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Ann Telnaes's Trump as Elvis print is for sale to support Cartoonists Rights Network International.
As I promised in the previous post, I'm here to notify you all about the third and final Billy the Pop book collection! It's called Sweet Adventure, and contains the Billy strips from 2017 to 2020. As with the previous two books, it contains several all-new watercolor illustrations, which I had a lot of fun putting together. I consider this the best Billy book of the three, as to me it represents the peak of the strip's humor and visuals and features some of the strip's best storylines.
Here are a few photos of the book to give you an idea. I'm quite pleased with how it came out.
Here's part of their press release-
HARVEY AWARDS REVEAL 2020 NOMINEES
Prestigious Harvey Awards Returns for Annual Celebration Digitally
Streaming During New York Comic Con's Metaverse
NEW YORK, NY – August 31, 2020 – The Harvey Awards today revealed the nominations and opened the voting for the following categories: Book of the Year, Digital Book of the Year, Best Children or Young Adult Book, Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel, Best Manga, and Best International Book. The nominees for the 2020 Harvey Awards are:
Best Children or Young Adult Book
· Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha (HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray)
Thursday at 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM |
presenting
My Captain America:
A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist
in conversation with HILLARY CHUTE
https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_megan_margulies/
DateSep 3 Thursday September 3, 2020 7:00 PM | LocationJoin our online event (or pre-register) via the link in the event description. | Tickets Free - $3 contribution suggested at registration |
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes writer MEGAN MARGULIES for a discussion of her debut memoir, My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist. She will be joined in conversation by author and comics expert HILLARY CHUTE, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere.
While payment is not required, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series, our staff, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition, by purchasing a copy of My Captain America on harvard.com, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time.
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five—including some loud personalities—eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space.
Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance.
Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan's story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American.
My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe—and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.
"A tender and heart-aching account of coming-of-age, and of aging, and of a vanishing New York City, as well as a much-needed corrective to myths concerning the origins of some of our most iconographic pieces of 20th-century popular culture. Thank you, Megan Margulies, for getting it all so right." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
"Read Megan's memoir if you care about Captain America and Joe Simon's other other-worldly heroes from Comics' Golden Age. Read it for a granddaughter's stirring love poem to her Daddy Joe. Read it for writing as compelling as the storytelling. Read it because you, like me, need an escape today, and this is one that'll transport you to an uplifting setting and moment." —Larry Tye, author of Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
"Megan Margulies's beautifully rendered chronicle of a charmed friendship brims with the illustrative skills that she so admired in her grandfather. Painting with the indelible details of city dwelling—gurgling coffeemakers, wooden taborets, and rooftop stargazing—she brings to marvelous life the bonds of three generations of restless, complicated New Yorkers, with and without their shields." —Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
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