Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Headhunters-era Herbie Hancock:
If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.
Apr 26 2011
Portrait Night 4/26 (Herbie Hancock)
Apr 25 2011
“Talking with Tim” Interview at CBR’s Robot 6
I recently did a really enjoyable interview with Tim O’Shea for his “Talking with Tim” feature over at ComicBookResources.com. As is my wont, I wound up flapping my trap overmuch and consequently what probably should have been a short “what are you working on” interview wound up being me rambling on about everything from TinTin and Christophe Blain to digital comics coloring to the current state of the publishing biz to Oyster War:
On any given week, reading Ben Towle’s Twitter feed or Oyster War Tumblr or his blog, I tend to take away some perspective of substance. And that’s what prompted me to do this email interview with him. Rather than explain what ground we tried to cover, I prefer to jump right into the interview, after thanking Towle for his time and thoughts. This interview was conducted prior to Towle’s Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean being nominated in the Eisner Best Publication for Kids category. (more…)
Apr 25 2011
Animal Alphabet: D is for Damselfly
You can follow the other “D” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com.
D is for Damselfly
The original art for this is for sale here.
Apr 21 2011
Defective Comics Panel Audio Now Available
Last year, at Heroes Con ’10, Craig Fischer and I did one of our (in)famous “mega-presentations” in which we discussed offbeat and oddball superhero comics. One portion of that presentation was a panel discussion featuring Colleen Coover, Jeff Parker, Chris Pitzer and Evan Dorkin–and, at long last, the recorded audio from that panel is now available. You needn’t be dissuaded by the terrible audio quality of my mic because (a) what I’m saying really isn’t important, and (b) the mics of the actual panel participants sound great. While there’s a lot of actual interesting stuff going on in this discussion, it’s also really, really funny. Pop on over to The Dollar Bin podcast and check it out.
Apr 19 2011
Portrait Night 4/12 (Kim Deitch)
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is underground comics legend, Kim Deitch. When it comes to underground cartoonists of the 60s and 70s, Robert Crumb seems to always grab the spotlight, but in a “desert island” situation, my pick would be the works of Kim Deitch. He’s one of the greatest–if not the greatest–world-builder in comics. Start reading the works of Deitch’s expansive cartooning career and you’re entering a labyrinthine world where just about every narrative element seems to turn out to be connected to every other one. You can never be sure what’s “real” and what’s not; even when Deitch himself appears in his own comics as a narrator, he’s not to be trusted. (I also wound up having dinner with him and a bunch of other folk–including Crumb–a while back, and he seemed like a nice fella as well, so that’s a point in his favor as well!) Anyway, here’s tonight’s portrait:
This isn’t actually the photo I used for reference, but it turned up in my Google image search and it was such a great image, I though I should include it:
The image is by Seth Kushner, who has a ton of great photography at his site, including some other cartoonists.
If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.
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