Baltimore Comic Con's latest PR: Get Your Books Autographed, CGC/CBCS Rated at BCC 2020 Live

Wow, it's snuck up on me this year, but here's their latest piece of info. There's some panels listed here as well as the comics for sale.

Get Your Books Autographed, CGC/CBCS Rated at BCC 2020 Live BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - October 21, 2020 - Join us for the 1st annual Baltimore Comic-Con Live, a FREE ONLINE EVENT streaming the weekend of October 23-25, 2020! Come check out our retailers, exhibitors, artists alley, programming, and the Ringo Awards live! While we can't all gather together in Baltimore and meet our favorite creators, get autographs, or get books certified in person, we've enabled some options for a set of this year's guests that you'll want to check out for yourself, including autographs, CBCS Authentic Grading, and CGC Autographs and Remarks!   Please go to our Baltimore Comic-Con Live website to see what the latest options available to you are. Currently, the following guests are offering options: Chris Cantwell (Iron Man) Howard Chaykin (Marvels Snapshots: Spider-Man) Evil Ted Smith (Cosplay creator) Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Entertainment film studio) Donny Cates (King in Black) Tom King (Strange Adventures) Mitch Gerads (Mister Miracle) Ryan Stegman (King in Black) Charles Soule (Death of Wolverine) Matthew Rosenberg (Uncanny X-Men) Evan "Doc" Shaner (Strange Adventures) Please see our Autographs page for all of the latest details!     SUPERMAN'S FUTURE STATE Panelists: Philip Kennedy Johnson Host: TBD Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 1pm ET / 10am PT   Join us for an exclusive interview with writer Philip Kennedy Johnson on DC Comic's Future State, House of El,  Superman: Worlds of War, and more!!!     HERE COMES THE BOOM! Panelists: Ross Richie (Founder) & Filip Sablik (President) Host: Robert Meyer Burnett Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 2pm ET / 11am PT   With the 1.5 million dollar success of their Kickstarter campaign for Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR comic, BOOM! Studios has made some game-changing decisions in the way they publish. Join BOOM's CEO and Founder Ross Richie and President Filip Sablik in conversation with Robert Meyer Burnett discussing their ground breaking strategies for the present and Future of BOOM!     STREETS OF MARVEL: Q&A Panel Panelists: Ryan Stegman, Becky Cloonan, Matthew Rosenberg, Ed Brisson, Phillip K. Johnson Host: Amy Dallen Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 5pm ET / 2pm PT   Some of the top names in Marvel Comics (Ryan Stegman, Becky Cloonan, Matthew Rosenberg, Ed Brisson, and Phillip K. Johnson) sit down with Amy Dallen to discuss everything going on in the House of Ideas.     BITTER ROOT: Creator Spotlight Panelists: David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene Host: Shelly Bond Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 5pm ET / 2pm PT   The men behind the runaway success of the year. An exploration of The Harlem Renaissance, through the actions of a family of supernatural monster hunters. Starring the creative team of David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene. "There has been a lot of interest from our fans in figuring out a way to get signatures and authentications," said Marc Nathan, show promoter for the Baltimore Comic-Con. "It is a different approach to doing so, but we've worked with the guests and grading companies, and have found a way to getting your books signed authenticated. Hopefully, this will tide everyone over until next year!" 2021 Guests When we return to our live event on October 22-24, 2021, in addition to on-site CGC grading, next year's confirmed guests for the show include: Marty Baumann (Disney/Pixar), John Beatty (Secret Wars), Brian Michael Bendis (Action Comics), Brett Breeding (Superman), Howard Chaykin (Hey Kids! Comics!), Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Becky Cloonan (Dark Agnes), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Katie Cook (Nothing Special), Kristina Deak-Linsner (Vampirella: Roses for the Dead), Garth Ennis (The Boys, Friday and Saturday only), Mitch Gerads (Mr. Miracle), Joe Giella (Green Lantern), Gene Ha (Mae), Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook), Greg Hildebrandt (Wolverine), Jamal Igle (Wrong Earth), Tom King (Batman), Joseph Michael Linsner (Red Sonja), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Frank Miller (Dark Knight III: The Master Race, Saturday only), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Richard Pace (Second Coming), Tom Palmer (Hawkman), James Pascoe (Azrael), Andrew Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Brandon Peterson (Sinestro: Year of the Villain), Tom Raney (Guardians of the Galaxy), Afua Richardson (Omni), Louise Simonson (Power Pack), Walter Simonson (Ragnarok: The Breaking of Helheim), John K. Snyder III (Killers), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother), Timothy Truman (Grimjack), Robert Venditti (Hawkman), Mark Waid (Dr. Strange), Gene Luen Yang (Superman Smashes the Klan), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes). In the coming weeks, look for more announcements from the Baltimore Comic-Con. We are looking forward to highlighting our guests, the Ringo Awards, programming, and more. The latest developments can always be found on our website, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages, and follow us on YouTube and Snapchat.     Contact Information Please use the following e-mail addresses to contact the Baltimore Comic-Con: press@baltimorecomiccon.com - for any general press inquiries or to be added to our PR distribution promoter@baltimorecomiccon.com - for requesting exhibitor, publisher, and Artist Alley applications registrar@baltimorecomiccon.com - for inquiries about submitted registrations general@baltimorecomiccon.com- for general Baltimore Comic-Con inquiries    About The Baltimore Comic-Con Live The Baltimore Comic-Con is celebrating its 1st year of bringing the comic book industry to the Internet for a live streaming event. For more information, please visit www.baltimorecomicconlive.com.   About Mainframe Comic-Con The engine behind BCC Live, Mainframe Comic Con were the pioneers of the online convention movement. Their shows have solidified them as the #1 name in virtual fandom. Month after month, Mainframe produces the very best in virtual fan experiences and private celebrity meet and greets in the entire world. A company forged at the onset of the global shutdown, Mainframe Comic Con is committed to keeping the fan culture and community thriving during these troubling times. A fresh new company with a big mission: carry the torch and keep fandom alive... today, tomorrow, and beyond. For more information, visit Mainframe Comic Con at www.mainframecomiccon.com.

Cavna looks at a Pepe the Frog documentary

How a Pepe the Frog movie speaks powerfully to this moment in divisive American politics [in print as A ribbiting take on a culture war]

Michael Cavna

Washington Post October 20, 2020 p. C1, 4

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/10/19/pepe-the-frog-feels-good-man/

Clay Jones updates It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for today's reality

Trumpenweenie

•Oct 20, 2020

Claytoonz.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0qrf3Udhk

The latest animation from Claytoonz Studios. Happy Halloween

DC Zinefest: Please contribute to our HallowZine! (No experience required!)

From: DC Zinefest

Hey Zinesters! 

As you've probably seen on social media, we are putting together a HallowZine zine this month and we'd love you to participate. No experience required!  Using 1+ prompts below as inspiration (even loosely so), express yourself via comic, poem, photo, collage, doodle, drawing, story, joke, meme, list, map, scribble, graph, found art, sculpture, etc. We want to empower EVERYONE to participate, regardless of where you live or whether you consider yourself a creator/maker/artist/writer or not

Send your thing(s) to dczinefest@gmail.com with "Hallowzine" in the subject line. Please format your thing as a 5.25 inch [W] X 8.25 inch [H] (or roughly so to help with assembling the zine but we can always resize on our end if needed). Image format is preferred!  Include your name/pen-name, the title of your thing, and social media/website if you want people to find you and your stuff!

The official deadline is October 24th. If you can't make the deadline but still want to contribute, let us know -- the final-final-final deadline is October 30th.

Prompts: 

1. They opened the door and …
2. Every Hallow's Eve _____ walks the earth.
3. Drink one vial of _____ and …
4. They looked in the mirror and their eyes were now …
5. My skeleton in the closet
6. Stare into the darkness and ____ stares back at you.
7. My skin was crawling with …
8. Little did they know there was a painting of ____ was in the attic.
9. Did you know that kids have more bones than adults?

Yours,

DCZF organizers

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DC Zinefest

dczinefest@gmail.com

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "In Trump's Orbit"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist

"In Trump's Orbit"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3083

"In Trump's orbit" seems to be the favorite phrase of all the "cool 
kids" in the media right now after his positive COVID-19 test, rapidly 
gaining ground on the ever-popular "existential threat". Without even 
trying, I returned an entire page of search results from newspapers, 
magazines, media all over the country sporting headlines or ledes with 
the phrase "in Trump's orbit". You could play a drinking game with it 
on cable news, but you'd end up in the ER.

So, while the media were beating this poor, misbegotten phrase to 
within an inch of its life, I had to ask — what, exactly, is "in 
Trump's orbit"? The answer, of course, was instantly clear — spent 
rocket stages, dud rocket stages, derelict satellites, tools lost 
overboard from ISS spacewalks, the odd NRO top-secret payload, 
drifting fields of orbital collision debris, a Tesla roadster... wait, 
wut?

Search for "Trump's orbit" at DuckDuckGo, 10.14.2020:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22trump%27s%20orbit%22

Library of Congress' Swann Foundation accepting fellowship applications

From: Kennedy, Martha

To graduate students--future scholars of visual satire and comic arts—

 

The Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress is accepting applications for its graduate fellowship, one of the few in the field, for the 2021-2022 academic year. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2021. Please see the following for criteria, guidelines, and application forms:

https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html 

 

Please email swann@loc.gov if you have questions.

 

We appreciate the opportunity to share this information. Thank you!

 

Martha Kennedy

 

Martha H. Kennedy

Curator, Popular & Applied Graphic Art

Prints & Photographs Division

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C. 20540-4730

swann@loc.gov

 

 

Oct 22: Jillian Tamaki

Thursday, October 22 at 10 a.m.

Jillian Tamaki Our Little Kitchen | Ages 4-8

Register

Oct 21: JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION

JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION

• Wednesday, October 21, 2020
• 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM
• https://www.improvconferencenola.com/jules-feiffer-a-conversation/2020/10/21/jules-feiffer-a-conversation-virtual-world-premiere-amp-panel-discussion

World Premiere & Live Panel Discussion

Jules Feiffer is an American legend, whom the Library of Congress has recognized for his "remarkable legacy" as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor. Feiffer's Pulitzer-winning comic strip ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice, revolutionizing the notion of what a mainstream cartoonist might dare to address in print.

Join us for an intimate filmed portrait of the legendary cartoonist, screenwriter and author JULES FEIFFER in conversation with Michael Tisserand, author of Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White. In the film, the 91 year old Feiffer looks back over his extraordinary life and long, varied career, offering his opinions and views on arts, culture, politics and improvisation — central to his work.

The screening is followed by a live panel discussion of leading cartoonists. Moderated by Michael Tisserand, panelists include award winning cartoonist for The New Yorker Liza Donnelly, Hulu's Woke co-creator and cartoonist Keith Knight, and POLITICO cartoonist Matt Wuerker.

Screening 6:30PM (CST) followed by live panel discussion. This event is FREE. Pre-registration is required. Register HERE. Upon registration, you will receive access to both the screening and post discussion. NOTE: This film is for mature audiences only and contains strong language that may be unsuitable for children or young adults. 

PANELISTS

LIZA DONNELLY

Liza Donnelly is an award winning cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Medium, CBS News and CNN. An innovator of a form of visual journalism, covering news and cultural events by digitally drawing them in real time, Donnelly travels globally speaking on freedom of speech and women's rights and served as a U.S. State Department cultural envoy. She delivered a popular TED talk that was translated into 38 languages and received 1.4 million views online. The author of 17 books; her latest, Women on Men was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Oct 6, 2020

KEITH KNIGHT

Keith Knight is an award winning artist/cartoonist, whose comic strips include The Knight Life, (th)ink, and The K Chronicles. He is the co-creator of the Hulu comedy series Woke, inspired by his life and work. Knight's work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post and MAD Magazine. Knight is also a rapper and a founding member of the "nerdcore hip-hop band" the Marginal Prophets.

Oct 1, 2020

MICHAEL TISSERAND

Michael Tisserand is a New Orleans-based author whose most recent book is Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, the Eisner Award-winning biography of cartoonist George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat. Tisserand's other books include The Kingdom of Zydeco and Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Oxford American, the Nation, Daily Beast and Lit Hub. He is currently working with director Jonathan Hock on a documentary about the life of George Herriman.

Oct 1, 2020

MATT WUERKER

Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist at POLITICO and was part of the team that launched the site in 2006. Over the past 40 years, the Pulitzer Prize winner's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, The Nation and The Smithsonian — to name a few.

In 2010 he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress and later that year won the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award.

Oct 1, 2020

ABOUT JULES FEIFFER

Jules Feiffer is the author of a wide range of additional creative work, including the Obie Award-winning play Little Murders, the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge, and the Oscar-winning short animation, Munro. Other works include the plays Knock Knock (a Tony award nominee) and Grown-Ups; the novels Harry, the Rat with Women and Ackroyd; the screenplays Popeye and I Want to Go Home (winner of the best screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival); and the children's books The Man in the Ceiling, Bark, George and the illustrations for Which Puppy? by his daughter, Kate, and the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth.

The Post's Smee on the NGA's Guston exhibit censorship

Absolutely no one has asked my opinion on this, but I think Smee has it right.

The Philip Guston controversy is turning artists against the National Gallery [in print as A portrait of NGA's flawed reasoning].

Sebastian Smee

Art critic

Washington Post Oct. 17, 2020 P. C1, 4

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/philip-guston-exhibition-postponement/2020/10/16/930d74a4-0ef5-11eb-8a35-237ef1eb2ef7_story.html

Charlie Hebdo discussion leads to teacher's death in France

Gruesome details emerge in beheading of French teacher who showed students Muhammad cartoons [in print as Beheading of teacher horrifies France].

James McAuley

Washington Post Oct. 18, 2020 

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gruesome-details-emerge-in-beheading-of-french-teacher-who-showed-students-mohammed-cartoons/2020/10/17/9bcaeedc-107b-11eb-b404-8d1e675ec701_story.html

Lewiston Tribune doesn't pick Al Goodwyn for conservative cartoonist

[The Lewiston Tribune has added A.F. Branco of Creators Syndicate to its lineup of political cartoonists.]

Lewiston Tribune October 17 2020

https://lmtribune.com/opinion/guest-editorial-amendment-offers-trust-fund-a-higher-yield/article_183ad762-6b0c-592e-97de-c2458697023d.html

Live NOW - Elsa Charretier talks to Tom King

CON AT HOME day 2 with Elsa Charretier

Elsa Charretier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKc7ZVP7hZo

CON AT HOME is an event to celebrate my artbook on Kickstarter!

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Henry Barajas and reviews Aleister and Adolf

Interview: Henry Barajas' Brings His Heritage to Comics with 'Tata Rambo'

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Oct 15, 2020

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/246621-Interview-Henry-Barajas-Brings-His-Heritage-to-Comics-with-Tata-Rambo

Get Graphic: ALEISTER AND ADOLPH is...

by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Oct 16, 2020

PREVIEWSworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfOa5teGJ0

Virtual Sip, Chat & Shop with G&G Guest Artist: Robin Ha

Virtual Sip, Chat & Shop with G&G Guest Artist: Robin Ha

Gift & Gather (October 17 2020):

https://www.facebook.com/643567556032059/videos/390626118627988/

Robin Ha, our Illustrator artist, will join our Facebook Live Virtual Sip, Chat & Shop event on Saturday, October 17th from 3 to 4 pm. You are invited to join us and get to know her and her modern graphic arts.

KAL: Daggers Drawn /Baltimore Sun & Economist Cartoonist Artist Reception.

Yesterday's live tour is still available on Facebook -

KAL: Daggers Drawn / Baltimore Sun & Economist Cartoonist Artist Reception.

Crystal Moll

Crystal Moll Gallery October 17 2020

https://www.facebook.com/295981781034/videos/3311959008929451

Q&A with Matt Fraction & Elsa Charretier

Q&A with Matt Fraction & Elsa Charretier

Leah Ly

Fantom Comics October 16 2020

https://www.facebook.com/108230015912461/videos/275121443658494/

Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier sit with us from their homes to talk comics, life during the pandemic, and their series NOVEMBER from Image Comic

Cartoonist Liza Donnelly unlikely heir to Norman Rockwell

(in the sense that their styles are pretty far apart; however their work ethics aren't)

In a sacred space [in print as A special place to reflect - and create]

How New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly came to work in Norman Rockwell's studio

By Liza Donnelly

Washington Post October 18, 2020, p. E8-9

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/10/15/liza-donnelly-cartoonist-norman-rockwell-studio/

Islam cartoons claim another innocent victim

Teacher in Paris suburb decapitated, allegedly after showing cartoons of prophet Muhammad in class [in print as High school teacher decapitated in suburban Paris]

James McAuley

Washington Post Oct. 17, 2020 A20

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/teacher-in-paris-suburb-killed-and-decapitated-allegedly-after-showing-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-in-class/2020/10/16/3d4d8be0-0fd5-11eb-b404-8d1e675ec701_story.html

Weldon on what Marvel's Son of Satan is doing now

Damned If You Do: Hulu's Less-Than-Marvelous 'Helstrom'

Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour  October 16, 20205

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/923235736/damned-if-you-do-hulus-less-than-marvelous-helstrom

Siblings Ana (Sydney Lemmon) and Daimon (Tom Austen) have a rivalry that causes infernal conflict in Hulu's Helstrom.

Hulu

Big Planet Comics Bethesda moving to due to covid-19

From: Big Planet Bethesda

Turns out, Big Planet Comics is not immune to the economic effects of the pandemic.

So that we may continue offering you the reliable service you've come to expect, on Oct. 27 & 28 we are moving to a new space only a half block away.

Our new address will be 7939 Norfolk Ave. For the foreseeable future, we will continue operating curbside only, with the same hours we've had since reopening.

Please note that due to the move we will be closed on Wednesday, Oct. 28 and be open on Thursday, Oct. 29 from 11-7.

Thank you for your support.

 BIG PLANET COMICS

4849 Cordell Ave.

Bethesda, MD 20814

301-654-6856

CLOSED to walk-in traffic

Curbside pickup:
Wednesday 11-7
Thursday 11-3
Friday 3-7
Saturday 1-5
Closed other days

Curbside policy: Wait outside and call us, we will then charge your total and put a bag of your comics out on a table; don't approach if we or any other folks are at the table! Wear a mask. Thank you.