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Happy 45th Birthday, Chris Allen!
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Happy 47th Birthday, Brian Bendis!
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Happy 31st Birthday, Lilli Carré!
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Happy 40th Birthday, Kevin Church!
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Happy 37th Birthday, Jenni Rope!
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* we'll be running the 2012 "Comics By Local Scene" list and instructions on how to help me update it for Labor Day re-release every day this week first thing. Sorry if it makes scrolling down a bit of a hassle and I hope you can contribute to that resource.
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* missed this fun Chris Schweizer post about the beginning of World War I.
* Leigh Alexander talks to Bryan Lee O'Malley. Heather Seggel talks to Ariel Schrag. Greg Hunter talks to Brian Evenson. Patrick A. Reed talks to Paul Pope. Kiel Phegley talks to Ed Brubaker. Some nice person at Politics & Prose talks to Gene Luen Yang. Nathan Reese talks to Ed Brubaker. Tyler Chin-Tanner talks to Farel Dalrymple. Michael Cavna talks to Teresa Roberts Logan.
* not comics: Jack Kirby beer. August 2017 is going to be fascinating.
* Kerry Winfrey on This One Summer. Tom Murphy on The Wrenchies. Rob McMonigal on Faction 1. Matt Derman on Fallen Angels #1-8. Colm Creamer on Seconds. Andy Oliver on Graveyard Orbit #1 and On The Trail Of Sandalwood Smugglers. Sean T. Collins on Alien Invasion III.
* look at these Capital City buttons. Those of you younger than 40 may not remember the major distributor they were for years and years. My hunch is that any element of comics history that invovles the 1980s can have that history told in button form.
* finally, I would have loved to have entered into the world of Usagi Yojimbo as a little-kid reader.
* missed this fun Chris Schweizer post about the beginning of World War I.* Leigh Alexander talks to Bryan Lee O'Malley. Heather Seggel talks to Ariel Schrag. Greg Hunter talks to Brian Evenson. Patrick A. Reed talks to Paul Pope. Kiel Phegley talks to Ed Brubaker. Some nice person at Politics & Prose talks to Gene Luen Yang. Nathan Reese talks to Ed Brubaker. Tyler Chin-Tanner talks to Farel Dalrymple. Michael Cavna talks to Teresa Roberts Logan.
* not comics: Jack Kirby beer. August 2017 is going to be fascinating.
* Kerry Winfrey on This One Summer. Tom Murphy on The Wrenchies. Rob McMonigal on Faction 1. Matt Derman on Fallen Angels #1-8. Colm Creamer on Seconds. Andy Oliver on Graveyard Orbit #1 and On The Trail Of Sandalwood Smugglers. Sean T. Collins on Alien Invasion III.
* look at these Capital City buttons. Those of you younger than 40 may not remember the major distributor they were for years and years. My hunch is that any element of comics history that invovles the 1980s can have that history told in button form.
* finally, I would have loved to have entered into the world of Usagi Yojimbo as a little-kid reader.
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Go, Look: Barry Smith Inking Jack Kirby On Captain America
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If I Were In Seattle, I'd Go To This
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Randall Munroe's "Time" Wins Hugo For Best Graphic Story
Randall Munroe's "Time" won the Hugo Award for "Best Graphic Story" in the awards presented over the weekend. Cory Doctorow accepted on the winner's behalf.The winning story can be found here.
The nominee slate for that category was:
* Girl Genius, Volume Thirteen: Agatha Heterodyne & The Sleeping City, Phil Foglio And Kaja Foglio And Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
* "The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who" in Doctor Who Special 2013, Paul Cornell And Jimmy Broxton (IDW)
* The Meathouse Man, Raya Golden, Adapted From The Story By George R.R. Martin (Jet City Comics)
* Saga Vol. 2, Brian K. Vaughan And Fiona Staples (Image Comics )
* "Time" in XKCD, Randall Munroe (Self-Published)
Congratulation to winner Munroe and all the other nominees.
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Go, Look: Buddy Baker, Crooner For Hire
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Go, Contribute: MariNaomi's Cartoonists Of Color Database
Information here. I'm all for as many independent resources as have a chance of being good and as the Internet can hold.
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OTBP: Kroger Kromix #2
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Comics By Request: People, Places In Need Of Funding
By Tom Spurgeon
* there will be a benefit for Seth Kushner in New York over August 26-27. I hope you'll consider attending or if you have a line on how to do so and it's needed, contributing.
* this Nate McDonough crowd-funder was $32 away last night and may be over its initial goal by now. I'm always a fan of the little ones. This Jeremy Whitley/Heather Nunnelly crowd-funder has just met its initial goal with several days left. Jess Smart Smiley has a way to go yet. Looks like it will be close on this Watson And Holmes crowd-funder, but there's more than enough time for a last push.
* whoa. I first heard about that one because the person organizing it, Megan Lavey-Heaton, was a friend of the writer Chris Mautner. At this point, Chris Mautner is a friend of Megan Lavey-Heaton.
* last couple of days for the latest Ditko/Snyder project.
* the Dan Vado gofundme on behalf of his longtime alt-/art- publishing house SLG has passed the $12k mark.
* finally, this second major Rachel Richey project was really close last night and I'd be surprised if it wasn't over the line as you're reading this.
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Go, Look: Dance Of Death
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Your 2014 Ignatz Award Nominees
They were named this morning. Congratulations to all the newly minted nominees. The Ignatz ceremony will be held on the Saturday of SPX -- September 13. Good luck to all participating.
It's an interesting group of nominees. It strikes me as a list where there's not a whole lot here that's daring or out of left field -- this is the first year in a while I've heard of all the nominees, and am familiar with all of the work, and I've had a terribly inattentive work year. I've received e-mail of a questioning nature already in terms of a couple of nominees, which is typical, but nothing "Oh My God" yet, which is not. My love for Kim Deitch is second to no one's, and I adore that Whaley book, but I didn't put it on my own year-end list because that seemed to me an illustrated prose story. That doesn't matter in the wider scheme of things, but it's an intriguing choice for a crowded field and opens up future awards slates. I also love The End, but that's essentially a reprint with an added signature. I'm always confused by "Promising Newcomer" categories. My hunch is that at least one of those cartoonists has been at it as long as Michael DeForge has been, although I could be wrong.
I think this will be a well-received slate, though, perhaps strongly so. A couple that strike me as particularly welcome on a first glance is the Jesse Reklaw artist nod for that Couch Tag book so few people read, and the Sam Sharpe nomination for that ruthless "Mom" story. I'm also happy on first plunge-through for the Powdered Milk series nod.
Outstanding Artist
* Sam Bosma, Fantasy Basketball
* Kim Deitch, The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley
* Sophie Goldstein, Darwin Carmichael is Going To Hell; Edna II; House of Women
* Ed Piskor, Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1
* Jesse Reklaw, Couch Tag
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
* Amazing Facts and Beyond, Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch
* The End, Anders Nilsen
* Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2, Leslie Stein
* Sock Monkey Treasury, Tony Millionaire
* QU33R, Various (Edited By Robert Kirby)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
* The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley, Kim Deitch
* The Boxer, Reinhard Kleist
* Boxers and Saints, Gene Luen Yang
* This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
* War of Streets and Houses, Sophie Yanow
Outstanding
* "Brownout Biscuit," from Octoups Pie: Dead Forever, Meredith Gran
* Destination X, John Martz
* The Grassy Knoll, Nick Drnaso
* "Jobs" from Life Zone, Simon Hanselmann
* "Mom" from Viewotron #2, Sam Sharpe
Promising New Talent
* Luke Howard, Trevor
* Cathy G. Johnson, Jeremiah; Boy Genius; Until It Runs Clear
* Nick Offerman, Orange; Onions
* Keiler Roberts, Powdered Milk
* Daryl Seitchik, Missy
Outstanding Series
* The Black Feather Falls, Ellen Lindner
* Demon, Jason Shiga
* Powdered Milk, Keiler Roberts
* Sky in Stereo, Sacha Mardou
* Towerkind, Kat Verhoeven
Outstanding Comic
* Blammo #8, Noah Van Sciver
* Cosplayers, Dash Shaw
* It Will All Hurt #2, Farel Dalrymple
* Misliving Amended, Adam Buttrick
* Wicked Chicken Queen, Sam Alden
Outstanding Minicomic
* The Grassy Knoll, Nick Drnaso
* House of Women, Sophie Goldstein
* Never Forgets, Yumi Sakugawa
* Test Tube #1, Carlos Gonzalez
* Up to the Top, Ian Sampson
Outstanding Online Comic
* Band for Life, Anya Davidson
* Big Dogs at Nite, Dane Martin
* Demon, Jason Shiga
* On Hiatus, Pete Toms
* Vattu, Evan Dahm
This year's jury was Darryl Ayo, Austin English, Melissa Mendes, Thien Pham and Whit Taylor.
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Go, Look: Batman Great Escapes Month
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Festivals Extra: The Hotel Where Folks Are Booking For SPX When They Can't Get Into The Marriott...
... is the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center. I've now e-mailed with multiple people who bounced down there after the Marriott sold out of rooms for SPX weekend about five days ago.
It's a full-service hotel like the Marriott, is about 3/4 of a mile away and is one transit stop up the system for easy access. There are a lot of Hiltons in the area so you want to check the address to make double-certain which one you're booking yourself into. I love a good hotel a short distance away, even for a party festival like SPX, because it makes the mornings your own. And this place is appropriately comfy-looking. It's running a bit cheaper than the Marriott through the basic booking services.
It's a full-service hotel like the Marriott, is about 3/4 of a mile away and is one transit stop up the system for easy access. There are a lot of Hiltons in the area so you want to check the address to make double-certain which one you're booking yourself into. I love a good hotel a short distance away, even for a party festival like SPX, because it makes the mornings your own. And this place is appropriately comfy-looking. It's running a bit cheaper than the Marriott through the basic booking services.
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Go, Look: Caitlin Major
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Happy 39th Birthday, Adam P. Knave!
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Happy 37th Birthday, Josh Cotter!
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