Friday, November 15, 2019

Minor mystery of an Annapolis midshipman apparently reading Mad in 1955

by Mike Rhode



A colleague was looking through the US Naval Academy yearbook, The Lucky Bag 1959 and I noticed that a midshipman was reading Mad as a first year student (which is internally dated as being 1955, logically enough for a four year college). So I scanned it thinking that it was just another example of someone reading comics in an earlier day.

But what's odd is that this cover, showing Alfred E. Neumann walking away from a trash can labelled 'What me worry?" doesn't actually seem to be a  1955 MAD cover, based on the Grand Comics Database's cover gallery.

What it actually is though is the first issue of More Trash from Mad from 1958 with art by Kelly Freas. So, shockingly, somebody mis-attributed the date of the photograph in the yearbook.
cover from Grand Comics Database

DC native Ron Wimberly's Prince of Cats to be adapted to film

Spike Lee to Direct 1980s-Set Hip-Hop 'Romeo & Juliet' Tale 'Prince of Cats' (Exclusive)

by Borys Kit

Musician Paul Vodra recommends Big Planet Comics Vienna

A D.C. Dream Day of new bands and cool art for Hometown Sounds' Paul Vodra

Washington Post November 11 2019

"The next place I would go to is Big Planet Comics. It's a small chain with four stores. My home base is in Vienna, where I've been a subscriber since 1993. But there's also one on U Street [NW] that is very good. They are now publishing things — their graphic novels are really cool. But they just have the best selection of stuff; the graphic novels and all the stuff coming out from Image Comics these days is just blowing my mind."

Original Geppi's Comics World sign resurfaces

Eventually, Steve Geppi had stores in the DC area too, including Silver Spring, MD and Crystal City, Arlington, VA.

Dec 3: Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice

Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice (Hardcover)

Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice Cover Image

ISBN: 9781534424562
ISBN-10: 1534424563
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: November 5th, 2019
Pages: 208
By Debbie Levy, Whitney Gardner (Illustrator)
$19.99
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Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Dissent comes a biographical graphic novel about celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a modern feminist icon—a leader in the fight for equal treatment of girls and women in society and the workplace. She blazed trails to the peaks of the male-centric worlds of education and law, where women had rarely risen before.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has often said that true and lasting change in society and law is accomplished slowly, one step at a time. This is how she has evolved, too. Step by step, the shy little girl became a child who questioned unfairness, who became a student who persisted despite obstacles, who became an advocate who resisted injustice, who became a judge who revered the rule of law, who became…RBG.

About the Author

Debbie Levy is the award-winning author of many books of nonfiction and fiction, including the New York Times bestseller I Dissent, This Promise of Change, The Year of Goodbyes, and the young adult novel Imperfect Spiral. She lives in Maryland with her husband. They have two grown sons.

Whitney Gardner is an author, illustrator, and coffee addict. Originally from New York, she studied design and worked as an art teacher and school librarian before moving to Victoria, British Columbia, where she lives by the Salish Sea with her husband and two pugs. In the rare moment Whitney isn't writing or drawing, she's likely to be reading comics, knitting, or roasting coffee. Her books include the YA novels You're Welcome, Universe; Chaotic Good; and the middle grade graphic novel Fake Blood.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley

Recent Cartoon (click on Image for larger view)

"Falling Flakes"
©2019 Steven G. Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

RVA Magazine on Richmond Zine Fest

Richmond Zine Fest: A World Of Creativity At Your Fingertips
Norrin Nicholas | November 8, 2019

Female detective comics briefly displayed at Library of Congress

The details of the one-day exhibit are here:

Alexander McCall Smith and the World of Mma Precious Ramotswe

Alyssa Rosenberg on Marvel movies

Marvel is a supervillain. Even Martin Scorsese doesn't stand a chance.

Washington Post November 13, 2019 A25

Ann Telnaes on Day 1 of the impeachment hearings

Sketches from the Kent and Taylor impeachment hearing

Rest in passion, Tom...

(reprinted with permission)


PR: New political cartoon book from Clay Jones


Impeach This Book! Cartoonist Clay Jones collects his smartest, funniest Donald Trump cartoons in one ridiculously long-tied, deluxe volume!


 

(IMPEACHMENT DAY, November 13, 2019) -- Editorial cartoonist ClayJones has been drawing the world around him for more than two decades, but his style and humor caught fire at the beginning of the Trump Administration.

An award-winning artist whose work is seen on CNN as well as newspapers and news sites across the United States and beyond, Jones collected his best Trump-related 'toons in one full-color, 270-page deluxe collection titled Tales From the Trumpster Fire: A Cartoon Anthology ($39.95US; Mr. Media Books, 2019).

Among his fans, Jones is perhaps best known for distinctive north and south caricature of Donald J. Trump: the hair goes on and on to the north while the ever-present red tie flows ever-further south. The book features a Foreword by fellow editorial cartoonist Matt Davies and endorsements from TV personality Rosie O'Donnell and fellow cartoonists Ann Telnaes and Mike Peters.

Clay Jones is a self-syndicated political cartoonist whose work is distributed to newspapers and news sites across the United States and around the world. He also draws a weekly cartoon for CNN Opinion’s weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. Clay was represented by Creators Syndicate (2000-13) until he left to start his own syndicate. His career began in 1990 at The Panolian, a weekly newspaper in Batesville, Mississippi. Clay also worked for the Daily Leader in Brookhaven, Mississippi, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He previously worked as a freelance cartoonist for The Daily Dot, The Seattle Times and The Costa Rica Star.
Clay won “Best Cartoon” in the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest (2018), as well as several state awards in Mississippi, Hawaii and Virginia. Additionally, he was the finalist for the Herblock Award (2019), and rejected a weird “free speech” award from the government of Iran.
A collection of his work is archived at the Mattie Sink Memorial Library at Mississippi State University. An early collection of his cartoons, titled “Knee-Deep inMississippi,” was distributed by Pelican Publishing (1997). And his work was displayed in an exhibit at the Jewish Museum Berlin (2017).
His daily cartoons are featured in about 50 newspapers and have been reprinted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Dallas Morning News, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Ottawa Citizen, the Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, Newsweek and Time Magazine. They’ve been seen on CNN, MSNBC and C-SPAN.
Clay plays and writes 90s-style alt-rock on guitar. He released the album “No Thanks To Hancock” with the band Corporate T-Shirt.
He lives somewhere in the Washington, D.C, suburbs of Northern Virginia.


Mr. Media Books is an independent publisher known for its wide array of unrelated titles, from business titles such as Mean Business by “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap and Determined by Atlanta business legend Felker Ward to You’ll Need a Guide by Marshall Craig and the pulp fantasy noir series Tales of the Annigan Cycle (imagine if Edgar Rice Burroughs collaborated with Quentin Tarantino). The St. Petersburg, Florida-based imprint, started by writer Bob Andelman in 2014, also published the politically brutal humor of The Wages of Sin by cartoonist Keith Brown.