Comic Riffs on Z2 Comics and Inside Out

Pete Docter's inspiration behind Pixar's mindful 'Inside Out'? This one goes to 11.

By Michael Cavna

June 18 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/06/18/pete-docters-inspiration-behind-pixars-mindful-inside-out-this-one-goes-to-11/

 

Z2 Comics announces new fall titles as it ramps up its creator-owned mission

By David Betancourt

June 18 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/06/18/z2-comics-announces-new-fall-titles-as-it-ramps-up-its-creator-owned-mission/

New book from Nick Galifianakis?

Nick Galifianakis usually lets me know when he's got a new project, so I was surprised to have a new book of his pointed out to me:

Bridget Goes to the Hospital Paperback – March 17, 2015

by Bridget Scully (Author), Nick Galifianakis (Illustrator)

I asked Nick about it, and he replied, "Bridget is Katharine Weymouth's youngest daughter.  Bridget (I call her Bridgey Boo) had a very serious accident, one that almost resulted in her losing her arm.  I've always been close to Katherine's children so I visited Bridget almost daily during her long hospital stay of multiple surgeries and endless treatment.  She was in tremendous pain so I did my best to distract her by doing quick drawings at her bedside.  Sometimes she would draw a squiggle and challenge me to make something from it.  Other drawings were simply dashed off in the moment and yet others were more refined - whatever it took to make her smile that day.

"Later on, her mother, Katharine Weymouth, collected the drawings, all of which I left with Bridget, and created this book by pairing my crazy pictures with a story Bridget's wrote about her her experience.  The proceeds go to charity.  Beyond being brave and tough that's rare in a child that age, she's also easily my most adorable coauthor."

Former Cartoonist Jake Tapper covers Roll Call

Jake Tapper Draws Cartoon for the Roll Call 60th Anniversary

By Cameron Easley

June 16, 2015

http://blogs.rollcall.com/capitol-ink/jake-tapper-cartoon-roll-call-60th-anniversary/

A shitty Kickstarter?

Meet the Web site where start-up dreams go to die

These are the Kickstarter projects that literally nobody would invest in

By Ana Swanson/Washington Post

“This is the Rocky story for our generation,” reads a tagline for a would-be film about a would-be superhero. “Excremento is a superhero that nobody wants to be rescued by.

Read the article.

Mike Lester's Mike du Jour nibbles at Muhammad cartoon controversy

Political cartoonist Mike Lester's comic strip Mike du Jour nibbles at the Muhammad cartoon controversy this week.

June 21-24: The comics side of the AJL jubilee conference

Courtesy of Steve Bergson.

 

From June 21st - June June 24th, the Association of Jewish Libraries will be holding its 50th annual conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. One of the sessions on Tuesday June 22nd is titled "Graphic Representations of the Holocaust and Jewish Life", which will be moderated by popular culture expert Rachel Leket-Mor. Steven M. Bergson (editor of Jewish Comix Anthology, volume 1) will share "Secret Origins of the Jewish Comix Anthology. Christopher Huh (who is currently working on a new novel about Raoul Wallenberg) will talk about his Holocaust graphic novel Keeping My Hope. Dr. Rafael Medoff, a historian who has assisted with such works as "The Last Outrage" (X-Men : Magneto : Testament #5), They Spoke Out : American Voices Against the Holocaust, and "The St. Louis Refugee Ship Blues" (Washington Post, 2009), will discuss "Cartoonists Against the Holocaust: A New Way of Teaching about Genocide".

The session is limited to conference attendees. The per diem Tuesday registration costs $184.59. To register, please go to http://www.eventbrite.com/e/association-of-jewish-libraries-conference-yoveljubilee-celebrating-50-years-of-ajl-please-scroll-registration-14689824661.

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Today: SuperNoVA Comiccon in Fredericksburg

SuperNoVa Comicon - Fredericksburg

• 10:00am - 3:00pm

• Wingate Hotel, 20 Sanford Drive, Fredericksburg, VA 22406

Weingarten talks to Mankoff about the New Yorker cartoon contest

The booby prize

(Illustration by Eric Shansby)

By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Magazine June 7 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-booby-prize/2015/05/27/fefb2eca-fa4e-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html

June 26: Animezing: Giovanni's Island

Animezing Series Presented by the JICC, Embassy of Japan Giovanni's Island Friday, June 26, 6:30 p.m. Never miss another event!   Our Location: JICC, Embassy of Japan 1150 18th St, NW Suite 100 Washington, DC 20036 Driving Directions © 2014 JAME | 2014 | 102 min | Not Rated | In Japanese, Russian, and Korean with English subtitles | Directed by Mizuho Nishikubo The critically-acclaimed film from Production I.G., the studio that brought you A Letter to Momo and Ghost in the Shell.   On August 15th, they told us we had lost the war. At that time, we did not really understand. Then one day, everything changed. Many soldiers, wearing uniforms we had never seen before, arrived on the island. That was the day I met Tanya.   1945. Junpei and his little brother Kanta are two children who live with their father Tatsuo on a tiny island off the northernmost shores of Japan, and which has remained virtually untouched by the raging war. As Japan surrenders on August 15th, everybody is expecting American troops to land anytime. But it is the Red Army which arrives instead, because the island has now become Soviet Union territory. And for the Japanese community, a new life with the Soviet citizens who have moved onto the island begins... Based on true events.   Winner of: Best Animated Film in the 69th Mainichi Film Awards; Excellence Prizes in the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival and the 38th Japan Academy Prize; Jury Awards at the 38th Annecy Animation Film Festival, the 5th Scotland Loves Animation, the 31st Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and many other prizes and distinctions.   Register Now! This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please note that seating is limited and registration does not guarantee guests a seat. Registered guests will be seated on a first come, first served basis. Please contact us at jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp in the event of cancellation. Doors open at 6:00 pm. No admission or re-entry after 7:00 pm.

6/13: Nate Simpson at Third Eye Comics

Saturday 6/13/15: NONPLAYER Signing with NATE SIMPSON

 

at THIRD EYE ANNAPOLIS 

Click  here for event info on FACEBOOK.

Comic Riffs continues support for Iranian cartoonist

#Draw4Atena: See how artists support Iranian woman sentenced to 12 years for cartoon

By Michael Cavna June 12 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/06/12/draw4atena-see-how-artists-support-iranian-woman-sentenced-to-12-years-for-cartoon/

Today's Pearls Before Swine is perhaps related to this, or the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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Comics stories in today's Post

Studio Ghibli's 'When Marnie Was There' casts many spells [in print as Studio Ghibli's animated tale casts mysterious spells]

By Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post June 12 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/studio-ghiblis-when-marnie-was-there-casts-many-spells/2015/06/10/aa71cb9c-0af3-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html

Alluring package, not much inside ['Gemma Bovery' movie review]

By Stephanie Merry Washington Post June 12 2015
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/gemma-bovery-movie-review/2015/06/10/f8fdc296-0ec9-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html

and a Garfield play.

A Fat Cat, A Strange Circus [online as Summer fare in D.C. for theatergoers of all ages]

By Jane Horwitz 
Washington Post June 12 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/theater-dance/summer-fare-in-dc-for-theatergoers-of-all-ages/2015/06/11/ad4a11c6-0b93-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html

Muslim women writers and famous signatures

The new summer 2015 edition of Johns Hopkins Magazine includes an article on young, female Muslim writers in the science fiction and fantasy genre, including G. Willow Wilson, who writes the current popular Ms. Marvel series for Marvel Comics.

In the same issue, there is an article about historical signature collector Stuart Lutz that includes a photo of a British Mickey Mouse Annual comic that was signed by Walt Disney.

Cul de Sac the Play coming next year

Cul de Sac

Play by Amy Thompson
Adapted from the Comic Strip, Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson

Friday, June 3, 2016 at 7:30pm
Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 11am and 3pm
Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 3pm
Friday, June 10, 2016 at 7:30pm
Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 11am and 3pm
Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 3pm

Location:
All performances are held at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre (125 S. Old Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA 22204)

This was announced yesterday on Amy Thompson's Facebook page. Amy and Richard are married so she presumably had no problem getting permissions, but you never know with that guy.

Sutliff's 'Fight the Bite' calendar

The work of local cartoonist Joe Sutliff is featured in a relatively new two-year calendar for the Fairfax County Health Department. The calendar uses characters (and some of the images) from a booklet Sutliff did for the county a few years ago on avoiding ticks and mosquitoes as part of disease prevention. But there are many new drawings, too. In fact, Sutliff tells ComicsDC that he has infused the names of several health department staffers in the newer illustrations (see if you can find them in the photos below). Sutliff added that he annually adds drawings for new editions, which are also printed in California, South America, Australia, Africa and other places. "Best part about the whole deal is that every Thanksgiving, when they go around the table, I get to say 'I am grateful for blood sucking parasites," he says.

‘Pop Goes the Podcast’ at Awesome Con

Journalist/podcaster (and comics fan) Michael O’Connell posts a recording of the podcast panel on May 30 at Awesome Con in D.C. Most of the panelists had some ties to comics: O’Connell (It’s All About Journalism) has had local comic bookers on his podcast; Carolyn Belefski and Joe Carabeo (Carolyn and Joe Show) writer and draw comics;  Jennifer Crawford (Jellyvision Show) once owned an arts venue in Virginia that hosted one of the D.C. Conspiracy’s former Counter Culture Festivals; and Alex Vidales (Pilot Waves) has interviewed cartoonist Ben Claassen III (and yours truly in an upcoming episode). All of us are members of the DC Podcaster community, a Facebook group of podcasters from the Washington, D.C., area that host monthly meetings to share tips and socialize. DC Podcaster will sponsor the inaugural DC PodFest Nov. 6-8 at the Wonderbread Factory in Washington.

(From left) Michael O’Connell of It's All Journalism, Carolyn Belefski of the Carolyn and Joe Show and Alex Vidales of Pilot Waves. Photo courtesy of O'Connell.

Comic Riffs calls for support for Iranian cartoonist

Open Call to Artists: #Draw4Atena to support appeal of Iranian artist's 12-year sentence

By Michael Cavna June 10 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/06/10/open-call-to-artists-draw4atena-to-support-appeal-of-iranian-artists-12-year-sentence/

Atena Farghadani drew a mocking illustration of Parliament.

Comics Alternatives handicaps the Eisners (and asks my opinion)

Commentary: Reactions to the 2015 Eisner Award Nominations

June 9, 2015
http://comicsalternative.com/commentary-eisners2015/

I'd like to thank Derek Royal and Any Kunka for actually asking for my opinion.

UPDATE: I did pretty good on predicting. 7 right and 2 wrong.

Right: Best Continuing Series = Saga; Best for Kids (8-12) = El Deafo by Cece Bell; Best for Teens = Lumberjanes; Best Humor = Compleate Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson; Best Graphic Album = This One Summer by the Tamaki cousins; Best Archival Project = Taschen's Little Nemo; Best Cover Artist = Darwyn Cooke.

Wrong: Lovern Kindzierski for Best Colorist and Comic Book Resources for Best Journalism.

Comic Riffs talks to Stephanie McMillan

Kickstarter of the Day: Stephanie McMillan affirms your anti-capitalism (plus: goats!)

By Michael Cavna June 9 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/06/09/kickstarter-of-the-day-stephanie-mcmillan-affirms-your-anti-capitalism-plus-goats/