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Wednesday, September 02, 2015
SPX 2015 Reminder: Nickelodeon Call for Submissions Due September 14
Comic Riffs on the return of Bloom County
Magnet Opus: Breathed 'delighted' as 'Bloom County 2015′ joins Universal Uclick lineup
September 2 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/09/02/magnet-opus-breathed-delighted-as-bloom-county-2015-joins-universal-uclick-lineup/
The third Comic Riffs article on the content of comic strips
The Taste Test: Pastis and Piccolo rail against the tameness and timidity of comics
By Michael CavnaWashington Post Comic Riffs blog September 2 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/09/02/the-taste-test-pastis-and-piccolo-rail-against-the-tameness-and-timidity-of-comics/
Comic Riffs talks to Bob Mankoff about the computerization of humor
Can robots now write quality jokes? How the notion is becoming less laughable.
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 2 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/09/02/can-robots-now-write-quality-jokes-how-the-notion-is-becoming-less-laughable/
The Vision moves to suburban Northern Virginia via Tom King
Tom King Shares His Familial "Vision" for Marvel's Synthezoid Avenger
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Teresa Logan on Internet radio show POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS
The Savage & Starbuck Show
Hosted by Joie Savage and SB Starbuck
An Hour With Teresa Roberts Logan
POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS
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The Laughing Redhead is Teresa Roberts Logan.
She's made a living with humor for several decades, on page and on stage.
Teresa writes and draws humor for publication, for standup comedy, for storytelling, for cartoons . . . as well as spooky stuff, and provides content for publishing, animation, books, and product.
As a professional artist and illustrator, she has done thousands of paintings and drawings, kabillions (math!) of cartoons and jokes for products such as animations, cocktail napkins, partyware, tissues, and greeting cards. She was nominated for a Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society for her greeting cards. Currently she's working on a graphic novel, HAINT BLUE, (an autobiographical supernatural story), some horror short stories, and a web comic, FOG OF WORRY.
Books which contain her funny stuff (cartoons and columns): "The Older I Get, The Less I Care" (Andrews McMeel Publishing), "Laughing Out Loud" (Hallmark Gift Books), "Humor for a Sister's Heart" (Howard Publishing), "Mug of Woe," "All Woe Great and Small," "Woe of Dating," (just released) "Wreck the Halls," (Mug of Woe Publishing).
Teresa has done a lot of standup comedy and storytelling, through such venues as: HBO, Comedy Channel, A&E, Catch A Rising Star, Gotham Comedy Club, The Metropolitan Room NYC, Zanies, and Comedy Works . . . and was an opening act for Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey, Drew Carey, and Paula Poundstone, as well as many other famous and not–so-famous funny people. "Rich Jeni called me 'the Meryl Streep of comedy' and I thought that was so cool that he loved my dialects and accents so much. But one day, when he found out that's what I thought, he laughed really hard and told me, 'No, I meant you have the same NOSE!'"
She's made a living with humor for several decades, on page and on stage.
Teresa writes and draws humor for publication, for standup comedy, for storytelling, for cartoons . . . as well as spooky stuff, and provides content for publishing, animation, books, and product.
As a professional artist and illustrator, she has done thousands of paintings and drawings, kabillions (math!) of cartoons and jokes for products such as animations, cocktail napkins, partyware, tissues, and greeting cards. She was nominated for a Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society for her greeting cards. Currently she's working on a graphic novel, HAINT BLUE, (an autobiographical supernatural story), some horror short stories, and a web comic, FOG OF WORRY.
Books which contain her funny stuff (cartoons and columns): "The Older I Get, The Less I Care" (Andrews McMeel Publishing), "Laughing Out Loud" (Hallmark Gift Books), "Humor for a Sister's Heart" (Howard Publishing), "Mug of Woe," "All Woe Great and Small," "Woe of Dating," (just released) "Wreck the Halls," (Mug of Woe Publishing).
Teresa has done a lot of standup comedy and storytelling, through such venues as: HBO, Comedy Channel, A&E, Catch A Rising Star, Gotham Comedy Club, The Metropolitan Room NYC, Zanies, and Comedy Works . . . and was an opening act for Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey, Drew Carey, and Paula Poundstone, as well as many other famous and not–so-famous funny people. "Rich Jeni called me 'the Meryl Streep of comedy' and I thought that was so cool that he loved my dialects and accents so much. But one day, when he found out that's what I thought, he laughed really hard and told me, 'No, I meant you have the same NOSE!'"
Nate Powell talks about March
CBR TV: Working on "March" Has Changed Artist Nate Powell
Comic Riffs talks to a syndicate censor ... editor
The Comics Taste Test: Dilbert, 'Uranus-Hertz' & the birth of the substitute strip
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 1 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/09/01/the-comics-taste-test-dilbert-uranus-hertz-the-birth-of-the-substitute-strip/
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 1 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/09/01/the-comics-taste-test-dilbert-uranus-hertz-the-birth-of-the-substitute-strip/
Amy Lago is a friend of mine, but I still think the comics are way too tame, and thus boring, compared to the rest of American media.
Fwd: Small Press Expo Announces Guests Brandon Graham and Phoebe Gloeckner
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Sept 16: "Sequential Art in Science Communication” by David Clarke
https://gnsi.org/event/meeting/gnsi-dc-sept-16th-sequential-art-science-communication
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
PRESENTATION: "Sequential Art in Science Communication" by David Clarke
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 at 5:30 p.m.
The word "comics" might bring to mind well-thumbed copies of Scrooge McDuck, Spiderman, or the newspaper's Sunday funny pages, but today sequential art is being used to communicate and teach subjects such as science, medicine and history. David Clarke is creating comics about the history of science. His first large scale project is a graphic novel of the voyage of "Captain" James Cook and Joseph Banks to Tahiti for the Transit of Venus and their subsequent travels around the South Pacific mapping New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. David will describe the development process – what's involved - in creating a graphic novel.
David Clarke, former GNSI DC President, is the CEO of his own studio. He creates animations, illustrations, comics and graphics and works with a small programming team to create interactive learning objects for the university's online classrooms. He is an Adjunct faculty member of Northern Virginia Community College and a multimedia/graphic artist at the University of Maryland University College. He has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Academy of Art University, based in San Francisco.
LOCATION:
Smithsonian Natural History Museum
10th St. & Constitution Ave., Washington, DC.
Wait for an escort in the Constitution Avenue lobby between 5:30 and 6:10 p.m. (about every 15 minutes)
EVENING'S SCHEDULE:
— 5:30 p.m. for snacks and socializing (Please bring a food item to share, or $3.00 for the donation jar.)
— 6:00 p.m. Business and announcements
— 6:10 p.m. (approx.) Presentation begins
World War II cartoons from the Navy's medical historian's office
The Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's historian's office holds a collection of newsletters and newspapers from various naval hospitals. U.S. Naval Hospital Aiea Heights had two issues and 2 fragments of an issue that are now online at the Medical Heritage Library. Here's the cartoons from them.
Robert Woodcock was one of the best of them and had two in the November 11, 1944 issue, and is featured in an article here.
Virgil Partch, aka VIP, was one of the best cartoonists and went on to a serious postwar career in cartooning. This is from December 15, 1945.
Al Santamauro (Nov. 11, 1943) and Bill Pietsch (Dec. 12, 1945) both seem to have disappeared from the cartooning world.
PR: Niso Ramponi book from Lost Art Books
KREMOS: The Lost Art of Niso Ramponi Vols. 1& 2 are now officially available for pre-order from our website. Here's our book trailer.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Comic Riffs talks to The Post's comics censor.... editor
The Comics Taste Test: The thankless task of drawing the funnies' red lines
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 31 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/08/31/the-comics-taste-test-the-thankless-task-of-drawing-the-funnies-red-lines/
PR: The Sevara novel is FREE today only (Monday, August 31)
by Damian Wampler
Yep, that's right. The novel, which tells about Sevara's childhood and how she got her powers, is on Amazon now, and it's free. You can download it tonight until midnight Pacific time, so you still have a few hours. Here's a link to the book: http://amzn.com/B0115CWE2S
Here's a video that talks a little about the novel. Get a copy before the deal ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1w26OtN9HsFrank Cho continues girly art
Bleeding Cool has the story at http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/08/28/your-frank-cho-she-hulk-power-girl-supergirl-and-spider-gwen-outrage-for-the-weekend/ and you can buy the sketches at Baltimore Comic Con soon.
Outlasting another City Paper editor
Christina Cauterucci left last week, so I've outlasted my third Washington City Paper editor whilst writing about comics. Jonathan Fischer, who lured me over in the first place, appears to be gone as well. So unless I hear from them, I'll probably be back to posting all my local material here. You can read what I wrote for the over a few years for the paper here.Small Press Expo Sponsors Keith Knight, Miss Lasko-Gross and Diane Noomin at the National Book Festival
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Sept 5: National Book Festival cartoonist appearances (updated)
National Book Festival: Graphic Novels
Washington Post August 30 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/national-book-festival-graphic-novels/2015/08/28/f0f4eab4-30a4-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
3 evening panels on political cartoons, women and comics and Stephan Pastis
2015 National Book Festival poster by Peter de SèvePeter De Sève will talk about his work at 10 a.m. and sign copies of his poster at 11 a.m.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/national-book-festival-graphic-novels/2015/08/28/f0f4eab4-30a4-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
3 evening panels on political cartoons, women and comics and Stephan Pastis
National Book Festival: Picture Books
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/national-book-festival-picture-books/2015/08/27/ea79529c-309f-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
3 animators, including Christian Robinson, Cale Atkinson, William Joyce in the morning and graphic novelist Dan Santat at 4 pm.
Children
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/2015-national-book-festival/
Lunch Lady artist Jarrett J. Krosoczka and graphic novelists Cece Bell and Jennifer Holm.
Teens
Michael Buckley
Speaking at 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Sept. 5, 2015)
Signing at 3 p.m.
Michael Buckley is the author of
two series of books for children, “The Sisters Grimm” and “NERDS.” He
has also written and produced the animated series “Robotomy” on the
Cartoon Network. His most recent book is “Undertow.”
New Yorker illustrator Peter de Sève on his Book Festival poster design
2015 National Book Festival poster by Peter de SèvePeter De Sève will talk about his work at 10 a.m. and sign copies of his poster at 11 a.m.
Sept 16: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: SYMPHONY OF THE GODDESSES at Strathmore
Music from the animated video game will be in Maryland at the Strathmore. Details at http://zelda-symphony.com/
Sunday, August 30, 2015
International Ink: The GNs of August
Regular readers of my reviews know that I'm preferring Young Adult and children's comics much more than the latest attempted cannibalization of ossified superhero stories that were being rehashed when I was young.
The recent mails have brought some good ones.
Sunny Side Up
by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
Scholastic
Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, Sunny Side Up is at once a compelling "problem" story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world.
The Amazon description isn't really accurate - Sunny Lewin is sent off to Florida to stay with her grandfather in a retirement community instead of taking a family vacation, and she doesn't know why she's being punished like this. She makes friends with the son of one of the staff members, and eventually finds out that her parents are dealing with drying her older brother out. This is one of the best stories I've read this year.
Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
by Judd Winick
Random House
I'm also a big fan of Judd Winick, and it was a pleasure to see him return to the light humor that characterized his comic book Barry Ween, Boy Genius. A young boy appears to have crashed, naked into a suburban neighborhood where he's found by D.J., a boy who has a big family but no friends. The boy, Hilo, has no idea who he is, or where he came from but soon ends up fighting giant robot monsters that are also landing like he did. Heavily-influenced by Bill Watterson and Calvin & Hobbes, this series is worth reading by adults and kids.
ScholasticThe recent mails have brought some good ones.
Sunny Side Up
by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
Scholastic
Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, Sunny Side Up is at once a compelling "problem" story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world.
The Amazon description isn't really accurate - Sunny Lewin is sent off to Florida to stay with her grandfather in a retirement community instead of taking a family vacation, and she doesn't know why she's being punished like this. She makes friends with the son of one of the staff members, and eventually finds out that her parents are dealing with drying her older brother out. This is one of the best stories I've read this year.
Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
by Judd Winick
Random House
I'm also a big fan of Judd Winick, and it was a pleasure to see him return to the light humor that characterized his comic book Barry Ween, Boy Genius. A young boy appears to have crashed, naked into a suburban neighborhood where he's found by D.J., a boy who has a big family but no friends. The boy, Hilo, has no idea who he is, or where he came from but soon ends up fighting giant robot monsters that are also landing like he did. Heavily-influenced by Bill Watterson and Calvin & Hobbes, this series is worth reading by adults and kids.
Space Dumplins
by Craig Thompson
The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution
by Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith, Aaron McConnellA full-color, lushly illustrated graphic novel that recounts the many-layered past and present of beer through dynamic pairings of pictures and meticulously researched insight into the history of the world's favorite brew.
Democracy
by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa, Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury
Great Showdowns: The Revenge
by Scott Campbell
Titan
by Eric Corbeyran and Djillali Defali
Titan
A graphic novel based on the videogame. Also not aimed at me, but I'll give it a try based on this description: In 14th century Egypt, the seasoned Assassin El Cakr seeks to return the mysterious Scepter of Aset to the Brotherhood… when it is stolen by a mysterious woman named Leila. Seven centuries later, El Cakr's descendant Jonathan Hawk desperately tries to get his hands on the relic – leading to an ultimate showdown between the Assassins and the Templars.
The Art of Regular Show
by Shannon O'Leary
Titan
The Regular Show came on the air after my daughter stopped watching the Cartoon Network. Still I'm a sucker for behind-the-scenes art books, and I own the Fluxx game. I may get one of the neighborhood kids to give me 500 words on this though. The Emmy Award-winning Regular Show, created by JG Quintel, is a jewel in the Cartoon Network crown with over 100 million viewers globally. The series follows the hilarious and surreal adventures of blue jay Mordecai and his best friend, Rigby the raccoon, as they make their days working at a local park anything but regular. Mordecai and Rigby are joined by their boss Benson, an explosively angry gumball machine, yeti groundskeeper Skips, loveable lollipop man Pops and other weird and wonderful friends. This is the world of polar-bear portals and demonic hot-dogs where adventure can be found in the most surprising places.
The Regular Show came on the air after my daughter stopped watching the Cartoon Network. Still I'm a sucker for behind-the-scenes art books, and I own the Fluxx game. I may get one of the neighborhood kids to give me 500 words on this though. The Emmy Award-winning Regular Show, created by JG Quintel, is a jewel in the Cartoon Network crown with over 100 million viewers globally. The series follows the hilarious and surreal adventures of blue jay Mordecai and his best friend, Rigby the raccoon, as they make their days working at a local park anything but regular. Mordecai and Rigby are joined by their boss Benson, an explosively angry gumball machine, yeti groundskeeper Skips, loveable lollipop man Pops and other weird and wonderful friends. This is the world of polar-bear portals and demonic hot-dogs where adventure can be found in the most surprising places.
Titan
Before Marilyn and Madonna, Betty booped and wriggled her way into hearts worldwide with her unique mix of wide-eyed innocence and powerful cartoon sensuality. Although she made her film debut as a curvaceous canine cabaret singer in the Max Fleischer short Dizzy Dishes on August 9, 1930, Betty Boop remains animation's first leading lady and a glamorous international icon. This beautiful volume collects Betty's adventures as they appeared in the funny pages of daily newspapers in the 1930's, capturing all the cheeky fun embodied by the character. These comic strips are from well-before my time, but I'm looking forward to dipping into them. This is a Golden Age for comic strip reprints, one last seen in the late 1970s, and if you're interested in strips, you should be spending a lot of money now.
Two other books I've read, after funding them on Kickstarter, are worth mentioning.
Two other books I've read, after funding them on Kickstarter, are worth mentioning.
by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio
Airship Entertainment.
The Foglio's steampunk webcomic is extremely popular, and collected annually. I don't think this is a great jumping-on point, but you can read all the preceding story online, so buy this one if you haven't already started the series. Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha is the last of the Heterodynes, a notorious family of Mad Scientists that everyone had thought safely wiped out. When a rival scientist traps her family castle and the surrounding town in a time-freeze, Agatha must embark on a journey to find a way to reverse the effect and save the people she loves. This volume is a great jumping-on point for readers wanting to discover the award-winning Girl Genius series!
Comic Book People 2: Photographs from the 1990s
by Jackie Estrada
Exhibit A Press
This is a book for the hardcore comic book fan, consisting of photographs taken at cons throughout the '90s. I enjoyed it, but I know and like the work of most of the people in this book. If you know who Dave Stevens is, this might be a book for you.
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