Tag: Comics

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Heroes ’07 Guest List

HeroesCon 07Guest List: It’s Forever Growing! It looks like a preliminary guest list for Heroes Con 07 in Charlotte has been posted to the site.  I’m glad to see some Indy Island “regulars” already on the list–folks like J Chris Campbel, Chris Pitzer… and me! Press-wise, it’s nice to see both Matt Brady of Newsarama …

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