We had a great long weekend down in West Virginia as guests of the Walter Gropius Master Artists series. We taught an intensive workshop and gave gallery talks at the very impressive show they put together of our work to accompany the LitGraphic show.
Nov. 8-21: touring France with Belles Etrangères
For the next two weeks, I’ll be touring France with 11 other American authors as part of the Centre National du Livre’s annual Belles Etrangères festival. A film crew came to my house over the summer and shot a bunch of footage for an hour-long documentary which will be screened in Paris on Monday night. […]
Setting up a new comic project
I’m in the planning stages of a new comic. I’m trying to set it up so that I can make it as portable as possible.
My Bookshelves Exposed in Public
The Robot 6 blog on Comic Book Resources has a feature called Show Us Your Shelf Porn and they invited me and Jessica to send photos of our comics collection. It’s impressive if not terribly attractive. Here’s the link. news and comics from the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style […]
TCJ interview excerpt
I’m going back-to-back in the Comics Journal this spring. Following the preview of Drawing Words & Writing Pictures in #289, the new issue features a career-spanning interview with me conducted by poet/cartoonist Gary Sullivan. TCJ has posted a brief excerpt on their website. You can read it here.
My Studio Set-Up
This post is a bit of a preview of Jessica’s and my debut at Best American Comics. Lynda Barry is the guest editor for the 2008 edition and she encouraged all the contributors to send in photos of their workspaces so we can put them all up on the website in the fall. It inspired […]
First Sketch of Baby Aldara
Our Latest and Greatest Collaboration: Aldara Madden
Aldara Juliet Abel Madden was born Sunday, December 16 at 8:27 PM. She’s bound to become a familiar face on this blog…
Pictures of an Exhibition
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).
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 […]