Saturday, September 20, 2014

Bell's graphic memoir recounts her childhood experience of hearing loss, which included struggling with an unwieldy aid that ironically allowed her to hear some things she shouldn't have. But her disability also let her find her quasi-superhero persona, and as "El Deafo, Hearer for All," Bell made friends and found respect. Ages 8 – 12 (Amulet)

El Deafo (Paperback)

By Cece Bell, David Lasky

$10.95

ISBN-13: 9781419712173
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Amulet Books, 9/2014

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Comic Riffs on Black Comics

'BLACK COMICS': Fresh off milestone Eisner Award, (Howard alumna) scholar goes deep beneath black-and-white of comics page at Fall for the Book [Q&A]

By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs September 18 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/18/black-comics-fresh-off-milestone-eisner-award-howard-alumna-scholar-goes-deep-beneath-black-and-white-of-comics-page-at-fall-for-the-book-qa/

Weingarten and Shansby on Kojo Nnamdi show NOW

Gene Weingarten & Eric Shansby on Comedy and Collaboration

THURSDAY, SEP 18, 2014 AT 12:20 P.M.

in ARTS & CULTURE, AUTHORS, BOOKS

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2014-09-18/gene-weingarten-eric-shansby-comedy-and-collaboration

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Gene Weingarten and Eric Shansby collaborated on the new children's book "Me and Dog," which was released Sept. 16.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Each week, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten and illustrator Eric Shansby team up to create the often hilarious "Below the Beltway" column that runs in newspapers across the country. Now the duo unleashes their humor and wisdom on young readers with a children's book, "Me & Dog." We talk with the pair about the dynamics of their collaboration, the questions of faith they raise in the book and the importance of knowing your audience.

Guests

Gene Weingarten

author, 'Me & Dog'; columnist, 'Below the Beltway; staff writer, The Washington Post; cartoonist, "Barney & Clyde";

Eric Shansby

cartoonist and illustrator, 'Below the Beltway' 'Me & Dog'

Sept 19: Daniel Boyd, Author CARBON at Beyond Comics

Daniel Boyd, Author
CARBON

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th
3:00pm to 6:00pm

Beyond Comics
5632 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, Maryland 21704

Daniel Boyd author of new controversial eco-horror graphic novel CARBON will be at signing copies of Carbon. Carbon received it's big national roll out last week from publisher Caliber Comics. Holly wood is showing interest in several Caliber titles, including Carbon to hit the big screen. Boyd a native to West Virginia and is a West Virginia State University Professor when he's not making indy films and writing graphic novels.

Gene Weingarten and Eric Shansby's new children's book

A boy, his dog and atheism: Gene Weingarten talks about his new children's book

By Michelle Boorstein

September 17 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2014/09/17/a-boy-his-dog-and-atheism-gene-weingarten-talks-about-his-new-childrens-book/

My first children's book is about atheism … and dogs

By Gene Weingarten September 17 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2014/09/17/gene-weingartens-first-childrens-book-is-about-atheism-and-dogs/

Weingarten writes the Barney and Clyde comic strip and Shansby is a former college cartoonist who illustrates Weingarten's Sunday column in the Post Magazine.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Publishers Weekly on SPX

Small Press Expo 2014: A Wedding, A Prom, and Lots of Comics

By Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid

Sep 17, 2014

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/64025-small-press-expo-2014-a-wedding-a-prom-and-lots-of-comics.html

The Post on Tony Auth

CARTOON OF THE DAY: Signe Wilkinson memorializes her mentor, Tony Auth (RIP)

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post Comic Riffs blog September 16 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/16/cartoon-of-the-day-signe-wilkinson-memorializes-her-mentor-tony-auth-riph/

Tony Auth, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who satirized political figures, dies at 72

By Matt Schudel

Washington Post September 17 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/tony-auth-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-who-satirized-political-figures-dies-at-72/2014/09/16/e9f52e56-3daf-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

Comic Riffs talks to Alison Bechdel

2014 MacARTHUR 'GENIUS' GRANTS: For groundbreaking 'Fun Home' cartoonist Alison Bechdel, the latest twist in her 'really crazy' year

By Michael Cavna September 17 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/09/17/2014-macarthur-genius-grants-for-fun-home-cartoonist-alison-bechdel-the-latest-twist-in-her-really-crazy-year/

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Steve Artley headed to Toonfest this week

Toonfest Headliners Excited For Visit
By Dustin Watson
September 08. 2014
http://www.linncountyleader.com/article/20140908/NEWS/140909162/1994/NEWS?template=printart

New book from Lost Art Books

THE LOST ART OF RAY WILLNER: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

The Lost Art of Ray Willner: The Adventures of Robin Hood

All 14 stories collected for the first time
Introduction by Joseph V. Procopio
Career-spanning bonus gallery

Ray Willner was a casualty of the culture wars. With a comics career dating to 1939, Willner produced impressive work for publishers small and large throughout the 1940s. By 1949 he landed one of the only steady gigs in his career for an unusual publisher: The Brown Shoe Company. It was there that Willner found a simpatico spirit in fellow artist Reed Crandall. Although their collaboration on the Brown Shoe Co. series The Adventures of Robin Hood lasted less than a year — cancelled in the wake of the scaremongering backlash against comics in the 1950s — the seven issues produced by Willner with Crandall represent a seldom seen high-water mark in comics art. They were the last comics Willner would ever draw.

The Lost Art of Ray Willner collects these comics for the first time since their original publication in 1956 and includes an introductory essay on Willner's life and career.

- See more at: http://www.picturethispress.com/the-lost-art-of-ray-willner-the-adventures-of-robin-hood/#sthash.9AXhas7n.dpuf

Monday, September 15, 2014

Retrofit Comics interview

Box Brown and Jared Smith Interviewed

By Raighne Hogan on 26 August 2014
http://2dcloud.com/explodingwrists/box-brown-and-jared-smith-interviewed/

Tonight: Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing in Takoma Park

Sept 15: Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing, Monday 7:30 at the Takoma Park MD Library

Eleanor Davis at the Takoma Park MD Library Monday Sept 15, 7:30.

Following this weekend's Small Press Expo if you are the sort who need even more comics in your life, after SPX, come visit your comics friendly local library on Monday as Eleanor Davis (Secret Science Alliance) visits with her slideshow presentation of life, work, art, etc and also to share her new work: How to be Happy.. And she may be bringing along her husband collaborator artist illustrator writer Drew Weing (Set to Sea).

Come talk comics, process, the struggle between freelancing and working on personal projects, etc.

Takoma Park MD Library, 101 Philadelphia Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912. (or a short-ish walk down the hill from the Takoma Park Metro stop on the Red Line).

http://comixtakoma.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/how-to-be-happy-eleanor-davis-monday-sept-15-730/

Another Library of Congress comics reader picture

Queens, New York. Nursery school at Queensbridge housing project. Child reading a comic book during rest period

Title: Queens, New York. Nursery school at Queensbridge housing project. Child reading a comic book during rest period
Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1942 June.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-004750-D (b&w film neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html)
Call Number: LC-USW3- 004750-D [P&P]
Other Number: D 37556
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- LOT 0294 (Location of corresponding print.)
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available athttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Film copy on SIS roll 2, frame 1807.
Subjects:
- United States--New York (State)--New York.
Format:
- Safety film negatives.
Collections:
- Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Bookmark This Record:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001006999/PP/