Friday, August 07, 2009
Barks' paintings for sale at Geppi's Museum beginning tonight
Comic Riffs' Zits interview
The Interview: 'Zits' Co-Creator Jerry Scott
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 6, 2009
Comic collector Mark Zaid in his role as lawyer at large
Superheros and Alter Egos talk at Renwick Gallery
Noon
Superheros and Alter Egos
Mark Newport, one of the artists whose work is featured in Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009, shares his approach to knitting oversized superhero costumes that mix adolescent male subject matter with craft techniques usually associated with women.
Program held at the museum's Renwick Gallery on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Post on Obama as Joker latest tempest in teapot
Onion on terra-cotta mousketeers find
Legion of Terra-cotta Mouseketeers Found Beneath Disney World, Onion (August 6 2009): 1, 6.
National Geographic is opening an exhibit of the Chinese warriors in the fall - perhaps some of the Mouseketeers will sneak in.
Eternal Smile reviewed in Kids Post page
See Mary Quattlebaum's "Colorful Tales for a Hot August," Washington Post Wednesday, August 5, 2009 for a review of THE ETERNAL SMILE By Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Bamn at Baltimore Comic Con
It's official! The Bamn Crew will be walking into the Baltimore Comic Con on October 10th thru October 11th of 2009! (Okay, okay...we'll be walking out October 10th and walking back in October 11th). The Baltimore Comic Con is THE biggest comic convention on the East Coast, and we will be joining the wave of independent comic artist peddling their books in "Artist Alley."
Here is more from the Baltimore Comic Con website:
Contact us at BamnCan@hotmail.com
Comic Riffs reports Iranian cartoon boycott
Ben Templesmith Signing
Laughing Ogre Comics will be hosting a signing with Ben Templesmith on August 08, 2009 from 12:00pm - 4:00pm at their Lansdowne, VA store. The Laughing Ogre webpage says 12-8, but Ben Templesmith's sas 12-4, so I'm guessing he's right (plus that's an awful long time for a signing!!!).
Laughing Ogre Comics
Lansdowne Shopping Center
19340 Promenade Drive
Lansdowne,VA 20176
[here's Templesmith's blogpost on it - Mike]
Weldon on the success, or failure, of graphic novels
Tension Deficit Disorder: Why Some Comics Work - And Some Don't.
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (August 5)
Early comic art toy licensee dies
Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, Executive A Pioneer Of Toy Ads, Packaging
By Lauren Wiseman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Grimes, William. 2009.
Lynn Pressman Raymond, Toy Executive, Dies at 97.
New York Times (August 2).
Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02pressman.html
Carla Speed McNeil wins Eisner award
Best Digital Comic
Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil
Thanks to Jeff at Big Planet Comics for the tip!
Shawn Martinbrough on Luke Cage
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Ponyo swag at Japanese Information and Culture Center
Catching up with Kevin Rechin
*Seth's work is lovely too, but he's not a cartoonist.
Feiffer exhibit closes this weekend
Monday, August 03, 2009
Animator Dina Babbitt's obituary in Post
Baltimore's Tim Kreider in the NY Times and NPR on surviving attempted murder
Reprieve
By Tim Kreider
New York Times' Happy Days blog June 2, 2009
A Note from Tim Kreider
By Tim Kreider
New York Times' Happy Days blog June 4, 2009
Averted Vision
By Tim Kreider
New York Times' Happy Days blog August 2, 2009
And here's Tim on NPR (which ends by noting he's working on a 3rd collection of his cartoons - yay! The first two are available from Fantagraphics):
Conan, Neal. 2009.
Cartoonist Has Happy Year After Eluding Murder.
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation (June 16).
online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105481759
Fourteen years ago, cartoonist and author Tim Kreider was stabbed in the throat. He survived, and after his "unsuccessful murder," he wrote in a blog post for the New York Times, he wasn't unhappy for an entire year.
Kreider talks about how getting a second chance has altered his perspective on life.