Tag: Books

Dear Publishers, Please Stop Doing This

I was trying to get my bookshelves more organized a few days ago but was having a hard time staying focused because this kind of stuff drives me nuts!  (OK, admittedly, I’m a little obsessive/compulsive for sure, but…)  I’m as glad as the next guy that comics are no longer available exclusively as saddle-stitched periodicals …

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Book Design and Illustration: My Bookhouse Series

My two year old daughter has always been really interested in books (as I’m sure most kids her age are) and so I’ve been thinking a lot about children’s books–specifically, I’ve been thinking a lot about how crappy looking and shoddily constructed most modern children’s books are.  At some point, I’m going to maybe do …

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Weekend o’ Book Festival Appearances

I’ll be appearing at two book festivals this weekend.  The first is the Bookmarks Book Festival here in Winston-Salem on Saturday and the second will be at the North Carolina Literary Festival in Chapel Hill on Sunday.  Here’re details: Bookmarks The New Frontier: Graphic Novels, Webcomics and Manga Saturday, 2:00 pm – at the DADA …

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My Favorites from 2008 – Now Posted at ChasingRay

The literary/review blog ChasingRay.com has begun a series of author’s and cartoonist’s “favorites of 2008” lists and my list is currently posted.  This isn’t technically a “best of” list, partially because the idea was to include your things you read in 2008, not your favorite things published in 2008–but also, as I note in the …

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Book Festival Appearance: Bookmarks 9/13

  I’ll be  making the second of my two book festival appearances this year at this weekend’s Bookmarks book festival here in Winston-Salem.  The festival is on Saturday and I’ll be at the “All That & then Some” tent (V-2) at 2:30 PM where I’ll be discussing Midnight Sun, comics-making, and comics and graphic novels …

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