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Reading (and then) Remembering How to Breathe

[Danica Novgorodoff on Refresh, Refresh and other things] I know I’m supposed to write about my new graphic novel, Refresh, Refresh. But what I really want to talk about is The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. I’m only on page 58 and I want to ride the subway from Brooklyn to the Bronx to Manhattan [...]

By |2024-03-14T02:25:46-04:00September 28th, 2009|News|Comments Off on Reading (and then) Remembering How to Breathe

Danica Novgorodoff — Book Launch

To Do This Weekend: Danica Novgorodoff at Rocketship Danica Novgorodoff will be launching her latest graphic novel, Refresh, Refresh, at Rocketship this Saturday at 8:00.  Danica herself will be on hand to be talented, thoughtful, and perhaps even sign books! [Rocketship is at 208 Smith Street in Brooklyn, NY.  They're about a block away from [...]

By |2024-03-14T02:26:16-04:00September 22nd, 2009|News|Comments Off on Danica Novgorodoff — Book Launch

Danica Novgorodoff — Exhibit Opening

(click for larger) Danica Novgorodoff, the creator of the excellent Slow Storm and the forthcoming Refresh, Refresh (October) will have a show at Charmingwall Gallery in NYC that opens this Saturday.  Check it out! Since it's all Danica's artwork, we can guarantee that everything is going to be gorgeous.

By |2024-03-14T07:26:47-04:00September 4th, 2009|News|Comments Off on Danica Novgorodoff — Exhibit Opening

A Storm of Reviews for Danica Novgorodoff’s Debut Graphic Novel

  Danica is in Louisville, Kentucky today (at Carmichael's Bookstore) and in Chicago at Quimby's on Saturday.  “What stands out about Novgorodoff's book are the artistry of its pages -- the fine-art edge her watercolors give to illustrations that help propel the story line -- and the human themes of loneliness, spiritual meaning and connection [...]

By |2024-03-18T06:54:14-04:00September 18th, 2008|News|3 Comments

On the road

From the drawing board of Danica Novgorodoff I remember someone saying that there are two kinds of stories – those about leaving home and those about returning home.  I don’t know if I agree with that (there must be a million kinds of story), but it does seem like most of my writing is about [...]

By |2024-03-18T01:24:52-04:00December 17th, 2007|:01 Stop: Watch|Comments Off on On the road

GENE YANG on STEREOTYPES

Apparently, MySpace has made American Born Chinese a featured book... Not all good news, though, since it seems to come with a rather tasteless ad campaign that uses the Chin-Kee character out of context, and has led to all kinds of discussions among people who haven't read the book. Gene Yang responds. Does acknowledging a [...]

By |2007-05-01T15:15:04-04:00May 1st, 2007|Uncategorized|15 Comments

ON WORD BALLOONS

There are some precious lessons to be gleaned from Eddie Campbell's blog, including an entry called THE LAST WORD IN SPEECH BALLOONS. Several First Second creators have found this valuable in the midst of their thumbnails, so let's add this link to it here, in our TIPS FOR CREATIVE TYPES category (which is filling up [...]

By |2007-04-04T10:40:26-04:00April 4th, 2007|Tips for Creative Types|1 Comment

MUSING ON THE MUSE

(a doodle from the train ride) Been thinking about inspiration. I jotted a few things down on the train ride back from the Center for Cartoon Studies, where I had a most impressive visit. They're doing something amazing up there, Sturm and the gang. The following musing wasn't directly related to the CCS though, rather [...]

By |2024-03-18T01:54:50-04:00April 3rd, 2007|Tips for Creative Types|3 Comments
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