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Tuesday, September 08, 2020
PR: Small Press Expo Announces 2020 Virtual Programming Slate
Book Review: Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World
reviewed by Cathy Hunter
YOSHI YOSHITANI is an illustrator based in California who has done work for The Walt Disney Company, Image Comics, Valiant Comics, IDW Publishing, DreamWorks Animation, and Rebellion Publishing. Illustrator of the graphic novel Zatanna and the House of Secrets, Yoshi is currently working on a young adult graphic novel for DC Comics. Yoshi regularly appears on panels at comic book conventions such as Emerald City Comic Con, New York Comic Con, C2E2, HeroesCon, LightBox Expo, WonderCon, DesignerCon, Thought Bubble, and Dragon Con.
Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World
by Yoshi Yoshitani.
(Ten Speed Press, $18; hardcover)
The 78 stories gathered in Beneath the Moon show the universality of themes that frequently appear no matter what the culture—searching for love, searching for riches, and overcoming evil. For readers who grew up reading fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen or the Brothers Grimm, there are old favorites represented here along with stories not as widely-known. One I particularly enjoyed meeting for the first time was “Matsuo’s Sake,” explaining how sake became the preferred drink of the kami in Shintoism, and that dragons covet sake.
The artist, Yoshi Yoshitani, has created rich, crystalline illustrations presented alongside each one-page retelling. The colors are jewel-like: amethyst, ruby-red, and particularly lovely shades of blues and greens that are especially striking in “Yemoja,” a Nigerian tale of a Yoruba deity, and “Rainbow Crow,” a Native American story. (I don’t know what medium she used for this art, but Ten Speed Press did a good job reproducing the saturated colors.) Beneath the Moon is a lovely compilation for anyone who enjoys stories from all four corners of the world.
From the press release -
YOSHI YOSHITANI is an illustrator based in California who has done work for The Walt Disney Company, Image Comics, Valiant Comics, IDW Publishing, DreamWorks Animation, and Rebellion Publishing. Illustrator of the graphic novel Zatanna and the House of Secrets, Yoshi is currently working on a young adult graphic novel for DC Comics. Yoshi regularly appears on panels at comic book conventions such as Emerald City Comic Con, New York Comic Con, C2E2, HeroesCon, LightBox Expo, WonderCon, DesignerCon, Thought Bubble, and Dragon Con.
Cavna talks to Knight about Woke
Keith Knight's show 'Woke' feels right on time. But he's been drawing about police brutality for decades.
Washington Post September 8, 2020
The Post continues Mulan articles
Less singing, more fighting: How Disney's live-action 'Mulan' differs from the classic animated film
Washington Post September 8, 2020 : C1-2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/09/05/mulan-live-action-animated-differences/
Why Disney's new 'Mulan' is a scandal
Washington Post September 8, 2020 p A23
Free Virtual Orientation to the LoC's Prints & Photographs Division on Tuesday, Sept 15 at noon EDT
Sara Duke, one of the curators of the original comic art, will be presenting.
The Prints & Photographs Division, after 6 months of being closed to the public, is offering a virtual tour of our digitized collections, finding aids, and guides on Tuesday, September 15 at noon EDT. Register for free through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prints-photographs-division-virtual-orientation-tickets-119513390769 . The platform will be via WebEx Events. The orientation won't be recorded.
Saturday, September 05, 2020
Smee on Guston in The Post
Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It's happened before. [Guston's brilliant political cartoons].
Washington Post September 6, 2020 p. E1, 5
The Post likes The Boys
'The Boys' is still a bloody good time. Really bloody. [in print as 'The Boys' is still a bloody good time]
Washington Post September 5, 2020 p. C1-2
That darn WuMo
Utter lack of appreciation
Lou Ann Brubaker
However, WuMo is done by a pair of Danes.
Friday, September 04, 2020
The Post's opinion on Charlie Hebdo massacre trial
The Charlie Hebdo trial serves as a reminder that we can't have freedom without solidarity
The Post reviews Mulan... and Pepe the Frog
The new 'Mulan' is somber and serious-minded — and spectacular [in print as A heroic battle that is worth revisiting]
Washington Post September 4, 2020 : Weekend 16-17
and not apparently on their website is ...
[The documentary "Feels Good Man" tells the story of Pepe the Frog...]
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post September 4, 2020 : Weekend 17
... but he liked it.
'Mulan': A Beloved Disney Classic Reimagined As Martial Arts Epic
Liu Yifei stars in the live-action reimagining of Disney's Mulan.
The biggest movie so far to be bumped from theaters to home viewing during the pandemic is Disney's Mulan. The live-action reimagining of the 1998 animated musical doesn't have songs or a cartoon dragon. But the story still finds young Mulan disguising herself as a man so she can fight in her father's place.
Vice recommends King's Strange Adventures
DC's Best Comic Right Now Is Not So Quietly About the Horror of the Iraq War
Strange Adventures is about a broken man making a terrible mistake.
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Mo Willems' Kennedy Center performance comes to HBO
Mo Willems' First Live Action Special Gets HBO Max Premiere Date
Aug 27, 2020
Latest 2120 post from 730DC
This is week five in our six weeks of dispatches from the year 2120. Stay tuned for the thrilling finale next Thursday. You can read the first four installments here and more about the project here. Josh Kramer annotates these messages with links from our present and is also drawing this comic that takes place in 2120. Click here to unsubscribe but keep getting 730DC.
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "This Machine Kills Fascists"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"This Machine Kills Fascists"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3058
American protest-song legend Woody Guthrie was known for the sticker on his guitar reading "This Machine Kills Fascists".
However, the murder of unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin by Kyle Rittenhouse — and the ongoing assaults against unarmed protesters by armed fascist thugs — have led me to conclude that there's only one kind of machine that kills fascists — and it's not a guitar.
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"'This Machine Kills Fascists': The Life And Music Of Woody Guthrie",
U.S. History Scene
https://ushistoryscene.com/article/woody-guthrie/
"Kyle Rittenhouse, teen charged in Kenosha killings, praised police and supported Trump", Los Angeles Times 08.27.2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kyle-rittenhouse-teen-charged-in-kenosha-killings-praised-police-and-supported-trump/ar-BB18pwHy
"How Nonviolence Protects The State", by Peter Gelderloos via The Anarchist Library
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3058
American protest-song legend Woody Guthrie was known for the sticker on his guitar reading "This Machine Kills Fascists".
However, the murder of unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin by Kyle Rittenhouse — and the ongoing assaults against unarmed protesters by armed fascist thugs — have led me to conclude that there's only one kind of machine that kills fascists — and it's not a guitar.
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"'This Machine Kills Fascists': The Life And Music Of Woody Guthrie",
U.S. History Scene
https://ushistoryscene.com/article/woody-guthrie/
"Kyle Rittenhouse, teen charged in Kenosha killings, praised police and supported Trump", Los Angeles Times 08.27.2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kyle-rittenhouse-teen-charged-in-kenosha-killings-praised-police-and-supported-trump/ar-BB18pwHy
"How Nonviolence Protects The State", by Peter Gelderloos via The Anarchist Library
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
6:15 today - Book Talk with Jeremy Whitley and Jamie Noguchi
TODAY AT 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM
Book Talk with Jeremy Whitley and Jamie Noguchi
Online Event
Details
Today at 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM
Public · Hosted by The Hilltop Show
Join the Hilltop Show for a conversation with the creators of "School for Extraterrestrial Girls" about working in the genre of Sci-fi Kid Lit, and writing and illustrating books during COVID-19
Jamie will also talk about his webcomic "Yellow Peril" and Asian-American representation in entertainment.
Doors open at 5:45 PM EST.
The Lily's latest comic
Being on social media is exhausting. Here's how I'm balancing it with my well-being.
At times, it feels performative
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Fantom Comics newsletter excerpts
- FREE COMIC BOOK SUMMER SATURDAY COMES SEPTEMBER 5TH AT FANTOM:
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, September 5th:
Ten Speed Press - Jack Kirby Epic Life King of Comics
Graphix - Owly the Way Home
Insight Comics - Mean Girls Senior Year
Viz Media - Naruto Samurai 8 Viz Manga
Benitez Productions - Lady Mechanika
Will also have the following which was incorrectly said to have come out August 29th:
IDW Publishing - Usagi Yojimbo
**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
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.
- EVENTS:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH @ 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/SeptemberTrivia
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH @ 3PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Draw At Home is back with Sarahti for another adventure in continuing to show fun tricks of the trade, share artwork and make new friends! Registration is required prior to the event.
Fantom Comics does have the right to remove any disruptive participants from the event, so please be considerate to others.
For further details: bit.ly/DrawAtHome920
FCBS Books Available This Saturday, September 5th:
Ten Speed Press - Jack Kirby Epic Life King of Comics
Graphix - Owly the Way Home
Insight Comics - Mean Girls Senior Year
Viz Media - Naruto Samurai 8 Viz Manga
Benitez Productions - Lady Mechanika
Will also have the following which was incorrectly said to have come out August 29th:
IDW Publishing - Usagi Yojimbo
**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
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.
- EVENTS:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH @ 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/SeptemberTrivia
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH @ 3PM VIA ZOOM: DRAW AT HOME WITH FANTOM COMICS:
Draw At Home is back with Sarahti for another adventure in continuing to show fun tricks of the trade, share artwork and make new friends! Registration is required prior to the event.
Fantom Comics does have the right to remove any disruptive participants from the event, so please be considerate to others.
For further details: bit.ly/DrawAtHome920
The Post on the Charlie Hebdo massacre trial opening
Charlie Hebdo republishes Muhammad cartoon ahead of shooting trial [in print as Charlie Hebdo reprints cartoons of Muhammad].
Washington Post September 2, 2020 : A15
Charlie Hebdo terror attack suspects go on trial in Paris
By Lori Hinnant and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny | AP
September 2, 2020
Post opinion piece on Black Panther accents
Why Chadwick Boseman's fight for African accents in 'Black Panther' was so important
Washington Post September 1, 2020
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
PR: Join us for our Beast Boy Virtual Launch Signing w/ Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo Tomorrow Night
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