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Award-winning designer, illustrator, and cartoonist Steve Conley has worked on such notable comics as Star Trek: Year Four (IDW), Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), and JLA-Z (DC Comics). Conley, who is also the creator of Astounding Space Thrills and the all-ages series Bloop (
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Free Comic Book Day THIS SATURDAY (May 2) at Cards, Comics & Collectibles!
Free Comic Book Day at Beyond Comics - May 2nd
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Cartoonists will be at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg Book Festival offers world-class authors in a small-town setting
Style Blog April 28 2015
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/04/28/gaithersburg-book-festival-offers-world-class-authors-in-a-small-town-setting/
Monday, April 27, 2015
Politics and Prose bookstore's summer comics classics
Scribbler's Cabal & Comics Jam (1561/1561T) »
Scribbler's Cabal and Comics Jam (1561/1561T)
At Busboys and Poets in Takoma: August 10 – 12, 10 a.m. to noon
Scribbler's Cabal & Comics Jam is a read-aloud session and drawing free-for-all for ages 8 and up. Like a book club for comic fans, with more emphasis on fun than on analysis. It's less of a How to Draw class than a Why to Draw and How to Keep Enjoying It class, so kids should feel free to bring in their own drawings to share. We'll read and draw comics, discuss each other's work, make up our own characters, draw each other's characters, and have a blast.
Bring pencils or pens, paper, and a love of either comics or drawing—or both!
A graduate of the drama program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dave Burbank has worked for the Takoma Park Maryland Library for over 15 years. An illustrator and comics enthusiast, he is the curator of the library's remarkable graphic novel collection (over 3,000 titles) having built it from scratch and read every panel. He teaches a yearly seminar on the History and Importance of Comics to students of the University of Maryland's graduate College of Library and Information Sciences; to Montgomery County Public School media specialists at their In-Service Learning Day; and to various area schools. He has appeared on a panel discussion on "Graphic Novels in Libraries" at the independent comics' premier convention The Small Press Expo (SPX 2011).
As an illustrator and writer he is the creator of the Takoma Park Library's SummerQuest interactive reading game, as well as stacks and stacks of pads full of half-finished comics and fascinating doodles. He keeps an occasional blog on issues relating to comics in libraries at comixtakoma.wordpress.com. A father of three, he lives in suburban Maryland.
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 5-7 (1564B/1564T) »
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 5-7 (1564T/1564B)
Through the art of creating comics, kids can learn to think and communicate through this visual medium. We'll start with some cave-painting basics, and go from there to develop characters and environments, before eventually turning these exercises into our own mini-comic books.
Kids will also learn that there are various ways to tell stories, all with the goal of depicting their own visual narratives.
T.R. Logan is a Reuben Award nominated cartoonist, and has been a professional writer/artist for over 30 years, making a living from her words, as well as her pictures. She has been a regular storyteller at Storytalks (Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) for the last two years, and her personal stories have been published in chapter books from a variety of publishers, including the upcoming Dirty Diamonds, an All-Girl Comics Anthology, Her own book of cartoons, The Older I Get, The Less I Care, is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 8-10 (1565B/1565T) »
Mini-Comics Workshop for Ages 8-10 (1565B/1565T)
Through making our own comics, we can learn to think within, and communicate through, the visual medium of comics, with the goal of telling our own (true or fantasy) stories. We'll start with some cave-painting basics, and go from there to develop characters and environments. By the end, the kids will be making their own mini-comic books!
The goal of this workshop is to teach the kids that there are various ways to tell stories, all with the goal of depicting their own visual narrative, where they decide the content, through editing and pictures.
T.R. Logan is a Reuben Award nominated cartoonist, and has been a professional writer/artist for over 30 years, making a living from her words, as well as her pictures. She has been a regular storyteller at Storytalks (Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) for the last two years, and her personal stories have been published in chapter books from a variety of publishers, including the upcoming Dirty Diamonds, an All-Girl Comics Anthology, Her own book of cartoons, The Older I Get, The Less I Care, is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Four Fridays: July 17, 24, 31, August 7, 6 – 8 p.m.
The medium of graphic novels is a great way to combine words and pictures to tell a story, and can bring a personal memoir to life.
The class will delve into the ways the graphic novel can be an advantageous medium for writers exploring difficult themes. For instance, Ellen Forney uses humor in her work Marbles to depict her struggles in identifying and coping with bipolar disorder, whereas Marjane Sartrapi relies on the visual aspect of the narrative to make the political more personal in Persepolis, which is a moving depiction of the Iranian revolution. Graphic novel basics will also be covered, as well as how to put your own stories down in a way which will capture your readers' imaginations.
Suggested Reading:
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Marbles, Ellen Forney
T.R. Logan is a Reuben Award nominated cartoonist, and has been a professional writer/artist for over 30 years, making a living from her words, as well as her pictures. She has been a regular storyteller at Storytalks (Gotham Comedy Club in NYC) for the last two years, and her personal stories have been published in chapter books from a variety of publishers, including the upcoming Dirty Diamonds, an All-Girl Comics Anthology. Her own book of cartoons, The Older I Get, The Less I Care, is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
April 29-30: Jay Hosler at Politics and Prose and Takoma Park library
Graphic Novelist Jay Hosler Takoma Park Maryland Library
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Democracy IS 'Disorderly'!"
Democracy IS Disorderly!
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1700
This past week, at a Congressional Oversight (plantation masters) Committee meeting about to overturn a DC local law, my long-time BBF, comrade and DC freedom fighter Adam Eidinger was snatched from his seat by police, hustled out of the hall and placed under arrest. The charge is, for all intents and purposes, Giving A Dirty Look To A Politician -- not joining an organized disruption, or jumping up during the proceedings -- nothing conventionally "disorderly", but basically just being there, with his Phrygian Cap and throwing a quick side-eye at DC's new plantation overseer.
And so, it's in honor and solidarity that I present this portrait of Adam, on the occasion of this bizarre and disturbing arrest.
"House Republicans Descend To New Lows", Huffington Post Politics 04.23.15
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-frydl/gop-potentates-house-republicans_b_7119864.html
"Jason Chaffetz Will Be DC's New Boss In Congress", Washingtonian 11.19.14
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/politics/jason-chaffetz-will-be-dcs-new-boss-in-congress.php
Adam Eidinger on Twitter
https://twitter.com/aeidinger
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Fantastic Forum Visit to Cartoon Art Museum
Fantastic Forum Visit to Cartoon Art Museum
Apr 24, 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGBhL00h9o&feature=youtu.be
Special Correspondent Daphne O'Neal tours Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 1987 with an endowment from Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz, the museum is only one in the western US devoted to the preservation and exhibition of cartoon art in all its forms. Boasting a permanent collection of 6,000 original works the museum also features a complete research/library facility. Cartoon Art Museum has been in existence for over 29 years and has produced over 100 exhibitions and 20 publications examining the diversity of cartoon art in comics, graphic novels, book illustration, animation and more.
Comic Riffs talks to Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow: What does it mean when a true outlier is a Pulitzer Prize finalist?
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog April 25 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/04/25/tom-tomorrow-what-does-it-mean-when-a-true-outlier-is-a-pulitzer-prize-finalist/
From Dan Perkins's 2015 Pulitzer Prize entry.
Friday, April 24, 2015
April 25: Creator Con in Silver Spring, Md.
April 25: Rodriguez at Fantom Comics
The Post on an educational comic Kickstarter
How comics helped one woman translate her chemistry thesis for the masses
By Sarah LarimerWashington Post Speaking of Science blog April 21 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/21/how-comics-helped-one-woman-translate-her-chemistry-thesis-for-the-masses/