I can’t decide if this would be a great thing or a terrible thing.

… I understand it does have its revelatory moments. For example…

I don’t usually do this, but as I drew the latest episode of Mimi’s Doughnuts I heard some little alarm bells going off in my head, so I went back and redrew some of the strip. I’ll post the self-censored panel here, as I’m interested to hear some reactions to it:
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Tags: censorship, Islam, racism, Sluglock Holmes, spoof

I’m so excited that I can finally announce this project:

The Henniker-San Ramon Comics Exchange:

Comics About Community

Henniker-San Ramon has been very supportive in developing our calendar and program. We’re going to make some great new comics this Fall!

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Okay, I’ve been buried beneath a landslide of amazing new (and old) graphic novels lately, so in the process of digging myself out I think I’ll post some reactions. First up: Howard Zinn’s latest book, A People’s History of American Empire.

This book takes the form of a long, wide-ranging address given by a cartoon-version of Zinn. He looks back on United States history, starting with Wounded Knee and moving forward towards the present. Zinn reviews his experience as a bombardier in World War II, and then as an academic in the Vietnam era and the Civil Rights movement, illustrating each era with relevant historical adventures from around the world.

At first, the cartoon lecturer Zinn came across to me as an artist’s cop-out, a talking head for passages where the artists couldn’t come up with any meaningful artwork. However, as I read further into the book, Continue Reading »

Here are two cool new comics projects:

• The TWIG is the latest incarnation of Trees and Hills Comics Group’s Free Local Comics concept. Each month, T&H produces a 2-page comic newsletter with comics donated by group members. If you live in New Hampshire, Vermont, or Western Massachusetts, you should be sending your comics and artwork to TWIG for consideration! If you want to distribute the TWIG, you can download the latest issue, print it out, copy it, and give it to your friends, or put it out in your neighborhood. Cheap, fun, relevant… twiggylicious!
• The New York Times just announced a new initiative that uses comics to share the voices of voters in the upcoming North Carolina primary. Campbell Robertson drew the comics after talking with groups of democratic voters in their typical hangouts. Personal voices and visual immersion in a cultural scene are certainly some of the strengths of the medium; it’s cool to imagine this kind of comics journalism happening in every state during the election year! Well, I guess it’s up to the creators to propose series to our local papers…

Here are my notes on another interesting presentation from yesterday’s Norman Rockwell Museum LitGraphic symposium, Comics in the Classroom:

Comics History

by Sarah Hodge-Wetherbe

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