open-sealed-door-to-negative-zone/
"I'm Gonna Open Sealed Door to Negative Zone!"
BY Robert Steibel Sep 30, 2013
http://www.tcj.com/im-gonna-open-sealed-door-to-negative-zone/
Galifianakis wants to draw your dog
Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis is participating in a fundraiser for the Cesar Millan Foundation, which helps to rescue, rehabilitate and find a home for abused and abandoned dogs. Bid to have your favorite Galifianakis drawing (from his website nickandzuzu.com) redrawn using you dog's image. Bidding ends on Oct. 8.
Photo: CharityBuzz.com
Yonder at Big Planet Oct. 5
Local artist Carl Yonder, artist and co-creator of Pirate Eye (Action Lab Entertainment), will be signing at Big Planet Comics at its Vienna, Va., store on Oct. 5 from 1-3 p.m. Pirate Eye is a "new spin on crime drama told through a series of one-shot adventures for pirates and noir detective fans," according to BPC.
Oct 3: Jonathan Lethem at Politics and Prose
He's written about comics, and he wrote an Omega the Unknown miniseries for Marvel.
Jonathan Lethem - Dissident Gardens
Oct 3, 2013, 7 p.m.
Oct 3, 2013, 8 p.m.
Lethem's tenth novel is a sweeping look at American life and politics from the 1930s to today as experienced by Rose Zimmer of Sunnyside, Queens, and her daughter, Miriam. Both women are passionate activists, and Lethem tells both a national and a family story as Rose's communism gives way to the unorthodox movements of the 1960s.
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