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Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 19 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Smudge 2014 Programming Schedule (lifted from their blog)
Smudge 2014 Programming Schedule
http://www.smudgexpo.com/2014/02/18/smudge-2014-programming-schedule/
BY SMUDGEFEBRUARY 18, 2014BLOG, EVENT INFO
BY SMUDGEFEBRUARY 18, 2014BLOG, EVENT INFO
Get inspired by local comics creators at Smudge!
The Smudge! Expo is taking place on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from noon to 6 p.m. at Artisphere in Arlington, Va. Talks will take place in the Black Box Theater at Artisphere and hands-on workshops will take place in the classroom space.
Ben Hatke joins us as our Featured Guest and will be speaking at 3 pm.
AT A GLANCE
Black Box Theater
1-1:50 – Essa Neima – Moving Pictures: So, You Want to Animate?
2-2:50 – Steve Artley – Editorial Cartooning (And Other Hazards)
3-3:50 – Ben Hatke – Three Keys to Comics
4-4:50 – Teresa Roberts Logan – PAINT YOUR HEAD (ART JOURNALING)
Classroom
1-1:50 – Steve Loya – Splotch Monsters
2-2:50 – Matt Dembicki – Roll Up Your Sleeves and Make Comics
3-3:50 – TBA
4-4:50 – Joe Sutliff – Creating Comics for the Web: A quick, fun, interactive “How To”
Black Box – 1:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.
Essa Neima – Moving Pictures: So, You Want to Animate?
Animator/educator Essa Neima shares his experiences in animation, from working with companies to understanding what it takes to make a good cartoon. He’ll share examples of his own work, as well as provide some simple exercises that you can do at home to make your own animation using a spinning disc and flip books.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Comic Riffs on Jackie Estrada's Kickstarter photo book
KICKSTARTER OF THE WEEK: From Kirby to Clowes --the magical history tour of Jackie Estrada’s candid ‘Comic Book People’
Jimmy Gownley at Hooray for Books
Jimmy Gownley gave a fun talk tonight at Hooray for Books! in Alexandria, VA. He talked about getting into comics, self-publishing, doing Amelia Rules! comic book, and his new book autobiographic graphic novel The Dumbest Idea Ever! The bookstore has a couple of signed copies left, if you contact them soon. Tomorrow, Gownley will be in Fredrick, Md at Beyond Comics. More pictures are here. Note that the last one is actually Outcault's Yellow Kid!
SPACE Prizes to Matt Dembicki and local cartoonists
Matt Dembicki's shark story Xoc got first place in the SPACE Prize in the graphic novel category, second place was District Comics, which he edited and I participated in, as did many local cartoonists.
Matt tells me, "It's an especially great feeling because the SPACE exhibitors vote on the finalists and you cannot vote for yourself."
More details are here. I'd also like to note that Friend of ComicsDC Ryan Claytor won for his minicomic about his wedding.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Tomorrow, Feb 19: Jimmy Gownley at Hooray for Books in Alexandria
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Author and acclaimed comics creator Jimmy Gownley will be presenting and signing his new graphic novel, The Dumbest Idea Ever!
Author and acclaimed comics creator Jimmy Gownley will be presenting and signing his new graphic novel, The Dumbest Idea Ever!
Diverse talks to Rep. Lewis on March
John Lewis Takes Readers on a ‘March’ through Civil Rights
by Reginald Stuart
Diverse February 13, 2014 http://diverseeducation.com/article/60748/
Sevara issue #0 Kickstarter campaign still running
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Page 14, top half. 
Page 14, bottom half. Monday, February 17, 2014
Jimmy Gownley at Beyond Comics! This Week
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Now online - Smudge JR Interview #2: Michael Auger
Henry, Tina.
Smudge JR Interview #2: Michael Auger
February 18, 2014
http://www.smudgexpo.com/2014/02/18/smudge-jr-interview-2-michael-auger/
Smudge JR Interview #2: Michael Auger
February 18, 2014
http://www.smudgexpo.com/2014/02/18/smudge-jr-interview-2-michael-auger/
Meet a Local Comics Writer and Filmmaker: A Chat With Joe Carabeo
Meet a Local Comics Writer and Filmmaker: A Chat With Joe Carabeo
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Gregory Benton at Big Planet Comics Bethesda
Greg Benton was signing his new book, B+F (Adhouse Books) at Big Plant Comics in Bethesda. As you can see from the photo, he's doing a full-color two-page drawing in each book you buy. More pictures here.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Comic Riffs and Galifianakis' Valentine Day caption contest
VALENTINE’S DAY CAPTION CONTEST: Enter now by writing this Nick Galifianakis cartoon (*and win the signed art)
By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 14 2014
Feb 19: Jimmy Gownley at Hooray for Books in Alexandria
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Author and acclaimed comics creator Jimmy Gownley will be presenting and signing his new graphic novel, The Dumbest Idea Ever!
Author and acclaimed comics creator Jimmy Gownley will be presenting and signing his new graphic novel, The Dumbest Idea Ever!
Feb 15 (Tomorrow!): Gregory Benton at Big Planet Comics in Bethesda
- Big Planet Comics Bethesda
- 4:00pm until 6:00pm
| It's with excitement and pleasure that we announce the B+F Tour to promote Gregory Benton's latest creative endeavor. "B+F," Gregory Benton's MoCCA Award of Excellence-winning fable, explores an otherworldly forest with a woman and a dog as they encounter its denizens, both benevolent and malicious. A wordless meditation on goodwill, hostility, and isolation  |
Fantom's Ladies Night in Washington Times
Fantom Comics has a write up in the Washington
Times for it’s Ladies Night program.
It’s Ladies Night for comics: Fans of superpower
break down walls
By Emily Hoosier/Washington Times
It’s Ladies Night in Washington, D.C. — but it’s not being held at a
bar or at a concert club. It’s at a comic book store in Union Station,
and the women in attendance on a recent weekend night indulge in a shared
enthusiasm for one of the last markets that typically excludes them. (Read the article)
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Collecting Retrofit Comics co-published with Big Planet Comics
I picked up these three recently. Two more come out in a few weeks.
Shen, Zejian. 2013.
Keep Fresh.
Philadelphia: Retrofit Comics / Washington: Big Planet Comics
Muradov, Roman. 2013.
Picnic Ruined.
Philadelphia: Retrofit Comics / Washington: Big Planet Comics
Brown, Box. 2013.
Beach Girls [Inc. Dweeb by James Kochalka].
Philadelphia: Retrofit Comics / Washington: Big Planet Comics
Yumi Sakugawa at Big Planet Comics DC
Yumi Sakugawa read from her new book, I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You, at Big Planet Comics DC.
Mr. Peabody and Sherman animation movie posters in DC
These are at the bus stops at 16th and U Sts., NW, and 19th and K, NW. It's nice to see that Jay Ward still has cultural traction.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
ArtShow 05: The Pizza Factory
The D.C. arts collective
Hole in the Sky is preparing for its fifth art show in ongoing series. The theme for the
Feb. 22 show: Pizza! The group says its will “cook a 6ft pizza and
surround it with pizza-themed artworks of the visual, installation and
performance persuasion.” There’s a slew of local artists participating, include Mike O’Brien,
Anthony Dihle and Kelly Towles. Check out O'Brien's nifty video (below) of him making the promotional poster.
Casares animation
Local graphic designer and illustrator Santiago Casares shares
a pretty cool bit of animation he did for a client last year.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Neil Cohn's Online video presentation/chat at Fantom Comics
From Neil Cohn:
I just wanted to let people know that this coming Sunday I’ll be doing a live video chat through the Fantom Comics store in Washington DC that will be video-cast via Google Air. I’ll be giving a short presentation about my “visual language" research and then answering questions from in-store guests as well as those posted online via a Facebook event page.
The event will be this Sunday (2/16) at 6:30pm East Coast time. If you’re interested in participating or watching, here are the links:
1) The webpage post: http://www.fantomcomics.com/blog/2014/02/10/visual-language-of-comics/
2) The Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/356566004481760/
3) The Google Air Link where the show will be: https://plus.google.com/u/1/events/cth4rbpbfdo10erovbrtsafknlc?authkey=CIHI-evSjKSRxwE
Neil Cohn
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Research in Language
University of California at San Diego
neilcohn@emaki.net
www.visuallanguagelab.com
Center for Research in Language
University of California at San Diego
neilcohn@emaki.net
www.visuallanguagelab.com
PR: Fist of Justice Returns via Kickstarter campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Fist of Justice Returns!
Critical hit "Fist of Justice" from Digital Webbing Press is making a return to comics and your help is needed.
Methuen, MA, February 10, 2014
What began as a one-off, seven page story with a twist ending in the anthology series Digital Webbing Presents generated such positive reader response that creators Mike Imboden and Ed Dukeshire made the decision to undo that twist ending and revive Fist of Justice as an ongoing feature. Over the course of 10 issues (five lead stories in DWP and five in his own self-titled book), they created the world of Fist of Justice. After taking a few years off from publishing, the creative team felt the time was right to continue what they started and bring Fist of Justice back to the loyal fans who have longed for his return.
A Kickstarter campaign is underway to fund publication of a full-color trade paperback collecting Fist's earliest adventures. Some of the comic industry's hottest talents got their start illustrating Fist of Justice including Chad Hardin (Harley Quinn), Yildiray Cinar (Supergirl), Anthony Castrillo (X-Men), Dario Carrasco, Jr. (Star Wars), and Andre Coelho (Ms. Marvel).
So who is the Fist of Justice? Fist of Justice is a man out of time, a cat with his heart in the right place-- a true hero from the 70s awakened in our time. He was the super-heroic defender of Charm City until he made a fatal mistake that ended his career. He threw in the towel and was locked away and soon forgotten. But his power-- though dormant-- did not leave him. Now it has returned and resurrected FOJ-- restoring him as defender of a city dealing with the new villains of the 21st century. Villains who are tougher, stronger, and meaner than ever.
Creators Mike Imboden and Ed Dukeshire have taken to crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, to raise the money needed to collect the first five issues of the comic into a trade paperback. In addition, plans call for publication of an all-new issue 6 of Fist of Justice. Says Dukeshire, "Kickstarter has shown that projects that couldn't originally happen, are now possible. While the costs to produce the book are too high for us alone, support via Kickstarter can change that. The campaign will help pay for the printing of the trade paperback, comic book, all the rewards, shipping supplies, and shipping. We'd love to get Fist of Justice out there on a regular basis once again, but need the help of our readers and fans."
A number of comics' most talented artists got their start illustrating Fist of Justice. Chad Hardin, artist of the super-hot Harley Quinn from DC, was first published in the pages of Fist of Justice. Yildiray Cinar, who currently draws Supergirl for DC, also began his career penciling FOJ. Now fans will be able to see their early work in a newly published trade paperback."These guys were extreme talents right out of the gate," said Dukeshire, who spotted samples of their drawings on the Digital Webbing Forums and offered them their first chance to be published.
Supporters can choose from a handful of incentives. "We've got plenty of incentives to contribute to the Kickstarter campaign", adds Imboden. "Not only can people get the trade paperback, we have pledge levels that include art by past FOJ artists. We've got t-shirts, prints and stickers and, what might be the coolest thing of all, the opportunity to have yourself drawn into an original Fist of Justice short story!"
Web address for Kickstarter is:
For more information about Fist of Justice, visit www.fistofjustice.org or www.facebook.com/fistofjustice or contact Imboden (mike@imboden.org) or Dukeshire (eduke@digitalwebbing.com)
Doonesbury in reruns again - boo!
THIS JUST IN--Trudeau puts daily ‘Doonesbury’ on long-term hiatus to work on renewed ‘Alpha House’: ‘I’m ready for an extended break’
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 11 2014
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