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Jonathan Monaghan's fine art animation "Sacrifice of the Mushroom Kings" reviewed
Powering up to revamp games By Mark Jenkins Washington Post Jan. 27, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/exhibits/sacrifice-of-the-mushroom-kings,1221747/critic-review.html [read more]
Live: Angouleme
Today was the first day of the festival and everything has worked out great. The Swedish exhibition is up and running, we have had a steady flow of visitors all day and a lot of interest from media. [read more]
[Angouleme 2012] L’immagine giusta, oggi
Nella Giornata della Memoria, di fronte a un muro con gli originali del Maus di Art Spiegelman: Filed under: linguaggi [read more]
Matt Dembicki's 'Xoc' shark collection coming soon.
Here's a link to the cover of 'Xoc: The Journey of a Great White,' which hits the shelves in July. [read more]
[Angouleme 2012] Scene di ordinaria cognacologia (disegnata)
Per rendere l’idea del rapporto tra Angouleme (fumetto) e Cognac (alcolici), una foto scattata ieri al Museo delle Arti del Cognac, sezione emeroteca:   Filed under: mostre&exhibitions [read more]
Angouleme 2012 warm-up in 6 mosse (6): letture
Infine, prepararsi per Angouleme – come per ogni festival di fumetto o fiera del libro – significa: 6 > lettura di fumetti. Perché per entrare nel clima del festival, il rito principale rimane uno: la lettura. E in quei giorni – o anche ... [read more]
Fwd: Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - January 26, 2012
January 26, 2012 [read more]
Truitt on Keatinge's Heall Yeah
'Hell Yeah' more than just a book title for Joe Keatinge By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 26 2012 http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-26/Hell-Yeah-comic-book-series/52805792/1 [read more]
Cebola Jovem Especial 1
O personagem Cebolinha completou 50 anos de existência e, para celebrar, foi criada uma história na qual ele é o herói. Na edição especial de lançamento de Cebola Jovem, o adolescente de cabelo espetado disputa com os amigos uma corrida ... [read more]
Ann Telnaes and Warren Bernard on Searle, now online
Locals Ann Telnaes and Warren Bernard spoke to Bob Edwards, and courtesy of Warren and SiriusXM Radio, we've got the recording: [read more]
Comics journalism in today's City Paper
The 1/27/2012 print edition has comic strip reportage by Josh Kramer on 'Two Years Without Plastic Bags'. Kramer apparently moved to the city in August and his website is http://www.cartoonpicayune.com/  [read more]
Angouleme 2012 warm-up in 6 mosse (5): scambi e presentazioni
Penultima attività collaterale per prepararsi ad Angouleme: 5 > materiali per scambi e presentazioni (fumettologiche). Per i festivalieri che frequentano Angouleme per lavoro – e al di là delle dédicaces – i giorni precedenti comportano ... [read more]
Jan 28-29: Annie at Gar-Field High School
Jan 28-29, this weekend, Annie is performed at  at Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge by the Pied Pier Theatre children's company. [read more]
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Live: Angouleme - Day 0
So, here we are, building a Swedish comics exhibition in Angouleme, France - to be featured at one of the largest comics festivals in the world. [read more]
Tonight: Apocalyptoon 2012 opening party
APOCALYPTOON 2012 [read more]
Edward Lear, Ithaca (1863)
Ithaca, Ionian Islands. Inscribed and dated l.l.: Ithaca/ 30. April. 9.30.A.M. 1863/ Valley of Elaupio/ OE…, numbered l.r.: 101, further inscribed with notes. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour. In ... [read more]
[Angouleme 2012] Il quotidiano fumettòfilo
Come si diceva, primo giorno di festival = Libération interamente illustrato. In copertina un guest artist notevole, Dave Cooper: E qui c’è un Obama secondo Cristophe Blain: Infine, sul sito di Libération, un video con Killoffer, immers ... [read more]
Angouleme 2012 warm-up in 6 mosse (4): turismo
Attività parallele o collaterali ad Angouleme, quarto rituale. Il più canonico, forse: come tutti i festival che si rispettano, partecipare ad Angouleme significa anche: 4 > turismo vario ed eventuale. Si può guardarla da un punto di vi ... [read more]
OT: Brian Biggs' college strips
My buddy Brian Biggs has moved into children's books (like many another cartoonist these days), but he's coughing up his old college comic strip onto the web starting this month. He sent me a note about it, writing "In January 1987 the ... [read more]
Feb 15: Marc Tyler Nobleman author talk 7 p.m., Washington DC
(I really liked his Siegel and Shuster biography, Boys of Steel, illo'd by Ross Macdonald) [read more]
Telnaes and Bernard on Searle
Locals Ann Telnaes and Warren Bernard spoke to Bob Edwards yesterday: [read more]
PR: Pearls Before Swine iPad app- contest ends Friday
Pearls runs in both the Post and the Express, and I believe it's one of the more popular strips in the area, so here's some PR about a contest for you Apple-zombies... [read more]
Apple Creek book from Rob Steibel out now
From Robert Steibel: [read more]
Angouleme 2012 warm-up in 6 mosse (3): incontri parigini
Se andare ad Angouleme significa anche fare tappa nella capitale, un altro piccolo rito pre-festivaliero sono: 3 > incontri parigini. Come è ovvio che sia, dietro agli incontri che i ‘festivalieri’ organizzano in questa settimana di gen ... [read more]
Edward Lear, Gozo, Malta
Edward Lear, Gozo, Malta. Watercolour and bodycolour, (25 x 16 cm). Private collection. [read more]
Mais sobre o MAB
O MAB continua a divulgar os nomes dos autores estrangeiros que vão estar presentes no festival, sendo a mais recente confirmação o de Melinda Gebbie, autora americana, esposa de Alan Moore, cujo trabalho mais conhecido foi no polémico ... [read more]
Jan 25: Bookgroup meeting at Politics and Prose
Just wanted to send out a quick email to remind everyone of the meeting tomorrow, Wed, at 7:30pm. We're reading Batwoman: Elegy. [read more]
Angouleme 2012 warm-up in 6 mosse (2): mostre parigine
Delle tante attività parallele nella settimana del festival di Angouleme, alcune si svolgono a Parigi. Un po’ perché la capitale è un’inevitabile – o quasi – tappa di viaggio, per chi si sposta in aereo o in treno. E un po’ perché, appr ... [read more]
PR: Baltimore Comic-Con Brings Ron Marz to Maryland and Northern Virginia
Baltimore Comic-Con Brings Ron Marz to Maryland and Northern Virginia   BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - January 24, 2012 -Continuing his 2012 road show, this weekend, Baltimore Comic-Con promoter Marc Nathan brings the Baltimore Comic-Con to hi ... [read more]
Angouleme 2012 warm-up in 6 mosse (1): la stampa
Dopodomani inizia il FIBD 2012. In realtà, per i festivalieri, Angoulême è già iniziata. In quella che è “la settimana del fumetto” per eccellenza, nell’industria editoriale e nei media europei, operatori osservatori e fumettòfili hanno ... [read more]
News: Sweden Goes to Angouleme!
It's getting close to the launch of the biggest comics festival in Europe, Festival International de la Bande Dessinée, in Angouleme, France. This year there will be a special focus on Sweden, as there is a special exhibition, La vie n’ ... [read more]
Two More Looloos
I found these two pictures on my hard disk; which I probably saved them from eBay auctions. They are from a set of six postcards from Helen Stilwell’s Laughable Looloos, a series of cartoon that was published in the New … Continue readi ... [read more]
Little busy for a bit...
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to blog as much as I'd like these days, and the coming months are likely to be a little quiet around here. I'm hoping to have a few big announcements to make soon. However, I'm aiming to defend  my dis ... [read more]
Truitt on Cow Boy and I, Vampire
'Cow Boy' rides high online with a pint-sized bounty hunter By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 23 2012 http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-23/Cow-Boy-online-comic-series/52755526/1 [read more]
A chat with Futurian artist David Miller
Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat With David Miller  by Mike Rhode on Jan. 23, 2012 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2012/01/23/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-david-miller/ [read more]
Fantom Comics January 2012
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Howard Prof Marc Singer at Comic Book Resources
What Are You Reading? with Marc Singer     January 22, 2012  by Chris Mautner http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/01/what-are-you-reading-with-marc-singer/ [read more]
Moving between worlds: The Arrival
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Art Spiegelman, Monsieur Pencil et l’iPad
Carton d'invitation (et un détail) du festival de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême 2012 réalisé par Art Spiegelman.   D'aucuns auront remarqué la présence subtile de Rodolphe Töpffer sur l'affiche (et le carton d'invitation) du festival de ... [read more]
Edward Lear, A View of the Valley of the Nera, Near Rome
A view of the Valley of the Nera, near Rome. Signed with monogram, inscribed and indistinctly dated ‘Valley of the Nera/18…’ (lower right) and with the artist’s notation ‘River’. Pencil heightened with white on buff paper. 10 1/8 x 13¾ ... [read more]
Fumetto e pirateria digitale: qualche cifra
L’osservatorio sul libro della regione parigina (Ile de France), Le Motif, ha svolto un’indagine sulla pirateria digitale connessa al fumetto. I dati sono relativi a prodotti presumibilmente francesi (non sono disponibili online dettagl ... [read more]
39. Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême
Diese Woche richten sich die Blicke der Comic-Kreativen, -Verlage, -LeserInnen und -ForscherInnen auf Europas bedeutendstes Comicfestival, das jährlich in der französischen Stadt Angoulême stattfindet. Vom 26. bis zum 29. Januar 2012 fi ... [read more]
Edward Lear, Tivoli (1839)
Tivoli, a view from the Villa d’Este looking across the Campagna. Inscribed ‘Villa D’Este. Tivoli’ (lower left) and signed and dated ’1839./Edward Lear’ (lower right). Pencil heightened with white on grey-green paper. 6 5/8 x 13 1/8 in. ... [read more]
Post fact-checks cartoon attack ads
Pro-Gingrich cartoon ad slightly wrong about Romney  by Josh Hicks Washington Post Fact Checker blog 01/20/2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/pro-gingrich-cartoon-ad-slightly-wrong-about-romney/2012/01/20/gIQA ... [read more]
Aaron "Boondocks" McGruder worked on Red Tails movie
Path to make Tuskegee Airmen movie 'Red Tails' carried a lot of cultural freight. [read more]
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown coming to Olney Theatre
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown [read more]
Comics-creating courses at Anne Arundel Community College this spring
ATS-350 Comic Book Careers: Overview 0 credit hours 0.0 ceu hours [read more]
Examiner reviews Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders"
A murder here, a murder there at American Century Theater By: Barbara Mackay The Washington Examiner (January 22 2012)  http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/theater/2012/01/murder-here-murder-there/2118221 [read more]
Truitt on 'Peter Panzerfaust'
'Peter Panzerfaust' reimagines Peter Pan as Nazi resister By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 19 2012 http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-19/Peter-Panzerfaust-comic-book-series/52681130/1 [read more]
Edward Lear, Montenegro
Montenegro Signed with monogram, and signed again and inscribed ‘MONTENEGRO./A drawing made by me in 1870-72/from sketches made on the spot in 1866./Edward Lear/Purchased by Thomas Baring Esq.re MP’ (verso). Watercolor and bodycolor, wa ... [read more]
Weekend Reading
Here are some links to articles on Edward Lear and nonsense for your weekend reading: Francesca Bombassei Gonella. “‘Everything’s Got a Moral, If Only You Can Fint It’: Modernità, interculturalità e sovversione del canone nella letterat ... [read more]
Review: 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die
There's a new book on comics out, to which I have contributed. The title of the book really says it all: 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die: The Ultimate Guide to Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips and Manga. This gigantic ... [read more]
Cradled in Caricature
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Edward Lear, View of Monte Pellegrino, Palermo (1847)
View of Monte Pellegrino, Palermo, 1847. Dated ‘July 13, 1847′ and further inscribed ‘(235)’ twice (lower right) . pencil and oil on paper, laid down on board. 8½ x 15¼ in. (21.6 x 40 cm.). Lear visited Sicily for the … Continue reading → [read more]
Coleccionando estatuetas (1)
Enquanto em terras lusas, a colecção de Automóveis do Michel Vaillant da Planeta DeAgostini, que reproduz numa escala de 1/43 alguns dos modelos que surgem nas páginas da banda desenhada, sai-não-sai, porquanto a publicidade diz que a p ... [read more]
Edward Lear, View of Gwalior, India (1880)
View of Gwalior, India, 1880. Signed in monogram ‘EL’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘Gwalior’ (lower left). Oil on canvas, unlined (Prepared by Charles Roberson 99, Long Acre London) 9¼ x 18¼ in. (23.5 x 46.3 cm.). Throughout his life Lea ... [read more]
Stop SOPA and PIPA!
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Edward Lear, A View of Florence (1839)
A view of Florence with the Duomo in the distance. Signed and dated ‘Edward Lear. del./1839.’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘Firenze.’ (lower left). Pencil, ochre wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized) on light green paper. 9¼ x 13 ... [read more]
Os primeiros nomes do MAB
A pouco menos de dois meses da sua realização, começam a ser conhecidos os nomes dos primeiros autores de banda desenhada confirmados (a lista ainda não está fechada) para o 1º MAB-Festival Internacional de Multimédia, Arte e Banda Dese ... [read more]
Art and Illusion in Blutch’s Mitchum
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Tagungsbericht: Comics – Intermedial und Interdisziplinär
9. – 10. Dezember 2011, Situation Kunst / Ruhr-Universität Bochum [read more]
R.K. Laxman cover at Indian stamp exhibition
Common Man graces special cover TNN  Jan 14, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Common-Man-graces-special-cover/articleshow/11480616.cms [read more]
Roald Dahl stamps from Royal Mail
The British Royal Mail last week issued a new series of stamps, celebrating the main characters from the books by Roald Dahl, as visualised by cartoonist and illustrator Quentin Blake.  Six stamps feature characters from Matilda, The Fa ... [read more]
The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe: A Brief Interview
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
CfP Deutschland(s) Bilder
Comicalités ist eine wissenschaftliche Internet-Zeitschrift aus Frankreich, die sich der Besonderheit und der Entwicklung der Ausdrucksformen, der Produktion und der Rezeption von Comics, Illustrationen, Karikaturen und Cartoons widmet. ... [read more]
'Cinderella' stamp from Comic Book Marketplace
I was browsing through Comic Book Marketplace #72 from October 1999 and found this illustration for their letter column. [read more]
Jewish Images in the Comics: The Lecture
Today, for those of you who are in the area, I give a lecture tonight, based on my new book Jewish Images in the Comics, to be published in the U.S. by Fantagraphics this April. The lecture will be held at Kulturhuset Mazetti, Friisgata ... [read more]
Georgian projections of French Revolutionary madness
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
« Roi-Reine-Prince » par Carl Maria Seyppel
Carl Maria Seyppel, Roi-Reine-Prince, Félix Bagel (éd.), Düsseldorf, 1886. Source : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf.   Carl Maria Seyppel (1847-1913), peintre, dessinateur et écrivain de Düsseldorf, réalisa dans les années ... [read more]
Ausstellung: Winsor McCay 1869-1934: Comics, Filme, Träume
Vom 15. Januar bis 4. März 2012 im Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem in Troisdorf. Die Eröffnung findet statt am 15. Januar um 11 Uhr. [read more]
Desenhos autografados (24): André Caetano
O desenho de hoje é da autoria do André Caetano. Não conhecia o seu trabalho até ler a história “O Que é um Monstro?” que assina no Zona Monstra de Março de 2011. Gostei bastante do seu traço e abordei-o numa sessão de autógrafos no últ ... [read more]
Maupin House and Katie Monnin work with Round Table Companies to develop curriculum for comic book adaptation of The Constitution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Emily Gibbs Allison+Partners EmilyG@allisonpr.com [read more]
New book and big international exhibition
Phew! The last couple of months have not seen many updates here, due to the autumn having been even busier than usual. Now it is starting to look a bit better. A few days ago I delivered my new book, Jewish Images in the Comics - A Visu ... [read more]
Disneyana on Stamps Society launches
Bill Silvester writes in: [read more]
Este mês na Bedeteca de Beja...
EXPOSIÇÕES [read more]
Revista do Ano de 2011
Ora cá estamos, e a primeira entrada de 2012 neste blogue serve para fechar as contas com o ano findo. 2011 foi um bom ano para para a edição de banda desenhada em português. Atendendo ao contexto actual de crise, que se reflectiu por e ... [read more]
The Repetition of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Comicwissenschaft in Deutschland: Ein Einschätzungsversuch von Daniel Stein
Am 7. November 2011 erschien ein Blogeintrag im englischsprachigen Comics Forum unter dem Titel “Comics Studies in Germany: Where It‘s At and Where It Might Be Heading” von ComFor-Mitglied Daniel Stein. Er hat uns freundlicherweise eine ... [read more]
Comics Books 2011
Favorite comics in book form from the year of reading. [read more]
Alles auf Anfang: American Horror Story
Ein Pilot hat die wunderbare Aufgabe, seine Zuschauer davon zu überzeugen, weiterzuschauen. Er soll die Essenz der nachfolgenden Serie auszudrücken und etabliert im besten Fall schon gleich ein Erfolgsrezept, das über mehrere Episoden ... [read more]
January 2012 banner by Art Spiegelman
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Belgian comics stamps for 2012
Belgium is traditionally a bountiful source for stamps with a comics or cartoons theme, but 2012 promises to be an exceptionally good year.  No less than six different issues will probably of interest to the collector. [read more]
Manga 2011
My favorite manga for the year. [read more]
Minicomics and Short Stories 2011
My favorites from 2011. [read more]
Branca de Neve: Pregnant Moments
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Gesellschaft für Comicforschung mit neuem Logo
Diesmal rein in eigener Sache: Die Gesellschaft für Comicforschung freut sich, heute unser neues Logo präsentieren zu können. Wer es vor dem neuen Jahr sehen will, muß hier weiterklicken… [read more]
Dudley Fisher cover at Hogan's Alley website
Click the link to see it: http://cdn.cagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/fisher_envelope.jpg [read more]
2011-12-24 (after Schulz)
One thing I love about Peanuts are the backgrounds. The endpapers of Fantagraphics’ The Complete Peanuts volumes are my favorite work that Seth has ever done. Here’s a comic based on one strip from July 3, 1980. [read more]
Mention in a Portugese magazine article
A little mention in a magazine. [read more]
Os Votos Bedéfilos de Bom Natal
Postal retirado de uma série de Natal desenhada por Hergé em 1942 [read more]
Frohe Weihnachten!
…wünscht die ComFor-Webredaktion. [read more]
Imagem do dia: Emigrantes
Lançado recentemente, comprei-o agora este surpreendente álbum da editora Kalandraka. Porque se trata da primeira obra de banda desenhada publicada por esta editora, que a conhecia apenas pelos livros infantis. Porque a obra Emigrantes ... [read more]
Merry Christmas!
Season's greetings, drawn by my wife, Hanna Strömberg. As I am an old Asterix fan, it was an enjoyable experince being converted into an indominable gaul. I can just see us, living in one of the houses in the Asterix village. [read more]
O Ano da Devir
Não podia deixar fechar o ano sem falar aqui da Devir Portugal. Como editora de banda desenhada teve grande actividade no mercado português entre 2000 e 2005, onde publicava com sucesso o universo de José Carlos Fernandes, títulos irreg ... [read more]
Comics und Politik: 7. Wissenschaftstagung der ComFor in Freiburg
This post in English [read more]
Comics and Politics: 7th Annual ComFor Conference Scheduled
Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch [read more]
Sessão de autógrafos na KingPin
Confesso que já não me recordo o nome da personagem que esta bela jovem vestiu, apesar de eu não me importar nada que fosse uma versão moderna da Mãe Natal, mas serve para ilustrar bem o bom ambiente e a muita descontracção que se encon ... [read more]
Miller and Varley’s DK2: Supersimulacra
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship - Journal of Comics Scholarship [read more]
Neue Informationen zur Bonner Online-Bibliographie zur Comicforschung
Read This Post in English [read more]