Tag: Comics

“5” Royales Comic in New Issue of ‘Signal to Noise’

The new issue, issue #51, of Signal to Noise magazine should be arriving on stands shortly.  If’n you’ve got a hip music store in your town that carries the magazine, please consider picking it up.  They’ve begun running comics features with the previous issue, and this current issue includes my comics take on Winston-Salem’s legendary …

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Book Festivals: Cartoonists’ New Turf? – The Decatur Book Festival (part 2)

In deference to the church-going crowd (or maybe the hung-over crowd… what do I know?), the Decatur Book Festival wasn’t set to get underway on Sunday until noon, so I took advantage of the only cool time of day here in Georgia–the early morning–for a quick jog around Decatur’s beautiful old cemetery.  After that I …

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Book Festivals: Cartoonists’ New Turf? – The Decatur Book Festival (part 1)

Now that “Crash, Boom, Pow–Comics Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore,” book festivals around the country seem to be slowly but surely dipping their toes into the murky pool of comics and graphic novels.  As mentioned in a previous post, this summer I’ll be attending Winston-Salem’s Bookmarks Festival in a few weeks, as well as this …

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Interview on NPR’s Voices and Viewpoints

Today the local NPR station, WFDD, will be rebroadcasting an old interview with me in which I discuss Midnight Sun (then still in “floppy” format), my other cartooning projects, and teaching comics.  If you’re local, it will be broadcast at 1pm and 6pm.  If you’re out there on the internets, you can catch it streaming …

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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 …

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