Showing posts with label Michael Cavna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Cavna. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Hannah Good to edit comics pages & Daily Cartoonist adds to WaPo buyout news

Michael Cavna tells me that Hannah Good is staying at the Post and will be taking over David Betancourt's comics page editing duties. She's been good for the WaPo's cartoon journalism this past year, so I'm very glad she's staying.

Here's her Post page info:

Headshot of Hannah Good

Hannah Good

Washington, D.C.

Education: Western Kentucky University, BA in English

Hannah Good is a Designer curating comics journalism and illustrated reporting with teams around the newsroom. She's also an illustrator and comic artist who has worked with HarperCollins Publishers, Apple TV+, Barnes and Noble and the BLINK art festival. Previously, she was an Opportunity Fellow on the Next Generation Audience Development team focused on comics and a social producer and comics editor for The Lily. Before joining The Post, she was a social media producer at Washingtonian Magazine. She's a proud graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Talisman magazine.

In the meantime, DD Degg has dug deeper into the WaPo's latest "shrinking to greatness" moment so I don't have to.

But for the record, of the Style and Metro staff, my current tally of departures is: Cavna, Betancourt, exhibit reviewer Marc Fisher, media reporter Paul Farhi, theater critic Peter Marks and Metro's John Kelly and Courtland Milloy. Editors Jeff Leen, Sydney Trent and Lynda Robinson are going. Hank Stuever is staying as an editor for Style. As I've noted to a few people, owner Jeff Bezos could literally pay everyone in America to write for the paper without really noticing.
 
Updated: My friend Lisa's colleague Ann Maloney is also leaving the Food section. 

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

WaPo loses all writers about comics as Cavna and Betancourt depart

Michael Cavna just confirmed to me that both he and David Betancourt are taking the Post buyout offer, and there will be no specialists on comics on the staff now.
 
 Here's their staff bio pages before they disappear.

Michael Cavna

Washington, D.C.

Covering visual culture and storytelling: comedy/satire, graphic and comic art/illustration and animation.

Education: University of California, San Diego, Literature/Writing

Writer-artist-recovering-syndicated-cartoonist Michael Cavna is a man of many hyphenates. His articles on visual artists and comic art/illustration have been honored by the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the National Headliner Awards and the international Harvey Awards. Cavna is creator of The Post's Comic Riffs online column, which has twice been named the best newspaper blog in the country by the Society for Features Journalism. A San Francisco native and University of California at San Diego graduate, Cavna wrote the main text for the Eisner Award-nominated anthology book "Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's." Cavna's "Wise Up" cartoon launched the viral #Draw4Atena campaign in 2015 on behalf of jailed Iranian artist Atena Farghadani. He is also emcee and co-programmer of the Library of Congress/National Book Festival's Graphic Novel Pavilion. "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz once told Cavna at a black-tie awards dinner: "You do funny things"; to this day, he does not know for sure whether Schulz was referring to Cavna's syndicated comic "Warped" (Andrews McMeel) or to his tragically askew cummerbund.
 
Honors and Awards: National Headliner Award, writing/illustration, 2017, 2019 & 2021 ; Ink Bottle Award, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 2023; Eisner Award finalist, journalism, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2021; Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award, audio/visual storytelling, 2018; Society for Features Journalism awards, Arts/feature coverage and commentary, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2021; Harvey Awards finalist, biography/journalism, 2012

Professional Affiliations: Society for Features Journalism, National Society of Newspaper Columnists

Books by Michael Cavna:

"Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's" (text) 

 

 

Headshot of David Betancourt

David Betancourt

Washington, D.C.

Reporter focusing on comic book culture

Education: Radford University, BA in media studies

David Betancourt writes about all aspects of comic book culture for The Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog.
Honors and Awards: Two-time Eisner Award nominee

Languages spoken in addition to English: Spanish


More to Come (as a 'competitor' says, on a day when I haven't driven 600 miles)

Monday, October 10, 2022

That darn Flashbacks, squishing strips, and Mike du Jour

Visual storytelling of 'Flashbacks' was exceptional
Norman Hicks and Mark Koenig

'Squishing' disrespects the work of cartoonists

Harry St. Ours, Boyds

Washington Post October 8 2022: A15


Weighing in on the use of pronouns [Mike du Jour letter]

Friday, September 13, 2019

Monday, August 20, 2018

The Post's Cavna on Disenchantment.

Matt Groening's 'Disenchantment' gets a smart start. Just don't expect 'The Simpsons.'

Washington Post Comic Riffsblog August 17 2018 
[also in print as Gathering the knights of Groening’s roundtable, Washington Post August 18, 2018, p. C1, 4 and A fantasy to indulge in, Express, August 20 2018, p. 19]

Tuesday, September 05, 2017

National Book Festival's graphic novel panel photos


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Pictures of the graphic novels panel with Gene Yang, Lincoln Peirce, Ann Telnaes, Mike Lester, and Roz Chast moderated by Washington Post's Michael Cavna are now online. Arranged by Library of Congress's Sara Duke and Small Press Expo's Warren Bernard.

My cell phone shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42072348@N00/albums/72157686243404783


Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Stephan Pastis: 2015 National Book Festival

Stephan Pastis: 2015 National Book Festival

Sep 28, 2015
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQrGUDXKV4

Cartoonist Stephan Pastis appears at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Stephan Pastis used to be a lawyer. Now, he is the award-winning cartoonist who creates "Pearls Before Swine," a syndicated daily comic strip that runs in 750 newspapers around the world. The humorous comic strip's host of friends -- Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra -- deliver a smart, witty and painfully honest commentary on modern issues ranging from politics to pop culture. Pastis tends to produce his comics at an unusual five to nine months ahead of the deadline. His latest collection is "Pearls Gets Sacrificed: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury." In addition to creating "Pearls Before Swine," Pastis is the author of the best-selling children's chapter book series Timmy Failure.

For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feat...
Click here for a direct link to the transcript.

Friday, February 06, 2015

Scott McCloud in Conversation with Michael Cavna (February 6, 2015) UPDATED

The recording of the event, 1 1/2 hours long, is at this link:
This may be the only recording as I'm not sure if the store recorded it. Someone was videoing it, but they weren't from P&P.

Nice things were said about local cartoonist Richard Thompson, and less nice things about Bob "Batman" Kane. McCloud had some things to say that rang true to me and I'll try to excerpt them in a post early next week.

More photographs by me are online here.

Better photographs by Bruce Guthrie are online here.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Postcast: Cartoonists react to Paris attack


In this week’s podcast, It’s All Journalism producer Michael O’Connell (a local radio journalist who is also a comics arts fan) interviews Jen Sorensen, Erin Polgreen and Michael Cavna on their reactions to the Charlie Hebdo attack and how the media — and the cartooning community in particular — responded.

Monday, December 12, 2011

CARTOONS & PLAGIARISM: Live chat today @ 3 pm

Chat today at 3 with @washingtonpost Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna & Poynter's @kellymcb on cartoon plagiarism: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/155774/live-chat-today-should-editorial-cartoonists-follow-same-ethical-guidelines-as-journalists/

Michael Cavna
Style Section & "Comic Riffs"
The Washington Post
Washingtonpost.com/comicriffs
Facebook.com/comicriffs
Twitter.com/comicriffs

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Weldon and Cavna on Dwayne McDuffie

Dwayne McDuffie, RIP: Championed Diversity Among Champions
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Monkey See blog February 23, 2011
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/02/23/133988062/dwayne-mcduffie-rip-championed-diversity-among-champions

RIP, DWAYNE McDUFFIE: Shocked fans, friends mourn the comics/animation force [UPDATED]
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 22 2011
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/02/a_top_talent_remembered_rip_co.html

Monday, December 13, 2010

Comic Riffs interviews Ward Sutton

PARODY OF THE DAY: The story behind 'How WikiLeaks Stole Christmas'
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog December 13 2010

Sutton's one of my favorite cartoonists - we need a collection of his work. He's done strips for TV Guide, and cartoon book reviews for Barnes and Noble's website...