Monday, October 14, 2024
Oct 19: Chad in Amesterdam signing and interview
Oct 16: Andrés Vera Martinez at Politics and Prose
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Welcome...! (Instant Karma no.2)
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3997
I wish I'd screenshot or bookmarked the tweet I spotted on Facebook
featuring a grinning Kay-Kay and Netanyahu shaking hands, with a
headline announcing the latest amount of my tax money being shipped
off to fund a genocide in Palestine. Not that it matters that much
these days, as it's always such an insanely stonking amount of cash
that remembering the actual goddamn number doesn't seem that important
anymore.
Luckily, though, I did save this headline from the Washington Post a
couple of days ago, about how the Small Business Administration's
disaster relief fund is already tapped out. Tough luck, MAGA Boy, the
money to rebuild your surf shop just went to bomb a bunch of people
living in tents.
What goes around, America...
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"SBA's Disaster Funds On Fumes; Out Of Cash In Days As Demand Spikes,
Loans For Victims Could Be Pushed Past Election" Washington Post, Page
A1, 10.12.2024
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/welcome/wapoA1Oct122_sba_on_fumes.jpg
"One year of genocide in Gaza", the WSWS Editorial Board 10.06.2024
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/07/dmhj-o07.html
"Hurricane Milton and the case for socialism", Bryan Dyne at the World
Socialist Site, 10.08.2024
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/09/sarz-o09.html
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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/12-13/2024
Michael de Adder
Fear and loathing on the editorial cartooning trail
THE deEP STATE : The political artwork of Michael de Adder Oct 12, 2024
https://deadder.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-on-the-editorial
DC Tells AEW Origin Stories In Promo Comics Written By Steve Orlando
11 Oct 2024
Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-tells-aew-origin-stories-in-promo-comics-written-by-steve-orlando/
Absolute Batman #1 A Sell Out Across Comic Book Stores
10 Oct 2024
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/absolute-batman-1-a-sell-out-across-comic-book-stores/
Roger K. Lewis – RIP
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/11/roger-k-lewis-rip/
Cartoonists For Kamala Auctions (plural)
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/12/cartoonists-for-kamala-auctions-plural/
AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 296: Absolute Batman chat: Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta reveal all
David Brooke and Nathan Simmons
October 6, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/10/06/aipt-comics-podcast-296-absolute-batman-snyder-dragotta/
Freeman, John. 2024. Captain Scarlet goes large! (Large poster, that is…) [John Patrick Reynolds]. Down the Tubes (October 11): https://downthetubes.net/captain-scarlet-goes-large-large-poster-that-is/
Reynolds, John Patrick. 2017. "The Comic Artist" - UK Screen Printing. Praemio (March 20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkdHqj-uZQ
Thorpe, Vanessa. 2004. Crumbs! Comic heroes storm art world; Collectors pay homage to boyhood icons [John Patrick Reynolds]. Guardian (September 12): https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/sep/12/arts.artsnews
Unknown. 2005. Beano comic strip hero Dennis the Menace has been made the star of his own art exhibition. [John Patrick Reynolds]. BBC (May 29): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4591243.stm
Joker: Folie À Deux breaks another box office record (bad kind)
Todd Phillips' Joker sequel has now stolen the title of "worst second-week box office drop" in comic book movie history
By William Hughes | October 12, 2024 https://www.avclub.com/joker-folie-a-deux-breaks-box-office-record-bad-version
Words, Images, & Worlds: Scott Fogg Returns!
Jason DeHart
Oct 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlpEgAN97go
Words, Images, & Worlds with Neil Kleid
Jason DeHart
Oct 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOcbelbZR8
426 - Ralph Macchio, Writer and Editor for Marvel Comics
James Enstall
Geek To Me Radio
Sep 1, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IN_xJWEE6I
Documentary 'Drawing a Line' Debuts at Human Rights Film Festival
Alan Gardner
Dash Shaw | Cartoonist Interview | Blurry
Henry Chamberlain
Comics Grinder Sep 27, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5sl3piZb5M
Hungry Hungry Hipsters [Edith Pritchett letter]
Elizabeth Broun
The Washington Post (October 12 2024): A15.
Do read it and weep [daily comics color letters; "WuMo"]
Harvey Kabaker, and Pam Gates
Washington Post (October 12 2024): A15.
Losing our Religion [daily comics color letter]
Kerry Stoltzfus
Washington Post (October 12 2024): A15.
Kierkegaard said it best: To label is to negate [Garry Trudeau letter]
Stephanie Demma
Washington Post (October 12 2024): A15.
Lego Leaps Into Documentaries, With Pharrell Williams as the SubjectThe toymaker has found success in fictional films. But with "Piece by Piece," about the life of Mr. Williams, it has gotten into a new genre [in print as Lego Leaps Into Documentaries, With Famous Musician as Its First Subject].
By Nicole Sperling
Oct. 12, 2024, : B5.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/business/media/lego-pharrell-williams-piece-by-piece.html
Harvey Awards Inducts 5 Comic Creators to Hall of Fame [in print as Five Comic Creators to Receive Hall of Fame Honors].
George Gene Gustines
Oct. 12, 2024, : C5.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/arts/harvey-awards-hall-of-fame.html
The 'Joker' sequel could have been a great musical. Here's what went wrong [in print as 'Joker' 2 needed to commit to the bit].
Naveen Kumar
October 12, 2024: C1, 3.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/10/09/joker-2-folie-a-deux-musical/
Research Prompt: What is the most panels ever used on a comics page?
by Mike Rhode
International Journal of Comic Art blog October 13, 2024
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/10/research-prompt-what-is-most-panels.html
Nobuyo Oyama, the Japanese Voice of Doraemon, Dies at 90
John Yoon and Hisako Ueno
Oct. 11, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/arts/television/nobuyo-oyama-dead-doraemon.html
Joseph Patrick Monks, Jr.
February 21, 1968 - August 19, 2023 [aka Joseph M. Monks]
Mullins Memorial Funeral Home
https://mullinsmemorial.com/obituaries/joseph-patrick-monks-jr/
Jason Aaron Talks Absolute Superman, Building A New Version of A Beloved DC Comics Hero
The talented writer talks all things Absolute Superman
Liam McGuire
October 09, 2024
Absolute Superman's Jason Aaron Clears up All In Confusion, Teases Big Changes For the Iconic Character
Matthew Aguilar
October 11, 2024
Jason Aaron Teases 'Absolute Superman': "The Core Of Superman Is Always The Heart"
Alex Zalben
October 8 2024
https://comicbookclublive.com/2024/10/08/jason-aaron-absolute-superman-dc-comics-interview/
The Design of Absolute DC: Rafa Sandoval on Coming to the Rescue on Absolute Superman
David Harper
October 9, 2024
https://sktchd.com/longform/rafa-sandoval-absolute-superman-design/
Off Panel #468: The Crossover Event with Brad and Lisa Gullickson
David Harper
October 7, 2024
https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-468-the-crossover-event-with-brad-and-lisa-gullickson/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/sktchd/Brad_and_Lisa_Gullickson.mp3
Are Micro Lines Proving That Less Can Sometimes Be More?
Whether you're talking Energon, Ultimate, or Absolute, self-contained universes are hot right now. Let's talk about them.
By David Harper
October 10, 2024
https://sktchd.com/longform/micro-lines-feature/
Toronto comic artist shares memoir as graphic novel
Toronto illustrator and cartoonist Paul Gilligan has created works for some of the world's most popular animated shows.
CP24 Breakfast October 11, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Jonathan Roth at Scrawl Books, in pictures
Jonathan Roth has 2 new books out, both dealing with space. Rover and Speck #3: It's a Gas! is about exploring a gas giant and finding life. His picture book, Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars is shown in a number of these photos, and is really very interesting even to an adult.
The pictures that follow are of this event and are pretty self-explanatory.
Create Your Own Graphic Novel with Jonathan Roth
Join us at Scrawl Books on October 12 at 2PM as we welcome Jonathan Roth! Jonathan will be teaching a Create Your Own Graphic Novel workshop for kids in honor of the release of Rover and Speck: It’s a Gas! This is the third installment in Jonathan Roth’s popular graphic novel series about an endearingly mismatched pair of space-traveling rover friends: organized and careful Rover, and impulsive, excitable Speck.
When Jonathan was talking about designing a graphic novel to the children, he asked me what was the most number of panels ever used on a page. This blog post is the start of that research.
My apologies because these are in reverse order, thanks to Google's excellent care for and improvements to Blogger.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Those darn color comics and Garry Trudeau
The Washington Post (October 12 2024): A15.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/11/cartoons-christian-nationalism-missing-fathers-mookie-betts/
Do read it and weep
Daily comics in color! Yay!
I'd like to think it's your direct response to "Don't read it and weep," my plea in the March 9 Free for All, to make the dialogue in "WuMo" more readable, as it often disappeared into a dark gray background created when the strip was converted from color to grayscale.
Since then, I regret to report, it seems "WuMo" is not very funny after all.
Harvey Kabaker, Silver Spring
I always read the Sunday comics, but I confess I stopped reading the daily comics years ago. Your decision to print Monday through Saturday in color has caused me to become a daily reader again. Brilliant idea. I have a feeling I'm not the only one who is attracted to bright colors and shiny objects.
Pam Gates, Rockville
Losing our Religion
"We're bringing more color to your daily life." Wow, more color in the comics. In contrast, a few months ago the Religion coverage every Saturday disappeared. A better understanding of the religious landscape encourages respect for the diversity of faith traditions. Color in the comics contributes to what?
Kerry Stoltzfus, Sandy Spring
Kierkegaard said it best: To label is to negate
What a delight to read Garry Trudeau's Sept. 25 Wednesday Opinion essay, "The Rigger," a clever dive into the deep state by a character who never was. However, I was dismayed to read the word "Satire" above the headline. Why was it necessary?
Even "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift's 1729 masterpiece of irony, is not identified as satirical. Readers are forced to come to their own conclusion. Nevertheless, we must have our trigger warnings lest we be tricked into actually thinking.
Stephanie Demma, North Bethesda
That darn Edith Pritchett
No doubt you imagine her pretentious drawings promoting topics found on social media are attracting younger readers. Do you understand how many older readers are dismayed to see her silliness featured again and again in vast portions of the opinion pages? Her Sept. 30 cartoon, "The unstoppable rise of Moo Deng, the internet's favorite hippo," is a case in point.
Herblock is turning in his grave.
Elizabeth Broun, Bethesda