This SpongeBob SquarePants mailbox in Washington, DC is on Constitution Ave, NW, outside of the National Museum of Natural History.

A friend of ComicsDC has an interesting article online - New Year's Luck—and How to Keep Safe, 1950s Style Bert Hansen Books, Health, an...

The D.C. Conspiracy holds its monthly get-together  Jan. 12 at 5:30 p.m.-ish at Buffalo Billards at Dupont Circle. All are welcome.

  'Afterlife With Archie': The Walking Jughead? The art of bringing zombies to Riverdale High By David Betancourt  Washington Post C...

The Washington-based  American Political Science Association's journal   PS: Political Science and Politics has just published a sympos...

Fantom's January 2014 Newsletter reads: Farewell to Devon Sanders! A Fantom Welcome for El Anderson! Dear Friends and Fans, If y...

Meltzer retells first Batman story in 'Detective Comics': Author and comic-book scribe is part of an all-star creative roster celebr...

Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE Washington DC   20540 January 7, 2014 Public contact: Center for the Book (...

Sara Duke reports, "Kevin Kallaugher talk about his most recent publication, Daggers Drawn, in the Pickford Theater (3rd floor, Madison...

Lovebirds + String + Watering Can + Dog = Rube Goldberg Magic Linda...

I've been told that Brooke Allen has moved to the area. She's pencilling Lumberjanes, a new comic book series from BOOM! which looks...

Frank Cho's super successful Kickstarter is briefly summarized here. I didn't even know he had one going.

Tom Spurgeon of Comics Reporter interviews Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher at length.

February 6th 6:30-8:00 pm opening reception CARTOON Art Show GALLERY 42 UDC Campus, Building 42, Room A-12 Cartoonists include:  Matt ...

Ben Hatke ,  creator of  Zita the Spacegirl, Legends of Zita the Spacegirl  and the upcoming  The Return of Zita the Spacegirl, will be the ...

Rube Goldberg and the art of detection Elijah White, Leesburg ...

... who isn't mentioned in this interview. There's his name on the book though. Larry Hama's Lessons On Writing G.I. ...

As received from our local anarchist cartoonist. "Noise Channels" http://sinkers.org/stage/?p= 1431 News channels? Noise cha...

This is as I received it because I drove to NJ and back this weekend and am too tired to rewrite it. Thanks to Molly Gannon for passing it a...

Lifted from Kal's Facebook page: If you are in Washington in January... check out this fun event! Art Soiree Productions Presents 4th ...

Marylander Terry Flippo is re-imagining his comics characters Axel and Alex , which he published as mini comics more than a decade ago. This...

Gareth Hinds' website says he now lives in the area. Hinds is best known for his adaptations of classic works of literature into comics...

I'm updating this as some of the material I tried to quote from Facebook didn't appear, nor did other material that I had in the d...

Getting from point A to B via the longest route possible [online as 'The Art of Rube Goldberg,' selected by Jennifer George] By Denn...

Here's a revised list with about a score of additions from D.D. Degg's research during the year. Deaths in 2013 included Da...

D.D. Degg caught this in his list of deaths in 2013. I don't know anything about this cartoon yet. Vyrl Richard ""Dick"...

Trading Blows!, billed as a “nerdy swap meet and wrestling watching party,” will be held Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. at the Black Cat on 14th Street i...

THE TRIAL BALLOON: O teachers, it's time to heed this banner year for graphic novels By Michael Cavna...

The Little Mermaid Jr.   Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater Book by Doug Wright Based on the Hans Christian And...

My friend Marc Weidenbaum c aptured this image from the skies above Griffith Park today. Since Marc writes about music, he gave me p...

I keep loose track of this for my Comics Research Bibliography. Here's the list of losses in the field for 2013 (with much help from D...