2015 Ignatz Award NOminees For Immediate Release The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the 2015 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. Additional information on the nominees and previews (as available) can be found at www.spxpo.com/spx-2015-ignatz-nominees. The 2015 Ignatz Award Nominees
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Outstanding Story
Promising New Talent
Outstanding Series
Outstanding Comic
Outstanding Minicomic
Outstanding Online Comic
SPX will be held Saturday, September 19 from 11AM to 7PM and Sunday, September 20, noon-6PM at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is $15 for Saturday, $10 for Sunday and $20 for both days. For further information on the Ignatz Awards, the nominees or to request an interview, please contact Ignatz Awards coordinator, Eden Miller, at spxignatz@gmail.com or SPX executive director, Warren Bernard at warren@spxpo.com. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.spxpo.com. Once again we want to thank our our friends at comiXology for sponsoring the Ignatz Awards. Information on comiXology and their self-publishing portal Submit can be found at https://submit.comixology.com. This year's image of Ignatz, as seen above, was created by 2014 Promising New Talent Winner Cathy G. Johnson. |
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
PR: Announcing the 2015 Ignatz Award Nominations
Sink/Swim Comic Creator Expo: Oct. 17
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
New format for 'Hey, Look! Comics!'
Saturday, August 15, 2015
The Post on superhero movies financials
The biggest superhero movie flops and successes of all time
By Ana Swanson and Shelly TanWashington Post Wonkblog August 14 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/14/the-biggest-superhero-movie-flops-and-successes-of-all-time/
Aug 28: Animezing: Grave of the Fireflies
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JICC, Embassy of Japan | 1150 18th St., NW | Suite 100 | Washington | DC | 20036 |
Aug 29: Kevin Panetta & Paulina Ganucheau signing - Zodiac Starforce
- Big Planet Comics of Vienna426 Maple Ave E, Vienna, Virginia 22180
We will have an EXCLUSIVE Big Planet Comics variant of issue #1 for sale, as well as a limited edition print of the cover!
Zodiac Starforce is an elite group of teenage girls with magical powers have sworn to protect our planet against dark creatures... as long as they can get out of class!
These high-school girls aren't just combating math tests. They're also battling monsters! But when an evil force infects leader Emma, she must work with her team to save herself—and the world—from the evil Diana and her mean-girl minions!
You can see a preview of Zodiac Starforce for free at Dark Horse's website:
https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/28-942?page=0
Kevin's twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinpanetta
Paulina's twitter: https://twitter.com/PlinaGanucheau
Zodiac Starforce's website: http://zodiacstarforce.com/
We will also be having a second signing at 4 pm at our Big Planet Comics of College Park store! https://www.facebook.com/events/723632117782468/
Cartoons! Closing Reception tonight
https://www.facebook.com/events/954661744601670/ for details but it's in the cafe below Politics and Prose.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Cartoonists Rights Network presents 2015 award to Iranian cartoonist
Jailed Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani Recipient of CRNI's 2015 Courage in Cartooning Award
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "#BernBabyBern"
"#BernBabyBern"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1763
What the hell kind of rank-ass politician goes on and on about "revolution" while voting to continue funding Israeli barbarity in Palestine? And what kind of politician talks big talk about "revolution" while knocking himself out to get a base in his home state for a fighter jet whose development ran into trillions of dollars, and already has a reputation for being one of the biggest pain-in-the-ass fighters the Air Force ever had? And what kind of politician can't shut up about a "revolution" while running as a Democrat, for Christ's sake?
"Feel The Bern", my ass.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Comic Riffs talks to Teresa Roberts Logan
One year after Robin Williams's death: A D.C. humorist illuminates mental illness
By Michael Cavna August 11 2015http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/08/11/one-year-after-robin-williamss-death-a-d-c-humorist-illuminates-mental-illness/
Aug 14-16: Intervention con in Rockville
http://interventioncon.com/aboutcontact/about/
August 14-16, 2015Hilton Washington DC/Rockville
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852
From Friday 12pm to Sunday 4pm
PR: SPX 2015 Announces Special Guests Derf, Jessica Abel and Ted Rall
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Sept 18: Dylan Horrocks of New Zealand at Politics & Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Monday, August 10, 2015
8/15: Ed PIskor at Third Eye Comics
Sept 18: Pre-SPX Hangout with Brandon Graham & Hang Dai
- Fantom Comics2010 P St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20036
Our featured guests will be BRANDON GRAHAM (Island, 8house, Prophet) and the NYC art collective HANG DAI EDITIONS, featuring Dean Haspiel, Christa Cassano, Gregory Benton, and Josh Neufeld. Stay tuned for more featured guest updates!
There'll be booze, snacks, and a generally good time. If you're visiting from out of town for SPX and you're in Bethesda, we're a quick hop and a skip into DC on the Red Line--Fantom is walking distance from the Dupont Circle station. It's gonna be a whale of a party...
Sunday, August 09, 2015
The Post on Al Hirschfeld
The Hirschfeld Century' review: the best work of the iconic caricaturist [in print as The gentle joy of Al Hirschfeld].
Washington Post (August 9 2015): E13
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-hirschfeld-century-captures-the-best-work-of-the-iconic-caricaturist/2015/08/05/66c3ed06-2ef4-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
Saturday, August 08, 2015
Pr: Kirby exhibition hype!
Hello, this is Charles Hatfield, the author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby. I've got news! I'm curating an exhibition, Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby, at my school, California State University, Northridge (here in Los Angeles). This exhibition opens in two weeks, on August 24, and will be up through October 10.
Putting together this show has been the thrill of a lifetime! Comic Book Apocalypse will consist of about 100 pieces of original art by Kirby, alongside dozens of his published comics. I believe this will be the largest gallery exhibition of Kirby art ever held in the US, and it will certainly be the first held at a university and integrated with the work of students and teachers. (All of my classes will be coming to the show and doing work based on it.)
The show focuses on Kirby's art from 1965 on but also includes examples of earlier work from the 1940s and 50s. Featured will be Kirby covers, spreads, panel pages, unpublished drawings, and several of his trademark collages. Two complete stories will be exhibited, as well as examples from many, many others.
You are invited to our grand opening reception on Saturday, August 29, from 4 to 7pm! Also, we are holding a gallery talk on Monday, August 31, at 10am, and a panel discussion on Saturday, September 26, at 1pm. All these events are free and open to the public, and will take place in the Gallery, in the midst of all that Kirby! Please feel free to attend any and all of them.
You can read about the show at the CSUN Art Galleries website:
I believe this is going to a major event for comics culture in Los Angeles, and I'm eager to spread the word however I can!
California State University
Politico's week in editorial cartooning
The nation's cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
Friday, August 07, 2015
8/8: Black Mask Studios at Third Eye Comics
The Post reviews of Shaun the Sheep Movie and Fantastic Four
Review: Feast your eyes on the visual delights of 'Shaun the Sheep Movie'
By Jen Chaney August 7 2015http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/review-feast-your-eyes-on-shaun-the-sheep/2015/08/04/c0e1dd8c-3ac2-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html
'Shaun the Sheep' says it best when it says nothing at all [in print as Clay it, don't say it: 'Shaun' has a way without words]
Express August 7 2015, p. 18
Review: 'Fantastic Four' reboot sets franchise back, in more ways than one
By Michael O'Sullivan August 7 2015http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/review-fantastic-four-reboot-sets-franchise-back-in-more-ways-than-one/2015/08/06/210501ca-3bf0-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html
Review: The origin-obsessed 'Fantastic Four' reboot leaves its talented young cast stranded [in print as Doomed from the start]
Express August 7 2015, p. 17
Review: 'Fantastic Four,' the Reboot (Wanted or Not)
By A. O. SCOTT
A version of this review appears in print on August 7, 2015, on page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: Wanted or Not, a Superheroic Rebooting
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/movies/review-fantastic-four-the-reboot-wanted-or-not.htmlThursday, August 06, 2015
Robert Osborn-illustrated booklet online
Robert Osborne's Navy career in Washington
By Capt. Rosario Rausa, USNR (Ret)
NAVAL AVIATION NEWS January-February 1993, 2-5
http://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/histories/naval-aviation/Naval%20Aviation%20News/grampaw-pettibone-collection/features/pdf/Gramps%2050th.pdf
Wednesday, August 05, 2015
PR: SPX and Nickelodeon Announce a Call for Submissions at SPX 2015
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Comic Riffs talks to cartoonists about Jon Stewart
'Jon Stewart smoked us': How 'The Daily Show' raised the bar for other satirists
By Michael Cavna August 4 2015http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/08/04/jon-stewart-smoked-us-how-his-daily-show-raised-the-bar-for-other-satirists/