I’m doing a bit of catch-up here as I’ve launched a new series and moved to another country since I experienced this incredible MIT conference, so please bear with me, my lovelies, as I marry the signal-gaps and blog my way back to the present:
What counts as “radio” when it comes via podcast rather than over the air? How do we create “television” as the limitations of spectrum scarcity slip away and content is delivered online?
Media is determined by conventions that emerge from both technological constraints and cultural practices – the technologies of content delivery shape the industrial and the creative modes that define something like “television.” In a world of convergence, the basis for many of the conventions that define media are in flux. How can we come to understand and redefine the industrial, consumption and creative practices of media as convergence works to erode some of the distinctions between them?
How is radio affected once it moves from the Hertzian waves to the podcast? What happens to the comic once it moves from the page to a Playstation? How are audiences responding to and shaping these shifts? And how are business models adapting to these changes?
Moderated by Joshua Green – Research Manager, Convergence Culture Consortium
Dan Goldman – Illustrator of Shooting War
Jennifer Holt – UC Santa Barbara, co-editor of Media Industries (Wiley-Blackwell)
Brian Larkin – Milbank Barnard College
Avner Ronen – CEO & Co-founder, Boxee
The third installment of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES just went live on Tor.com, where we get to spend some solo time with Jude Tobin and secretary/ghost photog Zoya Pashenko. You can check it out here:
As a guest of this year’s Miami Book Fair International, I’m doing a closed-session talk on my experiences and techniques with publishing comics online (you can still register here) and then sharing the stage with two dear Joshes I know talking about our politically-themed books, all part of the Fair’s increasingly-impressive Comic Galaxy program:
Friday, Nov. 13, Session 2B (1:00–1:50 p.m.)
Room 7128 (Building 7, 1st Floor) Creating Web Comics: The New Sunday Funnies with Dan Goldman, Comics Creator
Before the birth of the Internet, comics artists had very few outlets where they could effectively promote their work. The Sunday funny pages were the ultimate sign of success, but to get there, one had to work hard to get exposure via underground papers, free papers or even self-publishing. The Web has flung the doors open to reveal a global audience of readers hungry for comics of all shapes and sizes, styles and genres. Dan Goldman discusses the various aspects of creating web comics, such as creating memorable characters and series, ways to move seamlessly between digital and print, what makes a web comic successful online and how to market your own.
NOTE: THIS TALK IS FREE BUT YOU NEED TO REGISTER FIRST
Saturday, Nov. 14, 11:30 a.m.
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365) Panel Discussion: Dan Goldman on 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail, Josh Neufeld, on A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge and Joshua Dysart on Unknown Soldier
THIS PANEL IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
If you’re in Miami and would like to meet up, please drop me a line and come introduce yourself at the events. It’s always a pleasure to meet you other-side-of-the-screen cats in person.
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.
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:
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.
I’ll be moderating a panel called Comics on Handhelds: Taking Webcomics Mobile at this year’s SXSW Interactive festival. We’ve combed the internets to find opinionated experts to discuss the growing industry of digitally-delivered comics and how to rethink what’s been done to create both global communities and viable business models. Our panelists will be Diesel Sweeties creator Rich Stevens, UClick.com’s Douglas Edwards, cartoonist Molly Crabapple and Longbox’s Rantz Hoseley; come on down to Austin… we’d love to have you there to take part in the discussion.
Thankfully I won’t have a table to get stuck behind at this year’s NYCC, and will be gallivanting around the con floor. You can definitely find me at the following panel appearances and signings:
Saturday, February 7
11:00-12:00 Panelist: “Telling True Stories with Imaginary Pictures”
Room 1A18
12:00-1:00 08 Book Signing w/Michael Crowley
Watson-Guptill (Booth #1940)
5:45-7:15 Moderating Panel:
“Going Paperless: Using Computers to Draw Comics 2009″
Room 1A15
Sunday, February 8
1:00-1:30 08 Book Signing w/Michael Crowley
Watson-Guptill, Booth #1940
I’m looking forward to seeing every last one of you jerks at the show; please do come up and introduce yourselves.
About Mister Goldman
Dan Goldman is the author of the real-estate horror series RED LIGHT PROPERTIES currently being serialized at Tor.com.
A frequent speaker on both digital comic processes and distribution, Dan is the creator of the Eisner-nominated web-to-print comic SHOOTING WAR and a founding member of the webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE.
His recent nonfiction graphic novel 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL has been archived in the New York Historical Society's permanent collection as a historical document of the 2008 election.
Mister Goldman is currently based in São Paulo, Brazil.
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