Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Malaysian horror graphic novel 'Bleeding Scars' weaves a haunting, lingering tale
By HANIS MAKETAB
4 Nov 2024 https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/culture/2024/11/03/malaysian-horror-graphic-novel-039bleeding-scars039-weaves-a-haunting-lingering-tale

Surprise! Comic-Con is San Diego's biggest event
Heidi MacDonald on 12/09/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/surprise-comic-con-is-san-diegos-biggest-event/

Collectible comic books, trading cards worth $60K stolen from Waldo T-Shirts
Dre Bradley
Nov 01, 2024
https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/collectible-comic-books-trading-cards-worth-60k-stolen-from-waldo-t-shirts

Graphic novel tells emotional tale of Jews in 1930s aimed at modern audience
Judessey is a fast-moving and attention-grabbing tale, not without moments of real emotion, told in a series of vivid hand-drawn pictures, embellished with speech bubbles.
By NEVILLE TELLER NOVEMBER 4, 2024 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-826829

NASA's New Edition of Graphic Novel Features Europa Clipper [Astrobiology]
Aaron Gronstal
Nov 01, 2024
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/nasas-new-edition-of-graphic-novel-features-europa-clipper/

Comic book pulled back by publisher as internet objects to depiction of blacks and women [Spirou and the Blue Gorgon]
Shomini Sen
Nov 05, 2024
https://www.wionews.com/world/comic-book-pulled-back-by-publisher-as-internet-objects-to-depiction-of-blacks-and-women-773592

Brandi Smith
RICE NEWS - Nov. 4, 2024
Rice students illustrate campus life in new French comics course
https://news.rice.edu/news/2024/rice-students-illustrate-campus-life-new-french-comics-course

Bridget R. Cooks and John Jennings, Voyage of the Black Superhero
Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley
National Gallery of Art December 7, 2024
https://nga.zoomgov.com/rec/play/jcIODE6RMsFg7IepmIqMcm0w2SHAfFCF0qGz01zytYSod5MCb8Ipho_N0KBRrGvsRGdo6dX5tp1ajKUl.oC25qLZdy6NdwG39l

James Gunn Talks 'Creature Commandos' and 'Superman': "David Corenswet Is Going to Freak Everyone Out"
Brian Davids
December 3, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/james-gunn-creature-commandos-superman-1236076004/

David Ayer Defends Push for 'Suicide Squad' Director's Cut: "Judge Once You Have All the Information"
The filmmaker helmed the 2016 Warner Bros. movie that stars Will Smith and Margot Robbie and focuses on DC Comics villains.
Ryan Gajewski
December 6, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/suicide-squad-david-ayer-pushes-directors-cut-1236079041/

'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' Review: Brian Cox in a Predictably Plotted but Sumptuously Animated Prequel

Peter Jackson executive produces the anime-style feature, set nearly two centuries before the events of the live-action film trilogy and based on J.R.R. Tolkien's appendices.

Frank Scheck
December 9, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-review-1236075681/

The Comfort Zone {peanuts]
By Jonathan Franzen
November 21, 2004
Published in the print edition of the November 29, 2004, issue, with the headline "The Comfort Zone."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/29/the-comfort-zone

Olney's Production of Disney's Frozen Cozies Up to Arendelle Fans but Will Never Thaw a Theater Lover's Heart
New to regional theaters, Disney's Frozen shows how the company's tight grip on the production keeps standards high and restricts creativity, prompting our critic to proclaim: Let it go.
by Rebecca Ritzel December 9th, 2024
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/754726/olneys-production-of-disneys-frozen-cozies-up-to-arendelle-fans-but-will-never-thaw-a-theater-lovers-heart/

Monday, December 09, 2024

WCP reviews Olney’s production of Disney’s Frozen

Olney's Production of Disney's Frozen Cozies Up to Arendelle Fans but Will Never Thaw a Theater Lover's Heart

New to regional theaters, Disney's Frozen shows how the company's tight grip on the production keeps standards high and restricts creativity, prompting our critic to proclaim: Let it go.

by Rebecca Ritzel December 9th, 2024

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/754726/olneys-production-of-disneys-frozen-cozies-up-to-arendelle-fans-but-will-never-thaw-a-theater-lovers-heart/

Bridget R. Cooks and John Jennings, Voyage of the Black Superhero

Bridget R. Cooks and John Jennings, Voyage of the Black Superhero

Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley

National Gallery of Art December 7, 2024

https://nga.zoomgov.com/rec/play/jcIODE6RMsFg7IepmIqMcm0w2SHAfFCF0qGz01zytYSod5MCb8Ipho_N0KBRrGvsRGdo6dX5tp1ajKUl.oC25qLZdy6NdwG39l

New York Times Best Seller, Marvel writer, media studies professor, and graphic artist John Jennings and art historian Bridget R. Cooks will discuss the persistence of the Black superhero in American comics and art. Taking Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley as a point of departure, these scholars will address the visibility of Black protagonists on their journeys for survival.

Unexpected House Guest by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/4/2024

these never got sent.

"Age Against the Machine" exhibition features work by "Concrete" artist Paul Chadwick

John Freeman on November 3, 2024

https://downthetubes.net/age-against-the-machine-exhibition-features-work-by-concrete-artist-paul-chadwick/

RIP GREG HILDEBRANDT

'Lord of the Rings,' 'Star Wars,' 'Marvel Masterpieces,' 'Magic: The Gathering' Artist

Posted by Johanna Draper Carlson on November 1, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58168/rip-greg-hildebrandt

[" As pretty much everybody knows by now, Greg Hildebrandt has departed the Grey Havens for the West."]

The Official Walter Simonson Page November 2 2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/3UC5nDGCcZdyEsEc/

Bernie Jaye or Rhianna Pratchett as Marvel's First Brit Female Writer? Bleeding Cool asked if it could it possibly be true that Alison Sampson as the first British woman who has written a comic for Marvel USA.

03 Nov 2024 by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bernie-jaye-or-rhianna-pratchett-as-marvels-first-brit-female-writer/

'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon' Closes 'The Book of Carol' With a Major Change of Scenery

Josh Wigler

November 3, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-the-book-of-carol-finale-season-3-1236052718/

Interview : Jacques Tardi et Nestor Burma font du rififi dans le XXe

Jean-Laurent TRUC.

3 novembre 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/du-rififi-a-menilmontant-297798.html

Le décès de Daniel Ceppi

Jean-Laurent TRUC.

4 novembre 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/le-deces-de-daniel-ceppi-298188.html

Comic Store In Your Future: 14 Years Behind Me, Nothing But Hope Ahead [Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa]

03 Nov 2024 by Rod Lamberti https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-14-years-behind-me-nothing-but-hope-ahead/

Comic Book Folk React To… The American Presidential Election

Rich Johnston| 03 Nov 2024 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-folk-react-to-the-american-presidential-election/

'We worry about everything': A World War III Illustrated roundtable

Ian Thomas | November 4, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/we-worry-about-everything-a-world-war-iii-illustrated-roundtable/

Owly by Andy Runton – Summer Reading Spectacular

Steve Thomas

Circulating Ideas podcast 266: July 16, 2024

https://circulatingideas.com/2024/07/16/266-owly-by-andy-runton-summer-reading-spectacular/

https://circulatingideas.com/transcripts/andy-runton/

A take on 'Frozen' that might leave you cold

Celia Wren

Washington Post November 4, 2024: C5.online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2024/10/30/frozen-olney-theatre-review/

WHEN JOE GOES "YO JOE!" [G.I. Joe]

Joe Casey Writes Nov 4, 2024

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/when-joe-goes-joe

Interview: Heather Antos, Chris Fenoglio and Ryan North on STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS: WARP YOUR OWN WAY

Avery Kaplan on 11/04/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-heather-antos-chris-fenoglio-and-ryan-north-on-star-trek-lower-decks-warp-your-own-way/

Greg Hildebrandt, Artist of Iconic Star Wars, Marvel Images and More, Dies at 85

Kofi Outlaw

November 1, 2024,

https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/greg-hildebrandt-dies-dead-obituary-star-wars-dc-marvel-artist/

Comic book writer Tom King thinks Philly can save the world

The author will be appearing at Brave New Worlds comics in Old City on Election Day for a get out the vote celebration.

by Mike Newall

Nov. 4, 2024,

https://www.inquirer.com/arts/tom-king-comics-trump-philly-20241104.html

Here: the perfect comic becomes an imperfect film

By Heidi MacDonald on 11/04/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/here-zemeckis-mcguire-the-perfect-comic-become-an-imperfect-film/

Sunday, December 08, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "God Bless Us, Every One"

"God Bless Us, Every One"

https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4057

When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting, I didn't hear it all — just "United Healthcare CEO" and "shot in NYC", and that was about it. I assumed it was your standard-issue random street crime until I started getting the details — especially the word "targeted" yelled over and over — and thought "whoa, man, shit's gettin' real...!"

Predictably, the Wall Street Journal treated it like the JFK assassination; splashed that CCTV frame over the front page like an Abraham Zapruder frame. The New York Times was surprisingly factual as the shooter really did go to the trouble of stalking Mr. Big Shot and it was, in fact, a pretty goddamn bold assasination.

Gotta love the Washington Post, though; they say the police are looking for a motive — a motive, f'crissake. Hell, gang, if you want a goddamn' motive, you might want to ask around the huge-ass numbers of people who had to go to an ER and were dinged for a $10,000 ambulance ride.

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage

Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Missed it - Sean Martinbrough was at African-American History yesterday

For the record. He was selling books at the African American History and Culture Museum's Holiday Trunk Sale.

According to his FB page, he did well and had a good time.

Dec 8 - Jan 26: Art Hondros exhibit at the beachKraft in Olney (reception on Dec 14)

Dec. 8 - Jan. 26

Art Hondros

Graphic Recorder • Illustrator

Draws and Plays Well with Others

Art Hondros received wrist slappings for some of his renderings in both high school and the U.S. Navy. He attended the Colorado Art Institute. In addition to being a freelance graphic artist, he has worked for The Charlotte Observer and National Geographic. His work has appeared in The Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, Packingtown Review, and Pisgah Review. You can read more about him and his work at https://www.arthondros.com/.

RECEPTION:

Saturday, December 14th

6:00pm-8:00pm

EXHIBITING:

12/8-1/26

Art Hondros

Graphic Recorder • Illustrator

Draws and Plays Well with Others

240•676•1004

arthondros.com

Saturday, December 07, 2024

Fit for the National Cartoon Museum [Mark Trail letter]

Susie Van Pool, Washington

Washington Post December 7 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/06/doge-hegseth-madeleine-riffaud-women-military/

I think the current iteration of Mark Trail ought to stay in the woods (or just leave). In the Nov. 18 strip, he brought a group of students to Washington to go to the National Science Museum. Of all the museums we have, this was one I'd never heard of, so I Googled it and, sure enough, it doesn't exist. That would have been a simple thing for the cartoonist to look up.

2024 Berryman Cartoonist Award goes to Tom Tomorrow

Tom Tomorrow Wins 2024 Berryman Cartoonist Award

Learn More About This Award

Dec 06, 2024

https://nationalpress.org/award-story/tom-tomorrow-dan-perkins-wins-2024-berryman-cartoonist-award/

On his paid newsletter he says,

This is a big honor, it's one of a small handful of major prizes in the field. I'll be attending a gala dinner in DC in February, and I believe giving a speech, though I don't really know any details yet. But this is a big deal, and comes at a good moment. The last year or two had a lot of (what at least felt like) setbacks, between the esteemed left wing magazine dumping me and the publisher who said they were sending over a contract and then ghosted me like a Tinder date gone wrong (I am not actually on Tinder, but that's kind of the go-to for a dating app reference). And then there's the outcome of the election, but we're all going through that one collectively. At any rate, I was starting to feel kind of discouraged, in a low-level but pervasive way. So this is a nice little moment of affirmation, as I join a roster of my distinguished colleagues — Jen Sorensen, Ruben Bolling, and Ward Sutton, among others — who have previously won the honor. I'd say I'm happy to "finally" have won it, but the truth is, this is the only major award whose deadline is in the fall, rather than the start of the year, and for years I kept forgetting to send a submission in on time! I finally put a reminder in my calendar this year, and happily the stars aligned.

This may be the last big award of my career. I've previously won the RFK (named after SENIOR, to be clear) on two occasions, and the Herblock, and I was a Pulitzer finalist one year, which is probably as close as I'm getting to that one, given that they've effectively eliminated the old "editorial cartooning" category and replaced it with a grab bag that encompasses anything involving drawing. But that feels like plenty to me, honestly more than I would have ever expected back at the other end of this journey. I have no complaints.

There's a nice article about the award, which includes some pretty deep-dive history, in my "hometown" paper, Little Village out of Iowa City.

Funny story, the National Press Club people notified me by email on the Friday before Thanksgiving week, but I didn't see the email. When it finally popped up again a week and a half later, I assumed it must be a "thank you for entering" message, because *surely* they would have already notified the actual winner by that point!

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/6/2024

Interview: We talk with ANNIE BUSTAMANTE, protagonist of new comics industry novel, ALTER EGO

Zack Quaintance on 12/06/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-we-talk-with-annie-bustamante-protagonist-of-new-comics-industry-novel-alter-ego/

Convention Recap: Big Apple Christmas Con

Contributed by collector and Overstreet Advisor Art Cloos

Photos by Alice Cloos

Scoop December 6 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=278914

Big Apple Christmas Con in Photos

Photos by Alice Cloos

Scoop December 6 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=278997

Director Kris Kelly Casts Light on the Story Behind His Award-Winning Short, 'A Wind and the Shadow'

Ramin Zahed

December 5, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/director-kris-kelly-casts-light-on-the-story-behind-his-award-winning-short-a-wind-and-the-shadow/

RIVA Studios Acquires French Animation Studio TeamTO

Mercedes Milligan

December 5, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/riva-studios-acquires-french-animation-studio-teamto/

Inside the Making of FLOW | Official Behind the Scenes

Janus Films Dec 5, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-a7buP4KA

Gints Zilbalodis On The Improvisational Filmmaking Style Of 'Flow'

By Joe Fordham | 12/04/2024 https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/gints-zilbalodis-on-the-improvisational-filmmaking-style-of-flow-244052.html

2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: 'Luki & The Lights' Director Toby Cochran

By Kévin Giraud | 12/04/2024 https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/2025-oscars-short-film-contenders-luki-the-lights-director-toby-cochran-244105.html

2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: 'Curiosa' Director Tessa Moult-Milewska [UK]

By Kévin Giraud | 12/05/2024 https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/2025-oscars-short-film-contenders-curiosa-director-tessa-moult-milewska-244113.html

Dynamite Entertainment's Tribute To The Late Greg Hildebrandt

Dynamite Entertainment's tribute to the late Greg Hildebrandt appears in all their comic books this month.

05 Dec 2024 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-entertainments-tribute-to-the-late-greg-hildebrandt/

DAN MORA in Conversation | June 27, 2023

SARAHTI G

Fantom Headquarters Dec 3, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5PoDS81HGg

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Episode 183 - Adam Douglas Thompson (ADT)

December 04, 2024

Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius

Episode 183 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/16223550-episode-183-adam-douglas-thompson-adt

June Jordan's Utopian Vision for Harlem

In the wake of the 1964 race riots, the Black feminist writer collaborated with architect Buckminster Fuller on a never-realized project to reimagine the neighborhood's public housing.

Nathan Gelgud

December 5 2024 https://hyperallergic.com/972033/june-jordan-utopian-vision-for-harlem/

Wichita State University ADCI College of Fine Arts October 31, 2024

Alum Spotlight: Trishelle Jeffery

https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/fine_arts_news/10_29_24_adci-spotlight-jeffery.php

Retro Review: It's the Humanity That Keeps Us Captivated in Batman Returns

Tim Burton's 1992 superhero film reminds us that villains are just heroes with bad luck.

by Noah Gittell

Washington City Paper December 6th, 2024 https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/754663/retro-review-its-the-humanity-that-keeps-us-captivated-in-batman-returns/

Albert and Franz and Alice's excellent adventures

A new graphic novel by a New Yorker cartoonist and Evanstonian transports us through time and space and down the rabbit hole where Einstein learns that relativity is reality. [Ken Krimstein's Einstein in Kafkaland]

by Scott Pemberton October 31st, 2024

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2024/10/31/albert-and-franz-and-alices-excellent-adventures/

If We Make It Through December – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | December 5, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/if-we-make-it-through-december-this-weeks-links/

Marc Sobel, December 3rd, 2024 [aka Marc Sobel: Reading Love and Rockets ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqtQg7XOA0Q

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

409; Dec 4, 2024

Off Panel #476: Three Themes with Steve Anderson, Heidi MacDonald, and Joshua Williamson

December 2 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel476-three-themes-with-steve-anderson-heidi-macdonald-and-joshua-williamson

Shueisha Removes Sayonara Wonder Rabbit Manga From All Platforms After Plagiarism Allegations

Written by Chike Nwaenie December 1, 2024

https://animecorner.me/shueisha-suspends-sayonara-wonder-rabbit-manga-publication-plagiarism/

Assassination Classroom Manga Banned in South Carolina School District

posted on 2024-11-16 19:39 EST by Anita Tai

Removal follows similar moves by other districts to remove series, including Sasaki and Miyano boys-love manga

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-16/assassination-classroom-manga-banned-in-south-carolina-school-district/.217950

Sarah Leavitt illustrates the tender and complex grief of her partner's assisted death

The Vancouver writer and illustrator discussed her comic Something, Not Nothing on Bookends with Mattea Roach

CBC Books December 4 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/books/bookends/sarah-leavitt-illustrates-the-tender-and-complex-grief-of-her-partner-s-assisted-death-1.7400690

Bookends with Mattea Roach

Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words

https://www.cbc.ca/books/bookends/sarah-leavitt-illustrates-the-tender-and-complex-grief-of-her-partner-s-assisted-death-1.7400690

Best Show 2024

"COMICS , 1964–2024"

Centre Pompidou, Paris

By Dan Nadel

https://www.artforum.com/features/best-show-2024-dan-nadel-comics-19642024-1234721686/

Phoenix native's graphic novel inspired by Holocaust-era opera

"Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis" by Dave Maass mixes dystopian sci-fi, mythic fantasy, and zombie horror.

By Timothy Rawles

November 30, 2024

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/phoenix-natives-graphic-novel-inspired-by-holocaust-era-opera-19156087

Comic-Con alternative CCXP has harnessed a growing phenomenon

The Brazilian event continues to evolve, but so do its obstacles

Diego Nicolás Argüello

Dec 4, 2024,

https://www.polygon.com/comics/473178/ccxp-is-the-new-comic-con

'Yasuke: Way of the Butterfly' Tells the Origin Story of a Real-Life African Samurai [South Africa].

Sabelo Mkhabela

November 29, 2024

https://www.okayafrica.com/yasuke-way-of-the-butterfly/

Francesca Perillo and Stefano Cardoselli welcome us to the 'Long Cold Winter'

Chris Coplan

December 3, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/03/long-cold-winter-qa/

"Her superpower is how she views the world": Tate Brombal delves into new 'Batgirl' series

Chris Coplan

December 3, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/03/batgirl-issue-2-feature/

X-Men Monday #277 – Erica Schultz Talks 'Laura Kinney: Wolverine'

Chris Hassan

December 2, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/02/x-men-monday-erica-schultz-laura-kinney-2/

Madame Choi and the Monsters by Patrick Spät and Sheree Domingo review – the stuff of blockbusters

The astonishing real-life tale of how North Korea kidnapped an actor and her film director ex-husband makes for a fascinating graphic history

Rachel Cooke

Mon 2 Dec 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/02/madame-choi-and-the-monsters-by-patrick-spat-and-sheree-domingo-review-the-stuff-of-blockbusters

Chan, Rachel Suet Kay (2024). Moriarty the Patriot: : Sherlockian Manga and the Game of City Living. Journal of Ethnic and Diversity Studies (JOEDS), 2(2). Retrieved from https://joeds.com.my/index.php/home/article/view/50 and https://joeds.com.my/index.php/home/article/view/50/26

Trump's Fans Are Suffering From Tony Soprano Syndrome
Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.
By Adam Serwer
December 5, 2024,
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/elon-musk-judge-dredd-autocrat/680881/

Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures to Release 'Attack on Titan: The Last Attack' in North American Cinemas
The two companies describe the release plan as a "cinematic experience that combines the final chapters of the highly acclaimed anime series in one colossal film."
Patrick Brzeski
December 5, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/crunchyroll-sony-attack-on-titan-the-last-attack-north-america-cinemas-1236079223/

James Gunn talks SUPERMAN, CREATURE COMMANDOS, BATMAN, LANTERNS, Marvel I Happy Sad Confused
Josh Horowitz
Dec 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2RCSQC95o

Author spotlight: Your difference is your strength: Sue Seserman and 'Epilectra'
by Teague von Bohlen
Colorado Community Media November 1, 2024
https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2024/11/01/author-spotlight-your-difference-is-your-strength-sue-seserman-and-epilectra/

A symphony of horror on the hilltop [Sydney Collings, aka @symphony_sonata]
Katie Fay, Deputy Managing Editor
October 31, 2024
https://smudailycampus.com/1065177/ae/a-symphony-of-horror-on-the-hilltop/

From Marvel To Modok Patton Oswaltt and Jordan Blum
wordballoon
Dec 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z08HYHz4e7U

Henry Barajas On Green Hornet Miss Fury
wordballoon
Dec 5 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvJ7uOWfgVg

The Glory Days Of Vertigo With Shelly Bond Steven Seagle and Mike Allred
wordballoon
Dec 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoFvW0rJ24E

#200: Liana Kangas Celebrates Capes and Tights Milestone
Justin Soderberg
Capes and Tights
Dec 4, 2024 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7ofrEmQwI

Alamat Comics Livestream! [ Filipino]
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
Dec 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNm7xW-9FA

Comic Culture with Adam Hughes
terence dollard
Dec 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJVJRKKGYag

DC Comics At Dollar Tree… For A Dollar Twenty-Five Cents
First issues of DC comic books are now on display at Dollar Tree locations across the USA... for a dollar twenty-five cents each.
06 Dec 2024
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-at-dollar-tree-for-a-dollar-twenty-five-cents/

My World Of Flops: Joker: Folie À Deux
The sequel is devoted to punishing its adoring audiences - subversive in theory, but unwatchable in practice.
By Nathan Rabin | December 5, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/my-world-of-flops-joker-folie-a-deuxhttps://www.avclub.com/my-world-of-flops-joker-folie-a-deux

The Contested Legacy of Miné Okubo's World War II Art
By: H.M.A. Leow
JSTOR Daily December 4, 2024
https://daily.jstor.org/the-contested-legacy-of-mine-okubos-world-war-ii-art/

An artist's outrage at the injustices of World War II-era America [in print as Acid indictments of American injustice]
The biting social realist William Gropper attacked demagogues of his time in political cartoons, stylish art and populist murals.
Review by Mark Jenkins
Washington Post December 6, 2024: Weekend 12, 16
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/04/william-gropper-phillips-collection/

Go with the 'Flow' on a magical, wordless animated adventure [in print as Get swept away on a wordless adventure]
Ty Burr
Washington Post December 6, 2024: Weekend 12, 16.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/12/06/flow-animated-movie-latvia/

What to know about 'Creature Commandos' and James Gunn's new DC universe [in print as The features of Gunn's 'Creature Commandos']
Herb Scribner
Washington Post December 6, 2024: C1, 4.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/12/05/creature-commandos-dcu-james-gunn-explained/

Friday, December 06, 2024

PR: The Phillips Collection Presents William Gropper: Artist of the People

The Phillips Collection Presents William Gropper: Artist of the People

September 10, 2024

https://www.phillipscollection.org/press/phillips-collection-presents-william-gropper-artist-people

The first exhibition in Washington, DC, dedicated to the leading American social realist artist

WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection presents William Gropper: Artist of the People, the first exhibition in Washington, DC, dedicated to political cartoonist, painter, and printmaker William Gropper (b. 1897, New York, NY; d. 1977, Manhasset, NY). Featuring more than 40 paintings, cartoons, and caricatures this focused exhibition reveals Gropper's biting commentary on human rights, class, labor, freedom, democracy, and the hypocrisy of the American dream. The exhibition spans the artist's most prolific years and reconstructs his political critiques and commitment to social justice for a contemporary audience. The exhibition is on view from October 17, 2024, through January 5, 2025. Press are invited to see the exhibition with the curator, Elsa Smithgall, by appointment on October 17, from 10 am–5 pm. RSVP to lcantrell@phillipscollection.org.

The son of impoverished immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, Gropper grew up poor on the Lower East Side. Witnessing the daily injustices face by the working class during his formative years instilled in him a sympathy for marginalized communities, which greatly influenced his direction as an artist. Gropper contributed thousands of incisive illustrations to Vanity Fair and the New York Tribune, as well as more radical papers like the New Masses, Rebel Worker, and Morning Freiheit. Hailed as the Honoré Daumier of his time due to his sharp criticism of politicians and the government, Gropper developed a powerful artistic language to catalyze social change.

"Gropper was an artist of, by, and for the people, who fervently believed in the power of art to bring people together and effect change," says Vradenburg Director & CEO Jonathan P. Binstock. "Over half a century since their creation, Gropper's work exposes universal human concerns, including the fragility of our democracy, which continue to persist. As an artist who has long been overlooked in the history of 20th-century American art, we are excited to share his work with our guests and spark conversations about its relevance to our contemporary world."

This presentation of Gropper's satires and commentary featured examples produced during a fertile period in the artist's career, between the 1930s and 1950s. During the Great Depression, Gropper, like many of his fellow social realist artists and mentors like Robert Henri and George Bellows, celebrated the importance and inherent dignity of the worker in his art. As a labor activist, Gropper championed unions and defended government programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided government jobs for millions of the unemployed and commissioned public artworks by artists who have come to define the American modernist canon including Stuart Davis, Dorothea Lange, Jacob Lawrence, and Jackson Pollock.

"Gropper was a fierce, lifelong social justice advocate who used art to advocate for a better world. He believed strongly that artists be given a 'free hand' to reveal hard truths," says Phillips Chief Curator and exhibition curator Elsa Smithgall. "In addition to his scathing social and political commentary, Gropper also turned to folk heroes and popular imagery from American contemporary discourse to portray optimistic scenes of his vision for an egalitarian society."

Gropper's socially conscious work went beyond support for the worker to the condemnation of racism, fascism, antisemitism, and governmental corruption. In 1936, while on assignment for Vanity Fair, Gropper wielded his brush to document proceedings of the US Senate, where he observed firsthand the shortcomings of democracy as a political system. During World War II, Gropper supported the war effort, creating war bond posters and cartoons condemning domestic and foreign fascists. He produced thousands of cartoons and received numerous commissions for murals throughout the country, including Construction of a Dam in the Department of the Interior building in DC.

In the 1950s, Gropper found himself in the crosshairs of Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scare," becoming the first of only two artists to be blacklisted, with his works banned from State Department traveling shows and many museums and galleries. The results were immediate and devastating, yet this did not diminish his belief in democracy and freedom of expression, nor his critical eye and artistic vigor. Following these dramatic events, Gropper produced his famed 50-print set titled The Capriccios after Spanish artist Francisco de Goya's series of the same name, drawing a provocative parallel between the Spanish Inquisition and McCarthyism. He channeled this dark chapter of paranoia and political scapegoating into his art and regained popular reception in the final decades of his life. He continued to produce works that speak to themes of war, prejudice, greed, and exploitation into his late seventies. By the year of his death, he had shown at most major museums across the country.

William Gropper: Artist of the People is the first exhibition presented by The Phillips Collection dedicated to the artist. In addition to works on loan, the exhibition features a selection of Gropper's paintings, prints, and drawings from the collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, many of which recently entered the museum's permanent collection and will be exhibited for the first time.

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
The exhibition is organized by The Phillips Collection and is made possible in part by the generous support of Phillips Trustee Emeritus Harvey Ross.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated scholarly catalogue published by The Phillips Collection. It includes a foreword by Jonathan P. Binstock, Vradenburg Director & CEO of The Phillips Collection, essays by noted scholars Norman Kleeblatt, Allan Lichtman, and Lauren Strauss, a conversation between Harvey Ross and the exhibition's curator Phillips Chief Curator Elsa Smithgall, and a translated excerpt of Gropper's writings that appeared in the Yiddish publication Freiheit. The publication is available at the Museum Shop or shopphillipscollection.org.

IMAGE: William Gropper, Justice from Capriccios, 1953–57. Lithograph, 16 1/8 × 12 1/2 in., The Phillips Collection, Gift of Harvey Ross in honor of Dorothy Kosinki's exemplary service to The Phillips Collection 2008–2022, 2022.

IMAGE GALLERY High-resolution press images are available upon request. Please contact lcantrell@phillipscollection.org.

ABOUT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921. The museum houses one of the world's most celebrated Impressionist and American modern art collections and continues to grow its collection with important contemporary voices. Its distinctive building combines extensive new galleries with the former home of its founder, Duncan Phillips. The Phillips's impact spreads nationally and internationally through its diverse and experimental special exhibitions and events, including its award-winning education programs for educators, students, and adults; renowned Phillips Music series; and dynamic art and wellness and Phillips after 5 events. The Phillips Collection's extensive community partnerships include Phillips@THEARC, the museum's satellite campus in Southeast DC. The Phillips Collection is a private, non-government museum, supported primarily by donations.

WaPo's Friday's comic content - Gropper exhibit, Flow, and Creature Commandos

An artist's outrage at the injustices of World War II-era America [in print as Acid indictments of American injustice]

The biting social realist William Gropper attacked demagogues of his time in political cartoons, stylish art and populist murals.

Review by Mark Jenkins

Washington Post December 6, 2024: Weekend 12, 16

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/04/william-gropper-phillips-collection/

Go with the 'Flow' on a magical, wordless animated adventure [in print as Get swept away on a wordless adventure]

From Latvia, a four-star, epic tale of five animals surviving a flood.

Review by Ty Burr

(4 stars)

Washington Post December 6, 2024: Weekend 12, 16.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/12/06/flow-animated-movie-latvia/

What to know about 'Creature Commandos' and James Gunn's new DC universe [in print as The features of Gunn's 'Creature Commandos']

Gunn launches his new DC Comics cinematic universe (known as the DCU) with the new Max series.

By Herb Scribner

Washington Post December 6, 2024: C1, 4.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/12/05/creature-commandos-dcu-james-gunn-explained/

Jan 11: Gale Galligan - Fresh Start at Scrawl Books

Gale Galligan - Fresh Start

https://www.scrawlbooks.com/event/gale-galligan-fresh-start

Join us at Scrawl Books on Saturday, January 11 at 2PM as we welcome Gale Galligan! Gale will be discussing their new graphic novel, Fresh Start.

Leah says, "Another absolute delight from Gale Galligan! Fresh Start is sweet, expressive, and deeply vulnerable in the absolute best way. A reminder that being brave enough to make new friends and forgive your old ones (and yourself!) is always worth it."

Event date:

Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 2:00pm

Event address:

Scrawl Books

11911 Freedom Drive

Reston, VA 20190

Fresh Start: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)

By Gale Galligan

$14.99

ISBN: 9781338045840

Availability: Coming Soon - Pre-Order Now

Published: Graphix - January 7th, 2025

Off Panel #476: Three Themes with Steve Anderson of Third Eye Comics

Off Panel #476: Three Themes with Steve Anderson, Heidi MacDonald, and Joshua Williamson

December 2 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel476-three-themes-with-steve-anderson-heidi-macdonald-and-joshua-williamson

In a special year end episode of Off Panel, we look at the defining themes of 2024 in comics with the help of retailer Steve Anderson from Third Eye Comics, The Beat's Heidi MacDonald, and writer Joshua Williamson. Up first is Anderson (1:12), who talks about a time of struggle for Marvel in comic shops, the area of effect that can have on other publishers, what seems to be fueling those struggles, his hopes for the future, and more. After that is MacDonald (29:26), who discusses "The Big Lie," which is all about the intersection of comic publishers and media rights, the focus publishers have on media rights these days, the new publishers chasing IP plays, the impact that has on the rest of the industry, and more. And to close is Williamson (1:01:02), who talks a year defined by the phrase "go big or go home," varying examples of that thinking, why that's so important, the importance of big swings, how that affects creators and publishers alike, and more.