Monday, July 05, 2021

'Boss Baby' sequel offers decent return on investment, with savvy casting and pointed social satire [in print as A case of sequel-itis is helped by savvy casting and social satire]

Thomas Floyd

Washington Post July 2, 2021 , p. Weekend 20

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-boss-baby-family-business-movie-review/2021/06/30/d28c6758-d523-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html

A beefy George Washington avenges Lincoln's death in this cheekily inaccurate and dumb animated comedy ["America: The Motion Picture"; in print as Star-studded comedy is sometimes clever but mostly just lazy]

Inkoo Kang

Washington Post July 2, 2021 p. Weekend 19

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/america-the-motion-picture-review/2021/06/28/394f6d36-d520-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html

NPR's PCHH returns to Loki

'Loki' Is A Low-Key Character Study

GLEN WELDON, Christina Tucker, Margaret H. Willison

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour Jun 29, 2021

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1009187736

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1009187736:1011037710

Sal Buscema is still drawing comics

Jun 25, 2021

NPR reviews Cardboard Kingdom

'Cardboard Kingdom' Is About So Much More Than Just Cardboard

Juanita Giles

Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita June 28, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010436493/cardboard-kingdom-is-about-so-much-more-than-just-cardboard

Thursday, July 01, 2021

Howtoons creator is now a climate engineer

An Australian inventor
wants to stop global warming
by electrifying everything [Saul Griffith; Howtoons; in print as Inventor has electrifying idea to solve warming]

Story by

Rachel Pannett

Washington Post June 29, 2021, p. E1, 5

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2021/saul-griffith-mass-electrification/

Library of Congress's comics collection late to Pride month, makes it on last day

Let's Talk Comics: LGBTQIA+ Titles

Library of Congress' Headlines & Heroes blog June 30, 2021 by Amber Paranick

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/06/lets-talk-comics-lgbtqia-titles/

Detail image of Batgirl waving a large flag, one side is the American flag and the other side is a rainbow Pride flag.

Detail from interior, Love is Love (2016). Art by Rafael Alburquerque.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Low-Priority File"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Low-Priority File"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3245

...and apparently, for the Washington Post and the Democratic Party, holding their President to account for unfulfilled campaign promises is lodged in a low-priority file somewhere between "Can't Be Bothered" and "Tough Shit".

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

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

ALIEN (Marvel) – Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Jason Mojica (Host, Buy This Comic!)

March 24, 2021 by buythiscomic

https://www.buythiscomic.net/2021/03/24/alien-marvel-phillip-kennedy-johnson/

In comics, no one can hear you scream. We talk to Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer of Marvel's new Alien series. It's compelling, it's canonical, and it's on the shelves of your local comics shop, right now!

Caption Contest commentator Lawrence Wood's Corcoran career

"Museum Tour" Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

April 27, 2021 by Lawrence Wood

https://blog.cartoonstock.com/museum-tour-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/

Years ago, I worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. In the summer of '89 I returned to D.C....

Lawrence Wood has won The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest a record-setting seven times and been a finalist four other times. He has collaborated with New Yorker cartoonists Peter Kuper, Lila Ash, Felipe Galindo Gomez, and Harry Bliss (until Bliss tossed him aside, as anyone would, to collaborate with Steve Martin). Nine of his collaborations have appeared in The New Yorker, and one is included in The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons.

The Lily catch-up

I'd always been baffled by people who wanted kids. Then my friend got pregnant.

Hearing her stories and seeing her baby has changed my thinking

https://www.thelily.com/id-always-been-baffled-by-people-who-wanted-kids-then-my-friend-got-pregnant/

Athena Naylor

May 30, 2021

Reentry is triggering my social anxiety. Here are my tips for coping.

Luckily, some of my pre-pandemic methods have come in handy

https://www.thelily.com/reentry-is-triggering-my-social-anxiety-here-are-my-tips-for-coping/

Christine Suggs

June 6, 2021

I used to feel like I was losing money if I wasn't working. Financial planning helped me find balance.

Money anxiety used to paralyze me with guilt and worry

https://www.thelily.com/i-used-to-feel-like-i-was-losing-money-if-i-wasnt-working-financial-planning-helped-me-find-balance/

Pepita Sándwich

June 13, 2021

A lot of my friends moved away during the pandemic. Here's why I'm staying put.

It feels complacent after a year of stagnancy, but I know it's the right choice for me

https://www.thelily.com/a-lot-of-my-friends-moved-away-during-the-pandemic-heres-why-im-staying-put/ A lot of my friends moved away during the pandemic. Here's why I'm staying put.

Dabin Han

June 20, 2021

Monday, June 28, 2021

NPR on superhero cartoon sex and Tuca & Bertie

A Censored Sex Scene In 'Harley Quinn' Sparks Debate On Depictions Of Female Pleasure

AILSA CHANG and Glen Weldon

NPR's All Things Considered June 22, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1008857092/dc-blocked-a-scene-in-harley-quinn-setting-off-a-debate-about-sexism-in-comics

'Tuca & Bertie' Is Beak TV Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, Inkoo Kang

Pop Culture Happy Hour June 21, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006816792/tuca-bertie-is-beak-tv

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Mark Wheatley's Frankenstein Mobster Kickstarter wrapping up soon

Tomorrow at 8pm ET, Mark Wheatley and Mark Redfield are going to start a live-stream video on Mark Wheatley's Facebook Page And while the stream is running. Mark Wheatley is going to be drawing one Frankenstein Mobster after another. Why?

Because EVERYONE who is backing this project at a physical reward level will be getting a free, original art sketch of FRANKENSTEIN MOBSTER!

You will be in the studio with Mark Wheatley, looking over his shoulder as he works at his drawing board.

Meanwhile, please keep sharing the campaign link.

https://bit.ly/FMdrama

Sunday, June 20, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "For All Pigkind"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

Y'know, it says it right there in my social media profiles, so it's time for a little space geekery:

"For All Pigkind"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3241

In the space of about two weeks, I'm hit with the news that
trillionaire serial worker abuser Jeff Bezos has found someone willing
to throw down $28 mil for a suborbital joyride with him — and that
Elon Musk will refuse to recognize Earth laws in his gated suburbs on
Mars. Doubtless Musk will have some Space Force grunts on-call to keep
a lid on things out there.

I'm especially bugged that Bezos has chosen July 20 as his launch
date; I'm sure he thinks he's making some deep statement or something,
but instead I'm just insulted somehow. Christ, 28 million dollars to
go suborbital with Jeff Friggin' Bezos. Bah, I'd rather be a stowaway
on Apollo 13.

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"Elon Musk's firm says they will not recognize Earth laws in planned
Mars colony" Stacy Liberatore at London Daily Mail, 10.30.2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8897601/Elon-Musks-SpaceX-says-not-recognize-Earth-laws-planned-Mars-colony.html

"Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28
million", Joey Roulette at The Verge, 06.12.2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/12/22530907/blue-origin-auction-new-shepard-jeff-bezos-space-28-million

"The Battle For Mars: How Elon Musk, Blue Origin and the US Could Set
Up The First Extraterrestrial Government" Adam Smith at The London
Independent, 06.19.2021
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-mars-spacex-nasa-b1777746.html

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

No sex please, we're superheroes

If even superheroes can't have fun sex, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Alyssa Rosenberg

Washington Post June 15, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/15/if-even-superheroes-cant-have-fun-sex-what-hope-is-there-rest-us/

Tom King Talks Supergirl and His Other Books

Jun 18, 2021

wordballoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mv-0VaDRNs