Thursday, June 27, 2019

PR: Small Press Expo 2019 Announces More Special Guests



For Immediate Release

Contact: Eden Miller

 
Small Press Expo Announces Chris Ware, Sylvia Nickerson, Simon Hanselmann, Richie Pope, Jessica Abel and Scott Morse as Special Guests for 2019.
 
Bethesda, Maryland - June 27, 2019
 
Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce the first group of Special Guests for SPX 2019. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 14-15, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, over 20 programming slots and additional hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced soon.
 
SPX 2019 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show:
Chris Ware
Chris Ware is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London) in 2009. Building Stories was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both The New York Times and Time magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.

His most recent work is the upcoming Rusty Brown, a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit.
Sylvia Nickerson
Sylvia Nickerson is a comics artist, writer, and illustrator who lives in Hamilton, Canada. Her focus is storytelling in community arts and writing comics examining parenthood, gender identity, social class and religion. Her illustrations have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post and her comics have been nominated for a Doug Wright Award.

In Creation, a new mother takes us on a tour of Hamilton, a Rust Belt city born of the Industrial Revolution and dying a slow death due to globalization. Creation looks at gentrification from the inside out—an artist mother making a home and neighborhood for her family, struggling to find her place amid the existing and emerging communities.
Simon Hanselmann
Simon Hanselmann was born in 1981 in Launceston, Tasmania. His New York Times best-selling Megg & Mogg series has been translated into thirteen languages, nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner awards, and won "Best Series" at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018.

His latest addition to the series is Bad Gateway. He currently lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife and a rotating cast of small animals.
Richie Pope
Richie Pope is a cartoonist, character designer, and illustrator from Newport News, VA. Since 2012 he's created illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Nib as well as book covers for publishers like HarperCollins, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster, recognized by The Society of Illustrators and American Illustration. He's also created comics for LAAB Magazine, Superitis for Shortbox and Fatherson for the award-winning Frontier series from Youth In Decline, as well as self-published comics like That Box We Sit On which won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist. Richie is currently living and working in Los Angeles.
Jessica Abel
Cartoonist and coach Jessica Abel is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop, and works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to stop grinding and start carving out deep focus time to finish—and launch—their major, game-changing projects.

Abel is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida (winner of the 2002 "Best New Series" Harvey Award), as well as two collections of stories from her 1990s omnibus comic book Artbabe. She co-authored the graphic novel Life Sucks, and is the author of the graphic documentary (and podcast), Out on the Wire, about how the best radio producers in the world use story to keep us listening. Her latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars.
Scott Morse
Scott Morse is an award-winning storyteller with a career spanning the worlds of feature animation, television, children's literature, and graphic novels. As a story artist contributing to both writing and visuals, Morse has helped craft the Pixar films Ratatouille, WALL-E, Brave, Toy Story 4, and multiple entries in the Cars franchise, where he also contributed on multiple short films as director, and story supervisor on Cars 3.

With creator-owned work for multiple publishing houses world-wide, Morse has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal fan base of all ages. His 6-book Scholastic series, Magic Pickle, has helped pave the way for his newest Scholastic offering, Dugout, out in June.

Morse lives in Northern California with his wife and two sons.
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. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com.
Small Press Expo
P.O. Box 5704
Bethesda, Maryland
20824
STAY CONNECTED
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July 2: Meet Authors Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo at Barnes and Noble


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NPR talks to BTTM FDRS authors

Of Tenants And Tentacles: 'BTTM FDRS' Confronts Gentrification In Comic Horror Form

Ann Telnaes' live sketches of the first Democratic debate

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Terry Flippo's new children's book

From his Deliver Me comic strip Facebook page:


AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.....

For the last couple of months, between working on Deliver Me! and doing retirement drawings, I've been working on a project I'd like to share with everyone....my first kid's book!

It's called Nevin Nickelbottom Fights Monsters, and it features 12 black and white drawings accompanied by 12 short stories told in rhyme. It's 44 pages, and is suitable for kids 4 and up (depending, of course, on maturity level). The books are $6 postpaid and will be signed to your child (or grandchild!) along with an original sketch on the back cover. You can read a sample story below. Anyway, if you're interested, just paypal me at jmflip4@verizon.net. Don't forget to include your address, and the name of the child the book is for. Thanks!




Tuesday, June 25, 2019

PR: Small Press Expo 2019 Announces More Special Guests



For Immediate Release

Contact: Eden Miller

 
Small Press Expo Announces Eddie Campbell, MariNaomi, Kevin Huizenga, Shing Yin Khor, Bianca Xunise and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell as Special Guests for 2019.
 
Bethesda, Maryland - June 25, 2019
 
Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce the first group of Special Guests for SPX 2019. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 14-15, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center and will have over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, over 20 programming slots and additional hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. Additional Special Guests will be announced soon.
 
SPX 2019 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show:
Eddie Campbell
Publishers Weekly calls Eddie Campbell "one of the premier cartoonists of his generation." Campbell has been writing and drawing comics since 1974, and is best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore (From Hell, A Disease of Language) and Neil Gaiman (The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains), as well as for Alec, his tour-de-force autobiographical series that Booklist called "a high-water mark in the graphic novel's short history," and the 1200-page epic Bacchus. His most recent book is Bizarre Romance (with Audrey Niffenegger), and he is currently serializing a new colorized edition of From Hell.
MariNaomi
MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of four graphic memoirs and the Life on Earth young adult graphic novel trilogy, the founder and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and (soon) Disabled Cartoonists databases, and cohost of the Ask Bi Grlz podcast with author Myriam Gurba. Mari's art has been featured at the Asian Art Museum, Smithsonian API culture lab, Cartoon Art Museum, de Young Museum, and Japanese American Museum. She has toured twice with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. MariNaomi.com
Kevin Huizenga
Kevin Huizenga splits his time between Chicago and Minneapolis. He has lived near the Mississippi River for almost twenty years but only swam in it once. His favorite river is the Wabash. His character Glenn Ganges is based on his brother-in-law and the name is a reference to two separate towns that appear on the same sign on the interstate. The River at Night is his fourth publication with Drawn & Quarterly.

In The River at Night Kevin Huizenga uses the cartoon medium like a symphony, establishing rhythms and introducing themes that he returns to, adding and subtracting events and thoughts, stretching and compressing time.
Shing Yin Khor
Shing Yin Khor is a Malaysian-American cartoonist and installation artist exploring collections, immigrant identity and memory, new human rituals, and collaborative worldbuilding at the intersection of race, gender and immigration. A 2019 Kickstarter Thought Leader, they won an Ignatz in 2018 with their minicomic Say It With Noodles, and their forthcoming graphic novel, The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is out in August. They co-founded the endurance art event Resistance Cranes, which raises money for low income refugee and immigrant causes, founded the Wiregrid Grant program for new exhibiting convention artists, leads the Three Eyed Rat, an immersive installation crew building small stories in large scale structures, and co-organizes Wayward, a creative retreat and intentional community for womxn and genderqueer people.

They are currently working on The Legend of Auntie Po for Kokila (Penguin Random House) for a 2020 publication date.
Bianca Xunise
Bianca Xunise is an illustrator and cartoonist based out of Chicago. Her work primarily focuses on the plight and daily struggles as identifying as a young black feminist weirdo in modern society. Her story-telling can range from simple relatable slice of life content to complex nuanced narratives like police brutality that have garnered her an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent. Bianca's work has been published on diverse platforms such as The Washington Post, Riot Fest, The Nib, Bitch Magazine, and Shondaland and has been featured on platforms such as Vogue The BBC, The Nerdist, and NYLON. When she's not doodling away Bianca is usually somewhere dreaming of the mothman, while listening to The Damned.
Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist and illustrator born in Minneapolis, MN, and raised in Zaragoza, Spain. She's published comics with First Second (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me), Shortbox (What Is Left), Boom! Studios (Lumberjanes, Steven Universe), and DC Comics (Gotham Academy). She's worked with clients like CAPY Games, Kazoo Magazine, The City Pages, Mondo Prints and Tees, and Crunchyroll, and had her work recognized by the Society of Illustrators NY, as well as on platforms such as VICE and The A.V. Club. Her illustrations have been shown in galleries both locally and internationally.
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. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com.
Small Press Expo
P.O. Box 5704
Bethesda, Maryland
20824
STAY CONNECTED
Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704, Bethesda, MD 20824





The Post reviews book by BoJack Horseman co-creator

'Bojack Horseman' creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg expands his funny, melancholy empire [in print as Tales fo woe from the guy behind 'BoJack Horseman'.]

June 14, 2019, p. C1, 4.

Outside the Beltway on NY Times cartoon harikari

New York Times Editorial Cartoons Gone

America's Newspaper of Record has decided the backlash isn't worth it.

Cavna of The Post on Cinderella and Toy Story 4

'Cinderella' arrives at the Library of Congress — with a fitting spot on the National Film Registry

Washington Post June 20 2019

A ball fit for Cinderella at the Library of Congress as the National Film Registry inducts the classic film [in print as At 70, 'Cinderella' graces the National Film Registry and celebrates with a ball].

Washington Post June 24 2019, p. C2

If I'm not trash, what am I? What Forky from 'Toy Story 4' has to teach about identity and self-worth [in print as Forky of 'Toy Story 4': A fine tine to gaze inward]

Washington Post June 24 2019, p. C1, 3.

How a team of women remade the empowered Bo Peep in 'Toy Story 4'

PR: Library of Congress National Book Festival Announces Full Author Lineup

[Comics arts people that I know of are marked in bold; corrections welcomed]

June 25, 2019 

Library of Congress National Book Festival Announces Full Author Lineup

More than 140 Authors to Participate in 19th Annual Event on Aug. 31


 Amy Tan speaks with National Book Festival Literary Director Marie Arana on the Main Stage, September 1, 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress.

The 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival will offer an outstanding lineup of authors for readers of all ages for the festival's 19th year, with more than 140 nationally recognized authors, poets and illustrators, as well as the addition of stages devoted to science and international subjects.

On Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, doors will open at 8:30 a.m., with programs beginning at 9 a.m. and running until 8 p.m.

The stellar lineup includes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, eminent historians David McCullough and Michael Beschloss, celebrity D.C. chef and humanitarian José Andrés, graphic novel superstar Raina Telgemeier and Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction recipient Richard Ford.

The 2019 festival also will invite visitors to Explore America's Changemakers, part of a yearlong initiative coinciding with a series of exhibitions, events and programs at the Library. Among numerous festival programs dedicated to the theme of Changemakers, a special panel will feature new books on Winston Churchill by Andrew Roberts, Frederick Douglass by David Blight and visionary women including Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters, by Andrea Barnet.

Here are a few festival highlights:
  • U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will participate in a conversation with NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg; Ginsburg will discuss her career and her book "My Own Words."
  • David McCullough, one of America's most-read historians, will talk about "The Pioneers: The Heroic Stories of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West."
  • José Andrés will review his humanitarian work, especially when he helped feed the people of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Diane Rehm, whose radio show on NPR aired for nearly 40 years, will interview Andrés, who will also discuss his new vegetable cookbook.
  • Raina Telgemeier will greet thousands of her fans and introduce them to "Share Your Smile: Raina's Guide to Telling Your Own Story."
  • American historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. will offer two presentations, one for children on his new book "Dark Sky Rising" and one for adults on Race in America.
  • Presidential historian Michael Beschloss will talk about "Presidents of War."
  • Matthew Gray Gubler, one of the stars of CBS' "Criminal Minds," will present his children's book "Rumple Buttercup."
  • Graphic novelist Ngozi Ukazu, who has rewritten the rules of publishing, will discuss "Check, Please!"
  • Award-winning novelist Laila Lalami will talk about "The Other Americans."
  • Julia Álvarez will look back on her novel "In the Time of the Butterflies," an international sensation when it was published 25 years ago.
  • Susan Choi will discuss her highly acclaimed novel "Trust Exercise."
Authors participating in this year's festival will make their presentations on the following stages:
Stages for Adults
Main Stage: José Andrés, Michael Beschloss, David Brooks, Richard Ford, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David McCullough and Raina Telgemeier
Fiction: Louis Bayard, Ann Beattie, Susan Choi, Barbara Kingsolver, Laila Lalami, Rebecca Makkai, Thomas Mallon, Sigrid Nunez, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Powers and Roxana Robinson
Genre Fiction: Charlie Jane Anders, Johnny D. Boggs, James Ellroy, Margaret George, Philippa Gregory, Anne Hillerman, Paul Andrew Hutton, Joe Ide, Craig Johnson, Brianna Labuskes, Seanan McGuire, Sara Paretsky, John Scalzi and Victoria Schwab
History & Biography: Rick Atkinson, Douglas Brinkley, Colin G. Calloway, Joanne B. Freeman, Casey Gerald, David Maraniss, Andrew Roberts, Evan Thomas, David Treuer, Elaine Weiss and Brenda Wineapple
International: Liliana Colanzi, María Dueñas, Melba Escobar, Inga Gaile, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amitav Ghosh, Olga Grjasnowa, Caoilinn Hughes, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Jeanine Leane, Brenton McKenna, Kim Scott and Kim Thúy
Poetry & Prose: Julia Álvarez, Sheila Black, Jericho Brown, Nathan Englander, Aminatta Forna, Ilya Kaminsky, R.O. Kwon, Dorianne Laux, Valeria Luiselli, Alberto Manguel, Madeline Miller, Brendan Mathews, Lydia Millet, Pamela Paul, Linda Sue Park, Maria Russo, Jon Scieszka, Natasha Trethewey, Renée Watson, Emily Wilson, and Jenny Xie
Science: Peter Brannen, Alexandra Horowitz, Beth Macy, Thomas W. Malone, Lisa Margonelli, Jim Ottaviani, David Quammen, Douglas Rushkoff, Daniel Stone, Frans de Waal and David Sloan Wilson
Understanding Our World: Andrea Barnet, David Blight, David Epstein, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Judge Richard Gergel, Reyna Grande, David Grann, Amy Gutmann,  Joshua Hammer, Aleksandar Hemon, Parag Khanna, Steve Luxenberg, Alberto Manguel, Suketu Mehta, Jonathan Moreno, Elaine Pagels, Steven Pearlstein and Andrew Roberts

Stages for Young People
Children: Mac Barnett, Cece Bell, Sophie Blackall, Tonya Bolden, Fred Bowen, Max Brallier, Molly Brooks, Pablo Cartaya, Fabien Cousteau, Lucy Ruth Cummins, Gale Galligan, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Brian Floca, Matthew Gray Gubler, Shannon Hale, Jennifer Holm, Matthew Holm, Jon Klassen, Ann M. Martin, Juana Medina, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, LeUyen Pham, Matt Phelan, Greg Pizzoli, Sherri Duskey Rinker, Sharon Robinson, Adam Rubin, Victoria Schwab, Jon Scieszka, Ronald L. Smith, Jennifer Swanson and Steven Weinberg
Teens: Holly Black, Monica Hesse, Kathleen Glasgow, Ellen Hagan, Faith Erin Hicks, Linda Holmes, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Mitali Perkins, Rainbow Rowell, Misa Sugiura, Ngozi Ukazu, Renée Watson, Scott Westerfeld and Markus Zusak
Poetry Slam: The National Book Festival Youth Poetry Slam will include some of the nation's top youth slam groups from the nation's capital. Champion delegates from these groups will compete to be named the festival's top youth slammer by performing new works.

The National Book Festival is made possible by the generous support of private- and public-sector sponsors who share the Library's commitment to reading and literacy, led by National Book Festival Co-Chairman David M. Rubenstein. Charter sponsors are the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Washington Post and Wells Fargo; Patron sponsors are the James Madison Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Champions are Thomas V. Girardi, the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, PBS and Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program; and, in the Friends category, Booklovers Circle Members, Bookshare - a Benetech initiative, Buffy Cafritz, Embassy of Australia, Embassy of Canada, Embassy of Germany, Embassy of Ireland, Embassy of Latvia, Embassy of Peru, Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction administered by The University of Alabama School of Law, The Hay-Adams, Inter-American Development Bank, The Junior League of Washington, Andy King, Leon Levy Center for Biography (CUNY), Library of Congress Federal Credit Union, Mexican Cultural Institute, Timothy and Diane Naughton, Planet Word, Scholastic Inc, Small Press Expo (SPX), Spain Arts & Culture and Western Writers of America; Media Partners are C-SPAN2's Book TV, The New York Times and NPR. Those interested in supporting the National Book Festival can contact the Library at devofc@loc.gov.

Later this summer, the National Book Festival app for iOS and Android smartphones will be updated with complete presenter, schedule and wayfinding information. Follow the festival on Twitter @librarycongress with hashtag #NatBookFest, and subscribe to the National Book Festival Blog at loc.gov/bookfest/.

The Library of Congress is the world's largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit at loc.gov, access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information at congress.gov and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Thanks, Washington Post (finally)"

Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist, takes on a local issue:


Thanks, Washington Post (finally)
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2751

Inspired by this article I saw at CounterPunch back in March. After 
all this time kind of looking the other way while he raked in the bank 
on cushy side gigs and other shenanigans, the Washington Post finally 
could stand no more and actually investigated Ward 2 councilmember 
Jack Evans.


"A Reckoning is Coming for Jack Evans, But What About the Washington 
Post?" by Pete Tucker in CounterPunch, 03.14.19
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/14/a-reckoning-is-coming-for-jack-evans-but-what-about-the-washington-post/


"Law firm that investigated Jack Evans for Metro found 'multiple 
violations' of ethics code", Robert McCartney in the Washington Post, 
06.17.19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/law-firm-that-investigated-jack-evans-for-metro-found-multiple-violations-of-ethics-code/2019/06/17/fd666952-912c-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html

Pop Culture Happy Hour on Toy Story 4

'Toy Story 4' Mixes Nostalgia And Existential Dread

    Pop Culture Happy Hour

Woody (Tom Hanks) and Bo Peep (Annie Potts) reunite in Toy Story 4.

Pixar/Disney/Pixar

The Toy Story movies have been skittering around the closets of our hearts for almost 25 years. Anchored by Woody the sheriff, voiced by Tom Hanks, they're central to the story of Pixar. Now we're up to Toy Story 4. This time, Woody has to protect a homemade toy named Forky, voiced by Tony Hale. Forky may just be a spork with a face, but he's special to Bonnie, the little girl Woody lives with.