Friday, November 08, 2019

Hornaday on Scorsese on Marvel

Scorsese is right about Marvel. Except when he's wrong. [You talkin' to us? Try lookin' in the mirror.]
By Ann Hornaday Movie critic
Washington Post November 8, 2019 , p. C1, 4

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour watches Watchmen

We're Watching 'Watchmen'

; Daisy Rosario; Soraya Nadia McDonald

Regina King plays Tulsa Police detective Sister Night in the new HBO series Watchmen.

Mark Hill/HBO

HBO's series Watchmen is not strictly an adaptation of the landmark comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons — it's technically a sequel. It stars Regina King as an ex-cop in Tulsa Oklahoma who's not-so-secretly the masked vigilante Sister Night. It also stars Don Johnson and Tim Blake Nelson, alongside Jean Smart and a very odd Jeremy Irons, who are both playing characters from the comic. Showrunner Damon Lindelof has set the show within a big, weird world that keeps getting bigger and weirder, even as it seeks to comment on some very contemporary, real-world issues.

Lawyer (and comic collector) Mark Zaid conspiracy theory

That Mark Zaid Hydra Quote That's Suddenly In The News

Thursday, November 07, 2019

Library of Congress blog on military comics

Let's Talk Comics: War and Military

Richmond's RVA magazine's latest comics column

Former Big Planet Comics' Dan Nadel on Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination

FAST COMPANY

Nov 10: Bob Mankoff in Annapolis

The Post on Watchmen's former Silk Spectre

'Watchmen' actress Jean Smart on how Laurie has (and hasn't) changed since her Silk Spectre days [in print as Transition for Watchmen's' Laurie wasn't exactly silky]

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Bruce Guthrie's photos of Zach Weinersmith at the Cato online now

Zach Weinersmith at the Cato video online now

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

(First Second, 2019)

Book Forum
November 4, 2019 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM EST
F.A. Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute

Featuring the authors Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University; blogger, EconLog; and Zach Weinersmith, Illustrator, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic strip; New York Times bestselling author, with comments by Tim Kane, JP Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; moderated by Alex Nowrasteh, Director of Immigration Policy Studies, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

In their new graphic nonfiction book Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, authors Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith turn the heated public debate over immigration on its head by proposing a radical and controversial solution: open borders. Caplan argues that opening all borders would practically eliminate absolute poverty worldwide and usher in a booming worldwide economy―greatly benefiting all of humanity, including Americans. With a clear and conversational tone, exhaustive research, and vibrant illustrations by Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal fame, Open Borders makes the case for unrestricted immigration in a new format sure to spark lively debate. Caplan and Weinersmith will be joined by Tim Kane, the JP Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, who is a supporter of liberal immigration laws but a critic of open borders.

RJ Matson of Capitol Hill's CQ Roll Call wins Berryman Award

CQ Roll Call's RJ Matson wins Berryman Award for political cartoons


Matson's 2019 cartoons satirized McConnell's focus on Supreme Court, House Democrats' handling of impeachment and working for Trump


Off the Record bar has new coasters and artwork

I stopped briefly into the Hay-Adams Hotel bar yesterday and saw a new Trump caricature by Matt Wuerker on the wall of the stairway coming down from the main hotel. I also got a new coaster of Kamala Harris , so I checked with Matt to see what else he'd done with Kevin KAL Kalllaugher and Ann Telnaes.
 
",,,you missed the new Supreme Court!  In the booth behind the bar we've done the current bench. I also did some new coasters-- Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and a new Bernie Sanders. It was just me for this round of coasters.  They needed a quick turn around. The Supremes were evenly divided between the three of us."

Sunday, November 03, 2019

Nina Allender on exhibit in Ohio

We've mentioned DC's suffragette cartoonist Nina Allender here in the past. Some of her work is on display in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum's new exhibit.

 

Innovative women cartoonists get their due in 'Ladies First'  
Joel Oliphint                            
Associate Editor, Columbus Alive Nov 1, 2019

Saturday, November 02, 2019

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Olympic-Sized FAIL"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist...

OK, folks, time for some good old straight editorial:

"Olympic-Size FAIL"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2835

"Current incident estimates published by the company say that 9,120 US 
barrels (383,040 gallons) or 'approximately half the size of an 
Olympic-sized swimming pool' of crude oil were released into an 
impacted area of 2,500 square yards..."
     — Sputnik International, 11.01.2019

This past week saw the latest — the LATEST — rupture and spill on 
TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline, this time to the tune of 380,000 
gallons near the town of Edinburg, North Dakota... a big ol' 
Olympic-sized pool of Fail. Of course, it happened pretty much as 
predicted by the thousands of people who spoke up, protested, and 
tried to stop the pipeline from being built, and who are now 
designated as "terrorists" by the US Government.

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"Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After Leaking 383,000 Gallons of Crude 
Oil Into US" Sputnik International 01.11.2019 
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201911011077193369-photo-keystone-pipeline-shut-down-after-leaking-383000-gallons-of-crude-oil-into-us-/


TC Energy tweet re: Edinburg, N. Dakota spill 10.30.19
https://twitter.com/TCEnergy/status/1189709635315544064

That darn Mark Trail

Thursday, October 31, 2019

NPR reviews Hex Wives

In 'Hex Wives,' The Witches Are Hunting You

Etelka Lehoczky

 October 31, 2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774790626/in-hex-wives-the-witches-are-hunting-you

Halloween comics are being handed out

I think I'll have more comics than necessary this time around due to the weather. However I've given complete sets to the MSU and Library of Congress comics collections.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Portrait Gallery's 2019 Outwin Competition winner is stop-motion animated piece

by Bruce Guthrie

The Outwin portrait competition -- something that the National Portrait Gallery sponsors every 3 years -- opened on Saturday with 46 finalists this year. They announced the winner of the competition at the media preview on Friday -- "A Portrait of Sarmiento Chávez" by Hugo Crosthwaite, stop-motion drawing animation (3:12 min.).

A stop-motion winner is a first for them. The current winning piece is shown in its entirety on that site -- https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2019-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/portrait-berenice-sarmiento-chavez

Set to the soundtrack of a dissonant guitar and a raspy voice singing in Spanish, this animated video reveals the dreams and experiences of a young woman from Tijuana who seeks to take part in the American Dream. Black ink, gray wash, and white paint—applied by the invisible hand of the artist— take turns to expose Berenice Sarmiento Chávez's humble background and the threat of violence in her home country that pushed her to immigrate to the United States. The film suggests that the immigration journey is seeded with constant danger, especially for women and children.

This video is part of a series based on artist Hugo Crosthwaite's interviews with people who are living in or are passing through Tijuana. The resultant improvised drawings represent the collective memories and oral histories from that part of the Mexico-U.S. border.

Superhero costumes, especially Spider-Man, popular in DC area this year

The DCist has the story: