Monday, August 28, 2017

That Darn Toles, and Cavna on Kirby

A complex situation, succinctly captured [in print as Complexity captured succinctly].
Lois Ladd,
Washington Post (August 26 2017)
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-complex-situation-succinctly-captured/2017/08/25/c3223414-875c-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb_story.html

Mike Cavna tips his hat to Jack Kirby on his centennial -
http://www.gocomics.com/warped/2017/08/28

and local writer Jason Reynolds has his new book Patina (not his new Spider-Man novel) reviewed in the New York Times

Cavna chats with Chast

Roz Chast writes — and draws — a love letter to New York [in print as A Love letter from Roz Chast to New York]


Washington Post (August 27 2017): Bookworld 12
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/roz-chast-writes--and-draws--a-love-letter-to-new-york/2017/08/25/3054459c-812f-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

Sept 2: Cartoonists at the National Book Festival

Speaking Time
Author
Signing Time

Children's Purple Stage

11:15 am-11:40 am

Dav Pilkey

noon-1:00 pm

1:35 pm-2:00 pm

Rachel Renee Russell

2:30 pm-3:30 pm

Graphic Novels

5:30 pm-6:00 pm
Gene Luen Yang
4:00 pm-5:00 pm

5:55 pm-6:30 pm
Ann Telnaes
4:30 pm-5:30 pm

5:55 pm-6:30 pm
Mike Lester
4:30 pm-5:30 pm

6:25 pm-7:00 pm
Roz Chast
4:30 pm-5:30 pm

6:55 pm-7:30 pm
Lincoln Peirce
5:00 pm-6:00 pm


Friday, August 25, 2017

More from Scoop on Otakon in DC

A local animation voice actor is interviewed -

Otakon took over the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, D.C., on August 11-13, 2017. Featuring massive concerts, plenty of panels, and more high-quality cosplay than we could keep track of, the convention's first year in the nations' capital was truly a sight to behold.

Below, take a look at our second half of photo coverage, with photographs taken by Gemstone Assistant Editor Carrie Wood. 

http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=198629

The Post grounds Leap cartoon

No great 'Leap!': Tale of an aspiring ballerina falls short by recent animated-fare standards [in print as No prima ballerina when in the company of other animated fare]


Washington Post August 25 2017
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/no-great-leap-tale-of-an-aspiring-ballerina-falls-short-by-recent-animated-fare-standards/2017/08/24/d9404aae-837b-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html

Aug. 26: Ha exhibits work in upcoming new book

Robin Ha on Saturday holds a gallery show at the Tiniest Gallery in D.C. featuring some pages ans sketches from her upcoming book Fly with Your Own Wings, A Memoir, which is scheduled to be published in late 2019. Per her Facebook event page: "Chronicling her expatriation from South Korea to Acclimating to life in the US, starting in the Alabama and ending up here in the local area. See it first at the #tiniestgallery's premiere art show. Come eat and view Robin's work with friends and activists. Korean snacks and drink's from her first cookbook, Cook Korean!"

Proceeds benefit the March for Racial Justice and half of book sales will go to the ACLU. Suggested entry donation is $10.

Learn more about Robin'a work:
http://robin.megaten.net/


 Art by Robin Ha

Thursday, August 24, 2017

George Washington U magazine on Wonder Woman special effects creator

Science. Art. Magic.

Two-time Oscar winner Bill Westenhofer, MS '95, is responsible for the visual effects in some of Hollywood's biggest films of the past 20 years, including "Elf," "Life of Pi" and this summer's "Wonder Woman."

//  By Matthew Stoss

http://magazine.gwu.edu/science-art-magic

PR: Small Press Expo Announces Programming Schedule for SPX 2017


Small Press Expo Announces Programming Schedule for SPX 2017

For Immediate Release
Contact: Warren Bernard
Email: warren@spxpo.com

Bethesda, Maryland; August 24, 2017

Media Release - Small Press Expo is pleased to announce the Programming Schedule for SPX 2017. SPX is continuing the festival's established tradition of rich, thought provoking programming featuring leading comics artists and critics in conversation. As in previous years, the Programming Schedule features 22 sessions with two simultaneous tracks on both Saturday and Sunday, September 16 and 17.

Here are some highlights:
  • Tillie Walden discusses her new work, Spinning, focusing on her decade spent in competitive figure skating, with Small Press Expo executive director Warren Bernard.
  • Jillian Tamaki (Boundless) and Eleanor Davis (You And A Bike And The Road) are two of our generation's greatest cartoonists. Both create beautiful imagery while telling incredibly poignant stories which are thoughtful and evocative. With moderator Jim Rugg.
  • Moderator L.Nichols will explore the recent movement in comics toward exploring genderfluidity within a science-fiction context, with an emphasis on technology and utopian ideals. Panelists Jeremy Sorese (Curveball), Carta Monir (Secure Connect), Kevin Czap (Futchi Perf) and Rio Aubry Taylor (Jetty) will each discuss how their own work fits into this bold new vision of comics,
  • Gene Luen Yang has distinguished himself as a prominent voice in youth-friendly literature through his books American Born Chinese and Boxers and Saints. He continues to inspire young readers by championing diversity as the recently appointed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Join us for a very special conversation with Gene as we spotlight Reading Without Walls. Moderated by Johanna Draper Carlson.
  • Join moderator Jared Gardner, publisher Raighne Hogan and an array of 2dcloud artists as they celebrate and recount the history of this cutting-edge indy publisher and look toward its future.
Additionally, several panels will focus on the cartooning into today's political climate:
  • Tom Spurgeon moderates political cartoonists Ann Telnaes, Matt Wuerker, Keith Knight and Ben Passmore as they explore the role and responsibility of being a political cartoonist in a time when the freedom of the press is under attack.
  • In a world that seems increasingly difficult to satirize, come see how cartoonists Tommi Musturi (Simply Samuel), Aaron Lange (Trim), Sabin Cauldron (Maleficium), and Katie Fricas (The New Yorker) use different comedic tools to address the absurd, the awful and the just plain ridiculous. Moderated by Heidi MacDonald.
  • Celebrants and detractors alike are chewing on the fact that Donald Trump was elected president. Shannon Wheeler and Robert Sikoryak will help you swallow. In their books Sh*t My President Says from Top Shelf and The Unquotable Trump from Drawn & Quarterly (respectively), these two cartoonists illustrate Trump's words for comedic effect and insight. 
The complete schedule with times and descriptions can be found at http://www.smallpressexpo.com/spx-2017-programming-schedule.
Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.
The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show.
As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com.

 


Silver Spring's Ryan Holmberg on manga

Eye Drum: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics

BY Ryan Holmberg

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Post on Hiroshima anime

The reviewer seems unaware of how censored news in Japan, which was governed by the military, would have been.

'In This Corner of the World': A quietly devastating tale of Hiroshima [in print as The atomic bomb drop, as seen by people below it].


Washington Post August 18 2017, p. weekend 26
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/in-this-corner-of-the-world-a-quietly-devastating-tale-of-hiroshima/2017/08/17/46be2c72-7f7b-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html

Interview with Keith Knight, whose strip appears in Sunday's Post

Cartoonist Keith Knight on Politics, Satire and His Very Busy Schedule

by 

The City Paper on Hind's Poe and King Kirby

Edgar Allan Poe Gets the Illustrated Treatment in Poe: Stories and Poems

Local author Gareth Hinds brings Poe's visceral stories and poems to life in this graphic novel.

Aug 11, 2017

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/books/blog/20972218/poe-stories-and-poems-reviewed

Poe Cover500w


Off the Quill Retells Marvel Comics' Most Infamous Feud in King Kirby [in print as The Strangest Yard]

The story of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's long, storied history with Marvel Comics is deftly interpreted in this production.

Aug 18, 2017 , p. 22

King Kirby


The City Paper on Hiroshima anime

In This Corner of the World Is a Dainty Anime Set Amid the Hiroshima Bomb Dropping[in print as Worlds Away]

Writer-director Sunao Katabuchi tells a strong feminist story.

Washington City Paper August 18, 2017 , p. 25

Shorts Corneroftheworld33

Gareth Hinds' Beowulf and March vols 1-3 used in teaching

Friday, August 18, 2017

August 19: Girls With Slingshots art auction for Monica Gallagher

From Danielle Corsetto's email list:

I'll be at Bmore Into Comics at The Windup Space in Baltimore this Saturday from 1-7, this time in honor of our founder, my Convention Wife* Monica Gallagher, who's currently going through chemo but is still making comics because she's a badass.

*Randy and I have an open polyconventionspouse relationship.


We're doing a silent auction and I'll be auctioning off three derby-themed GWS original strips and the original art for the event poster! Mimi Massacre's first (well, facial) appearance; Thea and Mimi makin' out in a closet; and Mimi tossing her bouquet at her wedding


I'll also be bringing the original art for some of my recent 32 strips so you can see them in person! Strips like the Dream Girl one I just posted. I maaaaayy also start selling them, we'll see! And of course I'll have books and be doing sketches.

So come out and bid on something in the silent auction, write a note to Monica, or just buy yourself a drink at the bar, because a percentage of drink sales will go to benefit Monica as well!

Don't drink? Buy me a cider! (WHAT, it's for Monica.)

If you can't be there but you wanna help Monica from afar, maybe consider pledging to her Patreon account! She's been posting comics about her experience going through chemo, and it's been fascinating to follow.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Google Censorship: 100% 'Toxic'"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist

"Google Censorship: 100% 'Toxic'"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2301

Under the pretense of filtering "fake news", Google has begun actively working to suppress Leftist and Progressive news and opinion sites on the Internet with heavily-tweaked algorithms and "toxicity" ratings. Artificial Intelligence? Artificial IDIOCY, more like.

Well, I've applied my own intelligence to this issue, and I've determined that Google is 100% "toxic".

Chew on that, Larry and Sergey.


Scoop on Otakon in DC