Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Local cartoonist Rob Steibel starts a new Kirby column

Local cartoonist Rob Steibel has started a new Kirby column - Jack Kirby: Behind the Lines at TCJ.com.

Here's the first:

"Do I Have the Guts to Defy Odin Once Again?"
BY Robert Steibel Aug 28, 2013
http://www.tcj.com/a-96th-birthday/

Comic Riffs on Intervention

INTERVENTION 2013: Co-founder Oni Hartstein says Maryland convention 'is my way of giving back'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 27 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/intervention-2013-co-founder-oni-hartstein-says-maryland-convention-is-my-way-of-giving-back/2013/08/27/f3a658dc-0f87-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_blog.html#pagebreak

I should have some interviews with comics creators at the Con coming out soon. Kathleen Brenowitz has already gotten back to me with her answers.

KAL in Georgia

KAL's traveling even further south of the Mason-Dixon line:

 I have some news that you might be interested in sharing with your blog readers.

Thursday evening Mike Luckovich, Rich McKee and myself will be doing a special cartoon related event at the Atlanta Press club that will be recorded by C-Span. Here's a link to the festivities:


Over the Labor Day weekend I will stay in Atlanta and be a guest at the Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent Book festival in the country. I will be on two panels discussing both my newest collection Daggers Drawn:35 Years of Kal Cartoons in The Economist and the Kickstarter campaign used to fund it. I will be selling and signing copies at the event.


Best

Kevin Kallaugher 

Kal's New retrospective collection Daggers Drawn is now available to order.






Jon McNaught, Ulli Lust and Other International Guests at SPX 2013




 

Small Press Expo Announces Jon McNaught, Ulli Lust and Other International Guests at SPX 2013


For Immediate Release         Contact: Warren Bernard

                                               Phone: 301-537-4615

                                               E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com


Bethesda, Maryland; August  28, 2013 – Small Press Expo is pleased to  announce Jon McNaught and Ulli Lust as featured guests to SPX 2013, to be held September 14 and 15. Small Press Expo is honored to have the first appearance of both of these guests at this years show, as well as a number of other international guests.


Jon and Ulli join previously announced international guests Seth from Canada, Liniers from  Argentina and Rutu Modan from Israel.


This year SPX has the most international creators from the most countries that have ever attended the festival.


Here is the list of international creators, as well as more information on both Jon McNaught and Ulli Lust:


Argentina - Liniers

Australia - Caitlin Major,  Jason Franks, Matt Emery, Matt Hoddy

Canada - Seth, Michael DeForge, Adriana Blake, Elaine Will, Gibson Twist, Matt Cummings, Ryan Smith

Germany - Ulli Lust

Great Britain - Jon McNaught, Roger Langridge, Nick Abadzis, Joe Decie, Joe List, John Allison, Lizz Lunney, Philippa Rice, Sean Azzopardi, Simon Moreton. Timothy Winchester

Israel - Rutu Modan

Italy - Delebile

Mexico - Mario Gonzales

Netherlands - Margaret de Heer


Jon McNaught is a printmaker, illustrator, and comics creator, who has won rapid critical acclaim from such comics luminaries as Seth and Chris Ware. Jon has illustrated various articles for such periodicals as the New York Times and the London Review of Books.


His self published comic, Birchfield Close, was discovered by the groundbreaking British publishing house NoBrow, who will be bringing Jon to this years show and published his critically acclaimed Dockwood. Jon has drawn the cover to the SPX 2013 Program Guide, which will be available for free at the SPX registration tables.


Born in Vienna in 1967, Ulli Lust is an internationally renowned cartoonist, illustrator, and publisher making her first appearance at SPX 2013.  This year Fantagraphics Books published her 464-page memoir, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, which details the summer of 1984 when she hitchhiked across Italy as a broke punk rocker.


Ms. Lust has been nominated in the Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel categories of the Ignatz Awards this year for Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life. She currently works in Berlin and more information on her can be found at http://www.ullilust.de/.


A complete list of all 657 exhibitors is available at http://www.spxpo.com/exhibitors.


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 non-profit that brings together more than 600 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. A series of of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests will be featured.


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.


As in previous years, profits from the SPX will go to support the SPX Graphic Novel Gift Program, which funds graphic novel purchases for public and academic libraries, as well as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. For more information on the CBLDF, visit their website at http://www.cbldf.org.


SPX also supports the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress, which preserves the history of both the artistic output of the creators who come to SPX, as well as the art that SPX itself generates as part of its yearly festival. It the first program of its type by a major institution in the United States to preserve the works of the indie comics community.


For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.spxpo.com.
Copyright © 2013 Small Press Expo, All rights reserved.




March artist Nate Powell interviewed by Daily Heller

Civil Rights History as Graphic Novel

By:  | August 28, 2013

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Neal Adams - Beyond Comics Frederick - Thursday, Sept. 5


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Meet Comics Legend
NEAL ADAMS!
Thursday, September 5th - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
                We are proud to present a rare and unique in store event. On Thursday, September 5th Beyond Comics has gotten the privilege to host comic artist Neal Adams for his only regional store appearance in over 20 years. The appearance will run from 4:00pm to 7:00pm.

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First Autograph is FREE! 

Neal is offering a special for Beyond Comics Customers!

 

Get 1 Free Autograph

Additional Signatures are half the convention price ($10)  

 

 

 

Sketches  

We are already taking names and payment.

 

Basic Quick Sketches - $150.00 & Up  

Detailed Blank Cover Comic Sketches - $400

 

Prices vary widely upon amount of detail requested.

 

Contact Jason Adams at spyda@spydacreations.com for detailed pricing

or to pay them directly via PayPal. 

 

CGC Signature Series Available - See store for details and fees

 

            Neal Adams is a towering figure in the world of comic book creation and art. Neal has had legendary 'runs' on Batman, X-Men, Green Lantern-Green Arrow and Deadman. Adams rescued Batman from the campy nostalgia of the television show, and re-fitted him in his present incarnation as an "Avenger of the Night." His run on Batman led directly to the new, more realistic incarnation in "Batman Returns" movie, which featured the character he created, Ras Al Ghul.

 

          Beyond Comics is proud to be hosting an in store appearance by Neal Adams, one of the comic book industries most important and influential artists the day before Baltimore's incredible Comic Book Convention, The Baltimore Comic Con. Mr. Adams will be inaugurating the Baltimore Comic Con by coming to our store and autographing copies of his newest work, Batman Black & White #1, as well as other prints and books. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet one of the most influential comic artists ever.



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The Hooded Utilitarian glances at Zita the Space Girl

Monday, August 26, 2013

Small Press Expo Announces Programming for SPX 2013


Small Press Expo Announces the SPX 2013 Programming Schedule


For Immediate Release            Contact: Warren Bernard

                                                

                                                  E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com


Bethesda, Maryland; August 26, 2013 – The Small Press Expo is pleased to announce the SPX 2013 Programming Schedule.  SPX is proud to continue its established tradition of rich, thought-provoking programming featuring leading comics artists and critics in conversation. As in previous years, the Programming Schedule will feature two simultaneous tracks on both Saturday and Sunday, September 14th and 15th.

 

SPX 2013 programming highlights include special Q&A sessions with headline guests Seth, Jeff Smith, Gary Panter, Rutu Modan, The New Yorker's Liza Donnelly and Argentinian cartoonist Liniers, many of whom will also join in several other panel discussions.

 

Highlights of this year's panel discussions will include:


• Living civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis, along with co-author Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell will discuss the first volume of Rep. Lewis trilogy, March!, about the civil rights movement of the 1960's.


• Conversations between Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro, Raina Telgemeier and Gene Yang, as well as Sam Henderson and Michael Kupperman.


What Makes Drawings Funny? with Peter Bagge, Lisa Hanawalt and Jay Lynch, moderated by Dustin Harbin.


• In Kids/Not For Kids, Jeff Smith, Roger Langridge, Rutu Modan and Liniers will discuss how creators deal with producing works for the very different adult and children's audiences.


• A discussion about funding comics projects.


• Our annual hands-on comics workshop will led this year by Alec Longstreth from the Center for Cartoon Studies and Josh Bayer from the Sequential Artists Workshop.


The complete SPX 2013 Programming Schedule with full descriptions and participants may be found at
http://www.spxpo.com/spx-2013-programming.

 

This year is the eighth year that SPX programming has been organized by Programming Coordinator Bill Kartalopoulos. Bill is a comics educator, critic and curator who has taught classes about comics at Parsons The New School for Design. Bill will be the editor for the 2014 installment of the critically acclaimed series, Best American Comics. He is the publisher and editor of Rebus Books, as well as being a Contributing Editor for Print Magazine.


Programming on Saturday will run from 11:30AM  until 7PM and Sunday programming will run from 12:30PM until 6PM.   


The Express on animation voices

With Stars in Their Throats
By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express August 23, 2013          
http://www.readexpress.com/2013/08/with-stars-in-their-throats/

Comic Riffs on Trinity War

DC's 'Trinity War': Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire, on being in league for epic crossover
By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog August 26 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/dcs-trinity-war-geoff-johns-and-jeff-lemire-on-being-in-league-for-epic-crossover/2013/08/26/37d5816a-0dd3-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_blog.html#pagebreak

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Cavna on Affleck as Batman

This blog post appeared in the print edition today

#BATFLECK BACKLASH: On the Web, does Batman's studio hear you scream?

By Michael Cavna
Washington Post August 24 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/batfleck-backlash-on-the-web-does-batmans-studio-hear-you-scream/2013/08/23/5c7b1d62-0c21-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_blog.html

Cavna does a Mad-style song rewrite

In this article, Michael Cavna does a Mad-style song rewrite, Hooray
for Folly-Wood with illustrations...

Eight lessons from summer movies
by Ann Hornaday
Washington Post August 24 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/eight-lessons-from-summer-movies/2013/08/23/1fd658cc-09ce-11e3-9941-6711ed662e71_story.html

Those darn political cartoonists

Letter to the Editor: What political cartoonists do
Michael G. Bell, Washington
Washington Post August 24 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-political-cartoonists-do/2013/08/23/647f7a1e-080f-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html

Local cartoonists at Intervention con today and tomorrow



There's a handful of local cartoonists at Intervention con today - here's some that you can head up to Rockville and meet.

Chris Flick


Chris Flick

Raechel Hixon

Reuel Smith
Simon Ladd and Viga

Megami Jadeheart and Jennifer Zyren Smith

Darren E. Canton

Kathleen Brenowitz



Shawn Padraic Murphy

Novelist Bill Campbell

Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey Wells (not local)
Death is Good


Friday, August 23, 2013

Cartoon curator Andrew Farago at Intervention

PR: John Lewis' MARCH is the New York Times' #1 Bestseller!




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Congratulations to Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell -- their graphic novel March: Book One is on its way to becoming a bona fide phenomenon.

John Lewis' MARCH is the New York Times' #1 Bestseller!

Since the New York Times introduced its "Graphic Books" bestseller chart four years ago, Top Shelf has had several titles make the list -- but as usual, March: Book One is breaking records! This landmark graphic novel is our first time in the #1 position, all thanks to the powerful storytelling of Congressman Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, and the immense support of readers like you.

MARCH on the airwaves!

The press response to March has been terrific as well. After the wave of coverage from Comic-Con, we kicked off the book's release with The Colbert Report, then hit public radio! Terrific reports came out of California's KPBS and KCRW, Congressman Lewis was a guest on NPR's "Here and Now," and then he did a full hour on NPR's "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook!

That's not all: stay tuned this Sunday, August 25 and Wednesday, August 28, when you can catch Congressman Lewis on (deep breath) CNN's "Newsroom," CNN's "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, NBC's "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, CBS's "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, BBC's "World News America," PBS's "Charlie Rose," and CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper! As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, it's an honor to know that Congressman Lewis continues to look to the future and reach out to new generations through this book.

And it's not just important: it's actually GOOD!

Critics agree that March is terrific entertainment, education, and inspiration in one:

"A riveting and beautiful civil-rights story… Lewis's gripping memoir should be stocked in every school and shelved at every library." — The Washington Post

"Essential reading... March is a moving and important achievement. While it looks a little different than your average comic, it does tell the story of a true American superhero." — USA Today

"An astonishingly accomplished graphic memoir that brings to life a vivid portrait of the civil rights era, Lewis' extraordinary history and accomplishments, and the movement he helped lead... its power, accessibility and artistry destine it for awards, and a well-deserved place at the pinnacle of the comics canon." — NPR

"March offers a poignant portrait of an iconic figure that both entertains and edifies, and deserves to be placed alongside other historical graphic memoirs like Persepolis and Maus." — Entertainment Weekly

"When a graphic novel tries to interest young readers in an important topic, it often feels forced. Not so with the exhilarating March: Book One... Powerful words and pictures." — The Boston Globe

Plus starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal, & School Library Journal!

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Shaenon Garrity at Intervention - City Paper interview online

City Paper on DC Conspiracy's Artisphere exhibit

Comics-Making Studio at ArtisphereWednesday, August 28

By Alex Baca •
Washington City Paper August 23, 2013
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44687/comics-making-studio-at-artisphere-wednesday-august-28/

Dust Elves sneak preview before SPX premiere


From: Gordon Harris


August, 23 2013

Dust Elves Sneak Peek

As promised, here's a sneak peek into Gordon's all-new, original, 36-page mini-comic, The Secret Origin of the Dust Elves - premiering at the Small Press Expo September 14 and 15. Facebook logo

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