I know a lot of kids from my neighborhood in Arlington are going.
Friday, February 12, 2016
The City Paper on Deadpool
Marvel's attempt at adult-oriented superhero fodder just comes off as juvenile [in print as Crass Action Hero].
By Alan Zilberman •
Washington City Paper February 12, 2016, p. 29
Washington City Paper February 12, 2016, p. 29
The Post on Deadpool
'Deadpool': Marvel's 'merc with a mouth' has teeth, too
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/deadpool-marvels-merc-with-a-mouth-has-teeth-too/2016/02/11/5941019c-cce6-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.htmlalso in the Express -
This is not for everyone: 'Deadpool' plays to immature jokes, shocking vulgarity and over-the-top violence.
Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press
Express (February 12 2016): 15
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Comic Riffs talks to Telnaes
Why debate artist Ann Telnaes loves to live-sketch Clinton, and why she'll miss Christie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/02/11/why-debate-artist-ann-telnaes-loves-to-live-sketch-clinton-and-why-shell-miss-christie/
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Raging Cow"
"Raging Cow"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1875
I've broken a promise I made to myself to avoid doing election cartoons at all costs, but my muse wouldn't quit kicking me in the nuts until I did this. When the news got out about Hillary Clinton's wet, sloppy blowjob of a speech to Goldman Sachs honchos and about her casting around among Goldman's executive ranks for cabinet appointments -- especially at Treasury -- it was a story too hot to not jump on.
While this news was certainly appalling, I still have to thank the Ice Queen and give her some due props for getting right out front with being a Wall Street tool and owning it in front of the media, God and everybody.
None of you Liberals out there can say you didn't know the score, now.
"What Clinton Said To Goldman Sachs", Politico 02.06.16:
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-money/2016/02/what-clinton-said-to-goldman-sachs-212602
-Michael Flugennockhttp://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1875
I've broken a promise I made to myself to avoid doing election cartoons at all costs, but my muse wouldn't quit kicking me in the nuts until I did this. When the news got out about Hillary Clinton's wet, sloppy blowjob of a speech to Goldman Sachs honchos and about her casting around among Goldman's executive ranks for cabinet appointments -- especially at Treasury -- it was a story too hot to not jump on.
While this news was certainly appalling, I still have to thank the Ice Queen and give her some due props for getting right out front with being a Wall Street tool and owning it in front of the media, God and everybody.
None of you Liberals out there can say you didn't know the score, now.
"What Clinton Said To Goldman Sachs", Politico 02.06.16:
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-money/2016/02/what-clinton-said-to-goldman-sachs-212602
1914 comic strip exhibit at the Smithsonian
The New York Herald on April 20, 1914 mentions an exhibition on printing that included the comic strip Mr. Twee Deedle by Johnny Gruelle. However, it was the printing plates that were displayed. I wonder if they're still in American History somewhere...
Thanks to John Adcock for finding and sharing this.
Feb 19-20: Art Soiree political cartoon exhibit
6th Annual Political Cartoon Exhibit "Road to the White House" - Artistic commentary on 2016 U.S. Presidential race by some of the most renowned political cartoonists in a two night exhibit.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 10, 2016) - With a touch of art, style and humor, Art Soiree takes a look at the candidates and the hottest debate topics surrounding 2016 US Presidential Elections at its 6th Annual Political Cartoon Exhibit "Road to the White House" taking place at the Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown 3100 South Street NW, Washington DC during a two night exhibit on Friday, February 19th and Saturday, February 20th from 8pm to 12am.
Bringing together some of the best editorial and political cartoonists from the world's top newspapers and magazines, this will be the most unique and controversial event in political Washington, DC. Paying tribute to graphic satire as a significant journalistic medium and a catalyst for political debate, the event will feature the works of
KEVIN "KAL" KALLAUGHER (The Economist), TOM TOLES (Washington Post), MATT WUERKER (Politico), DARYL CAGLE (Cagle Cartoons Inc.), JIMMY MARGULIES (AM New York and Newsday), CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI (Sega), ROBERT L. ARIAIL (The State)
Artists will be available for interview on the site. Signed prints and originals of the cartoons on display will be available for purchase.
Event benefits Cartoonist Rights Network International (CRNI)
Friday, February 19th and Saturday, February 20th 8pm-12am The Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown at 3100 South Street NW, Washington DC 20007
Tickets: $20 - https://cartoonist2016.eventbrite.com/
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 10, 2016) - With a touch of art, style and humor, Art Soiree takes a look at the candidates and the hottest debate topics surrounding 2016 US Presidential Elections at its 6th Annual Political Cartoon Exhibit "Road to the White House" taking place at the Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown 3100 South Street NW, Washington DC during a two night exhibit on Friday, February 19th and Saturday, February 20th from 8pm to 12am.
Bringing together some of the best editorial and political cartoonists from the world's top newspapers and magazines, this will be the most unique and controversial event in political Washington, DC. Paying tribute to graphic satire as a significant journalistic medium and a catalyst for political debate, the event will feature the works of
KEVIN "KAL" KALLAUGHER (The Economist), TOM TOLES (Washington Post), MATT WUERKER (Politico), DARYL CAGLE (Cagle Cartoons Inc.), JIMMY MARGULIES (AM New York and Newsday), CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI (Sega), ROBERT L. ARIAIL (The State)
Artists will be available for interview on the site. Signed prints and originals of the cartoons on display will be available for purchase.
Event benefits Cartoonist Rights Network International (CRNI)
Friday, February 19th and Saturday, February 20th 8pm-12am The Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown at 3100 South Street NW, Washington DC 20007
Tickets: $20 - https://cartoonist2016.eventbrite.com/
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Feb 26: Animezing - Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
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Wash Examiner on Kal coasters
The historic Hay-Adams Hotel across Lafayette Square from the White House is now featuring the 2016 contenders on its extremely popular political cartoon drink coasters. (Photo courtesy: Kevin Kallaugher)
D.C. bar lets you share a drink with 2016 candidates
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-bar-lets-you-grab-a-drink-with-your-favorite-candidates/article/2582786
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Smithsonian kids comics coming
These graphic novels for kids are museum-quality
By Nancy Szokan
Act Four blog February 8 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/these-graphic-novels-for-kids-are-museum-quality/2016/02/08/f93d922c-caad-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html
April 23: Justin Jordan at Comic Logic
***JUST ANNOUNCED! ***
Justin Jordan will be in store at our One Year Anniversary Party on April 23rd.
Creator of "The Strange Talent of Luther Strode", "Strayer" and "Spread"
Save the date...more names to be announced in the coming weeks!
Monday, February 08, 2016
Feb. 15: Swann Fellowship deadline
Feb. 15, 2016 is the deadline for receipt of applications for the Swann Foundation Fellowship, one of the few that supports scholarly graduate research in caricature and cartoon. For criteria, guidelines, and application forms, please see:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html
Please email swann@loc.gov or call (202) 707-9115 if you have questions.New Hampshire presidential cartoons online
Cartoonists Take on the New Hampshire Primary
POLITICO's Matt Wuerker handpicks his favorite New Hampshire-themed cartoons.
2/07/2016
http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2016/02/cartoonists-take-on-the-new-hampshire-primary-000611?lo=ap_e1&slide=0Black Excellence in Comics events
To celebrate Black History Month, Fantom Comics is hosting book clubs and events all month that relate to popular comics and how they and the industry portray and address issues pertaining to being black.
Upcoming Black Excellence in Comics events:
2/11 - Princeless
2/18 - Shaft Vol.1 and Shaft: Imitation of Life #1
2/22 - Fantom Discourse: "Afrofuturism - What If Wakanda Existed?"
2/25 - Power Man & Iron Fist
Upcoming Black Excellence in Comics events:
2/11 - Princeless
2/18 - Shaft Vol.1 and Shaft: Imitation of Life #1
2/22 - Fantom Discourse: "Afrofuturism - What If Wakanda Existed?"
2/25 - Power Man & Iron Fist
Sunday, February 07, 2016
That darn Toles
Tom Toles's Zika cartoon is '99 Red Balloons' all over again [in print as This is it, boys, this is war].
Barry Sasscer, Laurel
Washington Post February 6 2016
Friday, February 05, 2016
Feb 5: Lord Arik by Eric Apfelbaum in Falls Church
"It will be held at Art and Frame of Falls Church, 205 W. Jefferson Street from 6:00-8:00 pm. Also on display will be an exhibit of Eric Apfelbaum's work, entitled "Lord Arik- Comics, Character Design, and Figure Drawing." A BFA student at George Mason University interested in Character Concept Art and Comic Book Illustration, he has experience drawing specializing in human anatomy."
Compleating Cul de Sac first edition goes out of print
Compleating Cul de Sac's first edition is now out of print, and it's good news!
We're pleased to announce that we (aka The Thompsons) are just about to sign the contract with Picture This Press for them to publish the grandly-themed Richard Thompson Library. Compleating Cul de Sac version 2.0 is being expanded by editor Rhode and designer Bono Mitchell with more interviews, more Thompson art and more Team Cul de Sac art, even as we type. Any profits from this book will continue to be sent to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fund Parkinson's research, as we had arranged to do with the first edition.
The draft of The Incompleat Art of Why Things Are with an introduction by Joel Achenbach is in the hands of the publisher who's working with his designer on the book. Scott Stewart is continuing to work on a new collection of caricatures.
In the meantime, all of Richard's Cul de Sac books, and The Art of Richard Thompson are still available from his traditional publisher, Andrews McMeel.We're pleased to announce that we (aka The Thompsons) are just about to sign the contract with Picture This Press for them to publish the grandly-themed Richard Thompson Library. Compleating Cul de Sac version 2.0 is being expanded by editor Rhode and designer Bono Mitchell with more interviews, more Thompson art and more Team Cul de Sac art, even as we type. Any profits from this book will continue to be sent to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fund Parkinson's research, as we had arranged to do with the first edition.
The draft of The Incompleat Art of Why Things Are with an introduction by Joel Achenbach is in the hands of the publisher who's working with his designer on the book. Scott Stewart is continuing to work on a new collection of caricatures.
Mike Rhode
March 15: Phil Nel on Crockett Johnson at the Smithsonian
Evening Program
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Tickets
$30 Member
$45 Non-Member
Tickets
$30 Member
$45 Non-Member
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Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906–1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901–1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Johnson's best-known solo works are the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon, published in 1955, and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952). Krauss wrote more than a dozen children's books illustrated by others, collaborating eight times with Maurice Sendak to produce titles that include A Hole Is to Dig and A Very Special House.
Together, Johnson and Krauss's style—whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child's point of view—is among the most revered and influential in children's literature and cartooning. Acclaimed by critics and loved by readers, the couple's work also drew attention from another quarter in the 1950s: the FBI. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, Krauss and Johnson became the targets of surveillance and investigations during this rabidly anti-Communist era.
Drawing on his dual biography Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (University Press of Mississippi), Philip Nel tells a true story of art, publishing, politics, and the power of the imagination.
Nel is a scholar of children's literature and a University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is co-editor of the first complete collection of Barnaby comic strips, an extended, multi-volume project of Fantagraphics Books.
The program is underwritten by the Irving M. Gorbach Charitable Foundation.
Smithsonian Connections
From 1965 until his death in 1975, Crockett Johnson painted more than 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, 80 are in the collections of the American History Museum. Take a look at a digital gallery, presented along with related diagrams from the artist's library and papers.
LOCATION:
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Mall exit)
The Post on Brazil's ‘Boy and the World’ cartoon
Seeing life through a child's hand-drawn eyes [online as Oscar-nominated 'Boy and the World' looks at life through a child's wide eyes]
By Michael O'Sullivan February 5 2016, p. Weekend 30
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/oscar-nominated-boy-and-the-world-looks-at-life-through-a-childs-wide-eyes/2016/02/03/f6ab5144-c7a5-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/oscar-nominated-boy-and-the-world-looks-at-life-through-a-childs-wide-eyes/2016/02/03/f6ab5144-c7a5-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
The animation in the Academy Award-nominated "Boy and the World" was created with colored pencil, paint and photo collage. (GKIDS)
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