The Gardens Ice House 13800 Old Gunpowder Rd, West Laurel, Maryland 20707 |
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
April 1-2: Shrek on Ice show in Laurel, MD
Monday, February 27, 2017
Thomas Nast cartooned on Georgetown's elections
When the District led the way on voting rights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-the-district-broke-a-ballot-barrier/2017/02/24/4561bd2e-f887-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html
Michigan State University Libraries Remote Storage Facility
Ryan Claytor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjkLI-5n1MI
A tour of the Michigan State University Libraries Remote Storage Facility Special Collections comics shelves. MSU Special Collections Comics Bibliographer guides the tour and Ryan Claytor films and narrates. Video taken on Feb 16th, 2017
Ruben Bolling's blogs on winning the Herblock Award
HERBLOCK PRIZE
by Ruben Bolling
Tom the Dancing Bug blog February 26, 2017
http://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/2017/02/herblock-prize.htmlFriday, February 24, 2017
Darrin Bell returns to DC
Darrin Bell accepts the Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons
His reflections on visiting DC - http://darrinbell.com/2017/02/23/darrin-bell-accepts-berryman-award-editorial-cartoons/The Post reviews Rock Dog
Animated 'Rock Dog' obeys every last command of a movie-by-committee [in print as Obeys every command of a formulaic kids' tale]
Washington Post February 24 2017, p. Weekend 30.
Katsucon in Photos
Katsucon returned once again to the picturesque Gaylord National Harbor Resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland, for another weekend of anime, manga, video games, and of course cosplay. Anime fans from around the country packed the resort hotel and convention center from February 17-19, 2017, with many cosplayers bringing out their best work for the event.
.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
How one school created its annual Graphic Novelists Workshop
Powhatan School in Boyce, Va., will host its 4th Graphic Novelists Workshop on Friday, March 3, from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. The workshop costs $25 per participant and is open to all students in grades 3rd through high school are invited to attend. Participating students will attend sessions with each of the presenting graphic novelists and have the opportunity to use what they have learned to create their own graphic novelette. Registration for the workshop is online at www.PowhatanLibraryOnline.com
Presenting graphic novelists include Hobbes Holluck, Carolyn Belefski and Art Hondros.
Several years ago, one of my students came across Trickster, and bought a copy for our library. The donation was quickly followed with a “Ms. Lane, you should get this guy to come visit our school.” Engaging my investigative skills, I logged into Facebook, and typed Matt Dembicki into the search feature, thus beginning my side job stalking graphic novelists and authors so I could lure them to our school. The resulting author visit ignited our students. Our graphic novel collection was born. And an idea formed. The following year, we invited Matt back and asked him to bring a couple friends. It was our first Graphic Novelist Workshop @ Powhatan School.
Tracie Chloel Lane |
What’s been the reaction among the students, teachers, parents?
You always look for ways to add a new spin to the program. Can you briefly outline what you’ve done in the past and your ideas for the upcoming program in March?
Art by Carolyn Belefski |
Art by Hobbes Hillock |
Dick Bruna's obituary in The Post
Dick Bruna, illustrator who delighted young readers with Miffy the white rabbit, dies at 89 [in print as Dick Bruna, 89; tales of Miffy the bunny sold millions of copies].
Washington Post February 23 2017, p. B6.
New interview with Jason Rodriguez on Colonial Comics
History, Comics, and Representation: An Interview with Jason Rodriguez
Sami Yuhas
Comics in the Classroom blog February 23 2017
Orsini on Cosmunity
Cosmunity Wants To Be Your Full-Time Digital Comic Con
Forbes.com Feb 21, 2017
Herblock prize awarded to Ruben Bolling
'Tom the Dancing Bug' creator wins 2017 Herblock Prize for his original spoofs of Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/02/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-creator-wins-2017-herblock-prize-for-his-original-spoofs-of-donald-trump/
Local writer Ted White needs financial help
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
International Journal of Comic Art 18-2 Fall / Winter 2016 is out
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 18, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2016
Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
My Drifting Manga Life
Frederik L. Schodt
1
Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
I Am Just a Comic Book Reader Who Became Curious ...
Waldomiro Vergueiro
20
Heroism Reversed: Graphic Novels About the Great War
Sylvain Rheault
33
A Collaborative Journey: Malcolm Whyte, Troubador Press, and the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
Kim Munson
61
How the French Kickstarted the Acceptance of Comics as an Art Form in the US: the Books and Exhibitions of Maurice Horn
Kim Munson
Ill
A Brief History of the Translation of American Comic Strips in Pre-World War II Japan and the Origins of Contemporary Narrative Manga
Eike Exner
156
Gene Luen Yang's Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town
Sheng-Mei Ma
175
From Phylacteries to Balloons: Consequences of Epistemological Evolution in Pictorial Representation of Discourse Support
Fabio Mourilhe
196
Food in Post-Soviet Russian Comics
Jose Alaniz
216
The Influence of Cartoon and Animation for the Elaboration of Visual Art in the Electronic Dance Music Genre
Citlaly Aguilar Campos
234
Hippies, Rogues, and Urban Losers: Subjects of the Indian Graphic Novel
Preeti Singh
258
Graphic Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice: Pastiche, Parody, and Intertextuality
Kirsten Mollegaard
280
Comics Journalism: An Interview with Josh Neufeld
Dominic Davies
299
Poetics of Sound and Death: The Function of Nature and Effects in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
Kay K. Clopton
318
I Will Not Bow: Analysis of the Feminine Refusal of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic in Jnuyasha
Robyn Johnson
337
An Interview with English Comic Book Artist Arthur Ranson
Jeffery KJaehn
354
Remembering Her 50 Years in Japanese Girls' and Ladies' Comics: An Interview with Chikae Ide
Kinko Ito
367
The Neurotic Gaze: Jules Feiffer Seen Through a Feminist Lens
Amadeo Gandolfo
384
Violence Representation in Horror Comic Books
Edilaine Correa
403
Remembering Richard Thompson (1957-2016)
Mike Rhode
417
How Realism is Shaping Korean Webtoons
Alyssa Kim
421
"YES SIR!" 50 Years of Nationalism and the lndo-Pak War in Narayan Debnath's Bnatul the Great
Sourav Chatterjee
434
Fiction, Transmedia Storytelling, and Cartoons: The Life and Death of Re Bordosa
Luiza Lusvarghi
453
How a Shojo (a Japanese Girl) Transcends National Borders Through an Incestuous Body: Shojo Manga from the 1970s to the 2000s
Fusami Ogi
463
An Interview with Comic Book Artist Paul Gulacy
Jeffery KJaehn
479
Writing the Picture: Ramayana Narrative in a Graphic Novel Form
Varsha Jha (Singh)
488
The Next Generation of Comics Researchers
The Visual Ideograph: The Advent and Departure of the Abu Ghraib "Hooded Specter"
Joseph Hancuch
504
(YA)ru, (O)kasu, (I)kaseru: Do Him, Rape Him, Make Him Cum: Rape, Loss, and the Silence of Queer Identity in Boys Love Manga
Zac Clifton
516
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
531
Book Reviews
Jose Alaniz
John A. Lent
534
Portfolio
540
Tom King interview on Marvel's site
A Vision of the Past:Tom King opens up on his acclaimed comic book series!
https://news.marvel.com/comics/60093/a-vision-of-the-past/
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
New Kickstarter from J. Robert Deans
Crass Fed Kids and Shakes the Cow Return With TWO New Books!
CFK returns with TWO new children's books! Shakes the Cow and the Bear From AUNT go racing in their latest adventures!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13694920/crass-fed-kids-and-shakes-the-cow-return-with-two
About this project
HI! My name is J. Robert Deans, basically known online as "That Penguin Guy." About two years ago, I ran a campaign to start a new series of children's books, CRASS FED KIDS, with the printing of MOO THOUSAND AND PUN. MOO featured Shakes The Cow on an adventure in Space, and thanks to my wonderful 83 supporters, Shakes came to life!
Since then, I printed three more books using a preorder system to pay for printing. First was another Shakes adventure, TEMPLE OF MOO'D. The other two books feature Stanley, The Bear From A.U.N.T., in the young reader spy adventures THE HONEY DON'T CASE and THE CASE OF THE PUSHY OCTOPUS. When I wrote THE CASE OF THE PUSHY OCTOPUS, I combined the characters from both series when Shakes' friend Percie showed up to help Stanley during a mission under the sea. (You can't read that without hearing Sebastian, can you? Neither can I.)
My newest books, scheduled for release this Summer, tell one story, from two perspectives, for two different reader levels. Shakes is a Formoola One racing driver in MOO FAST, MOO FURRYOUS, and in the latest Bear From A.U.N.T. book, Stanley and his friends investigate Formoola One race fraud in THE CASE OF THE CHICANE MUTINY.
(Yeah…I still like my puns.)
THE CAMPAIGN
My campaign for MOO THOUSAND AND PUN included several bells and whistles, like prints and coloring books. This time, my campaign simply covers printing a modest number of both new books. Included with the cost of printing, taxes and fees, and shipping, are funds to advertise my catalog with libraries and bookstores across the world. I will also print extra copies to send out packages to a few agents and publishers to begin the process of moooving Shakes and Stanley to a greater stage. This will hopefully get me closer to being a full-time writer of puns. And books. Not just puns, I swear.
Printing the books will cost about $1500, with the remaining funds covering promotion, shipping, and Kickstarter fees. Stretch Goals will be determined shortly, but extra funds raised will at the very least mean printing extra books (woohoo!).