Today’s LA Times ran a behind-the-scenes interview about 08’s genesis, featuring Michael Crowley, Bob Mecoy, editor Sean Desmond and myself:
Archive for March, 2009
To my friends attending SXSW: today is the big day. I’m signing copies of both 08 and SHOOTING WAR at the Day Stage Cafe at 3:30pm today:
And shortly after, the moment we’ve been planning for arrives at 5pm:
Joining me onstage are Diesel Sweeties creator Rich Stevens, Uclick.com CEO Douglas Edwards, Dr. Sketchy’s creator Molly Crabapple, Google Android engineer Dave Bort and The Longbox Group’s Rantz Hoseley; judging from our meetup dinner last night, there’s going to be some serious discussion about hardware’s influence on the storytelling and format and what these changes mean for publishers, creators and readers. We’ll be using #comicsonhandhelds to filter/respond to tagged tweeted questions during the panel.
And those of you not attending… you’ll still be able to interact with us over Twitter during the panel using #comicsonhandhelds. The panel will be available in audio+video online soon as well; watch this space for details.
This Thursday evening, I’ll be joining the illustrious Ben Katchor and Youme Landowne onstage in a panel discussion for the “Brooklyn Independents” series at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture. With THE BEAT’s Heidi MacDonald presiding, the three of us will talk about our creative processes and what it means to be a cartoonist in New York City.
Admission to this event is free; full info is available here.
And after that, I run home to pack and take the red-eye to Austin to have my mind blown at SXSW Interactive…
NPR’s Books We Like reviews “08″ and really hones in on my approach to covering the election in words and pictures:
08 strikes out on its own to create a method of visual storytelling that owes as much to ’60s magazine layouts as it does to modern Web design. It’s largely thanks to Goldman’s singular graphical style that this book, essentially a time capsule of the campaign’s conventional wisdom, feels so defiantly and refreshingly unconventional.
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