Tag: Comics

Comics on NPR

Kudos to NPR which has done two comics-related stories in the last few days. The one on the Angouleme Festival of course features the obligatory interview with Art Spiegelman, the American cartoonst without whom NPR apparently cannot put together a comics-related story: Jim Ottaviani and Jay Hosler Angouleme Festival

Teaching comics in Loncoln, Nebraska

Here’s an article on teaching comics in the student paper of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A couple of folks from NACAE are mentioned, including me: Daily Nebraskan

No comics for kids!?

comics.212.net – Cautiously Optimistic This guy really hits the nail on the head in this post. He’s reacting to a recent incarnation of the oft-cried mantra “There are no comics for kids any more!” I’ve heard everyone from comic book store owners to author Michael Chabon claim this, and each time I hear it I’m …

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SLG on PULSE

Diamond International Galleries presents… COMICON.com PULSE | Comic Books News, Reviews and Criticism I’m glad to see that my publisher, Slave Labor Graphics, is getting some nice press here from The Pulse, but I have to admit that I’m a bit disapointed that there’s no mention at all of “Strange Eggs”…. But you can’t plug …

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Student Work – Historical Figures / page1.tif

Student Work – Historical Figures / page1.tif I stumbled on this doing some research for my “Comics for Teens” class that I teach on Tuesday nights. This student work is a comics biography from one of Tom Hart’s classes in NYC. I had seen this published in an SPX anthology a few years back and …

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