Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Two articles on Tom King's Riddler

Tom King Writes A Riddler With The Impunity Of Donald Trump (Spoilers)

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/16/22

Mad Cave acquires kids comics imprint Papercutz

Up and comer Mad Cave has acquired the established kids comics line Papercutz, instantly doubling the size of their line.

Heidi MacDonald

08/16/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/mad-cave-acquires-kids-comics-imprint-papercutz/

 

Shark or Orca: Which Should You Fear More?

Swimmers often worry about attacks by certain marine predators. But beware the bite of a more common animal.

By Randall Munroe

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 16, 2022, Section D, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Shark or Orca: Which to Fear More?.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/science/sharks-killer-whales-swimming.html

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

What it Takes to be a Political Cartoonist?

What it Takes to be a Political Cartoonist?

A conversation with Matt Wuerker

An online conversation with Matt Wuerker, a Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning. Registration is required.

Join us for a discussion with Matt Wuerker, Politico's editorial cartoonist, about his passion for political cartooning as a form or storytelling and social commentary. Registration is required

Please note - you will receive instructions about how to join the event two (2) hours before the event is scheduled to begin. Captioning will be provided. For ASL interpreters and other reasonable accommodation requests, please contact DCPLaccess@dc.gov or call 202-727-2142.

This event is a production of the Labs at DC Public Library. Click here for more information and sign up to receive email updates from the Labs. 


About the Author

Matt Wuerker is a political cartoonist based in Washington DC.  He was an original staff member for Politico where he works as the staff cartoonist and illustrator. 
 
He has be awarded the National Press Foundation's Berryman Prize,  the Herblock Prize and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. 
 
Prior to Politico he was a successful freelance cartoonist, illustrator and animator.  Over the past 40 years his cartoons have been published in dozens of newspapers and magazines. His work is syndicated internationally by Andrews McMeel Syndicate and the Cartoonist Group.  
 
A former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, he serves on the board of the Herb Block Foundation and is president of the board for Cartoonist Rights Network.   

PR: Small Press Expo Announces 2022 Ignatz Award Nominees






2022 Ignatz Awards Nominees

2022 Ignatz Awards logo by Pa-Luis

For Immediate Release


Contact: Warren Bernard


Email: ignatzawards@smallpressexpo.com



Bethesda, Maryland – The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the 2022 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.


For the first time in three years, SPX 2022 will feature a full slate of programming and workshops, along with a live presentation of the Ignatz Awards ceremony.


Beginning this year, voting for the Ignatz Awards will be opened to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone requesting a ballot. There will be no in-person voting at the show, as we open up the voting for the prestigious Ignatz Awards to all fans of indie comics. 


Ignatz Awards nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals. We are most grateful for the efforts of this year's team of jurors:


  • Cuyler Hedlund
  • Josh O'Neill
  • Breena Nunez
  • Alex Hoffman
  • Hazel Newlevant


The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be held at 9:30PM on September 17 in the White Oak Room of the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.


Additional Information about the nominees and the Ignatz Awards, along with other information about SPX 2022, can be found at www.smallpressexpo.com.

BALLOT & VOTING INFORMATION

  • Voting for the 2022 Ignatz Awards will be by email ballot only, there will be no on-site voting.
  • Ballots will be emailed on Thursday August 18 to everyone on SPX's email lists.
  • Voting ends on Wednesday, September 14 at 11:59 PM (EDT).
  • Please check your spam folder if you do not see your ballot.
  • If you wish to vote for the Ignatz Awards and are not on our email lists, signup for a ballot and get added to our email lists at the SPX website.

2022 IGNATZ NOMINEES


OUTSTANDING ARTIST

  • Halcyon, illustrated by Ron Regé Jr. (Fantagraphics)
  • Four Years Collected: Vol 2, by K Czap (Czap Books)
  • The City of Belgium, illustrated by Brecht Evens (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life, illustrated by Reimena Yee (Hiveworks Comics)
  • Faster, illustrated by Jesse Lonergan (Bulgilhan Press)


OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

  • LAAB Magazine #2: Eat / Shit - ed. Ronald Wimberly and Josh O'Neill (Beehive Books)
  • Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology - ed. Tana Oshima (Self Published)
  • Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past - ed. Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus Comics)
  • Good Boy Magazine #1 - ed. Michael Sweater and Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket)
  • Baltic Comics Magazine š! #42 'Scientific Facts' - ed. David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece (kuš!)


OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

  • Arrive In My Hands by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
  • Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies by Max Huffman (Adhouse Books)
  • Think I've Still Got It! By Wang XX, Translated by R. Orion Martin (Paradise Systems)
  • Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins (Silver Sprocket)
  • The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories by Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly)


OUTSTANDING COMIC

  • Four Years Collected: Vol 2 by K Czap (Czap Books)
  • I See A Knight by Xulia Vicente (Shortbox)
  • Pee Pee Poo Poo #69 by Caroline Cash (Self Published)
  • Are Comic Books Real? by Alex Nall (Self Published)
  • Ode to Keisha by Jamila Rowser and Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)


OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Discipline by Dash Shaw (New York Review Comics) 
  • Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, by Mohammad Sabaaneh, translated by Dalia and Mouin Rabbani (Street Noise Books)
  • Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir, by Ariel Bordeaux (Fieldmouse Press)
  • No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics)
  • What is Home, Mum? By Sabba Khan (Street Noise Books)

 

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

  • Joy by Maritsa Patrinos (Self Published)
  • Pee Pee Poo Poo #69 by Caroline Cash (Self Published)
  • Carrington's World by Summer Pierre (Self Published)
  • Phonestoned by King Ray (Self Published)
  • Sleemor Gank - Burg Land 1 by Alexander Laird (Self Published)



OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

  • Blind Alley by Adam de Souza 
  • Ride or Die by Mars Heyward 
  • Vattu by Evan Dahm 
  • Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life by Reimena Yee
  • Technofeelia Vol. 4 'Help' by Amy Kurzweil


OUTSTANDING SERIES

  • Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
  • Trans Classic Movies by Jett Allen (www.intomore.com)
  • The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM! Studios)
  • Ley Lines Artists: Keren Katz, Cameron Weston Nicholson, Jordan Jeffries, ed. K Czap & L Nichols (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
  • The Nib Magazine - ed. by Matt Bors (The Nib)

 

OUTSTANDING STORY

  • Big Cats by Liz Yerby (Self Published)
  • Ley Lines: The First Few Bars by Keren Katz (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
  • Ley Lines: Love, or the Axe by Jordan Jeffries (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
  • The Lover of Everyone in the World, from The Lover of Everyone in the World by Beatrix Urkowitz (Parsifal Press)
  • Winter Break 2029, from Invisible Parade, by Mississippi (Glacier Bay Books)

 

PROMISING NEW TALENT:

  • Arrive In My Hands by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
  • Archeologist Landing by Yara Elfouly (Self Published)
  • Koreans Speak English by Juniper Kim (Self Published)
  • The Third Person by Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Djeliya by Juni Ba (TKO Studios)


Congratulations to all the nominees!

Key Dates for the 2022 Ignatz Awards

  • August 18 - Initial ballots emailed and voting begins
  • September 14 • 11:59 PM (EDT) - Voting for the 2022 Ignatz Awards ends
  • September 17 • 9:30 PM (EDT) - Presentation of Ignatz Award winners

Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 550 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.


The Ignatz Awards are held every year by SPX, with the awards recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

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P.O. Box 5704
Bethesda, Maryland
20824
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Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/15/22


 

OBITUARY: New Yorker artist and Le Petit Nicolas co-creator Jean-Jacques Sempé

Sempé was particularly beloved in France for his remarkable illustrations and in co-creating the adventures of Le Petit Nicolas with René Goscinny

Dean Simons

08/15/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/obituary-new-yorker-artist-and-le-petit-nicolas-co-creator-jean-jacques-sempe/

 

Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who could make the world giggle, has died

The world-famous cartoonist could capture a moment, a gesture, an attitude, a situation like no one else. He illustrated 'Le Petit Nicolas', over one hundred 'The New Yorker' covers and published a collection of drawings almost every year. He died on August 11 at the age of 89.

By Francis Marmande

August 12, 2022

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2022/08/12/cartoonist-jean-jacques-sempe-who-could-make-the-world-giggle-has-died_5993330_15.html

 

Sempé: 'I draw what I would have liked to be'

In a 2018 interview with 'Le Monde' the 'Petit Nicolas' cartoonist, who died this week, talked about his passion for jazz and the musicians he loved to sketch...

By Pascale Krémer

August 13, 2022

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2022/08/13/sempe-i-draw-what-i-would-have-liked-to-be_5993502_30.html

 

VIZ MEDIA PARTNERS WITH COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS

To Offer Manga and Graphic Novels to Children in Hospitals

Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 12, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51884/viz-media-partners-comicbooks-kids

 

Comixology 4.0: Six Months Later, Has it improved?

Six months and a few bug fixes later, members of the Beat give their review

Beat Staff

08/15/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/comixology-4-0-six-months-later-has-it-improved/

 

Cartoonist's work comes with out-of-this-world perspective [Jake McGuire, amateur gag cartoonist]

Arlington Sun-Gazette  August 12, 2022

https://sungazette.news/cartoonists-work-comes-with-out-of-this-world-perspective/

 

Marvel Did Not Approve Ultimate Fallout #4 Acetate Covers At C2E2

Posted on August 9, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-did-not-approve-ultimate-fallout-4-acetate-covers-at-c2e2/

 

A Look At The Black Flag Booth At FAN Expo Boston Comic Con

Posted on August 13, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/a-look-at-the-black-flag-booth-at-fan-expo-boston-comic-con/

 

Rob Liefeld Talks About Acetategate

Posted on August 14, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rob-liefeld-talks-about-acetategate/

 

"If I Could Do Anything, I Reckon I'd Just Keep Doing This": An Interview with Daniel Locke

Joe Decie | August 15, 2022uperman lives

https://www.tcj.com/if-i-could-do-anything-i-reckon-id-just-keep-doing-this-an-interview-with-daniel-locke/

 

REVIEW: MILESTONE GENERATIONS documentary honors past comic creators while also looking to the future

Taimur Dar

08/15/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/review-milestone-generations-documentary/

 

Forget Batgirl, where's Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood's biggest abandoned films [Torso]

Lizzy Dening

Fri 12 Aug 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/12/superman-lives-hollywoods-biggest-abandoned-films

 

Nicole Rifkin's "Sun-Dappled"

The artist on her creative process and finding inspiration among artistic friends.

By Françoise Mouly

August 15, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2022-08-22

 

The Daily Heller: When Pulps Were Tops

By Steven Heller          

The Daily Heller August 10 2022

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-when-pulps-were-tops/

 

Jim Woodring Discovered a Way to Change the Past

The Stranger's Artist of the Week

Corianton Hale

Aug 15, 2022 

https://www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2022/08/15/77755179/jim-woodring-discovered-a-way-to-change-the-past

 

Sho Murase

A Special Message About Sho Murase

August 15 2022

https://www.facebook.com/Shomurase2

 

Aislin cartoon at heart of discrimination lawsuit in the U.S.

'Phototoon' depicting then-president Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood "is the most popular cartoon I have ever created on the internet."

Susan Schwartz    Montreal Gazette Aug 15, 2022 

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/u-s-flight-attendant-sues-after-being-fired-for-posting-aislin-cartoon-on-facebook

 

Truer than Reality: Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly

September-October 2022

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/09/montage-kal-kallaugher

 

Kelly Thompson Interview

Rachel Reads & Reviews August 2022

https://rachelreadsreviews434255182.wordpress.com/2022/07/29/kelly-thompson-interview/

 

Johnston, Patrick James "Paddy" (2016) Working with comics: labour, neoliberalism and alternative cartooning. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.

http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65444/

 

You Won't Believe What The Sandman Star Tom Sturridge STOLE From Set! | E! News

 Aug 4, 2022

E! News

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

Monday, August 15, 2022

“Carlos Gomez Freestyles” by Chuck Gonzalez challenged in Prince William County Public Schools

KAL's YA GN

Truer than Reality: Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

September-October 2022

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/09/montage-kal-kallaugher

You're invited - last 2022 Swann Fellow lecture today, Monday, August 15 at 5 pm EDT via Zoom

Swann Fellow Lecture - Imperial Projections: "Witnessing" the War of 1898 in American Visual Culture

Swann Fellow, Ramey Mize, PhD candidate in art history and the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, will describe her research into the ways that technologies of violence, vision, and image-making intersected with the Battles of Santiago and San Juan Hill in the War of 1898. Firsthand sketches by William Glackens reflect a dissonance between the eyewitness claims of artists and the calculated erasure of Cuba's Liberation Army. Sent to the Cuban front by McClure's Magazine, Glackens chronicled the movement and exploits of U.S. troops from Tampa to Santiago. Almost none of his published drawings depicted Cuba's Liberation Army. This omission served U.S. imperial interests and is a hallmark of related works by artists like Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington as well as U.S. visual culture more broadly. Drawn largely from the Library of Congress's collection, these works offer insights into the persistent obfuscation of Cuba as wartime events were reenacted and recast across mediums. This event will be recorded.

Swann Fellows are scholars, in any field, working on caricature and cartoon. The award, up to $5,000 is open to MA students and PhD candidates and those within three years of earning their PhD at a university in North America – Mexico, Canada and the United States. The award is intended to support a mandatory two-week research period at the Library of Congress. For more information, go to: https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/index.html (and yes, I need to update the page)

 

Sara

 

Sara W. Duke

Curator, Popular & Applied Graphic Art

Prints & Photographs Division

Library of Congress

Washington, DC 20540-4730

 

sduk@loc.gov

 

 

Arlington cartoonist Jake McGuire profiled

Cartoonist's work comes with out-of-this-world perspective [Jake McGuire]

Arlington Sun-Gazette  August 12, 2022