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Old Dog, New Tricks

test heading From the desk of Jane Yolen I was a lover of comics as a child, though my parents — while big encouragers of reading and writing — wouldn’t let me give them house room. So I borrowed them from friends. Not for me the Archies or the Marvel heroes. I went for the [...]

By |2024-03-27T08:16:59-04:00October 8th, 2007|:01 Stop: Watch|3 Comments

The Formation of Stories

test headingFrom the drawing board of Nick Abadzis “Where do you get your ideas from?” This is supposedly the dumbest question a person could ask a storyteller – a cartoonist, a writer, a performance artist or whatever. But it’s a question that hints at the cluelessness any storyteller faces at the beginning of the creation [...]

By |2024-03-27T08:18:02-04:00October 1st, 2007|:01 Stop: Watch|Comments Off on The Formation of Stories

GENE YANG on STEREOTYPES

test headingApparently, 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 [...]

By |2024-03-27T08:22:18-04:00May 1st, 2007|Uncategorized|15 Comments

Grady Klein art exhibit

Extra extra! Princeton, NJ Come to an opening reception for Grady Klein's Lost Colony art on Thursday, April 26th, and a book signing on Friday, June 8th.

By |2024-03-18T01:52:44-04:00April 24th, 2007|News|Comments Off on Grady Klein art exhibit

ON WORD BALLOONS

test headingThere 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 [...]

By |2024-03-27T08:25:40-04:00April 4th, 2007|Tips for Creative Types|1 Comment
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