Lausanne, Switzerland recently hosted BD-FIL, The Lausanne International Comics Festival, and one of the features this year was an exhibit of copies of all 99 pages of my 99 Ways to Tell A Story: Exercises in Style (taken from the French-language edition by L’Association).
Stijloefeningen Debuts at STRIP Turnhout
The Dutch language edition of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style will be debuting at STRIP Turnhout, the venerable Belgian comics festival which takes place on December 13-15. I was planning to be there but I have a good reason to stay home that weekend–more news to follow there… [This is an […]
The Adventures of Sara & Julia featuring Prof. P. Brain
While I was living in Mexico City between 1998 and 2000, one of my jobs was to tutor two young girls in English once a week. It was fun but always exhausting, I had to constantly come up with activities that would keep the attention of two ten-year-olds for a whole hour. Sometimes I was […]
Plug: New Fábio Zimbres Comic
Fábio Zimbres is an undiscovered treasure. He’s been doing great stuff for years, mostly published (if not self-published) in his native Brazil. He had a great piece in Rosetta #2 but is otherwise mostly unpublished in English. I’ve been a fan for years so I was very excited to receive an amazing package in the […]
A Few Sketches
Here are a few sketches of the two characters in a 32-page comic I’ve been vainly trying to find the time to finish these last couple of years… (The comic itself will be in B&W and will look most like the subway sketch and the second sketch of Ana: chunky brush line and a lot […]
A sketchbook comic
I’m going blog-mad, suddenly I have tons of stuff to post! Here’s some actual art, a comic I’ve been working on in a sketchbook, in moments of spare time (click for a larger image):
Fall Semester at SVA
This semester I’ll be teaching two classes in the Continuing Education department at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I’ll be teaching my Ink Drawing class for the LAST TIME this semester–seven years seems like a good run, doesn’t it? (Don’t worry, none other than Jason Little will be taking it over next semester.) […]
Comics Album Covers
The cartoonist’s life is full of a lot of radio and music listening, and a lot of us are obsessive WFMU-listening music geeks in addition to being comics devotees. It’s pretty common to see comics art on album covers, from Charles Burns covering Iggy Pop to William Stout [correction: it’s David Gibbons–M] covering Jethro Tull. […]
99 Ejercicios de Estilo at Semana Negra
What’s that, you say? It means “99 Exercises in Style at Black Week” and it refers to the fact that Ediciones Sins Entido‘s Spanish edition of my book will be back from the printer any day now and I will be officially debuting it at the Semana Negra in Gijón, Asturias, in the northwest corner […]
Two Chester Brown Panels That Always Make Me Laugh
There are certain comics panels that sometimes appear in my memory out of the blue and make me laugh, and a lot of them are from the early work of Chester Brown. This one pops up most frequently (it’s the third panel from Chester Brown’s Ed the Happy Clown saga; Ed is on his way […]