Comics Workbook

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Aaron Cockle

Posted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016

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06/15/2017

Sally IngrahamJune 15, 2017NewsSally here with Shannon Wright, Jillian Tamaki, Adam Griffiths, and James Baldwin to get your Thursday morning started! ————————————————————————————————— Shannon Wright made this comic to share with her followers on Instagram this week (@shannondrewthis) and it speaks volumes to her recent experiences as a young, talented artist who has recently gained a lot of attention. Her illustrations have appeared in numerous national publications and her comics have been featured on The Nib among other places. Her Black hair illustration series, mentioned in the comic above, is an ongoing project that touches on many recent discussions about cultural appropriation and the image of Black women in history and pop culture. I appreciate Shannon’s honesty and blunt politeness in embracing her new fans and dealing with her (probable) frustration with other folks’ demands and expectations for her time and art – this comic is cute and classy. Good luck Shannon! ————————————————————————————————— Adam Griffiths continues his web comic American Cryo – the 7th strip is seen above – check out the rest HERE. Get a copy of Adam’s comic The Permanent Night – which he worked on during a Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency earlier this year – HERE. ————————————————————————————————— There is a James Baldwin celebration going on in Harlem – 77 boxes of Baldwin’s manuscripts, photos, letters, notes and more, have come back to where it all started – the contents are on display at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Malcolm X Boulevard, just a few doors down from the elementary school that Baldwin attended. Other bookstores in the area are featuring Baldwin’s work and churches and schools will be hosting lectures and other events in the next few weeks. More detail HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Jillian Tamaki speaks to The Guardian about her new comics collection Boundless. “The stories in Boundless often started as thought experiments, for which Tamaki would conjure up the domino sequence that follows. Half Life exemplifies her simultaneously deadpan and sensitive voice: protagonist Helen slowly shrinks in size, as if possessed by an intractable force. “If gets pushed and pushed and pushed, it is relentless. There’s no changing her path,” explains Tamaki. But it is Helen’s reactions that are the focus of the story. “I think the story is quite fantastical, obviously, but it’s also fantastical in that she is completely calm about it. She’s not afraid, she’s not freaking out – people around her are freaking out – but she is completely adapting to the new circumstances.” “ More HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 6-15-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 6-15-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 6-15-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

03/22/2018

Sally IngrahamMarch 22, 2018NewsSally here with work by Shequeta Smith, E. Simms Campbell, and CM Campbell, plus much more! ————————————————————————————————— A recent article on the Los Angeles Sentinel celebrated Women’s History Month with a terrific roundup of Black Women in Comics. One creator whom I was excited to discover is Shequeta Smith (pictured above). She is a powerhouse, making the Rayven Choi series, running Shero Comics, and digging into the screenwriting industry as well. You can see a preview of Rayven Choi Chapter #3: The Bounty Hunter HERE. The L. A. Sentinel article also lists Micheline Hess (creator of Malice in Ovenland), Myisha Haynes (The Substitutes), Taneka Stotts (Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comic Anthology series), and familiar names like Marguerite Abouet (the Aya comics), and Jackie Ormes (Torchy Brown, etc.) Check out the whole list HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Here’s an article on Slate from 2016 about E. Simms Campbell – one of the first successful black cartoonists. His work appeared in numerous magazines of the day, many of them in Esquire, which launched in 1933. I thought the map pictured above was terrific, and if you are a jazz fan it is worth noting that Cab Calloway’s band appears at the bottom left-hand corner. ————————————————————————————————— CM Campbell shares a lengthy and interesting comic on Hyperallergic for “anyone who has ever asked, “How do I draw a black guy?” ” Read the full thing HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Extra, Extra! Check out Ronald Wimberly on the Comicidal Podcast – he talks about new and ongoing projects like Sunset Park, and LAAB Magazine. Listen HERE. Ta-Nehisi Coates (the writer behind two successful years of Black Panther) is going to start writing Captain America. He scribbled a brief essay for The Atlantic that announced the new project, and details why it “scares the hell out of me“. The Nib has a feature called Comics By Response, where they pose a question or concept and cartoonists respond – here are Four Cartoonists on Their Favorite Unsung Black History Heroes – with work by Keith Knight, Robyn Smith, Ben Passmore, and Mariah Rose-Marie. Illustrated PEN on PEN America’s guest editor Robert Kirby showcases the work of fellow guest editor Whit Taylor, throwing light on the final story in her collection Ghost Stories – the story is called Maker and you can see it HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Announcing the Spring Semester of thee Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers 8 weeks! $500 bux! 10 spots available! Rolling start date because of spring break – start as early as March 30th 2018. Deadline to apply is April 12th. Read all about the course HERE and email santoroschool@gmail.com for more details or to apply. ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 3-21-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

10/25/2016

Aaron CockleOctober 25, 2016NewsAaron here today with Jack Brougham on LICAF; Sonia Landy Sheridan; Comic Arts Brooklyn; Magical Realist Videogames; DADA; Chick Dissections ————————————————————————————————— The Hills and Streets – Jack Brougham on LICAF Here on the site we have a reflection from Jack Brougham on his weekend at LICAF in Kendal and the kinds of thoughts it stirred. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about closing the circle between creating and publishing and publishing small and often in cheap little editions, road-testing stories in public, and building larger narratives or works from small individually published units. So far so confused? – excellent. Anyway, arriving at the table with this in the back of my mind it was great to see the organizers had hired Comics Workbook a photocopier so we could run off copies of the zines and comics produced in the CW workshops that took place on Saturday morning. Workshops are great and everything, but when you can demonstrate to people how easy it is to start running off copies of your own stuff to share, that’s something else. ————————————————————————————————— Generative Systems The Networked Performance blog has an overview of Sonia Landy Sheridan’s Generative Systems program, developed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1970s. This will be of specific interest to people who use copy machines in their work, or technology in their art-making in general, or who work at institutions that would allow one to do so. With the cooperation of scientists, industry, artists and a unique body of graduate students, Sheridan was able to explore the implications of the communications revolution for the arts. As artist-in-residence at 3M’s Color Research and Central Research Labs, she was able to take back to her students up-to-date industrial experiences. Sheridan shaped her art and teaching on the premise that art, science and technology function as intertwining systems of thought. Additional documentation of Sheridan’s work can be found at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. ————————————————————————————————— CAB 2016 Comic Arts Brooklyn, arguably the best show of its kind in these United States (and probably in the top 2-3 comics festivals in all of North America), will be held Saturday, November 5, 11am-7pm at Mt. Carmel Gymnasium, 12 Havemeyer St in scenic Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA. As with previous years, this is a showcase of some of the best alternative/indie/art comics, small press, and self-published work that’s available. Admission is free. Satellite events include: Organized by Gabe Fowler and Desert Island. ————————————————————————————————— Triennale Game Collection Some immersive experiences for people who have access to smartphones. Via Allison Meier at the Hyperallergic blog: For me, the most enjoyable game by far, and the one that kept my attention the longest, is “Neighbor” by Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy, and Ben Babbitt of the American Cardboard Computer. You’re a sombrero-sporting wanderer seemingly on a retreat at a desert compound with the sun-washed colors and modernist shapes of a Ricardo Legorreta building. Like Cardboard Computer’s Kentucky Route Zero, which had its fourth act released last month, there are tones of magical realism in your exploration. Interacting with the sandy environment reveals pleasing tasks like harvesting aloe leaves, making salves at a cauldron, reflecting at a pool, and stowing cherished objects for “the far side.” Offerings left at a monolith might be taken with a can of spinach left in return. And then there’s your cowboy neighbor, whose friendship is gradually developed without words in this serene place. ————————————————————————————————— DADA Backissues Princeton University’s Blue Mountain Project has made all 8 issues of the DADA arts journal from 1917-1921 available. Via Josh Jones at the Open Culture blog: Edited by Tzara and including his manifesto in issue 3, the magazine “served to distinguish and define Dada in the many cities it infiltrated,” writes the Art Institute of Chicago, “and allowed its major figures to assert their power and position.” Dada succeeded a previous attempt by Ball at a journal called Cabaret Voltaire—named for his Zurich theater—which survived for one issue in 1917 before folding, along with the first version of the cabaret. That year, Tzara, “an ambitious and skilled promoter… began a relentless campaign to spread the ideas of Dada…. As Dada gained momentum, Tzara took on the role of a prophet by bombarding French and Italian artists and writers with letters about Dada’s activities.” Whatever Dada was, it wasn’t shy about promoting itself. ————————————————————————————————— Jack T. Chick Under the Microscope Jack T. Chick died yesterday at 92. His bizarre and evangelical “chick tracts” – found at the most desperate places in America; bus stops, subways and street corners everywhere – could probably be considered the most widely distributed mini-comics. Hundreds of Millions have been printed and distributed… His death is a significant comics death, in a hard to define way. His hate-filled messages will not be missed. The Enter the Jabberwock blog has taken the time to dissect and/or eviscerate a good deal of Jack T. Chick’s tract work. From the Dark Dungeons Revisited (Epic Tag-Team Gary Gygax Died For Your Sins Edition) post: The idea that “rock music” is somehow “occult paraphernalia” is pretty hilarious. It’s just these arbitrary designations for things that old, conservative-minded people find generally unpleasant. KNEE SOCKS ARE OCCULT PARAPHERNALIA. I DON’T LIKE PEANUT BUTTER. YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO PUT MORE CLOTHES ON. TELEVISION HAS TOO MANY COMMERCIALS. IT’S WAY TOO COLD IN HERE. LET’S BURN IT ALL. Share this page: [...]

07/07/2017

Sally IngrahamJuly 7, 2017NewsSally here with news and comics from Emily Flake, Eleanor Davis, Becky Cloonan, Karen Green, Ulli Lust, and more! ———————————————————————————————— The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has officially announced their acquisition of “113 pieces of original artwork by fifteen influential underground and alternative female cartoonists, donated by friend and longtime donor Scott Jonas.” “Included in this collection is work by Mary Fleener, Phoebe Gloeckner, Roberta Gregory, Dame Darcy, Nina Paley, Lynda Barry, Dori Seda, Shary Flenniken, Carol Lay, Leslie Sternbergh Alexander, Caryn Leschen, Nicole Hollander, Dot Bucher, Lee Binswanger, and Donna Barr. The collection consists of original drawings, cover art, multi-page stories, and comic strips, all created between 1975 and 2007. “We are very thankful to Scott Jonas, a comic collector with a great eye,” said curator Jenny Robb. “There is so much variety in this collection, but also a common theme. Each piece is an important contribution to the documentation of contemporary women creators in our collections, and in the context of alternative and underground comics.”“ Read more about the collection HERE! ———————————————————————————————— Jon Day reviews Eleanor Davis‘ You & a Bike & the Road (Koyama Press, 2017) for The New York Review of Books. The book is about Eleanor’s cross-country bike trip and is built from the diary comics she made along the way, “On a bike the road ceases to be an abstraction on the map but becomes a physical reality. There’s something inherently cinematic about the way you take in your surroundings on a bike, too, with sweeping pans, lingering close-ups, jump cuts as the lights change and you roll into gear. Perhaps one reason there are so few truly great films about cycling (Jørgen Leth’s documentary about the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic, A Sunday in Hell, and Sylvain Chomet’s animated The Triplets of Belleville being notable exceptions) is because the act of cycling—just sitting in the saddle and watching the world roll by—is itself more dynamic than any film can convey. … Comics lend themselves to representing how a cyclist sees: the flatness of the bird’s-eye-view map set in contrast to the scene-by-scene illustrations of Davis’s daily experience. We are pulled into Davis’s perspective, seeing from her position on the road as well as from a close third-person view as if slightly above.“ Read the rest of the review and see some excerpts from the comic HERE. For those readers who may not know, Becky Cloonan was the first woman to draw Batman in the main series, when she was a guest artist on an issue in 2012. Check out some of her pages and her thoughts on the project HERE. ———————————————————————————————— On The Comics Beat David Nieves reviews Becky Cloonan‘s upcoming collection By Chance or Providence (Image Comics, July 26th 2017). Containing three stories previously self-published by Becky, and with colors provided by Lee Loughridge, the collection startled and impressed the reviewer with it’s emotional intensity. “Getting back to what makes these tales unique. First, they aren’t for everyone. While they could certainly appeal to the crowd reading Gotham Academy, it’s not likely they’ll land with the audience reading Cloonan’s Punisher run. It speak’s to her ability as a well-rounded storyteller to be able to branch out and have created Shakespearean tales like these then move on to more traditional comics. The weight these characters carry is conveyed, not only through Cloonan’s sparse and effective use of dialogue but through the raw emotions the eyes everyone in these tales possesses. By Chance or Providence is your chance to read what goes on in the mind of a true metal loving storyteller like Becky Cloonan. Love stories that combine poignant comic style with rich dark Castlevaniaesque lore in a way that could only happen in these pages.“ Read the rest of the review HERE and look for this in stores later this month. ———————————————————————————————— Emily Flake has a comic strip in The New Yorker titled Things I’m Afraid My Daughter Will Be Doing in 2026. See one example above – for the rest, go HERE. ———————————————————————————————— Karen Green was on NPR’s “Meet the Expert” recently, talking about her two passions – ancient and medieval history, and comics. Karen Green is the Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University, and the Librarian for Ancient and Medieval History, so she certainly is an expert – check out the conversation HERE. You can read more about Karen’s “life in comics” by perusing Nick Sousanis’ 6 page story on her – HERE. ———————————————————————————————— Glynnis Fawkes details her daughter’s struggle with picking an outfit from a pile of clothes that may have once, maybe even last week, contained clothes we liked… – something we can all relate to – on Mutha Magazine HERE. ———————————————————————————————— Ulli Lust‘s most recent The Simple Stroll is pictured above. These strips appear in the English language German magazine EXBERLINER. Ulli collected the strip into a small riso booklet and brought copies to TCAF this year, so perhaps you will bump into a copy somewhere! Otherwise, keep up with the strip HERE. ———————————————————————————————— M. S. Harkness was visiting Pittsburgh this past week, here for a Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency. She checked out the Pittsburgh Comics Salon on Wednesday and got to meet some of the local zine and comics makers, and hung out with Audra Stang (a new member of the Pittsburgh scene!) and myself throughout her time in town. It’s great to have this kind of energy moving through the city, and the conversations that come out of meetings of minds like these are what keeps the form vibrant and evolving. Check out work by M. S. Harkness HERE and keep an eye out for her upcoming comic Tinderella. See what Audra Stang is up to HERE and follow her adventures in teach comics this summer via Instagram! ———————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 7-7-2017 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 7-7-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

06/26/2018

Aaron CockleJune 26, 2018NewsLatinx Comics; ECTO PETROL PATROL; Saltz on Art Shows; Handbook for/of Tyranny ————————————————————————————————— Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama In the Latinx comics community, there is much to celebrate today, with more Latinx comic book artists than ever before. The resplendent visual-verbal storyworlds of these artists reach into and radically transform so many visual and storytelling genres. Tales from la Vida celebrates this space by bringing together more than eighty contributions by extraordinary Latinx creators. Their short visual-verbal narratives spring from autobiographical experience as situated within the language, culture, and history that inform Latinx identity and life. Tales from la Vida showcases the huge variety of styles and worldviews of today’s Latinx comic book and visual creators. New Tongues Untied Samuel Teer (with Marina Julia), “MIXED” Amber Padilla, “Wongo-Wongo” Stephanie Villareal Murray, “A Veces Sueño en Español” Lila Quintero Weaver, “La Charla” Carlos “Loso” Pérez, “_______-American” Adam Hernandez, “No Time for Titles” Jandro (with DT Watson), “What Concerns Me” Dangerous Truths . . . Clearing New Identity Spaces Frederick Luis Aldama (with John Jennings), “It Could’ve Been . . .” Jaime Crespo, “White Shoulders” Breena Nuñez Peralta, “They Call Me Morena for a Reason” Roberta Gregory, “California Girl” Vicko, “El Entender” José Cabrera, “el cabrón” Serenity Serseción, “Latinx” Ivan Velez, “Que Significa?” John Jota Leaños (with Dustin García), “Kaleidoscopic Latinx Indigeneities” Zeke Peña, “A Nomad’s Heart” New Mythos Liz Mayorga, “Brainstorming Session” Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz, “The Witch’s Curse” Dustin Nathanial García, “Saved” Ilan Stavans (with Roberto Weil), “Rite of Passage” Daniel Parada, “A Cacaopera Tale” Myra Lara, “Forked-Tongued & Tongued-Tied” Raúl González, “New Citizen Conqueror” Kelly Fernandez, “The Ciguapa” Jaime Hernandez, “La Blanca” Eric Esquivel (with Macropoulos), “El ChupaSoyMilk” Jason “J-Gonzo” González, “My Life as a Pocho” Rico Cuatlacuatl, “Jaguar Warrior Astral Traveller” Betwixt & Between J. M. Hunter, “Lost in Triangulation” Gilbert Hernandez, “I’m Proud to Be an American Where at Least I Know I’m Free” Crystal González, “Latino in Disguise” Alberto Ledesma, “My Most Significant Moment as a Latino” Héctor Rodríguez, “Güerito” Rafael Rosado, “El Año Que Me Divi-di En Dos / The Year I Split in Two” Stephanie Rodriguez, “No Te Hagas La Pendeja” Bending Time, Space, and Forms Candy Briones, “The Mayan Prophesy” Eric J. García, “Chicano Codices Presents” Alejandro Juvera (with Jeremiah Lambert), “Where the Heart Is” Andrés Vera Martínez, “Down on the Riverbed” Mapache Studios Fernando and Rodrigo, “A Little Canción about My People” Fernando Balderas Rodriguez, “Aztec of the City: Behind the Beginning” Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, “Re-Membering” Bodies That Matter LeighAnna Hidalgo, “Reproductive Rebel” José Alaniz, “Mordido” Jules Rivera, “The Continuum” Theresa Rojas, “Melva” Celina Hernandez, “Prolactinoma” Jaime Cortez, “El Border Xing” Grasiela Rodriguez, “Tap Into Your True Self” Mike Centeno, “Being Here” Juan Argil, “Güero” Pop Cultura Is Nosotros David Olivarez, “Inspiration” Miguel “Miky” Ruiz, “The Day I Discovered My Alter Ego” John Gonzalez (with Julian Aguilera and Michele Gonzalez), “Borax Boys” Albert Morales, “Super Impacto vs. the World” Javier Hernandez, “Mexican-American Splendor” Ray Zepeda (with J. M. Hunter), “Nuevo Latino” Richard Dominguez, “Wanna Know How I Got Started?” Carlos Saldaña, “Birth of Burrito” Ricardo Padilla (with Javier Hernandez), “Mi Barrio, 1976” Dave Ortega, “Your Name Is the Rio Grande” Rafael Navarro, “Mi Voz” William Nericcio (with Guillermo Nericcio García), “A Mexican-American Semiotic Odyssey or Streets of Laredo Ex-Pat” Mark Campos, “Mi Destino Es Comprenderla y No Olivdarla” Kat Fajardo, “Gringa” Victor Avila, “One Time, One Night” David Herrera, “Commencement” Chris Escobar, “A Monstrous Life” John Picacio, “A New Loteria” ————————————————————————————————— ECTO PETROL PATROL 2018 New animation by Matthew Thurber ————————————————————————————————— A Modest Proposal: Break the Art Fair This is from a few weeks back, Jerry Saltz talking about the state of art fairs, small and large galleries, and staggering amounts of money. It’s hard to say if smaller galleries could do fairs without the bigger galleries but my guess is that most bigger galleries, once they see a smaller fair picking up speed will want a piece of that action too. The smaller galleries may have more power than they think if they band together, make demands, put pressure back on the big art fairs rather than dancing exclusively to the art fair tune. The NADA and Independent fairs are now doing this nicely; more well-curated medium and small gallery fairs sprouting up might provide viable alternatives to these galleries paying gigantic costs for little return. With all this in mind, I spoke to a number of part-owners, directors, and other functionaries of art fairs and asked whether art fairs can be fixed. All agree that things need fixing. The bad news is that I came away thinking that while I really like these people, they don’t really have the impulse to fix things because these are the things that work so well for them. Fairs as they are now aren’t broken, they say. I kept sputtering back, “They’re not broken for you yet.” ————————————————————————————————— Handbook of Tyranny New book of infographics by Theo Deutinger, via Jonathan Bell at Wallpaper. The breadth of information here is never less than fascinating. Discover which 14 countries ‘welcome every citizen from any country in the world with a valid passport without any visa restrictions,’ or the myriad designs for keeping people out (and in) of the world’s many contested and conflicted border zones. This is a graphic project rich in hidden history and unsavoury elements. Aficionados of graphic design will be fascinated by the iconographic breakdown of the flags and logos of the world’s most notorious terrorist groups, from ETA to ISIL, but the shock value of a refugee camp map of Africa is much greater. ————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 6-26-18 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

09/06/2016

Posted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016 by Aaron Cockle

Aaron here today with the Composition Competition Awards; Sophie Yanow in the Dakotas; Shaw/Nadel on U-tube; some pioneers of the comic strip; Kirby injustices revisited

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Congratulations to ALL who created and submitted work for this year’s Composition Competition contest!

First Place – $500 cash prize: Cameron Nicholson – For a Lack of Better Words

Second Place – $250 credit at Copacetic Comics: Shee Phon – I Know It’s Not About Me, But I Don’t Want To Die

Third Place – $100 credit at Copacetic Comics: Cameron Arthur – Oasis

Honorable Mention – $50 credit at Big Planet Comics: Lisa Wilkinson – The Last Time I Saw Tate; Janne Marie Dauer – Blame It On the Night Moves; Luke Howard – Extragalactic; Niall Breen – Śūnyatā

Special Prize – $25 credit at Copacetic Comics: Lina Madöry – Reflection

No Prize Shout Out!: Jillian Fleck – I Got A Job; Phillip Dokes – Falling

Congratulations to the winners and all of those who participated.

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Sophie Yanow is covering the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at the Nib:

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The Strand bookstore filmed last week’s conversation with Dash Shaw and Dan Nadel

In support of Shaw’s recently released Cosplayers book, for your viewing/listening enjoyment.

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Some updated exhibition info for the Pioneers of the Comic Strip show on view at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, through September 18:

With an extensive exhibition, SCHIRN presents the pioneers of the comic strip, who set the artistic and substantive standards of early comic strips in an experimental and progressive way. This also highlights the relationship of comic strips and colorful newspaper supplements with the developments in visual arts at the time. The SCHIRN presents the cultural history of the comic strip in an outstanding series of selected works, primarily by American illustrators: Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, Charles Forbell, George Herriman, Cliff Sterrett and Frank King.

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Asher Elbein writes about Jack Kirby’s history with Marvel Comics at the Atlantic:

In the mid-1970s, Congress revised the laws around copyright, offering longer periods of ownership for copyright holders—if the proper paperwork could be provided. Marvel realized that many of its previous contracts were legally questionable, remnants of the comics industry’s fly-by-night origins with regards to creative work. In 1978, the company began handing out freelancer contracts that guaranteed the company “forever all rights of any kind and nature in and to the work.” As Michael Dean wrote in a 2002 issue of The Comics Journal, these “work for hire” contracts were partly a result of the superhero boom Kirby himself had a hand in creating. “It wasn’t just monthly comic books that were at stake any more,” Dean wrote. “It was the vast ancillary potential of licensing and merchandising the content of those comics.” The contracts legally formalized what had previously been loosely assumed to be corporate policy, but having it in writing gave many comics freelancers pause for thought. When Kirby got the contract, he refused to sign it and left Marvel for good.

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September 6, 2016 at 8:02 pm

Um, is there a salon tomorrow @ Lili’s?

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Comics Workbook

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Aaron Cockle

Posted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016

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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: [...]

8/10/2016

Juan FernándezAugust 10, 2016NewsJuan here with your Spanish language comics news once more! Esta semana tenemos: Sofia Watson en @lapololapodcast; Tetas Tristes en el spotlight; Todo es Macanudo con Liniers en el Centro Cultural Borges; Informe. la antologia argentina del siglo 21; el Publicadero en Manizales; Revista Larva: Convocatoria para Publicar – La Colección Gusana; impresiones del 2º Encontro Lady’s Comics; un Space Riders Playlist via Alexis Ziritt. ————————————————————————————————— [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276717421″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Escucha @lapololapodcast, un podcast del cómic femenino con Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo! Este episodio os ofrece un entrevista con Sofía Watson, música colombiana y un nuevo concurso (deadline es el 15 de agosto!). ————————————————————————————————— Tetas Tristes Cómics un gran shout out al Colectivo Tetas Tristes – cuatro chicas dibujando, desde sus mundos internos feministas. Estan publicando fanzines antisexistas, montando exibiciónes, y ofreciendo talleres – son unas verderas killers jovenes. Dales un vistazo a sus blogs: en fb: https://www.facebook.com/tetastristescomics/ en tumblr: http://tetastristes.tumblr.com/ ————————————————————————————————— Todo es Macanudo con Liniers en el Centro Cultural Borges Antes de su gran salido de Argentina, Liniers ha recibido una exhibición de su arte en el Centro Cultural Borges en Buenos Aires. La fiesta continua hasta el 20 de septiembre, de lunes a domingos, de 10 a 21. A donde se va Liniers? Pues: Después de tantos libros propios y de poner en circulación libros de otros en la Editorial Común (en ese sello editó a Alberto Montt, Carlos Trillo, Gus Delisle, Nine y Kazu Kibuishi, entre tantos), después de algunas tapas de discos (Calamaro, Johansen) y una muy frecuente colaboración con Kevin Johansen, sostiene su tira Macanudo desde años en la nacion y está a punto de partir rumbo a Vermont, la ciudad adonde está The Center for Cartoon Studies. Fue invitado a ingresar en ese laboratorio de ideas para historietistas y allí permanecerá dos años con su familia. ————————————————————————————————— Gerardo Vilches reseña Informe. Historieta argentina del siglo XXI, de VVAA Vilches nos da un analísis A FONDO de esta antologia argentina! Al contrario, la frescura y la ruptura de las normas del relato clásico son signos presentes en cada historia de las que conforman Informe. También, lo decía al principio, se impone cierta distancia con el dibujo académico, para profundizar en estilos gráficos sintéticos, naif o simplemente anti naturalistas, sin preocuparse por conseguir una representación de la realidad que se haga pasar por la realidad en sí. El color es un elemento que, cuando se usa, también se aleja de lo naturalista para explotar su capacidad expresionista y emotiva. Sin embargo, esto no son más que rasgos muy generales que sirven tan sólo de punto de partida para analizar a un conjunto de artistas que se caracterizan, sobre todo, por su heterogeneidad. ————————————————————————————————— El Publicadero – COLOMBIA Ya viene el encuentro de Autoedición y Fanzines celebrado en el marco de la séptima Feria del Libro de Manizales del 2016. 30 de agosto al 4 de septiembre. It’s coming! ————————————————————————————————— Revista Larva: Convocatoria para Publicar – La Colección Gusana FECHA DE CIERRE: domingo 28 de agosto de 2016 a las 11:59 p.m. A comienzos de este año presentamos una colección de fanzines de cómic y dibujo. La hemos llamada Gusana. Su objetivo en este mundo: abrir un espacio para autores de cómic que busquen un espacio de publicación y promoción para trabajos que ya tengan hechos pero que no hayan salido a la luz todavía. La prima menor de nuestra LARVA se prepara para su próxima aparición, el segundo número de la colección, y buscamos un(a) autor(a) para darle vida. ————————————————————————————————— Impresiones sobre el 2º Encontro Lady’s Comics Katherine Supnem tiene un gran recap del Encontro en el blog Comic, Genero, Femenismo. Si quieren ver otra perspectiva sobre este gran evento Manzanna nos dio sus impresiones del encontro la semana pasada AQUI en Comics Workbook. Katherine Supnem: Lo que más me llamó la atención fue la labor formativa y recopilatoria que inspiraba el evento. Estaban muy interesadas en transmitir contenido, fuerza, autogestión y lucha, ya que es difícil en toda latinoamérica ser autora de cómic, aunque ya no estemos en los 90. Además de tener un registro de otros colectivos brasileños de historietas donde sólo participen mujeres, lesbianas o trans. Para eso tenían un mapa de Brasil donde los colectivos se iban anotando para ser registrados en la historia de las comiqueras Brasileñas. No era necesario ser feminista para estar ahí, algo así como militar, porque ya es muy feminista ser artista y autora de historietas, como le oí decir a Sole Otero en nuestra Charla. A veces es difícil darle tiempo a las lecturas filosóficas que requiere el feminismo, como lo hablamos con Mariela, pero lo fundamental es comenzar a cambiar nuestras propias vidas autoconvocándonos y organizándonos junto a otras mujeres. ————————————————————————————————— Space Riders – the Playlist: BLAST YERR ASS OFF Alexis Ziritt has put together a loud, galaxy spanning mix of tunes that’ll get you tuned to the Space Riders frequency real quick. Gives these tracks a spin, if you’re up for adventure. ————————————————————————————————— hasta la proxima! JF Share this page: [...]

05/02/2017

Aaron CockleMay 2, 2017NewsAaron here today with Risography!, Kickstarter(s) of Note; Anthologies of Europa; The Necrophilic Landscape; Fax Art; Jacob Khepler. ————————————————————————————————— A p-shop airbrush set to “dissolve” Frank Santoro continues to look at recent use and development of comics printed on Risograph machines. This time around he talks with John Pham: I’ve noticed risograph printers have “meet-ups,” little fairs and conventions. I imagine it is like any other subculture, however this one interests me because of the direct connection to book making. It reminds me of zine culture and comics fandom in a way. Can you speak to how risograph printers are different than other printers, beyond obvious differences in materials? I’ve got a lot respect for the other Riso printers out there, folks like Mickey Z, Colour Code, George Wietor and Sarah McNeil. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a really sloppy and brutal printer. Printing my books is one of the last steps in my process and at that point I’m usually pretty sleep deprived and grouchy. So I kinda just shove the books through the printer and try to troubleshoot as I go along. This sort of urgency probably creates its own aesthetic but I’m definitely not as knowledgeable or precise as a lot of the printers mentioned above. I think the differences between riso printers and other kinds of printers is pretty negligible, but they’re likely to be more inclined to focus on holistic book making than, say, just prints and covers. ————————————————————————————————— Tiny Report and Retrofit Comics 2 contemporary comics institutions are currently Kickstarting publishing endeavors: Robyn Chapman’s Paper Rocket Minicomics continues its increasingly vital small press efforts, with plans to publish the annual micro-press yearbook, The Tiny Report, as well as the second issue of Colin Lidston’s Age of Elves, for its Spring 2017 line-up. Retrofit Comics is gathering funds for another super-ambitious collection of comics: Combed Clap of Thunder by Zach Hazard Vaupen Steam Clean by Laura Ķeniņš How To Be Alive by Tara Booth Iceland by Yuichi Yokoyama Tales from the Hyperverse by Will Cardini TRUMPTRUMP vol. 1: nomination to inauguration by Warren Craghead III ————————————————————————————————— ‘In this context, the works are comics, sequential art, visual narrative, comics-adjacent storytelling, informatics and some other lumpy labels for stuff that tells a story with pictures.’ Elsewhere on the CW site, Matt Rhodes writes about European comics anthologies: Through the 1920s, there was a series of art journals and publications put out by various art groups in Europe: de Stilj, Dada, Cannibale, Le Couer, Cabaret Voltaire. Due to modern advances in printing technology, it is easier to self-publish zines with better production values. But it’s also interesting to note that the impulse to run an amateur publication of random stuff is perfectly normal. There’s a certain amount of debate regarding how and when the cartooning tradition in Western Europe became the comics tradition of Western Europe. Some point to the broadsheets of the 17 century that introduced the twin concepts of anthologies and episodic storytelling as a precursor to modern sequential art. But it’s more likely that comics as we know them grew up during the 19th Century. And anthologies were an important part of that maturation. ————————————————————————————————— “No one would expect that these two figures are in fact a single man: the fearless detective Lucas Barrette.” Greg Hunter reviews Tracy Auch’s excellent The Necrophilic Landscape over at TCJ: Despite being, unrelentingly, an art comic, The Necrophilic Landscape isn’t shy about utilizing genre conventions. Pulpy, ironic narration describes the detective’s quest, the sort that would not have been on a ’40s radio serial: “No one would expect that these two figures are in fact a single man: the fearless detective Lucas Barrette.” (The detective, for his part, bears a sideways resemblance to McGruff the Crime Dog.) The children’s means of infiltrating the adult world echoes the comedy trope of two kids walking one atop the other in a single large coat. And the story’s dystopian trappings provide a context for Barrette’s fantastical procedure. But the most compelling generic element is one the story shares with horror: the protagonist, Barrette, stands for order and orthodoxy, with the story’s antagonists, the children, deviating from that orthodoxy—and readers are likely to empathize with the antagonists to a degree that the protagonist does not. (By the end of the comic, Barrett hasn’t assumed the role of villain, but he doesn’t have much of a defense to offer on behalf of the prevailing order.) ————————————————————————————————— Fax Machines and Their Discontents For those interested in showing dissatisfaction with the recent talk about the National Endowment for the Arts de-funding, and who are also able to access a fax machine, and who also want to be artistic about it, Claire Voon at Hyperallergic has a piece about organizations contacting United States Congresspeople via fax: The process may sound archaic in 2017, but as Kathryn Schulz recently wrote for The New Yorker, faxes do reach congressional representatives. They get entered into a “constituent-management system” like any other message, and staffers will read each one. And as Schulz reported, personalized forms of material communication actually have more sway on a lawmaker’s opinion than a phone call. Faxing a message may take much more time — but that’s why services like Artifax are particularly handy for amplifying your concerns while adding a little creative flair to your political activism. ————————————————————————————————— Jacob Khepler‘s run at the Outline has ended, but he has preserved the column he wrote weekly from Dec. 2016-April 2017 HERE. Never one to lose momentum, he is currently working on editing a Mothers News collection book among other projects. ————————————————————————————————— A Cosmic Journey – 5-2-2017 – by Cameron Arthur ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 5-2-2017 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 5-2-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

08/16/2017

Juan FernándezAugust 16, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el día con el octavo Festival Entreviñetas; Mario Levrero; Flor Monfort; Clitóris: Relatos gráficos para Femininjas; Pablo Turnes; Amadeo Gandolfo; Libreria PUNC; Roberta Vázquez; Fanzination! en el Institut Valencià d’Art Modern; Joaquín Guirao sobre CF; y los tebeos de Cómics Workbook! ————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————— Historietas, el eslabón recuperado de Mario Levrero Álvaro de la Iglesia nos ofrece un refleccíon sobre el artisto uruguayo, Mario Levrero. En casi todas las biografías que pueden leerse por ahí (incluso en las solapas de sus libros) se incurre en el error de presentarnos a Levrero, no como al artista conceptual que fue, sino como un autor polivalente que escribió, sacó fotos, y se dedicó al cine y a las historietas. Como si todo no partiera de una misma cosa, en definitiva: la necesidad espiritual plasmada en la manifestación artística. Decir que Levrero fue, entre tantísimas cosas, guionista de comics, parece no hacerle justicia a Levrero como artista de conceptos. Más correcto sería decir que era un escritor pero, sobre todo, un artista que cultivó varios géneros en pos de una inquietud y no de un mercado específico (¿o acaso alguien tilda a Osvaldo Lamborghini de guionista de historietas, a causa de aquella que hiciera con Gustavo Trigo en 1972, ¡Marc!?) Ahora bien: hasta el día de hoy, para muchos de los seguidores de la obra de Levrero (Levrero el novelista, a diferencia de Varlotta el guionista), las historietas seguían siendo el eslabón perdido. Tanto sus ilustraciones más personales (él no era dibujante, pero lo mismo dibujaba) como las historietas más ambiciosas hechas en colaboración con ese gran dibujante uruguayo llamado Lizán (Edgardo Lizasoain) -publicadas en la primera época de Fierro y Superhumor- pedían a gritos una edición para los fanáticos del escritor. Criatura Editora, el sello uruguayo que suele publicar e Levrero en su país de origen- recoge el guante y nos ofrece este hermoso y necesario volumen titulado Historietas Reunidas de Jorge Varlotta, donde descubrimos varias facetas más de arte levreriano, en este caso decididamente visuales, aunque totalmente en sintonía con su obra literaria. Léanlo todo AQUI. ————————————————————————————————— Los cómics y las noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Flor Monfort les reseña y contextualiza Clitóris: Relatos gráficos para Femininjas. “Humor gráfico y reflexiones feministas recogidas en un arco de tiempo que va del 2010 a la actualidad, con los cambios y atravesamientos que sufrió el movimiento de mujeres y lgbt en estos últimos siete años. Un corpus que permite discutir relaciones de poder, roles, estereotipos desde la gráfica y el texto y, también, una apuesta política y una invitación al orgasmo.” Hay un nuevo bloque del taller de lectura de Pablo Turnes (@blopaturnes) y Amadeo Gandolfo (@kingmob84) en Libreria PUNC (@punclibreria) en Argentina. Entrevista a la dibujante y autoeditora Roberta Vázquez (@bobbypatata) por Javi Godoy ¿Qué hace un fanzine como tú en un museo como este?: nace la fanzinoteca del Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) – “Fanzination!, la exposición con la que da por inaugurada una fanzinoteca que se pone en marcha con una colección de 2.109 ejemplares donados por el experto Álvaro Pons” ¿Es CF el autor más influyente en España del que nadie habla o dice que le ha influenciado? Ni idea de porqué se dá este fenómeno: Joaquín Guirao ————————————————————————————————— OJO: La gran editorial, Fulgencio Pimentel, os ofrece unas rebajas maravillosamente filthy – válida solo durante una semana larga, del 8 al 18 de agosto, y hasta fin de existencias. Si quieres ampliar tu coleccíon con unos de los cómics publicados en España. La Semana de la Mugre incluye devoluciones de librerías y ejemplares de exposición que han vuelto a casa después de mucho jaleo; es decir, son libros que han visto mundo, libros más sabios, libros que miran de frente como Ramoncín. Solo por eso, durante unos días estarán disponibles aquí con un descuento de entre el 40% y el 60%. El cruel azar determinará si su ejemplar de usted solo tiene un doblez en una esquinita o muestra signos de haber sido sodomizado por Satán. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 8-16-2017 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 8-16-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

02/21/2018

Juan FernándezFebruary 21, 2018los Cómics / NewsJuan empieza el dia con Las chicas del lápiz, y más! ————————————————————————————————— Ilustradoras Colombianas: las chicas del lápiz Semana gives us a grand survey of many of the women shining in Colombia’s comics and illustration world. Obviously, this is only a sampling, but it serves to show he fertility of contemporary comics making and illustration in Colombia. Las ilustradoras, historietistas y dibujantes colombianas están conquistando públicos a manos llenas. Powerpaola presentará la película “Virus tropical”, basada en su primera novela gráfica, en la Berlinale. Los libros de Amalia Andrade se han convertido en fenómenos de masas. Y detrás de ellas vienen muchas más. SEMANA habló con algunas de ellas. Hop on over to and get hep to likes of La Watson, Lady Bíonica Mariana Gil Rios and company: ————————————————————————————————— El Colectivo de Autoras de Cómic trabaja por la justa valoración de autoras e ilustradoras en la esfera pública: Por todo lo anteriormente apuntado, así como por lo especificado en la Ley de Igualdad*, que apoyamos la iniciativa del Grupo parlamentario Unidos Podemos-En Comú Podem-En Marea para presentar una proposición no de ley (PNL) sobre ilustradoras y autoras de cómic, tebeo y novela gráfica para su debate en la Comisión de Igualdad. El objetivo es instar al Gobierno, en colaboración con las Comunidades Autónomas, a la creación de un plan de visibilización y un plan de lucha contra la precariedad de las mujeres profesionales del sector del tebeo, el cómic y la ilustración, en particular; y abrir el debate sobre la situación del citado sector, en general. ————————————————————————————————— Los cómics y las noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: ~ en Español ~ El último #FanzineMagazine está dedicado enteramente a Arséne Schrauwen, obra del belga Olivier Schrauwen editada por Fulgencio Pimentel. Escúchalo aquí:. Elizabeth Casillas escribe “Sobre contextos, libertad de expresión y el noviazgo entre artista y espectador” en Revista Cactus. El historietista argentino que triunfa en Europa y fue prohibido en Canadá – Berliac charla con La Nacion y da una gran entrevista con Fantastic Mag. ————————————————————————————————— Collected from the thousands of pages of material that Frank has left scattered all over the digital landscape, these 4 PDF collections contain Frank’s best writing on comics and comics making from the past decade. Theory and process, reviews and discoveries, journeys both physical and spiritual. Check out the “Best of Frank Santoro” PDF collections, available HERE! ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 02-21-2018 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 02-21-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

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