Sunday, February 21, 2021
PR: AFI Awards celebrates SOUL as today's AFI Movie Club Selection (Sunday, February 21) with new video content from Tina Fey and Peter Docter
AFI MOVIE CLUB CELEBRATES AFI AWARDS 2020 HONOREE SOUL
WITH NEW CONTENT FEATURING TINA FEY AND PETE DOCTER
Bailey Salwey, Cinematography Fellow Named Recipient of the AFI AWARDS Audi Scholarship in the name of AFI AWARDS Honoree SOUL
Sunday, February 21, 2021
WHAT: AFI AWARDS celebrates SOUL with brand new content featuring actress Tina Fey and director Pete Docter. Fey accepts the AFI AWARDS honor on behalf of the creative ensemble and introduces the film to the AFI Movie Club audience, while Docter takes the audience "Behind the Scene" and talks about the influence of jazz and appreciating both music teachers and performers in the film.
"SOUL is a modern movie miracle. This ambitiously imaginative burst of life finds the spark of spirituality in American cinema – and delivers it to audiences of all ages in equal parts entertainment and enlightenment. Pete Docter and his talented team at Pixar tackle issues of the highest plane – death, regret, acceptance – and place their answers in the talented voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. The alchemy that results invites audiences to look to the future without fear – and to find the joy in their soul." -The American Film Institute
The AFI AWARDS celebration is sponsored by Audi, a supporter of AFI programs for the past 17 years. To commemorate each of the AFI AWARDS recipients, Audi has created the AFI AWARDS Audi Scholarships initiative providing scholarships in the name of the honorees to women and BIPOC Fellows at the AFI Conservatory – for a total contribution of $250,000. Congratulations to Bailey Salwey, Cinematography Fellow, recipient of the AFI AWARDS Audi Scholarship in the name of AFI AWARDS Honoree SOUL.
WHERE: Tina Fey Intro Video on AFI's YouTube channel
Pete Docter's "Behind the Scene" video on AFI's YouTube channel
About the American Film Institute (AFI)
Established in 1967, the American Film Institute is the nation's non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring artists and audiences through initiatives that champion the past, present and future of the moving image. AFI's pioneering programs include filmmaker training at the AFI Conservatory; year-round exhibition at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center and at AFI Festivals across the nation; workshops aimed at increasing diversity in the storytelling community; honoring today's masters through the AFI Life Achievement Award and AFI AWARDS; and scholarly efforts such as the AFI Catalog of Feature Films that uphold film history for future generations. Read about all of these programs and more at AFI.com and follow us on social media at Facebook.com/AmericanFilmInstitute, YouTube.com/AFI, Twitter.com/American Film and Instagram.com/AmericanFilmInstitute.
About Audi of America
Audi of America, Inc. and its U.S. dealers offer a full line of German-engineered luxury vehicles. AUDI AG is among the most successful luxury automotive brands, delivering about 1.845 million vehicles globally in 2019. In the U.S., Audi of America sold just over 224,000 vehicles in 2019 and launched the brand's first fully electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron – one of four fully electric models coming to the U.S. market in the next two years. Globally, the brand aims to be CO2 neutral by 2050. Visit audiusa.com or media.audiusa.com for more information regarding Audi vehicles and business topics.
Friday, February 19, 2021
Christian Cooper in favor of DC Statehood
Christian Cooper, The Central Park Birder Accosted By A White Woman, Has A New Cause: D.C. Statehood
Martin Austermuhle
The DCist Feb 19, 2021
Scrap the filibuster and make D.C. a state
Opinion by Christian Cooper
Jan. 29, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/29/dc-statehood-filibuster/
Today: Draw What You Love with Ann Xu
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Thursday, February 18, 2021
Arlington Library recommends Black graphic novels
Black Lives Matter: Graphic Novels
Arlington Public Library February 2021
Christian Cooper case settled
Charges dismissed against Amy Cooper, who called police on Black birdwatcher in viral Central Park video [in print as Case against White woman who called 911 on Black birdwatcher is dismissed].
March 22: Art+Feminism Special Guest: MariNaomi (Virtual Event)
Art+Feminism Special Guest: MariNaomi (Virtual Event)
March 22, 2021 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Art+Feminism Special Guest: MariNaomi Art+Feminism is an international community that strives to close the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet. In conjunction with the 2021 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, hear from award-winning author, illustrator, and cartoonist MariNaomi.
As a way to highlight underrepresented cartoonists, MariNaomi founded and maintains the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and Disabled Cartoonists databases. These databases are used by booksellers, librarians, academics, editors, book publishers, event organizers, readers, and more. This event features a conversation between MariNaomi and Caitlin McGurk, Associate Curator and Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
This event is presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and University Libraries.
About the Speaker
MariNaomi (she/they) is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016), and the Life on Earth trilogy (Graphic Universe, 2018-2020). Her work has appeared in over eighty print publications and has been featured on websites such as The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed.
MariNaomi's comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian, the De Young Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Japanese American Museum.
In 2011 and 2018, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She is the founder and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color Database, the Queer Cartoonists Database, and the Disabled Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program, and was a guest editor for PEN Illustrated. She is a cohost of the Ask Bi Grlz podcast with author Myriam Gurba.
MariNaomi lives in Los Angeles with a husband and a menagerie of cats, dogs, and butterfly babies.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
Event Organizers
Art and Design Librarian
hunt.877@osu.edu
Assoc. Curator Outreach & Eng.
mcgurk.17@osu.edu
Assistant Professor - Practice
clopton.1@osu.edu
Alex AdcockWexner Center for the Arts
TODAY: Sara Duke on Why Was this Picture Made - Library of Congress
Thursday, February 18 at 4 pm EST,
Sara Duke discusses 18th century cartoon prints made in the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
The point of the exercise is to lead people toward critical analysis of an image and the reasons for its existence.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Tonight: Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection
Julia Kaye + Emily VanDerWerff: My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection
Wednesday February 17 07:00PM-8:00PM ET
This is a ticketed event. All book purchases come with a signed bookplate from the author.
Please purchase a ticket HERE.
Join Julia Kaye as she presents her newest book My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection. Joining Julia in conversation is critic-at-large and TV editor Emily VanDerWerff. This event will be held on Crowdcast.io.
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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.
Please purchase a ticket HERE.
Join Julia Kaye as she presents her newest book My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection. Joining Julia in conversation is critic-at-large and TV editor Emily VanDerWerff. This event will be held on Crowdcast.io.
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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.
Julia Kaye is an award-winning artist and illustrator whose webcomic Up and Out has garnered hundreds of thousands of readers and wide critical praise. Her commitment to activism has led to collaborations with non-profit organizations such as The Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. Her work has appeared on Webtoon, GoComics, Buzzfeed, and the Disney animated show Big City Greens. Julia lives in Los Angeles.
Emily VanDerWerff is the critic-at-large for Vox and the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Grantland. She is the host of the Vox Media podcasts I Think You're Interesting and Primetime. Her first book, Monsters of the Week, published in 2018. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and an ever fluctuating number of cats.
Feb 18: Take a Break with Chuck Wendig
  The days are loooooong. So take a quick break and pop in on our Q&A with author Chuck Wendig (Star Wars: Aftermath, the Miriam Black thrillers). We'll chat about his extensive work and whatever else comes up, plus you can even submit a question over on Twitter. Put it in your schedule as Very Important Meeting and we'll see you there!
Join us on tomorrow @ 1pm ET! p.s. This month, Chuck Wendig's Unclean Spirits is available free for members. |
Feb 25: Writing Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King
Feb 25
Writing Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King
Thu. Feb 25, 2021 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Co-authors of the new Serial Box exclusive discuss joining forces in the Marvel Universe.
Featuring
- Steven Barnes
- Tananarive Due
- Geoffrey Thorne
- In the new Black Panther: Sins of the King, the Black Panther has a terrible secret. T'Challa strives for excellence—to be a fair and worthy king, a global citizen, an Avenger. But when an army of undead threatens Wakanda, the Black Panther turns to his long-lost father in the fight against his most lethal opponent yet—the demons of his past.
This serialized standalone Black Panther story was collaboratively co-created by multiple authors taking turns writing different chapters. They will discuss that process—and how they landed on the end result.
LIVE from NYPL is made possible by the support of Library patrons and friends, as well as by the continuing generosity of Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.
GET THE BOOK
If you have a NYPL library card—or live in New York state and want to apply for one now—you can borrow Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King for free with our e-reader app SimplyE, available for iOS and Android devices.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Steven Barnes is a New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and educator who has written more than thirty science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels. The NAACP Image Award winner has also written for The Outer Limits, The New Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, and Ben 10: Alien Force. He has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace Awards. Barnes has lectured at UCLA, Mensa, Pasadena JPL, taught at Seattle University, hosted the "Hour 25" radio show on KPFK, and has been Kung Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine. An avid yogi and martial artist with three black belts, Steven is also a pioneer in the human potential movement, creating the groundbreaking "Lifewriting" creativity system, making writers the heroes of their own stories.
Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.
This program will be streamed on Zoom and simulcast to YouTube. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. Please check your email shortly before the discussion to receive the link. Captions for this event will be provided.
Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc.) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Sara Beth Joren at sarabethjoren@nypl.org.
For all other questions and inquiries, please contact publicprograms@nypl.org.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
2/18: Over the Moon: Glen Keane in conversation with Robert Kondo
Over the Moon: Glen Keane in conversation with Robert Kondo
Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 4pm (PST)
Tickets: Free (via Zoom) RSVP below
Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 4pm (PST)
Tickets: Free (via Zoom) RSVP below
The Cartoon Art Museum and Netflix present animation legend Glen Keane (Oscar®-winning director of Dear Basketball) in conversation with director Robert Kondo (The Dam Keeper, Tonko House) as they discuss Keane's storied animation career and his latest feature film, the Netflix/Pearl Studio production Over The Moon. This discussion will be followed by a brief Q&A session with our live audience.
This presentation is free and open to the public thanks to the generous sponsorship of Netflix. Advance registration is required. Please visit the Cartoon Art Museum's Zoom event page for reservations.
Cavna on editorial cartooning
Newspaper cartooning is dominated by White men. Will a new White House spark change?
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Flugennock;s Latest'n'Greatest: "Sweethearts"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -
"Sweethearts"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3147
Mastodon link: https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105730347492271674
I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this. Don't ask me to explain why, but watching the Democrats faceplanting has been a guilty pleasure of mine for some years now.
The Democrats have built a stellar reputation on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and this week's impeachment circus didn't disappoint. Caught Trump dead to rights instigating mob violence and an attempted putsch, and the Senate GOP told the Democrats to pound sand as per usual, leaving the Democrats once again stomping their little feet, blustering and whining like Joe Besser.
Well, I just hope the Dems have finally gotten this shit out of their system. Maybe now that this shitshow is over, they can get to work getting us some decent COVID relief... and maybe some friggin' healthcare...?
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"Trump Found 'Not Guilty' At Impeachment Trial", Al Jazeera 02.13.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/13/senate-readies-to-vote-on-trump-impeachment-live
"Read the Article Of Impeachment", New York Times 01.11.2021
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/11/us/articles-impeachment-trump.html
"Joe Besser" bio at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Besser
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"Sweethearts"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3147
Mastodon link: https://mastodon.social/@flugennock/105730347492271674
I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this. Don't ask me to explain why, but watching the Democrats faceplanting has been a guilty pleasure of mine for some years now.
The Democrats have built a stellar reputation on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and this week's impeachment circus didn't disappoint. Caught Trump dead to rights instigating mob violence and an attempted putsch, and the Senate GOP told the Democrats to pound sand as per usual, leaving the Democrats once again stomping their little feet, blustering and whining like Joe Besser.
Well, I just hope the Dems have finally gotten this shit out of their system. Maybe now that this shitshow is over, they can get to work getting us some decent COVID relief... and maybe some friggin' healthcare...?
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"Trump Found 'Not Guilty' At Impeachment Trial", Al Jazeera 02.13.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/13/senate-readies-to-vote-on-trump-impeachment-live
"Read the Article Of Impeachment", New York Times 01.11.2021
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/11/us/articles-impeachment-trump.html
"Joe Besser" bio at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Besser
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Covid love at the Post
Love at Six Feet
by Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg
Washington Post February 12 2021, p. C2
Friday, February 12, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
The Post's obit for cartoon free speech defender Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78
By Paul W. Valentine
Feb. 10, 2021
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