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Photo by Kevin Church
Photo by Kevin Church
test heading Malaysian cartoonist Lat is no stranger to awards and recognition — they've been raining down on him for many years, mostly in Southeast Asia... Here now some award news from the USA, not one, not two, but three marks of distinction have just been bestowed on KAMPUNG BOY! Kampung Boy has been named [...]
test headingTHE BEAT reports about Eddie Campbell and Paul Pope both blogging: The recently started blogs of Paul Pope and Eddie Campbell are enough to make you think they have taken on new careers. Both are prodigious bloggers. Certainly both are among the most well-defined personas in the comics world, although as long-time self-publishing graphic [...]
Check it out! It's at THE TRADES He even says nice things about First Second! Things like: Jonathan: First Second is a new graphic novel publisher. Do you have any opinions on them to share? Gene: They are beautiful, beautiful people. They're like fairy godmothers, they're so good. Sometimes I find it hard to believe [...]
test headingHear ye Eddie Campbell fans, more for your listening delight, picking up from Eddie's blog http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/: I've just noticed that the second part of the interview I did for the Australian Sci-fi radio show, Faster Than Light has been online for a whole week. My Fate of the Artist is discussed, with particular attention [...]
Wish I could be there Three bright lights! Serious talent to be met tonight in St-Louis at Star Clipper and tomorrow evening in Chicago at Quimby's!
If like me you're a sucker for a nice bookmark, you'll want to see Mr. Campbell's excellent literary portraits, which he just mentioned again on his blog -- the whole set is on display at Bent Books in Australia... This one is of Colette.
test headingI'd love First Second to bridge a host of different fields of endeavor -- and it's begun already. Historical sites who seldom turn their scholarly gaze upon comics are now posting about George O'Connor's JOURNEY TO MOHAWK COUNTRY; see for instance New York History Net... In other news, there's a First Second interview at [...]
The following appeared in "favorite books of 2006" at CRITICAL MASS, the blog of the national book critics circle board of directors: And while critics have hailed this as The Year of the Graphic Novel Memoir, I must put in a plug, not for Alison Bechdel's deeply poignant Fun Home, but for Eddie Campbell's The [...]
More of Trondheim's NOTHING DIARIES, from his visit to Japan... (click to enlarge)