Beginning this Wednesday, I’m heading out to Ohio University as a guest of their fine art school’s Aesthetic Technology Lab (@Lab for short) for a four-day cross-disciplinary workshop with artists from several different fields and art students. Brought in for the “Comic Book Bootcamp,” I’ll be working with students alongside my dear friend Joshua Dysart, artist Ron Wimberly and Vertigo Editor Pornsak Pichetshote. More info on Comic Book Boot Camp is here:
As promised, here is the video of our recent 08 book signing at Book Court; the event went wonderfully and BC’s Zack was thoughtful enough to record our presentation for the rest of you at home:
My hometown paper The Miami Herald gave my work on 08 props today; from my Brooklyn studio I can hear my parents kvelling:
My affection for Toronto is no secret, having visited twice last year (and again next month for TCAF), so it’s great to read things like this review from Sunday’s Toronto Star:
At our Book Court signing last night, Michael Crowley and I presented a signed copy of 08 to Alan Balicki of the New York Historical Society, who will place the book in their permanent archives as a historical record of the 2008 presidential election… in comics form.
Alan rattled off an incredible list of people who’d dedicated printed materials with the phrase “Presented to the NY Historical Society” before us and it’s an honor to be a part of that tradition:
This unexpected clip brightened my morning: my favorite TV news anchor Rachel Maddow lists her favorite graphic novels, shaking her fist as she insists her interviewer “HAS to read” SHOOTING WAR:
This flyer says it all; click to embiggify:
Looking forward to seeing all you sweet monkeys there in person…
I’ve got an illustration accompanying an interesting piece in the “Intelligencer” section of this week’s New York Magazine to share with you:
Unrelated: for those of you who’ve been linking/asking, the complete audio podcast of the “Comics on Handhelds” panel from SXSW Interactive has not yet been released (shhh, I know), though I understand it will be very soon; I will post it here as-soon-as, promise.
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