Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Cohen's birds at 'Cheap Thrills'
Ben Hatke illustrates G.K. Chesterton
Comic Riffs talks to Candorville on Robin Williams
ROBIN WILLIAMS TRIBUTE: All this week, 'Candorville's' Darrin Bell movingly reflects on what the legend meant to us
Small Press Expo Announces Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Keith Knight, Shannon Wheeler and Derf As Guests
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "From Gaza To Missouri!"
Nothing bugs me more these days than listening to posh-living white Liberals whining about the "rioting" in Ferguson, Missouri.
Affluent, NPR check-mailing White Liberal Americans have never had to deal with being denied economic opportunities, decent housing opportunities, or educational opportunities, nor have they had to endure the threat of brutality and murder at the hands of police every day of their lives.
So, just shut the hell up, white Liberal America. You can call it anything you want, but don't call it "rioting". I prefer to call it "uprising", or perhaps "intifada".
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"A Few Imbecile Comments On Ferguson", Stop Me Before I Vote Again 08.15.14
http://tinyurl.com/k3lhg4p
"Protesters Say Ferguson Feels Like Gaza; Palestinians Tweet Back Advice", Huffington Post 08.14.14
http://tinyurl.com/pq5qymy
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Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
KAL in Bermuda
Celebrated US cartoonist draws inspiration from Island sojourn
Aug 15, 2014http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140815/NEWS/140819811
Thompson, Aydin in 2014 'Best American Comics'
Monday, August 18, 2014
Ryan Holmberg's latest at TCJ.com
Manga vs. Art History: Hayashi Seiichi at SISJAC
BY Ryan Holmberg Aug 18, 2014http://www.tcj.com/manga-vs-art-history-hayashi-seiichi-at-sisjac/
Cartoonists Rights Network International awards announced
Small Press Expo Announces 2014 Ignatz Nominees
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PR: Fantom Comics fundraising and comic book signing
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PSA: Help support Asian comics at Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection
Asian Comics Cataloging at Michigan State University
reprinted from Insight May 2014 - http://img.lib.msu.edu/giving/insight/Insight_May2014.pdf
"I always recommend the MSU Comic Art Collection to fellow comic researchers since it is the world's most comprehensive and internationally oriented collection in the field." Matthias Harbeck, doctoral candidate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany
Help make our Asian comics accessible!
Comics are truly a global phenomenon, and an important goal of our Comic Art Collection is to document how cultures around the world have adopted and transformed the medium.
That's why our collection ranges from Golden Age adventure strips to South American fotonovelas, and from Japanese manga to a nearly complete run of THE 99 – the world's first comic series with Muslim superheroes.
However, it's not enough to acquire these diverse materials. It's essential to catalog them as well, so users near and far can determine what we have available.
Thanks to recent gifts, we have far more Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese comics waiting to be cataloged than we can handle – even with the broad range of language skills among the cataloging team!
Fortunately, help is available. We can send the work to an outside contractor, Backstage, which performs research-level cataloging in some 70 different languages. Backstage can complete about 150 of the most needed items for $5000 – and we have already have a generous gift of $1000 to start us off.
The Comic Art Collection is heavily used by MSU students and faculty working in the fields of history, literature, and cultural studies. Help us support their research by putting more Asian comics on the shelf!
Below is a link to a giving page that allows one to make a donation to support the cataloging of our Asian Comics. Thanks for your interest and help with this project.
https://givingto.msu.edu/gift/?sid=1625
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Michael O'Connell interviews Glen Weldon
Popping the culture — Yakking with NPR's Glen Weldon
ItsAllJournalism August 15, 2014
http://itsalljournalism.com/popping-the-culture-yakking-with-nprs-glen-weldon/
http://media.blubrry.com/itsalljournalism/p/content.blubrry.com/itsalljournalism/IAJ-2014-08-15-127.mp3Saturday, August 16, 2014
That darn Beetle Bailey
No laughing matter in 'Beetle Bailey [online as Beetle Bailey's travails are no laughing matter]
Carole S. Appel, Alexandria
Washington Post August 16 2014