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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Mar 07 2007
My Publisher is Dan Vado, and Dan Vado Says…
For those you not as ancient as I, that post title is a reference to some TV ads from the 1970s for a brokerage firm. The gag in the ads was that entire rooms of people would stop whatever they were doing, and turn around to listen, whenever they realized a client of the brokerage …
Mar 05 2007
2001 Interview with Art Spiegelman
I was rooting through some old archived CDs of some of my assignments from art school looking for a comp to send a potential client and I stumbled on the following interview I did with cartoonist Art Spiegelman for the school paper. I hadn’t thought about the interview in a long time, but after reading …
Mar 05 2007
Heroes Con 07 – Get Yer’ Hotel Rooms Now!
If’n you’re coming from out of town to Heroes Con ’07 in Charlotte, book your room now. A Heroes newsletter went out on Friday with a link to reserve a room at the host hotel, the Westin, at the low “con rate” price of $89.00/night. I waited until today to reserve a room, and they’re …
Mar 04 2007
Chris Ware Animation on This American Life
This may be old news for those more in the know than I, but… For any Chris Ware fans around: A while back, a friend of mine who works at the local NPR station gave me an early preview DVD of the upcoming Showtime version of This American Life and I just watched it tonight. …
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