NPR talks to Chris Ware

In 'Rusty Brown,' Chris Ware Resolves To Find The Good In Everyone

Etelka Lehoczky

September 28, 2019  

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/28/765208916/in-rusty-brown-chris-ware-resolves-to-find-the-good-in-everyone

NPR on Joker movie

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir Finds The Humanity In 'Joker'·
TIM GREIVING
Morning Edition October 3, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/766172923/composer-hildur-gu-nad-ttir-finds-the-humanity-in-joker
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/10/20191003_me_composer_hildur_gunadttir_finds_the_humanity_in_joker.mp3
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=766172923


'Joker' Is Wild ... ly Dull
GLEN WELDON
NPR October 3, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/765082771/joker-is-wild-ly-dull


In 'Joker', Joaquin Phoenix Gives A Big Performance In A Flat Film.
LINDA HOLMES, GLEN WELDON,STEPHEN THOMPSON, TASHA ROBINSON
POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR October 4, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766529122/in-joker-joaquin-phoenix-gives-a-big-performance-in-a-flat-film
https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/npr/pchh/2019/10/20191003_pchh_pchh_593_joker__-_final-90bda0e4-3e05-4bca-abd0-45d9c175224c.mp3

The Post on Joker movie

Joaquin Phoenix is a vivid, operatic Joker, but the movie is way too full of itself [in print as A grisly but often predictable funhouse].

By Ann Hornaday

Movie critic

Washington Post October 4 2019, p. Weekend 32

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/joaquin-phoenix-is-a-vivid-operatic-joker-but-the-movie-is-way-too-full-of-itself/2019/10/01/a95e53a4-dfd5-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html

Why 'Joker' became one of the most divisive movies of the year [Why some aren't smiling about the release of 'Joker'.]

By

Michael Cavna 

Washington Post Oct. 4, 2019, p. C1,3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/03/why-joker-became-one-most-divisive-movies-year/

Police, theaters brace for violence as Warner Bros. 'Joker' opens in controversy [in print as Police, theaters brace for violence as 'Joker' opens].

Steven Zeitchik 

Washington Post Oct. 4, 2019, p. A18.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/03/police-theaters-brace-violence-warner-bros-joker-opens-controversy/

The Post on possible Joker film violence

Police, theaters brace for violence as Warner Bros. 'Joker' opens in controversy

Steven Zeitchik 

Oct. 3, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/03/police-theaters-brace-violence-warner-bros-joker-opens-controversy/

Loudon County Library selects Hey, Kiddo for 1book 1community

Hey, Kiddo selected for 1book 1community

We are thrilled to announce the selection of Hey, Kiddo, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, for our 2019 1book 1community program. This timely, headline-making National Book Award finalist is a graphic-novel memoir about Krosoczka's childhood growing up in a family as it grapples with addiction. Free copies of Hey, Kiddo are available now in branches or you can read the eBook on our OverDrive or Libby apps through Nov. 23.

Click here to get the eBook

SAVE THE DATE: Don't miss the chance to meet Krosoczka during a free public presentation Saturday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m. at Riverside High School in Leesburg.

Two more SPX panels online

SPX 2019 Panel - Queer Science Fiction and World Building

SmallPressExpo

Published on Oct 1, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0YDHjQ5B_Q

Science fiction has long been used as a means to address any number of society's ills through the use of alien settings and advanced technology. Many cartoonists address queer-specific issues in the way that they actually create the foundations of their worlds. Critic and publisher Carta Monir moderates Hannah Templer (Cosmoknights), Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (What Is Left), Shing Yin Khor (Salvage Station No. 8), and Alison Wilgus (Chronin) as they discuss how their settings create explicitly and implicitly relate queer themes.

SPX 2019 Panel - International Trends in Small Press Publishing

SmallPressExpo

Published on Sep 30, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71yYPtOPhcM

Publishing and distribution remain small press comics' thorniest issues, but the passion and vision of small press publishers continue to blaze new trails and provide opportunities for artists around the world. An international line-up of publishers and editors including Paw Krogsbek Mathiasen (Fahrenheit), Pernille Arvedsen (Cobolt), Annie Koyama (Koyama Press), Carta Monir (Diskette Press), and Marc Pearson (Glom Press) discuss strategies, obstacles, and their vision for small press comics. Critic Rob Clough (High-Low) moderates.

PW Comics World: More To Come at SPX

PW Comics World: More To Come

More To Come 389: Hannah Templer and James Romberger at SPX 2019

Produced by Kate Fitzsimons

on 09/20/2019

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1025

This week on More to Come, in interviews recorded at SPX, Heidi talks with graphic novelist Hannah Templer (G.L.O.W.) about her new graphic novel 'Cosmoknights,' a feminist space opera from Top Shelf; and Calvin talks to James Romberger ('7 Miles a Second') about his new series from Uncivilized Books, For Real, and his story 'The Oven,' an imaginary take on Jack Kirby's WWII combat experiences. Plus a Star Gazing segment on Chris Ware's 'Rusty Brown' and Travis Dandro's 'King of King Court.'

PW Comics World: More To Come

More To Come 388: Amazon Controversy at SPX

Produced by Kate Fitzsimons

on 09/13/2019

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1024

This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons— discuss the Amazon controversy at the Small Press Expo and the retailer's role in the indie comics market; ICv2's Insider Edition event at NYCC to highlight comics shop sell-through data; the Young Avengers comic banned by Rio's mayor for a gay kiss and the protests that followed; PW's profile of Lynda Barry; and they discuss the growth of Webtoon's webcomics platform.

Tom King profiled in Publishers Weekly

Even Superheroes Get the Blues

By Brian Heater

Oct 01, 2019

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/81330-even-superheroes-get-the-blues.html

Kevin Panetta will be co-writing Archie

Katy Keene Is Heading to Riverdale This January In "Archie and Katy Keene" [Exclusive]

By Alex Zalben  @azalben Oct 1, 2019

https://decider.com/2019/10/01/archie-and-katy-keene-archie-comics-exclusive/

Ann Telnaes wins Ink Bottle Award from AAEC (via Twitter)

AAEC‏ @AAEC_Cartoonist

A big congrats to @washingtonpost cartoonist @AnnTelnaes on receiving this year's Ink Bottle Award from @AAEC_Cartoonist. Telnaes was cited for her tireless work with @CRNetInt, her outreach to younger political cartoonists, and curating the 1st Amendment show at @CartoonLibrary.

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In accepting the award, Ann said she wanted to share the honor with friend and fellow cartoonist Signe Wilkinson @SigneWilk. Both women are Pulitzer winners, and were key planners of this year's AAEC convention at the @CXCFestival

The Post reviews a Rick and Morty science book

'Rick and Morty's' cartoon world is absurd and hilarious. But one of its premises may be real: The multiverse [in print as 'Rick and Morty's' cartoon world is crazy and hilarious. But one of its premises may be real.]

By Erin Blakemore 

Washington Post October 1 2019, p. E2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/rick-and-mortys-cartoon-world-is-crazy-and-hilarious-but-one-of-its-premises-may-be-real-the-multiverse/2019/09/27/a2b20564-e05c-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

Mike Jenkins highlighted by Daily Cartoonist in Billy Ireland exhibit

Mike Jenkins, who's turned to caricature from editorial cartooning, was singled out in Mike Peterson's coverage of an editorial cartoon exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum:

CSotD: Remembering why this matters

by Mike Peterson
September 30, 2019

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/09/30/csotd-remembering-why-this-matters/

1st 3 SPX panels of 2019 online

SPX 2019 Panel - Hard Thoughts And Visual Metaphors
SmallPressExpo

Published on Sep 28, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTEc-i5prVA

Cartoonists whose work differs in tone, style, and subject matter are often united in their visual solutions to the problem of trying to get at difficult thoughts, feelings, and concepts. Scholar and moderator Isaac Cates explores the idea of cartoonists pushing themselves to express uncomfortable and enigmatic ideas with Rikke Villadsen (The Sea), Kevin Huizenga (The River At Night), Eleanor Davis (Why Art?), and Simon Hanselmann (Bad Gateway).

SPX 2019 Panel - Sourcing Biography

SmallPressExpo

Published on Sep 27, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5YAx_GEOYY

The most difficult task for an artist tasked with drawing a biography of a famous figure is how to reduce an enormous amount of text and information into a relatively small number of images. Making those images interesting beyond simply conveying that information for narrative purposes is even more difficult. Critic Robin Enrico (Broken Frontier) moderates a group of cartoonists who have deftly navigated these problems to create some memorable comics: Typex (Andy: The Life And Times Of Andy Warhol), Beth Barnett (Dreamers Of The Day), and Peter Hoey (Coin-Op Comics).

SPX 2019 Panel - Blurring The Visual Lines In Fantasy Fiction

SmallPressExpo

Published on Sep 27, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGnrH4I7VEI

Comics is an ideal medium for fantasy because of the wide array of visual and narrative options available. Things get even more interesting when cartoonists mix and mash different genres, or when they use poetic, surreal, or dense visual strategies to tell their stories. Critic Alex Hoffman (Sequential State) discusses the stylistic choices of Yann Kebbi (The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade), Rune Ryberg (Gigant), Ida Rørholm Davidsen (Lonely Journey), Anne Simon (The Empress Cixtisis), and Molly Mendoza (Skip).

RVA Mag's lastest comics column

RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 27

Ash Griffith | September 24, 2019

https://rvamag.com/art/zines-books/rva-comics-x-change-issue-27-2.html

The Post reviews Abominable

'Abominable' is adorable. The story may be standard, but the film is a visual delight. [in print as Animated adventure is beautiful - though a little formulaic].

By Kristen Page-Kirby

Freelance writer

Washington Post (September 27, 2019): p. Weekend 39

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/abominable-is-adorable-the-story-may-be-standard-but-the-film-is-a-visual-delight/2019/09/25/4fcee1fe-dc9d-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html

Local failed cartoonist Jake Tapper is drawing Dilbert this week

Jake Tapper is drawing Dilbert for charity. Not everyone is happy about it.

by Nick Vadala,

Philadelphia Inquirer September 25, 2019

https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/tv/jake-tapper-dilbert-scott-adams-20190925.html

NPR on new YA graphic novels

Kick Off Fall With This Trio Of Innovative YA Graphic Novels

Etelka Lehoczky

September 22, 2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/22/762842406/kick-off-fall-with-this-trio-of-innovative-ya-graphic-novels

Library of Congress blog on their Comic Art exhibit

Let's Talk Comics: On Exhibit!

by Megan Halsband

Library of Congress' Headlines and Heroes blog September 26, 2019

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/09/lets-talk-comics-on-exhibit/

J. Michael Straczynski discussing "Becoming Superman" video online

The Politics and Prose video of J. Michael Straczynski discussing "Becoming Superman"  in August has been posted on YouTube by the store.  The direct link is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyt4Og0hc08

Thanks to Bruce Guthrie for the tip.

Lynda Barry won a MacArthur Genius grant

The Washington Post just mentions her in a list in its story.