Monday, September 06, 2010
Paul Conrad's obit in Washington Post
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 6, 2010; B04
Grand Comics Database expanding
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Cavna on Paul Conrad
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 5, 2010;
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/09/in_memoriam_paul_conrad.html
Today in The New York (Comics) Times
The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
Paul Conrad, Cartoonist, Dies at 86
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Mr. Conrad’s editorial cartoons in The Los Angeles Times and other papers slashed presidents, skewered pomposity and exposed what he saw as injustice for six decades.
And Rutu Modan illustrated the review of Skippy Dies in the Book Review.
Comics in today's Washington Examiner
Saturday, September 04, 2010
"Superheroes in Court: Lawyers, Law and Comic Books" exhibit done by local collector/lawyer
Local lawyer and big-time comic book collector Mark Zaid has got an exhibit of legal-related comic book covers up in a Yale law library. That's a neat idea for a theme. Here's 3 links about the show that Mark sent me:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/graphic-books-best-sellers-throwing-the-book-at-them/
http://advocatesstudio.com/2010/09/03/art-imitating-law-comic-style/
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/holy_smokes_batman_law_in_comics_featured_in_new_exhibit/?from=widget
Penny Arcade interview at Post
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 3, 2010
That darn Cho!
You should have named Le Pont des Arts in Paris
Washington Post September 4, 2010
Judith Judson, Arlington
...at least they reran Cho's picture.
Post runs book review by graphic novelist
Review of Anne Fortier's novel "Juliet," a riff on "Romeo and Juliet"
By Diana Gabaldon
Washington Post September 4, 2010; C03
Friday, September 03, 2010
John K Snyder III and Matt Wagner visit Library of Congress
Truitt on Wolverine
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY September 2 2010
Mark Ruffin's take on Baltimore Comic Con
Hundreds of talents, patrons and vendors commenced valuable identity for Baltimore Comic Con As a specialty reference comic-con may be an accustomed jargon nation-wide, driven by online frequency, over the last three years to be institutionally known as a variable of descriptors in the capacity of a household term. Infuse comic-con into any... Read more » Thursday, September 2, 2010
DC Comic Books Examiner, Mark Ruffin Mark Ruffin, a freelance writer and story editor, recalls a first read of Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man #8 and a collection of comic books from that point. Following honorable service in the military, he has contributed and edited articles on subjects political, sports car related, and of murder mystery dinner games. Grouped with his enthusiasm for culinary arts and sports, he enjoys discussions on the various perspectives of the comics medium. Contact Mark here. | |
PR: Fifth Annual Washington DC Comics Conspiracy Counter Culture Festival
The Washington DC Comics Conspiracy is proud to announce that the Fifth Annual Counter Culture Festival will be held on October 24th, from 12-8pm. The event will be held at RFD's, with an entrance on 8th street NW, between H and I streets - just one block from the Gallery Place-Chinatown metro station. Admission is free.
The event will feature vending by local comics creators and artists, as well as music and entertainment. For more information, including how to reserve a vending space, please visit:
http://www.dcconspiracy.com/blog/2010/09/counter-culture-festival-5.html
Please contact RM Rhodes at rhodes@oletheros.com with any questions.
Class of '63 Oceanus Procellarum Book Two the new webcomic
by R. M. Rhodes
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/oletheros/op
A Chat with Onezumi Hartstein of Intervention at the City Paper
Posted by Mike Rhode on Sep. 3, 2010 at 9:57 am
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/09/03/meet-a-local-con-organizer-a-chat-with-onezumi-hartstein-of-intervention/
Thursday, September 02, 2010
PR: SPX Announces A Fort Thunder/Monster Debut Event with Brian Ralph and Paul Lyons
Fort's closing, a new issue of Monster will debut at this year's SPX.
The oversized (10" x 14") book, featuring offset-printed interiors and a silkscreened cover, will include new and previously unpublished work by Fort Thunder alumni including Mat Brinkman, Brian Chippendale, Jim Drain, Paul Lyons and Brian Ralph, as well as work by friends and colleagues including Keith Jones, Michael DeForge, and Chuck Forsman.
To mark the occasion, SPX Programming coordinator and Parsons faculty member Bill Kartalopoulos will moderate a special panel event titled "Return of the Monster: The Fort Thunder Legacy" on Saturday, September 11 at 5:30 as part of the festival's larger schedule of
programming events. The panel will feature artists and former Fort Thunder residents Brian Ralph and Paul Lyons. The discussion will also include Tom Devlin, who has published work by Fort Thunder artists both through his own former publishing company Highwater Books and now as creative director of Drawn and Quarterly, and PictureBox publisher Dan Nadel, who has extensively interviewed Fort Thunder artists and currently publishes work by Fort co-founders Brinkman and Chippendale.
Please join us for this special consideration of a landmark contribution to recent comics history.
SPX is a registered 501(c)3 which brings together more than 300
artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators.
As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org/.
The hours for SPX 2010 are 11AM-7PM Saturday, September 11, and noon-6PM Sunday, September 12. Admission is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Smithsonian inspires lad to be comic book writer
By David Pepose, Newsarama 27 August 2010
Caro on Lilli Carré’s minicomic “The Thing about Madeline”
Nevin Martell's expanded Calvin and Hobbes book featured
Expanded Book Chronicles Search for Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes Creator
D.X. Ferris
Cleveland Scene Aug 31, 2010
Searching for Watterson: The confounding creator of Calvin & Hobbes
By Raymond Cummings
San Antonio Current September 1 2010
Here's my take on the original edition from a year ago.
Baltimore City Paper reviews graphic novels.
By Andrea Appleton
Baltimore City Paper September 1, 2010
Reviews War is Boring, By David Axe and Matt Bors (NAL) and Greendale, By Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang, Dave Stewart, and Todd Klein (Vertigo).