Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Post on the return of the Justice League

The #SnyderCut of 'Justice League' was an Internet joke. Cinephiles should root for it.

Washington Post May 22, 2020

Tre Johnson on masking and superheroes

The coronavirus has made the waking world into a dreamscape [in print as The virus has turned our waking lives into a dreamscape]

Our masks make us look like superheroes. So why do we still feel so helpless?

That darn Dustin

Miller interviews Rubenstein

 David Miller writes in, "I just did an interview with Joe Rubinstein on my new Comics Prisoner show." 
Today Joe Rubinstein drops by the paper prison to check out his wares and discovers the Comics Prisoner squatting in one of his pages. We have a nice talk and learn a lot. Drop by and enjoy! While ...

The Washington School of Cartooning, just about a century ago

Warren Bernard  wrote in, "When Maryland re-opened some stuff, my sister and I went out to an antiques mall in Hagerstown. She spotted this gem:




"I had never seen a cartoon course diploma, no less one from 1924  from the only DC area cartoon school, run by Will Chandlee, who worked for the Evening Star in the 19th Century. The office for the cartoon school was on 15th St for a while and the most famous graduate was Frank Godwin. I also have a promo booklet from the school, and that's how I found out about Godwin."

Thanks to Warren for sharing this bit of The Secret History of Comics.

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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Steve Geppi on his Library of Congress donation

Geppi gave a wide-ranging interview to ICv2 which is well worth reading.

He talked about his legacy in the Library of Congress at the very end...

When I closed my museum and donated a portion of my collection to the Library of Congress, part of the thought process was this.

Right now, I love it when somebody else breaks up their collection at estate time, and I get to buy it and sell or keep it.  I didn't want my own collection to be something that I've spent my whole life building to be just dismantled, sold off in pieces, and have no identity.

So when I sat down and started doing my estate planning, I knew that my kids were going to be protected financially.  Even if they have an interest or didn't have an interest in my collection for posterity, they're not going to live forever, just like I'm not going to live forever.  So for the sake of the industry, if I might be so presumptuous, or for the sake of the collections themselves, knowing how rare they are, knowing how hard they are to get, I wanted to have arrangement where they would live on in perpetuity through an institution that in theory will live on in perpetuity.  The idea was I'll donate a big chunk of my collection (keep in mind, I have plans to donate even more as times goes on to the Library of Congress) so there will be a place 100 years from now, 200 years from now, whatever, we don't know the future, where other people will look back on our industry and be happy to say, "God, I'm glad somebody preserved that."

In addition to that, what it does for the Library of Congress, they have stuff that nobody knows they have that just sits in a basement, in an archive, waiting for the big flood or fire to destroy it.  They are so thrilled, the people particularly who work in the archives, that this is not only going to give them a place to put my stuff, but their stuff will also be part of the rotating exhibits, and the traveling exhibits.


There's an example of me looking past my lifetime. 

You can read all 5 parts at

ICV2 INTERVIEW: GEPPI FAMILY ENTERPRISES CEO STEVE GEPPI, PART 1

Key March Decisions: Shutting Down and Delaying Payments

Posted by Milton Griepp on May 21, 2020

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45779/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-1

 

PART 2

Diamond and DC Comics

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45778/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-2

 

PART 3

Handling Product in the Pipeline, Diamonds New Competitive Landscape

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45777/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-3

 

PART 4

Handling Rolling Shutdowns Going Forward, Plans for Free Comic Book Day

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45776/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-4

 

PART 5

GFE's Restructuring and Rebranding, Future Plans for the Companies and Ownership

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45775/icv2-interview-geppi-family-enterprises-ceo-steve-geppi-part-5

 

Jim Toomey and NOAA perfect together

Meet artist, conservationist, and NOAA friend Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman's Lagoon

By NOAA
 May 16th, 2020

WTOP interviews DreamWorks animator Radford Sechrist prior to GWU event next week

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Today: A Librarian in Conversation with Third Eye Comics

MAY 20

A Librarian in Conversation with Third Eye Comics



  • Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 7 PM – 8 PM EDT
    Starts in about 3 hours

  • Zoom
  • Hosted by Anne Arundel County Public Library

Details
Join us as we talk with Third Eye Comics about all things comics and graphic novels. Learn how you can access the library's collection of comics online and how to connect with Third Eye Comics during the time of social distancing.

Register at the link below to receive the Zoom login info via email.

https://aacpl.librarycalendar.com/events/librarian-conversation-third-eye-comics

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Flyover"


DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock's latest cartoon -

"Flyover"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2998

USAF F-16 "Fighting Falcon" as used by "Thunderbirds" aerobatic team: Unit cost: $US29.1m; operational cost $US8k/hour

US War Budget FY 2021: $US934bn

US Total Deaths from COVID-19 (as of 05.19.2020): 90,340

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"25 Most Expensive Fighter Jets" Military Machine, 01.01.2020 
https://militarymachine.com/most-expensive-military-jets/

"The Hourly Cost of Operating the US Military's Fighter Fleet", Forbes 08.16.2016 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/08/16/the-hourly-cost-of-operating-the-u-s-militarys-fighter-fleet-infographic/

"US Military Budget, Its Components, Challenges and Growth", The Balance, 03.03.2020 
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320

"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Cases in the US", Centers for Disease Control, 05.20.2020 
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html