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May 25, 2012
Go, Look: Even More Of Those Cartoonist Photos
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Go, Read: Steve Bissette On Comics Featuring Gay Characters
I thought this a very interesting post featuring a lot of cartoonists about whom I know next to nothing. I can write that exact sentence about a lot of Bissette posts, really.
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Go, Bookmark: Highway 62 Revisited
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Zunar's Civil Court Decision Pushed Back To June 6
A decision in the case brought by the cartoonist Zunar against political and police officials in Malaysia for their treatment in detaining and other harassing him for the content of cartoons he had published in book form will have to wait until June 6, the artist wrote to an array of world press sources yesterday evening. No decision was given for the delay. It's entirely possible that Zunar could not only lose the case but be fined a hefty amount for that loss.
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If I Were In Phoenix, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In Michigan, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In Houston, I'd Go To This
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Forthcoming Comics-Related Events, This Month And Next
May 26
* If I Were Near McCleary, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Vancouver, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near This, I'd Sure Go To It
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Houston, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Phoenix, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Canoga Park, I'd Go To This
May 27
* If I Were In Vancouver, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Houston, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Phoenix, I'd Go To This
May 30
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
June 2
* If I Were Near Doylestown, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Fredericksburg, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
June 7
* If I Were In San Francisco, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Erlangen, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This
June 8
* If I Were In Oslo, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Erlangen, I'd Go To This
June 9
* If I Were In St. Louis, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Oslo, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Erlangen, I'd Go To This
June 10
* If I Were In St. Louis, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Arlington, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Erlangen, I'd Go To This
June 15
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This
June 16
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (CAKE)
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This
June 17
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (CAKE)
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
June 22
* If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This (Heroes Con)
* If I Were In San Antonio, I'd Go To This
June 23
* If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This (Heroes Con)
* If I Were In San Antonio, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
June 24
* If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This (Heroes Con)
* If I Were In San Antonio, I'd Go To This
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ONGOING
* Northern Illinois University Graphic Novel Presentations (through May 25)
* Darth Vader And Son, Cartoon Art Museum (Through August 5)
* What, Me Worry? Sixty Years Of Mad, Cartoon Art Museum (Through September 16)
* La Raza Comica, Cartoon Art Museum (Through September 30)
* Avengers Assemble, Cartoon Art Museum (Through October 21)
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This post is designed to list events through January 2012, including ongoing exhibits. If you don't see your event above, perhaps check out the future listings here. If it's not listed anywhere,
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Go, Look: Captain Midnight's Your Invention Page
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Michael Cavna has a proposal for Disney.
 * Padraig Harrington pulls at one thread of the vast LOEG narrative and ends up with a pile of material up to his waist. This is one reason that I can't even conceive wanting to go near something Alan Moore wrote, or at least anything beyond the basics of a character he created.
* Peter Arno really was cooler than all the other cartoonists.
* Alex Pappademas on why Marvel's gay wedding and DC's mystery gay hero are big deals.
* aw, look at the CCS graduates.
* I tend to list openings-only, but this CAKE-related (well, somewhat) show isn't going to be open much past that opening, so maybe mark it down right now.
* I love the look of late-period Kirby-drawn Fantastic Four, and I'm grateful we live in an era where these have routinely dropped under $5 (in good to fine condition, even) that I can buy them when I see them. The structure of the stories tends to be a lot more simplistic but the pages themselves are frequently beautiful.
* Rob Clough on a bunch of genre comics. Dan Morrill on FLCL Omnibus. Greg McElhatton on Bloody Chester. Don MacPherson on Batman, Inc. #1. Ben on Goliath. Corey Blake on three new comics.
* Christopher Bird responds to criticism of the tone of his piece critical of Scott Kurtz's arguments surrounding the Jack Kirby Estate and the material rewards of the Avengers movie. (Basically, it's a defense of sometimes responding to an extreme point of view with extreme flourishes of rhetoric.)
* well, somebody had to make this joke.
* finally, Charles Reece doesn't like Wonder Woman.
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Happy 56th Birthday, Sal Velluto!
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Happy 57th Birthday, Ken Avidor!
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Happy 55th Birthday, Marc Hempel!
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Happy 55th Birthday, Terry Nantier!
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Happy 59th Birthday, Stan Sakai!
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Happy 63rd Birthday, Barry Windsor-Smith!
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May 24, 2012
Go, Look: Kushinagar
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Comics' Giving Heart -- People, Projects In Need Of Funding
* a group is trying to raise a very specific $37,800 to fund a graphic novel project with Spain Rodriguez as its cartooning talent. I am a huge fan of Spain Rodriguez.
* the publication Magic Bullet is looking for an also-specific $700 to fund its fifth issue.
* one of my favorite comics people, Lea Hernandez, is looking for $40K to fund a graphic novel project. She's been working with that material for a while, as I recall. I'm not as familiar with it as I should be, but it looks awfully cute.
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Not Comics: Sarah Glidden's Occupied Angouleme Photo Album
I actually did this post yesterday afternoon, some 20 hours before the New Hampshire "Hitler Mustache" scenario below came to my attention. Go figure. The set in question is Sarah Glidden's discovery of photos detailing the Nazi occupation of the festival city. They are fascinating and distressing.
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No One Cares About Otto Von Bismarck's Mustache
But they sure don't like giving someone "the Hitler," either in real-life, or, as happened in a Mike Marland effort in the Concord Monitor, in cartoon form. I think this editorial gives you just about everything you need to know, including a look at the cartoon itself. I actually think the Hitler example is useful when utilized as an absurd extreme, or at least not worthy of throwing up one's hands and stomping away from the computer, but I can't imagine the point being made of just comparing some political dude to Herr Wolf unless, maybe, some sort of hate-speech was involved. This sounds just like some sort of generic, ill-conceived Hitler-as-generic-free-speech-hating-despot comparison, which makes a straight-up comparison even more problematic. Maybe Hitler's branding needs work; maybe someone needs to step up in the despot ranks in more of a free-speech crushing manner. The intriguing part of the editorial, incidentally, is how the newspaper person talks about their maybe not running the cartoon but then deciding to give the cartoonist the privilege of his platform.
posted 5:45 am PST | Permalink
Go, Look: Tibet's Sacrifice: Exiled Lives
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Go, Look: CNN Profiles Egypt Election Cartoons
The CNN-hosted blog Inside The Middle East has a smattering of cartoons up about the elections in Egypt, certainly worth checking out on day two of that historic event. I have no particular comprehension of what cartooning is like in that country specifically, even though it's my general understanding that there is a significant editorial cartooning presence in the country just as there is throughout the region. There's also a video profile of the Hajjaj brothers, from Jordan.
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