Apr 03 2007
I’m a regular listener to the Indie Spinner Rack podcast, so how cool is it that they’re talking about Midnight Sun in the current episode! (Direct link to MP3 here.) They’ve got some good stuff to say about the book, but more interesting for the general comics audience, they use the book’s format change, and …
Apr 03 2007
According to Bark Magazine, Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell’s real-life dog, “Earl,” (shown below) will be turning 18 this spring. In case you’re not a dog person, in “people years,” that means that Earl, inspiration for the comic strip version who shares the name, is roughly 85. 2008 will see the release of McDonnell’s newest book, …
Apr 01 2007
Cartoonists (and, one assumes, other artists as well) have a fascination with seeing each other’s work areas. Thanks to the advent of digital cameras and “the internets,” message board threads, blog posts, and even entire books showing cartoonists’ studio areas are flourishing. It’s an understandable fascination–you get to see how the “pros” work, and you …
Mar 20 2007
It looks like there’s some of the ol’ SPX organizational weirdness afoot according to the Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild and Social Club’s blog, The Three Cent Pup. I’m one of the folks whose table space is part of the application packet mentioned in the post–so here’s hoping this gets cleared up–I loves me the SPX! …
Mar 14 2007
For years aficionados of the comics art form have bemoaned its apparent lack of respectability with the mainstream public and wondered when comics would, finally, gain the cultural cache they deserve. An oft-discussed scenario in these ruminations is the prospect of reading comics in public places–as if the true harbinger of comics’ cultural “arrival” would …
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