Saturday, September 12, 2020

PR: Third Eye is Hiring (Annapolis)

Hey Third Eye Faithful!

We are currently looking for team members to fill the following positions at our stores:

ANNAPOLIS MD - Part-Time Sales Associate

Requirements - 1+ year of retail (preferred) or service sector experience (waiting tables, bartending, etc.). Willing to work evenings and weekends. Friendly, outgoing, and reliable.

MAIL ORDER TEAM MEMBER

ANNAPOLIS MD - Part-Time & Full-Time Mail Order Team Members

Requirements - Experience in handling comics & collectibles, a plus. Able to lift at least 50 pounds, can work long shifts on feet.

If you have already submitted your resume prior, please do so again, as we get many resumes daily, and it's always good to have a fresh one handy!

STAY CONNECTED

Third Eye Comics | 209 CHINQUAPIN ROUND RD, SUITE 200, Annapolis, MD 21401

Friday, September 11, 2020

SPX 2020 Program Schedule Tomorrow & Sunday

SPX 2020 Program Schedule

https://www.smallpressexpo.com/spx-2020-program-schedule

SPX programming for 2020 is going virtual — details below!

September 12, 2020

11:00 am - 11:50 am https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Parenting And Art In A Time Of Crisis

Balancing parenting with creating art can be difficult under the best of circumstances. In a time when parents also have to cope with a global pandemic, economic turmoil, injustice and oppression, and naked racism, how are cartoonists who are parents coping with this? How is it affecting not only their output, but the content of More Info »

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12;15 pm - 1:05 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Enemies Of The State

This will be a live presentation of the Enemies Of The State podcast. Moderated by Alex Hoffman, he will join critics Daniel Elkin, Sarah Miller, Jules Bakes, and Rob Clough to do a deep dive into Vivian Chong & Georgia Webber's graphic memoir Dancing After TEN.

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1:30 pm - 2:20 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Diskette Press: Ann Arbor Trans Printing Club

Take a tour and listen to the behind-the-scenes workings of Ann Arbor's Diskette Press! Publisher Carta Monir will lead a discussion with two of the artists she publishes, Emma Jayne (Trans Girls Hit The Town) and Casey Nowak (Girl Town, Duh Ha Ha). Diskette's ace employee and Risograph tech whiz Renée Cymry will also provide More Info »

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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Red, White, Black, & Blue: Highlighting America's Racial Illiteracy

Combining comics, storytelling, statistics, and facts, Knight makes the case that America's biggest problem is its inability to have a frank and honest discussion about race. Knight's presentation is designed to provoke constructive dialogue amongst people young and old, left and right, of all colors and orientations. The presentation has been a hit at schools, More Info »

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4:15 pm - 5:10 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Just For Laughs

Just For Laughs is a panel dedicated to gags in comics, how they work, and why we love them! Ideally, we'll discuss the structures that make for a successful gag, the role of gags in fan comics, how gags work in the midst of heavier material, the culture surrounding gags, and, of course, the gags More Info »

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5:30 pm - 6:20 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Anthologies, Activism, And Visibility

Anthologies can be a powerful source for a number of artists to raise their voices for a particular cause. Moderator Dr. Rachel Miller will join Diane Noomin (editor of the Eisner Award-winning Drawing Power: Women's Stories Of Sexual Violence, Harassment And Survival), Hazel Newlevant (editor of the Ignatz Award-winning Comics For Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, More Info »

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6:45 pm - 8:00 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

The Future Without You

A seamless tapestry of comics, radio play, and live theatrical performance, The Future Without You is a collection of six short pieces from Tulsa Artist Fellow and Ignatz-award winning comics creator Sophie Goldstein and Tulsa Artist Fellow Carl Antonowicz, starring actors Kara Bellavia and Javier Sagel. Moderator Rob Clough will have a brief discussion with More Info »

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September 13, 2020

11:00 am - 11:50 am https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Comics And Contracts

One thing lacking in many art school curriculums is how to approach signing a book contract. What considerations should an artist consider in negotiating a contract? How do factors like copyrights, media rights, licensing, reversion rights figure into a contract? Join moderator Rob Clough and the interim Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense More Info »

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12:15 pm - 1:05 am https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

How Drawings Resonate: Empathy and Identity in Graphic Memoir

Cartoonists GB Tran (Vietnamerica) and Erin Williams (Commute) join this roundtable with moderator Qiana Whitted and other scholars from the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) to discuss the ways that audience, reception, and "relatability" affect how comics are created, particularly those by women and people of color. How do these artists render hidden on painful More Info »

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1:30 pm - 2:20 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

The Body Laid Waste: The New Body Horror in Comics

While comics have always provided a space for the provocative modification of the human body, in recent years cartoonists have returned to the horror genre to twist it with their new visions of terrifying human figures. Grounding their approach to horror in the body itself, these artists excavate intimacy, desire, fantasy, and community care as More Info »

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3:00 pm - 3:50 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

So Goth She Was Born Black: A Spotlight on Bianca Xunise

Moderator J.A. Micheline will engage in conversation with Ignatz-award winning cartoonist Bianca Xunise (Six Chix, Say Her Name) about punk rock, goth, and her comics career.

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4:15 pm - 5:05 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Strategies Of Resistance

Political cartooning is often also intensely personal. How do political cartoonists decide how to personalize their strategies for resistance against powerful state and corporate structures? Moderator Rob Clough will engage R.Sikoyrak (Constitution Illustrated), Dwayne "Mr. Fish" Booth (Nobody Left), Breena Nuñez (The Nib), and Derf (Kent State: Four Dead In Ohio) regarding visual strategies, the More Info »

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5:30 pm - 6:20 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Systemic Corruption And Public Displacement

How do cartoonists confront the notion that public institutions that we should be able to trust are often corrupt and racist? How are they reacting to how public protest is met with military force and the ways in which gentrification is a literal and figurative act of violence? Join moderator Robin Enrico as he engages More Info »

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6:45 pm - 7:35 pm https://youtube.com/SmallPressExpo

Communicating Queer Identity Through Fictional Structures

How and why do cartoonists use fictional characters as a stand-in for their own experiences? Moderator Alex Hoffman and artists Lawrence Lindell (The Section), Kelsey Wroten (Cannonball), and Trungles (The Magic Fish) will explore how fictionalization allows artists to express certain truths more openly, lets artists shape a narrative, and the process of deciding how More Info »

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NCSFest Schedule 2020

https://ncsfest.com/schedule/

NCSFest Schedule 2020

Streaming broadcast begins at 10am (EST) Saturday, September 12

10:00 am

90 mins

From Panels to Publishing

NCSFest kicks into high gear with a Quadruple-barreled dose of cartooning talent featuring 2019 Reuben Nominees MARK TATULLI and TERRI LIBENSON along with MARIA SCRIVAN, and ROB HARRELL discussing their evolution from comic strips and panels to book publishing. These four multi-award-winning cartoonists will share their distinct experiences with moving from traditional syndicated newspaper strips to multiple successful publication properties.

Hosted by: JASON CHATFIELD

11:30 am

Division Awards Round 1

Join us for the announcement of the first round of Divisional Awards:

Editorial Cartoons

Magazine/Newspaper Illustration

Newspaper Panels

Gag Cartoons

11:45 am

50 mins

The Art of Funny

Join Garfield and US Acres creator, JIM DAVIS, as he pulls back the curtain on Paws Inc. with an NCS exclusive presentation deconstructing the art of humor. Jim shares his journey from making his mom laugh, his influences, as well as his origins in Indiana attempting stand-up comedy around the time his Ball State dorm-mate, was giving it a try… and went on to become one of the most legendary Late Night Hosts in America.

Jim explores his theory on how humor can heal and get us through tough times, as well as how he believes it won a Presidential election.

This session then takes a further deep dive into the power of humor, the mechanics of gags used in cartoons and comic strips, character-construction, personalities and relationships, the importance of the reader in the writing process, which days of the week to run your strongest and weakest gags, his team's writing process, the importance of what you don't see, the art of pantomime, using real-world names and events in a comic strip, transitioning comic strips into film and television and most importantly, what he thinks is funny. This is one very special presentation not-to-be-missed!

12:35 pm

50 mins

The Superstar Cartoonists of Instagram

In this exclusive NCSFest session, Editorial Director for Comics at King Features, TEA FOUGNER, interviews some of the most popular cartoonists on Instagram, including GEMMA CORRELL, LINIERS, LUKE McGARRY, MARITSA PATRINOS and creator of The Awkward Yeti, NICK SELUK.

The session delves into the different journey of each creator in cultivating an audience on an eer-evolving visual social media platform, as well as their daily process of creating for an audience who very readily reply to their work. From people getting offended by their work, to figuring out a creative process that stays unique to the artist, this is a one-of-a-kind discussion for anyone interested in the future of making a living as a cartoonist in the digital age.

Hosted by: TEA FOUGNER

1:25 pm

Division Awards Round 2

Join us for the announcement of the second round of Divisional Awards:

Online Comics – Short Form

Online Comics – Long Form

Online Animation

Advertising/Product Illustration

1:40 pm

60 mins

Creator Spotlight: Tom Fishburne, Creating a Successful Online Cartooning Business

Cartoonist TOM FISHBURNE started doodling on the backs of business cases as a Harvard Business School student. From an emailed cartoon to coworkers in 2002, Tom's Marketoonist series has grown by word of mouth to reach more than 200,000 readers every week and his cartoons have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The New York Times. His cartoons have appeared on a billboard in Times Square and helped win a Guinness World Record.

Tom spoke at the TED headquarters in New York on "The Power of Laughing at Ourselves". He was Cartoonist-in-Residence and Lecturer for the Stanford GSB course on humor in business.

In this one hour session, hosted by NCS President JASON CHATFIELD, Tom shares how he came to build a successful online cartooning business from the ground up, along with the importance of finding your niche, and more importantly your 'enough'.

This talk explores the challenges of freelancing, working remotely, the importance of email marketing for all cartoonists as well as developing the correct technical skills to use social media to your advantage.

2:40 pm

60 mins

Creator Spotlight: Georgia Dunn on Breaking Cat News

Join Director of Comics and Acquisitions at Andrews McMeel, SHENA WOLF as she interviews the talented young creator of Breaking Cat News, GEORGIA DUNN about her journey from creating a webcomic to getting syndicated. Georgia outlines her process of writing, as well as her technical process of creating a comic strip in watercolor and more.

3:40 pm

50 mins

25 Years of Mutts

Keep your seats, because you won't want to miss the next session: Join host and For Better Or For Worse creator LYNN JOHNSTON in celebrating PATRICK McDONNELL'S journey over the past 25 years with his iconic comic strip, MUTTS and everything along the way. Patrick is this year's Elzie Segar Award-winner for his unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

Lynn and Patrick talk about everything from early influences like their friend, the late Charles Schulz, to the fantastic Lynda Barry, and working with Abrams Comic Arts Editor Charlie Kochman on Patrick's new Book, The Art of Nothing. (Which is really something.)

4:30 pm

Division Awards Round 3

Join us for the announcement of the third round of Divisional Awards:

Comic Books

Graphic Novels

Feature Animation

Television Animation

4:45 pm
50 mins
The Six Chix 20th Anniversary

Join the current slate of SIX CHIX cartoonists in celebrating their 20th Anniversary, with Editorial Director for Comics at King Features, TEA FOUGNER. Enjoy the journey of a multi-cartoonist feature from its early years with encouragement from Jay Kennedy, to today's iteration of the Six Chix feature and all its recent controversy. This talk is not just a reflection on the past 20 years, but gives insight into what the future holds for making a living as a cartoonist in the 21st century, as well as what other projects each of the contributors are working on right now.

5:35 pm

15 mins

Reveille: Beetle Bailey short documentary

Since its launch in 1950, Beetle Bailey has appeared every day in newspapers all over the world. After sixty-five years and 25,089 unique comic strips, new ideas are hard to come by for creator Mort Walker and his three sons, who make up the creative team. Fortunately, like any good military outfit, they have a regimented system and a sense of duty to get the job done. "Reveille – A Family Legacy in Comics", created by David Walker lifts the curtain up on the family business that produces this iconic piece of Americana.

5:50 pm

30 mins

Desert Island Comics with Watchmen's Dave Gibbons

'Desert Island Comics' – five comics, a favorite snack and a luxury item – what would you take to a desert island? Courtesy of Peter Kessler and our friends at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, we find out which items Dave Gibbons would choose. Gibbons, the only UK Artist to be inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame, is the co-creator of the wildly popular Watchmen comic series, and Executive Producer on the multi-award nominated HBO series of the same name.

6:20 pm

Division Awards Final Round

Join us for the announcement of the fourth and final round of Divisional Awards:

Greeting Cards

Book Illustration

Variety Entertainment

Newspaper Strips

Big congratulations to John Glynn on his Silver T-Square for his outstanding contribution to the Cartooning Industry!

Big congratulations to Garry Trudeau on his Gold T-Square for 50 Years in the industry!

6:35 pm

In Memoriam

We pay tribute to the cartoonists and industry colleagues who we've lost in the past year.