Sunday, December 08, 2013

Clifford Berryman cartoons in family's hands

Tryon family cherishes images by 'teddy bear' cartoonist

Clifford Berryman's drawing of the Curb Reporter still appears in the Tryon Daily Bulletin.

Courtesy of Vining family

By Gina Malone
Times-News December 8, 2013
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20131208/articles/312081004?p=all&tc=pgall&tc=ar

Photos of Congressman Lewis' March: Book One talk

These images are from the Barnes and Noble in Washington, DC. Along with Rep. Lewis is his co-author Andrew Aydin. As you might expect, Lewis is an excellent speaker, and carried the crowd along with him with no trouble. I was taken with the interracial makeup of the crowd. Most book talks I go to are overwhelming white. Several people had over a half-dozen copies to have signed. The hardcover is sold out, and the paperback is about to be. Big Planet Bethesda still has copies, I'm told.







Art car in Arlington

This artfully decorated car usually parks on George Mason Drive near Four Mile Run in Arlington, VA. How many of the cartoon characters on the roof can you name?




Saturday, December 07, 2013

Comic Riffs on PictureBox

PictureBox Appreciation: In just a decade, Dan Nadel's small publisher had an outsized impact

By Frank Santoro

Lost Art Books interviewed for the podcast Robots From Tomorrow

Joe Procopio mentioned this on Facebook:


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Lost Art Books interview, SPX 2013
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Egyptian Revolution no.2"

Mike's sent another one over the e-transom.

"Egyptian Revolution no.2 (After Delacroix)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1416

Anyone who knows my work will tell you that I really love parodying famous works of art, and the recent revival of revolutionary action in the streets following the Egyptian government's newly-passed law restricting public protest seemed the perfect time to do my version of one of my favorite 19th Century French paintings: Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading The People.

All across Egypt, ordinary people are taking to the streets to assert their rights in defiance of government efforts to criminalize public protest. A mass student strike in Cairo proetsting the police shooting of a student demonstrator this week displayed the kind of courage in the face of state violence which should inspire the meek and cushy-living activists of the US to bolder action -- but will probably not.

Friday, December 06, 2013

Post Office and SpongeBob work together


Have your message delivered by SpongeBob

Washington Post December 5 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/have-your-message-delivered-by-spongebob/2013/12/04/dc77fed6-5c58-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_story.html
I stopped by a PO in Arlington, VA today, but didn't see any of these postcards. If anyone sees them, please note where in the comments.

The Post doesn't like the new Chomsky cartoon

For Fanboys of Noam Chomsky: 'Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?' movie review

By

Washington Post December 6, 2013,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/is-the-man-who-is-tall-happy-movie-review/2013/12/04/e2f61152-57ae-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html

The Millions reviews March Book One

Difficult History: On John Lewis's March

By
November 29, 2013
http://www.themillions.com/2013/11/difficult-history-on-john-lewiss-march.html

Richard Thompson's medical status

I've just spoken to Richard's wife Amy and found out that he'll be discharged from the hospital to a local nursing facility for days of physical, occupational and speech therapy. He did fine with his first day of a new hip, but of course the Parkinsons that caused the fall will not make this recovery easy.

She's also planning on giving him his iPad soon so he'll be able to read email directly, without responding in his morphine dreams.

Mike

Today: Fantastic Forum on television, taped at Victory Comics.

Watch FANTASTIC FORUM in Montgomery County, MD today at 5:30 PM on MCM Comcast channel 21; RCN channel 21; Verizon FiOS channel 21. On location from Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA! Host Devon Sanders and panelists Chris Peleo-LazarBrandon Keith Hallmark andJames Rambo engage in discussion on Krypton's Last Son, The Man of Tomorrow, the mighty Man of Steel. COMIC CHARACTER PROFILE: SUPERMAN. With producer/host Ulysses E Campbell's interview with MARK WAID and Cool Toys Segment on DC DIRECT SUPERMAN V. MUHAMMAD ALI STATUE.

Local material at Michigan State's Comic Art Collection

A 'for the record' post, but also to note Art Hondros' contribution as I just found out that Art also did the cover to the first Politics and Prose anthology, available at the store.
Cataloged in November:
What Fox Guy Had to Teach Us / Art Hondros. -- Washington,     D.C. : Washington Post, 2013. -- p. 17-24 : ill. ; 27 cm.     -- Begins: "For a couple of decades, a familiar sight in     Takoma Park, Maryland, was that of a tall grizzled fellow     carrying a fox pelt in a steel trap." -- Detached from the     Washington Post Magazine, Mar. 17, 2013. -- Biographical     genre, about Walt Rave, an animal rights activist. -- Call     no.: PN6727.H558F6 2013

Comics Research Bibliography / by Michael Rhode and John A.     Lent. -- Arlington, Virginia : ComicsDC, 2012. -- 2 v. (832     p.) : 28 cm. -- A bibliography of works about comic books,     comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons, and related     topics. -- LIBRARY HAS: v. 1-2. -- Call no.: Z5956.C3R47     2012

Richard Thompson 2008 interview available

The new International Journal of Comic Art has an interview I did with Richard in 2008 at the dawn of Cul de Sac. The editor tells me that single issues are available - it's $22.50 for over 800 pages of comics articles.

Contact:

John A. Lent
669 Ferne Blvd.
Drexel Hill, PA 19026
U.S.A.
Phone: 610-622-3938

Use the email address for Paypal requests.

Jan 8: Cartoonist Nick Bruel at Politics and Prose

Nick Bruel - Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble

Jan 8 2014 
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9781596436718
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Roaring Brook Press, 1/2014 
 
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington
District Of Columbia
20008
United States

Brian Turner's art for a Bill Watterson biopic

Brian Turner of Identity Comics Studio did the art for a parody of Bill "Calvin and Hobbes" Watterson  up at The Gutters.

Trailer for new story from the Aphelion Arc series

A trailer for a new story in the APHELION ARC Illustrated Anthology Series will soon be added to the APHELION ARC website at http://www.aphelionarc.com
Meanwhile, you may be able to view it on YouTube at

As with the previous trailer, it uses storyboard sketches and original music.

'SECONDS' is Story Three of Issue 1.

The first trailer for the second story in the series, 'ON TARGET' is available for viewing at http://aphelionarc.com/stories.html (click the STORIES TWO button).



Steven G. Artley
President/Creative Director
http://aphelionarc.com


Thursday, December 05, 2013

Mo Willems interviewed in The Post

March Book One makes School Library Journal best of 2013 list

SLJ's Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2013
By the "Good Comics for Kids" bloggers
December 4, 2013
http://www.slj.com/2013/12/reviews/best-of/sljs-top-10-graphic-novels-of-2013/

Comic Riffs talks to Ed Piskor

BEST BOOKS OF 2013: Ed Piskor finds a beautiful groove with 'Hip Hop Family Tree'
By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 4 2013

Tonight: Solomon on Norman Rockwell at Politics and Prose

I saw her speak last night, and enjoyed it so much I'm going again tonight.

Thursday, December 5

7 p.m. - Deborah Solomon - American Mirror (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28)


Book Cover