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11/29/2017

Juan FernándezNovember 29, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el día con Ghengis Con 2017; La Polola y #HumorAmenazado! ————————————————————————————————— Ghengis Con, the annual small press and independent comics convention run by John “draw hard” G. was held at the The Lake Erie Building, in Lakewood, Ohio on November 26th, 2017 from 2-7pm. (It’s always held on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.) Ghengis Con is the embodiment of the best of what a regional show can offer: Tradition, support, reliability and low stress. Since it’s move to the Lake Erie building spirits have been high, but I’ve felt that the crowds and exhibitors haven’t known how to best feel at home in the larger warehouse space. Not so this year! (It used to be held in the cozy, and what would become cramped, Beachland Ballroom) The long corridor that has been used in years past was abandoned and the impact was significant.This year, all 115+ exhibitors filled up the back room. Very few slumps in attendance. Lots of natural light, ample space to walk around, a nice hum of conversation. A miracle for a regional vendor fair like this. After talking to several exhibitors it’s safe to say John G. organized a warm, profitable afternoon for comics sellers and zine makers. In my opinion he did an amazing job for this small show. This is my fourth year attending. It’s his 9th year organizing it. I grew up in Cleveland, so there’s something very personal about coming back to where I grew up annually. It’s a good rustbelt comics reunion.The local seasons cycle is nice. Healthy. Ghengis Con in Cleveland November as winter sets in. PIX in Pittsburgh in April as spring cracks apart winters icy clutch. I was there representing the Comics Workbook gang. Just me and Jenn Lisa this year. No hawking comics this time around, just passionate hands on education with kids and adults. The traveling academy. Printer. Scanner. Rolling Writers. Index Cards. Crayons. Staplers. I’d proposed the idea of doing a personalized workshop space right on the show room floor. We drew, copied and assembled entire zines. 8 page 1/4 Letter zines, One sheet foldies and some wildstyle zines concocted by a motley crew of kids. Kids learned how to assemble booklets and how to smash that “Copy” button on the scanner. If it wasn’t clear before, this isn’t pandering pedagogy, we’re teaching folks how to fish. It was a smash. This is my attempt to create a parallel space for engagement at comics shows. A baby step in expanding the festival tool kit. A huge thank you to John G. for inviting us to work our stuff. I had a great time. Lots of fun. Spirits were high. Get in touch if you’d like to host Comics Workbook workshops at your show. You can email santoroschool@gmail.com to start a conversation. – JF ————————————————————————————————— Spanish Cartoonists Release Free Expression Manifesto Maren Williams brings it to you over on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s website: Dozens of Spanish political cartoonists have signed their names to a manifesto in defense of free speech, citing recent attempts to prosecute comedy under the country’s two-year-old ‘gag law’ as well as a recent string of cartoonists abruptly fired from their jobs. Read it all HERE. Read the English-language manifesto with the full list of signatories at CRNI’s website. ————————————————————————————————— Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! Las chicas se reencontraron y hablaron de lo que fueron sus viajes, aprendizajes, charlas, feminismo y mucho más. Compartieron parte de su botín comiquero de los viajes y además podrán escuchar dos conversaciones que tuvo Maliki con dos de las invitadas al congreso, la primera con Marina Bettaglio acerca de maternidad y la segunda con Hoffy de feminismo. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 11-29-2017 – by Sally Ingraham —————————————————————————————————Joanie and Jordie – 11-29-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

06/07/2017

Juan FernándezJune 7, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el día con Isabel Méndez y los derechos de ls traductores; Fernanda Frick en La Polola; Ines Estrada; Sol Díaz; Tercer Encuentro Internacional de Narrativas Dibujadas; y por supuesto los tebeos de Comics Workbook! ————————————————————————————————— Y los traductores… ¿tienen derechos de autor? Isabel Méndez nos presenta un guía genial sobre los derechos del autor. En este mundo de intercambio cultural internacional, los traductores son inestimables! Si tienes algún interés en el mundo de traduccíon, tienen que léer este articulo. ¿En qué consisten los derechos de autor de los traductores? Si eres traductor, debes tener en cuenta que nuestra legislación te atribuye los mismos derechos que a cualquier otro autor. Esto es, tendrás derechos patrimoniales y derechos morales. Conocer bien tus derechos te ayudará a proteger y reivindicar mejor tu trabajo. Los derechos patrimoniales te servirán para explotar la traducción y los derechos morales te servirán, entre otras cosas, para que se reconozca la autoría de tu trabajo y aparezcas, por ejemplo, en los créditos de la obra. También, como cualquier otro autor, tendrás derecho a registrar tu obra. Al igual que con el resto de autores, muchas veces los traductores son trabajadores asalariados, por lo que la cesión de los derechos de las traducciones que realicen bajo un contrato laboral, deberán quedar bien determinadas y reflejadas en el mismo. Es conveniente leer en este caso el artículo 51 de nuestra Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, dedicado a la transmisión de los derechos de un autor asalariado. Léanlo todo AQUI! ————————————————————————————————— Cómics y noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! Las chicas conversan con el gran dibujante Fernanda Frick, directora, animadora y dibujante. Hablamos acerca de su nuevo corto “Here`s the plan”, cómo empezó su carrera, su experiencia en la animación, sus estudios, temores, ideas, planes y mucho más!! Ya puedes léer Alienation #3 de Inés Estrada en línea. Léanlo si les gusta el sci fi, hentai & conversaciones intensas. Esta historieta fue adaptada a HTML maravillosamente. La Universidad de Santiago y @PLOPGaleria convocan al Tercer Encuentro Internacional de Narrativas Dibujadas! Para este año, el eje del Encuentro será Narrativas gráficas: sociedad, política y género, y el plazo para enviar las propuestas de ponencias es hasta el lunes 12 de junio de 2017. Pueden ver la entretenida entrevista que Carlos Reyes le hizo a Sol Díaz en un nuevo VIÑETAS DEL FIN DEL MUNDO. La semana pasada Drawn & Quarterly annuncio la publicacion de Sadboi por Berliac. Hubo una reacción inmediata en línea, ya que dibujantes y lectores señalaron las declaraciones públicas sobre personas transgénero realizadas por el dibujante, algunas dirigidas agresivamente a la artista Sarah Horrocks, quienes descomprimieron sus interacciones y pensamientos en Twitter. Después de dos días de investigación y pensamiento, D & Q, que al igual que muchas editoriales pequeñas, se basa en relaciones bastante íntimas con sus autores, ya no sentía que podía apoyar Berliac dado su comportamiento. La declaración de la compañía está aquí. La declaración de Berliac en respuesta a la situacíon está en su Facebook. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 6-7-2017 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 6-7-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

10/06/2016

Sally IngrahamOctober 6, 2016NewsSam Ombiri kicks off the day with thoughts on Paul Chan, Beckett, and the power of a “side project”. Sally Ingraham adds some insights from Kerry James Marshall and a Comics Workbook events and happenings roundup. ————————————————————————————————— Sam here: Paul Chan quit making art in 2008 because, as he put it, “I’ve had it”. I’m really not prepared or qualified to talk about Paul Chan’s work so I guess I’ll just somewhat graze over how, or why, he quit. (I’ll re-appropriate what Paul was referring to in an interview – in an attempt to arrive to a point for my own purposes. Some of it he said, but some of it is my fictional version of Paul Chan.) Paul Chan said that the artists that he’s admired follow the route of what we imagine we want. Since what we want is always changing, one expression of this can be found in quitting, like Duchamp did, or taking a break, like Beckett supposedly did with Waiting for Godot. I heard from Paul that Waiting for Godot was a vacation for Beckett, before finishing up the trilogy of novels he was working on. Godot is his most famous work, and furthermore he’s more famous as a playwright than as a novelist. I think I prefer Beckett’s novels (which I’ve barely read, I’m like ⅓ through Molloy) to his plays (which I’ve also barely read). That is not to necessarily say that his novels are automatically better since the medium dictates automatic superiority. What I think, rather, is that development takes place from that change of one pace to another. This can take place when dealing with the same medium – even the same genre, even the same story – but in changing the approach, or having less concern/anxiety dictating one’s work. What I imagine is that after Beckett returned to finishing the trilogy, he had grown in another aspect he didn’t fully realize. This change is present whether he’s doing plays or novels. I guess what I get out of all this is: the power of a side project, or side preoccupation, has power that shouldn’t be underestimated. This totally reminds me of of how Dash Shaw told Sam Alden to just stop working on 8th Grade, and then Sam really benefited from that. He says it at one point in this video: Jesse Moynihan also says something cool at one point in this video about changing your work, and pursuing growth. –Sam Ombiri ————————————————————————————————— When Sam Ombiri isn’t reading Beckett or researching Paul Chan, he can often be found hanging out with other cartoonists in Pittsburgh (above) – and we look forward to sharing some of the comics projects (side projects or otherwise!) that he’s been working on via Comics Workbook soon. ————————————————————————————————— The Chicago Tribune recently had a great conversation with Kerry James Marshall about the history and future of black superheroes. Marshall, whose career retrospective is bound for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Met Breuer in New York City, has been collecting comics since he was a child – and he has dozens of carefully cataloged binders full of comics that document the experiences of black characters or casts. He has spent a long time watching and thinking about the evolution of black superheroes, and the storytelling pendulum that swings between exploitation and inclusion. “The majority of black characters are stand-ins for white characters that exist. Or sidekicks. The scope of their narratives is small. They were asked “to fix the black psyche” before engaging the world. “Unlike a Spider-Man, you didn’t have black teens burdened by power they might acquire.” “ Marshall has at least one solution to this: “...black artists should create original characters, fresh superheroes, removed from the Marvel and DC universes. Talking to African-American comic book artists, you often hear a common theme: Ashley A. Woods, the Chatham native and on-the-rise artist-writer behind indie favorite “Niobe: She is Life,” told me she decided early on to take full ownership of her characters, otherwise “you’re stuck being asked to do black versions of what exists.” Jiba Molei Anderson, a longtime Chicago comic artist whose work is often based in African mythologies, said: “I’m creating my own legacy — I don’t need to create a black Batman, I need to create my brand.” ” – via The Chicago Tribune Read the rest of this article HERE. (via The Comics Reporter) Check out some of Jiba Molei Anderson’s work HERE. Read more about Ashley A. Woods and Niobe: She is Life HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Chris Visions is in NYC this week for the New York Comic Con – check him out at table T3B! NYC, we outchea!!! See ya’ll tomorrow for Comic Con 2016, table T3B— and look out for more awesome photos and video from @tylerqtucker #art #comics #nycc A photo posted by Chris Visions (@chrisvisions) on Oct 5, 2016 at 4:42pm PDT ————————————————————————————————— If you haven’t gotten a chance to dig into the footage of Cameron Weston Nicholson‘s SPX workshop yet, here’s your reminder! Check it out HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Comics Workbook is heading to the UK for The Lakes International Comic Art Festival and to Columbus, OH, for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus next week. Hang out with Frank Santoro, Aidan Koch, Connor Willumsen in the UK – more details HERE. The team in Ohio will be doing workshops next weekend, and you can sign up in advance to get a seat – details HERE. Advanced signups will end Friday, October 7th, 2016. ————————————————————————————————— There is still time to get a bid in on the Michael DeForge drawings that we have up for auction – details HERE. Have you seen the recent collaboration between Frank Santoro and master jeweler Airi Maeno? Check out the Pompeii Medallion HERE. Help us get Connor Willumsen to The Lakes International Comic Art Festival – this way please! Share this page: [...]

01/02/2018

Aaron CockleJanuary 1, 2018NewsAaron here today with the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium Schedule; Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe; Whit Taylor; Imagined Communities, Nationalism & Violence ————————————————————————————————— The 2018 schedule of the Ben Katchor-organized New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium has been posted. This line-up looks great, including presentations by Joe McCullough (on Steve Ditko), Julia Gfrörer, Eleanor Davis, Keren Katz, and Matthew Thurber. ————————————————————————————————— ALL GOOD ART IS POLITICAL: Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe At Galerie St. Etienne until February until February 10, 2018. ALL GOOD ART IS POLITICAL: Käthe Kollwitz and Sue Coe will present more than 30 drawings and prints by Kollwitz (1867-1945) and more than 30 paintings, drawings, and prints by Coe (b. 1951). The exhibition borrows its title from writer Toni Morrison, who once noted, “All good art is political! The ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’” The exhibition coincides with the publication of a book of woodcuts by Sue Coe entitled The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto (OR Books, New York and London). Despite their differences in background – Kollwitz was born in East Prussia in the 19th century and lived in Berlin, Germany; Coe is an American born in the U.K. and living in upstate New York – both artists share a career-defining attraction to social issues, undergirded by the belief that art can inspire constructive change. Each is considered among the most important political artists of her time, unmatched in her fearless approach to profoundly difficult subject matter, unerring humanity and eloquence, and an uncanny ability to disturb the viewer’s complacency. ————————————————————————————————— Alternative to Avocado Toast for 2017 Whit Taylor at the NY-er. ————————————————————————————————— Imagined Communities, Nationalism & Violence At Rubber Factory until January 31, 2018. Benedict Anderson’s seminal text “Imagined Communities” investigates the origins of Nationalism as a modern condition and serves as the starting point for our group exhibition. From the influence of rationalist secularism to the conception of homogenous, empty time, Anderson outlines the convergence of factors which led to nationhood as a vehicle for the creation of meaning and ultimately self-sacrifice. As Nationalism is revitalized through increasingly extreme rhetoric whether it is nativism or protectionism, the exhibition explores this new wave of anxiety around nation-hood and ways nation-ness is constructed. Whether it is through the oblique nature of our informational channels which function as echo chambers reminiscent of the earliest ways Nationalism spread through print media or the conflation of meaning with sacrifice, it is clear that there are precedents for how Nationalism as a construct has led to and sustained cycles of violence. ————————————————————————————————— The Winter Semester of thee Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers starts January 16th 2018! 8 weeks – 500 bux – coaching for as long as you need. The course is hard, but Frank will push your comics making practice to a new level, getting you to think about timing and color in new ways. His experience and ideas have influenced the likes of Connor Willumsen, Michael DeForge, and Simon Hanselmann (quote “I consider Frank Santoro to be my L. Ron Hubbard”) among many others. Dig into something new in the new year! Full details and how to apply can be found HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Vision Box – 1-2-2017 – by Cameron Arthur Share this page: [...]

01/21/2016

Juan FernándezJanuary 21, 2016NewsHello world, Frank’s got your coverage of what has been going on with the Rowhouse so far over at the Comics Journal. Big things happening come February 1st… Bill expounds on the glory that is Kevin Huizenga’s Gloriana on camera in Bill’s Remedial Comics #1. Watch and and see what all the fuss is about. oh and did you hear the news? You can catch Deforge, Drnaso, Chippendale on the East Coast for their Winter tour! Holy shit is right. Chippendale will be on tour promoting Puke Force, DeForge will be on tour promoting Big Kids, and Drnaso will be on tour for his debut of Beverly. Check out all the details here. Paper Jam – the Bushwick zine/comics hang out is just around the corner and they’ve started announcing exhibitors. Loads of new work to check out there if you want go hang out and talk comics/ pick up some new comics and zines. Stay abreast of their tumblr to get the low-down on who’ll be setting up shop. Kevin Czap is first up to bat. Oh and last but not least, we heard it through the grapevine that Lenny the pug has been getting pretty down what with the dark days spent indoors in Pittsburgh. Maybe you could help cheer Lenny up with some love over at the Lenny Fan Club Mailbox? Share this page: [...]

07/06/2016

Posted on July 6, 2016July 6, 2016 by Juan Fernández

Juan Fernandez here with your Spanish language comics news: Cuadernos de cómic número 6;los consejos de Inés Estrada; Novedades de Fulgencio Pimentel; la historia del cómic Chileno; una reseña del PLAYGROUND de Berliac.

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CuCo, Cuadernos de cómic número 6. Junio de 2016
La nueva edicion de la revista de estudio y crítica de la historieta, CuCo, hay sido publicada este fin de semana! Puedes descargar Revista 6 aqui – GRATIS. Entre sus ensayos, debates, y estudios esta edicion incluye entrevistas con Martin Lopez Lam, Mirion Malle, y Sergio Garcia. En CuCo, se toma lo del cómic en serio!

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Consejos de Inés Estrada
Hot tips and encouragement from Inés Estrada on how to make comics and illustration work for you. Lots more over on her site.

*Expensive tools aren’t mandatory
I draw all my comics with just a mechanical pencil and I have a 10 year old wacom tablet. I only splurge on nice Fabriano paper. This is what I’ve found that works for me. Find whatever works best for YOU, it doesn’t have to be the same as what other people use!

*Share your work anywhere you can
If you can go to fests or shows, that’s great, but if you can’t, use the internet! I grew up in Mexico City where there is no “comics scene” but I was still able to make it because I’ve been consistently posting my work on the internet for years. Commit yourself to posting your work on Tumblr, Twitter or Instagram as often as you can. Try to have a separate account for your professional work that doesn’t feature a million photos of your beautiful cat and the delicious breakfast you made today.

NEVER STOP DRAWING, NEVER STOP MAKING, DON’T LET ANYTHING DISCOURAGE YOU! STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF!

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La historia del cómic Chileno

La Biblioteca Nacional de Chile le ofrece una vista cronológica del desarrollamiento del cómic chileno desde 1906 hasta el presente. Aunque no sea exhaustivo, es un buen punto de partida para quienes quieran aprender mas sobre el mundo del cómic Chileno. Edúcate!

La historia del cómic en nuestro país se encuentra estrechamente relacionada con el desarrollo de la historieta y el humor gráfico, que iniciaron su recorrido entre el siglo XIX y la primera mitad del siglo XX. Este desarrollo, en sus inicios, estuvo centrado principalmente en la sátira política, y más tarde en publicaciones orientadas al entretenimiento infantil. El primer personaje de historietas nacional, Von Pilsener, fue creado en 1906 por Lustig (Pedro Subercaseaux), y sus aventuras fueron reeditadas en la década de 1990 por el poeta e investigador Jorge Montealegre.

De estos años datan gran cantidad de publicaciones con historietas extranjeras y nacionales, entre las que destacaban algunas como El Pibe (1923), Don Fausto (1924), Pulgarcito (1938) y Pobre Diablo (1946), así como otras más conocidas por los lectores de hoy, como Topaze, dedicada al humor político, y El Peneca, dirigido desde la década de 1920 por Elvira Santa Cruz. Nació también antes de 1950 el más famoso de los personajes ilustrados de nuestro país: Condorito.

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Reseña de Playground por Berliac

“ ‘Playground’ is a fundamental work to understand comics of today. It’s a complex, postmodern piece, about the medium and its limitations (…) Berliac breaks through these limits and starts from scratch (…) using, in short, all the posibilities of comics”.
– Jesús Jádiva, Zona Negativa

Y no se pierdan la reseña de Playground que Frank Santoro hizo pare TCJ en 2014. Te dara otra perspectiva en el valor de esta obra de Berliac.

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Novedades de Fulgencio Pimentel

Editorial Fulgencio Pimentel a lanzado su nueva suscripción, y como mola:

1. Beverly de Nick Drnaso
2. Meeting Jari de José Ja Ja Ja
3. Melancolía de Simon Hanselmann
4. Talco de Amanda Baeza
5. La yaya Meti de Aapo Rapi
6. Mi pequeño (edición integral) de Olivier Schrauwen

Suscríbete por 89.00€ hoy!

Presentación DMLQL en Barcelona
Y si estas en Barcelona, no te pierdas la presentacion de Gabriel Corbera este Sabado en Fatbottom!
9 de julio a las 12:00 horas. Fatbottom C/ Lluna, 10. Barcelona

DÍAS MÁS LARGOS QUE LONGANIZAS de Gabriel Corbera es sencillamente uno de nuestros tebeos favoritos ever. Deudor del manga más cinemático tanto como de las novelas de Marcial Lafuente Estefanía, salpicado de referencias a videojuegos, envuelto en una atmósfera ominosa y risible a un tiempo, DMLQL es mayormente una lección acerca de cómo se ordenan los silencios y los blancos de un poema; o para el caso, de un tebeo. Para nosotros, desde la primera lectura, este tebeo es El Rock y El Verano, los dos en uno, y eso a pesar de que DMLQL es un cómic de tormenta.

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hasta la proxima!
JF

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Comics Workbook

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Juan Fernández

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02/08/2017

Juan FernándezFebruary 8, 2017los Cómics / NewsJuan José con un poquito sobre: Sirio de Martín López Lam; talleres en #GRAFBCN2017; Chicks on Comics’s full slate of programming; VRDR Scarlet Witch Preview; Inés Estrada’s Alienation 3; La Hora del Bocadillo; La Polola Podcast; Hits with Tits talk posters. Sirio – Martín López Lam (Fulgencio Pimentel – 2016) I’ve been looking for a gripping work of comics poetics that can hold a candle to the winds of narrative… The wait is over. Sirio is here. Lovers in crisis amidst a holiday during low season on the coast, an unresolved death and an even deeper mystery in the observation of nature. Clouds, rocks, the behavior of dogs and children in the neighborhood become signs that are offered to a narrator’s/our stunned eyes. An earthly thriller, many questions and a single answer, or at least an insinuation, in the stars. Sirio. Sirio is a graceful, cloud-like story, intense and as awe-inspiring as a summer storm, combining the best of the titanic visual skills of Martin López Lam with his extraordinary literary sensibility. The texture and atmosphere of these pages confronts us with the underground stream of antagonistic feelings that flow between a man and a woman, in the best tradition of narrators like Raymond Carver, John Cheever, or James Salter. To achieve this, Martín speaks a language that bridges the comics and cartooning idioms of arguably the most Eastern of the great western cartoonists (David Mazzucchelli) and the most western of the great mangaka (Seiichi Hayashi). Sirio confirms Martín López Lam as one of the most gifted and versatile visual narrators of the in contemporary Spanish comics. No comic has buffeted me viscerally the way that Sirio does. The elemental force of Sirio is incredible. Sirio is not yet in English. Alas! Not to worry though, the images do the heavy lifting here. I hope an English translation comes soon so it can grip you tightly. Until then, order a copy from the great Spanish publisher, Fulgencio Pimentel. Practice your Spanish and soak in the images and the words! DO IT! Cómics y noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Chicks on Comics have a full slate of programming this weekend at Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Don’t miss Power Paola, María Delia Lozupone, María Luque and co. for two amazing afternoons of talks. Marvel’s got a preview of Vanesa R. Del Rey’s work with James Robinson Scarlet Witch #15 – (take note VRDR devotees: on sale February 22nd). Berliac’s got some new comics on Vice – Asian Food Store Junkies – A match made in heaven, or the opposite? You decide… #GRAFBCN2017 has announced several workshops for their March 3-5 comics festival in Barcelona. Among them is a master class con Natacha Bustos y Javi Rodríguez. Sign up for their talleres HERE. Inés Estrada just finished the 3rd issue of Alienation. Copies will be available on Feb. 22 along with the reprint of issue 1! Keep up with her at @inechii on twitter for all the details on her latest works. Along with her own comics she distros some incredible work from Mexico on her shop www.gatosaurio.com, so get hep. On the radio in Spain: La hora del bocadillo – 04/02/17 – La Grieta, tebeos y neurociencia y Generación X. ——— La Polola Podcast is on hiatus! Vacation is vacation. As Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo gear up for their new season they have a contest going while on vacation! Draw your favorite song and catch up with the podcast! It’s always a fun, relaxing and enlightening listen. If you haven’t tuned in to La Polola just yet, Póngale Play. Hits With Tits is exhibiting the show poster work of 40 women in Barcelona. Quique Ramos presents a poster making play-by-play by 6 comics makers and illustrators that’ll be at the CARA B festival on February 17-18: Roberta Vázquez, Nuria Riaza, Conxita Herrero, Cristina Daura, Maria Herrero y Marlene Krause. Echale un vistazo a este medallón estilo Pompeii! Hecho en Pittsburgh. Frank Santoro le encarguo a la gran Airi Maeno que le hiciera unos medallones de plata utilisando uno de sus dibujos. Este dibujo viene de su libro Pompeii. Es algo que podrias imaginar que alguien se pondría hace dos mil años. Unico. Clasico. Un simple medallón de un ser querido. Un retrato. Algo permanente para desafiar a la desaparición. ————————————————————————————————— 2-8-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 2-8-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 2-8-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio ————————————————————————————————— Cozytown – 2-8-2017 – by Juan Fernandez Share this page: [...]

08/15/2017

Aaron CockleAugust 14, 2017NewsAaron Cockle here today with Maqsood-I-Kainaat; Tom of Finland; Wolk on Borges; FRAME Festival Open Call; Fake Photos! ————————————————————————————————— Maqsood-I-Kainaat, by Shreyas R Krishnan The 12th issue of the Ley Lines series is coming soon! Ley Lines is a quarterly publication dedicated to exploring the intersection of comics and the various fields of art & culture that inspire us. Co-published by Grindstone Comics and Czap Books. ————————————————————————————————— Tom of Finland, the Movie Touko Laaksonen gets the biopic treatment, and a fancy review at the Guardian. Considering the film’s subject matter, it actually contains very little sex – the main bedroom scene cuts from a kiss to the morning after. “The core fans were always saying: ‘I’ve seen the drawings, those are my sex, now I want to see the story of the man I idolise,’” says Karukoski. “So the amount of gay sex will come very much from the dramatic need. Where is the line where it becomes provocation? it overrides the emotional balance of the story.” Instead, much of the film focuses on the struggles Laaksonen endured as a gay man in conservative Finland, from facing jail as a young man after a pick-up went awry, to facing constant pressure from his younger sister never to express his true identity, since she believed it would bring shame on the family. “Even when I told her about him being accepted into the permanent collection at MoMA, her response was: ‘Well, what were they thinking?’” says Dehner, still hurt by the memory. The film, he says, is “touching – how terrible society has been to us and how conditional the love is from family members”. ————————————————————————————————— Webmaster Borges This is from way back in 1999, and probably the first piece I read by Douglas Wolk. Jorge Luis Borges and the Internet: Canny Borges never names the Web, of course: As “The Garden of Forking Paths” points out, in a riddle whose answer is chess, the only word that cannot be used is “chess.” But the meaning of his parables is specific and undeniable. The Aleph in the fiction of the same title, the portal through which one can see every point in the universe, is Netscape Navigator in all but name. The Zahir, an object that changes its form over time but monopolizes its owner’s attention forever, is none other than Microsoft Internet Explorer, as anyone who’s tried to unstick it from a computer’s operating system only to click fatally on an innocuous icon will tell you. (Consider, in fact, the alphabetical remove of Borges’ names for the browsers, his subtle jest on the Alpha and Omega of his new world.) ————————————————————————————————— Prague Comic Arts Festival Open Call Sign up for the FRAME festival and become a part of an emerging festival, full of comics, zines and illustrations! We welcome all small publishers, authors and illustrators. OPEN CALL is until 31.8. 2017. Each exhibitor can choose from two options for his presentation – a small table 110 x 55 cm or a large table 220 x 55 cm. The jury of Centrala and No Ordinary Heroes will then select approximately 50 exhibitors who will be contacted with detailed information on arrival and installation no later than September 10, 2017. ————————————————————————————————— ‘Research suggests that regardless of what you might think about your own abilities to spot a hoax, most of us are pretty bad at it.’ The BBC has a handy guide to spotting fake photos: Another giveaway is the colour of people’s ears. “If the Sun is behind me, my ears will look red from the front because you’ll see the blood,” he says. “If the light is coming from the front, you won’t see the red in the ear.” ————————————————————————————————— A Cosmic Journey – 8-15-2017 – by Cameron Arthur ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 8-15-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 8-15-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

8/1/2016

Juan FernándezAugust 1, 2016NewsJuan here with your news for the day: Caleb Orecchio Rowhouse Report; Mickey Z straight outta 2012; Bill Boichel reviews Stroppy; Tillie Walden dailies; Tucker Stone on The Factual Opinion; SDCC 2016 panels; AIGA on Koyama Press, Breakdown and Retrofit; new Street Angel from Jim Rugg; New Private Rowhouse Auction – 7.31-8.6 ————————————————————————————————— First up, we’ve a Rowhouse Residency report from Caleb Orecchio and Frank Santoro, live from the Rowhouse Residency in Pittsburgh, PA. ————————————————————————————————— Mickey Z – THROWBACK EDITION – 2012/2013 I’m happy to announce that we are featuring Mickey Z’s comics made for Comics Workbook in 2012 and 2013 on the site this week. There’s no one quite like Mickey Z: an inimitable, full force assault of joy and recklessness on graph paper. Jump in! The waters fine. ————————————————————————————————— Stroppy reviewed by Bill Boichel Bill Boichel’s got a killer review of Marc Bell’s Stroppy on the site this week. Few people can write as insightful reviews as Bill, so it’s an honor to be able to share his writing with you here. Stroppy channels the vigorous populist cartooning energy that can trace its roots back to the classic comics strips – especially the depression-era Popeye by E.C. Segar and Harold Grey’s Little Orphan Annie. This vital populism was an integral part of American life and lore, but with the advent of the war economy in the late-1930s, it was sublimated into the national war effort throughout the Second World War, and beyond. ————————————————————————————————— Tillie Walden Daily Comics Tillie Walden is an introverted comics workhorse. a deft image maker and even more cunning sequencer of images. Very smart, very intuitive. She’s been making posting comics like this every day over at her Patreon. If you’re interested in supporting her emerging talent give her Patreon a look and consider making a regular contribution to help her grow. ————————————————————————————————— Tucker Stone talks The Factual Opinion Sean Witzke interviews Tucker Stone about the past 10 years of founding and running The Factual Opinion. Fellow TFO authors Nina Stone, Abhay Khosla, Matt Seneca, Michel Fiffe, Morgan Jeske, Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner and Marty Brown all chime in with their memories of writing by Stone’s side on the site. Interesting perspectives on the difficulties of cultural writing that spotlights comics. TS: The thing that makes a lot of comics arguments (especially the ones driven by the comics blogosphere) so fucking absurd was that it takes a solid 20 minutes to explain what drives them. You have to go so deep into the woods, explaining the subject matter, explaining why you dislike this one person and the website they write for, how that old irritation infects the current conversation you’re imagining having with them–it makes you sound crazy. The jump that I think I had to make–that I still have to make–is that is IS crazy. It’s fucking lunacy, completely, to act as if those little battles have any bearing on anything at all outside the bubble. Nobody outside this thing is ever going to comprehend what the hell you’re talking about if you try to explain why you don’t like the person who handles press releases about books they’ve never read at some website they’ve never heard of. I think that’s what makes it a little more fun and crazy (albeit very gross) right now, because you don’t actually have to read the comics anymore, you can just go after some assholes for the way they treat women. Nobody has to read DMZ anymore or The Massive or whatever bullshit, you can just all band together under the umbrella of thinking that it’s fucked up to get handsy with some lady at a bar under the pretense that you’ll get her an inking gig somewhere. I think that’s great! Nothing in comics was ever going to change for the better when you kept demanding people read these dopey things that come out infrequently, look like shit, cost too much, aren’t as entertaining as the most bottom rung television show, etc. We got rid of that barricade. Hell yes, I say! The wider cultural context thing that always got me was the way digital comics was gonna save something–that idea that you could put these things in a device capable of showing off the top tiers of media. What kind of lunatic is going to choose the New 52 version of Booster Gold over watching million dollar movie trailers? ————————————————————————————————— Sarah Ferrick’s Sec on Rookie Mag Rachel Davies shares her thoughts on Sarah Ferrick’s latest publication, Sec over at Rookie. As someone who really enjoyed this 2dcloud release from the winter, I highly encourage you to check out this review. If you’re interested in a comic that sets the bar for emotionally driven, visceral yet abstracted, sexual comics making, Sec is where it’s at. Sec somehow finds a way to flawlessly illustrate those moments when, laying in bed, I attempt to recreate one of my wildest dreams: I have all the words for it, know the specifics of the fantasy, yet I’m unsure of the visuals. ————————————————————————————————— SDCC 2016 Panels now online You can now tune into the many quality panels that were held at SDCC (July 20-24 2016) from the comfort of your home thanks to Jamie Coville. Here are some noteworthy listens to start you off right: We Need Diverse Comics The Complete Wimmen’s Comix: A Her-story Celebrating 40 years of Fantagraphics Daniel Clowes Spotlight Comics Arts Conference #11: Trina Robbins Spotlight ————————————————————————————————— AIGA on Koyama Press, Breakdown and Retrofit There’s a nice pice on AIGA’s Eye on Design blog that touches upon the heavy hitters of independent comics publishing that have been pushing the frontiers of the comics market. They talk about what separates small presses from their larger counterparts, the crossover appeal of small presses, broad mainstream misunderstanding of independent comics making and their motivating love of the medium. Kessler blames the mainstream media for the public’s misunderstanding. “Scott McCloud’s The Sculptor gets loads of coverage,” he says. “It’s terrible, that book. But The Guardian riffed on it quite a lot, and so did a lot of other papers. I spoke to a lot of people who picked it up because they wanted to get into comics and they just thought it was total shit. My grandma, who’s very literate and culturally engaged, wanted to get into comics, and instead of asking me what comics to read, picked up what The Guardian recommended, and was just so confused. She said she felt like a fool reading it. I just had to tell her that I agreed, it was shit, and I sent her some comics that I thought were good instead.” ————————————————————————————————— —————————————————————————— New Private Rowhouse Auction – 7.31-8.6 Last but not least, we have a new private auction up at auction.comicsworkbook.com! Lots of old and new comics for you to take home. Lots of you have been writing in and saying you want cheaper stuff to bid on. So we’re going to do this different this week. Email Frank Santoro at santoroschoolATgmail for a password, if you don’t already have one. If you already have a password, it is the same from last week. All funds go to helping keep the lights on and further developing the school. —————————————————————————— until next time! jf Share this page: [...]

A Studio Visit with Jim Rugg | Part III: THE STREET ANGEL GANG

Juan FernándezApril 18, 2016ClassesJim Rugg, creator of “Street Angel” and “Aphrodisiac” [ jimrugg.com ], shows Comics Workbook TV how he takes a story from script to final. Part III details the creation of a full color page from “THE STREET ANGEL GANG”, which is available from Copacetic Comics:copaceticcomics.com/comics/street-angel-the-street-angel-gang Video by Michael Pisano | michaelpisano.com Get The Street Angel Gang PROCESS PACK here: copaceticcomics.com/comics/street-angel-the-street-angel-gang-process-pack Soundtrack | Johann Sebastian Bach // Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43 – 7. Aria: Er ists, der ganz allein // performed by Michel Rondeau Share this page: [...]

03/29/2017

Juan FernándezMarch 29, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el dia con Katherine Supnem;Roberto Massó; Borlocomix; Emma Ríos; Fabian Rangel Jr y Alexis Ziritt; Amaru Distro; Desiree Rodriguez; Berliac; Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo; Manu Garrido y los tebeos del día! ————————————————————————————————— Cayo Cæctus nos presenta Katherine Supnem en Sacapuntas.cl (…) lo fundamental es comenzar a cambiar nuestras propias vidas autoconvocándonos y organizándonos junto a otras mujeres. Necesitamos grupos espontáneos de cómics y grupos dirigidos con una finalidad específica para el radical cambio cultural. Tengo las esperanzas puestas en los nuevos hombres, niños, niñas, mujeres, lesbianas, trans, intersexuales, queers, para una cultura no sexista, ni machista. El trabajo de Lady’s cómics es a punta de cañón, obteniendo recursos desde la propia autogestión, donaciones colectivas y fondos del estado para llevar a cabo este proyecto que rescata la cultura y la historia de las autoras de cómics de Brasil y latinoamérica. Si grupos/colectivos/eventos de este tipo no son imitados, vamos a perder nuestra historia y siempre será el relato de las vencidas (como los relatos de toda América Latina, que parten desde la derrota contra los españoles), siempre seremos las otras, las segregadas, las marginadas de la historia universal del cómic y para que esto no suceda, se debe rescatar con mente y acción arqueológica. No dejemos que se pierda la historia de la historieta hecha por autoras de cómics, por ello es necesario crear eventos bajo la tutela de mujeres. – Katherine Supnem sobre el 2° Encuentro de Lady’s Cómics – Belo Horizonte Brazil ————————————————————————————————— Roberto Massó presenta un nuevo cómic mural e inédito sobre la ciudad de Madrid inaugurando así la tercera exposición de la quinta temporada de La ciudad en viñetas. Massó presenta una visión múltiple de un día en Madrid, desde el subsuelo al cielo pasando por el asfalto, poniendo de relieve detalles y acciones, algunas imperceptibles y otras que siempre están ahí, pero nos pasan desapercibidas. Edificios, tráfico, gente, rótulos… todo se conecta en su particular visión de la ciudad. La inauguración será el próximo jueves 6 de abril en la 4ª planta de CentroCentro Cibeles a las 19h, y la exposición se podrá visitar de forma gratuita hasta el 2 de julio de 2017. ————————————————————————————————— “Si alguien me pregunta quien es el mejor dibujante de comics Venezolano mi unica respuesta es Carlos A. Etcheverry . Los demas son puros mamaguevos!” – Alexis Ziritt Eric Colón Moleiro entrevista a Carlos Etcheverry, dibujante venezolano feroz en Los Angeles: La película porno perdida que hizo su tía María Conchita en los años setenta, la supuesta homosexualidad oculta de su padre Robert, la leyenda de la hacienda Daktari y las razones que lo han llevado a renegar de su apellido. Carlos (Alonso) Etcheverry es venezolano y vive en California desde hace más de 15 años. Es artista plástico y autor de un comic que ha visto la luz gracias a la editorial R-ev inspirado en torno a un personaje surreal, suerte de arlequín perverso con ropa del altiplano llamado Borlo y asegura -en este entrevista exclusiva que es tan arriesgada como sus historietas- que en su casa se habla mal de Chávez, de su papá y de María Conchita también, por supuesto ————————————————————————————————— Cómics y noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Entrevista con Emma Ríos – Emma Ríos comparte sus experiencias como creatriz de MIRROR and PRETTY DEADLY con Nadia Alamah de ComicsVerse. All new Space Riders is out!!! Hoy en EEUU!!! Coming at you full force via Blackmask Studio’s dynamic duo, Fabian Rangel Jr, Alexis Ziritt. Want to get your hands on this high voltage galactic transmission? Find your local comic shop using Comic Shop Locator or if you don’t have a local spot because you live on the moon, here’s more options: Black Mask Store + ComiXology. En 2014 Amaru Distro emprendio una gira vía tierra por Suramerica,con el objetivo de dar a conocer el trabajo de creadoras y creadores del fanzine de Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brasil y Paraguay, ellxs cuentan como es la movida fanzinera en este lado del continente, desde su orígenes, contexto social y cultural, hasta la actualidad. Esta semana Amaru Distro compartió un teaser de documental, Fanzinogamia. Desiree Rodriguez interviewed by Greg Anderson-Elysee. Columnist and Editorial Assistant for Lion Forge‘s Catalyst Prime, Rodriguez has written for outlets such as: The Nerds of Color and Women Write About Comics in detail on diversity in comics and pop culture, Latinx representation, feminism, and sexuality. She is currently working as an Editorial Assistant on Catalyst Prime for Lion Forge Comics, coming out in May. Dig in! Berliac‘s got some new comics on Vice – Asian Food Store Junkies – S01-E05 This week’s all about secret origins… Fabian Rangel Jr.‘s new comics series “Helena Crash” gets a micro-review. It’s pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic. You know the type. Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! En este capítulo las chicas conversan nuevamente con Katherine Supnem, esta vez de su participación en el reciente festival de historieta que organizaron las amigas Chicks on Comics en Argentina. Taiyo Matsumoto o el placer de dejarse abrazar por un cómic. A good Spanish appreciation of the singular mangaka by Manu Garrido. ————————————————————————————————— La gran Vanesa R. Del Rey le ha dado permiso a Comics Workbook para publicar unas selecciónes de sus cuadernos de bocetos. Hemos diseñado esta publicación para que parezca uno de esos libros de de artistas los años 80. Arte y Entrevista. El texto es una transcripción de la entrevista que hicimos con Vanesa cuando visito la Residencia Rowhouse en 2016. Vanesa es un artista impresionante y inigualable. Puedes comprar una copia AQUI. Sigan a Vanesa por Instagram – @vrdelrey – y http://vrdelrey.com/ ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 3-29-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 3-29-2017 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 3-29-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

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