Thursday, May 05, 2011

Truitt on Free Comic Book Day and Flashpoint

Free Comic Book Day offers something for everyone
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY May 5 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-05-05-Free-Comic-Book-Day-online_N.htm

'Flashpoint': Not the DC heroes you know
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY May 5 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-05-05-Flashpoint05_ST_N.htm

May 21: DC Anime Club cosplay parade

The press release seeking volunteers for the DC Anime Club cosplay parade is here.

Free Comic Book Day May 7th

From: Joel Pollack at Big Planet Comics

Just wanted to remind everyone that next Saturday is Free Comic Book Day.

The Thor movie opens on Friday, and Saturday is FCBD.

We are really looking to FCBD, there are a lot really good free comes this year.

So don't forget, Saturday, May 7th, Free Comic Book Day.

See you Saturday.

NPR blogger continues to struggle with Sandman

Book Club: Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman: Dream Country,' Part Two

by Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon

May 5, 2011

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/05/05/136017702/book-club-neil-gaimans-the-sandman-dream-country-part-two

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Jeffrey Thompson's travel sketchbooks

Big Planet Comics' staff (and children's book artist) Jeffrey Thompson happened to mention that he was planning on traveling to Peru this summer and would then be posting his sketchbook online to me today. I was surprised to find out that he's been doing travel sketch books since this one from Belize in 1996. Links to his others are here: Italy & Amsterdam, Iceland & Ireland, France & Verdun, Mexico & Belize.

I love these types of books.

6 new Team Cul de Sac cartoons online

Boy, you turn your back for a minute, and 6 more Team Cul de Sac cartoons have been added to the blog. Thanks to Terri Libenson, Brian Anderson, Jonathan Lemon, Jay Stephens, Chris Schechner and Barbara Dale.

May 17: DC Conspiracy books at Gaithersburg Book Festival

R. M. Rhodes writes in-

I'm going to be vending on behalf of the DC Conspiracy at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 17th. http://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/

OT: Free Comic Book Day appearance by John Kovaleski

Friend of ComicsDC John Kovaleski has written in - note the good cause he's raising money for.

One of the greatest holidays is coming up on Saturday, May 7 - Free Comic Book Day. Once again, I'll be at Comix Connection (at their York, PA location) from 12-3. I'll be giving away prints, signing books and having fun. All proceeds will be going to Team Nick, the fund set up to help with the costs associated with my nephew's leukemia treatment. Hope to see you there.

I've also launched a new webcomic called "Dadding Badly" - all true tales of a
first-time father. Not your typical parenthood stories, "Dadding Badly" has already covered such hot topics as leprechaun impersonations, square cows, and how many times you can hit your father in the head with an empty Kleenex box. Please visit the site below for more fathering fun.
http://daddingbadly.com/

Best,
John

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John Kovaleski is a cartoonist and humorous illustrator. He is the creator of the comic strip "Bo Nanas," which was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group from 2003 to 2007, and collected in the books "Monkey Meets World" (2005) and "APPEELING: The Best of Bo Nanas" (2008). He is also a frequent contributor to MAD Magazine, making him one of the "usual gang of idiots."

You can see more of my work here:
http://www.kovaleski.com/

As always you can find out too much about me on my blog:
http://kovaleski.wordpress.com/

Or follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/johnkovaleski

Tyger cartoon exhibit at National Gallery of Art?

That's what this article says -

Frank Tyger, Times' former publicity manager, dies at 81
Carmen Cusido/The Times of Trenton May 03, 2011
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/05/frank_tyger_times_for_publicit.html

- anyone know anything about this? The NGA hasn't been noticeably cartoon (in the modern sense) friendly, although some Daumier sculptures are on permanent display in the West building.

Comic Riffs on bin Laden cartoons

OSAMA BIN LADEN: There Will Be Blood Drawn: 13 eye-catching OSAMA images

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 4 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/osama-bin-laden-there-will-be-blood-eye-catching-osama-cartoons/2011/05/02/AFYYremF_blog.html#pagebreak

Weldon on Free Comic Book Day

Weldon, Glen. 2011.

A Guide for the Perplexed: Your Trusty FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Checklist.

National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (May 4): http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/05/04/135804020/a-guide-for-the-perplexed-your-trusty-free-comic-book-day-checklist

My City Paper piece with interviews with local store owners should appear tomorrow or Friday.

Another comic movie contest

Until 5 pm today, you can enter to win tickets for Priest from the Washington Examiner. The movie is based on a Korean comic book, and the advance showing is for May 12th with the movie opening on May 13th.

Also in the theaters now, based on Italian comic books, is Dylan Dog, but it wasn't screened for reviews. Thor opens on Friday.

Beeler special edition Osama bin Laden cartoon

In addition to picking up the print Washington Examiner, I get Nate Beeler's cartoons emailed to me and I was somewhat confused to get two sent to me yesterday. In one, "The End of Osama bin Laden," Osama's corpse was the I in Justice, while "Closure" the other, which had been in the Tuesday paper that I picked up, showed Uncle Sam sitting on bin Laden's coffin. Since I hadn't seen the Justice cartoon in the paper, I wrote to Nate and asked about it. He said, "That one was for the late edition we put out special on Monday. The coffin cartoon was for the next day's paper. Both are on the website, of course."

I don't recall the last time I heard about a paper doing a special edition AND having their cartoonist do something for it. Anyone else have an example?