National Gallery director defends postponement of show with Klan images but will rethink opening date [in print as Gallery chief: Delaying show was right call].
Washington Post Oct. 8, 2020 p. C1, 4
Sunday, October 11, 2020
That darn Philip Guston
National Gallery director defends postponement of show with Klan images but will rethink opening date [in print as Gallery chief: Delaying show was right call].
That darn Walt Carr, Tom Toles and Doonesbury
Washington Post October 10 2020
Listen to the something they said [Walt Carr letter]
Dan Melchior
Thanks, 'Doonesbury' [letter]
Amy Schaffer
Franklin, my dear . . . [Tom Toles letter]
K.N. Rauch,
The Post interviews Merrill Markoe
Comedian and writer Merrill Markoe dug deep into her childhood musings to explore memory [in print as Exploring the monster her mother created]
Washington Post Oct. 11, 2020 p. E8-9
The Post interviews Brosh
'Solutions and Other Problems' author Allie Brosh talks cats, depressions and the joys of Zoom book tours [in print as A memoirist's long-awaited - and emotional - follow-up]
Kennicott on Daumier and government corruption
I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. [Daumier; in print as When art no longer feels like an escape.]
Friday, October 09, 2020
NPR on the death of Quino
'Mafalda' Cartoonist Quino Dies At 88
Weekend Edition Sunday October 4, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/04/920038792/mafalda-cartoonist-quino-dies-at-88
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2020/10/20201004_wesun_quino_appreciation.mp3
Thursday, October 08, 2020
October 8th - coincidence, cartoonists, and mortality - reflections on Pekar and Thompson
by Mike Rhode
October 8th is the birthday of the two cartoonists I'm most closely
professionally associated with... and they've both passed away. Bah.
But I'm glad to have known both Richard Thompson (1957-2016) and Harvey Pekar (1939-2010), even if it was for too short a time.
I was reminded of this odd coincidence today when Amy Thompson returned
Richard's copy of the book I'd edited about Pekar to me. Talk about
regifting...
I met Harvey in 2005 when I
was called in to substitute as an interviewer for him when he was the
guest of honor at the Small Press Expo. We did 2 panels together
(including Ed Piskor's first con appearance!). I offered up the
interviews to Tom Inge for his Conversations with cartoonists series at
University Press of Mississippi. Instead of passing them along to
someone else, he had me do the book which appeared as Harvey Pekar: Conversations.
I'm sure it's their lowest seller in the series, which would probably
give Harvey some type of odd satisfaction, while also pissing him off. (By the way, Harvey picked that cover photo.)
One
lesson to draw from this might be to not let me do a book about you. I
can't argue with that. But rather I'd like you to think about these two
cartoonists and their works. In some ways, they couldn't be more different.
Richard was a cartoonist- word and pictures always went together for him, and he struggled to do one without the other, which is why Cul de Sac didn't survive him, even with Stacy Curtis doing excellent art, and it's why a strip written by Richard and drawn by Bill Watterson never made it past gestation.
Harvey, on the other hand, was a writer. He worked with whomever he could afford, beginning at the top with Robert Crumb due to their friendship. Harvey was a self-publisher of American Splendor for a long, long time, before some of the major publishers picked it up for a few issues before passing it back to him. Richard, as far as I can tell, always worked for a publisher, even if it was his high school yearbook, or a science fiction fanzine, until he settled into long time freelance relationships with the Washington Post and US News & World Report among others.
But what both Richard and Harvey had in common was stubbornness and a belief in their own work. Both kept plugging away, until a brass ring appeared - like Andrews McMeel's syndicating Cul de Sac, or the excellent American Splendor movie. Sometimes that stubbornness worked against them though - I saw New Yorker cover editor Francoise Mouly practically begging Richard to do a piece for her, but he never did. And he didn't start his strip when he was first asked by the Post, but waited about a decade before beginning it. Similarly, Harvey had a regular appearance on David Letterman, but he burned up that lifeline by criticizing Letterman's corporate owners that actually aired the show.
So ... they were artists and had what is sometimes offhandedly described as an artistic temperament. They could drive me crazy at time, but Harvey always would get in the phrase, "Let me know if I can do something for you... within reason," when we chatted, and Richard was always willing to hang out, or pass along a recommendation or gift a piece of art he'd drawn. I miss them both, even moreso as the days get shorter.
People say
that as long as you're remembered, part of you is still alive (or
something like that), but that's a bit of cold comfort. Still, reading
either of them will warm you up and bring a bit of spark and joie de vivre
into your life. And who doesn't need that in 2020?
Quarantine Q&A with TJ Kirsch
I missed this yesterday, but the video is available at Facebook.
Quarantine Q&A with TJ Kirsch
Leah Ly
Fantom Comics October 7 2020
We're doing another comic creator event for your enjoyment. We'll be talking to cartoonist TJ Kirsch about his work; in particular about his newest project Willie Nelson: A Graphic History, in which he teams up with several other artists to tell the story of this country music icon from Hill County, Texas.
Mike Jenkins has outdone himself - this year's Trump pumpkin caricature
by Mike Rhode
In 2015, Arlington cartoonist Mike Jenkins carved a pumpkin into Donald Trump's likeness; it went viral.
This year, Mike has returned to the same theme. But bigger. And badder.
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| Look at those little orange hands! |
Mike's available to caricature anyone you choose, too. In fact, I've asked him to draw me this Trump caricature in ink when he has time. Here's our coronavirus interview with him.
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| Just to be clear, Mike's on the right (but really to the left) |
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| Look at the size of this monster! |
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| Even the number means something |
I've asked Mike to make postcards and Halloween cards via a print-on-demand service of this great caricature, and I'll let you know if he does.
Tom Toles retiring?!
News is leaking out of the Washington Post that Tom Toles, Washington Post cartoonist since 2002 has put in his retirement notice, effective in November.
Toles, although he doesn't look it, is 68 years old, born on October 22, 1951. More information on his career is at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Toles
The Washingtonian has more details:
Tom Toles Will Leave the Washington Post
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Recent Cartoon (click on Image for larger view)
"Lord of the Fly"
©2020 Steven G Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Monday, October 05, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Instant Karma!"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Instant Karma!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3076
So, aaaanyway... everybody and their cat have been speculating for months about what they think the "October Surprise" will be in this campaign, and wot'tha FUUUUU—
Welp... you were looking for an October Surprise and October says "hold my beer". Clown Emperor Bleach Trump and First Lady Melania hydroxychloroquine Trump have tested positive, with the Donster being taken to Walter Reed for treatment, following hot on the heels of one his senior advisors, and a big face-to-face, mask-off event for GOP donors, and the president of Notre Dame University who attended the Supreme Court nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, and... oh, FUUUUUU—
Christ, that's what — three or four potential "super-spreader" events with that gang in the past two weeks or so? For that matter, everywhere that sonofabitch goes is a super-spreader event. Dude's a super-duper-spreader.
Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow is asking those of us who can't afford the kind of healthcare Trump is getting to pray for the guy who's supposed to be an Existential Threat™ and a Russian Asset™ and an Enemy Of Democracy™ and The Worst President Ever™, and getting her snippy little ass shredded.
The U.S. Left — Lord love 'em — have been throwing everything they had
at that bunch and couldn't make a dent, and the bastards end up being brought down by a friggin' virus... y'know, kinda like the end of War Of The Worlds.
I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this.
"Instant Karma!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3076
So, aaaanyway... everybody and their cat have been speculating for months about what they think the "October Surprise" will be in this campaign, and wot'tha FUUUUU—
Welp... you were looking for an October Surprise and October says "hold my beer". Clown Emperor Bleach Trump and First Lady Melania hydroxychloroquine Trump have tested positive, with the Donster being taken to Walter Reed for treatment, following hot on the heels of one his senior advisors, and a big face-to-face, mask-off event for GOP donors, and the president of Notre Dame University who attended the Supreme Court nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, and... oh, FUUUUUU—
Christ, that's what — three or four potential "super-spreader" events with that gang in the past two weeks or so? For that matter, everywhere that sonofabitch goes is a super-spreader event. Dude's a super-duper-spreader.
Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow is asking those of us who can't afford the kind of healthcare Trump is getting to pray for the guy who's supposed to be an Existential Threat™ and a Russian Asset™ and an Enemy Of Democracy™ and The Worst President Ever™, and getting her snippy little ass shredded.
The U.S. Left — Lord love 'em — have been throwing everything they had
at that bunch and couldn't make a dent, and the bastards end up being brought down by a friggin' virus... y'know, kinda like the end of War Of The Worlds.
I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this.
Batman: The Animated Series' Artbook Creator on Being an Artist During COVID-19
Batman: The Animated Series' Artbook Creator on Being an Artist During COVID-19
Alexandra Bowman
Protest, Plague, and Politics: 2020 in Comics
Mo Willems: National Book Festival 2020
Gene Luen Yang: National Book Festival 2020
Jerry Craft: National Book Festival 2020
- Jerry Craft: National Book Festival 2020
- September 25, 2020
- https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9379/
- https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/media/webcasts/2020/s026_a027_Craft_Final/data/s026_a027_Craft_Final_1280x720_2000.mp4
- Summary
- Winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature, Jerry Craft's "New Kid" (Quill Tree) is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real.
- Running Time
- 20 minutes 6 seconds
- Language
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- English
- Online Format
- video
- image
- Original Format
- film, video
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Oct 27: Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver & Rebecca Kirby at Powell's Books
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New from Sarah Boxer - Lynda Barry reviewed and President Poo
Back to the Drawing Board
Making Comics
by Lynda Barry
Drawn and Quarterly, 199 pp., $22.95 (paper)
and for her new scatalogical political cartoon visit her Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/boxer.sarah/
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