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When most comic strip animals talk, they don’t exactly scream “realism.” But the animals that populate “They Can Talk,” the…
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Backderf Talks Research, Creativity & Kent State
One of the feature panels at last weekend’s MoCCA Art Fest was Derf Backderf discussing researching his non-fiction graphic novel Kent…
Red, White, Black and Blue: Documenting America’s Racial Illiteracy – A Keith Knight Presentation
Knight’s talk was both autobiographical and a chance to comment on society through his art. Knight, who grew up in…
Talking Funny and Comic Looking
Lectures, Conversations, and Exhibits. Mark Dery on Nursery Crimes: Edward Gorey’s Morbid Nonsense. In [an] illustrated lecture, cultural critic…
Tales From The Reuben – cranky digression
So – there I am reading about book deals on the Publishers Weekly site, specifically to read about forthcoming Will…
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Back in the day, Phil Donahue was the king of day-time talk shows. If I remember right his show, and…
Stephen Silver to release “The Master’s Series”
Stephen Silver is releasing a video series entitled “The Master’s Series” this month which features Stephen visiting the homes and…
Open Discussion: verifying originality without being influenced
Wiley Miller made an interesting comment on the open discussion about using gag writers and how he handles blind submission…
Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson about how to save newspapers
Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson author of the Time cover story “How to Save Your Newspaper.”
1981 report on newspapers online is a story from KRON in San Francisco about The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle’s forays into online news in 1981.
Comic Strip Doctor Quits His Practice
David Malki, the self proclaimed comic strip doctor, has tired of his snarky ways and has decided to stop writing…
What do comics mean to you?
Last week, I enjoyed an email exchange with Rebecca Nappi of the The Spokesman Review. She’s renewed her interest in…
Discussion: I’d rather lose my left (or right) hand if I had to give up using…
Back in the mid-90’s I was watching a video that Tribune Media Services distributed to newspapers to promote Jeff MacNelly. Half way through I noticed Jeff was using some kind of pen that made thin and narrow strokes like it was a brush – but it definitely was a pen. I did slow-mo several times trying to figure out what he was using. I finally emailed Chris Cassatt who was Jeff’s assistant at the time and asked him what he was using. He wrote back telling me it was a brush pen that could only be purchased from an art store in Canada and also gave me contact information on how to order one – which I immediately did. Since then, that brush pen (I still use the original) has been irreplaceable. I love the freedom of being able to work away from my desk and not have to carry around an ink bottle and cup of water to clean the brush.