Virtual meeting with Tom King available at NYCC

$22 To Speak To Scott Snyder, Tom King or Greg Capullo For 3 Minutes

August 12, 2020 | by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/22-to-speak-to-scott-snyder-tom-king-or-greg-capullo-for-3-minutes/

Virtual National Book Festival comics art guests

The 2020 National Book Festival has announced its virtual guests.

There appear to be only 3 cartoonists, if you include Mo Willems who's been more of a children's author.

Jerry Craft

Mo Willems

Gene Luen Yang

Let me know if you spot someone I missed. Fortunately, we don't have to go wait in lines downtown for this big lineup. (That's sarcasm, although all 3 of the guests they do have are well-worth reading and listening to).

Fantom Comics Weds newsletter excerpts

ANOTHER FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER SATURDAY COMES AUGUST 15TH AT FANTOM:
This year has caused a great deal of hardship, so we're suggesting that anyone who'd like to grab some free books to donate to DC non-profits like Bread For The City (breadforthecity.org), Casa Ruby (casaruby.org), So Others Might Eat (https://www.some.org/), Capital Area Food Bank (https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/), or HIPS (https://www.hips.org). You can donate in store at checkout or through www.fantomcomics.com by searching "FCBS" at the top of the page, with minimum starting at $5 and no max threshold.

FCBS Books Available This Saturday, August 15th:

Dark Horse Comics- Norse Mythology/Critical Role
Albatross Funnybooks- Hillbilly: The Lizard of Rusty Creek Cave
Drawn & Quarterly- Little Lulu: No Boys Allowed
Oni Press- Super Mercado Mix Tape
Titan Comics- Blade Runner 2019

**We also have ALL previously released FCBS titles in stock - check out freecomicbookday.com to view them and all can be picked up in store (open for Phase Two) or via fantomcomics.com!**

For further details on FCBSummer: https://www.facebook.com/events/306700033813025?active_tab=about

- EVENTS:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH @ 6:30PM VIA ZOOM & FACEBOOK LIVE: FANTOM VIRTUAL TRIVIA NIGHT:
Fantom Trivia is going VIRTUAL again on the 3rd Saturday of August! Compete from your home to win the virtual gauntlet and help support the Fantom Comics community during these pandemic times.

For further details and sign up: https://bit.ly/AugustTriviaSignUp

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22nd @ 4PM VIA FACEBOOK LIVE: BLACK EXCELLENCE BOOK CLUB: FIRE!! THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON STORY WRITTEN & DRAWN BY PETER BAGGE:
Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.

If you would like to pre-order the book to have in time for the event, please reach out to us via email (fantomhq@fantomcomics.com), phone (202-241-6498) or coming into the store since we're open for Phase 2 and reserve your copy today!

For further details, check out the events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/214589706340688/?active_tab=about

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23RD @ 3PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Another chance for some community fun led by Sarahti, continuing to show you fun tricks of the trade, sharing artwork and making new friends during this isolated time!

For sign up and further details: bit.ly/DrawAtHomeAugust

PR: Small Press Expo Announces Voter Registration for the Virtual 2020 Ignatz Awards

Small Press Expo Announces Voter Registration for the Virtual 2020 Ignatz Awards

For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard Email: warren@smallpressexpo.com Small Press Expo Announces Voter Registration for the Virtual 2020 Ignatz Awards  Bethesda, Maryland – August 11, 2020 Media Release - Small Press Expo's 2020 Ignatz Awards, recognizing this year's outstanding achievements in comics by small press creators, will be held online for the first time. In past years the Ignatz Awards have been a festival prize to be voted on only by attendees of the show, this year's virtual event will open voting to all who have registered.  Please register to vote by following this link: https://www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-2020-voting. Key dates for the 2020 Ignatz Awards August 11 - Voter registration begins August 26 - Announcement of Ignatz 2020 Nominees August 28 - Voting begins with ballots emailed to all registered voters September 4 - Voter registration ends September 5 - Voting for the 2020 Ignatz Awards end September 12 - Online Presentation of Ignatz Award winners Ignatz 2020 logo design by Ebony Flowers Everyone registering to vote after the initial ballots are mailed on August 28 will be emailed ballots soon after registration. The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be live-streamed on Saturday night, September 12 at 8PM Eastern Time over the SPX Youtube channel. Further details on presenters will be given at a later date.  Please subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SmallPressExpo. Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests. The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: warren@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌

Rebecca Sugar remembers SPX's influence on her

In Conversation: Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson

Matt Moen

Paper August 9 2020

https://www.papermag.com/rebecca-sugar-noelle-stevenson-2646446747.html 

Making Comics for the Politically Indifferent with Ben Passmore

Join us this Friday for a free comics workshop with Ben Passmore and The Believer

For this week's installment in The Believer's free comics workshop series, we hope you'll join us Friday, August 14 at 7 p.m. EDT / 4 p.m. PDT, for Making Comics for the Politically Indifferent with Ben Passmore. Register here. You can learn more about Ben's book Your Black Friend and Other Strangers via our friends at Bookshop, where proceeds help The Believer and independent bookstores.  Register Here We aim to make these workshops family-friendly and safe for all. Anyone who engages in or displays obscenity, defamation, crude imagery, hate speech, or racist iconography will be removed and subject to legal action. Subscribe

8/11: Ann Telnaes talks Cartooning for Peace

Talk with Cartooning for Peace Artists Tomorrow

Concerts on the Lawn Selling Out - reserve final tix now! 

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Tomorrow • Finding Funny in Complicated Times: Cartooning for Peace 

Tomorrow, August, 11 • 5:30 p.m.

Explore the work of cartoonists who use their passion for cartooning and social justice to inspire consideration of global issues and human rights through art. Panelists Liza Donnelly, Ann Telnaes, and Ed Hall are members of Cartooning for Peace, a group of international cartoonists working in support of world peace. The organization was envisioned in 2005 by French cartoonist Jean Plantu, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, and others who believe in in the communicative power of the cartoon medium.

Reserve your spot on the interactive webinar here. 

Or visit NRM.org on Tuesday to watch the live stream. 

Signed copies of Swamp Thing: Twin Branches coming from One More Page

One More Page Books is delighted to partner with #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater to bring you personalized books and exclusive giveaway swag as part of Preorder Campaigns for her upcoming publications, as well as signed books, available year-round.

Swamp Thing: Twin Branches #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater (the Raven Cycle series) and artist Morgan Beem unearth the primal power of memory and how it twists the bond between two brothers. Pre-order your signed copy now! The #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle series) and artist Morgan Beem unearth the primal power of memory and how it twists the bond between two brothers. Twins Alec and Walker Holland have a reputation around town. One is quiet and the other is the life of any party, but they are inseparable. For their last summer before college, the two leave the city to live with their rural cousins, where they find that the swamp holds far darker depths than they could have imagined.  While Walker carves their names into the new social scene, Alec recedes into a summer school laboratory, because he brought something from home on their trip—it's an experiment that will soon consume him. This season, both brothers must confront truths, ancient and familial, and as their lives diverge, tensions increase and dormant memories claw to the surface. Swamp Thing: Twin Branches is a story of shadows, both literal and imagined—and those that take form and haunt us.

Aug 23: Megan Margulies in Conversation With Jacque Nodell

Megan Margulies in Conversation With Jacque Nodell Sunday, August 23 @ 2pm (PT) Register for the Zoom event Buy the Book

Megan Margulies's My Captain America (Pegasus) is a finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather, Joe Simon, cartoonist and cocreator of Captain America. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Margulies's story to chart the life and career of Rochester native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Margulies's life with Daddy Joe — and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time. Margulies will be joined in conversation by Jacque Nodell, author of How to Go Steady, curator of the blog Sequential Crush, and granddaughter of Martin Nodell, creator of the original Green Lantern.

Aug 20: Lisa Hanawalt in Conversation With Emily Heller

Lisa Hanawalt in Conversation With Emily Heller Thursday, August 20 @ 5pm (PT) Register for the Zoom event Buy the Book

Before the critically acclaimed animated shows (Tuca and Bertie and BoJack Horseman), the bestselling graphic novel, Coyote Doggirl, and the humor collections, Hot Dog Taste Test and My Dirty Dumb Eyes, cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt was a comic book industry sensation with her Ignatz Award-winning minicomic series, I Want You. Hanawalt's outlandish humor and ingenious formalism are evident in the comics collected in I Want You (Drawn & Quarterly). Her love of anthropomorphism and scatology are on full display, all lovingly and grotesquely drawn by Hanawalt in obsessive, unnerving detail. Whether she's discussing the daily commute or masturbation, she packs each comic in I Want You with punchy cultural observations and sharp-witted reflections on typically taboo subjects. A master humorist, Hanawalt strikes the perfect balance between drawing the gorgeous and the repugnant, the fantastical and the lifelike, the bizarre and the hilarious — creating a deeply human experience that everyone can relate to. Hanawalt will be joined in conversation by comedian and writer Emily Heller.

Comic Tabloids, with Warren Bernard, Episode 3 on Cartoonist Kayfabe

Comic Tabloids, with Warren Bernard, Episode 3: Chris Ware's New City Comic Book issue, 1997

Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg

•Aug 1, 2020

Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnP4CVOa3oo

Troy-Jeffrey Allen checks with Rob Liefeld about GI Joe

Snake Eyes Dead Game: A Comic Talk With ROB LIEFELD

Troy-Jeffrey Allen

 PREVIEWSworld Aug 7, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBWlyT9-Rg

On this week's COMIC TALK, we're joined by ROB LIEFELD, the co-creator of DEADPOOL, CABLE, and many more. Liefeld has just released the highly anticipated SNAKE EYES: DEAD GAME comic book series (co-written and fully illustrated by him). PREVIEWSworld Weekly's Troy-Jeffrey Allen hangs out with Liefeld to talk about joining the G.I. JOE franchise and answer viewer questions. https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR... Edited by Johnny Rose Produced by Josh Geppi & Troy-Jeffrey Allen Do you like our apparel? Then stop at a comic shop and pre-order hats, tees, jackets, socks, and more: https://goo.gl/SWSRQp

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Heavy Metal 300 cover artist

Got It Covered: Heavy Metal 300 with Agustin Alessio

by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Aug 08, 2020

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/244675

Troy-Jeffrey Allen profiles a local comics store... in California

Support Your LCS: Pro Skateboarder Ruben Najera's MexiCali Metahumans

by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Aug 07, 2020

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/244433-Back-The-Comeback-Pro-Skateboarder-Rueben-Najeras-MexiCali-Metahumans

The Post on Avatar

How 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' became one of the summer's most popular shows — 15 years after its debut ['Avatar: The Last Airbender' became a hit this summer - 15 years after debut].

Kari Sonde

Washington Post August 9, 2020, p. E4

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/how-avatar-the-last-airbender-became-one-of-the-summers-most-popular-shows--15-years-after-its-debut/2020/08/06/e368e740-d803-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html

That darn Galifianakis, Looney Tunes, and Loose Parts

A picture's thousand hurtful words [Nick Galifianakis].

Ruth Simmons

Washington Post (August 8 2020):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-thousand-words-but-no-picture-until-now/2020/08/07/1ef52f12-d8ae-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html

'I've got a bad feeling about this' [Loose Parts]

Paul Wesson, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Washington Post (August 8 2020):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-thousand-words-but-no-picture-until-now/2020/08/07/1ef52f12-d8ae-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html

A Looney change of Tunes

Casey Emmer

Washington Post (August 8 2020):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-thousand-words-but-no-picture-until-now/2020/08/07/1ef52f12-d8ae-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html

Richard Thompson fans at Who's Out There? blog

I recently got an email from one of the writers, noting,

At WOT, we really, *really* like Richard Thompson… and so refer to him at every semi-relevant opportunity.

https://whosouttherecomics.wordpress.com/tag/richard-thompson/

Beyond Richard, there's a lot of fascinating bits about cartoonists, and tentacles, on the site. I enjoy reading the 2 updates they do every week.

Weldon on the new Star Trek cartoon

With 'Star Trek: Lower Decks,' A Venerable Franchise Loosens Up

Glen Weldon

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour August 6, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/898545962/with-star-trek-lower-decks-a-venerable-franchise-loosens-up

8/28: Quarantine Q&A with Jamie Noguchi & Jeremy Whitley via Fantom Comics

Quarantine Q&A with Jamie Noguchi & Jeremy Whitley

 Hosted by Fantom Comics

https://www.facebook.com/events/2733690766876075/?

• Friday, August 28, 2020 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM

• Live Video by Fantom Comics  A Q&A interview session with Jeremy Whitley (Princeless, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Unstoppable Wasp) and Jamie Noguchi (Yellow Peril, Super Art Fight co-founder).

Dana Jeri Maier returns to the New Yorker's screen

Know Your Procrastination Style

By Dana Maier

August 7, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/know-your-procrastination-style