Thursday, February 11, 2021

The Lily's latest comic strip

Tarot cards are helping me rediscover magic — and myself

Each morning, I do a tarot reading

https://www.thelily.com/tarot-cards-are-helping-me-rediscover-magic-and-myself/

(Katie Wheeler)

Katie Wheeler

Feb. 7, 2021

Fantom Comics launches a podcast

THE FANTOMCAST ARRIVES ON WEDNESDAY 2/17:

We are very proud to announce the upcoming launch of a brand new podcast series - The FantomCast - created by longtime Fantom staffers Leah and Raven. What's it about? Well, it's part book discussion, part pop culture commentary, and all fun. Kinda like book reports, but with FRIENDSHIP! Available everywhere that matters next Wednesday.

Read a full description of FantomCast at: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/Blogs/Detail/581

*SPECIAL OFFER*

To help support the endeavor that is The FantomCast, we are celebrating / raising money by releasing a limited-edition t-shirt featuring the new FantomCast logo.

Designed by Sarahti, and based on the now classic "Ghost Eating Toast" logo originally created by Jade Lee, it's a must-have for your Spring ensemble. Available now in five fetching colors.

Order here: http://bonfire.com/fantomcast

Al Goodwyn's latest cartoon newsletter

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

February 11, 2021

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Impeachment II: The Reheated"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Impeachment II: The Reheated"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3137

"We have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the Senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present"
—Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), 02.08.2021

Well, hot damn diggety; nothing fills me with confidence quite like the poetic, sage pronouncements of Mr. Russiagate, himself. Meanwhile, Jamie Raskin is cementing his role as the Tired-Ass Cliché User In-Chief:

"...Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became
inciter in chief."

This hot mess isn't exactly going to be last night's lasagna, that's for goddamn sure — and those of you who love leftover lasagna like I do know what I'm talking about, and I'm the goddamn Leftover Lasagna Lover In-Chief.

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Mastodon link:
https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105710229253560559

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"Lead house manager Raskin: Trump 'inciter in chief'," Al Jazeera 02.10.2021
"...Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became
inciter in chief."
—Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/10/arguments-to-begin-in-trump-senate-impeachment-trial-live

"Trump's lawyers blast impeachment trial as 'political theater'," PBS News Hour, 02.08.2021
"We have the unusual circumstance where on the very first day of the trial, when those managers walk on the floor of the Senate, there will already be over 100 witnesses present"
—Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lawyers-blast-impeachment-trial-as-political-theater

Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage

and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Arlington-born Sharon Rudahl on A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

Sharon Rudahl on Ballad of an American – A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

291; Dec 16, 2020

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

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

The 291st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 at 7pm ET. Intro: Ben Katchor

Veteran graphic storyteller Sharon Rudahl discusses her checkered career, her hot-off-the-press graphic biography of black athlete performer and activist Paul Robeson, and political action in time of plague. Sharon Rudahl was born in Arlington, Virginia, in 1947. As a teenager, she marched with Martin Luther King. She studied art at the Cooper Union in New York City, living in the East Village in its heyday. Proceeds from her feminist erotic novel Acid Temple Ball paid for her art supplies and rent. After college, she helped start the anti-Vietnam War underground newspaper Take Over. She worked on underground newspapers in San Francisco in the early 1970s and began drawing comics in the first Wimmen's Comix. Her major works include A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, The Adventures of Crystal Night – reprinted in Abrams' Art in Time, Lincoln For Beginners, and large portions of the graphic version of Studs Terkel's Working, Harvey Pekar's Yiddishkeit, and Bohemians with Paul Buhle. She is married to a professional chessplayer and has two adult sons and two lynx point cats. They live in a 110-year old Hollywood bungalow so overgrown by foliage it cannot be seen on Google Earth, threatened on all sides by developers.

The Post's obit for S. Clay Wilson

S. Clay Wilson, who helped launch the underground comix movement, dies at 79

Harrison Smith

Washington Post Feb. 9, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/s-clay-wilson-dead/2021/02/09/8c37e3f0-6af6-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Jason Chatfield appreciation for Richard Thompson

February 9, 2021

https://www.jasonchatfield.com/blog/artist-spotlight-richard-thompson

Monday, February 08, 2021

Latest comics from The Lily

3 terrible (but hilarious) bad dates in comic form

We asked you to send us your awful dating stories. Then we had an illustrator draw them.

https://www.thelily.com/3-terrible-but-hilarious-bad-dates-in-comic-form/

Tess Smith-Roberts

Feb. 6, 2021

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I experienced homelessness as a teen. I'm still processing the trauma.

Homeless people are often treated as if they don't exist. It's dehumanizing.

https://www.thelily.com/i-experienced-homelessness-as-a-teen-im-still-processing-the-trauma/

Sage Coffey

Jan. 31, 2021

Sunday, February 07, 2021

Troy-Jeffrey Allen talks My Hero Academia

Interview: Get Ready for 'My Hero Academia Team Up Missions' [Editor Hope Donovan]

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

PREVIEWSworldFeb 04, 2021

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/249249-Interview-Get-Ready-for-My-Hero-Academia-Team-Up-Missions

Saturday, February 06, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Go Fish"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock-

"Go Fish"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3131

Wow, that two grand sure went away in a hurry, didn't it? I know I'm
sure not feeling too grand right now. But, enough of this gay banter.

In a trademark eleventy-dimensional chess move, the Democrats'
promised $2000 stimulus checks promptly turned into $1400 shortly
after the special runoff election in Georgia. Needless to say, your
"progressive" voters — along with the millions about to lose their
homes — are not amused.

Meanwhile, up here on Capitol Hill, shit's gettin' real. We'll be back
down to $600 before we know it.

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"Georgia voters enraged after Democrats promise of '$2,000 checks'
becomes $1,400", Fox News 01.20.2021
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-democrats-2000-checks-1400

"Biden sparks backlash among some progressives over $1,400 stimulus
checks in coronavirus relief proposal", Fox News Business, 01.15.2021
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/biden-sparks-backlash-progressives-covid-relief-proposal

"Biden Faces Test Of Unity Call On COVID-19 Relief Bill", Al Jazeera
02.01.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/1/biden-faces-test-of-unity-call-on-covid-19-relief-bill

"Eviction looms for struggling US renters as stimulus talks drag", Al
Jazeera 12.07.2020
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/7/millions-in-us-face-eviction-when-moratorium-ends-whats-next

Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage

and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Feb 16: JOHN JENNINGS and DAVID BRAME

JOHN JENNINGS and DAVID BRAME

Tuesday, February 16, 2021,
5:30 pm Central
Crowdcast

Rain Taxi is proud to present a virtual conversation with John Jennings and David Brame, the adaptor and illustrator, respectively, of the debut title from MEGASCOPE, a new line of graphic novels from Abrams ComicArts dedicated to showcasing speculative works by and about people of color. After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning novelist Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road." The presenters will discuss the new book, new imprint, and the importance of increasing access to great speculative writing by people of color. Free to attend, registration required.

Books can be purchased during the event, or in advance here, from Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis; click designated link below.

About the Authors:

John Jennings is the curator of the Megascope list and has previously created graphic novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Parable of the Sower. Also the co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, Jennings is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Learn more at creativedisturbance.org.

David Brame is a comics creator who has worked on titles such as Box of Bones and Necromancer Bill. An afrofuturist and a scholar, he recently contributed to the book Sanford Biggers: CODESWITCH published by Yale University Press. He lives in Alaska.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Troy-Jeffrey Allen talks to Chris Samnee

Interview: The Samnee Family Take on the Unpossible!

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Jan 28, 2021

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/249104-Interview-The-Samnee-Family-Take-on-the-Unpossible

Feb 16: Julia Kaye in Conversation With Shena Wolf

Julia Kaye in Conversation With Shena Wolf

Tuesday, February 16 @ 5pm (PT)

Register for the Zoom event

Buy the Book

My Life in Transition (Andrews McMeel) is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection, Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition. My Life in Transition is a story that's not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman — about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need, and finding peace in the fact that life keeps moving forward. After the nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden early transition period has ended and the hormones have done their thing, this book shows how you can be trans and simply exist in society. You can be trans and have a successful future. You can be trans and have a normal life full of ups and downs. In our current political and social climate, this hopeful, accessible narrative about trans lives is both entertaining and vital. Kaye will be joined in conversation with Shena Wolf, director of comics and acquisitions at Andrews McMeel Syndication.

Saturday, January 30, 2021

Latest comic from The Lily

I'm hard of hearing. The pandemic has introduced unique challenges — but I'm learning to overcome them.

There are already lots of roadblocks in society for people with disabilities

Shan Horan

Jan. 24, 2021

https://www.thelily.com/im-hard-of-hearing-the-pandemic-has-introduced-unique-challenges-but-im-learning-to-overcome-them/

That darn Speed Bump

There's no app for that

Ellen Raphaeli, Falls Church

Washington Post January 30 2021 p. A17

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-a-chilling-photo-that-provides-an-orwellian-reminder/2021/01/29/8b980c62-6237-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

Friday, January 29, 2021

The Smithsonian notices Wonder Woman 1984 came out and some places looked familiar

How 'Wonder Woman 1984' Was Filmed at the Smithsonian

By Lila Thulin

smithsonianmag.com
January 19, 2021

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-wonder-woman-1984-was-filmed-smithsonianand-what-it-would-have-really-been-diana-work-there-180976778/

Wonder Woman and the Smithsonian

•Dec 30, 2020

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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

Parts of the 2020 film "Wonder Woman 1984" were filmed at different Smithsonian museums. WW84 director Patty Jenkins shares why they chose the Smithsonian for Diana to work at and why the National Air and Space Museum was a must-see on Diana and Steve's whirlwind tour around Washington, DC.

Goodwyn Cartoons 1/29/21 online now

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

January 29, 2021

Strange Adventures #8 reviewed

'Strange Adventures' #8 review

Strange Adventures remains one of the most meaningful superhero stories on the stands today.

David Brooke

January 26, 2021

https://aiptcomics.com/2021/01/26/strange-adventures-8-review/

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Bon Voyage to Martha Kennedy of the Library of Congress

Martha Kennedy retires from being a paid comics historian at the Library of Congress tomorrow to being an unpaid one! We wish her luck. Martha wrote several exhibits, collected a bunch of comic art, oversaw the Swann Foundation scholarship, and authored a book on women cartoonists in the collection of the Library, Drawn to Purpose. When it's time to relax...

Her colleagues commissioned this caricature from Mike Jenkins.