Thursday, May 09, 2019
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Defending the Embassy, Defending Liberty"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2724
A new low was reached this week when, at the direction of the US Secret Service, Potomac Electric Power Co. cut off the electricity to the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, in an effort to force out members of Code Pink and other organizations there at the invitation of the staff defending the Embassy against a siege by thuggish supporters of the attempted putsch by US-backed fascist failson Juan "Guido" Guaidò.
This is in addition to ongoing attempts to prevent the delivery of food to the Embassy, ironically mirroring the economic warfare being waged against the people of Venezuela by the US Empire.
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"US cuts off power to Venezuelan Embassy with activists besieged inside", RT, 05.09.19
https://www.rt.com/usa/458837-embassy-blackout-activists-collective/
"24/7 Defense of Venezuelan Embassy", Code Pink
https://www.codepink.org/venezuela
The rest of Mark Fiore's winning RFK Award portfolio
I encourage everyone to check them out and reflect on them.
May 18: Cartoonists at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Saturday May 18, 2019 10am – 6pm
http://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/
Gaithersburg City Hall
31 South Summit Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Malaka Gharib
Malaka Gharib is a journalist at NPR. She is the author of "I Was Their American Dream," a graphic memoir about being Filipino-Egyptian-American. She is the founder of The Runcible Spoon, a food zine, and the co-founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair. She lives in a rowhouse with her husband in Washington, D.C.
Twitter: @MalakaGharib
Author Schedule:
Venue(s): Rachel Carson Pavilion
Presentation Start Time:4:15 pm
Presentation End Time:5:05 pm
Signing Time:5:15 pm
Author Website:https://www.npr.org/people/469106148/malaka-gharib
Alex Graudins
Science Comics: The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking Machine
Alex Graudins is a a Rhode Island-based cartoonist and illustrator of "Science Comics: The Brain." She graduated from the School of Visual Arts' Cartooning program in 2016 and has since contributed comics to sites like The Nib and CollegeHumor. Alex loves drawing memoirs and YA fiction focusing on mental illness and friendship. But when she's not working, she challenges her social anxiety with improv comedy.
Twitter: @toonyballoony
Author Schedule:
Venue(s): Willa Cather Pavilion
Presentation Start Time:1:15 pm
Presentation End Time:2:05 pm
Signing Time:2:15 pm
Author Website:http://toonyart.com/
Gareth Hinds
The Iliad
Gareth Hinds is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of critically-acclaimed graphic novels based on the classics, including "Beowulf," "The Odyssey," "POE: Stories and Poems," and now his most ambitious and epic book ever, "The Iliad." He also has illustrated picture books, such as "Gifts From the Gods," award-winning non-fiction such as "Samurai Rising," video games, museum exhibits, and more. Gareth is a recipient of the Boston Public Library's "Literary Lights for Children" award, and his books are excerpted in textbooks and used to teach the classics in English classrooms across the country.
Blog: Hindsight
Twitter: @garethhinds
Tumblr: garethhinds
Author Schedule:
Venue(s): Ogden Nash Pavilion
Presentation Start Time:10:00 am
Presentation End Time:11:05 am
Signing Time:11:15 am
Author Website:http://www.garethhinds.com/
Andy Hirsch
Andy Hirsch is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Dallas, whose current projects include several entries in the totally great "Science Comics" line from First Second Books, including "Dogs," "Trees" and "Cats."
Andy is the co-creator of "The Baker Street Peculiars," illustrator of the graphic novel "The Royal Historian of Oz" (a 2013 YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens), and contributor to the "Garfield," "Regular Show" and "Adventure Time" ongoing comic book series. His first solo graphic novel, "Varmints," was released in 2016.
Instagram: @itsandyhirsch
Twitter: @ItsAndyHirsch
Author Schedule:
Venue(s): Willa Cather Pavilion
Presentation Start Time:1:15 pm
Presentation End Time:2:05 pm
Signing Time:2:15 pm
Author Website:https://aforandy.com/
Paul Noth
How to Properly Dispose of Planet Earth
Paul Noth is a writer and artist whose cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker and occasionally in other publications, including The Wall Street Journal. He was a regular guest writer for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," for which he created the cartoon "Pale Force," and was an animation consultant for Saturday Night Live. He has also written for CBS's "The Late Late Show" and other television programs. His latest book is "How to Properly Dispose of Planet Earth."
Twitter: @PaulNoth
Author Schedule:
Venue(s):Willa Cather Pavilion
Presentation Start Time:12:15 pm
Presentation End Time:1:05 pm
Signing Time:1:15 pm
Author Website:http://www.paulnoth.com/
Dave Roman
Dave Roman is a cartoonist and full-time waffle enthusiast. He is the author/illustrator of the "Astronaut Academy" series (winner of Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Book Award) and writer of the graphic novels, "Teen Boat! Race for Boatlantis" and "Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery." He has contributed stories and art to "Goosebumps Graphix: Slappy's Tales of Horror," "Pluto is Peeved!" and "Nursery Rhyme Comics."
Dave is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, a former editor at Nickelodeon Magazine and is currently series editor for First Second's "Science Comics" series of non-fiction graphic novels. He lives in New York City and draws a webcomic called Starbunny, Inc.
Twitter: @yaytime
Author Schedule:
Venue(s): Willa Cather Pavilion
Presentation Start Time:1:15 pm
Presentation End Time:2:05 pm
Signing Time:2:15 pm
Author Website:http://yaytime.com/
May 11: Brian Jay Jones - Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination — at Politics and Prose at Union Market
Brian Jay Jones - Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination — at Politics and Prose at Union Market
As Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) wrote and illustrated more than sixty books, and nearly thirty years after his death many of these classics continue to sell as fast as ever. In his new biography, Jones, the author of bestselling lives of Jim Henson and George Lucas, recounts in detail the story of a man as colorful as the characters he invented. Geisel, who never had children, started drawing in college and then went into advertising, cartooning, and making training films during the Second World War. His shift into writing for children was gradual, driven by his determination to encourage children to read by making it fun—a focus that, along with the moral and environmental messages of books like The Lorax, revolutionized reading education.
Click here for more information.
The City Paper reviews Pokemon movie 'Detective Pikachu'
Detective Pikachu Only Half-Earns Its Weird Existence
The first live-action movie of the worldwide sensation is better than it has any right to be—but that doesn't exactly make it a good film.
Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Wonder Woman archives in Smithsonian Library
Smithsonian's Wonder Woman Collection is the Beginning
Mark Fiore wins the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award editorial cartoon category
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 3, 2019 – Today, in celebration of World Press Freedom Day, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has announced the winners of its 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards. The author of the winning book selection and first place winners in 13 categories - including high school and college print and broadcast, international and domestic print and photography, new media, cartoon and more - will all be honored at a ceremony on Thursday, May 23 at 6:30 pm at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Historian, author and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Book Award Chair Michael Beschloss will serve as master of ceremonies joining the organization’s President Kerry Kennedy and Journalism Award Chair, playwright and author Margaret Engel in presenting the awards. The full list of winners for each category is included below.
Professional and student journalist winners of the 2019 Journalism Awards chronicled topics including firsthand accounts of asylum seekers as part of a migrant caravan, the horrors of human trafficking, sex abuse, and gang life, the war in Yemen, and much more. Their fearless exploration of controversial topics comes at a time of continued attacks on the press by the current administration in the US and abroad. The 2019 Book Award will be awarded to author Shane Bauer for his book American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Penguin Press) exploring the horrors of for-profit prisons, which he witnessed as an undercover corrections officer.
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2019 Journalism Award winners were selected from a pool of over 300 applicants in thirteen categories which are reviewed by professionals from across the media landscape. The Book Award was chosen from a field of nearly 100 applicants. Judges for the award included historian and author Ted Widmer; Georgetown University Law Professor and author, Peter Edelman; and Harvard University Law Professor, Annette Gordon Reed.
KQED News and online news outlets
Mark Fiore
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award's Editorial Cartoon winners 2020-1983
Harvested from Wikipedia and the AAEC's website, here are the past winners.
2020: J.D. Crowe, "J.D. Crowe 2019 work," Alabama Media Group
2019: Mark Fiore
2018: Ruben Bolling, "Tom the Dancing Bug" Syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication
2017: Mike Thompson, "The Flint Water Scandal," Detroit Free Press
2016: Angelo Lopez, "Editorial Cartoons," Philippines Today
2015: Darrin Bell, "Darrin Bell 2014 Editorial Cartoons," The Washington Post Writers Group
2014: David Horsey, "Portfolio by David Horsey," Los Angeles Times
2013: Jen Sorensen, self-syndicated
2012: Stephanie McMillan, "The Beginning of the American Fall and Code Green" South Florida Sun-Sentinel
2011: Gary Varvel, "The Path to Hope" The Indianapolis Star
2010: Bill Day, Series of cartoons, United Feature Syndicate
2009: Jack Ohman, The Oregonian
2008: Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News
2007: Clay Bennett, Christian Science Monitor
2006: John Backderf, "The City"
2005: Mark Fiore
2004: John Sherffius
2003: Dan Perkins ("Tom Tomorrow"), "This Modern World"
2002: Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News
2001: Matt Davies,The Journal News
2000: Ted Rall, Universal Press Syndicate
1999: Joel Pett, Lexington Herald Leader
1998: Dan Perkins ("Tom Tomorrow"), "This Modern World"
1996: Walt Handelsman, Times Picayune
1995: Ted Rall, Chronicle Features
Book Launch Tour: Little Girls (plus musical guests) at Fantom Comics
The creative team behind Image Comics' graphic novel LITTLE GIRLS is going on tour and coming to Fantom Comics! In addition to signing their debut graphic novel, LITTLE GIRLS, they are also collaborating with local bands at each stop for a live music & comics event!
The book's synopsis:
Something hunts people on the outskirts of town… Sam and Lielet are two new friends living in Ethiopia. They're dealing with the kind of problems that all kids have: judgmental social cliques, condescending adults, alienation… and a legendary brain-eating monster straight out of folklore. Sure, it's not going to be easy, but all they have to do is live through it. Showcasing a quietly unsettling plot and building tension similar to NICK DRNASO's Sabrina and ADRIAN TOMINE's Killing and Dying, debut creative team NICHOLAS AFLLEJE and SARAH DeLAINE construct a poignant story of otherness and mystery.
Musical Guests:
BRNDA -- https://brendadc.bandcamp.com/
Miss, Understand Me -- https://missunderstandme.bandcamp.com/
Find Fantom Comics at:
www.fantomcomics.com
www.twitter.com/fantomcomics
www.facebook.com/fantomcomics
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Historic newspaper collection is available
Catching up - Marc Singer blogs at The Fifth World
Monday, May 06, 2019
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Those Were The Happy Days! sample from the Washington Star in 1940
That darn Zits and Pearls Before Swine
Tamara Rosenberg, Arlington
Washington Post May 4 2019 p. A15
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/readers-critique-the-post-sri-lanka-buttigieg-and-beluga-whales/2019/05/03/2ef94738-6dd2-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html
Missing America
Doralee Simko, Woodstock
Washington Post May 4 2019 p. A15
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/readers-critique-the-post-sri-lanka-buttigieg-and-beluga-whales/2019/05/03/2ef94738-6dd2-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html
Local collectors Apatoff and Minow featured in alumni mag
Nell Minow '74 and David Apatoff '74 have fashioned careers mixing the corporate with the artistic.
Written by John T. Ward
Photos by Mike Morgan