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Montgomery on new Swamp Thing collection.History Repeats Itself, in the Secret History of C.Comic Riffs cited in AP article on cartoons and race.Washington City Paper Best of DC 2009 poll.OT: Washington Post essay contest repost.OT: David Lozell Martin appearances in March.Zadzooks on Afro Samurai and Bennett's best.Blockbuster dumping anime at 1/2 off at some places.Reminder: Tuesday's Mardi Gras Parade in Arlington.Dark Knight story in Post a few days ago.What‛s so funny about the economic crisis? Comics!.City Paper on Nanoman web comic / proto graphic novel.Thompson's Super-Size Me Finger Puppets.OT: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COMICS FORUM 2009.Experimental comics exhibit in Charlottesville.Sports cartoonist Drew Litton interview on Comic R.Richard Thompson, before he was world-famous.Get yer ComicsDC t-shirt at a discount this weekend.To submit a press release or other information, mail it to: Mike Rhode, 3900 South 7th St, Arlington, VA 22204-1522 I've written two short comics pieces, illustrated by Kevin Rechin, for Matt Dembicki's non-fiction comics anthologies District Comics and Redistricted.

From 2015-2019, 2022-, I'm an associate member of the National Cartoonists Society. The Library of Congress and Michigan State University's Library's Comic Art Collection both have "Michael Rhode collections" of cartooning items I've donated, and MSU has individually cataloged hundreds of them. You can see most of my writings at my page. In 2008 for my ComicsDC blog, I was chosen Best (Comics) Art Blogger by the Washington City Paper and from 2010-16, I wrote on comics for the Washington City Paper.

In 2014, I co-edited The Art of Richard Thompson and The Incomplete Art of "Why Things Are" by Richard Thompson in 2017. In 2012, I edited and published Biographical Sketches of Cartoonists & Illustrators in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congressby LOC’s curator Sara Duke. I've edited Harvey Pekar: Conversations, a book of interviews for the University Press of Mississippi which is available now. I've been a judge for the RFK Journalism Awards editorial cartoon division from 2009-2022 and in 2015, 2016 & 2020, I was a Herblock Award judge. A good recent article is in White House History on the cartoon-decorated Hay-Adams Hotel bar, Off the Record. (One of my first articles for IJOCA is reprinted here on ComicsDC). I'm coauthor of the Comics Research Bibliography which is posting at IJOCA's blog and on Facebook, editor of Exhibition and Media Reviews, and general assistant editor of the International Journal of Comic Art, and have written for Hogan's Alley and the Comics Journal. I'm interested in all aspects of comic art.
