Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will headline Rice University’s upcoming conference, “Comics Sans Frontières: Border Defiance in Graphic Narratives.” The four-day event will explore how comics challenge artistic, national, and cultural boundaries. Art, often credited with raising the graphic novel as a serious literary work, will deliver the keynote address on March 20. He will […]
Art Spiegelman is clarifying a news story that first surfaced on Hyperallergic in December that he was working on a new graphic novel about Gaza with Joe Sacco. The Pulitzer Prize winning Maus author says his comment on what he was currently working was twisted from a three page comic into an “epic-length work.” In […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and comics journalist pioneer Joe Sacco are teaming up for a new graphic novel about Gaza. Story Update: Art has clarified that he is not working on an “epic-length work” and that the size of his project has been exaggerated. Art mentioned the collaboration during the premiere of a […]
Derf Backderf’s short comment, as he wrapped up this year’s MOCCA Festival, was enough to send me scrambling to the Internet to order a copy of Aimee de Jongh’s “Days of Sand,” and, if that’s not enough of a compliment to Derf — author of “Trashed,” “My Friend Dahmer” and “Kent State: Four Dead […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.” I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, […]
A word about today’s headline: “Great Expectations” is one of my favorite novels. It’s about how easily a decent young boy can be turned into a snobbish, ungrateful little shit. David Rowe comments on the disappointment from those who, like young Philip Pirrup, had more exalted thoughts about themselves and their fortunes than reality […]
I received a note from Brian Fies (creator of Mom’s Cancer) who is helping to organize the second international conference on Graphic Medicine. He’s looking for presentations for a lecture, workshop or poster session on the theme of comics in the context of healthcare. The event will be held in June and keynote speakers will […]