guest Blogger: LEWIS TRONDHEIM-1
More of Trondheim's NOTHING DIARIES, from his visit to Japan... (click to enlarge)
More of Trondheim's NOTHING DIARIES, from his visit to Japan... (click to enlarge)
Lewis Trondheim's NOTHING DIARIES -- continuing... (click to enlarge)
And this is a subway sketch he did! There's some fun stuff at his blog too: http://mattmadden.blogspot.com with lots of good pictures, a striking Japanese edition of 99 WAYS TO TELL A STORY, and even some Mexican educational cards for children -- plenty to inspire designers everywhere.
Several of you have told me the link to Eddie Campbell's blog wasn't working in the earlier entry. Here it is: http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com . Is it my imagination, or does Eddie pepper his work (and now his blog) with Beatles references? Oh wait, it's "all the lonely people" I'm thinking of, not "all the lovely people"...
Lewis Trondheim sent in some blog entries from his sketchbooks -- fresh from his trip to Japan! More to follow in coming days... (click to enlarge)
NPR has a holiday roundup with reviews of AMERICAN BORN CHINESE and KAMPUNG BOY as the two graphic novel entries! (and, dare I mention it, another book called To Dance, not on the First Second list, but one of my babies for Simon & Schuster.)
test headingScott McCloud was at NYU and I missed it. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY COMICS WEEK has a nice little report about it here, with an excerpt which naturally caught my eye: Despite the current popularity and media attention given to comics—"we've moved up the food chain and pretty much infiltrated every major media outlet"—McCloud still warned [...]
test heading Here are Gene and Theresa Yang, just after the National Book Awards, in Times Square... Young starry-eyed comics artists now aspire to the glitz and glamour of the graphic novelist life...! They give up steady jobs in animation and videogames, and come to publishing seeking fame and fortune. Um... Well it seemed that [...]
test headingBlogs may not be sushi, but in neither case does anyone want yesterday's all-you-can-eat two dollar special... Oh well, sorry it hasn't been freshest dailies or doodles served here lately -- but not for lack of things happening! I really do need to reclaim some blogging time in my days. Or get someone to [...]
Others have posted about this, but it's too good to pass up on Doodles & Dailies Two excellent Australian podcasts that should add to the ongoing conversation about FATE OF THE ARTIST! This first one is a ten minute review, and a very intelligent one, by playwright Polash Larsen for a daytime national radio program [...]