Check it out: New A DISTANT SOIL site
Colleen Doran has moved her blog to a redesigned site and will be running A DISTANT SOIL as a webcomic:
Welcome to the new...
2009 Winter Xeric Winners
The Xeric Foundation has announced its most recent grant recipients. A total of $25,031 was awarded for six comic book projects.
Box...
Jim Woodring and FRANK news
If anyone is not familiar with the surreal, haunting work of Jim Woodring, they are really missing out on one of the finest cartoonists...
Pull Quotes: Youth is war
From USA Today's interview with Jeff Kinney, author of the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series:
For the cover of the first book,...
Jaffee, Feiffer, and Pekar interview series
Danny Fingeroth tells us of a new interview series he's conducting, and the people involved are about as interesting as it gets. Thee series...
Obscure Edward Gorey
Discovered on LJ and now reposted, Edward Gorey's 1965 “The Recently Deflowered Girl.”
Isadora Duncan, Sabrina Jones, and the Brooklyn Museum
The other night we attended a very cool event at the Brooklyn Museum of Art: an evening of dance and comics strips. The occasion...
Peter Bagge in Discover
You read about it in the Beat survey, now you can actually read it in the February 2009 of Discover Magazine: a new series...
Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel podcast
Haven't you always wanted to hear Lynda Barry talk to Alison Bechdel but thought that was a crazy dream that could never come true?...
Pull Quotes: Cartoonists and the recession
Peter Brookes, editorial cartoonist at Times of London, is one of my cartoonists interviewed at Bloomberg about the state of editorial cartooning worldwide. Of...
