Thursday, August 20, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Virtual Delegate"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Virtual Delegate"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3052
At a shoddy-ass online shindig called the Democratic Convention, where they're shitting all over the Left by publicly rehabilitating Colin Powell and all other manner of neocon crazies and war criminals, they add the extra kick in the nuts of presenting a rank butchery of one of the most iconic protest songs of all time — with the able assistance of its composer himself. This clumsily performative shit sandwich breaks the Cringe-O-Meter handily, and will be the William Shatner
Doing "Rocket Man" Footage of this era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nTxOMtbEI
"Virtual Delegate"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3052
At a shoddy-ass online shindig called the Democratic Convention, where they're shitting all over the Left by publicly rehabilitating Colin Powell and all other manner of neocon crazies and war criminals, they add the extra kick in the nuts of presenting a rank butchery of one of the most iconic protest songs of all time — with the able assistance of its composer himself. This clumsily performative shit sandwich breaks the Cringe-O-Meter handily, and will be the William Shatner
Doing "Rocket Man" Footage of this era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nTxOMtbEI
PR: Get Ready for a New Graphic Novel Superhero with Cat-itude!
John Gallagher's Max Meow has moved from minicomic to the latest children's graphic novel series.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Fantom Comics newsletter selections
- ANOTHER FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER SATURDAY COMES AUGUST 22ND AT FANTOM:
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, August 22nd:
Macmillan/First Second Books- Investigators: Take the Plunge Sneak Peek
Fantagraphics Books- Disney Masters: Donald Duck
Papercutz- The Loud House FCBD 2020 Special
UDON Entertainment- Street Fighter #100: Ryu Vs. Chun Li
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund- CBLDF & BOOM! Defend Comics
Gemstone Publishing- The Overstreet Guide To Collecting - FCBD 2020
**We also have ALL previously released FCBS titles in stock - check out freecomicbookday.com to view them and all can be picked up in store (open for Phase Two) or via fantomcomics.com!**
For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about
This year has caused a great deal of hardship, so we're suggesting that anyone who'd like to grab some free books to donate to DC non-profits like Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org), Casa Ruby (casaruby.org), So Others Might Eat (https://www.some.org/), Capital Area Food Bank (https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/), or HIPS (https://www.hips.org). You can donate in store at checkout or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "FCBS" at the top of the page, with minimum starting at $5 and no max threshold.
- EVENTS:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22nd @ 4PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB: FIRE!! THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON STORY WRITTEN & DRAWN BY PETER BAGGE:
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
If you would like to pre-order the book to have in time for the event, please reach out to us via email (fantomhq@fantomcomics.com), phone (202-241-6498) or coming into the store since we're open for Phase 2 and reserve your copy today!
For further details, check out the events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/214589706340688/?active_tab=about
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23RD @ 3PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Another chance for some community fun led by Sarahti, continuing to show you fun tricks of the trade, sharing artwork and making new friends during this isolated time!
For sign up and further details: bit.ly/DrawAtHomeAugust
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28TH @ 6PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: QUARANTINE Q&A WITH JAMIE NOGUCHI & JEREMY WHITLEY:
'School for Extraterrestrial Girls' comes out this month and it's been made by some of our good friends, Jeremy Whitley and Jamie Noguchi! They've been friends of the store for a long time and Leah will be leading the discussion with Jeremy and Jamie talking about working together, making comics for kids (and adults), being dads, and just catching up!
For further details: https://www.facebook.com/events/2733690766876075?active_tab=about
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, August 22nd:
Macmillan/First Second Books- Investigators: Take the Plunge Sneak Peek
Fantagraphics Books- Disney Masters: Donald Duck
Papercutz- The Loud House FCBD 2020 Special
UDON Entertainment- Street Fighter #100: Ryu Vs. Chun Li
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund- CBLDF & BOOM! Defend Comics
Gemstone Publishing- The Overstreet Guide To Collecting - FCBD 2020
**We also have ALL previously released FCBS titles in stock - check out freecomicbookday.com to view them and all can be picked up in store (open for Phase Two) or via fantomcomics.com!**
For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about
This year has caused a great deal of hardship, so we're suggesting that anyone who'd like to grab some free books to donate to DC non-profits like Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org), Casa Ruby (casaruby.org), So Others Might Eat (https://www.some.org/), Capital Area Food Bank (https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/), or HIPS (https://www.hips.org). You can donate in store at checkout or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "FCBS" at the top of the page, with minimum starting at $5 and no max threshold.
- EVENTS:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22nd @ 4PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB: FIRE!! THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON STORY WRITTEN & DRAWN BY PETER BAGGE:
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
If you would like to pre-order the book to have in time for the event, please reach out to us via email (fantomhq@fantomcomics.com), phone (202-241-6498) or coming into the store since we're open for Phase 2 and reserve your copy today!
For further details, check out the events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/214589706340688/?active_tab=about
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23RD @ 3PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Another chance for some community fun led by Sarahti, continuing to show you fun tricks of the trade, sharing artwork and making new friends during this isolated time!
For sign up and further details: bit.ly/DrawAtHomeAugust
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28TH @ 6PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: QUARANTINE Q&A WITH JAMIE NOGUCHI & JEREMY WHITLEY:
'School for Extraterrestrial Girls' comes out this month and it's been made by some of our good friends, Jeremy Whitley and Jamie Noguchi! They've been friends of the store for a long time and Leah will be leading the discussion with Jeremy and Jamie talking about working together, making comics for kids (and adults), being dads, and just catching up!
For further details: https://www.facebook.com/events/2733690766876075?active_tab=about
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Aug 22: Votes for Women comics anthology panel online
From anthology editor, Ally Shwed: "I also want to remind you that we'll be joining the National Park Service for Equality Weekend, a centennial celebration sponsored by the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY. Join me this Saturday, August 22 at 1pm EST, for a live panel and Q&A with Teresa Roberts Logan, Nomi Kane, Grace Desmarais, and Lauren Sparks from the anthology, where we'll be discussing our artistic processes as well as the issues and ideas that motivated our creation of the book. The virtual event will be live-streamed on the Park's Facebook and YouTube pages."
Tonight: Discussion of Graphic Memoirs with Malaka Gharib & Robin Ha
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20th-Century Political Cartoons at the Library of Congress video online
20th-Century Political Cartoons at the Library of Congress Sara Duke June 16 2020 https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9259/ Join curator Sara W. Duke of the Prints & Photographs Division, to learn how to access the Library's online collection of 20th-century political cartoons. She will also discuss strategies for exploring the work of Herbert L. Block, the editorial cartoonist known as a Herblock, who, during the course of his 72-year career, drew his opinion on events such as the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, gun control, and global warming. |
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Nina Allender's cartoons featured in the NY Times
Allender's cartoons are featured in a historical site on Capitol Hill.
Fighting for the Vote With Cartoons
By
- A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 16, 2020, Section TW, Page 30 of the New York edition with the headline: Adding a Pen To the Might Of the Sword.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/suffrage-cartoons.html
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Wash Post reviews Umbrella Academy
Netflix's 'Umbrella Academy' takes on the 1960s— and becomes unexpectedly relevant to 2020 [in print as 'Umbrella Academy' The 1960s, with shades of today].
August 15 2020, p. C1, 3
That darn Big Nate and Tom Toles
A tasteless cheap shot [Big Nate letter]
Richard K. Pyle Sr.
Washington Post August 15 2020
Unsightly disablism [Tom Toles letter].
Sara Deutch Schotland
Friday, August 14, 2020
The Post reviews Project Power movie
Designer drugs give people temporary superpowers in gritty 'Project Power' [in print as Thriller proves to be a hell of a drug].
Cavna talks to cartoonists about Kamala
How cartoonists are drawing Kamala Harris in the wake of her joining the Biden ticket
Thursday, August 13, 2020
John Kramer's Dispatch from 2120 #2 is out
As a reminder, Josh Kramer is annotating these messages with links from our present and also drawing this comic showing another side of 2120. You can read the first installment here, which has a lot more background about the transition from DC into the state of Douglass. Click here to unsubscribe but keep getting 730DC.
Join Josh and 730DC editor Lily Strelich on Monday, 8/17, at 7:00 PM on the @730DC Instagram for a live Q+A and comic drawing demo.
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "It Is What It Is"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -
"It Is What It Is"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3047
This past week, in an interview on Axios, Trump had this to say about the 150,000+ deaths from coronavirus this year: "It is what it is". You actually have to take your hat off to something like that, something so sublimely, elegantly, ferociously tone-deaf — something even worse, in fact, than Biden's immortal "you ain't Black", and that's saying something.
"Trump on US coronavirus deaths: 'It is what it is'", Al Jazeera
08.04.2020
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-200804141740353.html
"It Is What It Is"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3047
This past week, in an interview on Axios, Trump had this to say about the 150,000+ deaths from coronavirus this year: "It is what it is". You actually have to take your hat off to something like that, something so sublimely, elegantly, ferociously tone-deaf — something even worse, in fact, than Biden's immortal "you ain't Black", and that's saying something.
"Trump on US coronavirus deaths: 'It is what it is'", Al Jazeera
08.04.2020
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-200804141740353.html
Ann Telnaes in Finding Funny in Complicated Times – Cartooning for Peace
Finding Funny in Complicated Times – Cartooning for Peace
Stephanie Plunkett, Liza Donnelly, Ann Telnaes, and Ed Hall
Aug 11, 2020
Catching up with the Lily's comics
I'm training to be a first responder. The biases and blind spots in health care are massive.
The pandemic inspired me to sign up for an EMT course
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