PR: The Comic Arts Festival is only days away!

Local cartoonists appearing include Carolyn Belefski, Donna Lewis and Barbara Dale...

Dan Piraro from Bizarro Quick-Draw Jam Session just released! Get your tickets! Space is limited! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. The Comic Arts Festival is this Sunday!  May 26th, 2013 Cartoonist Appearances from 10am-5pm. Street Festival begins at Noon!  Hundreds of cartoonists are descending on downtown Pittsburgh as the city plays host to the National Cartoonists Society Conference. It is the first time the prestigious organization has been to Pittsburgh in its almost 70 year history. In conjunction with the conference, The ToonSeum will be hosting the very first Pittsburgh Comic Arts Festival on May 26th from 10am to 5pm. *Street Festival begins at noon.  The festival will feature autograph and sketch sessions with over 60 of the nations top comic artist and cartoonists including such luminaries as: Partrick McDonnell of Mutts, Lynn Johnston of For Better or Worse, Tom Richmond of MAD Magazine, Brian Walker of Beetle Bailey, Dan Piraro of Bizarro and many more. The 900 Block of Liberty Avenue downtown will become a veritable living funny pages block party with visits from Betty Boop, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Dennis the Menace, and the Care Bears. Fun vendors, art activities, chalk artists and caricaturists and will round out the festivities and help to literally draw a crowd! 10:00am-11:00am at Toonseum Jan Eliot- Stone Soup Patrick McDonnell- Mutts Brian Walker- Hi & Lois 11:00am-12:00pm at August Wilson Center Brian Crane- Pickles Greg Evans- Luann Rob Rogers- Pittsburgh Post Gazette John Rose- Barney Google and Snuffy Smith  John Stevens- Caricatoonist Carolyn Belefski- Curls 12:00pm-1:00pm at August Wilson Center Paul Fell- Paul Fell Cartoons Jeff Keane- Family Circus Bunny Hoest- The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade, Howard Huge Bill Morrison- Simpsons Comics Laurie Triefeldt- World of Wonder Sandra Bell-Lundy- Between Friends 1:00pm-2:00pm at August Wilson Center Donna Lewis- Reply All Comic Tom Richmond- Mad Magazine Mark Tatulli- Lio  Jerry Van Amerongen- Ballad Street Greg Walker- Beetle Bailey 1:15pm-2:15pm at Bricolage Women in Cartooning Panel Cathy Guisewite- Cathy  Lynn Johnston- For Better or Worse Terri Libenson- The Pajama Diaries Hilary Price- Rhymes with Orange Jen Sorensen- Slowpoke 2:00pm-3:00pm at August Wilson Center  Jason Chatfield- Ginger Meggs Barbara Dale- Dale Cards Jeff Knurek- Jumble "That Scrambled Word Game" Mo Willems- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus  NEW EVENT! Just Added! 3:15pm-4:15pm at Bricolage Dan Piraro- Bizarro Quick-Draw Jam Session!  3:00pm-4:00m at August Wilson Center Daryll Collins- Scholastic, Highlights and Boys Life Paul Combs- Drawn by Fire John Hambrock- The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee- King Features Bill Holbrook- On the Fast Track  Jim Horwitz- Watson Rick Kirkman- Baby Blues 5:00pm-6:00pm- at August Wilson Center  Andrew Farago- Curator, Cartoon Art Museum Michael Jantze- The Norm Mahendra Shah- "I Said it Too" Rick Stromoski- Soup to Nutz Go to http://pghcomicartsfest.com for more info!  Women in Cartooning Panel As part of the celebration "Rhymes with Orange" cartoonist Hilary Price has brought together a panel of some of the nation's best known women cartoonists including: Cathy Guisewite, Cathy Lynn Johnston, For Better or Worse Terri Libenson, Pajama Diaries and Jen Sorenson, Slowpoke 1:15-2:15pm at Bricolage http://womenincartooning .eventbrite.com VIP Comic Arts Festival Pass With your special VIP pass you are able to attend two private parties with nationally syndicated cartoonists, reserved seating for panels and much, autographed merchandise and much more!  http://comicvip .eventbrite.com Dan Piraro Quick-Draw Jam Session The Toonseum has one more trick up their sleeve with this last minute Quick-Draw Jam Session with none other then Dan Piraro! Piraro is the mastermind behind syndicated comic strip Bizarro. Watch Piraro fight against time as he creates original art right before your very eyes. 3:15pm-4:15pm at Bricolage http://piraroquickdraw .eventbrite.com              With Special Thanks to Jean Shulz 65 Years of Legends Exhibit at the Toonseum The ToonSeum, Pittsburgh's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will be exhibiting seven decades' worth of original art  from cartooning's highest honor, The Reuben Award.  This is the first time in the organization's history that original art from these legendary artists has been assembled in one exhibition. Rare works seldom seen by the public from artists such as Gary Larson of Far Side, Charles M. Schulz of Peanuts and many more will be displayed. The exhibit will open at 10am at the Toonseum on May 26th. Admission will is $5.00 for adults. $1.00 for children. Free under 6.  pghcomicartsfest.com  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend

New Flugennock cartoon is online

Obama's Morehouse College Speech, Condensed
By mike flugennock
Thursday - May 23rd, 2013

Article on wordless comics cites ComicsDC publication

My bibliography Stories without Words is cited in this article's notes:

 

Woodcut Novels: Cutting a Path to the Graphic Novel by David A. Beronä

23 May 2013

http://comicsforum.org/2013/05/23/woodcut-novels-cutting-a-path-to-the-graphic-novel-by-david-a-berona/

Michael Cavna's Comic Riffs wins honorable mention in journalism awards

Michael Cavna's Comic Riffs blog won an honorable mention in the Society for Features Journalism's SFJ Excellence-in-Features awards.

Michael tells me, 'The centerpiece of this "honorable mention" portfolio was the New Year's Eve blogpost about Richard Thompson and his cartoons during surgery ...'

Comic Riffs is one of my three daily 'must read' comics sites.

Joe Sacco's Journalism is Politics and Prose's book of the week

 Joe Sacco's Journalism is Politics and Prose's book of the week

June 21: 'The Cartoon Picayune' release party (CORRECTED)

D.C.-area comics creator Josh Kramer will host a release party June 21 (6-9 p.m.) for his comics anthology The Cartoon Picayune: “Hard Works” at Studio on F at 923 F St. NW in D.C. (Copies are $4 each.)

Kickstarter game features Jeffrey Thompson art

Scalawag!, a game with a Kickstarter fundraising campaign features Jeffrey Thompson art.  Jeff is a long-time Big Planet Comics Bethesda employee as well as a children's book artist. You would think the Scalawag designer would mention Jeff since he's selling a bunch of the original artwork at the bottom, but...

I'll be backing this one anyway, because of Jeff.

The Post reviews Hawkeye

Book World: 'Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon' by Matt Fraction and David Aja
By Douglas Wolk,
Washington Post May 22 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-hawkeye-my-life-as-a-weapon-by-matt-fraction-and-david-aja/2013/05/21/1df50d72-bd9e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

BPC Podcast banner illustrations

Artist Paulina Ganucheau has been drawing some cool banner illustrations for the weekly Big Planet Comics Podcast, featuring hosts Jared Smith, Kevin Panetta and Nick Liappis as characters in X-Men, Speed Racer and Mario, to name a few. Check ‘em out.

Comic Riffs on Library of Congress's new Herblock exhibit

HERBLOCK AT HALF-CENTURY: Library of Congress show illuminates cartoonist's brilliance in 1963

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog May 21 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/herblock-at-half-century-library-of-congress-exhibit-illuminates-cartoonists-brilliance-in-1963/2013/05/21/98367406-c1c5-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_blog.html

That darn Beetle Bailey, that darn Pickles

Letter to the Editor: Femininity on display
Washington Post  May 18 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/femininity-on-display/2013/05/17/85665464-bb07-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

Letter to the Editor: Finding reality in 'Pickles'
Washington Post May 18 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/finding-reality-in-pickles/2013/05/16/388394c2-bb0c-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

PR: 44% off Heinrich Kley Vol. 2 at Amazon.com

Joe Procopio's Silver Spring based imprint:

Special Announcement -- May 2013 Super sale on Amazon.com...44% off Kley Vol. 2! Not sure if this is intentional or a slip up by Amazon, but it currently has our book THE LOST ART OF HEINRICH KLEY VOL. 2 on sale for 44% off! This is guaranteed to be the cheapest you'll ever find this book! Tell your friends, and you should probably act fast before Amazon changes its mind! ORDER FROM AMAZON HERE Watch the video 'book trailer' Picture This Press is dedicated to broadening the appreciation and awareness of artists who work in the fields of illustration, cartooning, graphic arts, photography, and poster design. Picture This Press founder Joseph Procopio and co-publisher Ellen Levy have a combined 40 years of publishing experience as writers, managing editors, and publications directors for a variety of organizations. Lost Art Books, the flagship series from Picture This Press, collects and preserves the works of illustrators and cartoonists from the first half of the 20th century. Too many of these artists have gone underappreciated for too long, with much of their work uncollected or unexamined for decades, if at all. The Lost Art Books series aims to preserve this cultural heritage by re-introducing these artists to new generations of working illustrators, historians, and admirers of things beautiful.      ©2013 Lost Art Books / Picture This Press | Silver Spring, Maryland

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Visualizing Peace:Graphic Art and Social Change (June 11)

Search for Common Ground, which works to prevent and end violent conflict in countries around the world, will host a panel discussion on June 11 (9:30-11:30 a.m.) with comics writers/artists Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin and Dalia Ziada. Aydin and Powell teamed for March (Top Shelf Productions), an upcoming graphic novel depicting the civil and human rights efforts of U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who co-authored the book. Ziada has translated The The Montgomery Story, the 1956 comic book about Martin Luther King Jr. and nonviolent protest. The event will be held at the Kenney Auditorium at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Click here to register for the free event.

Welcoming Matt Dembicki to the ComicsDC family

Lately when I open the ComicsDC site, I've been surprised to see material that I don't recognize. While this could have meant trouble, it's actually good news because cartoonist Matt Dembicki has been posting stories now as well. I certainly appreciate the help!

Mike

John Fantucchio's fan art featured

Local artist John Fantucchio was a comic fanzine artist back in the day, and BookSteve's Library features some of his early work.

'Intergalatic Nemesis' photos/videos

A photo of "The Intergalatic Nemesis" creator Jason Neulander during intermission of the performance at the Kennedy Center today, and a pic of the program. Also, at the bottom, you'll find a trailer to the show. (And here's a neat behind-the-scenes video of the show.) 

Another Jamie Noguchi interview

Webcomic of the Week #39: Yellow Peril
 by Hansel Moreno on May 18, 2013
http://readcomicbooks.net/home/webcomic-of-the-week-39-yellow-peril

Jamie's tearing up the internet for his Kickstarter book.

Steve Brodner political cartoon in today's Post

Beyond 'Bulworth'
Washington Post May 19 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/beyond-bulworth/2013/05/17/48ed38da-bf27-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_gallery.html#photo=1

President Obama reportedly fantasizes about "going Bulworth," voicing exactly what's on his mind, like Warren Beatty's character in the 1998 film. Steve Brodner, the artist behind the Bulworth movie poster, wonders what other films may have inspired the Obama presidency.

Cartooning program for 7-12 graders

Fairfax County Public Schools will hold its annual Institute for the Arts July 8-Aug. 2 for students in grades 7-12. Courses include cartooning and computer animation. (The program is open to county and non-county residents.)