Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Mexican editorial cartoon exhibit opens today, through October 30

EXHIBIT: 100 YEARS OF CARTOON IN EL UNIVERSAL

September 4, 2019 / 6:30 pm at the Mexican Cultural Institute

https://www.instituteofmexicodc.org/

 

The Mexican Cultural Institute is proud to announce its newest exhibit, 100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico - United States as Seen by Mexican Cartoonists, taking place from September 4 through October 30, 2019. The exhibit collects a brief sample of the thousands of cartoons published in 100 years in the widely known newspaper, El Universal, where almost all Mexican cartoonists of the 20th century have traveled through. This exhibit reads as a nodal part of the history of the cartoon in Mexico and includes a brief representation of the artists who traced and portrayed the history of the country. The pages of El Universal have shown the critical work, with aesthetic greatness, by artists such as Andrés Audiffred, Eduardo del Río Rius, Helioflores and Rogelio Naranjo, who have all shaped Mexican national events with art and humor.

The exhibition consists of seventy pieces; sixty-two of them orginal and of great value. Most came from the Museum of the Cartoon of Mexico City, from the authors themselves, and from private collectors. The works follow three themes: the American cartoon, the vision of the cartoonists around Uncle Sam and their vision around the American presidents. 100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal is complemented with the first cartoonists of El Universal and concludes with the great masters of the Mexican cartoon.

Join the MCI on Wednesday, September 4th at 6:30 pm for the grand inauguration of 100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico - United States as Seen by Mexican Cartoonists.

The Post reviews Disney's Hercules theatrical adaptation

'Hercules' proves strong enough to lift all of Central Park, but only for a few days [in print as In Central Park, a musical success of Herculean proportions].

Columbia Journalism Review briefly interviews Matt Wuerker on state of editorial cartooning

Cavna on upcoming Joker movie

'Joker' early reviews are mostly raves. Does it reinvent the superhero movie?

Tom King interviewed on Mr. Miracle

MISTER MIRACLE creators Tom King & Mitch Gerads open up about their magnum opus on GRAPHIC NOVEL CLUB

Sept 18: J-Film: Drowning Love

Note this is based on a comic.


Come to the JICC for a FREE Japanese film!
Come to the JICC for a FREE Japanese film!
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J-Film: Drowning Love
J-Film:
Drowning Love
September 18 - 6:30 PM
Based on the best-selling comic "Oboreru Knife" by George Asakura
Winner of Best New Actress, 2016 Kinema Junpo Awards
Natsume, a teenage fashion model moving from Tokyo, spends the days without any dreams or excitement. After meeting Koichiro, successor of a Shinto priest family, she finds herself falling under his spell. Both separately and together, she tries to find her place in life through the relationship with Koichiro.
Starring Nana Komatsu, Masaki Suda, Daiki Shigeoka
In Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 2016 | 111 min | Directed by Yuki Yamato
Registration required
Image: © George Asakura,KODANSHA/"Oboreru Knife"Production Committee
Presented with Japan Commerce Association of Washington, D.C., Inc.
Japan Commerce Association of Washington, D.C., Inc.

J-Film: Drowning Love


September 18th, 6:30 PM
Venue name: Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan
Venue address: 1150 18th Street Northwest
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
In the event of a cancellation, please contact us at jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp.
Program begins at 6:30PM.
Doors open 30 minutes before the program. No admittance after 7:00PM or once seating is full.

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PR: ROBIN HA'S POP UP SHOP AT THE LINE HOTEL IS THIS SATURDAY!


Hello everyone!
I am very excited to announce that I've partnered with Line Hotel in Adams Morgan DC to have a solo pop up shop this Saturday!

ROBIN HA ART POP-UP

09/07, 11:00AM - 2:00PM


FULL SERVICE RADIO AT THE LINE DC

The Line Hotel  DC
Address: 1770 Euclid St NW, Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 588-0525

Full service radio lab is located on the ground floor by the entrance of the building in front of the hotel bar and restaurant. It'd be a great way to spend your Saturday afternoon to check out my art and have brunch at this gorgeous hotel.

I will be bringing a whole lot of new merchandises including screen printed T-shirts and tank tops, brand new art prints and original artworks, comics zines and of course, Cook Korean! I will also be doing commission portraits with watercolor and ink on paper. You can bring a photo of pets or a person to have me draw them for 15 minutes for just $20! It'd be a great gift for anyone. Check out the photos from my last portrait session on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx7bmhnBj2O/

For more info, please visit the Line Hotel Website:
https://www.thelinehotel.com/dc/event/robin-ha-art-pop/

Hope you can make it and see you there~!

All the best,
Robin Ha

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GE Gallas interviewed last June

Smash Pages Q&A: G.E. Gallas

The creator of 'The Poet and the Flea' discusses 'The Plague and Doctor Caim,' which she is currently crowdfunding.


June 25, 2019

http://smashpages.net/2019/06/25/smash-pages-qa-g-e-gallas/

Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Frank Cho is doing a women's sports SF comic book for a new publisher

Details are here:

Publisher Plans to Launch Four Comic Titles in March, Building to Six to Eight Per Month
 by Milton Griepp on September 3, 2019

Anyone know anything about the artist CHAD from military newspapers? (UPDATED)

As in the previous post, this is from a newspaper held in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's archives, here in Falls Church. The run is being digitized and put online in the Medical Heritage Library.

Possibly he worked for the American Forces Press Service because the newspaper used other material from them (update: I have found a piece of artwork clearly marked AFPS). These are from the US Naval Hospital Memphis' newspaper The Hospital Clipper, December 1971.

To me, he looks like he could have worked in comic strips or books. A later example, not scanned yet, is very reminiscent of Will Eisner.

Does anyone know who this is, or anything about him?



Update:

In the comments, Unknown says "That small mark after the CHAD sig reminds me of Chad Grothkopf, though I would have no idea what his later "human" art looked like."

Thank you! I believe you are correct. If you look at his Lambiek page at https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/grothkopf_chad.htm you can see the signature mark clearly. In 1971, he would have been 57, but neither Lambiek nor Jerry Bails' Who's Who lists work for him at this time, so he could have been doing spot illos through his own company.

You can barely see his signature in this example, but the inks made me look twice to find it.
CHAD - Will - Hospital Clipper 5-11 1971-11


Here's two other pieces I found, both clearly showing the syndicate initials.

CHAD - lightning - Hospital Clipper 5-04 1971-04

CHAD - sleep to dream - Hospital Clipper 5-05 1971-05


2 ads and a panel from a US Naval Hospital Memphis newspaper

This is from a newspaper held in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's archives, here in Falls Church. The run is being digitized and put online in the Medical Heritage Library.

Milt Caniff, Smokey Stover by Bill Holman, and... Johnny Jones by Criner? Anyone know anything about the last? It appears to be self-syndicated BTW, they come from The Hospital Clipper 5:11, November 1971. It'll be online at https://archive.org/details/usnavybumedhistoryoffice?sort=-publicdate moderately soon.

Update: Criner was distributed though the AFPS, and earlier examples of the strip are marked with those initials, rather than his own syndicate.

The Post on Fast Color as a superhero movie

I read the review when the movie came out, but it didn't exactly sound like a superhero movie to me, so I didn't highlight it here. This article makes it explicit.

How an indie film about black female superheroes might get a second chance on television [in print as Why indie hero movie might get a second shot]

Washington Post September 3 2019, p. C1-2

Fantagraphics at SPX

http://fantagraphics.com/flog/fantagraphics-at-spx-2019/ has a list of cartoonists, and events.

Al Goodwyn's editorial cartoon productivity is way up

Al retired from his main job this summer, and as a result, he's producing a lot more political cartoons for his shared website Confederacy of Drones at https://confederacyofdrones.com/author/confederacyofdrones/

Friday, August 30, 2019

NPR on the return of Invader Zim

'90s Kids, Rejoice: 'Invader Zim,' A Cult-Classic Nicktoon, Returns

Richmond's RVA Comics column on Spider-Man spinoffs

Looney Labs profiled in Washingtonian

The local game creator currently has a Marvel comics Fluxx out, and Batman is still available. We interviewed Andrew Looney last year.

They Once Worked at NASA. Now They Make Card Games.

Why people can't stop playing Looney Labs games like Fluxx.


This article appears in the August 2019 issue of Washingtonian.

Sept 26-27: Ta-Nehisi Coates - THE WATER DANCER Book Tour


Ta-Nehisi Coates - THE WATER DANCER Book Tour


Night 1 on 9/26 moderated by Michele Norris
Night 2 on 9/27 moderated by Ibram X. Kendi

Politics and Prose is honored to host Ta-Nehisi Coates for an event for his debut novel, The Water Dancer, a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by Coates' bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, this is the story of America's oldest struggle—the struggle to tell the truth—from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers of our time.

Coates, one of America's most important voices on race, changed the national dialogue with Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award in 2015 and a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. Now, The Water Dancer adds to the conversation in a whole new way: with a story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. This book is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.

Frazz beer in NoVA

Library of Congress blog on school and comics

Back to School: Comic Books and Literacy