| No images? Click here  LOA LIVE Peanuts at 70: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and The Meaning of LifeA conversation with Sarah Boxer, Jonathan Lethem, Clifford Thompson, and Chris Ware; Andrew Blauner, moderator  In 1950 Charles M. Schulz debuted a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. The Peanuts characters continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Join editor Andrew Blauner and four distinguished contributors to the LOA collection The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, for a seventieth anniversary conversation reflecting on the deeper truths of Schulz's deceptively simple strip and its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. Wednesday, December 16 Presented in partnership with Peanuts World Wide and the Charles M. Schulz Museum RELATED TITLE  Hardcover • 352 pages |
Monday, December 14, 2020
Dec 16: LOA LIVE: Celebrating the Peanuts gang at 70
Sunday, December 13, 2020
PCHH asks Does 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Hold Up, Ten Years Later?
Does 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Hold Up, Ten Years Later?
Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, Mark Webber are among the many stars of 2010's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
The 2010 film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World starred Michael Cera as a directionless and not terribly bright 22-year-old in Toronto. Despite an amazing cast and director Edgar Wright's kinetic visual style, the film underperformed. In the ten years since, it's attained cult status. But does it hold up?
The audio was produced by Mike Katzif and edited by Jessica Reedy.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Disney to rely heavily on Star Wars and Marvel media in 2021
Disney unveils huge cache of content, signaling it seeks to dominate both digital and theaters [in print as Disney unveils new content, signaling aim to dominate theaters and digital].
Steven Zeitchik
Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/disney-starwars-marvel-dominance/
Friday Night Comics: Holiday Special
Friday Night Comics: Holiday Special
Multiversity's reviewer doesn't like Tom King's “Batman/Catwoman” #1
"Batman/Catwoman" #1
By Elias Rosner | December 4th, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
The Post on Twins, an animated Zoom funeral, and Priya's Mask
She is the Brown girl superhero the world needs right now — and in recent days, she has gained fans from Mumbai to Maryland [in print as Teen superhero takes on covid, gaining fans from Mumbai to Md.]
Middle school worries inspired Varian Johnson's graphic novel 'Twins' [in print as Novelist's childhood inspired tale of rival twins].
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hang In There, Baby!"
"Hang In There, Baby!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=31
God, I miss Trump already — yeah, I said it, and I'd say it again if I had to. The sonofabitch isn't even out of office yet, and I already miss him. I miss the breathtaking, aggressive stupidity, the comical blustering, and those tweets. Oh god, yeah, those tweets — every one a solid nugget of pure comedy gold.
I really was hoping for another four years of those little classics, but no luck. Instead, we're in for four years of banal, empty, platitudinous bilge — like this little stinkburger, where he takes forever just to tell us that all we'll likely get for coronavirus relief is another measly-ass $1200 check, and that otherwise we can go fuck ourselves. Christ, it looks like something off an old 1970s cat poster.
David Miller's White Plague on Webtoons
 | A mysterious disease wipes out the world's Anglo (white) population. Handing the reigns of power to the black survivors as they try to carve a new society out of the carnage left from what they call the White Plague. Created, Written and Illustrated by David Neal Miller |
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Our own Alexandra Bowman gets highlighted in the Daily Cartoonist
Monday, December 07, 2020
Editorial Cartoon by Steve Artley
Recent Cartoons (click on Images for larger view)
"Obese Obsession"
©2020 Steven G Artley • artleytoons • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Sunday, December 06, 2020
Troy Allen talks to an Argentine cartoonist
Interview: Salvador Sanz Bares His Soul in 'Angela Della Morte' [Argentina].
Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Nov 27, 2020
Saturday, December 05, 2020
Does Uncle Sam need a makeover?
The Post on videogame animation voice actors
Call of Duty voice actors spent the summer on video calls like the rest of us [videogame animation voice actors; in print as Screams from the den? Just another day at the office.]
Mike Hume
Washington Post December 6, 2020 , p. E11
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/11/11/making-call-of-duty-cold-war/
Satirizing Crisis, Pt. 2 with Ann Telnaes and Kal
Satirizing Crisis, Pt. 2
Friday, December 04, 2020
Thursday, December 03, 2020
NPR reviews Wild Minds animation history
'Wild Minds' Traces The Origins Of Animation — From Blackton And McCay To Disney
Adam Frank December 2, 2020
NPR talks to Setor Fiadzigbey
Misty Copeland Celebrates Ballet's Beautiful Friendships In 'Bunheads' [Setor Fiadzigbey]
Samantha Balaban
Weekend Edition Sunday November 29, 2020
P&P Live! Nathan Hale | HAZARDOUS TALES #10: BLADES OF FREEDOM
P&P Live! Nathan Hale | HAZARDOUS TALES #10: BLADES OF FREEDOM
tonight - How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter
How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter
(December 3, 2020) On Tuesday, December 8 at 6:00 PM ET, the Society of Illustrators will host a free, online lecture titled How Alternative Comics Found a Home on Kickstarter.
The lecture will feature artist and designer Ganzeer and Oriana Leckert, the Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing, Comics, and Journalism at Kickstarter.
About the Panel:
While comic books and the comic arts have long held a prominent place in mainstream popular culture, there has always been an "outsider art" streak in the medium, particularly in alternative and underground comix. And outsider comic artists tend toward a strong DIY ethos, up to and including funding their work. Learn about the medium's alt-history from artist and designer Ganzeer, who recently crowdfunded his debut graphic novel The Solar Grid on Kickstarter, and from Oriana Leckert, Kickstarter's Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing & Comics, about some of the ways the platform has facilitated innovation and experimentation by queer people, people of color, and other marginalized people whose work is situated outside of the mainstream comics world.
Register Now:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZVwzwpXWQUmxRcNeR1rdLQ[us02web.zoom.us]
About the Speakers
Ganzeer
Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling; creating what he has coined: Concept Pop. His medium of choice as described in Artforum is "a little bit of everything: stencils, murals, paintings, pamphlets, comics, installation, and graphic design." With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer's work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki, and the V&A in London. His current project, a sci-fi graphic novel titled The Solar Grid is the recipient of Foreign Policy's prestigious Global Thinker Award.
Oriana Leckert
Oriana Leckert is the Senior Outreach Lead for Publishing, Comics, and Journalism at Kickstarter, where she helps creators bring a broad range of literary projects to life. She's written and edited for Vice, MTV News, Slate, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Atlas Obscura, and many more. Her first book, Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, grew out of a multi-year project chronicling the rise and fall of under-the-radar creative places across New York City.
Wednesday, December 02, 2020
NPR's best graphic novels of 2020 list includes Robin Ha
NPR's Book Concierge: Comics & Graphic Novels
Today at 2 PM: Nathan Hale at Politics and Prose
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Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Kick Me Hard"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Kick Me Hard"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=
Right about now, I'm sure most of you are laughing yourselves silly at
all the Progressives out there who voted for Biden under the delusion
that they could "push him left", when anybody with two brain cells to
rub together could take a look at his record over the past 40 years —
not to mention his lineup of Cabinet picks — and see that anybody who
thought they could push that sonofabitch left is on some kind of
weirded-out psychedelic voyage.
Take, for instance, this whiny-ass tweet from the knobs at DNC front
group Sunshine Movement: "We elected you, Joe, now it's time you act"...
https://twitter.com/
Oh, f'crissake, give me a big, fat break. The old bastard IS acting. He
came right and said that "nothing would fundamentally change" and that
he wouldn't ban fracking right out in front of God and everybody.
"Progressive" voters bought that horseshit like a bunch of ignorant-ass
rubes, and now the DNC is doing the equivalent of taping a big "Kick me
hard" sign onto their backs, like we used to do back in seventh grade —
and I, for one, have sub-zero sympathy for those losers.
"Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a
'progressive' Biden administration", Gabriel Black at the World
Socialist Web Site, 11.25.2020
https://www.wsws.org/en/
George Herriman political cartoon in Navy medicine history article
President Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Rixey and the Brownson Affair of December 1907
By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED