test heading "The cover for FEYNMAN by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick came to me as a simple line art sketch of Richard Feynman that had so much personality even in its barest form. I won’t say how many color combinations I worked up, though I did spend weeks on variations, finally settling on an [...]
test headingHey, ma! I'm in the Helsingin Sanomat! (A big Finnish newspaper.) This was apparently published as part of an article about Finnish comics publishers at Angoulême. It's been a while, so my Finnish is pretty darn shakey. I can tell you what I'm saying, though: "I studied the Kalevala! [the Finnish folk-epic] Finnish is [...]
Ready to have your mind blown? This was made by Owen, who is 6 and lives in Boston. Thanks to Walker Bean author Aaron Renier for sharing this with us!
test headingSo there's this dinky little comics convention that happens in a horribly unattractive town in France every now and then. Hardly anyone attends. I mean, the French just hate comics -- I never met a nation less interested in the medium. And the food, guys, the food is awful. Oh, ha ha ha, I'm [...]
test heading As someone who turns frequently to blogs and youtube tutorials for information on how to do stuff (viz.: breaking in Doc Martens, baking biscuits, re-foaming my 40-year old advent speakers, applying liquid eyeliner) I am obviously already totally sold on the concept of the internet as a great big cloud-powered encyclopedia of know-how. [...]
test headingA slew of awards were announced yesterday at the ALA Midwinter conference, and among them some happy news for First Second: RESISTANCE, the first volume of the eponymous trilogy by Carla Jablonski and Leland Purvis, is a Sydney Taylor Silver Medal Book. Congratulations to Carla and Leland! Congratulations also to Barry Deutsch and his [...]
OH PAUL POPE! Every week it's another awesome bunch of pages. I love this panel - a little moment of meta in the midst of the madness! Test heading Sorry the leak photo is a bit dim this week... test heading It's really, really dark in NYC today!
test headingOne of my great pleasures is looking at pretty things on the internet. Luckily, it's pretty much part of my job description. Here are some pretty things I've enjoyed looking at recently: Escher-esque pools This handsome web-comic High-res scans of civil-war era photos Very mysterious and beautiful graffiti In conclusion, here is a photo [...]
test heading...that all this week (Banned Books Week, you'll recall), Save Apathea (the online presence of :01 graphic novel Americus) is running special programming with daily updates of the comic as well as giveaways and interviews with luminaries such as free speech activist Pat Scales and banned-book author Chris Crutcher! What are you waiting for? [...]
Not everyone who wants to see a book banned is a bad person. In fact, most of them are probably good people, at least as much as any of us can be said to be "good." I would say they're misguided, even destructive. But they're not terrible human beings--they're just human beings with a terrible idea.
