And We Shall March

Black Ink / Holding

BAND grew out of an animation forum at last year’s Pan African Film Festival. Attending the panel, were the likes of Bruce Smith, creator of “The Proud Family” and the upcoming “The Princess and the Frog,” Disney’s first animated production centered on a Black princess character; and Tyree S. Dillihay, the man behind last year’s controversial BET short, “Read a Book.”

Group signatories also include Brandon Schultz and Mike Davis, whose LA.-based Imajination Studios is set to release “Blockhedz,” its first feature, about an inner-city rapper with superpowers.

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"You Only Need One" - Phineas Poe @ Terra Major This Fall

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YOU ONLY NEED ONE

Sneak Peek of Graphic Adaptation of Acclaimed Novel Kiss Me, Judas Available
Online

Santa Barbara, CA (7/14/08) ‹ Santa Barbara-based indie comics publisher
Terra Major has posted a preview online of its forthcoming PHINEAS POE, a
graphic adaptation of KISS ME JUDAS, the first book by critically acclaimed
novelist Will Christopher Baer.

The preview is available for download at http://www.terramajor.com. The book is 267 pages long and took five years to complete. It is set to be released in the Fall. The preview is recommended for Mature Viewers only. The preview can be used as an advance review copy for reviewers of comics and graphic novels.

Phineas Poe is a disgraced ex-cop who walks out of a Denver psych ward on
Christmas Eve and heads for the nearest hotel bar, looking to lay low.
Instead, he chats up the wrong girl, a stranger with dark eyes and a scar at
the edge of her mouth. Deadly as she is beautiful, Jude is a freelance organ
thief who leads a willing Phineas upstairs, cuts him open and tosses him to
fate. Reborn in a tub of ice, Phineas chases Jude on a twisted quest for
redemption that rapidly blurs the lines between victim and accomplice, lover
and torturer.

PHINEAS POE is illustrated by Brazilian Jefferson Costa, an animator for MTV
Brazil, freelance illustrator and comics artist.

Born in Mississippi in 1966, Will Christopher Baer received an MFA from the
Jack Kerouac School at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO in 1995. His stories
and essays have appeared in numerous print and online publications, notably
Nerve and Bomb.

Kiss Me, Judas was first published in 1999 (Viking/Penguin) to wide critical
acclaim, including selection by Barnes & Noble as a Best New Voice. It has
been translated to seven languages, and is now in its fifth domestic edition
(Fall 2006, MacAdam/Cage).

Portland/holding/"now they want your stories"

“I’ve been really upset by what I perceive to be Portland’s blind spot in its progressivism,” said Khaela Maricich, a local artist and musician. “They think they live in the best city in the country, but it’s all about saving the environment and things like that. It’s not really about social issues. It’s upper-middle-class progressivism, really.”

Ms. Maricich, 33, who is white, spoke after attending this month’s meeting of Portland’s Restorative Listening Project.

The goal of the project, which is sponsored by the city’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, is to have white people better understand the effect gentrification can have on the city’s longtime black and other-minority neighborhoods by having minority residents tell what it is like to be on the receiving end.

Once armed with a broader perspective, said Judith Mowry, the project’s leader, whites should “make the commitment that the harm stops with us.” That might mean that whites appeal to the city to help black businesses or complain to companies that put fliers on the doors of black property owners encouraging them to sell.

Yet what has been clear from the meetings this month and last is that talking about the impact of gentrification is easier than finding ways to reduce it. For some minority residents, the notion that white Portland now says it feels their pain is cold comfort.

“That’s been our history,” Norma Trimble, who is Native American, said during the question-and-answer session this month. “They take all you’ve got. They take your land. Now they want your stories.”

Aside: Man does this compose screen alleged-upgrade suck. I can't even *link* as I could in the past..only one graph links, not the whole section, I can't bold or color. And did I mention that I can hardly read what I'm typing because it defaults to a tiny sans-serif Arial font? And yet there is no opt-out. O great. I *really* hope Typepad is attempting to fix it because man this is ANNOYING.

Templar, AZ: Spike Is Putting Together The Second Paper Collection! You Want? Order It Now!

The cartoonist Spike, last mentioned around this place here, is gearing up to do another paper collection of her webcomic Templar, Arizona! If you click here you can go to the pre-order page and pick which version works best for your budget. I think the "I'm a misprint" one is an ever-so-clever approach.

Click! Buy!

Think Of It As Blog Delivery Service, Useful For When The Email Keeps Saying ACK! FILE TOO BIG! FALL OVER! DIE! REJECT!

Of All The Names In This Article, The Only One That Matters To Moi Is Larry Marder

Another good excuse to violate the no posting on weekends rule!

There's a few things about this article that are tediously irritating in the way only the mainstream press can be when encountering something its sneering at behind its hand, but since it mentions Larry Marder, and I am dying, dying I tell you, ALMOST DEAD OF DYING in ANTICIPATION of the new Beanworld book (and did I mention my Baby Bean?), I shall forgive it. Plus, it's promoting a fabulous cause, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which is doing a bunch of events at this weekend's show in NYC. If you're in NYC you should go and give them money while you're there.

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So the comic creators drank, and drew, and anticipated the greatness that’s yet to come for what most of them would surely call their voyage. They invoked the history of censorship and exploitation of comics creators, decried once-oppressive modes of manufacturing, and celebrated the end of the dark days before graphic novels were considered art. With great cheer, they railed against the man, knowing that in comics, the boy is still king.

Robbi Rodriguez' Battle Sheep! And Also Improved Lewis Trondheim Frames

I hoped to attend the Pledge Party event at Meltdown over the weekend, but that day was booked up. I had to bake & deliver a bunch of double stuffed chocolate cupcakes for a friend's event, then off to do day job stuff, then to the Friedman talk, and then off to get laid. So, you know, I was busy. But here's a drawing I got from one of the Pledge Party participants, Robbi Rodriguez, a couple of weeks ago, which he made for a good cause. I said "draw me a mecha sheep! Like Transformers, but a sheep!" and he was like, "I have a better idea." Behold the Battle Sheep!

I put it in a ridiculously overdone gold gilded frame recently salvaged from elsewhere and hung it in the bathroom.  It looks great!

Speaking of frames, a little while ago I woke up at 3 a.m. with the thought that the plain IKEA frames I tossed the Lewis Trondheim sketches into years ago, obtained after a short period of standing in a line whatever year that was he was a guest at CCI, were boring. So I got out of bed and painted them dark blue on the fronts, mixing a dark near-black purple for the sides. Much better.

Once I finished I realized it's high time I get these smaller pieces sitting in folders into frames and onto the walls. I shall paint all of their frames, too! But differently.

Drew Friedman, More Old Jewish Comedians, Fantagraphics @ Skylight Books TOMORROW, March 29, 5 p.m.

I know. I should have posted this before now. But I think we have established that there are times when I suck, no matter how many post-it notes I have fluttering around the monitor as Reminders. Maybe it was the mental block that always pops up at the thought of going to Skylight, where it takes 20 to 45-mins to find a parking space and sometimes I just give up and go home? The Andrew Vachss event was about 25 minutes of searching for parking, *and* I ran out of cigs halfway through the hunt so you know I was ready to run somebody over. Or maybe it was that I have no free money at the moment, so if I go I can't buy the book, which bothers me when I go to a reading. But when do opportunities to hear someone like Friedman talk come up? Not often! If I just show up nobody will notice if I leave without a book, in part because I bet he's going to draw a good crowd. Leading us back to the Trauma Of Trying To Find Parking At Skylight... Christ, where is the Riesling..

So why don't we just cut/paste from the inbox.

DREW FRIEDMAN AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS:
MORE OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS • MARCH 29th

WITH BEN SCHWARTZ, ANDY KINDLER & SPECIAL GUESTS

WHO: Drew Friedman
WHAT: Discussion, Q&A and book signing
WHERE: Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Ave. • Los Angeles, CA 90027 • 323.660.1175 tel.
WHEN: Saturday, March 29, 5PM

“Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a
place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale
cigarettes and cold brisket and you say thank you for the pleasure.”
— Sarah Silverman

Join cartoonist DREW FRIEDMAN along with BEN SCHWARTZ and more
special guests (TBA) for a special discussion and booksigning to
promote the release of More Old Jewish Comedians.

This all-new sequel to 2006's wildly popular Old Jewish Comedians,
which earned raves from Jerry Lewis, Howard Stern, The Believer,
Entertainment Weekly and many others, includes the famous (Woody
Allen, Joan Rivers, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Soupy Sales, etc.), the
less-famous (Jerry Stiller, Zeppo & Gummo Marx, Larry Storch, Zero
Mostel, etc.) and the largely unknown (Molly Picon, Herbie Faye, Jan
Milton, etc.). The Reuben Award-winning Friedman presents a thorough
visual history of the 20th Century's greatest Borscht-Belt comedians
in 28 full-page, liver-spotted portraits.

2008 Glyph Comics Awards Nominees and Voting Open for Fan Award Through March 31

I forgot to post this because I distract easily.

Go here to vote.

Go here for your daily dose of blackitude in comics.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE NOMINEES FOR THE 2008 GLYPH COMICS AWARDS

The third annual Glyph Comics Awards (GCAs), honoring the best in black comics and creators, will once again take place at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) in Philadelphia. The Awards Committee is pleased to announce this year’s nominees, as judged by the following:

• Rich Watson, GCA Committee Chair and writer for PopCultureShock.com
• Cheryl Lynn Eaton, comics journalist and founder of the Ormes Society
• Prof. William Foster, comics historian and lecturer
• Tony Isabella, comics writer and columnist
• Katherine Keller, editor-in-chief, Sequential Tart

The nominees for the 2008 Glyph Comics Awards are:

Story of the Year
Hunter’s Moon, James L. White, writer, Dalibor Talajic and Sebastian Cardoso, artists
Nat Turner: Revolution, Kyle Baker, writer and artist
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, James Sturm, writer, Rich Tommaso, artist
Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, Percy Carey, writer, Ronald Wimberly, artist
Welcome to Tranquility, Gail Simone, writer, Neil Googe, artist

Best Writer
Percy Carey, Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm
Dwayne McDuffie, Fantastic Four
Gail Simone, Welcome to Tranquility
James Sturm, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
James L. White, Hunter’s Moon

Best Artist
Kyle Baker, Nat Turner: Revolution
Olivier Coipel, Thor
Georges Jeanty, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jeremy Love, Bayou
Ronald Wimberly, Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm

Best Male Character
Emmet Wilson, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow; James Sturm, writer, Rich Tommaso, artist
Luke Cage, New Avengers; Brian Michael Bendis, writer, Leinil Francis Yu, artist
MF Grimm, Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm; Percy Carey, writer, Ronald Wimberly, artist
Nat Turner, Nat Turner: Revolution; Kyle Baker, writer and artist
The Spectre, Tales of the Unexpected; David Lapham, writer, Eric Battle & Prentis Rollins, artists

Best Female Character
Amanda Waller, Checkmate; Greg Rucka, writer, Joe Bennett & Jack Jadson, artists
Lee Wagstaff, Bayou; Jeremy Love, writer and artist
Martha Washington, Martha Washington Dies; Frank Miller, writer, Dave Gibbons, artist
Saida Nri, Adrenaline; Tyler Chin-Tanner, writer, James Boyle & Fabio Redivo, artists
Thomasina Lindo, Welcome to Tranquility; Gail Simone, writer, Neil Googe, artist

Rising Star Award
Marguerite Abouet, Aya
Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, Monster Attack Network
Mark Haven Britt, Full Color
Klio, SPQR Blues
Korby Marks, Stormbringers

Best Reprint Publication
Aya, Drawn & Quarterly; Chris Oliveros, publisher, Helge Dascher, translator
Beyond Premiere HC, Marvel; Tom Brevoort, editor
It Rhymes With Lust, Dark Horse; Mike Richardson, publisher
Storm Premiere HC, Marvel; Axel Alonso, editor
Stormwatch: Post Human Division V1, DC/Wildstorm; Ben Abernathy, editor

Best Cover
Blade #5, Marko Djurdjevic, illustrator
Highwaymen #1, Brian Stelfreeze, illustrator
JSA Classified #28, Steve Uy, illustrator
Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, Ronald Wimberly, illustrator
Special Forces #2, Kyle Baker, illustrator

Best Comic Strip
Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist
Candorville, Darrin Bell, writer and artist
Funny Cartoon of the Week, Kyle Baker, writer and artist
The K Chronicles, Keith Knight, writer and artist
Watch Your Head, Cory Thomas, writer and artist

Once again, fans will be able to vote for their favorite black comic in the poll for the Fan Award for Best Comic. This year’s nominees are:

Fantastic Four: The New Fantastic Four, Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Paul Pelletier & Rick Magyar, artists
JSA Classified #28, Fabian Nicieza, writer, Steve Uy, artist
New Warriors #1-6, Kevin Grevioux, writer, Paco Medina & Juan Vlasco, artists
Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk, Marc Guggenheim, writer, Paul Gulacy, artist
Stormwatch: Post Human Division, Christos Gage, writer, Doug Mahnke and Andy Smith, aritsts
write-in choice

The poll is now up at the ECBACC website and will remain open until March 31, 2008.

ECBACC 2008 will take place May 16-17 at Temple University’s Anderson Hall in Philadelphia. For more information about the GCAs, e-mail Rich Watson.

About the Glyph Comics Awards:
The Glyph Comics Awards recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year. While it is not exclusive to black creators, it does strive to honor those who have made the greatest contributions to the comics medium in terms of both critical and commercial impact. By doing so, the goal is to encourage more diverse and high quality work across the board and to inspire new creators to add their voices to the field.

The awards are named for the blog Glyphs: The Language of the Black Comics Community at Pop Culture Shock, started in 2005 by comics journalist Rich Watson as a means to provide news and commentary of comics with black themes, as well as tangential topics in the fields of black science-fiction/fantasy and animation.

About ECBACC:
The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC), in association with the Temple University Pan-African Studies Community Education Program, is an annual gathering of comic book creators and retailers who create and sell material that caters to black readers of all ages. In addition to selling their work, they also take part in panel discussions and self-publishing workshops for aspiring creators. The convention is held on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia each May. ECBACC is an outgrowth of the original Black Age of Comics Convention in Chicago, founded by Turtel Onli.

For more information about ECBACC, contact event coordinator Maurice Waters.

Judenhass: This One Sounds Far More Interesting Than The Other One

Judenhass.

(Yes, the original post did look different. I was drive-by posting on my way out the door. Once I had time to walk through the website, I noticed there were better images available. Thus, swap.)