Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Won't Somebody Think Of The Shareholders?"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

(a.k.a. "Black Wednesday"; I'm guessing a bunch of knobs out there are doing the digital equivalent of selling apples off a cart in front of the Stock Exchange right about now.)

"Won't Somebody Think Of The Shareholders?"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3210

No doubt that day last week will go down as "Black Wednesday" for all 
the death'n'misery profiteers out there: the day the US Trade 
Representative's office announced its support for a waiver of pantent 
protection for COVID19 vaccines developed by Pfizer, Biontech, 
Novavax, and Moderna — and Wall Street crapped its pants.

After week after week after week of hell raised about places like 
India, where they're dying like flies and can't get enough vaccine 
because American corporations, true to form, are hoarding the supply 
and the IP protection — the US Trade Rep has decided that waiving 
patent protection on vaccines during a worldwide pandemic might be a 
pretty good idea after all... and this hasn't stopped Wall Street from 
doing the voodoo that it do so well — setting shares of all four of 
those companies dropping like a rock on Jupiter.

Buddy, can you paradigm?

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"U.S. backs waiving patent protections for Covid vaccines, citing global health crisis", CNBC 05.05.2021 
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/us-backs-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waivers-to-expand-access-to-shots-worldwide.html

"Vaccine apartheid: U.S. puts world at risk for big pharma profits", 
Liberation News 04.20.2021 
https://www.liberationnews.org/vaccine-apartheid-u-s-puts-world-at-risk-for-big-pharma-profits/

"Pfizer, Biontech, Novavax, Moderna shares plunge to session lows after U.S. backs waiving patent protections on Covid vaccines", CNBC 
Now @CNBCnow on Twitter 05.05.2021 
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1390023742194061312

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

Monday, May 10, 2021

Panetta's Bloom part II announced

May 13: Shary Flenniken with Sarah Glidden

Shary Flenniken with Sarah Glidden

Date: 
Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Virtually Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company

Something of a landmark publication is celebrated here today as once-up-a-time Seattle cartoonist Shary Flenniken (now based in Brooklyn), will be joined in conversation by cartoonist author Sarah Glidden, on the occasion of the release of Trots and Bonnie (New York Review of Books Comics). This book brings together, so far as we know, the first appearance in book form of Trots and Bonnie, who appeared back in the day in the pages of National Lampoon, where Shary Flenniken was an editor forty years ago. Shary Flenniken's work also appeared in such magazines as Mad, Premiere, and Details. She was a pioneer in her time - and the work, as response to Trots and Bonnie's publication, is no less fresh than it was years ago.

"Drawn in an exquisite pastiche on the classic comic strip style of George McManus (Bringing Up Father) and the like, [Trots and Bonnie is] a slyly whimsical take on feminism, hippies, the counterculture, and more. . . . Flenniken [is] . . . one of the best cartoonists of her time, full stop." —Heidi MacDonald, Comics Beat.

"Trots and Bonnie is hilarious, poignant, raunchy, gorgeously drawn, and more relevant than ever. Shary Flenniken is an absolute genius." —Roz Chast.

Sarah Glidden's books include How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less and Rolling Blackouts.

 

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Saturday, May 08, 2021

Philip Kennedy Johnson writes Venom

Philip Kennedy Johnson & Ron Lim Join Venom #200, But Not Rob Liefeld

Flugennnock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Blue Lives Matter no.2"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist (on April 23rd but not posted)


"Blue Lives Matter no. 2"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3196

Mere hours after the Derek Chauvin verdict was handed down, Columbus police shot 15 year-old Ma'Khia Bryant to death after she called the police for help as she was being threatened. That's right; she called the goddamn cops for help, and they shot her — after which police taunted bystanders with declarations of "Blue Lives Matter!".

And while that atrocity was going on, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sharting out the following hot, sloppy bucket of White Liberal Bougie Politician horseshit:

Speaker Pelosi: "Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for 
justice ... Because of you and because of thousands, millions of 
people around the world who came out for justice, your name will 
always be synonymous with justice."

The Recount @therecount on Twitter, 04.20.2021

...and here I thought Pelosi had totally hit bottom with that taking a 
knee in a kente cloth stunt. Christ, that goddamn woman needs to just shut the hell up, resign from office, and retire back to San Francisco with her huge-ass fridge full of overpriced ice cream.

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"Nancy Pelosi: 'Thank You, George Floyd, For Sacrificing Your Life'", 
by Akbar Shahid Ahmed in the Huffington Post, 03.20.2021
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-george-floyd-thank-you_n_607f4d32e4b017537f0c1370

"Columbus Cops Accused of Saying 'Blue Lives Matter' After Ma'Khia Bryant Shooting", Anders Anglesey in Newsweek, 04.21.2021
https://www.newsweek.com/columbus-cops-accused-blue-lives-matter-makhia-bryant-shooting-1585314

"Speaker Pelosi: 'Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for 
justice ... Because of you and because of thousands, millions of 
people around the world who came out for justice, your name will 
always be synonymous with justice'." The Recount @therecount on 
Twitter, 04.20.2021
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1384624882600796167

Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Friday, May 07, 2021

PCHH on 'The Mitchells Vs. The Machines'


The Mitchells - Katie, Rick, Linda and Aaron - hide from the robot apocalypse behind a dumpster in Netflix's The Mitchells Vs. The Machines.

Netflix

Weldon reviews 'Jupiter's Legacy'

'Jupiter's Legacy' Decodes The Superhero Genre Without Subverting It

Pop Culture Happy Hour May 7, 2021

L to R: Walter/Brainwave (Ben Daniels) and Sheldon/The Utopian (Josh Duhamel) agree to table their discussion in Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy.

Marni Grossman/Netflix

PR: Announcing Virtual SPX 2021


For Immediate Release

Contact: Warren Bernard


Bethesda, Maryland – May 7, 2021

Dear SPXers,

First, a sincere thank you from all of us. So many of you reached out to us over the last few weeks with words of encouragement and well-wishes as we attempted to navigate the treacherous waters surrounding the fate of an in-person SPX 2021. Many of you did even more than that. You offered to come to our aid, to help us organize, to raise funds, to kick ass (ok, maybe that part was implied) -- whatever would be necessary to keep the show alive. We are so grateful for your support. And today...we have news.

Today we can officially announce that SPX 2021 will be held virtually. Although we would have loved to gather talented creators, fantastic comics, and enthusiastic fans under one roof, we've decided that a virtual show is the best choice for the health and safety of our community. SPX 2021 will feature a full slate of programming along with a livestream of the Ignatz Awards ceremony. We will also be announcing special guests who will take part in the virtual panels and workshops. Stay tuned this summer for all the details.

Along with this announcement, we are relieved to share that we have come to manageable terms with the Marriott, regarding the cancellation penalty for our in-person event. Under the terms of the agreement, we will incur higher costs for our shows in 2022 and 2023, in lieu of what would have been a catastrophic cancellation penalty.

To address these additional expenses, SPX will pause funding for our charitable initiatives until 2024, at the earliest. It is painful to temporarily suspend our Graphic Novel Gift Program and our creator support of the National Book Festival but we are grateful to have come to an arrangement that gives us confidence SPX will continue for many years to come.

We appreciate the patience and understanding of the SPX community in waiting for this decision, and look forward to bringing SPX 2021 to your laptop or mobile phone, wherever you may be!!

Thanks SO Much,
The SPX Executive Committee
Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.

The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. The SPX Collection at the United States Library of Congress is dedicated to preserving the works of the SPX community for future generations.
Small Press Expo
P.O. Box 5704
Bethesda, Maryland
20824
STAY CONNECTED
Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704, Bethesda, MD 20824


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

Cavna talks to Bechdel

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

Thursday, May 06, 2021

Betancourt on Invincible, Falcon and Star Wars

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

Wednesday, May 05, 2021

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].

Tuesday, May 04, 2021

May 17 BookPage Live with Alison Bechdel

MAY 17, 2021 AT 12 PM EDT

BookPage Live with Alison Bechdel

Facebook Live

Details

Event by BookPage
Online with Facebook Live
Monday, May 17, 2021 at 12 PM EDT
Price: Free
Public  · Anyone on or off Facebook
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

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews webcomic creators of new Hostess ads

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

Friday, April 30, 2021

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


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

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

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Goodwyn Cartoons 4/27/21 newsletter

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

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

Randall Munroe answers a science question from DC

Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns?

Just saying, maybe go easy with the candelabras.

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"

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

April 30: comics as the new form of protest art... Discussion

The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop,
Rice University, Houston, and Printed Matter, NYC,

invite you to join 

SUE COE | CHRISTOPHER SPERANDIO|
RYAN STANDFEST | STAN WANY

for a discussion about comics as the new form of protest art...

and the artist as publishing auteur



FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1 PM EST




For more information, please reply to Anne Edgar, anne@anneedgar.com

FREE and ONLINE, AT:
 





About the Panelists
 
The artist Sue Coe has found a way to serve a broad audience through printmaking, disseminating her messages through affordably-priced prints accessible to people of all financial means. Numerous books and visual essays published over the years have served a similar purpose, includingCruel, a critical look at the animal industry, built upon her groundbreaking Dead Meat (1996), and The Animals' Vegan Manifesto, published in 2016, featuring 100 original woodcuts and linocuts. American Fascism Now, published in October 2020 by Rotland Press, presents 16 linocut prints with text by the art historian Stephen F. Eisenman.  Coe's work has been recognized by a number of major awards and her 2018 solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, "Sue Coe: Graphic Resistance," received rave reviews. Since 2016, the artist has focused on documenting the misdeeds of the Trump administration.

Next month, the artist Christopher Sperandio releases his latest graphic novel, GREENIE JOSEPHENIE (Argle Bargle, Ottawa, Canada) about a super heroine who wages war against global conglomerates. He has long addressed issues of labor and class inequality and is an obsessive on comic history and production, having made his first comic strip-inspired font more than 25 years ago and produced/co-produced more than 20 comic books. Sperandio is the founder of CATS, the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop at Rice University, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art.  
 
Ryan Standfest is an artist, arts writer, and the editor-in-chief and publisher of Rotland Press, which presents satirical publications of a culturally relevant nature, including the recently released THE PLAGUE REVIEW, a digest of pandemic dispatches, humor and musing. His publications and prints are in numerous major collections, and his work has been exhibited widely, both in the United States and abroad. Standfest has penned criticism and essays for the Detroit arts and culture journal Infinite Mile, Detroit Art Review, and Essay'd. He contributed a chapter on André Breton and l'humour noir to the book Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance, edited by Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik, forthcoming from Penn State University Press in 2021. Websites: ryanstandfest.com (studio) and rotlandpress.com (publishing).

Stanley Wany is a multidisciplinary artist whose main focus is creating graphic novels. His practice also includes experimentation in painting and ink. He holds a degree in arts and design from the Université du Québec en Outaouais where he also founded Trip magazine. In 2016, his first graphic novel, Agalma, was nominated for a Doug Wright Award (Toronto Comics and Arts Festival) for best alternative comic, and for a Prix Expozine (Expozine, independent editors' festival in Montreal). Past trips include the Helsinki Comics Festival (Finland), the Festival de bande dessinée d'Angoulême (France), the Festival de bande dessinée de Colomiers (France), and Amadora BD: International Comics Festival (Portugal). He was an artist in residence at the Arteles Creative Centre in May 2018 and in the latter part the same year, he was awarded a creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for the production of his next graphic novel.

The Astounding Space Thrills Kickstarter launches!

A quick update to let you know that the The Astounding Space Thrills Kickstarter just launched! I'm so excited for this story to finally be collected after 23 years!

Astounding Space Thrills was my first webcomic series and it launched in 1998. 

Here's the link to learn more (including a video introduction)...

http://astoundingspacethrills.com/kickstarter

Here's a look at the new cover art...

Chronicles of a Circuit Breaker Exhibition book talk (online) and exhibit in Singapore



Comics and Covid

Sat May 1, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM SGT

Description
A year after Singapore's circuit breaker, author of Chronicles of a Circuit Breaker, Joseph Chiang joins book editor, CT Lim in reminiscing the quirky, and sometimes, downright perplexing days of the lockdown. In this special book launch event with Mulan Gallery, learn how comics play a role in recording the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Date: Saturday, 1st May 2021
Time: 11.30AM-12.30PM SGT
Location: Zoom and FB Live

*For those who want to participate in the Zoom session, please fill up the attached form. Invitation to the Zoom session will be sent via email.


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ABOUT THE BOOK
Funny and stark, this comic strip memoir relives the surreal days of Singapore's circuit breaker days from April to June 2020. Cartoonist Joseph Chiang records the strangeness and the mundanity of daily life during the circuit breaker such as the toilet paper shortage, mask-wearing woes and forced family time. Chiang's slice-of-life stories provide humour during unprecedented times and document local events and idiosyncrasies that stemmed from this new-normal era.

Get the book here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph Chiang is a visual artist and printmaker. He is the founder of Monster Gallery, a creative print studio; and the Young Printmakers League, a mentorship programme supported by Noise Singapore. He was commissioned by the National Arts Council to organise the Contemporary Printmaking Festival as part of Singapore Art Week 2017. He has exhibited in Singapore and internationally, and was invited to show his work at the 10th World Triennale of Original Prints and Engravings in Chamalieres, France in 2017.

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Chronicles of a Circuit Breaker Exhibition
Exhibition Day: 1 - 15 May 2021
Event Address: 36 Armenian Street, #01-07 s(179932)
Contact us at (65) 6738 0810 or enquiry@mulangallery.com.sg