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Saturday, November 23, 2019
Today: Local Comic Shop Day at Beyond Comics
Friday, November 22, 2019
NPR's Lehoczky reviews Connor Willumsen's graphic novel Bradley of Him
'Bradley Of Him' Is A Surreally Fun Desert Run
Carla McNeil's Finder makes Rolling Stone 50 best list
The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels
Disaffected hipsters, cyberpunk dystopias, cranky ducks and boy geniuses: Here are the greatest comic-story collections that don't feature caped crusaders
Nina Allender in Billy Ireland exhibit profiled in Smithsonian blog
Celebrating a Century of Women's Contributions to Comics and Cartoons
A new exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment features innovative illustrations from the suffragist movement to today
By Theresa Machemer
November 20, 2019
Baltimore Sun on Mike Lane
Former Evening Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Lane, known for 'free-flowing artistry and passionate advocacy,' dies
R.I.P. cartoonist Mike Lane: 'rude, vicious, tough'; we wouldn't have it any other way
By BALTIMORE SUN EDITORIAL BOARD
BALTIMORE SUN
Robin Ha's new book, Almost American Girl, out in January
| Coming Soon from HarperCollins Children's Books |
 Almost American GirlBy Robin Ha A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how the arts can save a life—perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation—following her mother's announcement that she's getting married—Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn't understand the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cut off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At home, she doesn't fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to—her mother. Then one day Robin's mother enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a future Robin could never have imagined. (January 2020) |
Dec 6: Animezing!: Mirai
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Dec 3: Matt Wuerker and KAL at Georgetown University
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Cartoons, Controversy and Caricatures: Political Cartooning in the Age of Trump
Healey Family Student Center, Herman Room, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
LOCATION
Healey Family Student Center, Herman Room
DATE
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Join POLITICO's Matt Wuerker and The Economist's Kevin Kallaugher for a workshop and open discussion on the theory and practice of political cartoons. Attendees will participate in the conversation and even learn to draw some famous politicians.
Sponsored by GU Politics and The Hilltop Show
EHR Insights - A Secret History of Comics story
by Mike Rhode In 2011, 3 issues of EHR Insights were published by the Defense Health Information Management System (DHIMS) which was based in Falls Church, VA at the Skyline complex. The comic book was built on the same lines as Will Eisner's WWII-and-beyond-era PS Magazine. The comic was "the new training booklet for the military's Electronic Health Record" which was designed by the Army to complement its pre-existing AHLTA system.
Unlike PS Magazine, EHR Insights survived for only a year and has mostly vanished without an electronic trace. ComicsDC writer R.M. Rhodes gave me a copy of issue 2 today and I started poking around looking for information on it. The main source of information online is a blog post by Brandon Carr who was the creator of the comic.
The comic itself is a mixture of single page comics and text, and a feature story. In #2 it's an Indiana Jones takeoff, "Montana Jackson on the Quest for the Golden Record."
Carr wrote that 10,000 copies of each comic were printed, but none are currently cataloged in WorldCat and only my copy is now indexed in the Grand Comics Database, although a set should theoretically be in the National Archives. My copy of this issue will be sent to Michigan State's Comic Art Collection soon, but it's also now scanned and available in the Medical Heritage Library.
I've reached out to both DHIMS's successor agency and Carr, and and the successor agency says they have no information on it.
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