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Thursday, December 01, 2016
National Library of Medicine collects Eclipse trading cards
Rosarium Publishing's new graphic novels
Malice in Ovenland
Vol. 1
JUVENILE FICTION
128 Pages, 7 x 10
Formats: Paperback, ebook: PDF, Fixed Layout EPUB, Fixed Layout KF8
Paperback, $17.95 (US $17.95) (CA $23.95)
Publication Date: August 2016
ISBN 9780996769228
Instead of falling down a rabbit hole, Lily finds her way to a fantasy world through a messy kitchen appliance.
Lily Brown is a bright, curious, energetic young girl from Queens, New York. When her mom forces her to stay home for the summer and do chores, Lily fumes. Little did she know that the greasy oven in the kitchen was going to give her more excitement and adventure than she could possibly handle.Born and raised in NYC, Micheline Hess does design at a prominent ad agency in Chelsea and spends her spare time developing graphic novels, short stories, and interactive iBooks for kids. She has always been fascinated by the visual narrative in books and film and is constantly endeavoring to weave her own sense of humorous story-telling into both her personal and sometimes professional work. She lives in New York City.
The art in this next one is very stylized, seemingly influenced by 1970s poster art.
The Little Black Fish
JUVENILE FICTION
52 Pages, 6.75 x 10
Formats: Paperback, ebook: PDF, Fixed Layout KF8, Fixed Layout EPUB
Paperback, $9.95 (US $9.95) (CA $12.95)
Publication Date: August 2016
ISBN 9781495607295
Based on the Persian children's classic by Samad Behrangi, this book is about a young fish's courage to question authority and strike out on her own An inquisitive little fish decided to question authority and leave the safety of her own home to venture out into the expansive sea. The creatures she meets along the way teach her important lessons and make her learn the most valuable treasure in life: freedom.
Bizhan Khodabandeh is a designer, illustrator, artist, and activist. He is the communications director for Virginia Commonwealth University's department of communication arts and design and the design manager of Gallery5 in Richmond. He is the recipient of a Silver Medal Award for comics and cartooning through the Society of Illustrators. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Jennifer's Journal: The Life of a SubUrban Girl Vol. 1
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
62 Pages, 7 x 10
Formats: Paperback, Fixed Layout EPUB, ebook: PDF, Fixed Layout KF8
Paperback, $8.95 (US $8.95) (CA $15.95)
Publication Date: May 2015
ISBN 9780990319160
"...this graphic novel chronicles the life of me, Jennifer Crute, a freckled-face African American artists. Pages from my actual journals illustrate my upbringing as a misfit in the suburbs of New Jersey and my daily interactions as an adult living in New York City."
March v. 3 makes School Library Journal's best list
By LJ Reviews
Columnists Tom Batten and Martha Cornog chose the year's best graphic novels.
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/bestbooks2016/graphicnovels.php
Barbershop Stories with Jon Batiste and Congressman John Lewis
Barbershop Stories with Jon Batiste and Congressman John Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHBi030TMM
Jon Batiste chats with Congressman John Lewis about "March" while getting a haircut from his barber Chad.
Dec 17: GRUMP arts fair in Crystal City
GRUMP Holiday Arts & Crafts Show
Sat., Dec 17
Crystal City Underground
GRUMP returns! Featuring 55 local artists and makers selling everything from handmade soap to letterpress cards to locally designed and printed t-shirts to graphic novels! It's like Etsy in real life. 11:00am-5:00pm, 1750 Crystal Drive, Arlington.
Juana Medina window display at Politics and Prose
A Winter Wonderland at P&P
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(5015 Connecticut Ave. NW)
Bruce Guthrie stopped by and took some photographs this afternoon. Click through to see more.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
ReDistricted: 'Up the River'
Dec 9: Animezing!: Only Yesterday
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Self-serving post about Master Jeffrey webcomic
An interview with March's John Lewis
John Lewis: 'Read Everything. Be Kind. Be Bold.'
In Conversation with an American Hero
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'Smoke Sessions' Hits Capitol Hill"
"'Smoke Sessions' hits Capitol Hill"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=21
Photographed and edited by Mike Flugennock, TRT 08:53 https://youtu.be/D_SRru006mE
And so it was that activists from the DC Cannabis Coalition convened at the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Trump's nominee for Attorney General, to discuss the Senator's recent remarks that "good people don't smoke marijuana"...
CBLDF education guide to Trickster
Using Graphic Novels in Education: Trickster
Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including those that have been targeted by censors, and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms.
Nov. 30: Robin Ha at University Club Book Fair
Catching up with Comic Riffs
The fight for comic books' First Amendment rights in the era of Trump
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 29 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/29/the-fight-for-comic-books-first-amendment-rights-in-the-era-of-trump/
The top 10 superhero comics of 2016
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 28 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/28/the-top-10-superhero-comics-of-2016/
'South Park' had planned on a Clinton win. Here's how the show scrambled to depict President Trump and sexism.
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 10 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/10/south-park-had-planned-on-a-clinton-win-heres-how-the-show-scrambled-to-depict-president-trump-and-sexism/
'Being Right Sucks': 'The Simpsons' are not thrilled that they predicted President Trump in 2000
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 14 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/14/being-right-sucks-the-simpsons-are-not-thrilled-that-they-predicted-president-trump-in-2000/
The young female Iron Man Riri Williams makes an impressive debut — despite controversy
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 11 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/11/the-young-female-iron-man-riri-williams-makes-an-impressive-debut-despite-controversy/
Joe Sutliff launches Trumpy doll Kickstarter
The direct link is https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/485242647/trumpy-doll/
Gareth Hinds' graphic novels for Christmas
Monday, November 28, 2016
That darn Prickly City
'Prickly City' residents' horror is too little, too late [in print as 'Prickly City' was inhospitable to Clinton].
Robert J. McManus, Bethesda
Washington Post November 26 2016
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/prickly-city-residents-horror-is-too-little-too-late/2016/11/25/22716460-b03c-11e6-bc2d-19b3d759cfe7_story.htmlMore on the comic newspaper Resist
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/36153/resist-edited-francoise-mouly-nadja-spiegelman
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Comic Riffs on After Death
Two top comic book creators have a new series about a cure for death
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 23 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/23/two-top-comic-book-creators-have-a-new-series-about-a-cure-for-death/
The Post on Moana
Despite familiar formula, Disney's 'Moana' is a breath of fresh island air
By Caitlin Moore
Washington Post November 23 2016, p. C3
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/disneys-moana-is-a-breath-of-fresh-island-air/2016/11/22/96bd1f90-a50f-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html
'Moana' isn't your typical Disney princess. She's an action hero.
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 23 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/23/moana-isnt-your-typical-disney-princess-shes-an-action-hero/
Why ‘Moana’s’ main demigod looks so much — and so little — like People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 22 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/11/22/why-moanas-main-demigod-looks-so-much-and-so-little-like-peoples-sexiest-man-alive/
'Moana,' Brave Princess on a Voyage With a Chicken
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Washington Blade article on Kameny comic
By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
A D.C.-based online comics site called ReDistricted earlier this month published an illustrated story of the life of pioneering gay rights leader Frank Kameny.
Read the article.
Francois Mouly compiling protest comic for march on Washington
Calling all comics artists and illustrators!
Nadja Spiegelman and I are putting together a political comics and graphics newspaper called RESIST!
It will be a special issue of Gabe Fowler's Smoke Signals. It will be printed at 30,000 copies and distributed for free during the women's march on Washington, as well as across the country. We're aiming to have it be an all women's issue, but we're open to submissions from anyone.
Here's our website with more information:
We need everything by December 10th at the very latest!
Please -- send us your political images and sketches! Make your voices heard! And spread the word about this as far and wide as you can...
Hospital visit for children by DC's chapter of the National Cartoonist Society
Cartooning for Kids 2016
November 23, 2016
http://www.curls-studio.com/curls/cartooning-for-kids-2016/
More to Come - on March
More To Come 237: March Book Three Wins National Book Award!
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=661
Express on Moana
I've gotta be me: 'Moana' is so over the princess thing
[online as 'Moana' has something insightful to say about the whole 'Disney princess' thing]
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Panetta's next comic
Graphic novel 'Bloom' has it all: romance, baking and LGBT visibility
By Aliza Weinberger NY Times on March
John Lewis's National Book Award-Winning Graphic Memoir on the Civil Rights Movement
By JULIAN LUCAS
A version of this review appears in print on November 27, 2016, on page BR13 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: They Had a Dream.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/books/review/john-lewis-march.htmlMonday, November 21, 2016
Comic Culture with Baltimore cartoonist Monica Gallagher
Comic Culture with Monica Gallagher
Roller derby, indie comics, and self-doubt are among the topics covered with Monica Gallagher, the artist behind Bonnie N. Collide. Comic Culture is directed and crewed by students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I'm posting the video as producer/host and not as an official University publication.
Jeff Kinney in Catholic Standard
'Wimpy Kid' author Kinney comes home [online as 'Wimpy Kid' author pays tribute to his Catholic roots during visit to Piscataway school]
Mark Zimmermann, Catholic Standard |
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Lenora Yerkes
I met Lenora Yerkes recently at a local art book festival where she was selling two minicomics.
What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
I write stories inspired by my life--you might call it personal or observational narrative drawing.
How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?
I'm all analog--pens and paper and nothing fancier than a nice Japanese pen and a kinda busted scanner.
When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?
My favorite Dolly Parton song (9 to 5) was a Billboard #1 hit the year I was born--in Los Angeles, CA.
Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?
This is my tenth year in DC and my seventh in Bloomingdale. I came for graduate school and stayed for love--of this weird place and its weird people.
What is your training and/or education in cartooning?
Twenty Six Days |
Who are your influences?
Lynda Barry, for sure, but also Vanessa Davis and Evan Dorkin and Kathe Kollwitz (OG narrative printmaker!) and the surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.
If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?
I would have worked more. There's always room for more work.
This season, I shared a lot of a mini-comic I made called "Hibakusha." An interesting thing happened in sharing that book that I didn't expect--a lot of young people were interested because of the ostensible subject, but a lot of older folks were drawn in by the title, which is a word not that commonly used anymore. Response to that story has been great.
What work are you most proud of?
"Twenty Six Days" turned out beautifully and was a bear to compose. The process of writing that one is something I hope to improve on and then bottle.
Longer works! I'm a long-winded, round-about lover of analogies and metaphors, so I work a lot on making complex ideas concise. I'd love to build the patience to compose and draw a longer story.
What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?
Twenty Six Days page |
What do you think will be the future of your field?
Comics or narrative drawing or cartooning--whatever you call it--can be used to tell any kind of story. We're situated to redefine what people think when they hear these words and move these kinds of drawings into every field.
What's your favorite thing about DC?
Least favorite?
What monument or museum do like to take visitors to?
How about a favorite local restaurant?
Do you have a website or blog?