The team from MAW Productions, creators of Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa, will be signing the line of Jetta graphic novels at Comics and Collectibles from noon until 4 pm on July 4th. 

Comics and Collectibles is located at 4730 Poplar Ave #2 and will be open from 10 am until 7 pm with a 20% off everything in the store sale (except new comics).   www.memphiscomics.com

Be sure to come out and buy lots of neat things at C&C and meet the MAW team!

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WOMEN IN COMICS – Sent in by Lin
 
CR Sunday Interview: Trina Robbins

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_trina_robbins/

From the interview intro:
Trina Robbins is one of the icons of the underground comix generation, a cartoonist and creative person always pushing forward in ways that have influenced and inspired her peers and admirers. She has become in the decades since an equally valuable advocate for the recognition of great female cartoonists. Her latest book in that vein is The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons 1913-1940, which was released in March of this year by Fantagraphics. While many have long been aware of the general attractiveness of Brinkley’s work, Robbins’ book forces us to look at her art in a way — and at a size — where some of the specifics of Brinkley’s appeal and the basis for her popularity become more apparent, such as the sweep of her page design and the enthusiastic way many moments, even ordinary ones, are rendered. Robbins’ book also asks for a reconsideration of Brinkley’s writing when she was allowed to pursue this element on her own, and paints an overall picture of a fiercely independent cartoonist who learned over the years to work within a system to great reward without ever becoming dominated by it. It’s really great to have The Brinkley Girls, and I was pleased when Robbins agreed to answer some questions about it. — Tom Spurgeon

The interview was also announced here:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/comics/scholars/

Met Trina at Ohio State. Greg and I talked to her a bit on a bus ride to an art show there.

Lin

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FREE INFORMATIONAL COMIC BOOKS – Sent in by Lin
 
Saw a thread on the CGS boards about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York offering free educational comic books.

They are:

The Story of the Federal Reserve System
Too Much, Too Little…
The Story of Monetary Policy
The Story of Foreign Trade and Exchange
The Story of Inflation
A Penny Saved
The Story of Banks
The Story of Money
The Story of Checks and Electronic Payments
Once Upon a Dime
Wishes and Rainbows

You can order up to 35 copies for free. Shipping and handling is free (even to Canada!). I ordered three copies each- one for me, one for my nieces/nephews, and one to take to the July MSCA meeting to pass around.

http://www.newyorkfed.org/publications/result.cfm?comics=1

I know some of us have been talking about comics for kids, but heck- I think I might learn something from these!

Thought I’d share.

Lin

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