Your Handy Field Guide to the Spandex Set, Volume I: Space Guy or Speedster?
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog November 3, 2010
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/11/02/131022221/your-handy-field-guide-to-the-spandex-set-volume-the-first-space-guy-or-speedster
Blog Versus Professor: Aline Kominsky-Crumb is Authentic, Too
Posted by Caro
Hooded Utilitarian November 3 2010
http://www.tcj.com/hoodedutilitarian/2010/11/blog-versus-professor-aline-kominsky-crumb-is-authentic-too/
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Small Press Expo Announces Dates for SPX 2011 and 2nd Annual Small Press Expo Animation Showcase
Small Press Expo Announces Dates for SPX 2011 and 2nd Annual Small Press Expo Animation Showcase
For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard
E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com
Bethesda, Maryland, November 3, 2010 - Small Press Expo, t he preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce that Saturday, September 10, 2011 from 11AM to 7PM, and Sunday September 11, 2011 from noon-6PM . Admission will be $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.
Applications for Exhibitor tables can be submitted as of January 1, 2011 via our website at http://www.spxpo.com. Early bird table prices will be $300 until February 28, 2011, after March 1, 2011 they will be $370.
We are also pleased to announce the return of the Small Press Expo Animation Showcase, which features the best in juried animation. Call for submissions will run from January 1, 2011 to May 1, 2011.
Stay tuned for more details on SPX 2011.
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/.
Roger Langridge's The Shadow sketch
A late holdover from SPX 2010 - this great sketch Roger Langridge did for me. I just figured out how to use my new scanner/printer/copier/changing table.
PR: Fantom Comics Launches New Website: SubcultureForTheCultured.com
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In Between the Panels: DC’s Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
http://www.wnba-books.org/wash/events.php#graphicnovelWednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets, Washington, DC
Cost: FREE and open to the public!
The Women's National Book Association, DC Chapter will sponsor a panel discussion on the DC graphic novel scene. The panel for the event, to be held at Busboys & Poets in Mt. Vernon, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., will include Carolyn Belefski, Molly Lawless, Matt Dembicki, and Mike Rhode. The event is free and open to the public.
Carolyn Belefski is the mastermind behind the web comic Curls. She is also one of the creators of several other comic books: Kid Roxy, Black Magic Tales, and The Legettes, and an indefatigable (nightly) poster to her blog, Sketch Before Sleep. Her work has appeared in USA WEEKEND Magazine, The Commonwealth Times, Virginia Living Magazine, Magic Bullet, CROQ Zine, and The Pulse on COMICON.com. Ms. Belefski is a nominee for the Kim Yale Award for Most Talented Newcomer for 2010.
Matt Dembicki is a DC-based cartoonist whose work includes the award-winning nature parable Mr. Big, The Great White Shark Story, Xoc, and The Brewmaster's Castle, about legendary DC brewer Christian Heurich. His latest anthology, Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, has received rave reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and has been nominated as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. In addition to his own work, Dembicki also hosts kids' workshops in the DC area and beyond on making comic books.
Molly Lawless, a Boston native, moved to the DC area in 2005. She has self-published mini comics as well as a compilation, Infandum! Ad Infinitum. She is currently working on a full-length graphic novel for McFarland Publishing titled Hit by Pitch. She is an avid blogger and includes stories about her family in her daily posts.
Mike Rhode, panel moderator, is co-author of the comics research bibliography, editor of Exhibition and Media Reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art, and a contributing writer for Hogan's Alley. In 2008, he was named Best (Comics) Art Blogger by the Washington City Paper for his Comics DC blog. Rhode edited Harvey Pekar: Conversations, a book of interviews with the late underground comic book writer and author of American Splendor published by the University Press of Mississippi. He has written for the Comics Journal and was selected as an RFK Journalism Awards judge for the editorial cartoon division of Comics Journal in 2009 and 2010. Rhode currently writes about comics for the City Paper.
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Jim Dougan's "SAM & LILAH" webcomic updated
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News from KAL
Kal writes in:
I have finally posted some pics and info from my recent cartoon-related trip to Russia. I also wanted to mention the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco has now made the official announcement of the open of my show later this week. ( http://cartoonart.org/2010/11/drawn-from-the-economist-the-editorial-art-of-kal/) I will at a reception at the Museum November 12.
Many thanks!
Best
Kal
New Luna Brothers interview online
Just a couple of days ago, I had a short interview with the Luna Brothers. Now one of the big comics sites has a longer one:
SWORD's Final Cut: The Luna Brothers & Their HC
By Chris Arrant, Newsarama 01 November 2010
SWORD's Final Cut: The Luna Brothers & Their HC
By Chris Arrant, Newsarama 01 November 2010
Nov 11: Galifianakis returns to Falls Church
Well, actually he lives there. But on Nov 11th, he won't be hiding in his studio.
Cartoonist Nick Galafianakis at ArtSpace
By FALLS CHURCH TIMES STAFF
November 2, 2010
Cartoonist Nick Galafianakis at ArtSpace
By FALLS CHURCH TIMES STAFF
November 2, 2010
Fredericksburg's editorial cartoonist Clay Jones blogging on election
The Daily Cartoonist noted that Fredericksburg's editorial cartoonist Clay Jones is blogging on tonight on the election
Nov 3: Orson Scott Card chat at Washington Post
Nov 3 at 1 pm, Orson Scott Card will chat at the Washington Post website, but you can submit questions now. Card wrote Iron Man, among other titles.
Marvel recently (Oct 28) put out a press release about Card's return to writing comics:
Marvel & Orson Scott Card Bring FORMIC WARS To Life!
New York Times best-selling author Orson Scott Card revolutionized science-fiction with Ender's Game and now returns to write the most requested sci-fi story in the world with Marvel Entertainment in February's Formic Wars #1 (of 7). Selling millions of copies worldwide, Ender's Game is one of the most popular science fiction epics of all time, with fans begging for Card to tell the origins of this universe! Now Orson Scott Card himself, teaming with co-writer Aaron Johnston and rising star artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo, returns to write the prequel in graphic fiction format. Long before Ender Wiggin fought the Third Formic War, humans battled the Formics on our own turf. Twice. Outgunned and unprepared, the human race stands on the brink of total annihilation.
"I've been so happy with Marvel's comic-book adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Ender in Exile and Speaker of the Dead that I wanted my long-imagined story of the Formic Wars to appear first in this wonderfully visualized form," said Orson Scott Card, "With a whole new set of characters, putting together a ragtag fleet of improvised and adapted spacecraft to take on an alien invader, I think these are some of the best, most inspiring stories in the Ender's Game future history, and through the work of Marvel's great team of writers and artists, my tales are coming to life with a power and reality I never could have managed on my own."
This action-packed prequel to Ender's Game answers the questions fans have been asking while delivering a jaw-dropping story perfect for new readers.
"There are few writers as prolific and popular as Orson Scott Card," said David Gabriel, SVP Sales & Circulation, Marvel Entertainment. "We're extremely thrilled to bring Formic Wars to life for the first time in any medium and even more excited to have Orson Scott Card at the helm. If you're a fan of the Ender's books, or just a fan of classic sci-fi, you won't want to miss this series."
The most requested sci-fi action-thriller of the century is now here-you can't afford to miss Formic Wars #1, hitting comic shops in February 2011.
Plus, don't miss the graphic fiction adaptations of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, now available in hardcover collections at comic shops and book stores nationwide!
For more on Orson Scott Card and Ender's Game, please visit www.hatrack.com and www.marvel.com
Marvel recently (Oct 28) put out a press release about Card's return to writing comics:
Marvel & Orson Scott Card Bring FORMIC WARS To Life!
New York Times best-selling author Orson Scott Card revolutionized science-fiction with Ender's Game and now returns to write the most requested sci-fi story in the world with Marvel Entertainment in February's Formic Wars #1 (of 7). Selling millions of copies worldwide, Ender's Game is one of the most popular science fiction epics of all time, with fans begging for Card to tell the origins of this universe! Now Orson Scott Card himself, teaming with co-writer Aaron Johnston and rising star artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo, returns to write the prequel in graphic fiction format. Long before Ender Wiggin fought the Third Formic War, humans battled the Formics on our own turf. Twice. Outgunned and unprepared, the human race stands on the brink of total annihilation.
"I've been so happy with Marvel's comic-book adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Ender in Exile and Speaker of the Dead that I wanted my long-imagined story of the Formic Wars to appear first in this wonderfully visualized form," said Orson Scott Card, "With a whole new set of characters, putting together a ragtag fleet of improvised and adapted spacecraft to take on an alien invader, I think these are some of the best, most inspiring stories in the Ender's Game future history, and through the work of Marvel's great team of writers and artists, my tales are coming to life with a power and reality I never could have managed on my own."
This action-packed prequel to Ender's Game answers the questions fans have been asking while delivering a jaw-dropping story perfect for new readers.
"There are few writers as prolific and popular as Orson Scott Card," said David Gabriel, SVP Sales & Circulation, Marvel Entertainment. "We're extremely thrilled to bring Formic Wars to life for the first time in any medium and even more excited to have Orson Scott Card at the helm. If you're a fan of the Ender's books, or just a fan of classic sci-fi, you won't want to miss this series."
The most requested sci-fi action-thriller of the century is now here-you can't afford to miss Formic Wars #1, hitting comic shops in February 2011.
Plus, don't miss the graphic fiction adaptations of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, now available in hardcover collections at comic shops and book stores nationwide!
For more on Orson Scott Card and Ender's Game, please visit www.hatrack.com and www.marvel.com
Monday, November 01, 2010
Cul de Sac picks up another paper
Comics page offers something new today*
Mansfield News Journal November 1, 2010
*i.e. a fine, fine strip produced here in America, and not outsourced to North Korea.
Mansfield News Journal November 1, 2010
*i.e. a fine, fine strip produced here in America, and not outsourced to North Korea.
Nov 17: In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
Matt Dembicki, Carolyn Belefski and Molly Lawless will talk about comics, moderated by me.
In Between the Panels: DC's Emergence on the Graphic Novel Scene
Wednesday, November 17 at 6:00pm
Location: Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets location
Wednesday, November 17 at 6:00pm
Location: Busboys & Poets, 5th & K Streets location
Reasons to pick up the Oct 28th Onion
The paper's still on the stands and has a cartoon by 'Kelly' (ie Ward Sutton) criticizing Bil Keane for licensing a Family Circus movie, an interview with Frank Darabont on the Walking Dead tv show, and an interview with Brendon Small of the animated Metalocalypse.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Post recommends 22-year-old out-of-print Dracula comic book
In the field of news you can't use, the Post recommended Scarlet in Gaslight a comic series published 22 years ago by a minor publisher, as a Dracula story you should read. I beg to disagree.
Fiore's GU appearance covered again
From Pink Slip to Pulitzer: Mark Fiore
October 28, 2010 | by G'town Gravyboat
By KATIE KINDELAN
http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/pink-slip-pulitzer-mark-fiore
October 28, 2010 | by G'town Gravyboat
By KATIE KINDELAN
http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/pink-slip-pulitzer-mark-fiore
Saturday, October 30, 2010
'The Millions' recommends Cul de Sac
If You Don’t Read “Cul de Sac,” You Really Probably Should
By Jacob Lambert
The Millions October 30, 2010
By Jacob Lambert
The Millions October 30, 2010
Oct 31: Beyond Comics Walking Dead Premiere Party
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