Nab a table for $20 for Creator Con 2016 on April 23 in
Silver Spring, Md. The table deal expires at the end of December.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Comic Riffs on the paucity of black editorial cartoonists
Why are there no staff black cartoonists at a time when we need them most?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/12/29/in-a-tamir-rice-era-why-are-there-no-staff-black-cartoonists-to-comment/
Walking Dead beer
At Total Wine & More, Terrapin Walking Dead Blood Orange IPA. (It was released for Halloween, but it's the first time I've seen it at a retailer in this area.)
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Mo Willems' play at Kennedy Center, Dec 27-Jan 3
Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play!
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - Sunday, January 03, 2016
In this vaudevillian romp of a musical based on Mo Willems's children's books, Elephant Gerald and Piggie sing and dance their way through plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense, backed by nutty backup singers The Squirrelles. Age 3+
- Family Theater
- Approx. 1 hour
- $20.00 - $25.00
Friday, December 25, 2015
PR: Day After Christmas Sidewalk Sale Tomorrow at Third Eye Comics Annapolis
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A Christmas 66 years in the making
Last month we ran the following story about Bill Cogswell reading Whiz Comics in 1949. A friendly reader of ComicsDC, Brian C. (who lives nowhere around here and whom I'm only slightly acquainted with) actually sent a copy of the comic to me for Bill. Here's Bill enjoying it today for Christmas in 2015.
Here's the original post:
My friend and neighbor Bill Cogswell used to collect comics back in the day. When his sister Ellen passed away recently,
I saw this picture of them. It's Christmas 1949 and Bill appears to be
reading Whiz Comics #119 (March 1950 cover date)* judging from the Grand Comics Database (which provided the image). Captain Marvel was the main feature.
Following the old familiar story, Bill's mother threw away his comic books when they moved within Arlington.
*comics came out months before their cover date to fool the newsstands into keeping them on display longer.
Jan. 9: Character designing with Chris Scott
Local cartoonist (and Fantom Comics employee) Chris Scott
will host a character design workshop Jan. 9 at 2 p.m. at Fantom Comics. The
Facebook event page doesn’t mention if there is a fee for it. (Chris is an
excellent illustrator and very personable and fun.)
Thursday, December 24, 2015
AAEC and Comic Riffs on Telnaes cartoon
Telnaes Cartoon on Cruz: Statement from AAEC Board
by AAEC on December 24, 2015
The Post just pulled a Ted Cruz cartoon. Would you have published it?
By Michael Cavna and David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 23 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/12/23/the-post-just-pulled-this-ted-cruz-cartoon-would-you-have-published-it/
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 23 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/12/23/the-post-just-pulled-this-ted-cruz-cartoon-would-you-have-published-it/
The Post and Clay Jones on Telnaes' Cruz cartoon
Why that now-retracted Washington Post cartoon is a gift to Ted Cruz [in print as 'For Cruz, Post cartoon a gift that'll keep on giving', Dec 24, p. A6
Ted Cruz Battles Cartoons
by Clay Jones
http://claytoonz.com/2015/12/24/ted-cruz-battles-cartoons/
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
More on The Post's censorship of Telnaes' cartoon
Washington Post Pulls Ann Telnaes Cartoon Featuring Depiction Of Ted Cruz's Children
Tom SpurgeonDecember 23, 2015
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/washington_post_pulls_ann_telnaes_cartoon_featuring_depiction_of_ted_cruzs/Washington Post's Cruz cartoon rekindles debate over candidates' children
(Reporting by Erin McPike and Susan Heavey; Editing by Bill Trott)
Reuters Dec 23, 2015 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cruz-idUSKBN0U61EU20151223
December's books received
As I've done this fall, I'm noting the books that I've received for review, but haven't had time to read yet. Publisher's descriptions are in italics.
The book I'm most looking forward to reading is Singapore's Sonny Liew's fake biography of a cartoonist. This has already been published overseas, and caused a contretemps within the Singaporean government over its funding.
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself.
With The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew has drawn together a myriad of genres to create a thoroughly ingenious and engaging work, where the line between truth and construct may sometimes be blurred, but where the story told is always enthralling, bringing us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation.
Titan continues reprinting European comics last seen a couple of decades ago.There's a lot of zaftig nudity in this first one. None of these are particularly to my taste, but Titan is doing an excellent job with their production values and pricing.
THE QUEST FOR THE TIME BIRD
by
by
DC's version of the venerable Li'l Archie books claim to be for ages 8-12, but I think as a comics - chapterbook mashup, it'll hit for younger kids. The draft I got has very rough pencils, but Nguyen's art looks like a good fit. If you skip over the illogic of the story and characters completely that is.
Study Hall of Justice (DC Comics: Secret Hero Society #1)
by
The team behind DC Comics LIL' GOTHAM takes readers to the halls of Ducard Academy in Gotham City, where a young Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman start their very own Junior Detective Agency!
Young Bruce Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy, a prep school for gifted middle school students. Bruce finds out pretty quickly that he doesn't fit in: the faculty seems to not just encourage villainous behavior from its students, but reward it. He makes friends with two other outsiders, farm boy Clark Kent and the regal Diana Prince. The three band together to form a detective squad to find out why all of these extraordinary kids have been brought together at Ducard Academy, and to see just what the faculty is plotting.
An all-new series from the Eisner-nominated team behind Batman Lil' Gotham (Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs), Secret Hero Society uses comics, journal entries, and doodles to reimagine Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as three students in the same school. They'll try their best to solve their case, but just because you're faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, or an Amazonian princess, it doesn't mean you get to stay up past eleven.
The book I'm most looking forward to reading is Singapore's Sonny Liew's fake biography of a cartoonist. This has already been published overseas, and caused a contretemps within the Singaporean government over its funding.
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself.
With The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew has drawn together a myriad of genres to create a thoroughly ingenious and engaging work, where the line between truth and construct may sometimes be blurred, but where the story told is always enthralling, bringing us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation.
Titan continues reprinting European comics last seen a couple of decades ago.There's a lot of zaftig nudity in this first one. None of these are particularly to my taste, but Titan is doing an excellent job with their production values and pricing.
THE QUEST FOR THE TIME BIRD
by
MAKE WAY FOR THE TANK GIRL OF THE NEW MILLENIUM!
After a break of 20 years, artist extraordinaire Jamie Hewlett (GORILLAZ) is leaping back on the Tank Girl wagon, re-teaming with series co-creator Alan Martin to bring you a whole new take on the foul-mouthed, gun toting, swill-swigging hellion! Featuring riotous 100% original content from Hewlett & Martin along with contributions from a host of series stalwarts and newcomers, get your head down, put your hands over your private parts, and prepare for a chaotic collection of strips, pin-ups, and random carnage!
Ok, I don't get the appeal of this book at all...
Alien Next Door
by Joey Spiotto
Titan, $15
See a new, caring side to the legendary science fiction monster as he tends to Jonesy the cat, endeavours to keep his house cleaner than the Nostromo, and searches for his place on a cold, new, alien world: Earth. From facehuggers to feather dusters, discover how the perfect killing machine relaxes after a day of scaring space marines.
by
After a break of 20 years, artist extraordinaire Jamie Hewlett (GORILLAZ) is leaping back on the Tank Girl wagon, re-teaming with series co-creator Alan Martin to bring you a whole new take on the foul-mouthed, gun toting, swill-swigging hellion! Featuring riotous 100% original content from Hewlett & Martin along with contributions from a host of series stalwarts and newcomers, get your head down, put your hands over your private parts, and prepare for a chaotic collection of strips, pin-ups, and random carnage!
Ok, I don't get the appeal of this book at all...Alien Next Door
by Joey Spiotto
Titan, $15
See a new, caring side to the legendary science fiction monster as he tends to Jonesy the cat, endeavours to keep his house cleaner than the Nostromo, and searches for his place on a cold, new, alien world: Earth. From facehuggers to feather dusters, discover how the perfect killing machine relaxes after a day of scaring space marines.
by
DC's version of the venerable Li'l Archie books claim to be for ages 8-12, but I think as a comics - chapterbook mashup, it'll hit for younger kids. The draft I got has very rough pencils, but Nguyen's art looks like a good fit. If you skip over the illogic of the story and characters completely that is.
Study Hall of Justice (DC Comics: Secret Hero Society #1)
by
The team behind DC Comics LIL' GOTHAM takes readers to the halls of Ducard Academy in Gotham City, where a young Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman start their very own Junior Detective Agency!
Young Bruce Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy, a prep school for gifted middle school students. Bruce finds out pretty quickly that he doesn't fit in: the faculty seems to not just encourage villainous behavior from its students, but reward it. He makes friends with two other outsiders, farm boy Clark Kent and the regal Diana Prince. The three band together to form a detective squad to find out why all of these extraordinary kids have been brought together at Ducard Academy, and to see just what the faculty is plotting.
An all-new series from the Eisner-nominated team behind Batman Lil' Gotham (Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs), Secret Hero Society uses comics, journal entries, and doodles to reimagine Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as three students in the same school. They'll try their best to solve their case, but just because you're faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, or an Amazonian princess, it doesn't mean you get to stay up past eleven.
More on Telnaes' cartoon of Cruz family
Ted Cruz Blasts Washington Post Cartoon of Daughters as Monkeys
by Hallie Jackson and Henry Austin
Dec 23 2015, 7:19 am ET
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ted-cruz-blasts-washington-post-cartoon-daughters-monkeys-n484901 Baltimore's KAL at the Economist
The year in KAL's cartoons
Our most popular editorial cartoons of 2015
Dec 23rd 2015 | Online extrahttp://www.economist.com/news/christmas/21684106-our-most-popular-editorial-cartoons-2015-year-kals-cartoons
EVERY week The Economist publishes an illustrated comment on the state of the world by our editorial cartoonist, Kevin Kallaugher, known as KAL. Here are the most popular KAL cartoons of the year.
Politico's Year in Politics cartoons
The nation's cartoonists on the year in politics
Every year political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are thousands of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this year's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
By POLITICO 12/22/15
Telnaes cartoon censored at The Post
Washington Post removes cartoon depicting Ted Cruz's daughters as monkeys
12/22/15
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/cruz-daughters-washington-post-217085Monday, December 21, 2015
That darn Matt Davies and Richard Johnson
A local illustration and cartoon historian writes in...
Kudos to this artist [in print as Art that brings the courtroom to life].
David Apatoff, McLean
Washington Post December 19 2015
And then there's the other shoe...
The Zuckerbergs' example [in print as Wrongly mocking a good example].
Paul S. Frommer, Alexandria
Washington Post December 19 2015https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-zuckerbergs-example/2015/12/18/6f715a66-9dfc-11e5-9ad2-568d814bbf3b_story.html
The Post on Netflix animated short series
'F Is for Family': Bill Burr's stiff salute to the brutality of being a '70s child [in print as 'F Is for Family': That cruder '70s show].
By Hank Stuever TV critic Washington Post December 19 2015, p. C1-2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/f-is-for-family-bill-burrs-stiff-salute-to-the-brutality-of-being-a-70s-child/2015/12/18/faa4815c-a37f-11e5-ad3f-991ce3374e23_story.html
Jan 6: One Year After Charlie Hebdo at the Newseum
One Year After Charlie Hebdo
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 at 2 p.m.
Knight Studio at the Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
This program is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
RSVP >
Join the Newseum Institute and Reporters Without Borders for a discussion of the impact world-wide on a free press and free expression after the terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine staff on Jan. 7, 2015, and on the public at multiple sites in Paris eleven months later. Panelists will include experts from the U.S. in the Knight Studio and online participants from France.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hoorah, sledding!"
"Hoorah, sledding!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1821
The latest Congressional spending bill prevents the District Of Columbia from funding abortion services for poor women and regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana. They did, however, repeal the ban on sledding on the Capitol grounds, after a vigorous local outcry last winter.
Apparently, they're still hurting from all the bad publicity they caught with the sledding ban, but could care less about all the ill will they get by restricting women's healthcare rights and the right to tax and regulate a plant that's been legal for nearly a year. Still, there's prime sledding opening up on the hill at the West Front, so there's that.
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1821
The latest Congressional spending bill prevents the District Of Columbia from funding abortion services for poor women and regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana. They did, however, repeal the ban on sledding on the Capitol grounds, after a vigorous local outcry last winter.
Apparently, they're still hurting from all the bad publicity they caught with the sledding ban, but could care less about all the ill will they get by restricting women's healthcare rights and the right to tax and regulate a plant that's been legal for nearly a year. Still, there's prime sledding opening up on the hill at the West Front, so there's that.
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