PR: Small Press Expo 2019 International Special Guests

Check out who is coming to SPX 2019

For Immediate Release Contact: Eden Miller Email: press@smallpressexpo.com   Small Press Expo Announces Danish Special Guests for 2019.   Bethesda, Maryland - Aug. 6 2019   Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce Danish International 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 International Special Guests to this year's show: Visit the SPX 2019 Website for More Info Craig Frank Craig Frank was born (1961) in St. Louis, Missouri. In his early years he had various jobs that helped form his character, among them, a gardener at a retired Nun convent, an asst. to an alcoholic carpenter, a trash collector in a ghetto north of St. Louis, a bellman in the Adolphus Hotel and a printer at a chemical infested T-Shirt Factory. He graduated from Columbia College with a Cum Laude in BFA. A multi-talented artist, Craig moved to Denmark in the late 80's and later joined the world of animation and directed his debut film Journey to Saturn, and created his debut Graphic Novel, JFK Secret Ops.  Craig Frank has created the graphic novel COOL VALLEY, a coming of age story set in the 70's in a small town outside St.Louis. As one reader wrote: I read it without stopping and laughed many times; it kept me wanting more of both our pasts. Emil Friis Ernst Emil Friis Ernst (b. 1994) is a danish cartoonist, illustrator and comics teacher living and working in Viborg, Denmark. He has previously had journalistic comics work published on The Nib and exhibited at Erlangen International Comic Salon.  He's into big robots and cinema from around the world.  Emil's forthcoming books "Dr. Murder and the Island of Death" and "Reservat" (the latter written in collaboration with Dennis Gade Kofod) are equal parts spandex-clad pulp and dystopia, dealing with loss and longing in a world on the brink of destruction. Halfdan Pisket Halfdan Pisket's graphic novel debut, the highly acclaimed Cockroach Trilogy (2014-2016) has been applauded by the press and awarded numerous prizes. "My father's story is similar to so many others, who travel away in an attempt to put the past behind them, but who eventually fall apart in the new country." The Cockroach Trilogy is about the life of Pisket's father, an Armenian immigrant escaping opression and trying to make himself a new home in Denmark. It is a story about not belonging anywhere and about losing everything. The trilogy is heavy awarded and sold for publication in The Netherlands (SubQ), France (Présque Lune), Sweden (Kartago) and Mexico (La Cifra editorial). Recently the French edition of the last volume of the trilogy won Série de la Prix Angoulême in France. Ida Rørholm Davidsen Ida Rørholm Davidsen is a Danish illustrator educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Design in Copenhagen. Ida works independently with illustration, art and book projects, besides being part of the design collective and shop GunGun. Her drawing style is light and feminine, and mixes the analogue pen drawings with digital pastel colouring.     Ida Rørholm Davidsen won the Ping prize (the official comic award in Denmark) for "Best young-adult comic" 2019. for her comic debut: Lonely journey. Lonely journey is a a modern fairytale about the young girl Anna, her obsession with computer games, her loneliness and the every day struggle to fit in. John Kenn Mortensen John Kenn Mortensen says "It warms my heart when I am able to scare people or just give them the sense of having experienced a small adventure from something so simple as a drawing on a post-it note.   People will always be afraid of monsters. For some people spiders are monsters... just very small monsters. There is this very fine moment right before you realize you are gonna be eaten by something you never thought existed. It is like when you get bad news and you think 'I never thought this was gonna happen to me.'" Rune Ryberg From dinosaur evading cats in a post apocalyptic world to pinball playing teenage lizards in the early nineties, Rune Ryberg (1979), turns his characters to life with his dynamic, color saturated, rough style. In 2014 he made his debut as a comic book artist with the award winning Gigant published by AdHouse Books. Rikke Villadsen Rikke Villadsen is a comic book artist living and working in Copenhagen. Since her 2011 debut, she has been defying artistic conventions and surprising readers with her stories' surreal twists. Her work questions gender as a social construct, embracing the complexity of being feminist and human.  The Sea is Rikke Villadsen's English-language debut graphic novel, released January 2019 by Fantagraphics Books. The tale of a sailor lost at sea is full of evocative symbolism that doesn't just bubble beneath the surface of the water, but drenches the sailor—and reader—like a tidal wave. Paw Krogsbæk Mathiasen Paw Krogsbæk Mathiasen is the founder, editor and publisher of Danish publishing house Fahrenheit (established 1991), the Danish publisher of the works by Craig Thompson, Miles Hyman, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb and Charles Burns and Danish artist like Peter Snejbjerg and Rikke Villadsen among many. Paw Mathiasen will take part in SPX searching for material to publish at the Danish market. Pernille Arvedsen Pernille Arvedsen is an editor at the Danish publishing house COBOLT 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 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌

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Silent Auction continues with signed Richard Thompson books at One More Page Books

They're not making any more of these, folks. I guarantee it.

Plus more upcoming events, new in stock, staff recommendations, and book clubs

Upcoming Events The auction site is live! You have until 5 pm on August 18th to bid on the AMAZING items, experiences, and services donated by staff, authors, local businesses, customers and friends! We appreciate all of your continued support in response to the recent property tax increase from Arlington County. Learn More info@onemorepagebooks.com 703-300-9746 www.onemorepagebooks.com Monday through Saturday 10am to 8pm, Sundays 12 noon to 5pm CONNECT WITH US

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ICAF 1999 program booklet now online...

at https://archive.org/details/icaf1999program

The International Comic Arts Festival was founded in DC by Guy Spielman of Georgetown University and Tristan Fonlladosa of the French Embassy in 1995, building on top of an earlier Georgetown University Manga Symposium. It's changed names several times and now is a traveling show. I met a lot of interesting people and made a lot of good friends when it was regularly held in the area. The schedule information contained in this booklet is already online, along with others, at http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/past-icaf-programs.html but I like to present the object, as it were, even if the actualy object is now in a recycling bin.

I'll upload more of them as I recover my comic art vertical files from a basement flood earlier in July when Arlington, and my house, underwent flash floods throughout the county.

The files themselves, or in the case of material that got wet, reasonable facsimiles, will eventually reside at the OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library, hopefully.

Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley

My cartoon, "POTUS for the RESTOFUS" on Trump broadening voter appeal.
(click on image for larger view)

Tom King on Word Balloon podcast

Comic Books Tom King On Batman New Gods Adam Strange and More

  04 Aug 2019

 A new King's Speech as we pre pare to do this in front of an audience at Terrificon this Saturday

Listen to "Comic Books Tom King On Batman New Gods Adam Strange and More" on Spreaker.

Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley

©2019 Steven G. Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

August Events at Fantom Comics

Fantom Comics invites anyone staying in town for the month of August to stop by one of our upcoming events.

8/3 - Cyberninjaz Monthly Smash Fundraiser - 3pm to 9pm

8/10 - Black Excellence Book Club: Ironheart - 2pm

8/18 - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei - A Political & Historical Book Club - 2pm

8/25 - The Adventure Zone Book Club PART 2 - 1pm

8/25 - Dungeons & Dragons Nite - 3pm

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Nell Minow talks to Tom Richmond about faking MAD and TV Guide covers

Meet the Caricaturist who Created Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood's Classic MAD Magazine Cover

By Nell Minow

The Credits blog August 1, 2019

https://www.mpaa.org/2019/08/meet-the-caricaturist-who-created-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywoods-classic-mad-magazine-cover/

RVA's latest comics column

RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 24

Ash Griffith | July 30, 2019

https://rvamag.com/art/zines-books/rva-comics-x-change-issue-24.html

Note that Kevin Panetta's Bloom is recommended.

Scoop on Otakon

Otakon 2019 in Photos, Part I

Carrie Wood

Scoop August 2 2019

http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=232287

Otakon Interview: Erika Harlacher

Carrie Wood

Scoop August 2 2019

http://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=232321

The Post's commentary on editorial cartooning

Sadly, political cartooning is becoming a lost art [in print as Political cartooning is becoming a lost art]

By Mitch Daniels

Contributing columnist

Washington Post August 1 2019, p. A19

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sadly-political-cartooning-is-becoming-a-lost-art/2019/07/31/1513a8d6-aa5e-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html

The Post's obituary for Minnie Mouse's voice

Russi Taylor, voice of Disney's Minnie Mouse and 'Simpsons' staple, dies at 75 [in print as Emmy-nominated actress voiced Minnie Mouse for 3 decades]

By Emily Langer

Washington Post July 31 2019, p. B6

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/russi-taylor-voice-of-disneys-minnie-mouse-and-simpsons-staple-dies-at-75/2019/07/29/01e8236c-b20c-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html 

David Levine and Chuck Jones at National Portrait Gallery

by Bruce Guthrie

 

Yesterday, I checked for updated pieces at the National Portrait Gallery. The David Levine of Lee Iacocca is no longer on display.  But upstairs in the 20th Century American exhibit are four of his original pieces -- Steve Jobs, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jimmy Connors and Jerry Seinfeld. 

And if you go up to the Bravo floor, they still have that wonderful Chuck Jones and his characters sculpture by Paul Moore.  The piece is not all that easy to photograph because it's bronze in a reflective plastic-y box but I gave it a shot (so to speak).

And of course you can find more pics if necessary on my website 

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2019_07_30C2_SIPG_Portrait

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2019_07_30C4_SIPG_Bravo

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Bruce Guthrie
Photo obsessive
http://www.bguthriephotos.com

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Kevin Smith at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse in November is sold out

Jay and Silent Bob Coming to Arlington for Movie Screening

ARLnow.com July 30, 2019

https://www.arlnow.com/2019/07/30/jay-and-silent-bob-coming-to-arlington-for-movie-screening/

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "When You Can't 'Buy In'."

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock:

"When You Can't 'Buy In'"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2773

It isn't just that Kamala Harris has the gall to straight-up rip off 
the name "Medicare For All" for her hack-ass healthcare proposal, nor 
is it just the convoluted, typically technocratic Rube Goldberg nature 
of her grand plan, nor the fact that it builds on the "success" of 
Obamacare – a healthcare policy written by the Heritage Foundation. 
It's the fact that Kamalacare involves the health insurance industry – 
the heart of the very problem we're trying to eliminate.

And don't get me started on all her talk about "buying in" – basically 
no different from Obamacare, where people who are already struggling 
are forced to have "some skin in the game", in the words of our 
beloved ex-President.

Oh, and it's going to be phased in over ten years. Ten years. Fat lot 
of good that's going to do for all the people having to crowdfund 
their surgeries and are being gouged for their insulin right now.

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Kamala Harris, "My Plan For Medicare For All", medium.com 07.29.19
https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/my-plan-for-medicare-for-all-7730370dd421

"Kamala Harris' new health plan: 'Medicare for All' — with private 
insurers", Politico 07.29.19
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-1438631

The Post reviews J. Michael “Joe” Straczynski's new biography

As an abused child, he took refuge in superheroes. Then he made a career out of them. [in print as Surviving a dad as toxic as kryptonite].

By Chris Klimek

Washington Post July 30 2019, p. C4

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/as-an-abused-child-he-took-refuge-in-superheroes-then-he-made-a-career-out-of-them/2019/07/24/b9cd66ae-ad66-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html

The Post on live-action Dora

'Dora' fan Isabela Moner didn't leap at first to play the explorer as a teen

By Sandie Angulo Chen

Washington Post July 30 2019 p. C8

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/dora-the-explorer-hits-the-big-screen-as-a-teen-but-shes-still-fun-actress-says/2019/07/29/4dd8cdbc-aee7-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html

Word Balloon podcasts by John Suintres of interest

This has nothing to do with ComicsDC, except I did a book about Harvey Pekar - that you can still buy ...

Comic Books Harvey Pekar's Legacy with Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld

July 10, 2019

http://wordballoon.blogspot.com/2019/07/comic-books-harvey-pekars-legacy-with.html

Cartoonists Dean and Josh just started a new podcast Scene By Scene where they breakdown the Harvey Pekar film American Splendor . We also talk about their current projects and where they see the comic market going.

...but this talks about Rafer Roberts' new comic book

Comic Books A New Mike Norton Moment

Word Balloon July 22, 2019

http://wordballoon.blogspot.com/2019/07/comic-books-new-mike-norton-moment.html

Mike is back to talk about bring his web comic Battle Pug to Image Comics as a monthly in September. Plus Grumble with Rafer Roberts, his thoughts on the creator owned Market and why he stopped his political comic strip Lil D