San Diego Comic-Con Is Turning 50: Here's Its Origin Story
Comic-Con 2019, Day 2: The Infamous Coffee Cup
July 20, 2019
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Monday, July 22, 2019
The Post followup on Kyoto Animation arson murders
Kyoto Animation fire: Tributes flow for victims as Japan reels from deadly blaze [in print as As Japan reels from deadly blaze, tributes flow for victims]
Washington Post
That darn Speed Bump and Dennis the Menace
The poor placement of these comics is no laughing matter [in print as No laughing matter]
Michele Claeys, Washington
Washington Post July 20 2019
The Post reviews Aladdin musical at Kennedy Center
The whiz-bang 'Aladdin' at the Kennedy Center still has problems to solve [in print as An even shinier new world for 'Aladdin']
Chris Pitzer of Richmond's AdHouse Books interviewed
July 29-31: Paul Merklein teaching comics in VA
From Paul Merklein
PRESS RELEASE
On The Road Again
Cartoonist (and former resident of Silver Spring MD) Paul Merklein will be teaching and drawing cartoons this month in Virginia.
July 29, 10:30 am at Barns of Rose Hill in Berryville
July 29, 2:00 pm at Handley Library in Winchester
July 29, 6:00 pm at Bowman Library in Stephens City
July 30, 11:00 am at Bowman Library in Stephens City
July 30, 2:00 pm at Bowman Library in Stephens City
July 31, 3:00 pm at Tysons-Pimmit Library in Falls Church
July 31, 7:00 pm at Reston Regional Library in Reston
Meet Paul and get a FREE cartoon!
See Paul's cartoons at… DabneyAndDad.com
See videos of Paul's programs at... SuperLibraryShows.com
You might also see Paul visiting a few of his favorite places in DC, like Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street, and Tastee Diner in Silver Spring
On The Road Again
Cartoonist (and former resident of Silver Spring MD) Paul Merklein will be teaching and drawing cartoons this month in Virginia.
July 29, 10:30 am at Barns of Rose Hill in Berryville
July 29, 2:00 pm at Handley Library in Winchester
July 29, 6:00 pm at Bowman Library in Stephens City
July 30, 11:00 am at Bowman Library in Stephens City
July 30, 2:00 pm at Bowman Library in Stephens City
July 31, 3:00 pm at Tysons-Pimmit Library in Falls Church
July 31, 7:00 pm at Reston Regional Library in Reston
Meet Paul and get a FREE cartoon!
See Paul's cartoons at… DabneyAndDad.com
See videos of Paul's programs at... SuperLibraryShows.com
You might also see Paul visiting a few of his favorite places in DC, like Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street, and Tastee Diner in Silver Spring
Tom King won four Eisner awards
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Winners
Best Short Story
"The Talk of the Saints," by Tom King and Jason Fabok, in Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC)
Best Limited Series
Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
The Vision hardcover, by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, and Michael Walsh (Marvel)
Best Writer
Tom King, Batman, Mister Miracle, Heroes in Crisis, Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC)
National Zoo curator corrects The Lion King remake
How 'The Lion King' Gets Real-Life Lion Family Dynamics Wrong
By Knvul Sheikh
- A version of this article appears in print on July 22, 2019, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: 'The Lion King' and Real Family Life
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Martha Kennedy of Library of Congress wins Eisner award
 | comiXology (@comiXology) |
| The Award for Best Comics-Related Book goes to Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists by Martha H. Kennedy! #EisnerAwards pic.twitter.com/o6qmWUpWs0 | |
Friday, July 19, 2019
PR: DC Zinefest 2019 is TOMORROW!
Dear Zinefest fans,
DC Zinefest 2019 is tomorrow (Saturday 7/20) from 11:00am to 5:00pm at the amazing, air-conditioned Art Enables (2204 Rhode Island Ave NE). Don't miss it!
Key points:
- 70+ talented zine-makers sharing their zines, prints, buttons
- limited-edition Zinefest posters, tote bags, and more
- FREE admission (though we would love your donations)
- air conditioned!
- come before 1:00pm to avoid the rush!
Want to share your work too? Volunteers will be running a "day-of distribution" table tomorrow. You can add your zines to the table for sale or trade during the fest!
RSVP at the DC Zinefest 2019 Facebook event and come say hi! Connect with the 'fest on social media using @DCZinefest and #DCZF19.
How to get there? What else is nearby? Check out our website.
Sincerely,
The DCZF Organizers
SEPT 4: Baaaad Muthaz Book Launch at Fantom Comics
- Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 7 PM – 9 PM
- Fantom Comics2010 P St NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, District of Columbia 20036
- Hosted by Rosarium Publishing
Details
Join author Bill Campbell (Rosarium Publishing) as he launches his brand new "spaceploitation" graphic novel, BAAAAD MUTHAZ!
These women are truly baaaad!!!
They're rough. They're ready. They're space pirates. They're a James Brown revival band. They are the Baaaad Muthaz!!!
Follow Afro Desia, Cali Vera, Alley Bastard, Candy Ass, Katana Jade, and Snake on their madcap cosmic adventures as they funk up the galaxy and face off against freakazoids, alligator women, and a reindeer who looks like Prince all in search of the almighty booty!!!
"You got SAGA with a funk/punk riff here. What's not to love???"
–Zig Zag Claybourne, author of The Brothers Jetstream
"I hang with surrealists, but reading Baaaad Muthaz was a whole, entire next-level experience."
–John Edward Lawson, author of Devil Entendre
"A love letter to black American pop culture."
–Publishers Weekly
Join us for the funk, the Q&A (with Christopher Chambers), and the BAAAAD MUTHAZ!!!
These women are truly baaaad!!!
They're rough. They're ready. They're space pirates. They're a James Brown revival band. They are the Baaaad Muthaz!!!
Follow Afro Desia, Cali Vera, Alley Bastard, Candy Ass, Katana Jade, and Snake on their madcap cosmic adventures as they funk up the galaxy and face off against freakazoids, alligator women, and a reindeer who looks like Prince all in search of the almighty booty!!!
"You got SAGA with a funk/punk riff here. What's not to love???"
–Zig Zag Claybourne, author of The Brothers Jetstream
"I hang with surrealists, but reading Baaaad Muthaz was a whole, entire next-level experience."
–John Edward Lawson, author of Devil Entendre
"A love letter to black American pop culture."
–Publishers Weekly
Join us for the funk, the Q&A (with Christopher Chambers), and the BAAAAD MUTHAZ!!!
Aug 12: J. Michael Straczynski - Becoming Superman at Politics and Prose booksore
J. Michael Straczynski - Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood
Monday, August 12, 2019 - 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Straczynski may be best known as the creator of the Babylon 5 and Sense8 TV shows, but his amazing four-decade career also encompasses screenwriting—Changeling, Thor, and World War Z—writing for several D.C. and Marvel Comics' series, and creating his own award-winning graphic works. Now in this stunning memoir he tells his own story—perhaps his most fantastic feat yet. Straczynski grew up in the care of adults variously damaged by addiction, mental illness, and poverty. His only refuge from the misery was comic books, and he gradually realized that he, too, could invent alternate worlds. But even as he managed to take power over his future, a terrible secret in his family's past continued to haunt him.
NOTE: Anyone can enter the post-event signing line provided they have proof of having purchased Becoming Superman from Politics and Prose. The author will sign up to three other items in addition to Becoming Superman.
Click here for more information.
5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20008
$28.99
9780062857842
Coming Soon—Pre-Order Now
Harper Voyager - July 23rd, 2019
July 20: Graphix Con at Barnes & Noble (Fairfax, VA)
JUL 20
Graphix Con
· Hosted by Barnes & Noble (Fairfax, VA)
- Tomorrow at 2 PM
- Barnes & Noble (Fairfax, VA)12193 Fair Lakes Promenade Dr, Fairfax, Virginia 22033
The Post on Kyoto Animation arson
'Die!': Alleged arsonist turned a celebrated Japanese anime studio into a death trap [in print as Arson at Japanese animation studio leaves 33 dead]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/suspected-arson-attack-on-japanese-animation-studio-leaves-at-least-dozen-dead/2019/07/18/4f3112b6-a91d-11e9-8733-48c87235f396_story.html
Kyoto Animation fire: Tributes flow for victims as Japan reels from deadly blaze
NPR reviews Takei's new graphic memoir
George Takei Recalls Time In An American Internment Camp In 'They Called Us Enemy'
Cavna on the Eisner Awards
The Eisner Awards are Friday, and these seven contenders deserve your attention
The Post, NPR, and City paper on Lion King remake
The Lion King Is a Bland Blunder [in print as Circle of Strife]
Jon Favreau's remake doesn't hold a candle to the 1994 original.
Washington City Paper July 19, 2019 , p. 22
'The Lion King' feels way more like 'Hamlet' this time — and that's why it's so good [in print as In this version, a lot less Hakuna Matata].
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Wilfrid Lupano interview spinoff from ALA in DC
"In Love with A Sea of Love": A Conversation With Wilfrid Lupano
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Important Fish To Fry"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -
"Important Fish To Fry"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2764
First of all, huge thanks to Kate Nocera at Buzzfeed News for tweeting that inspiring quote from the Speaker:
https://twitter.com/KateNocera/status/1148982987373109249
https://twitter.com/KateNocera
So, now, folks... considering her enabling of fascism, her support for an obscene war budget, her desperate opposition to Medicare For All, and her bitter refusal to hold a criminal executive to account – a tendency going back to Bush v2.0 – I have to ask myself: who exactly ARE the "important fish" that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are needing to fry?
Oh, yeah, that's right...
11x17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.3mb
"Important Fish To Fry"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2764
First of all, huge thanks to Kate Nocera at Buzzfeed News for tweeting that inspiring quote from the Speaker:
https://twitter.com/KateNocera/status/1148982987373109249
https://twitter.com/KateNocera
So, now, folks... considering her enabling of fascism, her support for an obscene war budget, her desperate opposition to Medicare For All, and her bitter refusal to hold a criminal executive to account – a tendency going back to Bush v2.0 – I have to ask myself: who exactly ARE the "important fish" that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are needing to fry?
Oh, yeah, that's right...
11x17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.3mb
Publishers Weekly on ALA's Washington meeting
More To Come 374: Vertigo Elegy
on 06/28/2019
More To Come 375: ALA 2019 Interviews
on 07/05/2019
PW Comics World on Jonathan Luna vs. Image
Luna story starts at 33:00
More To Come 371: Graphic Novels at BookExpo and BookCon 2019
on 06/07/2019
New webcomic written by Julian Lytle and Sean Causley premieres today
Julian Lytle wrote to me today:
Today I started, with my friend Sean Causley (who's from Northern VA), a new webcomic on Webtoon. It's call Power Girl Mob. Here's the link - https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/power-girl-mob/list?title_no=311258
Here's our description from the site -
Our artist is Tressa Bowling from Kentucky. We plan on updating on Wednesdays for the rest of 2019.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Catching up with The Post on Zorro, Annie, and The Little Mermaid
Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. [in print as 100 years on, Zorro still rides for justice].
The Post's opinion on The Lion King and fascism
'The Lion King' is a fascistic story. No remake can change that [in print as 'The Lion King' teaches the weak to bow down to the strong. Just like fascism].
Ann Patchett on Snoopy in The Post
Snoopy taught me how to be a writer
He let his imagination run wild, and then he sat down to type — with mixed results. [in print as Learning how to write - from Snoopy].
The Post on George Takei's WW2 internment graphic history (updated)
George Takei has talked about his family's internment before. But never quite like this.
By Michael Cavna
Writer/critic
Washington Post July 12 2019
By Michael Cavna
Writer/critic
Washington Post July 12 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/george-takei-has-talked-about-his-familys-internment-before-but-never-quite-like-this/2019/07/11/f3320c6e-a3fd-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html
By Karen Heller
July 16, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.
George Takei doesn't want us to forget the last time the U.S. put people in detention camps
Erin Patrick O'Connor/The Washington Post
"Star Trek" icon George Takei is on a mission to ensure America doesn't forget its shameful legacy of internment camps.
Ben Garrison dis-invited to White House
POLITICO Playbook: NEW: W.H. says cartoonist is no longer attending social media summit
Monday, July 15, 2019
Tonight: Simpsons' writer at The Wharf
Mike Reiss - Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, presented with Capital Fringe
Monday, July 15, 2019 - 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Former showrunner and longest-serving writer for The Simpsons, Reiss started working on the show with its first episode, and stayed with it for 28 years, winning four Emmys and a Peabody. His funny and informative memoir takes fans behind-the-scenes of this beloved Fox series, showing how the episodes were created, explaining enduring mysteries such as why Matt Groening made all the characters yellow, profiling the animators, writers, actors, and guests, and reminiscing about his favorite moments. Springfield Confidential is full of great stories, plenty of jokes, photos, and interviews with Conan O'Brien, Al Jean, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and more. In partnership with Capital Fringe.
Click here for more information.
Politics and Prose at the Wharf 70 District Square SW Washington DC 20024
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