Wednesday, March 30, 2011
April 10: Capicons next convention
Sunday, April 10 · 10:00am - 3:00pm
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Location
Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire And Rescue Department
2148 Gallows Road
Dunn Loring, VA
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More Info
Special Guest: Rafer Roberts--creator of Plastic Farm, and editor of D.C. Conspiracy's Magic Bullet! More TBA!
Admission $3 - Kids FREE!
Open to the public from 10 am - 3 pm. Buy, sell & trade: Gold, Silver, Bronze Age comics; Indie & Modern comics, Publishers & Creators, TV & Movie Collectibles. Non-sport cards; Videos & DVDs; Horror/Sci-Fi; figures, toys; Star Wars & Star Trek memorabilia; original artwork, posters and other comic-related collectibles.
Wheatley / Hempel comic book funded for movie adaptation
Mark will be the next Meet a Local Cartoonist at the City Paper site.
Comicsgirl reports on "Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush/Trickster event at Busboys & Poets • 03.30.11"
Editor Matt Dembicki also pointed out this blog post on Trickster that talks about how Peter Kuper did the initial cover for the book
Comic Riffs interviews Tom Tomorrow
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 30 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/rebel-with-a-kos-tom-tomorrow-ends-salon-run-to-become-comics-curator-at-the-daily-kos/2011/03/30/AFEaTl3B_blog.html
April 1: Nick Galifianakis at National Press Club
Atlas Returns in Baltimore
The exhibit galleries tell the story of popular culture via characters, beginning in the 19th century with Palmer Cox’s Brownies (although there’s a nod to earlier history in the first one – you can see Ben Franklin’s original newspaper cartoon in it). They jump decade by decade, hitting highlights such as The Yellow Kid, Superman, Disney’s characters, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye and the like before ending with Star Wars in the 1970s. Each room is packed with toys and merchandising.
The galleries begin with one devoted to the history of the comic book which begins with early collections of comic strips from the 1900s through the ‘20s, then moves into pulps and a whole wall of Big Little Books, before showcasing Geppi’s collection of key comic books. Atlas At Last! the current temporary exhibit began in this room. Atlas was a company that barely existed from 1974-1975. It was created by Martin Goodman, the former owner of Marvel Comics (which had used the name Atlas in the 1950s), for his son Chip to run, in an attempt to outstrip his former company. As Diamond’s Scoop site notes, “By paying top rates, the company attracted creators such as Russ Heath, John Severin, Alex Toth, Walter Simonson, Ernie Colon, Neal Adams, Pat Broderick, Mike Ploog, Rich Buckler, Frank Thorne, Tony Isabella, Jeff Jones, Boris Valejo and others. One series, The Destructor, featured longtime Warren, Marvel and DC editor Archie Goodwin as its writer, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange co-creator Steve Ditko on pencils, EC veteran and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents creator Wally Wood on inks, with Marvel veteran Larry Lieber (one of the Atlas editors and Marvel impresario Stan Lee’s brother) providing the cover.” It’s worth noting that talents did not move between the major companies at the time, and one could be blackballed for doing work for a competitor.
Mark Huesman, JC Vaughn, Mike Wilbur, Philip Zolli & Mark Wheatley
The exhibit features most, if not all, of the comics, that Atlas published and some striking original art down for the books. These are drawn from the collection of Philip Zolli, the enthusiast behind The Atlas Archives website (which he started in 2003). Zolli bought the comics he could fine when they appeared originally, and has continued completing and filling out his collection over the intervening thirty-five years. Mike Wilbur (employee of Diamond International Galleries) was one of the show’s curators and provided some of the comic books on display. The other of exhibit’s two curators, J.C. Vaughn (of Gemstone Publishing), invited me to the opening of the show. Of Atlas’ enduring appeal, he told me, “I’ve worked in comics for sixteen years next month, and I freelanced for a year before that, so I’m not a novice, I’m not your average fanboy, but I was totally a geeked-out kid. I got two of the comics in a trade when I was a kid, like 1976, a year after they died, and I got so into them -- that’s the seed of the exhibit being here now.”
The Atlas line has just been relaunched by Ardden Entertainment and grandson Jason Goodman, and Vaughn says, “I think there’s a better understanding of the company now … we’re talking 72, 73 publications in 1975, and the fact that we’re still talking about them in any sense is amazing, and the fact that anyone’s bringing them back is even more amazing.”
Phil Zolli was attempting to collect his comics before there were comic book stores. “I remember there several stationary stores had the spinner racks, and they were there, and Atlas in my area got good coverage, so I was able to buy them right off the newsstand. They just struck a chord with me because all I knew at the time was Marvel and DC, and I got to be at the ground floor of a brand-new company. It was very exciting. A year later, they disappeared.” He didn’t buy all of the line at the time – Archie knock-off Binky, Gothic Romances and other magazines waited for later, as did buying original art. “Once I started the site, and I had searches out because I wanted to accumulate as much information as I could, E-bay was a great source of information and artwork that popped up. I thought, ‘This is great and relatively inexpensive. I’m going to buy it.’ Zolli’s original artwork is interspersed with other artwork, both in the main comic book exhibit room and the museum’s main hall, a weakness in the show’s design that lessens the impact of the art. Very little of the original art exists. Vaughn noted, “When people went up to the Atlas offices, after they ceased publication, there was one secretary that denied that they were ever in comics, Simonson had a whole story missing… some have cast glances at some of the last editorial employees and others have just heard that it got thrown out.” Maryland comic artist Mark Wheatley, who noted that he published the first or second story done by Howard Chaykin, said “During that period, it’s quite likely it just got tossed.” Zolli is continuing to collect the new versions of the comics, and has been buying original art from those series as well.
The second Atlas failed for a couple of reasons. Vaughn points out, “They hired Jeff Rovin from Warren [a black and white comics magazine publisher] and put him in charge of color comics; they brought in Larry Lieber who worked at the core of silver age Marvel, and put him in charge of black and white magazines…” Wheatley said of Atlas, “They looked like Marvel deliberately, and then the distributors forced them to change and not look like Marvel” while Vaughn says that “a lot of the changes were capricious like the Movie Monsters [magazine on display] originally had differently colored lettering that didn’t get lost in the background orange, but the Goodman’s came by and made them change it.” Discussing how much the comics industry has changed, Zolli says “Larry Hama was doing the second issue of Wulf, and his mother was dying, and Martin Goodman refused to push the deadline back. The guy quit right after that. A lot of people were bitter.” Distribution was a problem for the company, as other companies such as Skywald and Charlton were still fighting for space on the racks. Wilbur remembers, “The place I was buying my new comics in the ‘70s was a bookstore / newsstand place. I went in there often enough that they would let me put out the new comics when they came in. They had no say in what they got – they would just get these bundles of comics strapped together and it was just totally random. Maybe this month you might get ten copies of this title, next month you’d get two copies and the next month you’d get twenty of them.”
The failure of this newsstand distribution system is what led Geppi to begin Diamond, his distribution company – so he could get his own comic books to read. If you’re curious about a little company that didn’t matter much, or are interested in cartooning history, the museum is located at 301 W. Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, 410-625-7060, sliding scale entry fee begins at $10 for adults.
[Corrected June 1, 2011 for the misspelling of Mr. Zolli's name as Zullo. I regret the error].
Magic Bullet 2 distribution begins
D.C. Conspiracy Has Better Luck Hawking Papers Than Radiohead
by Jonathan L. Fischer on Mar. 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Comic Riffs on meta-Peanuts
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 29 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-riffs-interview-one-fans-new-3eanuts-site-takes-stripped-down-view-of-peanuts/2011/03/28/AFr8AluB_blog.html
Truitt on new Thor cartoon
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 28 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-03-28-BloodBrothers_N.htm
April 2: Anime at Cherry Blossom time in Freer Gallery
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NPR's Monkey See blog staff to read Sandman, and write technical report
The 'I Will If You Will' Book Club: Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman: Dream Country'
by Linda Holmes
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog March 29, 2011
2 local strips in Charlotte Observer comics poll
Mar. 29, 2011
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/29/2180009/help-us-pick-a-new-comic.html
Tonight: Dueling comics events
Also on March 29, Ben Katchor is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Here's their PR:
The Picture Stories of Ben Katchor
Tuesday, March 29
7 p.m.
Members $12; Public $15
Hailed by The New York Times as "the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip," Ben Katchor has collected both a cult and mainstream following for his wry, perceptive, and slightly surreal comic strips of urban life. The author of The Jew of New York and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District, Katchor's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Forward, and Metropolis. The first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor discusses his first book in more than 10 years, The Cardboard Valise (Random House, 2011)- the whimsical graphic novel which follows the intertwined lives of three characters who travel to the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus. A book signing follows the talk.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Comic Riffs talks to Mike Peters
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 28 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/political-cartoons-mike-peters-wins-national-headliner-award/2011/03/28/AFJww3oB_blog.html
Leftist cartoonist Christopher Cardinale, in town and interviewed
by Mike Rhode on Mar. 28, 2011
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2011/03/28/meet-a-visiting-cartoonist-a-chat-with-christopher-cardinale/
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Magic Bullet featured in City Paper
Monday Morning Commuters: Grab a Copy of Magic Bullet
by Megan Arellano on Mar. 27, 2011
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2011/03/27/monday-morning-commuters-grab-a-copy-of-magic-bullet/
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Comic Riffs talks to Matt Wuerker on syndication
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 25 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/politicos-matt-wuerker-reacts-to-his-new-universal-uclick-deal/2011/03/26/AFHteoZB_blog.html
Friday, March 25, 2011
Matt Wuerker's Team Cul de Sac donation
Truitt on Marvel's Fear Itself
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 25 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-03-25-fearitself24_ST_N.htm
South Park duo's Book of Mormon play reviewed in Post
By Peter Marks,
Washington Post March 25 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/review-of-broadways-the-book-of-mormon/2011/03/24/ABguJSRB_story.html
Wash Post review of Wimpy Kid movie
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post March 28, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-rodrick-rules,1163249/critic-review.html
Shannon Gallant Baroness fundraising drawing on ebay
Shannon Gallant has contributed a fullcolor drawing of GI Joe's Baroness for a fundraising effort on Ebay to help a comic book store owner with cancer.
Comic Riffs has a spate of interviews
POLITICAL HUMOR: Detroit, Denver cartoonists react to winning top awards
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 24 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/political-humor-detroit-denver-cartoonists-react-to-winning-top-awards/2011/03/24/AB8UZTSB_blog.html
The 'Riffs Interview: Top college cartoonist JOHN VESTEVICH is 'shocked' by national Schulz award
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 24 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-riffs-interview-top-college-cartoonist-john-vestevich-is-shocked-by-national-schulz-award/2011/03/24/ABTb4lSB_blog.html
The 'Riffs Interview': JEFF KINNEY 'more relaxed' about new 'DIARY OF A WIMPY KID' sequel
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 24 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/the-riffs-interview-jeff-kinney-more-relaxed-about-new-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-sequel/2011/03/24/ABO0g2SB_blog.html
April 21: Library of Congress Lecture on South African Artist William Kentridge
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington DC 20540
March 25, 2011
Public contact: Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115, mkenn@loc.gov
Swann Foundation Fellow Leora Maltz-Leca
To Discuss the Work of South African Artist William Kentridge, April 21
South African artist William Kentridge is considered one of the most significant artists working today. He is largely responsible for bringing drawing in general—and animated drawing in particular—to the forefront of contemporary international art.
Swann Foundation fellow Leora Maltz-Leca will discuss the artist's work in her lecture "William Kentridge: 'Stone Age Drawing,' Cartoon Logic and South Africa's Process of Change" at noon on Thursday, April 21, in the Whittall Pavilion on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street. S.E., Washington, D.C.
In her illustrated talk, Maltz-Leca will relate Kentridge's studio processes of drawing and animation to South Africa's transformative political change, and address the peculiar timeliness of Kentridge's method. He developed his distinctive process of animation in 1989, the same year that ushered in the seismic changes that finally ended apartheid in South Africa.
Kentridge, born in 1955, is well-known for a signature animation process that he describes as "stone age." In this process, Kentridge continuously draws and erases on a single charcoal drawing, all the time taking photographs of his changing drawing. He then films his photographic record and, thereby, produces film narratives that often feature his stock characters Soho Teitelbaum and Felix Eckstein.
In her lecture, Maltz-Leca will trace the genesis of Kentridge's animation method to early cartoon strips and flip-books. She will ultimately argue that Kentridge's timely embrace of the dynamism of animation—a medium that speaks of material change—suggests how his unorthodox animation process is embedded in political processes of revolutionary change.
Maltz-Leca is an assistant professor in the History of Art Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of the 2011 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writer's Grant, and she is completing a book on Kentridge titled "Process as Metaphor and Other Doubtful Enterprises." Maltz-Leca holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale, a master's from Brown University and a master's and doctorate in art history from Harvard.
This presentation, sponsored by the Swann Foundation and Prints & Photographs Division, is part of the foundation's continuing activities to support the study, interpretation, preservation and appreciation of original works of humorous and satiric art by graphic artists from around the world. The Swann Foundation's advisory board is comprised of scholars, collectors, cartoonists and Library of Congress staff members. The foundation strives to award one fellowship annually to assist scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. Applications for the 2012-2013 academic year are due Feb. 15, 2012. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swannhome or by e-mail swann@loc.gov.
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PR11-70
3/25/11
ISSN: 0731-3527
Thursday, March 24, 2011
March 25: Ian Rankin at Politics and Prose
Ian Rankin
The Complaints
Start: Mar 25 2011 7:00 pm
In his latest crime novel the Scottish creator of John Rebus introduces a new hero: Malcolm Fox, an Edinburgh cop. Fox’s beat is the police force itself, and he must be on the trail of something big, because his colleagues are conspiring to frame him, and his only ally is a detective suspected of selling child porn.
Small Press Expo cited as Best of DC
Washington City Paper (March 24 2011).
online at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/artsandentertainment/2011/best-comics-convention
Glen Weldon on Marineman
Torrid Comics Confessions: 'I'm Cheating On The Sea-King With MARINEMAN!'
by Glen Weldon
March 24, 2011
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/03/24/134760062/torrid-comics-confessions-im-cheating-on-the-sea-king-with-marineman
Sarah Glidden interviewed in today's Post
Sarah Glidden discusses 'How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less'
By Michael Cavna,
March 24, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/sarah-glidden-discusses-how-to-understand-israel-in-60-days-or-less/2011/03/23/ABNUD9KB_story.html
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Matt Wuerker gets syndicated
March 29: Dueling comics events
Also on March 29, Ben Katchor is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Here's their PR:
The Picture Stories of Ben Katchor
Tuesday, March 29
7 p.m.
Members $12; Public $15
Hailed by The New York Times as "the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip," Ben Katchor has collected both a cult and mainstream following for his wry, perceptive, and slightly surreal comic strips of urban life. The author of The Jew of New York and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District, Katchor's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Forward, and Metropolis. The first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor discusses his first book in more than 10 years, The Cardboard Valise (Random House, 2011)- the whimsical graphic novel which follows the intertwined lives of three characters who travel to the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus. A book signing follows the talk.
Hatke's Zita the Space Girl reviewed
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
March 24: Sarah Glidden in DC
Kal at TEDx
2 new art pieces at Team Cul de Sac blog
Matt Dembicki's SPACE photos
BTW, Matt, the last pic shows Ryan Claytor's car.
Jeffrey Thompson's new children's comics
children.
A Day At The Fire Station
Going To The Dentist
A Visit To The Vet
Working On The Farm
These are really aimed at first graders, but Jeff did a nice job
making the art clear and easy to follow.
Additional DC area cartoonists
Ed Delaney's Peculiar Comics.
Katie Omberg's Office Bitch stripand her Fancy Graphics blog.
Liz Suburbia's comics and blog.
PR: WashPost's Tom Toles's Cartoon Caption Contest returns
The Tom Toles Cartoon Caption Contest returns today! To enter, readers can post your suggested caption in the comments section. You will have until 11:59 p.m. ET on March 28. Toles will read through all the entries and plan to announce a winner by the next evening.
For the cartoon and rules, go here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/tom-toless-cartoon-caption-contest-returns/2011/03/21/ABVyaB8_blog.html
PR: Small Press Expo Announces Roz Chast, Jim Woodring, Ann Telnaes and Jim Rugg as guests for SPX 2011
Small Press Expo Announces Roz Chast, Jim Woodring, Ann Telnaes and Jim Rugg as guests for SPX 2011
For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard
E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com
Bethesda, Maryland; March 22, 2011 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons is pleased to announce that Roz Chast, Jim Woodring, Ann Telnaes and Jim Rugg will be guests for SPX 2011, to be held September 10 and September 11 at the Marriott North Bethesda Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland, across from the White Flint Metro stop.
Roz Chast is a long time contributor of cartoons and covers to The New Yorker. She has published ten volumes of her cartoon work from The New Yorker and other magazines such as Scientific American, Redbook and Mother Jones . In addition to her New Yorker output, she collaborated with the comedian/actor Steve Martin on the book titled "The Alphabet from A to Y, With the Bonus Letter Z!" and last year released her children's book "Too Busy Marco". This will be Ms. Chast's first appearance at SPX and her first appearance at a convention since 2004.
Jim Woodring is the creator of the surreal long running comic series "Frank and Jim". The duo will be appearing in their second full length graphic novel, a followup to last years "Weathercraft" , titled "Congress of the Animals" that is due to be released in May from his long time publisher, Fantagraphics.
Ann Telnaes won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for her work in The Washington Post. A few years ago, she moved from single panel cartoons to creating animated editorial cartoons for the Washington Post web site, using her prior background as an animator for a number of companies around the world. SPX is honored that this is her first time at any comic related convention.
For detailed information about our announced guests, visit the SPX web site at www.spxpo.com.
SPX is a registered 501(c)3 which brings together more than 300 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.
As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, go to their website at http://www.cbldf.org/.
Politics and Prose graphic novel bookgroup discusses Market Day tomorrow at 7:30
From Adam W:
Just wanted to send out a friendly reminder that we are meeting tomorrow 3/23 at 7:30pm to discuss Market Day by James Sturm.
Gag cartoonist Mike Shapiro interviewed at City Paper
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With Mike Shapiro
Monday, March 21, 2011
Mammoth Shawn Belschwender interview up at City Paper
When Comics Return: A Chat With Shawn Belschwender
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Matt Dembicki's Team Cul de Sac contribution
Truitt on Green Wake
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY March 18 2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-03-18-GreenWake_N.htm
Zadzooks on Walking Dead, All-Star Superman animation and Yogi Bear
Zadzooks: The Walking Dead and All-Star Superman
'Walking Dead' gratifyingly grotesque
By Joseph Szadkowski
The Washington Times March 18, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/18/zadzooks-walking-dead-all-star-superman-yogi/
Kids comics reviewed in Post
By Douglas Wolk, Washington Post March 20, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/graphic-novels-for-young-readers/2011/03/11/AB0aebr_story.html
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Herblock oral history begun by Penn State professor
by Russell Frank
March 11, 2011
http://www.statecollege.com/news/columns/to-herblock-and-to-spring-flowers-postcard-from-washington-682171/
and
Herblock in the Hosbog: Musings on the Political Cartoonist with the 'Saber-Toothed' Pen
by Russell Frank
March 18, 2011
http://www.statecollege.com/news/columns/herblock-in-the-hosbog-musings-on-the-political-cartoonist-with-the-sabertoothed-pen-689343/
Children's comic strips in tomorrow's Kids Post
Post on Calder 'carticatures'
The National Portrait Gallery opens 'Calder's Portraits: A New Language'
By Stephanie Merry, Thursday, March 10, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/the-national-portrait-gallery-opens-calders-portraits-a-new-language/2011/03/07/ABahHAQ_story.html
Wimpy Kid profile in Post's Parade Magazine insert tomorrow
David Browne
Parade Magazine March 20, 2011
http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2011/03/the-wonderful-world-of-wimpy.html
Is Cul de Sac a repeat in March 20th's Washington Post?
Yes, and no. The paper ran the wrong strip on March 13th actually publishing March 20th's a week early, but here's the correct one.
Coming soon - a great Shawn Belschwender interview
New Flugennock: Bank of America and Japan
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=799
I was up late Sunday night, following the Al Jazeera feed, keeping up with Libya, Bahrain and Japan -- especially Japan -- when a tweet came in announcing Anonymous' "Black Monday" plan to release the trove of emails detailing mortgage and other fraud at Bank Of America, and my brain started bouncing back and forth: "Bank Of America...Japan...Bank Of America...Japan..." ...and I knew it was time for another one of my parodies of iconic art and imagery.
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
New Flugennock: The New Flag Of Bahrain
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Friday, March 18, 2011
David Malki! interview online at City Paper
by Mike Rhode on Mar. 18, 2011
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2011/03/18/when-comics-return-a-chat-with-david-malki/
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Cavna's Breathed interview in today's Post
Launching 'Mars Needs Moms' into 3-D
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post March 17 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mars-needs-moms-launches-into-3-d/2011/03/13/ABIdUvg_story.html
March 18: Super Art Fight
PR: Graphic Arts Galleries at Library of Congress Open March 18
March 17, 2011
Graphic Arts Galleries at Library of Congress Open on March 18
The Library of Congress announces the opening of the Swann Gallery and the Herblock Gallery on Friday, March 18, 2011. The galleries are two of three exhibition spaces located within the new Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground level of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.
The third exhibition space in the Graphic Arts Galleries will open in September 2011. The galleries will focus on the Library's cartoon collections and offer visitors a rich sampling of caricatures, comic strips, political drawings, artwork created for magazines and graphic-novel illustrations.
The galleries will be open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and admission is free.
The Herblock Gallery celebrates the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as "Herblock"— with an ongoing display of 10 original drawings, to change every six months. A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, who spent more than 55 years at the Washington Post, Herblock took on political corruption wherever he saw it, and championed the rights of "the little guy." The inaugural exhibition, "Herblock Looks at Communism," presents a selection of his 1951 cartoons about the Korean War. A new display in September will explore the Khrushchev-Kennedy confrontation in 1961. The Herb Block Foundation donated the collection of more than 14,000 original cartoon drawings and 50,000 rough sketches, as well as manuscripts, to the Library of Congress in 2002, and has generously continued to provide funds to support ongoing programming.
The Swann Gallery introduces visitors to the fascinating world of caricatures, political cartoons, comics, animation art, graphic novels and illustrations. A permanent memorial exhibition will feature 15 facsimiles of treasured cartoons from the Swann and other cartoon collections, which represent the broad range of holdings in the Library of Congress. This exhibition is made possible by the Swann Foundation, which was established by Erwin Swann (1906–1973) in 1967 to support ongoing exhibitions, related programming, preservation and development of collections and to encourage appreciation for the dynamic, evolving field of cartoon and illustration arts.
In September 2011, the third gallery will open with a changing-exhibition program that showcases the graphic arts collections in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress. Its inaugural exhibition will be "Timely and Timeless: New Comic Art Acquisitions," featuring treasures of original cartoon art that were added to the Library's collections during the past decade. On display will be political commentaries, comic-strip and comic-book drawings, New Yorker magazine illustrations and examples of graphic narratives.
The Library has a long history of exhibiting cartoon and caricature art, with the first Swann Gallery—known as the Oval Gallery—opening in 1982 in the James Madison Building. The Swann Gallery moved to the Thomas Jefferson Building in 1998 and remained open until 2004, when preparations started for construction of the Library's tunnel to the Capitol Visitors Center. In subsequent years, large-scale cartoon art exhibitions—"Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes" (2004); "Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock" (2006); "Cartoon America" (2006); and "Herblock!" (2009)—were held in various exhibition spaces in the Jefferson Building.
The Library has been collecting original cartoon art for more than 140 years. It is a major center for cartoon research with holdings of more than 100,000 original cartoon drawings and prints. These works, housed in the Prints and Photographs Division, span five centuries and range from 17th-century Dutch political prints to 21st-century contemporary comic strips.
The Prints and Photographs Division holds the largest-known collection of American political prints, the finest assemblage of British satirical prints outside Great Britain and holdings of original drawings by generations of America's best cartoonists and illustrators that are unequaled in breadth and depth. Extensive runs of rare satirical and comic journals from Europe and the United States represent another distinguishing facet. The Library acquired these materials through a variety of sources including artists' gifts, donations by private collectors, selective purchases and copyright registration.
Sample images from the Swann Gallery:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91705247/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661676/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96508418/
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Truitt on Superman's mom
Brian Truitt
USA Weekend's Who's News blog March 16th, 2011
http://whosnews.usaweekend.com/2011/03/woman-of-steel-diane-lane-speaks-on-playing-supermans-mom-in-new-movie/
Cavna on Iranian cartoons and Kill Shakespeare
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 15 2011
The ‘Riffs Interview: Hark, inspired ‘KILL SHAKESPEARE’ creators strike again with soul, wit
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog March 15 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Carla Speed McNeil up for 3 Stumptown Comics Fest awards
"Judges for the 2011 Stumptown Comics Awards are: Michael Allred (Madman), Brandon Graham (King City), Laura Hudson (Editor, ComicsAlliance.com), Michael Ring (Owner, Bridge City Comics), and Jason Leivian (Owner, Floating World Comics)."