Sep 16 2005

Center for Cartoon Studies

I’m currently in White River Junction, Vermont visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies. I arrived yesterday and delivered a short talk to the 21 students who make up the inagural incoming class, then have been kicking around the town since then. Below are a few pictures:

Here’s the main drag of downtown White River Junction:

WRJ main street
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…and the Hotel Coolidge where I’m currently staying. It’s seems to be riding the fine line between “rustic” and “delapitated”:

Coolidge
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The Polka Dot Diner:

Polka Dot
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The Center for Cartoon Studies:

CCS
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The White River:

The White River
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Apparently everyone in New England drives a Subaru wagon.

Subarus
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A stuffed alpaca in the town museum’s front window

alpaca
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Cartoonist Robyn Chapman organizing CCS’s new Charles Schulz library:

library
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Sep 13 2005

Ignatz Nominees FINALLY Announced

Like the headline says, the Ignatz awards–the annual comics industry awards presented every year at SPX–have been announced, just a week or so before the event itself. Here’s a list:

2005 Ignatz Awards

I’m glad to see that Roger Langridge and Josh Cotter are finally getting some recognition. If you don’t own the Fred the Clown collection (by Langridge) or Skyscrapers of the Midwest #2 yet, you should go out and buy them immediately.

I’m surprised by how few folks chose to debut books this year. As I’m debuting a solo mini-comic and am also included in a mini-comics anthology, I’ve got two nominations in the “Outstanding Debut” category. I’m guessing “True Porn” vol II will win…’cause it’s got humping and stuff in it.

OUTSTANDING DEBUT NOMINEES
* 676 apparitions of Killoffer, Killoffer, Typocrat Press
* Action Philosphers: Self Help For Stupid Ugly Losers #1, Ryan Dunlavy & Fred Van Lente
* American Music: A-Z, Ben Towle
* Big Fat Whale’s Sea Anomie, Brian McFadden
* Conversations #2, James Kochalka & Jeffrey Brown, Top Shelf Productions
* The Dada Alphabet, An Absurdist’s Primer, Freese, Milloway & Wood
* Dr. Dremo, Vol.1, DC Conspiracy
* House of Twelve’s Rashoman, Cheese Hasselberger, House of Twelve
* Matriculated, Phillip Chan, Digital Pimp Productions
* Merde, Steve Ahlquist, Chris Reilly & Ben Towle
* Owly, Vol. 3, Andy Runton, Top Shelf Productions
* Pale Fire, MK Reed
* Strange Detective Tales: Dead Love #2, Jesse Bausch & Jim Callahan, Oddgod Press
* Stupid and Unkind, Robin Enrico
* Superf*ckers #2, James Kochalka, Top Shelf Productions
* The Surrogates #2, Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele, Top Shelf Productions
* True Porn, Vol. 2, edited by Robyn Chapman & Kelli Nelson, Alternative Comics
* Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?, Liz Prince, Top Shelf Productions
* Zed: Setting the Scene, Duane M. Abe, Corkey Comics

Sep 10 2005

SPX 2005

SPX 2005 is creeping up. Here’s a cool banner I received from J. Chris Campbell of Wide Awake Press:

SPX 2005
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Sep 08 2005

____ are Fun to Draw

Here’s my contribution to a mini-comic debuting at the upcoming SPX in Bethesda, MD. The idea behind this publication is that all contributors provided the editor with a list of what he or she considers to be 40 fun to draw things. The editor then compiled a list of the most popular items. Each contributor then had to draw all 30 of the most popular items, plus an additional 10 chosen from among the lesser voted-on items. I’m not going to list which ones are on this drawing…but I will say that they’re arranged alphabetically:

fun to draw
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Sep 07 2005

Anal Porpoise Assault Leads to Second Version of Today’s ‘Dilbert’

Anal Porpoise Assault Leads to Second Version of Today’s ‘Dilbert’

Here’s the strip in question:

anal porpoise
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