From The Duke Chronicle: For some members of the Class of 2019, the choice of ?Fun Home? as a summer reading book was anything but fun. Several incoming freshmen decided not to read ?Fun Home? because its sexual images and themes conflicted with their personal and religious beliefs. Freshman Brian Grasso posted in the Class […]
The Wall Street Journal profiles Jules Feiffer, how he got into cartooning and how at age 86, he’s still going strong drawing graphic novels. I began drawing at age 3, and the more I drew, the better I became. I soon discovered that if I took this skill out in the street using chalk, the […]
New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast is having an excellent year after her graphic memoir Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir has been winner multiple awards including being named a National Book Awards finalist. Yesterday it was announced that she was one of three winners of the new Kirkus Prize and with it […]
Adam@Home cartoonist Rob Harrell has a middle grade novel out called Life of Zarf: The Trouble with Weasels The description on Amazon: It?s not easy being Zarf. As a troll, he’s stuck at the bottom of the middle school hierarchy, way below the prince and knights (populars), ogres and giants (jocks), and even the lowly […]
The movie Tundra creator Chad Carpenter raised money to make has posted its first trailer online (see below). The live-action movie is based off the graphic novel written by Chad and his brother Darin Carpenter. It was illustrated by Robert Duckett.
Michael Mechanic writing in Mother Jones interviews legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer on his first graphic novel: MJ: Stylistically speaking, what new things did this format enable you to try? JF: The thing that made me want to be a cartoonist in the first place, back in the 1930s, before comic books came on the scene, […]
Timmy Failure author and Pearls Before Swine comic creator Stephan Pastis is heading out on two book tours – one for the second book in his Timmy Failure series and the other for his latest Pearls Before Swine book (Pearls Falls Fast). In all he’s hitting 15 or so different venues. To see if he’s […]
Proving again why some celebrities should have to take classes and be licensed to have a Twitter account, Shia LaBeouf tweeted a photo of his next project entitled “Daniel Boring” with the hashtag “#original”. What might have been a really, really, really bad attempt at humor is blowing up (again) because “Daniel Boring” and the […]
For the second time, Slate is holding a contest for best graphic novel and webcomic. Last year’s winners were Chris Ware and Noelle Stevenson. The prize is $1,000 each and this year a sponsor, Copic, is kicking in $250 of art supplies. The judging will be done by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, faculty […]
Break of Day creator Nate Fakes is gearing up to produce a 200 page graphic novel called Don Giovanni. It’s a take-off from the opera by the same name, except his story takes place in a trailer park and features a bunch of 8-year-olds.
James Sturm, graphic novelist and founding member or Center for Cartoon Studies, has created a new book about Santa’s quest to write a book to pull kids away from electronics. Book is entitled, “Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special”. The “Offline” project also gave me the idea for my new book, Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special!, […]
The Columbus Dispatch talks to Bone creator Jeff Smith about his RASL series and the projects he’s working on after it. Q: So what are you working on these days? A: I’ve mostly been recovering. The end of a huge project can be pretty nerve-racking… . I wasn’t taking any breaks and working nearly 20 […]
The Knight Life creator Keith Knight is planning on creating his first graphic novel of his teen years as a Michael Jackson impersonator. Visit his Kickstarter page to learn more. He’s almost funded with only three days left.
Sample pages look great. Due out in May.
The Plain Dealer profiles Derf’s new graphic novel “My Friend Dahmer” about his friendship of Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who as arrested in 1991 with body parts in freezer. So they didn’t completely ignore him. Derf himself depicted Dahmer in his high school sketchbooks and worked to sneak him into photos in the high […]