Wednesday, July 30, 2014
PSA: Help support Asian comics at Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Comic Riffs checks in with Eisner Award winners
Monday, July 28, 2014
Ivan the Terrible paper matryoshka
Glen Weldon interviewed on Batman
At 75, Batman Still Seeks Justice, Not Revenge
by ARUN RATH,
National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (July 27, 2014 )
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2014/07/20140727_wesun_at_75_batman_still_seeks_justice_not_revenge.mp3
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=335588932
Katherine Roeder, of GMU, interviewed on Winsor McCay
Katherine Roeder is "Wide Awake in Slumberland"
Alex Dueben,
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=54054
Comic Riffs talks to Inman and Modan
COMIC-CON EISNER AWARDS: 'The Oatmeal's' Matthew Inman honored after creative shift: 'Writing these comics was risky for me'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comics Riffs July 28 2014
COMIC-CON EISNER AWARDS: Israeli graphic novelist Rutu Modan draws upon war — as she hopes for peace
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comics Riffs July 28 2014
Aug 14: Swann Fellow Erin Corrales-Diaz to Discuss Cartoonists' Responses to Disabled Civil War Veterans
NEWS from the LIBRARY of CONGRESS
July 28, 2014
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Swann Foundation Fellow Erin Corrales-Diaz to Discuss
Cartoonists' Artistic Responses to Disabled Civil War Veterans
Swann Foundation Fellow Erin Corrales-Diaz, in a lecture at the Library of Congress, will examine political cartoons that interpret war-induced disability during and after the American Civil War.
Corrales-Diaz will present "Empty Sleeves and Bloody Shirts: Disabled Civil War Veterans and Presidential Campaigns, 1864-1880," at noon on Thursday, Aug. 14, in the West Dining Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C. The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are needed.
Corrales-Diaz will focus specifically on images by such well-known political cartoonists as Thomas Nast (1840-1901) and Joseph E. Baker (approximately 1837-1914). Artists like Nast fought a "paper war" by using political cartoons to sway public opinion in support of specific political candidates, issues, and ideologies. During battles with the brush and the pen, a new social figure emerged who embodied patriotism and heroic sacrifice—the disabled veteran.
The rise and influence of the pictorial press in political campaigns coincided with the American Civil War. As developments rapidly unfolded on the battlefield and in the news media, the disabled veteran became a figure charged with significant political power. Artists quickly drew upon his maimed body as a campaign strategy, according to Corrales-Diaz. Focusing upon political cartoons for presidential campaigns from 1864 to 1880, Corrales-Diaz will explore how the broken body of the veteran became an emblem of a charged political visual rhetoric and generated a re-evaluation of the veteran's social role in 19th century America.
Corrales-Diaz is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is focusing on the art of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. In her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861-1915," she examines the complex ways in which American artists attempted to interpret war-induced disability after the war and argues that the veteran's injured body became a vehicle for exploring the overwhelming sense of loss and disillusionment during the war's aftermath. Corrales-Diaz completed an M.A. in art history at Williams College, and a B.A. in art history at the University of Washington, Seattle. In addition to the Swann Fellowship, she has received other awards and fellowships including the Joan and Robert Huntley Art History Scholarship at the University of North Carolina in 2012 and a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State in 2010.
This presentation, sponsored by the Swann Foundation and Prints & Photographs Division, is part of the foundation's continuing activities to support the study, interpretation, preservation and appreciation of original works of humorous and satiric art by graphic artists from around the world. The Swann Foundation's advisory board is comprised of scholars, collectors, cartoonists and Library of Congress staff members. The foundation strives to award one fellowship annually (or biennially) to assist scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. Applications for the 2016-2017 academic year will be due Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. More information about the fellowship is available through the Swann Foundation website at www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swannhome or by e-mailing swann@loc.gov.
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A Mother-Daughter anime pilgrimage to Japan
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Fantom Comics - a few pictures from the opening
Saturday, July 26, 2014
'Walking Dead' heads to D.C.?
Richard Thompson reflects on leaving illustration for CDS
Your Unnecessary Magazine illustration for Today
http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2014/07/your-unnecessary-magazine-illustration_26.htmlThe Post reviews academic book on Little Nemo, namechecks Richard Thompson
'Wide Awake in Slumberland: The Art of Winsor McCay,' by Katherine Roeder
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/wide-awake-in-slumberland-the-art-of-winsor-mccay-by-katherine-roeder/2014/07/24/1a4da6ac-0ebf-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html
Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay" by Katherine Roeder (Univ. Press of Mississippi/Univ. Press of Mississippi)
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay
By Katherine Roeder
Univ. Press of Mississippi. 221 pp. $60
The Post reviews graphic novel-based Hercules movie
Value here and there in 'Hercules' [online as Brett Ratner's 'Hercules' is actually entertaining in places]
Washington Post July 26 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/brett-ratners-hercules-is-actually-entertaining-in-places/2014/07/25/1d06c182-1430-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html
Friday, July 25, 2014
Comic Riffs talks to Bendis about his how-to book
commerce, of becoming a comics pro
By David Betancourt Washington Post Comic Riffs July 25 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/07/25/comic-con-2014-brian-michael-bendis-illuminates-the-craft-and-commerce-of-becoming-a-comics-pro/
Seeking Richard Thompson's CDS sketches
PR: Amy Lago offers portfolio review at Kenosha Festival of Cartooning
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Kennedy Center shows this fall
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Reporting Is Resistance"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1533
From police assaults on citizens photographing Occupy protests to Al Jazeera reporters' imprisonment by the Egyptian regime, journalists around the world have endured escalating attacks by authoritarian regimes both in the US and abroad.
It's gotten to the point where simply reporting the news is an act of resistance.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
The Post on Tapman, the superhero dancer
Dancing is Tapman's strength, but production values are his Kryptonite
By Rebecca Ritzel
Washington Post July 24 2014