Monday, October 18, 2010

Mark Zaid's comic book lawyer exhibit profiled in Scoop

Comic Book Heroes at Yale Law School
Forrest C. Helvie,
Scoop October 15 2010

Our local attorney / comic book collector / curator's presentation at Yale is reported on.

TPM on anti-Michelle Bachman political comic book

TPMDC ran a review on an anti-Michelle Bachman political comic book - the fourth issue of one actually. The comic book is about a politician in Washington, of course, but I think the review is also written by someone in the TPM's DC bureau.

The Bachmann Comic, Issue 4: Michele Talks With God
Eric Kleefeld | October 18, 2010

Columbian caricaturist exhibit opens downtown tomorrow

Bruce Guthrie has passed along this information which looks neat. I can't find much at the OAS's website though.


The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), the Art Museum of the Americas and the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the Organization of American States (OAS), cordially invite you to the inauguration of an exhibition of caricatures by five Colombian artists:

"Mujeres en su Tinta"

Opening Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 3 p.m.
OAS Main Building - Marcus Garvey Hall
17th Street and Constitution Ave, NW
On view until Friday, October 29th

Smithsonian magazine on Superman

Cleveland, the True Birthplace of Superman
Comic book fans and city activists hope that people think of the Ohio city, and not Krypton, as the home of the Man of Steel
By Anne Trubek
Smithsonian.com, August 19, 2010

Smithsonian magazine interviews Jules Feiffer

Q and A: Jules Feiffer
The cartoonist, illustrator, author and playwright reflects on happy memories and the positive side of failure
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian magazine, September 2010
 
This online version is an expansion of the print one.

Weldon on Jaffee

In A New Book, See The Writer Side Of ... MAD Magazine's Al Jaffee
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog (October 14, 2010)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/10/13/130536664/the-writer-side-of-mad-magazine-s-al-jaffee

Brodner cartoon of Obama as Superman

Yesterday's print edition of the Washington Post had a lovely Brodner
cartoon of Obama as Superman for this article -

In this recovery, Washington has less power over the economy than you think
By Allan Sloan, Tory Newmyer and Doris Burke/ Fortune
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Nick Galifianakis' new blog and book announcement

Nick Galifianakis just wrote in to say:
 

Nick's book and website can be found at:

www.NickandZuzu.com

and his official blog can be found at:

www.nickandzuzu.blogspot.com/

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Peanuts surprise in Post

In the print Washington Post's Style section for Oct 14 2010, there's an article about the lawyer Dick Cheney shot while the two were hunting. There's a picture of him with what appears to be an original signed Peanuts strip on his wall.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Curls Studio at Crafty Bastard fair pics online

And now in lighter news, Carolyn's got pictures of this year's Crafty Bastards fair, which I missed, on her blog.

Cartoon characters are imaginary, even in porn. Really, they are.

Every year, there's a new case of someone being arrested in America for having images of cartoon characters having sex. Here's the latest.

Beyond a trademark violation, I still don't see how this can actually be illegal.

Former teacher pleads guilty to downloading 'Simpsons' porn
By KBOI Web Staff
Oct 13, 2010


BOISE, Idaho - A former middle school teacher in Meridian has pleaded guilty to
possession of visual representations of child sex abuse.

The U.S. Attorney's office said [he] had downloaded more than 70 animated cartoon pornographic images on his computer. Many of them depicted child characters from The Simpsons.


These are imaginary characters. They're not real. They're never going to be real or be hurt or ever feel anything.

How can this be a crime, with in this case, "a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000"? And the federal government is spending tax dollars prosecuting this? There's no other crime in Idaho to worry more about?

For the record, this type of comic art doesn't interest me at all. I also don't care about furries (but if you do, more power to you). I do care about free speech and justice though, and this is wrong.

I'm a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and I urge all my readers to join as well.

Japanese anime music band played in DC last night

Well, I missed the Boom Boom Satellites at the 9:30 Club. How about you?

Boom goes the dynamite
By May Wildman
University of Maryland Diamondback October 12, 2010

So Richard and Mike go to Columbus...

...for the 2010 Ohio State University's Festival of Cartoon ...


...and darned if DC doesn't follow them there. Here's the warnings we just got about Sunday's travel being interrupted by events...
 

The first event is the Columbus Marathon, which is taking place from 7:30 am until 3:00 pm.  The route includes the portion of High Street between the Hyatt and OSU's campus.    Here is a link to the map showing the route: http://www.columbusmarathon.com/race-information/course-map.

 

The second event is a recently-scheduled Moving America Forward rally on the OSU Oval featuring President Barack Obama.  Doors open at 5:15 pm, but people may begin arriving even earlier.   It is possible that the President's visit will cause some flight and traffic delays. 


...I thought we were leaving these problems in DC!

Monday, October 11, 2010

CBS Overtime rerunning 1999 Charles Schulz interview

We don't normally pay much attention to things beyond our Washington, DC scope, but in honor of the Peanuts 60th anniversary and Mrs. Schulz's recent donation to the National Gallery, here's a link to 60 Minutes Overtime site -

Charlie Brown Turns 60: A look back at "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz

Comic Riffs on Joe Simon

Joe Simon was one of the important early creators of superheroes, including Captain America -

'Superheroes': Turning 97 today, JOE SIMON reflects on his legacy with JACK KIRBY (*As do STAN LEE and NEIL GAIMAN)
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 11, 2010

Hoxwinder Hall from Post contest launches as webcomic

'NEXT GREAT CARTOONIST': Finalist launches 'Hoxwinder Hall' webcomic
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog October 10, 2010

Politics and Prose's Carla F. Cohen 1936-2010

This is one of my all-time favorite bookstores, and they've had a lot of cartoonists come through in recent years. Ms. Cohen was one of the two owners. Politics and Prose's release follows.

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Carla F. Cohen
1936-2010

 

Carla Cohen

Carla F. Cohen
1936-2010

With deep sorrow, I am writing to inform our friends and neighbors that my beloved store co-owner Carla Cohen died this morning. For all of us here at Politics & Prose, it is difficult to believe that someone larger than life is gone, and I will deeply miss my friend and partner. In lieu of flowers, her family has requested that contributions may be made to Jews United for Justice, the Washington Literacy Council or Community Hospice

A funeral will be held at Tifereth Israel, 7701 16th Street, N.W.
 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 13th.
 
The store will be closed from 12- 4 p.m. on that day.
We will have a memorial service in the store at a date to follow in November.
Apart from this closing, all other events will proceed as scheduled.) 

Please read the obituary from the Washington Post here.
We welcome and encourage your condolences, tributes, and memories here.

 

 

Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
www.politics-prose.com
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 364-1919 or
(800) 722-0790
Fax: (202) 966-7532



Oct 30: Frank Cho Appearing at Big Planet College Park


Frank Cho will be appearing at Big Planet Comics in College Park on October 30th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.  Frank will have some updates about some new Liberty Meadows projects he is working on.  So stop by and check it out.

Also new comics will be on time this week,  no delay for Columbus Day.  And this week looks like a really good week for superhero comics.

Finally, Big Planet College Park has a new sale table, we just set up, with T-shirts and hard cover books at 50% off.



Peter Casazza

Big Planet Comics College Park
7315 Baltimore Ave
College Park, MD 20740
301.699.0498