Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Washington Blade article on Kameny comic

Kameny story told in comic
By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
A D.C.-based online comics site called ReDistricted earlier this month published an illustrated story of the life of pioneering gay rights leader Frank Kameny.
Read the article.

Francois Mouly compiling protest comic for march on Washington

Francoise Mouly

Calling all comics artists and illustrators!

Nadja Spiegelman and I are putting together a political comics and graphics newspaper called RESIST!

It will be a special issue of Gabe Fowler's Smoke Signals. It will be printed at 30,000 copies and distributed for free during the women's march on Washington, as well as across the country. We're aiming to have it be an all women's issue, but we're open to submissions from anyone.

Here's our website with more information:

www.resistsubmission.com

We need everything by December 10th at the very latest!

Please -- send us your political images and sketches! Make your voices heard! And spread the word about this as far and wide as you can...

Hospital visit for children by DC's chapter of the National Cartoonist Society

Carolyn Belefski has the details.

Cartooning for Kids 2016

November 23, 2016

http://www.curls-studio.com/curls/cartooning-for-kids-2016/

More to Come - on March

More To Come 237: March Book Three Wins National Book Award!

Produced by Kate Fitzsimons

PW Comics World: More To Come 11/18/2016
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=661

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In this week's podcast the More to Come Crew - Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons – discuss 'March Book Three' by Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell and the Civil Rights graphic memoir's historic evening winning the National Book Award for Young People's Literature—the first graphic novel to win a National Book Award. The Crew also recaps Comic Arts Brooklyn, the upcoming Miami Book Fair and New Jersey Comics Expo, legal troubles at Wizard World and offer pos

Express on Moana

I've gotta be me: 'Moana' is so over the princess thing

[online as 'Moana' has something insightful to say about the whole 'Disney princess' thing]

By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express November 23 2016, p. 39

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/11/23/moana-has-something-insightful-to-say-about-the-whole-disney-princess-thing/

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Panetta's next comic

Tom Spurgeon at Comics Reporter tossed up this story from last spring that we missed about Kevin Panetta's upcoming graphic novel.

Graphic novel 'Bloom' has it all: romance, baking and LGBT visibility

By Aliza Weinberger Feb 08, 2016
http://mashable.com/2016/02/08/bloom-comic/

NY Times on March

John Lewis's National Book Award-Winning Graphic Memoir on the Civil Rights Movement

By JULIAN LUCAS

A version of this review appears in print on November 27, 2016, on page BR13 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: They Had a Dream.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/books/review/john-lewis-march.html

Monday, November 21, 2016

Comic Culture with Baltimore cartoonist Monica Gallagher

Comic Culture with Monica Gallagher

Nov 21, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC-NxRcipR8

Roller derby, indie comics, and self-doubt are among the topics covered with Monica Gallagher, the artist behind Bonnie N. Collide. Comic Culture is directed and crewed by students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I'm posting the video as producer/host and not as an official University publication.

Jeff Kinney in Catholic Standard

'Wimpy Kid' author Kinney comes home [online as 'Wimpy Kid' author pays tribute to his Catholic roots during visit to Piscataway school]

Mark Zimmermann, Catholic Standard

November 17, 2016

online at http://www.cathstan.org/Content/News/Schools/Article/-Wimpy-Kid-author-pays-tribute-to-his-Catholic-roots-during-visit-to-Piscataway-school/2/21/7408

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Lenora Yerkes

by Mike Rhode

I met Lenora Yerkes recently at a local art book festival where she was selling two minicomics.

What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?

I write stories inspired by my life--you might call it personal or observational narrative drawing.

How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?

I'm all analog--pens and paper and nothing fancier than a nice Japanese pen and a kinda busted scanner.

When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?

My favorite Dolly Parton song (9 to 5) was a Billboard #1 hit the year I was born--in Los Angeles, CA.

Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?

This is my tenth year in DC and my seventh in Bloomingdale. I came for graduate school and stayed for love--of this weird place and its weird people.

What is your training and/or education in cartooning?


Twenty Six Days

In cartooning? None at all. My drawing has always been narrative and it's always told stories. I've drawn comics over the years, along with big narrative drawings and prints, but recently I'm devoting more time to this "comix" format that brings writing and drawing together into more literal narratives.

Who are your influences?

Lynda Barry, for sure, but also Vanessa Davis and Evan Dorkin and Kathe Kollwitz (OG narrative printmaker!) and the surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.

If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?

I would have worked more. There's always room for more work.

What work are you best-known for?

This season, I shared a lot of a mini-comic I made called "Hibakusha." An interesting thing happened in sharing that book that I didn't expect--a lot of young people were interested because of the ostensible subject, but a lot of older folks were drawn in by the title, which is a word not that commonly used anymore. Response to that story has been great.

What work are you most proud of?

"Twenty Six Days" turned out beautifully and was a bear to compose. The process of writing that one is something I hope to improve on and then bottle.

What would you like to do or work on in the future?

Longer works! I'm a long-winded, round-about lover of analogies and metaphors, so I work a lot on making complex ideas concise. I'd love to build the patience to compose and draw a longer story.

What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?


Twenty Six Days page

These days, I go for a swim. My father-in-law tells me we get more ideas when we're in the water.

What do you think will be the future of your field?

Comics or narrative drawing or cartooning--whatever you call it--can be used to tell any kind of story. We're situated to redefine what people think when they hear these words and move these kinds of drawings into every field.

What local cons do you attend? The Small Press Expo, Intervention, or others? Any comments about attending them?

I tabled at SPX this year for the first time and was lucky enough to participate in the first ever DC Art Book Fair. It's a huge, diverse community of a lot of artists doing different things.

What's your favorite thing about DC?


Hibakusha detail

DC is like no where else and every where else, all at once.

Least favorite?

Rent.

What monument or museum do like to take visitors to?

Actually, the view from the top of the 13th Street hill is one of my faves right now.

How about a favorite local restaurant?

Meats & Foods at 247 Florida Ave NW--a beautiful simple store making great food.

Do you have a website or blog?

The best place to see my work is Instagram @lenorayerkes, but you can also see it at lenorayerkes.tumblr.com.

Tom Toles and Kevin Kallaugher at P&P video online now

Michael E. Mann, Tom Toles, and Kevin Kallaugher at P&P

Juliet Eilperin,

Nov 12, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxYCDmU5W8

n this inspired partnership, Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State and one of the nation's leading experts on climate change, and Toles, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post editorial cartoonist, expose the true folly of arguments against global warming. With dynamic, compelling graphics that illuminate the science, the book shows both the irrefutable evidence of human-generated environmental damage and the pretzel logic that skeptics and vested interests use to try to counter the inconvenient facts.

The award-winning and internationally syndicated columnist known as KAL, Kallaugher was hired by The Economist in the late seventies to do caricatures, which he soon elevated to the witty, insightful art of a master editorial cartoonist—skills he later carried over to The Baltimore Sun. This collection, drawn from over thirty years of his Economist work, focuses in turn on the United States, Europe, Economist covers, business and economics, and international topics, showing not just KAL's range, but providing a capsule history of recent decades as well as serving as a primer to political cartooning.

This event is moderated by Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post's White House bureau chief.

Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web at http://www.politics-prose.com/

Produced by Michael A. Kowaleski

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Gene Yang's book suggestions include Ben Hatke

A list for kids by a 'genius' graphic novelist [online as Best children's and young adult books of 2016]

By Harrison Smith,
Washington Post November 20 2016, p. E15

online at

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/best-childrens-and-young-adult-books-of-2016/2016/11/17/e07131fe-a10d-11e6-8832-23a007c77bb4_story.html

Friday, November 18, 2016

Local Comic Book Store Day is tomorrow apparently

Here's Third Eye Comics on it.

Beyond Comics is also having sales and variant covers.

Glen Weldon calls for Comics

The Term 'Graphic Novel' Has Had A Good Run. We Don't Need It Anymore

Glen Weldon

NPR Monkey See blog November 17, 2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2016/11/17/502422829/the-term-graphic-novel-has-had-a-good-run-we-dont-need-it-anymore

Brad Meltzer, formerly local, calls upon Lincoln: “All men are created equal.”

An Author's Plea to Trump: Denounce the Hate or We Stand Against You (Guest Column)

11/17/2016 by Brad Meltzer
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trump-denounce-hate-we-stand-you-guest-column-948373

Tonight: Book fair at National Press Club

Includes comics-related friends Tom Toles, Juana Medina, and Glen Weldon.

http://www.press.org/bookfair

39th Annual Book Fair & Authors' Night, in partnership with Politics & Prose

November 18, 2016 5:30 PM

Location: Ballroom

The Capitol region's premiere holiday book event is back for the 39th year! The National Press Club Journalism Institute is once again partnering with landmark local book seller Politics & Prose for a night of pols, pundits and prose.

Authors will be on hand to talk to their fans and sign books at this most exciting literary event. Patrons can browse for books at the Club's headquarters from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for NPC and Politics & Prose members; $10 public. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

The Book Fair is a fundraiser for The National Press Club Journalism Institute, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization, which advances journalistic practice by equipping professionals with the skills and competence to innovate, leveraging emerging trends, recognizing leaders and innovators, and mentoring the next generation of journalism and communications professionals.

The Book Fair is partnering with The SEED Foundation, which helps under-served students prepare for college. The young scholars attend one of two public boarding schools in the District and Maryland. The students select books they believe would enrich their education and patrons can buy them at the fair to help develop the Baltimore SEED School library. A group of students from the SEED school attend the event each year, giving them a chance to meet with authors and attendees.

Please note: No outside books or other memorabilia are permitted into the Book Fair. All books must be purchased onsite.