Monday, May 13, 2019
Troy-Jeffrey Allen talks to Sean Murphy about Batman
Sean Murphy's Got It Covered: Batman White Knight
by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
PREVIEWSworld May 12, 2019
Trump goes MAD, Buttigieg shrugs
Alfred E. Neuman? Trump's nickname for millennial Pete Buttigieg shows generation gap
Some millennials, including Buttigieg, ask: Who?
Friday, May 10, 2019
George Booth's cartooning career started in DC
Mike Lynch talked to George Booth about his cartooning career starting in Washington, DC in the new Hogan's Alley magazine, and he's posted that excerpt here: http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-interview-with-george-booth-in.html
June 1: Christopher Eliopoulos at the National Archives
The Write Stuff 2019
- Date: Saturday, June 01, 2019
- Time: 11:00 am
- Location: William G. McGowan Theater & Boeing Learning Center
- https://www.archivesfoundation.org/event/write-stuff-2019/
Embark on a quest to find the "Write" Stuff! You are invited to join award-winning authors and illustrators at the National Archives on Saturday, June 1st, 2019 to learn about the writing, illustration, and research that go into making a book.
The "Write" Stuff is FREE and open to the public! Aspiring authors and illustrators of all ages are encouraged to join the celebration of using research for storytelling. If you are unable to attend in person, you can stream the morning author conversations on YouTube and Facebook Live.
This year, we are excited to be joined by L. M. Elliott (Hamilton and Peggy: A Revolutionary Friendship, Suspect Red), Christopher Eliopoulos (the Ordinary People Change the World series), Debbie Levy (I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leaves Her Mark, Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War, This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality), and Pamela M. Tuck (As Fast As Words Could Fly). The day will start in the McGowan Theater for the Author Conversations session where moderator Zachary Clark (of 826DC) will ask the authors about the role of research in their work. This will be followed by an audience Q&A session where you can ask your own questions and find out everything you want to know about writing and illustration!
After a break for lunch, the day will continue in the Boeing Learning Center. There, you will be able to meet with authors one-on-one, as well as staff from the National Archives and 826DC, so you can learn even more about research and writing. Join each featured author/illustrator in a spotlight workshop and choose from a selection of books by our special guests to purchase and have signed throughout the afternoon.
Mark your calendars for this incredible opportunity, and don't forget to register above! We are excited to see you there.
The "Write" Stuff Schedule:
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the McGowan Theater (and streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live)
- -Author Conversations and Q&A with audience
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in the Boeing Learning Center
- -Purchase books, then chat with authors and illustrators as you get your books signed
- -Participate in author spotlight sessions- including readings, workshops, and presentations
- -Learn about research at the National Archives in our Learning Lab stacks
- -Interact with staff from 826DC
- -Thank authors/illustrators by leaving a note
- -Engage in family friendly hands-on activities in the ReSource Room
Featured Authors
Christopher Eliopoulos began his career working for Marvel Comics and has worked on literally thousands of comics. He's written or illustrated comics including Cow Boy, Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius and Pet Avengers. He's the author/illustrator of a couple of graphic novels, Cosmic Commandos and Monster Mayhem and illustrates the Ordinary People Change the World series which is being adapted to a PBS animated show for children titled Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.
The Post reviews Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu
Ryan Reynolds plays Pikachu in the new Pokémon movie. It's way better than it sounds. [in print as Ryan Reynolds playing Pikachu? Don't knock it till you see it].
May 18: Gordon Harris at Gaithersburg Book Fest
from his newsletter:
Gaithersburg Book Fest Next Sat.
Next Saturday, May 18, Gordon will be in Gaithersburg, Maryland from 10 am to 6 pm for their annual Book Festival.
He's got a few ashcans of his newest mini-comic left. Get 'em while they still have that hot-off-the-press scent. Sort of.
Thursday, May 09, 2019
May 14: Mass Culture and The Elite: The Intersection of Popular Culture and the Fine Arts
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Defending the Embassy, Defending Liberty"
Another viewpoint from Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist:
"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
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
The press release for the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award for editorial cartooning linked only to Mark Fiore's submission of his animated cartoons about the border crisis entitled "Family Separation in Cartoons." However, he also submitted one long-form and multiple single panel cartoons which contributed to his winning the award. I wrote to him today asking about them and he added the rest of his submission to his website.
I encourage everyone to check them out and reflect on them.
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
Latest Title: I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Author Website:https://www.npr.org/people/469106148/malaka-gharib
Alex Graudins
Latest Title:
Science Comics: The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking Machine
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
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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.
Politics and Prose at Union Market 1270 5th Street NE Washington DC 20002
$32
9781524742782
Dutton - May 7th, 2019
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.
Washington City Paper May 8, 2019
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/film-tv/article/21067899/detective-pikachu-reviewed
Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Mark Fiore wins the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award editorial cartoon category
From their press release on May 3rd:
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.
“Family Separation in Cartoons”
KQED News and online news outlets
Mark Fiore
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.
“Family Separation in Cartoons”
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"
1997: Doug Marlette, Newsday
1996: Walt Handelsman, Times Picayune
1995: Ted Rall, Chronicle Features
1994: Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Constitution
1993: Paul Conrad, Los Angeles Times
1992: Paul Conrad, Los Angeles Times
1991: Wiley Miller, San Fransisco Examiner
1990: Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News
1988: Don Wright, Miami News
1987: Sam Rawls, Atlanta Constitution
1986: Bill Day, Detroit Free Press
1985: Paul Conrad, Los Angeles Times
1984: Doug Marlette, Charlotte Observer
1983: Don Wright, Miami News
Book Launch Tour: Little Girls (plus musical guests) at Fantom Comics
Book Launch Tour: Little Girls (plus musical guests)
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
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
The newspapers are a nationwide selection and include comics. A story in the Washington Post is here and details are here.
Catching up - Marc Singer blogs at The Fifth World
Marc Singer blogs at The Fifth World and apparently has been doing so for some time - like a year and a half - http://www.thefifth.world/2017/10/meet-marc-singer-but-not-that-one.html
His latest post is on Avengers: Endame with spoilers so we'll link to one earlier this year about the failures of The Man of Steel movie - http://www.thefifth.world/2019/01/fixing-man-of-steel.html
Monday, May 06, 2019
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
My cartoon, "Scars and Stripes."
—Steven G. Artley, artleytoonsclick on image for larger view
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| @2019 Steven G Artley • artleytoons ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
Those Were The Happy Days! sample from the Washington Star in 1940
Pete Mullaney has been looking through scans of the Washington Star for old comic strips and passed this one along.
Those Were The Happy Days! by Dick Mansfield is from the Washington Star January 7, 1940. Note the mentions of Washington Market, Hagerstown, and Alexandria, although most of the cartoon is generic reminiscences of the past. Today, the Post runs the similar Flashbacks strip by Patrick Reynolds, but that's produced in Pennsylvania.
Dick Mansfield was a DC police inspector though, and actually made it up to Hagerstown on occasion. Markus Ring (whom I knew, in the small world department) recalled the strip in 1997 although his memory placed it in the 1920s.
That darn Zits and Pearls Before Swine
Girls can do the asking
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
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
In This Marriage, Everyone's a Critic
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
Sarah Lawrence Magazine—Spring 2019
Local cartoonists Telnaes and Wuerker in art auction
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is having an auction of editorial cartoons at https://one.bidpal.net/rcfpawards19/browse/all
Local cartoonists Matt Wuerker and Ann Telnaes both donated an original watercolor. Additionally, there's a cartoon by Herblock award winner Matt Davies.
The auction ends on May 8th apparently.
May Events at Fantom Comics
Fantom is celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with the following events. Link to our Facebook event page for the full details on each event.
May 12th - D&D Night
May 13th - X-Men Movie Release Party at Fantom Comics
May 19th - LGBTQ+ Book Club - Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (part of the APAHM series)
May 25th - Comics Workshop
May 25th - Latin Dancing for Nerds
May 26th - Newsprint & Endgames Book Club (part of APAHM series)
Every Monday - Comics & Cocktails at The Big Hunt starting at 6:30 pm
Find Fantom Comics at:
Sunday, May 05, 2019
Herblock prize ceremony online, Clay Jones comments, and more
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "#VenezuelaLibre"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist
"#VenezuelaLibre"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2720
"Hello, Mom...? It's Juan. Can you come pick me up from coup practice?"
–Juan Guaido, "Interim President" of Venezuela, 04.30.19
I can't pretend I didn't enjoy watching the massive faceplant that was
"Operation Liberty", the latest attempt to topple Chavismo and install
Washington darling and fascist enabler Juan "Guido" Guaido in Venezuela.
It was pure comedy gold, watching Guido's handlers in Washington
stepping on their own cranks trying to spin the events in Caracas this
past week, and Guido's flunkies seeking refuge in the Brazilian and
Chilean embassies in order to continue their "provisional"
shenanagans. It was like watching a coup attempt staged by Mel Brooks.
11x15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 802kb
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https://www.rt.com/news/458333-us-coup-venezuela-failure/
"After Venezuela coup failure, officials & mainstream media
desperately spinning explanations", RT 05.04.19
https://www.rt.com/news/457985-venezuela-coup-fizzles-lopez-chile/
"Coup fizzles? Guaido's mentor takes refuge in Chilean embassy as 25
military seek asylum in Brazil's", RT 05.01.19
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