Tuesday, January 13, 2015
#Nous vomir dans votre direction générale!
Like something out of a Monty Python skit, surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, Bernard Holtrop, who was not in the office at the time of the attack because he “doesn’t like going to meetings,” says all the global support sickens him. “We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends.” Link: Charlie Hebdo cartoonist scoffs at supporters [NY Daily News].
Monday, January 12, 2015
Jan 26: Roz Chast at DCJCC on 16th St. NW
Roz Chast: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Monday, January 26
7:30 pm
Priority seating and signing available
Famed New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast does such a comical, fluent job of conveying the things that keep her up at night that many readers are convinced she is somehow mapping their own inner lives. Her latest book, which tackles the subject of growing up in Brooklyn as an only child and of her efforts, decades later, to help her parents navigate the jagged shoals of old age, is by turns grim and absurd, deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Bid on a signed, original drawing by Roz!
Charlie Hebdo support in DC
National Press Club To Honor Victims of Charlie Hebdo Attack
Matt Cohen
DCist (Jan 12, 2015)
http://dcist.com/2015/01/national_press_club_to_honor_victim.php
Photos: Hundreds March In Support Of Charlie Hebdo
Matt Cohen
DCist (January 12, 2015)
http://dcist.com/2015/01/photos_hundreds_rally_in_support_of.php#photo-1
Capital Business to end, Mike Shapiro to lose gig?
This email arrived in my inbox today:
The last issue of Capital Business will publish on Monday, January 26, 2015. Beginning February 1 Capital Business stories will move into The Washington Post throughout the week.
Much of the content of Capital Business will be able to be found in the Sunday and Monday issues of The Washington Post. In addition, we will continue to publish stories on The Washington Post web site.
A few years ago, the Post dumped its daily business section, and seemed to move resources to this free tabloid. I've only gotten it for about six months, but Mike Shapiro has been doing a gag cartoon illustrating the Career Coach column. I don't know if he'll be still doing it for the Post proper.
Here's a 2012 example that Google turned up:
That darn Frank and Ernest
Letters to the Editor: Michelangelo's David is no 'lawn gnome'
Christopher Jones, Falls Church
Washington Post January 10 2015
Post's Petri editorial on Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo and the true power of the pen
By Alexandra Petri
Washington Post ComPost blog (January 7 2015; in print January 10): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-and-the-true-power-of-the-pen/
June 19: Tangent Artists at Capital Con
Webcomic Guest: Tangent Artists
Long ago… a team of talented professional writers and artists tried to invent a machine that would translate imagination into vivid brightly animated images on a TV screen. Having no knowledge of neurophysics, complex machinery or even simple fractions, this plan was sadly abandoned in 2007.
Instead the company endeavored to provide high-quality web comics to the world once a week, and this goal was met with far greater success. Thus was the creation of three comic series: The macabre comedy, "Skeleton Crew," the celebration of nerd life, "Donuts for Looking," and the Swords & Sorcery & Sarcasm series, "CRIT!"
Monica Marier : Does script pencils, ink, and color for both Donuts for Looking and Skeleton Crew. She also does script and pencils for CRIT. She's a published Fantasy author with Hunt Press. David Joria: Does script for Skeleton Crew, Donuts for Looking, and CRIT. Rachael Hixon: Does story, ink, and color for CRIT. She also is in charge of in-house printing for Tangent Artists comics and books. You can view new comics every week at the Tangent Artists site: http://www.tangentartists.com/
Charlie Hebdo letters to the editor of Washington Post
Washington Post January 11 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-attack-on-charlie-hebdo-and-free-speech/2015/01/09/985ba598-9755-11e4-8385-866293322c2f_story.htmlReligion News Service article in The Post on Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo attack isn't about images, free speech [online as Why the Charlie Hebdo attack is not about images or free speech (COMMENTARY)]
By Hussein Rashid | Religion News Service
Washington Post January 10 2015
A Post editorial on French free speech
The biggest threat to French free speech isn't terrorism. It's the French.
[online as The biggest threat to French free speech isn't terrorism. It's the government.
The murders at Charlie Hebdo, while tragic, aren't the problem.]
By Jonathan Turley
Washington Post January 11 2015
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.
Jeff Danziger editorial in today's Post
Lights, camera, Vermont! Why should New Hampshire have all the primary fun? [online as 'It's time for Vermont to get in on New Hampshire's primary spoils'].
Washington Post January 12 2015, p. A13.
online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-danziger-its-time-for-vermont-to-get-in-on-new-hampshires-primary-spoils/2015/01/11/70e28008-9841-11e4-927a-4fa2638cd1b0_story.html
Jeff Danziger is a syndicated political cartoonist with the Rutland Herald and the Montpelier Times Argus.
A Charlie Hebdo rally in DC happened yesterday
Thousands Of People March In Washington In Remembrance Of Paris Terror Attacks
Dale Rawlings on Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech
A guest post by cartoonist Dale Rawlings.
I've been seeing some serious hand wringing from people over the Charlie Hebdo story decrying the content of the cartoons. Usually it goes along the lines of "No one deserves to die over cartoons but they're borderline racist" or "They're just so damned offensive" or "It's not even good satire. They're so juvenile and have no sophistication" etc... The trouble with supporting freedom of speech is that to TRULY be a supporter of freedom of expression is to stand in solidarity of those expressions that aren't so nice and easy to defend. It's really easy to stand in support of that speech you agree with -but far harder to defend something you don't personally like, disagree with, or just find to be ugly. But this is what it means to be an advocate of freedom of speech. Do you honestly think the ACLU liked what the Klan stands for or has to say when they defended their rights to free speech? THIS is the price we pay for freedom of speech.
When those rights of expression come under threat of violence then standing up in solidarity for that freedom of expression becomes not only essential, but mandatory. If you waver those extremists will take that as a sign of weakness and embolden them to take similar measures to squelch speech that offends them.
I have even seen some people laughably suggest in this debate that criticizing religion or religious figures should be exempt from protection so as not to offend someone's religious beliefs where anything similar happens in the future. Think about that for a minute. That would protect the Westboro Baptist Church, Al Sharpton, and the Church of Scientology from being ridiculed and satirized and that is a losing scenario for everyone. If your beliefs can't stand up to ridicule and you feel they need special protection from that ridicule, then maybe your faith in your belief system just isn't as strong as you think.
Je suis Charlie
Discuss.
Mike Jenkins' Christmas caricature of my wife's oldest friend
Jan 24: The Art of Richard Thompson event in Burbank, CA
The Art of Richard Thompson
- Show Title: The Art of Richard Thompson
- Artist: Richard Thompson
- Date and Time: January 24th, 2015
1:00pm-4:00pm - Type: Presentation, Book Signing, Interview, Meet & Greet.
- Author: Nick Galifianakis
- 847 Hollywood Way Suite 100
Burbank, CA 91505
CLICK HERE! to join us for this very special book launch event. Pre-order your book, meet the author and get it signed and receive a limited edition complimentary Richard Thompson print.
Just want to Buy The Book: CLICK HERE
"The Cartoonist's Cartoonist". Join us January 24th, from 1:00pm-4:00pm for a special presentation, meet and greet, and book signing with the author of "The Art of Richard Thompson", Nick Galifianakis, as he talks about his friend and genius cartoonist, Richard Thompson.
Schedule:
12:30 – 1:00pm Networking
1:00 – 2:00 Presentation by Nick Galifianakis
2:00 – 2:30 Lunch Break Networking
2:30 – 3:00 Screen Documentary
3:00 – 3:30 Interview by Charles Solomon
3:30 – Book Signing
Richard Thompson is a genius illustrator and cartoonist most known for his comic strip Cul de Sac and the illustrated poem "Make the Pie Higher". He has received numerous awards for his illustrations including National Cartoonists Society's Magazine and Book Illustration Award, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society, and many others Thompson's illustrations have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, Air & Space/Smithsonian, National Geographic and The Atlantic Monthly, and other notable publications.
"Very few cartoonists do so much, so well. Richard is a wonderful writer and one of the rare ones who can write truly unique, hilarious characters. He's drawn incisive caricatures, lavish illustrations, and one of the most beautiful comic strips I've ever seen. And just when you think it couldn't be better, sometimes he paints the stuff. Richard has the extra-deluxe, jumbo-size skill set. It's an inspiring body of work." ~Bill Watterson
Nick Galifianakis is an award winning American cartoonist and artist. Since 1997, he has drawn the cartoons for the nationally syndicated advice column, Tell Me About It, for the Washington Post and illustrated the book "Tell Me About It: Lying, Sulking, Getting Fat… and 56 Other Things NOT to Do While Looking for Love". He's also illustrated a number of books and was nominated by the National Cartoonists Society for the 2006 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in the Newspaper Illustration category and in 2012 won the Reuben Award for Advertising Illustration. In 2010, he published the book, "If You Loved Me, You'd Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You."
"Indeed, among those who "know," it has long been considered a crime, even a sin, that a book featuring the breathtaking range of Richard Thompson's work has not existed before now. That inexcusable absence is due mostly to the fact that Richard's talent is in direct proportion to his stubborn unwillingness to self-promote. Quietly creating in the pre-dawn hours against a soundtrack of classical music in a tiny studio, while consuming food of decidedly negligible substance (usually from a bag or Styrofoam box), contented to measure himself artistically only against himself, has always meant more to Richard than publicly shouting, "Look at me!" ~Nick Galifianakis
NOTE: This event will repeat at the CTN animation eXpo this Nov 20-22, 2015.
Cavna turns to Comic Riffs full time
Saturday, January 10, 2015
AAEC Issues Statement on Charlie Hebdo Massacre
The gruesome attack on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France today reminds us that freedom of expression in cartooning is not a given in many parts of the world. Charlie Hebdo was also attacked in 2011, and continued to publish. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists condemns this revolting act of violence, and stands with the international cartooning community in mourning the loss of twelve people, including several police officers who were executed.
President Hollande has called this an act of terrorism, and whether it was the work of those merely inspired by ISIS or those given direct orders doesn’t matter. Cartoonists and journalists around the world should be permitted to express themselves freely without fear of reprisal. These types of attacks only serve to illustrate how important the free spirit of cartoon commentary is, and how cartoonists make a difference in helping to expose hypocrisy.
Furthermore, newspapers should not avoid publishing material from the magazine that allegedly incited the incident. More freedom of expression and not less demonstrates courage in the face of attacks. Shrinking from a newspaper’s watchdog role only encourages more terror.
The AAEC board and membership expresses its sincere condolences to the innocent victims at this tragic moment, and calls for international solidarity with the cause of cartooning and freedom of artistic expression.
Friday, January 09, 2015
The Art of Richard Thompson at Politics and Prose
Michael Cavna, P&P owner, Nick Galifianakis |
Moderator Michael Cavna |
Co-writer David Apatoff (in blue) with his wife the author Nell Minnow |
Gene Weingarten realizing he's going to have to talk |
Britt Conley, who massaged and color-corrected all the scans |
Gene Weingarten recounting his stalking of Bill Watterson |
Nick G thanking everyone who worked on the book |