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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
PR: Small Press Expo Announces Programming Schedule for SPX 2019
Editorial on Latuff editorial cartoon by DC writer
The Left Can No Longer Excuse Its Anti-Semitism
Izabella Tabarovsky
Forward August 19 2019
Izabella Tabarovsky
Forward August 19 2019
Izabella Tabarovsky is a writer in Washington, DC. She works at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Catching up with Cavna on Spiegelman, Peanuts, Harvey Awards
Art Spiegelman says his Marvel book introduction was killed over Trump joke
The Post's obituary for animator Richard Williams
Richard Williams, Oscar-winning animator behind 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' dies at 86 [in print as Oscar winner created 'Roger Rabbit'].
The Post on Pokemon in DC
Yes, people are still obsessed with Pokémon — and this is their Super Bowl [in print as Catching Pokemon - and feelings]
Monday, August 19, 2019
Aug 31: Comics at the Library of Congress Book Festival
Sorted by appearance time.
Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm Book Signing Line No. 6 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT
Book Signing Lines 6-10
Juana Medina Presentation 10:40 am - 11:05 am EDT
Jim Ottaviani Presentation 11:00 am - 11:45 am EDT
Science
Juana Medina Book Signing Line No. 23 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 20-23
Cece Bell Book Signing Line No. 11 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
- Book Signing Lines 11-15
Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham Presentation 2:10 pm - 2:35 pm EDT
Children's Green Stage
Children's Green Stage
Ngozi Ukazu Presentation 2:15 pm - 2:50 pm EDT
Teens
Teens
Fabien Cousteau Presentation 2:20 pm - 2:45 pm EDT
Children's Purple Stage
Children's Purple Stage
Fabien Cousteau Book Signing Line No. 5 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Ngozi Ukazu Book Signing Line No. 3 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham Book Signing Line No. 11 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 11-15
Book Signing Lines 11-15
Raina Telgemeier Presentation 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Main Stage
Main Stage
Jarrett J. Krosoczka Book Signing Line No. 8 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 6-10
Book Signing Lines 6-10
Matt Phelan Book Signing Line No. 2 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks Presentation 4:50 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
Teens
Teens
Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks Book Signing Line No. 5 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Book Signing Lines 1-5
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Cul de Sac comic strips and books auctioned to save bookstore
Several thousand dollars were raised today through auctions of Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac original art, books, and other works,to assist One More Page Bookstore in paying an unexpected large tax bill.
"Cul de Sac's whimsical take on the world and playful sense of language somehow gets funnier the more times you read it. Four-year-old Alice and her Blisshaven Preschool classmates will ring true to any parent. Doing projects in a cloud of glue and glitter, the little kids manage to reinterpret an otherwise incomprehensible world via their meandering, nonstop chatter. But I think my favorite character is Alice's older brother, Petey. A haunted, controlling milquetoast, he's surely one of the most neurotic kids to appear in comics. These children and their struggles are presented affectionately, and one of the things I like best about Cul de Sac is its natural warmth. Cul de Sac avoids both mawkishness and cynicism and instead finds genuine charm in its loopy appreciation of small events. Very few strips can hit this subtle note."
As the bookstore faced a Draconian tax increase, books Richard had signed before his death, along with 2 strips newly donated by Amy Thompson, sold to fans of the cartoonist, including one strip to local cartoonist Daniel Boris. A quick calculation is that Richard provided about $2600 in sales or 12.5% of the auction proceeds (but check the math before quoting me).
One More Page was dear to Richard, hosting him for their first booksigning (before the store had even opened), for his first Cul de Sac collection. After he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the store held fundraisers for Team Cul de Sac to raise money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Richard passed away just barely over three years ago.
The store's auction site described the original art as such:
American illustrator and cartoonist Richard Thompson was best known for his syndicated comic strip Cul de Sac. Richard received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 2010. We are huge fans of Richard's work and were thrilled when he agreed to do an event at OMP when we first opened. Over the years, he was a invaluable supporter, promoting OMP and signing countless books to be shipped to fans worldwide.
Richard's wife, Amy, generously donated this original artwork of a panel of Cul de Sac ("Trick or Treat" panel #111031), his strip which focused on a four-year-old girl, Alice Otterloop, and her daily life at preschool and at home. Cul de Sac was published in more than 70 newspapers by the fall of 2007 and was distributed nationally as both a daily and Sunday strip by Universal Press Syndicate.
Bill Watterson, created of Calvin and Hobbes, praised Thompson's work:
"I thought the best newspaper comic strips were long gone, and I've never been happier to be wrong. Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac has it all—intelligence, gentle humor, a delightful way with words, and, most surprising of all, wonderful, wonderful drawings."
"Cul de Sac's whimsical take on the world and playful sense of language somehow gets funnier the more times you read it. Four-year-old Alice and her Blisshaven Preschool classmates will ring true to any parent. Doing projects in a cloud of glue and glitter, the little kids manage to reinterpret an otherwise incomprehensible world via their meandering, nonstop chatter. But I think my favorite character is Alice's older brother, Petey. A haunted, controlling milquetoast, he's surely one of the most neurotic kids to appear in comics. These children and their struggles are presented affectionately, and one of the things I like best about Cul de Sac is its natural warmth. Cul de Sac avoids both mawkishness and cynicism and instead finds genuine charm in its loopy appreciation of small events. Very few strips can hit this subtle note."Friday, August 16, 2019
Did you buy your Return of Superman watch at Hecht's in 1993?
Ad from the Washington Post September 13, 1993. I wonder what there was in the series besides the 'death' and the 'return?'
The Post reviews The Angry Birds Movie 2
'The Angry Birds Movie 2' is better than you think. Wait, we're serious [in print as A sequel that flies above what most expect from video-game films].
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Pokemon in DC this weekend
The planet's best Pokémon players will face off at the 2019 World Championships in D.C. [in print as Ready for battle: The planet's best Pokémon players will face off this weekend at the 2019 World Championships]
Local artists Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson profiled
They've been SPX attendees for years.
They left their corporate jobs to write kids' books in a barn. But a fairy-tale life is hard work. [in print as Balancing act: Making kids' books is a dream. It's also hard work.]
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
LoC blogs on samurai animals in comics
I can't believe they have Samurai Penguin.
Let's Talk Comics: Samurai Animals
Aug 17: Art Lab: Creating Comics with Julian Lytle
Art Lab: Creating Comics with Julian Lytle
Aug 17 1-2 pm
Apple Carnegie Library
801 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Create a comic that tells your story with cartoonist and podcast creator Julian Lytle. He'll share his belief that comics are a contemporary way to share stories regardless of technical experience and take you through the steps to creating a comic in the Procreate app. Using creative prompts from Lytle, you'll sketch characters and scenes on iPad with Apple Pencil.
J. Michael Straczynski photos by Bruce Guthrie
From the event at Politics and Prose -
J. Michael Straczynski - Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood
Straczynski is best known as the creator of the Babylon 5 and Sense8 TV shows, but his amazing four-decade career also encompasses screenwriting—Changeling, Thor, and World War Z—writing for several D.C. and Marvel Comics' series, and creating his own award-winning graphic works. Now in this stunning memoir he tells his own story—perhaps his most fantastic feat yet. Straczynski grew up in the care of adults variously damaged by addiction, mental illness, and poverty. His only refuge from the misery was comic books, and he gradually realized that he, too, could invent alternate worlds. But even as he managed to take power over his future, a terrible secret in his family's past continued to haunt him.
Straczynski is best known as the creator of the Babylon 5 and Sense8 TV shows, but his amazing four-decade career also encompasses screenwriting—Changeling, Thor, and World War Z—writing for several D.C. and Marvel Comics' series, and creating his own award-winning graphic works. Now in this stunning memoir he tells his own story—perhaps his most fantastic feat yet. Straczynski grew up in the care of adults variously damaged by addiction, mental illness, and poverty. His only refuge from the misery was comic books, and he gradually realized that he, too, could invent alternate worlds. But even as he managed to take power over his future, a terrible secret in his family's past continued to haunt him.
Mo Willems at the Kennedy Center
Mo Willems brings a little silliness into the Kennedy Center's storied halls
The 'Pigeon' author and illustrator is the center's first education artist-in-residence.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Friday, August 09, 2019
Shawn Martinbrough interviewed on More To Come 380: SDCC 2019 Interview Special Pt. 4
Live from San Diego, in part four of More To Come's San Diego Comic-Con special, Calvin Reid interviews the veteran comics creators and collaborators writer Andy Diggle and artist Shawn Martinbrough about Promethee 13:30,' a new three issue prequel to Christophe Bec's epic science fiction bande desinee 'Promethee,' published by Comixology Originals. Check out PublishersWeekly.com/comics for more SDCC coverage from Publishers Weekly!
More on Otakon from Scoop
Carrie Wood
Scoop August 9 2019
Otakon 2019 in Photos, Part II
Carrie Wood
Scoop August 9 2019
http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=232288
The Post and Express review live-action Dora
It's good to see that the Express has a new movie critic, replacing Page-Kirby who moved to the Post.
'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' brings positive Latino roles to the big screen [in print as Uncharted territory].
There's no treasure to be found in the boring 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' [in print as Live-action reboot is an adventure that is all over the map].
Thursday, August 08, 2019
Hickman's Influences on House of X
By RM Rhodes
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Why is this here? It's a long story. Mike Rhode first introduced himself to me when I first started vending at SPX. Over the years, we've talk to each other at Comic conventions around the DC area and never quite get around to sitting down for lunch.
When I moved to Arlington two years ago, I didn't realize that Mike lived within a mile of my building. Nor did I realize that he lived next door to my ex-girlfriend's friend from college. We also discovered, by accident that we work two buildings away from each other, because we work in adjacent organizations. The world is a very small place, sometimes.
It really feels that way when I run into Mike at the local farmer's market. Naturally, that's when I pitch him article ideas. I'm reading the entire run of Heavy Metal in public (in blog format) because I happen to own the entire run of Heavy Metal. This means that I'm engaged in an ongoing study of the magazine. In addition, I have a diverse and idiosyncratic reading list that tends towards the weird corners of comics history. Sometimes one circumstance or another results in long articles that I don't really have anyplace to put. Mike has been gracious enough to let me publish them here.
In summary: this is an article about comics from someone in the DC area.
I haven’t read X-Men comics in at least a decade, if not
longer. I would be hard-pressed to tell you if I’ve even read a single issue from this century, to be honest. But I do keep up with the news of X-Men the same way
that I keep up with what my ex-wives are doing these days – I used to care a
lot more, but I’m still curious. At the very least, I figure that I’ll hear
about current developments on Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men at some point in
the future.
I mention all of that to explain why I knew that it was a big deal that
Jonathan Hickman was going to be writing the X-Men. And why I knew that in the
new Hickman-written book, House of X, Moira MacTaggert was now a mutant who has lived several lives, reincarnating again and again to change things in her next life.
That's an interesting plot twist.
And then I saw on Twitter that author Claire North was
noting similarities between that plot and the plot of her 2014 book, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
I did not see that coming.
I did find the interview that Jonathan Hickman did with The Beat back in 2016,
where he mentions The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August as a book that he’s
currently reading and currently enjoying.
No word as of yet whether anyone has pointed this out to
Hickman or Marvel, or gotten a response if they did. But it’s certainly something worth noting. Because Claire
North has certainly noted it.
So sorta this. I mean, maybe it's just a loving and honourable coincidence of tangled ideas? But it feels like a rip off right now, and I'd be curious to know where the line between "honouring" and "are you kidding" lies. https://t.co/liyvtkq5ir— Claire North (@ClaireNorth42) August 8, 2019
More to follow, I'm sure.
Why is this here? It's a long story. Mike Rhode first introduced himself to me when I first started vending at SPX. Over the years, we've talk to each other at Comic conventions around the DC area and never quite get around to sitting down for lunch.
When I moved to Arlington two years ago, I didn't realize that Mike lived within a mile of my building. Nor did I realize that he lived next door to my ex-girlfriend's friend from college. We also discovered, by accident that we work two buildings away from each other, because we work in adjacent organizations. The world is a very small place, sometimes.
It really feels that way when I run into Mike at the local farmer's market. Naturally, that's when I pitch him article ideas. I'm reading the entire run of Heavy Metal in public (in blog format) because I happen to own the entire run of Heavy Metal. This means that I'm engaged in an ongoing study of the magazine. In addition, I have a diverse and idiosyncratic reading list that tends towards the weird corners of comics history. Sometimes one circumstance or another results in long articles that I don't really have anyplace to put. Mike has been gracious enough to let me publish them here.
In summary: this is an article about comics from someone in the DC area.
Former local animator Danny Taylor obituary
Danny Gordon Taylor (formerly of Hyattsville) Dead: Oscar-Nominated VFX Artist Was 69 | Hollywood Reporter
8/7/2019 by
"Raised in Tonawanda, New York, near Buffalo, Taylor worked for WDCA-TV 20 in Washington before launching Taylor Made Images in Hyattsville, Maryland. At his company from 1983-91, he did traditional animation and VFX work for clients including DuPont, PBS, Sam Raimi, the IRS and the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as a feature film, Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor (1990). ... "
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/danny-gordon-taylor-dead-oscar-nominated-vfx-artist-was-69-1230130
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/danny-gordon-taylor-dead-oscar-nominated-vfx-artist-was-69-1230130
Thanks to Michael Cavna for the tip
Cavna on Tom Richmond's caricature of Mad
The story behind the fake Mad magazine and TV Guide covers in 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood'
NPR on the 90s comic book, at least the alternative version
With These Comics, Learn How to Laugh Like It's 1999 (Hint: Don't)
Hole in the Wall Books to close
After 40 Year Run, Hole in the Wall Books Closes Its Doors This Month
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
My cartoon on President Donald Trump's five-point plan in reaction to recent shootings.
"The Scarlet Flag"
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