PR: Watch The SpongeBob Musical — Streaming This Weekend!

Watch The SpongeBob Musical — Streaming This Weekend!

Gonzaga College High School is thrilled to present the Tony award-winning Spongebob Musical online this weekend!

Three performances will stream "live" on Friday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 9 at 2:30 p.m. This show is an ocean of fun for the whole family! Watch the preview trailer and purchase tickets at the link above.

NPR talks to Bechdel

Alison Bechdel Discusses A Lifelong Affair With Exercise In New Memoir

Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Weekend Edition Sunday May 2, 2021 

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/992846159/alison-bechdel-discusses-a-lifelong-affair-with-exercise-in-new-memoir

Lehoczky talks to Barry Windsor-Smith

Comics Hero Barry Windsor-Smith Is Back, And He's Brought Something Monstrous

Etelka Lehoczky

May 2, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/992500125/comics-hero-barry-windsor-smith-is-back-and-hes-brought-something-monstrous

Cavna talks to Bechdel

Alison Bechdel thought she was writing a book about exercise. It became a metaphysical adventure.

Michael Cavna

Washington Post May 7, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/05/07/alison-bechdel-secret-superhuman-strength/

Betancourt on Invincible, Falcon and Star Wars

'The Bad Batch' proves Star Wars animation still has a story to tell

David Betancourt

Washington Post May 6, 2021 , P. C2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/05/04/bad-batch-clone-wars-disney-plus/

'Walking Dead' creator Robert Kirkman explains his new show 'Invincible,' and the importance of Asian superheroes

David Betancourt

May 1, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/05/01/invincible-robert-kirkman-walking-dead/

Superhero veteran Carl Lumbly returns for a crucial role in 'Falcon and the Winter Soldier' [in print as Marvel actor is no stranger to super roles].

David Betancourt

May 1 2021, C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/04/29/carl-lumbly-falcon-winter-soldier/

Jim Lee and Asian American Superheroes

Jim Lee and Asian American Superheroes 

Gene Luen Yang, Jim Lee, Bernard Chang, Sarah Kuhn , and Minh Lê 

The Library of Congress  Behind the Book.

May 6 2021

https://www.facebook.com/libraryofcongress/videos/764817974235459

For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, an event that celebrates the life work of DC Chief Creative Officer and Publisher Jim Lee. He will appear in conversation with illustrator Bernard Chang ("Generations Forged") and writers Sarah Kuhn ("Shadow of the Batgirl") and Minh Lê ("Green Lantern: Legacy"). Moderated by former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Gene Luen Yang ("Superman Smashes the Klan").

Peanuts play in Falls Church high school

F.C. High Students Show Ingenuity in 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'

By Mark Dreisonstok

Falls Church News-Press May 6, 2021 p. 3, 18.

online at https://www.fcnp.com/2021/05/06/f-c-high-students-show-ingenuity-in-youre-a-good-man-charlie-brown/

The Beat with Ari

Doonesbury's Trudeau: Trump was a 'full-blown comic strip character'

Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau joins MSNBC's Ari Melber to talk about satirizing Trump and politics in the Biden era.

May 5, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/doonesbury-s-trudeau-trump-was-a-full-blown-comic-strip-character-111412805968

Ann Telnaes andSergio Peçanha on cicadas

Opinion: After 17 years, cicadas catch up with the news

Ann Telnaes and Sergio Peçanha

May 6, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/cicadas-catch-up-with-the-news/

May 6: Jim Lee, Gene Yang and other cartoonists online at Library of Congress

Celebrating Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with Jim Lee and Asian American Superheroes on May 6 

by Deziree Arnaiz

Library of Congress' From the Catbird Seat blog May 5, 2021

https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2021/05/celebrating-asian-pacific-american-heritage-month-with-jim-lee-and-asian-american-superheroes-on-may-6/

During the video premiere on Facebook, panelists Bernard Chang, Sarah Kuhn, Minh Lê and Gene Luen Yang will be available in the chat to greet attendees and answer questions.

Library of Congress acquires Tomine print based on photo of his grandmother

"Her Name is Shizuko"—A Mother's Influence [Adrian Tomine].

by Karen "Kara" Chittenden

Library of Congress' Picture This blog May 5, 2021 

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2021/05/her-name-is-shizuko-a-mothers-influence/

May 17 BookPage Live with Alison Bechdel

MAY 17, 2021 AT 12 PM EDT

BookPage Live with Alison Bechdel

https://www.facebook.com/events/159075996043393/

Facebook Live

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Event by BookPage

Online with Facebook Live

Monday, May 17, 2021 at 12 PM EDT

Price: Free

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BookPage associate editor Christy Lynch chats with Alison Bechdel about her deep and deeply funny new graphic memoir, The Secret to Superhuman Strength (HMH). Read more about the book here: http://bkpg.it/6OQ

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Deadly Class creators about music

'Deadly Class': The Creators Drop Their "Save Your Generation" Mixtape

Apr 27, 2021

Playlist by Wes Craig and Rick Remender

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/251371-Deadly-Class-The-Creators-Drop-Their-Save-Your-Generation-Mixtape

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews webcomic creators of new Hostess ads

The Art of Comic Book Ads with Andrew Gutierrez and Jon J. Murakami

Apr 26, 2021

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/251325-The-Art-of-Comic-Book-Ads-with-Andrew-Gutierrez-and-Jon-J-Murakami

PW's Calvin Reid recommends Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khodabandeh’s ‘The Day the Klan Came to Town’

PW Comics World: More To Come

More To Come 466: Stargazing Staff Picks and Summer Reads [ Keilor Robert's 'My Begging Chart,' and Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khodabandeh's 'The Day the Klan Came to Town']

Calvin Reid and Meg Lemke 

04/30/2021

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1133

This week on More to Come, a Stargazing special as Calvin talks with PW graphic novels reviews editor Meg Lemke about their personal Staff Picks: Keilor Robert's irresistibly droll collection of autobiographical vignettes 'My Begging Chart,' and Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khodabandeh's 'The Day the Klan Came to Town', a fictionalized version of a real event in 1923 that pitted a town of immigrants against white supremacists. Plus graphic novel recommendations on PW's Summer Reads listing.

Weldon reviews new Netflix / Sony cartoon movie

In 'The Mitchells Vs. The Machines,' A Dysfunctional Family Gets A Hard Reboot

Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour April 30, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/991293250/in-the-mitchells-vs-the-machines-a-dysfunctional-family-gets-a-hard-reboot

Goodwyn Cartoons 4/27/21 newsletter

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

April 27, 2021

Cavna talks to Hanuka about NY'r covers

Students created faux New Yorker covers about the pandemic — and they were so good they went viral

Michael Cavna

April 29, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/04/29/student-new-yorker-cover-class-art-pandemic/

Randall Munroe answers a science question from DC

Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns?

Just saying, maybe go easy with the candelabras.

By Randall Munroe

A version of this article appears in print on April 27, 2021, Section D, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: What Goes Up in Smoke in a Candle's Glow?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/science/randall-munroe-candle-xkcd.html

Where does a candle go when it burns, anyway? Is it healthy to be breathing in melted candle particles? How concerned should I be?

— Abigail B., Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress buys Loco Foco Witches print (or two)

An Acquisition Adventure: "Loco Foco Witches Laying a Spell Over the Country"

Library of Congress' Picture This blog April 29, 2021 by  Sara W. Duke,

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2021/04/an-acquisition-adventure-loco-foco-witches-laying-a-spell-over-the-country/

"Exceptionally rare and believed to be previously unknown," in the seller's letter intrigued me. On offer, an 1836 anti-Martin Van Buren woodcut print, depicting Van Buren as a witch and riding the coattails of President Andrew Jackson. As a curator who acquires cartoon art for the Library, when offered a work of art that no other institution in America has recorded, I am concerned about authenticity, and set to research the contents and background of the print. The cartoon, entitled "Loco Foco witches laying a spell over the country" depicts five witches in black dresses flying on a single broom over a farm; their faces are masculine. The first witch, President Andrew Jackson, smokes a pipe from which the smoke spells the word "Veto." The last witch on the broom is incumbent vice president Martin Van Buren, called The Red Fox of Kinderhook, and he sports a bushy foxtail.

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