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Monday, May 11, 2020
May 14: P&P Live!: Graphix Panel - Tom Angleberger, Breena Bard, and Maria Scrivan
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Friday, May 08, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hands Across The Sea"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist - Mike Flugennock -
Name the two countries whose leadership has been the most comically ignorant and incompetent in the face of this crisis.
Give up...?
Name the two countries who currently lead the world in COVID-19 deaths.
Name the two countries whose public health services are the most ravaged by budget cuts and privatization.
Name the two countries whose leadership has been the most comically ignorant and incompetent in the face of this crisis.
Give up...?
Otakon 2020 cancelled
Message from the President & Con Chair
April 27, 2020
We are very sad to announce that we must join the countless other events around the world and announce the cancelation of Otakon 2020. While we had been clinging to the last bits of hope that our later dates would allow us the potential to hold an event, on April 17th it was announced that our venue, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, would be converted into an Alternate Care Facility. After discussing the timelines with the Convention Center staff and Destination DC, even in the most optimistic scenario that the facility is not needed to be used they would still be in the move-out/clean up process by the dates of our event.
We know this is not the news you wanted to hear. For those of you who may not know, Otakon, is run, planned, staffed, and organized by an ALL volunteer organization. As our staff have been trying to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, we have also continued planning, and holding out hope that Otakon 2020 would still happen. All of the best things that make up our community are needed more than ever right now. We need fandom, we need inclusion, we need acceptance, we need family and friendship, we need creativity and escape; we need FUN! We held out hope as long as we could that we could be all of that this year. Please know that this decision breaks our hearts as much as it does yours.
So, we are at least happy that we can announce our dates for next year:
Otakon will return to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, August 6-8, 2021
All registrations for 2020 will automatically be registered for 2021. No additional action will be needed.
If you are unable to attend in 2021, or need to request a refund for other reasons, we are making an exception to our standard no-refunds policy for this year. Please fill out the Refund Request form on our website before May 31st.
Dealers and Artists will have the option to transfer their registrations to next year, or request a refund.
Hotel reservations made through Experient (our official housing provider) will automatically be cancelled. According to our records, no deposits for any rooms booked inside our room block have been taken. If you booked outside our housing portal you will need to contact your hotel directly.
We'd like to say thank you to our partners at Destination DC, Events DC, Experient, Hargrove, DSL, Simmons Security, and more. Thank you to all of our industry partners and guests, both foreign and domestic, and thank you to all of our artists and dealers.
To our members, thank you for your support and encouragement through this crisis. Our motto has always been "for fans, by fans". This is truly a labor of love for us, and we will need your continuing support more than ever in the weeks and months to come.
Finally, we want to publicly thank all the volunteers who work behind the scenes to bring you Otakon and are working so right now to readjust things for 2021. Our volunteers are more than just a group of people who work to put on a convention each year; we're very much a family. We'll just need to wait till next year for our big reunion.
Stay safe, and we'll see you in 2021!
Nick Avgerinos, President
Andrew Zerrlaut, Convention Chair
Thursday, May 07, 2020
Cavna checks on the Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper shows up often in pandemic cartoons — whether to provoke or provide dark humor [in print as Grim Reaper rears its head for cartoonish purposes]
The Post on Disney's parks
Disney is about to reopen its Shanghai theme park. It could be a lot longer before that happens in the U.S. [in print as Disney takes cautious approach to reopening U.S. parks].
Washington Post May 7, 2020 , p. A26
Howl’s Moving Castle versions interpreted by DC's Elyse Martin
Elyse Martin is a Chinese-American Smith College graduate who lives in Washington DC with her husband and two cats. She writes reviews for Publisher's Weekly, and her essays and humor pieces have appeared in The Toast, Electric Literature, Perspectives on History, The Bias, Entropy Magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine. She spends most of her time writing and making atrocious puns—sometimes simultaneously—and tweets @champs_elyse. She's at work on several novels.
The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge: An Interview with Ryan Holmberg
The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge: An Interview with Ryan Holmberg
Tom Devlin
Erin Entrada Kelly and Terri Libenson, "We Dream of Space" and "Becoming Brianna" in conversation with Karen MacPherson
Erin Entrada Kelly and Terri Libenson, "We Dream of Space" and "Becoming Brianna" in conversation with Karen MacPherson
Politics and Prose Bookstore May 7, 2020Comics on The Lily - Sage Coffey and coronavirus
Coronavirus caused chaos. Cutting my hair gives me a sense of control.
Changing an aspect of my appearance is soothing, even if it doesn't come out perfectly
Wednesday, May 06, 2020
The Post on Disney's coronavirus problems
Disney sees profit drop because of coronavirus, but worst is likely yet to come
No plan yet for reopening U.S. theme parks, no stock dividend contemplated for next six months, executives tell analysts
Washington Post May 6, 2020
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Cooking Korean, Robin Ha, and Bulgogi
Cooking Korean, Robin Ha, and Bulgogi
I'll catch up with Robin Ha, author of Cook Korean! A Comic Book with Recipes, while making bulgogi.
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Recent Cartoon in mixed media (click on Image for larger view)
"Dystopia at the Piggly Wiggly"
Wash Post's coronavirus art call - a chance to appear in the Post
We'd like to see the artwork you're creating during the coronavirus crisis
Sunday, May 03, 2020
Telnaes' full-page Post cartoon on Trump
Trump's hunka hunka daily love
The president has turned his coronavirus briefings into an odd variety show.
By Ann Telnaes
Washington Post May 3 2020, p. A28
May 8: A Conversation with Roz Chast “Is Now When I Should Panic?"
The Museum of the City of New York is hosting a talk with Roz Chast online, on May 8th at 4 pm. Registration is encouraged.
In case any of you might be interested:
Friday, May 01, 2020
Library of Congress on preserving Captain America #1
Preservation Week: From Captain America to Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, April 30, 2020
May 7: Terri Libenson online at Politics and Prose
Erin Entrada Kelly and Terri Libenson, "We Dream of Space" and "Becoming Brianna" in conversation with Karen MacPherson
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/erin-entrada-kelly-terri-libenson/
Ages 8-12
Join us for an afternoon with two award-winning middle grade authors as they discuss their authentic and compulsively readable new books. In We Dream of Space, the latest release from the Newbery Medal-winning author of Hello, Universe, three siblings navigate a chaotic household and the trials of seventh grade as they await the launch of the Challenger space shuttle. In Becoming Brianna, the fourth book in the Emmie & Friends graphic novel series, Brianna Davis prepares for her bat mitzvah while pressure builds from her mother's expectations and a fight with her best friend. Readers will find comfort and company in these refreshingly honest portrayals of family, friendship, and middle school angst.
In Conversation with Karen MacPherson, Children and Teens Librarian, Takoma Park, MD Library.
"We Dream of Space" - https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780062747303
"Becoming Brianna" - https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780062894533
Terry Flippo on Blockhead podcast
Terry Flippo
Blockhead podcast 2020-04-08
Small-press cartoonist (and former mailman) Terry Flippo has made a big splash with hit webcomic, "Deliver Me!" about life carrying the mailbag for the U.S. Postal Service! Terry and Geoff talk about "Deliver Me!", small press, the early days of SPX and some of the challenges faced by mail carriers in the days of Covid-19.
Latest Liz at Large posted
Liz At Large: "Accomplishment"
How sweet it is.
Liz Montague
Apr 30, 2020
Cavna and cartoonists on Pence, unmasked
How cartoonists are ridiculing Pence's Mayo Clinic visit without a mask
Washington Post April 30, 2020
Catching up with the Lily's coronavirus comics
Here's a day in my self-quarantined life, hour-by-hour. We think you might relate.
Is it week six or week 60?
Here are anxiety coping mechanisms that could help you during social distancing
I learned these helpful techniques in therapy
At first, self-quarantine pushed my marriage to its limits. Then, something amazing happened.
It all changed when we started having deep, honest conversations
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "America Sends Death"
From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -
"America Sends Death"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2981
Despite oppressive blockades and sanctions, Cuba has managed to dispatch brigades of doctors to coronavirus hotspots to help fight the pandemic — in keeping with a long-standing tradition of solidarity and mutual aid. Cuba is also reported to have produced promising results
with interferon and other experimental drugs against COVID-19, despite the punishing economic warfare Cuba is suffering at the hands of the United States.
The US, in the meantime — still the epicenter of the pandemic — escalates its brutal program of sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela and Iran, commits acts of piracy against other nations and its own States, continues to crank up xenophobic and racist hysteria against China, deprives citizens and healthcare workers of vitally-needed PPE and other equipment, tries to whip its working class back to work under dangerous conditions for substandard wages, and its President goes on national TV to suggest that citizens combat the virus by injecting or drinking bleach.
I'll leave it to you to judge which nation is conducting itself better on the world stage.
"America Sends Death"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2981
Despite oppressive blockades and sanctions, Cuba has managed to dispatch brigades of doctors to coronavirus hotspots to help fight the pandemic — in keeping with a long-standing tradition of solidarity and mutual aid. Cuba is also reported to have produced promising results
with interferon and other experimental drugs against COVID-19, despite the punishing economic warfare Cuba is suffering at the hands of the United States.
The US, in the meantime — still the epicenter of the pandemic — escalates its brutal program of sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela and Iran, commits acts of piracy against other nations and its own States, continues to crank up xenophobic and racist hysteria against China, deprives citizens and healthcare workers of vitally-needed PPE and other equipment, tries to whip its working class back to work under dangerous conditions for substandard wages, and its President goes on national TV to suggest that citizens combat the virus by injecting or drinking bleach.
I'll leave it to you to judge which nation is conducting itself better on the world stage.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Annapolis' Jim Toomey and Sherman's Lagoon on Northwest fishing issue
'Sherman's Lagoon' wades into Columbia River debate
Comic strip author uses humor, science to shed light on salmon-sea lion controversy
By Scott Hewitt, Columbian Arts & Features Reporter
Published: April 28, 2020,
'Sherman's Lagoon' Brings Salmon-Eating Sea Lions In The Columbia River To A World-wide Audience
April 21, 2020
Thanks to DD Degg of the Daily Cartoonist for highlighting these links.
Fantom Presents: Bites of Terror Q&A with Cuddles and Rage!
Fantom Presents: Bites of Terror Q&A with Cuddles and Rage!
Leah LyWe're keeping our social distance talking to local creators Liz and Jimmy Reed about their new book, BITES OF TERROR. Jam-packed with some disturbingly delicious short stories, we'll discuss process, inspiration, and all things sweet, cute, and creepy. BITES OF TERROR is available for purchase at Fantomcomics.com now!
Coronavirus Catch-up Conversation with Caricaturist Mike Jenkins
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I've talked with Arlington's Mike Jenkins several times here, iirc, and recently we were Zoom judges together for the Robert F. Kennedy cartoon award that will be announced on May 1. I checked in with Mike recently about the state of his business, which is normally dependent on going to places and parties and drawing the happy people there. As I suspected, his company, Capital Artworks, has taken a sharp hit from the pandemic. I commissioned a post-birthday caricature, and I encourage other readers with regular incomes to do the same (not drawings of me though).
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected your business of drawing caricatures?
Most of the work my coworkers and I do is caricatures for special events like high school graduation, family celebrations and company parties. We have sideline illustration and caricature commission work as well, but that is the bulk of it. The coronavirus hit in March, which is usually the tail end of our slow quarter. A great deal of the work we do is corporate and private events, which usually concentrates around graduation/summer and the holiday seasons. There’s a lull after the holidays, and the business picks up again around April. So when the coronavirus social distancing hit it didn’t affect our regular business cycle, but everything in the pipeline vanished. Even if the restrictions lift sometime before summer, there’s a strong likelihood the economy will have taken such a hit that there will be cutbacks in special events where caricaturists are hired.
But that void is a possible opportunity. There are many families who are upset that their high school graduates are missing out on all the fun and celebration of their kids’ milestone achievement, and want to commemorate it in some way. And other special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and awards are going without the traditional gatherings and celebrations. Drawings were a popular part of those celebrations, and they are affordable and still available. The only work we have coming in right now is commission work of that sort, and we're hoping that will go some way towards refilling the pipeline. Even if the full blown event caricature business never comes back, we have the skills we developed there and commission work could be the next step.
But that void is a possible opportunity. There are many families who are upset that their high school graduates are missing out on all the fun and celebration of their kids’ milestone achievement, and want to commemorate it in some way. And other special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and awards are going without the traditional gatherings and celebrations. Drawings were a popular part of those celebrations, and they are affordable and still available. The only work we have coming in right now is commission work of that sort, and we're hoping that will go some way towards refilling the pipeline. Even if the full blown event caricature business never comes back, we have the skills we developed there and commission work could be the next step.
How much of your business has dried up during this epidemic?
I would say all of the business. Commission illustration and caricature work has been a sideline to the main special event caricature business. Now that’s all we see coming in. We’ll see if that holds.
Can people still get drawings from you? How should people contact you?
My email is mike@capitalartworks.com.
What type of information do you need to do a 'virtual' cartoon (i.e. a real drawing, but not with the sitter in front of you)?
Two or three photos of the person to be drawn are what I usually go by, including at least one high resolution one if possible, but one decent photo will do. If it’s a color caricature I may need details such as eye and hair color. They often don’t come through in photos quite right. And I ask people to suggest a personalized background detail or two if they want more than a head and shoulder portrait style. If they have a list of details, I ask that they make it in descending order of importance. If I can’t work it all in, I cut from the bottom of the list to make sure the most important suggestions are included in the finished drawing.
As a small business owner, are you applying for some loans from the government?
I was considering taking a loan to upgrade my website before the pandemic hit, then I was glad I hadn’t. I’m uncomfortable taking on debt when there’s no guarantee the work I’ve been doing will come back. If not, I need to rethink my marketing, and at that point may apply for a loan. When I hire other artists it’s on a subcontracting basis, so the paycheck protection aspect of government small business loans doesn’t seem to apply to people like me.
Mike's website for Capital Artworks is https://www.capitalartworks.com/ if you want to see more of his work. He has a strong following on Facebook for his lunchbag artwork and I'm sure he'd be glad to do some of these on commission too, if you've got someone still leaving the house each day. And you can read Mike's older attempt to creating a comic strip around his life.
The coronavirus is obviously affecting a lot of local artists, stores, and companies. If you'd like to be interviewed here at ComicsDC about your comic art job, drop me a line.
Ralph Steadman Zoom backgrounds from Flying Dog Brewery
They are available here - https://flyingdog.com/zoom-backgrounds/
Steadman's had a long-time relationship with the Frederick, MD brewery and has probably done about 30 labels for them.
Noon today - WATCH LIVE | Cartoon Workshop with Pulitzer Prize Winning Matt Wuerker
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Today: Cuddles and Rage at Fantom Comics on Zoom
APR 29 2020
Fantom Comics presents: Bites of Terror by Cuddles and Rage
· Hosted by Fantom Comics and 2 others
- Today at 6 PM – 7:30 PMStarts in about 8 hours
- Fantom Comics2010 P St NW, 3rd Floor, Washington D.C. 20036
Details
So we originally intended for this to be an in person event, but we're doing a work around and hosting it virtually! Fantom Manager Leah will be doing a Q&A with local Fantom friends Liz and Jimmy Reed of Cuddles and Rage via Zoom! We will be streaming, so stay tuned for details!
BITES OF TERROR is a collection of 10 creepy-cute short stories starring Cuddles and Rage's signature high quality diorama photographs of their hand-sculpted creations which are always delicious and sometimes diabolical. Follow The Cake Creeper through this macabre anthology of cautionary tales!
BITES OF TERROR is available now at Fantom Comics. Check out our website, fantomcomics.com! https://www.fantomcomics.com/products/bites-of-terror-graphic-novel
If you'd like to make a mail order request please contact us at fantomhq@fantomcomics.com or call us at 202-241-6498!
BITES OF TERROR is a collection of 10 creepy-cute short stories starring Cuddles and Rage's signature high quality diorama photographs of their hand-sculpted creations which are always delicious and sometimes diabolical. Follow The Cake Creeper through this macabre anthology of cautionary tales!
BITES OF TERROR is available now at Fantom Comics. Check out our website, fantomcomics.com! https://www.fantomcomics.com/products/bites-of-terror-graphic-novel
If you'd like to make a mail order request please contact us at fantomhq@fantomcomics.com or call us at 202-241-6498!
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
DCist on virtual Awesome Con
Awesome Con Goes Online To Offer Some Comic Relief
Colleen Grablick
DCist April 28 2020
Re: 3 pm today: Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!
Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!KALApril 28 2020This episode Interviews Australian cartoonist Jason Chatfield who has published a diary about his brutal battle with Coronavirus. Very much worth a watch.
3 pm today: Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!
Satire Can Save Us All webcast: The virus has struck!
KAL
April 28 2020
This episode Interviews Australian cartoonist Jason Chatfield who has published a diary about his brutal battle with Coronavirus. Very much worth a watch.
Monday, April 27, 2020
April 30: P&P Live! Christopher Eliopoulos - The Yawns Are Coming
P&P Live! Christopher Eliopoulos - The Yawns Are Coming
Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 10 a.m.
It's sleepover night, and two best friends have a lot on their to-do list. They can't wait to stay up all night to accomplish it all. But everywhere they turn, the dastardly Yawns threaten to overtake them. Those Yawns might even bring Dozes, Snores, and Sleepies! Will two pajama-clad heroes be able to outrun them? This witty, adorable picture book succinctly captures the magic of best-friendship and childhood sleepovers. Ages 4-8.
Click here to join the event.
Politics and Prose Live! 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20008
$17.99
9781984816306
Coming Soon—Pre-Order Now
Dial Books - April 28th, 2020
PR: With Garth Ennis and PJ Holden’s The Stringbags, Dead Reckoning Maintains May 20th On-Sale Date and Establishes Comic Store Terms
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
With Garth Ennis and PJ Holden’s
The Stringbags,
Dead Reckoning Maintains May 20th On-Sale Date and Establishes
Comic Store Terms
Dead Reckoning, the graphic novel imprint of Naval Institute Press, will maintain the on-sale date of May 20, 2020 for The Stringbags by Garth Ennis, PJ Holden, and Kelly Fitzpatrick. Considering the current upheaval in the comics distribution pipeline, Dead Reckoning has established comic store terms for those shops that may wish to order direct and advises thatThe Stringbags is also available from Ingram Content Group.
Based on the Royal Navy’s combat squadrons who flew the Fairey Swordfish aircraft during World War II, The Stringbags is a subject Ennis has wanted to write about for years. Because of an extensive partnership effort during May and June 2020 with Wargaming.net and its hit game, World of Warships (whose combined reach is one half billion users worldwide), Dead Reckoning believes that those comic stores operating on an online or curbside basis will receive requests for this book. Robin Noonan, director of sales and marketing, and Jack Russell, sales and marketing manager, are reaching out to comic retailers to inform them of the newly created terms. Shops interested in purchasing The Stringbags or any other Dead Reckoning titles direct are encouraged to contact sales@deadreckoning.org.
“We believe that if ever there was a time when books and the stores who sell them are considered ‘essential services,’ it is now,” says Noonan. She adds, “In their pre-publication reviews, comic and book critics agree The Stringbags story and art are stellar. We think those retailers who want new titles should be able to order this book from us or from Ingram in the timeframe originally promised.”
Dead
Reckoning’s warehouse, Books International, remains open. It operates
under guidelines set forth by Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the State of Virginia, and local authorities.
Aftertime Comics closes; SPX is on
Aftertime Comics Folds Up, Waits for Pandemic to End Before Reopening in New Space
James Cullum
April 27 2020
James Cullum
April 27 2020
SPX 2020 Is Still On — For Now
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Steve Brodner's Portraits of the victims [in print as The Lives Ended by COVID-19]
Portraits of the victims [in print as The Lives Ended by COVID-19]
Zoom wallpaper from Ann Telnaes
Just right-click 'Save As' for the image at the top of this story - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/24/rats-are-coming-heres-how-we-can-keep-them-away/
Saturday, April 25, 2020
That darn Lio
'Lio' blows it [letter, coronavirus].
Christine Stelloh-Garner, Huntingtown
Washington Post April 25 2020
Cavna on cartoonist Chatfield's coronarivus
A New Yorker cartoonist got covid-19. So he drew this public warning.
Washington Post April 25, 2020
Cavna tells me he talked to Chatfield just yesterday, so he must be feeling better. Because Michael does a grueling interview...
Friday, April 24, 2020
PR: David Miller's The Comics Prisoner
David Miller writes in,
I'm announcing my new YouTube show: The Comics Prisoner! It's a review and commentary show about comic art and artists. It will be filled with OpEd pieces by yours truly and I hope you'll check it out and share feedback. Here's the link to the inaugural episode. Please watch, comment, hit like and subscribe. That's it for now! More news to come!
David Miller
 | In the inaugural episode of the Comics Prisoner, he finds himself both incarcerated and enraptured by the epic pairing of penciler Bob Brown and inker extrao... |
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