Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Matt Wuerker interviewed by National Press Club

'The right to be offended': Political cartooning in an ideologically divided country

Sara Duke speaks at LOC in 10 minutes

Date & Time Description
June 16
2:00-3:00 pm ET

20th-Century Political Cartoons at the Library of Congress

https://loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/office-hours/


Join curator Sara W. Duke of the Prints & Photographs Division, to learn how to access the Library's online collection of 20th-century political cartoons. She will also discuss strategies for exploring the work of Herbert L. Block, the editorial cartoonist known as a Herblock, who, during the course of his 72-year career, drew his opinion on events such as the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, gun control, and global warming.

Monday, June 15, 2020

Saturday, June 13, 2020

That darn Wumo and Flashbacks

The Post on If Found...'s notable videogame storytelling

'If Found...' sets a new standard for the visual novel [videogame animation; in print as A new standard for the visual-novel genre]

Mark Wheatley remembers Denny O'Neil

[Mark Wheatley wrote this in a private email on June 12th, and agreed to let me post it here]

Mark Wheatley remembers Denny O'Neil

I did this portrait of Denny O'Neil today. It shows him exactly as I remember him looking the first time we met. I met Denny O'Neil at about 4pm on July 2, 1970. I couldn't tell you such a specific time for when I met most of my heroes, but I remember this. I was a kid and my parents had arranged for a family trip to New York, partially so I could attend the July 4th Seuling Con. And I convinced them to take me to tour DC Comics. When we got there, we almost slammed right into Denny and Steve Skeates. Denny was writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and setting the world on fire. I was a huge fan. He and Steve hung out and talked with me, making jokes, being fun. And later, at the con, they would say Hi!every time they spotted me in the crowd. That was cool. Years later after I started working in the industry, I would see Denny in the halls at DC or over at Marvel and chat for a little while. I remember one San Diego Con at the DC Booth where Denny and I stood together for a couple hours cracking each other up (and a few other creators also pitched in.) That was the time I came up with the Underwater Keyboard – to be used writing scripts while in the shower! Denny thought that was the perfect use of technology, since he always got his best ideas in the shower. About two years ago, Denny and I were part of a signing together. That was the last time I saw him. But he will never be forgotten.

  -- Mark Wheatley

Big Planet Comics Final order cutoff




FOC Time!! Here's a short list of some of the stuff up for order by MONDAY JUNE 15! A partial lists can be found at these links:
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Friday, June 12, 2020

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Visible From Orbit"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -


"Visible From Orbit"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3013

So, as I suspected... Mayor Bowser doesn't really give a rat's ass about the MPDC terrorizing and murdering Black citizens of DC, or about protesters being tear-gassed and run off the street so Trump can do his foto op at St. John's Church, or our city being invaded by the goddamn 82nd Airborne — she just wanted to own Trump and nab some TV time.

Not even a week after painting "Black Lives Matter" in huge-ass letters taking up two blocks of 16th Street between K Street and Lafayette Park, she was browbeating the city council to "slow down" on police "reform" (clipping from Washington Post, June 11 2020).

New York City mayor De Blasio, not to be outdone, decided to name one street in each borough "Black Lives Matter Street" — after allowing the NYPD to also terrorize, beat, torture and murder New Yorkers for the better part of a week.

Still, there was no topping Bowser. All De Blasio did was put up a bunch of crummy street signs; Bowser's hypocrisy is visible from orbit.

BLM cartoon journalism in DCist

The Standoff Over D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Mural, Illustrated

NPR on animated series Central Park and Kipo

Weldon on Netflix's Kipo

Cavna on Goodwyn's controversial cartoon

South Carolina newspaper apologizes for 'offensive' cartoon satirizing the 'black community' and Democrats

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Al Goodwyn wins DC Society of Professional Journalists' Dateline Awards for editorial cartooning

While being excoriated in South Carolina for his cartoons, Al Goodwyn was winning a Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists's Dateline Award for journalism excellence.

Editorial Cartoon
Winner: Al Goodwyn,The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Goodwyn editorial cartoons
Finalist: Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times, Hunter editorial cartoons

Fredericksburg's Free Lance-Star is one of his clients that published the three cartoons in his submission in 2019.

PR: June 16th DC Comics DEATH METAL #1 Midnight Release at Third Eye Annapolis


The Lily's latest

White people: The burden to figure out how to be a better ally is on us

This moment in history requires us to do more, and to truly examine ourselves

White people: The burden to figure out how to be a better ally is on us

Cavna talks to protest artists including cartoonists

George Floyd's death has inspired powerful protest art: 'I needed to have another way of seeing him'

Michael Cavna 

Washington Post June 11, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/06/11/protest-art-black-lives-matter/


Lupi McGinty and Malaka Gharib  are the cartoonists.

Cavna on this week's Missouri editorial cartoon upset

'Horrified' Missouri newspaper owners resign over 'racist' police cartoon — published by their dad

Washington Post June 10, 2020

The cartoon, by Tom Stiglich of Creators Syndicate, came out shortly before Al Goodwyn's cartoon which also ran in a Southern newspaper.

Al Goodwyn becomes the latest editorial cartoonist to upset a newspaper

Al's a personal friend of ComicsDC, and while I personally may not agree with his politics and cartoons,* he's a good guy, not a troll, and was doing a cartoonist's job in raising issues via a comic. I think the newspaper should have had the courage of its convictions to stand by him since the editors knew they hired a conservative cartoonist, and this cartoon isn't any more extreme than others they've run from Al.

I've included the note that he sent to the Daily Cartoonist too.

Newspaper Apologizes For Divisive Cartoon

Malaka Gharib's new journalist comic on DC protests at the Nib