Aug 15 2008
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Ch 1, Homework
Here’s my week one homework assignment for the Drawing Words and Writing Pictures “nomad” group in which I’m participating. The assignment was as follows:
What you should be aiming for in this assignment is something along the lines of the “Drawing time” activity—a complex action that requires readers to follow along a certain path to understand it. The content is entirely up to you, but think of your characters as telling the story with their bodies.
Looking back over this now, I don’t think I’ve been wholly successful here. I’ve certainly got plenty of motion and action, but I didn’t really get the “following along a… path” part. If I have time before starting Chapter Two, I may try to revise this to get a little more cause and effect storytelling into the image.
Aug 15 2008
Kyle Webster And I Are On Triad Arts Up Close
Yesterday, along with Light Children illustrator Kyle Webster, I was interviewed briefly on the local NPR arts protram Triad Arts Up close. Direct link to MP3 here.
Aug 12 2008
Come See Me At The Decatur Book Festival 8/31
In discussions about how great it is that comics/graphic novels have “arrived” and are now respectable and respected, I’m often the wet blanket, but I guess I’ll have to admit that the fact that I’ve been invited to not one, but two, book festivals this year is a sign of something. In September, I’ll be appearing locally at the Bookmarks Book Festival here in Winston, but in just a few weeks I’ll be heading down Atlanta way for the big Decatur Book Festival.
I’ll be featured on a graphic novelists panel, which is 5:00-5:45, Sunday the 31st at the Decatur Library Stage. Also on the panel will be Steven Cummings and Megumi Cummings of Tokyopop and Rich Tommaso, whose previous book with James Sturm, Satchel Paige: Striking out Jim Crow, is part of the same series for Hyperion as the Amelia Earhart book I’m currently hard at work on.
Other guests and events of interest to comics folk can be found here on the schedule page and include Hope Larson, Andy Runton and Patric McDonnell, of Mutts fame, who’ll be there promoting his new children’s book, Mutts Fly South.
Music of note includes a performance by Drive-By Truckers lead singer Patterson Hood as well as Harry Potter Acoustic Rock from Animagus.
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