Tag: Mike Dawson

A Year of Free Comics: The Racial Contract in America by Mike Dawson

Mike Dawson has become one of the most thoughtful white male comics pundits as shown in his collection Rules For Dating my Daughter. He's back at The Nib with Dispatch From a Sanctuary City that...

§ I don't often run Kickstarter checks, but I see Mike Dawson's Rules for Dating my Daughter kickstarter is nearly fully funded after only a few days! Granted it was a pretty modest goal,...

A new day a new Kickstarter but this one is notable: a collection of comics essays by Mike Dawson called Rules For Dating My Daughter. Although the book will contain new material, som of it originally ran on The Comics Journal, Slate Magazine, and The Nib. Here's one from The Nib which we admired before, "Longstreet Farm." Dawson's take on things is very funny but he spend a lot of time asking a lot of questions:

Recorded at Publishers Weekly, it's  More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald. In this week's podcast  Heidi interviews comics...

There's been a lot o' talk this week about Mike Dawson's essay on his perceived failure to find an audience. Dawson followed up on it with more thoughts. The main point of this essay was...

Mike Dawson is talented cartoonist, a witty raconteur and a fine podcaster— you can hear his work with Alex Robinson here at Ink Panthers. And as of yesterday he was a Tumblr king with a post calledAdvice to the mid-career cartoonist who has failed to build an audience. It's honest and in some parts brutal.

If you’ve been following the history of the Asbury Park Comicon, which opened only a year ago in March of 2012, you know it’s been a strange, yet rather astonishing ride, but imagine how...