Archive for July, 2009

August 3: Speaking at DIY Days

This Saturday (August 3rd), I’m giving a talk on “The Future of Comics” at the cross-media conference DIY Days, put on by my friends at The Workbook Project. DIY Days is free for all; details are here:

If you can’t attend, my talk will likely be available online shortly after as well.

Reading Aloud in New York

At the top of this year, a camera crew with the UK series Television Junction came by my studio to interview me for “Reading Aloud in New York”, the NY episode of their children’s-literacy program. Hosted by Jon Scieszka and featuring the New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly and others, it’s a quick look at the reading (and comic-reading) landscape for kids/young adults here in the Big Apple:

Intelligencer and Narcissism

I’ve illustrated an Intelligencer piece in this week’s New York Magazine that compares the over-diagnosis of “narcissism” today versus the potency of a good old-fashioned insult:

Also: it made me all 08-nostalgic to draw a horrific Sarah Palin again for an evening… *sniff*.