Art Institute of Washington is closing

They taught animation and some cartooning.

Rosslyn's Art Institute of Washington Set to Close, Stop Accepting New Students

by Alex Koma July 2, 2018
https://www.arlnow.com/2018/07/02/rosslyns-art-institute-of-washington-set-to-close-stop-accepting-new-students/

The Post on a cartoon singer that's not in Gorillaz, but is from Japan

This singer is part hologram, part avatar, and might be the pop star of the future [in print as Miku! Not live!]

by Mark Jenkins

Washington Post July 8 2018, p. E1, 11

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/this-singer-is-part-hologram-part-avatar-and-might-be-the-pop-star-of-the-future/2018/07/05/e2557cdc-7ed3-11e8-b660-4d0f9f0351f1_story.html

A minor review of a major Steadman show from The Post

Five museum shows you should see this summer [in print as A rallying cry from the enraged: Ralsph Steadman retrospective, and four other art shows to see].

by Mark Jenkins

Washington Post July 6 2018, p. Weekend 10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/five-museum-shows-you-should-see-this-summer/2018/07/03/94a553e8-7e1c-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html

Wonder Woman movie stories from this weekend's Post

'Wonder Woman's' Gal Gadot visits children's hospital dressed in full superhero costume

by Emily Heil

Washington Post July 8 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/07/08/wonder-womans-gal-gadot-visits-childrens-hospital-dressed-in-full-superhero-costume/

Fantasy and reality clash as movie makers film Wonder Woman in D.C. [in print as Fantasy and reality clash with filming of 'Wonder Woman 84']

by Michael E. Ruane

Washington Post July8 2018, p. C6

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fantasy-and-reality-clash-as-movie-makers-film-wonder-woman-in-dc/2018/07/07/4f044522-8215-11e8-b9a5-7e1c013f8c33_story.html

Comic Riffs on Coates' Captain America

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a 'Captain America' filled with star-spangled doubt

by David Betancourt

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog July 4 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/07/04/ta-nehisi-coates-writes-a-captain-america-filled-with-star-spangled-doubt/

The Post and NPR on Ant-Man and The Wasp movie

Wee, The People: 'Ant-Man And The Wasp'

Glen Weldon et al.

NPR's Monkey See blog July 2, 2018

https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/07/02/623157142/wee-the-people-ant-man-and-the-wasp

The plot is ho-hum, but 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' is still endearing and fun

by Ann Hornaday Movie critic June 27 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-plot-is-ho-hum-but-ant-man-and-the-wasp-is-still-endearing-and-fun/2018/06/27/1a26b7b6-7961-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html

 

Relax for a bit: 'Ant-Man and The Wasp' is here

by Kristen Page-Kirby

Express July 6 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2018/07/06/relax-for-a-bit-ant-man-and-the-wasp-is-here/

Comic Riffs on the Ralph Steadman exhibit at American U

Ralph Steadman's D.C. retrospective often shines a 'gonzo' light on America

by Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs blog  July 5 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/07/05/ralph-steadmans-d-c-retrospective-often-shines-a-gonzo-light-on-america/

PR: Our 4th location, Third Eye Richmond, opens this August!

Meet the 1st Virginia location of Third Eye!

The 1st Third Eye Comics in Virginia opens on Saturday 8/4/18! Hello Third Eye Faithful! We've got some pretty exciting news for you: Third Eye is opening its first ever Virginia location this August, and we could not be more stoked! That's right, we'll be setting up shop in the lovely town of Mechanicsville, VA (just a short drive from downtown Richmond!), and bringing that comic goodness to you! While we know that many of you are local to our stores here in Annapolis and Lexington Park, we still wanted to let you in on the good news, and.. maybe even ask a favor: if you've got friends or family in the Richmond area, could you help us spread the word? :) Seriously though, we love you guys lots, and we know that we have many folks who follow us from all over the country, and we hope that this news of a Third Eye in VA reaches some of you in the area! And of course, for all our pals here in Maryland, we're still gonna keep serving up tons of comic awesomeness at our locations in Annapolis and Southern MD! We know that a lot of you probably have questions in regards to what to expect, so we've put together a FAQ for you to check out by clicking here. We do have a few major things we want to share though in this email: Our grand opening is Saturday 8/4/18, and you can read more about the crazy awesome event we've got planned for it by clicking here. For those who want to sneak a peek before then (or maybe just start catching up on their weekly comics!), we'll be doing a soft opening and beginning normal business hours on 7/16/18! Click here for more info on our big grand opening event! Click here for our FAQ about Third Eye Richmond! Be sure to follow Third Eye Richmond on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram  Connect with us ‌ ‌ ‌

PR: Frank Cho In-Store Pop-Up Signing on July 7

Cho In-Store Pop-Up Signing! BCC Tix On Sale Now! From the Store that Brings You...  Frank Cho Pop-Up Signing at CC&C Frank Cho has decided he will do an in-store signing this Saturday, July 7, 2018 from 1pm - 4pm at Cards, Comics & Collectibles - Baltimore County's Premiere Comic Book Store and the Official News Source of the Baltimore Comic-Con! Cho's long-awaited Savage Wolverine Artist Edition from IDW Publishing has now been released, and collects all 5 issues of his Savage Wolverine run with Marvel Comics. Written and drawn by Cho and presented in their original art size, this book allows the reader a close-up look at all of the details that went into this artwork. If you have not had the pleasure of owning and reading through an IDW Artist Edition book, they are large format books that present in beautiful detail exactly what the artist submitted to the publisher when their art was complete. "We love Frank," said Marc Nathan, owner of Cards, Comics & Collectibles. "He's a great friend of the store, a great friend of the show, and a great friend, so it is a pleasure and a privilege to host him here to sign this gorgeous book!" Cards, Comics & Collectibles is located at 51 Main St., Reisterstown, MD  21136. For more information, please visit cardscomicscollectibles.com, our Facebook page, or call 410-526-7410. Get Your Baltimore Comic-Con Tickets Now The Baltimore Comic-Con will be held this September 28th, 29th, and 30th at the Baltimore Convention Center. Now in our 19th year, we're already featuring 135 comic book guests from the Golden Age through today, from mainstream to alternative, from superheros to super-indie, and everything in between. We have recently announced the addition of our first media guest, Zachary Levi, star of the upcoming SHAZAM! movie adaptation of the DC Comics hero, as well as having been featured in such films and television shows as Marvel's Thor, Disney's Tangled, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, Chuck, and Heroes Reborn. Buy your tickets now to avoid waiting in additional lines upon arrival! Currently available packages include General Admission, VIP Admission, Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder Fan Package, Frank Miller Fan and Autograph Packages, Zachary Levi Fan and Autograph Packages, and a limited number of Ringo Awards tickets. Ticket details can be found at http://baltimorecomiccon.com/tickets/, and more information about the show, including guests, programming, hotel offers, show exclusives, costume contest details, and more can be found at www.baltimorecomiccon.com as information becomes available. 51 Main St., Reisterstown, Maryland 21136 Saturday May 5, 2018, 10am-7pm 410-526-741 | http://cardscomicscollectibles.com/

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Blue Box Chardonnay"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock:

"Blue Box Chardonnay: Because It's Always 2016 Somewhere In The World"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2559

So, according to Senator Tammy "Support Our Troops" Duckworth, the Donkeycrats are in danger of veering "too far to the left", and that the issues Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran on -- and won -- would somehow "alienate" Midwesterners.

Yeah, that's right, you heard it here first -- folks in Iowa City, Flint or Milwaukee don't give a rat's ass about the cost of housing, education or healthcare, or about depressed wages, or collective bargaining rights, or the quality of their water.

Keep on swigging that Centrist Chardonnay, Senator.
Wine, spoh-dee oh-dee, drinkin' wine.

Michael Finn, original art collector formerly of Bethesda, profiled in The Times

A Connoisseur of Saviors in Capes and Tights
By George Gene Gustines
July 3, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/arts/design/a-connoisseur-of-saviors-in-capes-and-tights.html

Thanks to our friend Joel Pollack for the tip.

When originally posted, I spelled Mr. Finn's name wrong, probably from being too appalled by national politics. I very sincerely regret the mistake.

PR: Meet Artisit Gene Ha - July 4th & 5th at Beyond Comics

Sketch Covers for Charity!

Meet Comic Book Artist Gene Ha Here to Promote his new Comic Book and Trade Paperback - Mae July 4th - Beyond Comics - Frederick 10am to 4pm July 5th - Beyond Comics - Gaithersburg 4pm to 8pm Eisner Award Winning Artist! Top Ten, X-men, Batman, Justice League, Mae Gene will be doing original sketches to support the Blank Comic Cover Sketches Black & White Head/Shoulders $25 Full Color Sketches $100 Available Blank Covers (Included unless otherwise noted) Batman #50, Catwoman #1, Captain America #1, Action Comics #1000 (+$2), Amazing Spider-man #800 (+$5) Available to be pre-purchased or come buy either location during his appearance. Gene Ha Website Beyond Comics Website ‌ ‌ ‌

PR: Big Planet Comics July 4th SALE!

PR: Small Press Expo Announces International Special Guests

Check out the International Special Guests coming to SPX 2018

For Immediate Release Contact: Eden Miller Email: press@smallpressexpo.com   Small Press Expo Announces International Special Guests: Julie Doucet, Emma Ríos, Max de Radiguès, Liv Strömquist, Jérémie Royer Fiona Smyth, and Kelly Kwang for SPX 2018!   Bethesda, Maryland - July 2, 2018   Media Release - Small Press Expo proudly announces more International Guests for SPX 2018. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables and 22 programming slots to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced shortly.   SPX 2018 is honored to have the following creators as International Special Guests to this year's show: Visit the SPX 2018 Website for More Info Julie Doucet Julie Doucet was born near Montreal in 1965 and is best known for her frank, funny, and sometimes shocking comic book series Dirty Plotte, which changed the landscape of alternative cartooning. In the 1990s, Doucet moved between New York, Seattle, Berlin, and Montreal, publishing the graphic novels My New York Diary, Lift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!, My Most Secret Desire, and The Madame Paul Affair. In 2000, she quit comics to concentrate on other art forms. From these experiments emerged the collection of engravings and prints Long Time Relationship; her one-year visual journal, 365 Days; and sassy collages from fumetto comics, Carpet Sweeper Tales. Her post-comics artwork includes silkscreened artist's books, text-based collages, sculpture, and animation films. Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. The Complete Dirty Plotte collects the revolutionary and medium-defining comics of a legendary cartoonist. Emma Ríos Emma Ríos is a cartoonist based in Spain. She shifted her focus to a mix of both architecture and work with small press publishers until she started working on comics full-time in 2007. Having worked for Boom! Studios and for Marvel Entertainment (Doctor Strange, Amazing Spider-man), she returned to creator-owned comics in 2013, thanks to Image Comics; where she recently published I.D., a solo graphic novel. She currently co-creates Pretty Deadly with Kelly Sue DeConnick and Mirror with Hwei Lim. Max de Radiguès Max de Radiguès (b. 1982) is a cartoonist from Belgium who also runs the publishing house L'Employé du Moi. His previous work has been translated in English by Conundrum and One Percent Press. His books in English include Moose, Weegee (with Wauter Mannaert), and Bastard. He lives in Brussels. In his Fantagraphics debut, Bastard traces the deadly escape of May and Eugene as they crisscross the United States, encountering mysterious truckers, ambitious bandits, and senior citizens living off the grid in the Southwest. Both bloody and tender, de Radiguès focuses on the familial relationship as much as the exhilarating plot elements, and his clear-lined style adds depth to the brutality as well as the moments of maternal love. Liv Strömquist Liv Strömquist was born in Sweden and lives in Malmö. She is a radio host with a degree in political science. An activist, her left-leaning, award-winning comics have been published in zines and magazines. Her feminist graphic novel Fruit of Knowledge has sold 40,000 copies in Sweden and has since been published worldwide. From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In her feminist graphic novel, Fruit of Knowledge, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist calls out how genitalia-obsessed men have stigmatized women's bodies, denied their sexuality, created a dubious gender binary, and much more. Her biting, informed commentary explores history and taboos from the darkest chapters (the Salem witch trials) to the lightest (when menstrual blood was used as a love potion). Jérémie Royer Jérémie Royer is a French illustrator and designer. He grew up in Nice surrounded by the sea and the mountains. After studying art there for 2 years, he specialised in comic book art and illustration at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels and is now based in Brussels. Audubon, On the Wings of the World by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer is about John James Audubon's epic ornithological quest across America, with nothing but his artist's materials, an assistant, a gun and an all-consuming passion for birds. Fiona Smyth Fiona Smyth is a Toronto based painter, educator, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her feminist artwork has exhibited internationally. Fiona collaborated with writer and sex educator Cory Silverberg on the kids' series What Makes A Baby in 2013, and Sex Is A Funny Word in 2015, published by Seven Stories Press. Somnambulance collects a career in comics from 1983-2017 by a joyous, feminist contemporary of Julie Doucet, Seth and Chester Brown. A comics collection by Canadian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator Fiona Smyth. Over thirty years of comics that feature Fiona's world of sexy ladies, precocious girls, and vindictive goddesses is revealed in all its feminist glory. This is recommended reading for sleepwalkers on a female planet. Kelly Kwang Kelly Kwang is an illustrator and cartoonist who spends half her time in Toronto and the other half on the net. She is the proud founder of the Space Youth Cadets, and the (also proud) co-founder and lead artist of a budding games studio known as Gloam Collective. Her current project, don't tell me not to worry, i'll worry all i want will be published by Czap Books this coming year. Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests. The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌