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Juan Fernández

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Juan FernándezNovember 9, 2016los Cómics / NewsJuan con un poquito sobre: GRAF Madrid; Chicks on Comics;Animal Collective. Nuevas iniciativas en el cómic europeo; el Festival Furioso de Dibujo; the 2016 FUERZA Awardees. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡ Antes que todo, quiero compartir unas buenas noticias: I’m extremely honored to have been chosen as one of the 2016 FUERZA Awardees here in Pittsburgh! I’ve been here doing my best to make Pittsburgh a city where self-publishing and comics making foster an equitable and inspiring community. It’s really nice to feel that others are feeling the impact of what we’re building here. Para ustedes que no vivan en Pittsburgh, The FUERZA Awards bring visibility to the Pittsburgh Latinx leadership. “The 2016 FUERZA Awardees reflect a true dedication to culture, to pride, to hard work and to the possibility of creating a community that reflects our values, our identities and our histories. Latinx have never been one to shy away from challenges. And we are here, contributing to make the Pittsburgh region a more vibrant, a more equitable and more just place for all who call it home.” If you’re in town next week, Come celebrate with me and the rest of the awardees next Friday NOV. 18TH, 5-8PM at ALLOY 26 – there’ll be food, n dancing, n zines! en español y ingles! https://www.facebook.com/events/989303767862057/ ————————————————————————————————— ⚡GRAF – Madrid Es este fin de semana! Sera el punto de encuentro con el cómic de autor y la edición independiente. Ya puede consultarse la programación y el listado de expositores de #GRAFMadrid2016 que tendrá lugar del 11 al 13 de noviembre de 2016 en Madrid. talleres, musica, encuentros, feria de libros… es obvio que el equipo Mireia Pérez, Iñaki Sanz, Borja Crespo, Gerardo Vilches y Pedro Toro estan montando un monstruo de comics y fanzine fest… GRAF Madrid 2016: 11,12 y 13 de noviembre en @MuseoABC ————————————————————————————————— ⚡ Por primera vez se presenta en Proa el colectivo “Chicks on Comics”, integrado por Bas, Clara Lagos, Delius, Julia Homersham, Maartje Schalkx, Powerpaola y Sole Otero, siete mujeres historietistas de la Argentina, Colombia, Holanda y Nueva Zelanda, quienes desde 2008 exploran los recursos narrativos del cómic como medio de comunicación e intercambio, utilizando plataformas virtuales el grupo produce diálogos, publicaciones y exhibiciones para dar visibilidad a mujeres historietistas y promover el intercambio y el diálogo entre las disciplinas afines a la historieta y sus diversos públicos. Te digo que va a ser increíble! Diciembre 2016 – Marzo 2017 Fundación PROA Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929 La Boca, Caminito Buenos Aires Argentina ————————————————————————————————— ⚡ Mireia Pérez ha compartido su impresiones de la nueva exibicion, Animal Collective. Nuevas iniciativas en el cómic europeo en Centro Centro, Madrid. Léelo y visitálo! Se me ocurre que el cómic puede tener más que ver con la danza que con la literatura. Especialmente el que se aleja de las estructuras narrativas más convencionales y se acerca a lo abstracto. Lo secuencial aporta una nueva dimensión al dibujo y la composición gráfica juega un papel importante en cuanto al ritmo. El texto (o el gesto), cuando sucede, termina de dotar a las obras con un significado dramático humano directo. En el prólogo de Best American Comics 2015, el crítico y editor Bill Kartalopoulos agradece especialmente la participación de Raymond Pettibon en dicha antología con piezas que, por su forma, se han calificado como cómics. Encajan así en una categoría inventada por el propio Kartalopoulos de forma privada y bautizada como “paracomics” donde también entraría la obra de artistas como Sol Lewitt, Ida Applebroog, Jennifer Barlett, Keith Haring, Duane Michals o Joe Brainard. Explica también que durante décadas los cómics y sus creadores han trabajado en paralelo al mundo del arte contemporáneo mientras que hoy muchos jóvenes autores, con las lecciones del arte de los siglos XX y XXI digeridas, están produciendo cómics que tienen más parentesco con los “paracomics” que con muchas de las obras que históricamente han caracterizado al medio. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡ Entre ayer y el viernes se realizará en Plataforma Lavardén una nueva edición del Festival Furioso de Dibujo,. Una muestra colectiva sobre ciudades imaginadas, mesa editorial de sellos y autores rosarinos, charlas y talleres a cargo de reconocidos ilustradores esperan ser descubiertos. Ayer salio una nota sobre el festival en el diario Diario La Capital – Rosario esta toda la información de las actividades: El festival surgió en 2014, cuando un grupo de dibujantes o más bien de gente a la que le interesaba el dibujo comenzó a reunirse más o menos regularmente. “La idea del festival, justamente, es reunirse, aunque sea una vez al año, intercambiar experiencias, tomar talleres, ver el trabajo de otros y mostrar el propio y discutirlo, pensamos el dibujo como un punto de encuentro y en eso tratamos de que el espacio que brindamos sea lo más amplio posible”, explica Vane Saucedo, una de las organizadoras del festival junto a María Luque, María Victoria Rodríguez García, Romina Biassoni, Giselle Feuillade, Pipah, Jazmín Varela, Alina Calzadilla, Flopa, Lucía Seisas, M. Luz Preumayr y José Sainz. ————————————————————————————————— ⚡Echale un vistazo a este medallón estilo Pompeii! “Le encargué a la gran Airi Maeno que hiciera unos medallones de plata con sede fuera de mis dibujos. Este dibujo viende de mi libro Pompeii. Es algo que puedo imaginar que alguien se pondría hace dos mil años. Un simple medallón de un ser querido. Un retrato. Algo permanente para desafiar a la desaparición”. – Frank Santoro Puedes comprar uno aquí! hasta la proxima! Juan Share this page: [...]

South Beloit, IL Scene Report

South Beloit, IL Scene Report

Frank SantoroNovember 13, 2011Riff Raff / Scene ReportsHey everybody – this week’s scene report is brought to you by the formidable John Porcellino. Johnny P could write scene reports for half the country cuz he’s probably been to your scene. And he probably made you feel like you aren’t doing enough – just by his example alone. And you know what? You probably aren’t. A real traveler if there ever was one – these days he calls South Beloit, Illinois home. Where? Yeah, I know. I had never heard of it either. INTERMISSION FUNNIES with MICHAEL DEFORGE South Beloit Scene Report By John Porcellino In November of 2010, after a series of unfortunate life choices, I found myself living in a small, semi-rural town on the Illinois-Wisconsin border– South Beloit (Pop. 8401). Longtime readers of my comics may recall that I’ve occasionally fantasized about living in some small, cheap, out-of-the-way town, where I could afford to focus on my art with few distractions and financial worries. Well, one thing I’ve learned by living in South Beloit: Be careful what you wish for! South Beloit is on the Illinois side, about 20 miles north of Rockford (once the state’s second largest city, now home to 12.1% unemployment), and about an hour south of Madison, Wisconsin. There are few cultural resources in South Beloit, aside from Miss Vikki’s Famous Ribs, and the Public Library, which features on its meager shelves six volumes of comic-related material (Complete Bone, and various how to draw Manga/Superheroes books). Luckily, the Rockford Library and the nearby Roscoe-Loves Park Library District both honor my hard-won South Beloit Library Card. The Rockford Library features a pretty nice array of comics in book form, including most of the output of Fantagraphics and IDW, Abrams, and the other usual suspects. They even have a copy of Perfect Example, though it’s locked away in the “Teen Use” chamber, which is only open during “hours in which teens may be expected to make use” of it (meaning 3PM to closing, weekdays), and which forbids adults from using it unless the materials within cannot be found elsewhere in the library stacks. Suffice it to say, I made much use of the Rockford Public Library during the endless winter of 2010-2011. The Roscoe Library has a couple shelves of comics-related material, mostly along the lines of “How to Draw Animals Manga Style,” with only a few titles actually devoted to comics to read, including a handful of Calvin and Hobbes collections, and the Don Martin Anthology. Loves Park (a Rockford suburb) fares better, with a decent selection of comics, as well as books on comics. Across the border in Beloit, Wisconsin, their new library building houses an excellent selection of comics, though, as an Illinois resident, I’m unable to check out materials there. There are no bookstores to speak of in the region, with the exception of the Beloit College Bookstore, which has a very small rack of the usual generic-looking manga. (The Borders in Rockford closed recently. There is a Barnes & Noble somewhere in a mall in Rockford, but I’ve yet to visit it.) There are, however, a number of comics specialty shops in the area. The ones I visit most frequently are Top Cut Comics in Loves Park, and AK Comics in Beloit. Top Cut Comics is a large storefront on North Second Street, the main north-south drag through Loves Park, heading into Rockford. It’s situated next to the local Salvation Army, and across from a liquor store with a delightful vintage neon sign (“House of Bottles”). When you walk in the door you face a small rack of new comics, as well as a selection of kid-friendly comics. The main space is divided into sections for comics, role-playing and board games, and action figures. Two side rooms, one with tables for gaming, and one that houses their extensive back issue collection, are located on the edges of the store. Along the wall, behind the counter, are collectible comics and colorful superhero branded T-shirts. There’s one store-long rack of recent pamphlet comics, one store-long shelf of miscellaneous trade paperbacks and collections, and a couple shelves devoted mainly to the DC/Marvel Archive/Masterworks hardcovers series, but with a smattering of other independent titles among them. The staff is always super nice. They even agreed to place a display of my comics on their counter, and have managed to sell a few here and there. I asked Mike, who I believe is the manager, if he had any news to relay to readers of the Journal website, and he mentioned just that the DC relaunch had done very well for them, that he had ordered extras of all titles, and had sold out of nearly everything. AK Comics, in Beloit, is located in a strip mall near the interstate, alongside a GNC, a shoe store, and a Staples. It’s a small shop, but clean, and well organized. The owner, David, has always been helpful and friendly, even pulling and holding some Marvel monster reprints from his stash at home for me because he knew I liked them. He also agreed to display a small selection of King-Cat titles on his counter, but unfortunately none have sold to date. The store features a rack or two of new pamphlet comics, a couple tables of back issues, and several shelves of paperback and hardcover superhero collections. A table in the center of the shop is reserved for gaming. There’s a wall of collectible comics behind the counter, and action figures and other paraphernalia line the remaining walls. When I asked David for news, he also replied that the DC relaunch had been a huge success, not only in terms of sales, but also in customer satisfaction, including a couple readers who were Marvel-Only before the relaunch. In my year in South Beloit I’ve managed to meet a few cartoonists with ties to the area. Kevin Singles was raised in Beloit, Wisconsin, attended the comics program at Savannah College of Art and Design, and currently resides in Austin, Texas. But he was in town for the summer, working on his debut book (for First Second), illustrating a hard-boiled comic called Head Games, written by the novelist Craig McDonald. He’s also been working on his own title, Tension. Then, a few weeks ago, I was wandering around downtown Beloit at night, looking in the windows of the College Bookstore, when I saw a flyer for, of all things, a signing by a graphic novelist! This I had to check out. I went down the following Saturday for the signing, by a South Beloit native (and, inexplicably, a Packers fan), Brent Schoonover. A graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s comics program (and currently a St. Paul resident) he was signing copies of his latest book, Mr. Murder Is Dead (Archaia Entertainment, written by Victor Quinaz). I shook his hand and said I couldn’t believe there was a cartoonist from South Beloit, and he said, “Yeah…” I have kind of half-jokingly suggested to a few friends here and there that I might try to organize the First Annual South Beloit Zine Fest– and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. If I do, come on out and visit. We’ll have lunch at Miss Vikki’s and talk about comic books. Share this page: [...]

Sally IngrahamAugust 25, 2016NewsSally here, bringing you a look at some of Pittsburgh’s born or borrowed cartoonists (Ed Piskor, Yona Harvey, Ben Sears) as well as another read through that Trevor Von Eeden interview. ————————————————————————————————— Yona Harvey is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh – and Marvel’s first black female writer. She is working on a 10-page story for the upcoming Black Panther spin-off series, World of Wakanda. “Harvey says, as a poet, she’s always considered herself a visual thinker, and explained how poets, like comic writers, have to condense life into as few words as possible. “I think it’s more in the thinking, like when you’re a poet you do sort of shrink moments,” she said. “A lot can happen across the day, from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed. There’s something about when you’re a poet, you’re able to sort of zero in on very specific moments, maybe the most tense or terse moments of the day, and I like putting that way of thinking to use for a comic. Because you do have to be super precise.” Though the writing shares some craft elements, the audience crossover between poetry and comics isn’t one-to-one, according to Harvey. “I’ve had friends who have said, ‘Man, it’s been years since I’ve read a comic book,’ or ‘I’ve never read a comic book and this’ll be the first time that I’m reading a comic,’ and that’s really exciting to think about poets who are reading comics for the first time,” she said.“ Read the rest of the article HERE and keep an eye out for this series soon (the bulk of which has been written Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, with artwork by Alitha Martinez and Afua Richardson.) ————————————————————————————————— Ed Piskor‘s Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 4 was featured on NPR recently – Etelka Lehoczky wrote about the “bubbles” in the work, “phenomena that inexorably head skyward, pop suddenly and create a roiling surface“, or the numerous artists who kept the stew at the boil throughout ’84 and ’85. She revels in Piskor’s use of color, always part of the wonder of these books. Check out the whole thing HERE. Another Piskor-related thing that’s been on my mind is this picture that showed up on his Instagram a few weeks ago. What gives?! Giant HHFT cover burner on the wall at the Smithsonian in DC. A photo posted by Ed Piskor (@ed_piskor) on Aug 1, 2016 at 12:08pm PDT I know where I’ll be headed in the summer of 2018…! Ed Piskor has always been an unstoppable force, quietly conquering the world, and now with the announcement last week that Hip Hop Family Tree will soon be an animated TV series (yes you heard me right! – check it out HERE) – it seems like the world has noticed and won’t soon be forgetting. ————————————————————————————————— Ben Sears is in Pittsburgh this week for a Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency – which of course includes field trips to Copacetic Comics to look for treasures with Frank. Check out Ben’s book Night Air (Koyama Press, May 2016) and stay tuned for more of his Rowhouse adventures! ————————————————————————————————— Last week we mentioned the incredible interview with Trevor Von Eeden, and if you haven’t gotten a chance to read it yet, here’s your reminder. There was one detail from the interview that’s worth another look. There’s a yet unpublished – “…Black Lightning/Superman comic book called Sources commissioned by DC Comics, written by new Batman writer Tom King especially for Von Eeden to draw when he was both undergoing and recovering from cancer surgery.” – Rich Johnson via Bleeding Cool Find more of Von Eeden’s artwork (below) for this future project HERE. Also be sure to give Trevor Von Eeden’s Kickstarer campaign for the series The Hard Code (with Ramon Gil) a look! ————————————————————————————————— This is Sally signing off – Harrison will be back with your Thursday music choices next week! Share this page: [...]

Aaron CockleNovember 27, 2018NewsVERY LATE EDITION: Roz Chast; Christoph Niemann; Katie Fricas; IN THE LABYRINTH ————————————————————————————————— SVA Honors Roz Chast With 30th Annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition November 17-December 15 SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, NYC Artist’s Talk: Wednesday, November 28, 7-9pm Chast’s interest in drawing started when she was a young child growing up in Brooklyn, where she learned to use art as a way to make sense of an anxiety-inducing world. She once told an interviewer, “On every level I feel like anything horrible can happen at any moment.” Early on in her career, her nervousness even found expression in her chosen scale. “I used to work really tiny,” she says. “I thought if I worked small, nobody would mind me that much. If I take up as little space as possible, then everything will be okay, nobody will get mad at me.” ————————————————————————————————— CHRISTOPH NIEMANN: HOPES AND DREAMS November 13-December 21 ZieherSmith, 505-507 West 27th Street, Suite 5, NYC In November 2017, artist Christoph Niemann flew from Berlin to Los Angeles at the invitation of his Zurich publisher, Philipp Keel, under the auspices of meeting David Hockney. Anybody who knows the first thing about Christoph Niemann (from his many New Yorker covers, museum exhibitions, children’s books, “Abstract Sunday” his New York Times blog and Instagram account, TED Talk, apps or any of the many other ways he manifests as a contemporary visual voice) knows that under his scrutiny, even the most mundane task can turn into something altogether peculiar, altogether special, as if to say everything can be enlightening. ————————————————————————————————— A Graphic Tribute to Anne Sexton Katie Fricas at the NY Times. ————————————————————————————————— CELEBRATING ‘THE LABYRINTH’ BY SAUL STEINBERG On Tuesday, November 27, at 7pm, join us at Powerhouse Arena (28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY) for a celebration of the reissue of Saul Steinberg’s remarkable graphic work The Labyrinth, available from NYR Comics. Liana Finck, Françoise Mouly, and Joel Smith will be in a conversation moderated by Bill Kartalopolous. ————————————————————————————————— Cement Mixer – 11-27-18 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

Juan FernándezDecember 21, 2016los Cómics / NewsJuan con un poquito sobre Sandwich Mixto, Save the Fanzine, el primer encuentro de auto-editoras del cómic realizado por mujeres feministas “COMIQUERAS”, GRAF busca voluntarios, Alexis Ziritt y Fabian Rangel Jr., Tenderete 13, Inés Estrada y más! Hace un año oir hablar de Sandwich Mixto. Estaba en ruta desde Madrid a Zaragoza y alguien en el tren me conto sobro una fanzine-o-teca en el mercado San Antón Martín. No entendi bien como funcionaba, pero me recorde el nombre, Sandwich Mixto. Hasta enero del 2015, Sandwich Mixto fue un estudio de diseño, fanzinería y bar que se encuentraba en uno de los puestos del Mercado de Antón Martín, uno de los más antiguos y tradicionales de Madrid. Hoy en dia es mejor pensar en Sandwich Mixto como una isla móvil. Es a la vez una editorial, taller y estudio de arte y estudio de diseño. Virginia de Diego – Nacimos como una iniciativa –valga la redundancia– mixta, cuyo objetivo es la creación, distribución y difusión de la cultura local, independiente y de calidad (de a lo largo y ancho de nuestra geografía), estando enfocada especialmente en las prácticas editoriales independientes, su gráfica y metodología, o aquellas en las que el formato libro es algo más que un libro. El año pasado se mudaron desde aquí… Hasta aquí Quieres aprender más? Leé te esta entrevista en Fanzinant o sientate un ratito con Virginia de Diego y disfruta lo que fue Sandwich Mixto. Imaginate con una birra en la mano y un fanzine fresco en la otra! Un proyecto, muy especial, que el equipo de Sandwich Mixto mantiene en línea, es SAVE THE FANZINE. Pienso que la siguiente cita es muy interesante con respeto a la idea del fanzine, la autoedicion y como creamos sentido de nuestras vidas. “Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It’s all just clamour and confusion. It only becames a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections. That we speak again and again to ourselves or to others. First, creating the narrative of our lives, and keeping the story from dissolving into the darkness…” Nick Cave, 20.000 Days on Earth SAVE THE FANZINE is a digital and online archive for self-published books. Not intended to replace the physical object, its purpose is to pay homage to the self-publising culture and to record these unique publications. It’s a killer record of contemporary zine making in Spain! Make an account and take dip. Water’s fine. Ponte a explorar, estos fanzines son increíbles. Este proyecto es una joya que no deja de darme inspiración. Cómics y noticias que me han llamado la atencion: TRUEKBLOG comenta sobre el primer encuentro de auto-editoras del cómic realizado por mujeres feministas “COMIQUERAS” en Santiago, Chile GRAF busca voluntarios para su próxima edición en Barcelona #GRAFBCN2017 Alexis Ziritt y Fabian Rangel Jr. se reunen para traernos SPACE RIDERS GALAXY OF BRUTALITY #1 -scheduled to debut this March now has an online preview! Dale un vistazo. Tenderete 13 se acerca en Valencia, España! Han anunciado los participantes. Puedes encontrarlos en su tumblr. Tendra lugar el 4 y 5 de Enero. Inés Estrada ha compartido un trozito de su cómic, Alienación #1. Leélo y compra #1-#3 si te gusta! From Comics Workbook: Suzy and Cecil 12-21-16 by Sally Ingraham ⚡️Comics Workbook anuncia el comienzo del semestre de invierno del Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers – el curso empieza 29.21.2016! Curso de 8 semanas – 500 dolares – 10 estudiantes – presentate para el curso! Email santoroschoolATgmail for more details. Direcciones para la Solicitud de Ingreso al Santoro School : -3 figure drawings done on blank 3″ x 5″ index cards -3 landscape drawings done on blank 3″ x 5″ index cards -3 still life drawings done on blank 3″ x 5″ cards -draw in a contour line style – Think Matisse – no under-drawing – draw directly in ink -just send small jpgs of images – dont post to your blog pls -specific url links to any comics work you have done. Manda tu solicitud a: santoroschoolATgmail hasta la proxima, juan Share this page: [...]

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Comics Workbook

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Aaron CockleJune 20, 2017NewsAaron Cockle here today with Lauren Weinstein; Jillian Tamaki; Ad Reinhardt; Georgia O’Keeffe; Kriota Willberg; Snail Farm & Friends Book Fair ————————————————————————————————— Normel Person Lauren Weinstein continues her strong run of weekly strips at the Village Voice. ————————————————————————————————— ‘Each story shifts emotional and visual register.’ Jillian Tamaki’s new book, Boundless, receives another solid review, this time over at The Atlantic: An ambitious and eclectic set of tales, it focuses on the interior lives of unexpected subjects: the writer of a pornographic sitcom, a shrinking woman, a plant-nursery employee with an internet doppelganger, even a fly. Boundless uses a constantly varying visual treatment that keeps readers on their toes and mixes and matches artistic styles with a proliferating set of genres, from speculative fiction to domestic drama to magical realism. If a reader comes to Boundless with assumptions about visual storytelling, Tamaki will confound them. ————————————————————————————————— 5. No design. “Design is everywhere.” Via ARTNEWS, Ad Reinhardt’s 12 Rules for a New Academy: Much of today’s discussion of contemporary abstraction is centered on “Zombie Formalism”—Walter Robinson’s coinage for new work that revisits (or apes, one might say) historical forms of abstraction for purely stylistic reasons. Given the intensity of that debate, we thought it would be interesting, for this week’s Retrospective column, to jump back almost 60 years, to 1957, when Ad Reinhardt took up the subject of contemporary abstraction in ARTnews. Reinhardt, who had written for the magazine previously, said that the article—titled “Twelve Rules for a New Academy”—”constitute his last words on art in terms of words.” He sharply criticized his formalist contemporaries, offering instead twelve ways to achieve purity in art. There would be no forms, no texture, no color, nothing—just pure blackness, as in Reinhardt’s most famous paintings. Reproduced in full below is Reinhardt’s article, which takes subtle swipes at Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, the Abstract Expressionists, and more. —Alex Greenberger The Six General Canons or the Six Noes to be memorized are: (1) No Realism or Existentialism. “When the vulgar and commonplace dominate, the spirit subsides.” (2) No Impressionism. “The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.” “The eye is a menace to clear sight.” (3) No Expressionism or Surrealism. “The laying bare of oneself,” autobiographically or socially, “is obscene.” (4) No Fauvism, primitivism or brute art. “Art begins with the getting-rid of nature.” (5) No Constructivism, sculpture, plasticism, or graphic arts. No collage, paste, paper, sand or string. (6) No “trompe-l’oeil,” interior decoration or architecture. The ordinary qualities and common sensitivities of these activities lie outside free and intellectual art. ————————————————————————————————— Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern At the Brooklyn Museum through July 23, 2017: The exhibition is organized in sections that run from her early years, when O’Keeffe crafted a signature style of dress that dispensed with ornamentation; to her years in New York, in the 1920s and 1930s, when a black-and-white palette dominated much of her art and dress; and to her later years in New Mexico, where her art and clothing changed in response to the surrounding colors of the Southwestern landscape. The final section explores the enormous role photography played in the artist’s reinvention of herself in the Southwest, when a younger generation of photographers visited her, solidifying her status as a pioneer of modernism and as a contemporary style icon. ————————————————————————————————— ‘The Internal Body Interacting with the External World’ New York Academy of Medicine’s Artist-in-Residence, Kriota Willberg, recently concluded a 4-week workshop, Visualizing and Drawing Anatomy, and has a brief recap about it. And in a post from 2016, Willberg looks at some historical anatomical drawings: The images of Jacopo Berengario da Carpi’s Anatomia Carpi Isagoge breves, perlucide ac uberime, in anatomiam humani corporis… (1535) powerfully emphasize the fiber direction of the muscles of the waist. This picture in particular radiates the significance of our “core muscles.” Here, the external oblique muscles have been peeled away to show the lines of the internal obliques running from low lateral to high medial attachments. The continuance of this line is indicated in the central area of the abdomen. It perfectly illustrates the muscle’s direction of pull on its flattened tendon inserting at the midline of the trunk. ————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————— A Cosmic Journey – 6-20-2017 – by Cameron Arthur ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 6-20-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 6-20-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

Sally IngrahamJanuary 4, 2018NewsSally here with notes on Nicole Claveloux’s new NYRC book, work from Ulli Lust, Archana Streenivasan, and Trina Robbins, and much more! ————————————————————————————————— Michael Dooley wrote about The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux for Print Magazine, calling it “2017’s best book in celebration of a European comics artist“. Why? “Because thanks to this handsome hardcover compilation, we can finally come to appreciate and admire this master of French comics; her extraordinary career from the late 1960s to early ’80s has been unjustly overlooked for way, way too long. Because her radiantly colorful renderings of illuminated late afternoon landscapes and elongated shadows conclusively prove that she’s the Salvador Dali of Pop Art cartooning. Because her interiors are beautifully, bleakly haunting. Because her figures might take on a Victor Moscoso-like amorphous organicism … just because they can.“ Read the rest of Dooley’s thoughts and take a look at an excerpt from the book HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Ulli Lust completes her engagement with the ExBerliner magazine with the comic pictured above. She has published 15 comics with the magazine, all of them riffing on “a simple stroll” in some part of the world. You can read them all HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Archana Sreenivasan, an Indian cartoonist and illustrator, has a new comic up on Ulli Lust’s Electrocomics, called Otherly Urges, about being an Indian woman who is NOT interested in having kids. You can download the comic HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Back in 1985 Trina Robbins made an adaptation of Tanith Lee’s novel The Silver Metal Lover. Now IDW and Drew Ford have Kickstarted a reissue of the comic, with a new forward by Gail Simone and an afterward by Colleen Doran. Drew Ford wrote about the comic: “This cult classic science fiction romance is an important early example of ‘the graphic novel’ as a storytelling vehicle, telling an intimate story of a young girl’s first love…who just happens to be a robot! We are very honored to shine a light on the brilliant work of the late Tanith Lee.” The Kickstarter has already reached it’s initial goal, but you can get in on some fun reward brackets if you want, through Jan. 5th 2018. Check it out HERE. (Thanks to The Comics Beat for the lowdown on this news item.) ————————————————————————————————— Just a reminder to read the website Women Write About Comics regularly. Recent articles that were great include Rosie Knight on the work of Melina Chavarria and Jean Marie Pilario (pictured above) and creating positive Latinx representation in comics, and Tia Kalla on Sleepless #1 by Sarah Vaughn and Leila del Duca. The Interview section is the best, so dive in there and then explore. ————————————————————————————————— In Addition Robert Kirby presents an excerpt from GG‘s I’m Not Here on PEN America’s Illustrated PEN – check out his comments and the comic HERE. Anya Davidson has started a weekly podcast called Mindkiller, which is dedicated to creative struggle – the first episode, featuring musician Jill Flanagan, can be heard HERE. Julia Wertz‘s Conversations with Ma are amusing and can be seen HERE on The New Yorker. Image Comics is releasing Sloane Leong‘s Prism Stalker – coming March 2018. ————————————————————————————————— 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. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 1-5-2018 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 1-5-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]

Chris Anthony DiazJuly 13, 2016The Diaz ArchiveLisa Hanawalt signing her latest Drawn & Quarterly book HOT DOG TASTE TEST, and DRAWN AND QUARTERLY: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY CARTOONING, COMICS, AND GRAPHIC NOVELS (my portrait of Lisa is in this book, page 263!), Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Photo color for Lisa’s portrait by Graham Willcox Share this page: [...]

Sally IngrahamJune 10, 2016NewsFrom Sally to you – interviews, reviews, and Rowhouse mischief. Dig in! ————————————————————————————————— The Rowhouse had a special guest this week – samurai ninja badass cartoonist Lale Westvind stopped by on her way to CAKE in Chicago. She spent an evening digging into Frank’s library, and somehow simultaneously drew four pages of a new comic, all the while sharing stories about her cross-country motorcycle adventures. You can catch up with her yourself at CAKE this weekend (table 42b), or if you’re not in Chicago, check out a nicely coincidental interview with Lale here on the Comics Workbook site – follow the link below. http://comicsworkbook.com/lale-westvind-sometimes-an-overgrown-golf-course-will-do/ ————————————————————————————————— Speaking of CAKE, there are lots of brilliant books debuting at the show. I’m particularly excited about Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 4 by Ed Piskor. Here’s the whole list! ————————————————————————————————— Over on The Comics Journal RJ Casey reviewed Ben Sears‘ new book Night Air (Koyama Press, 2016). “I’m nostalgic for things not beholden to nostalgia. I want to read adventure comics without the guilt of knowing that the original creators died flat broke and drowning in menacing legalese. I want to laugh at jokes that aren’t slathered in sanctimonious pandering. Frankly, I’m on the lookout for fun comics with no icky strings attached. So thank goodness for Night Air.” – RJ Casey Read the whole review HERE. ————————————————————————————————— The Comics Beat has a review of Melissa Mendes‘ Lou (Oily Comics). John Seven writes: “Mendes presents a full picture of this family’s life, working with multiple perspectives in reaction to the possibility of getting a puppy, as well as Lou’s hang-outs in an abandoned theater with her buddies, the shady dealings that Eddie encounters at the pizza place, and the mother’s reminiscence of the simpler, more intimate life with her husband before her children came along. Mendes brings all these pieces together to present a family as a form of super organism that can be jolted or made buoyant be the way separate parts of its life fester or expand. The mundanity of a new puppy can bounce up against the desperate actions of a criminal to create the family dynamic.“ Read the rest of the review HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Around the Comics Workbook HQ, we’re still processing the successful first official residency that took place last week. Mahmoud Hashemi, one of the two fellows who joined us, sent us a detailed report of his experience which we will share more of soon. For the moment, here’s the light touch, in Mahmoud’s words: “From May 28th to June 2nd, 2016, I visited Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I went to work with Frank Santoro on Matt Conway’s game Homemake. Overall it was a great vacation because it wasn’t your typical beachside retreat. Rather, it was mounting an effort to renew creativity and productivity on Matt Conway’s longstanding project, Homemake. … Frank’s own creative methods have a focus on systems, especially jazz-inspired rhythmic systems, making them an exceptional fit with Homemake‘s motivations and goals. I was skeptical at first, but it worked wonders. This effectiveness may have been magnified because half of Homemake‘s vision was disparate moments, a grab bag of mental notes about certain aesthetics. This method allowed Matt to express all his thoughts and editors, like me and Frank, to come through, see the patterns a reader would want to see, and develop the most coherent narrative. Everyone wins.” Look for more from Mahmoud and Matt and Frank on the exceptional days they spent together here on Comics Workbook soon! ————————————————————————————————— Have a great weekend folks! – Sally Share this page: [...]

Juan FernándezJuly 26, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el día con La Polola EN VIVO con Sebastián Ilabaca; Antonio Altarriba y Sergio García; Mincho Magazine #13; Dis-Tinta, la historieta actual en argentina; Autoras de Cómic; Krazy Kat y el Museo Reina Sofía; La Competencia de Composición de Comics Workbook 2017; y los tebeos de Cómics Workbook! —————————————————————————————————Cuerpos del delito. Entrevista a Antonio Altarriba y Sergio García en Bilbao24horas: Cuerpos del delito es la historia de Miroslav Matjevic, francotirador serbio-bosnio; Ratko Petrovic y su banda, contrabandistas serbio-bosnios; François Laplanche y el Sargento Hervé Dumont, y algunos cascos azules del regimiento francés de Sarajevo. Cuatro vidas diferentes entrelazadas por una ciudad (Sarajevo), un año (1994) y la fragilidad del ser humano. Contiene un póster en el que aparece la historia en la silueta de un cadáver con la historia completa. Bilbao24Horas: ¿Qué es Cuerpos del delito? Sergio: Cuerpos del delito, básicamente, es un contenedor de historias. La idea surge de los dibujos que hace la policía en el suelo cuando alguien muere, generalmente asesinado. Lo que pretendíamos es descubrir que historia tiene ese dibujo de tiza. Lo que hicimos fue dibujar la silueta de un soldado y en el interior contar su historia y la de su muerte, todo ello en un formato póster. Todo ello acompañado por los maravillosos textos de Antonio. Unos relatos cortos que complementan la historia y que, a su vez, también están ilustrados. Antonio: Lo que me gusta del formato es la complementariedad de lecturas entre los textos, que cuentan la historia de los 4 personajes protagonistas, las ilustraciones y el póster. Se van superponiendo por capas niveles de lectura de la historia. Si solo ves el póster puedes ver la acción. Es una primera capa en la que vemos los desplazamientos de los personajes en la geografía de Sarajevo. Los textos con sus ilustraciones le dan profundidad a esa acción. Allí vemos sus motivaciones, lo que les ha llevado a ese punto e, incluso, lo que sucede después de ese momento que les ha llevado al asesinato. Me parece una idea innovadora. Léelo todo AQUI. ———————————————————————————————— A post shared by Comics Workbook (@comicsworkbook) on Jul 24, 2017 at 8:33pm PDT ¡Está aquí por fin! LA Competencia de Composición de Comics Workbook 2017. Esta vez el formato se trata de paginas con una cuadrícula de 6 viñetas utilizando en las proporciónes tradicionales de cómics norteamericanos – ¡con un giro! Encontraras todos los detalles aquí: http://comicsworkbook.com/comics-workbook-composition-competition-2017/ FECHA DE LÍMITE 5 de septiembre de 2017, ¡así que empiecen! El 1er premio es una estadia en nuestra residencia de arte, la Rowhouse Residency en Pittsburgh, PA. OJO: Si necessitan ayuda entiendiendo las direcciones (a vezes son un poquito confusas!), mandenme un mensaje: fernandez.juan.j@gmail.com ————————————————————————————————— Los cómics y las 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 ilustrador Sebastián Ilabaca EN VIVO en Chile acerca de las personas que lo apoyaron e inspiraron, de su paso por la escuela de cine, de su forma de ilustrar, los materiales que usa, su visión, proyectos a futuro y mucho más! The newest edition, #13, of Mincho Magazine, the illustration and graphic arts magazine is now available. Autoras de Cómic iniciaron un llamamiento por twitter para que les recomendéis cómic, tebeos, fanzines hechos por autoras. Es un thread asombroso, por que la mayoria estan disponibles en Español! Dis-Tinta, la coleccion de tonalidades de la historieta argentina actual, editada por Liniers y Martín Pérez fue reseñada por La Nación. El Museo Reina Sofía en Madrid se apunta al cómic con el que es, a mi entender, el mejor cómic de la historia: Krazy Kat de George Herriman con su nueva exhibición Krazy Kat es Krazy Kat es Krazy Kat. ———————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 7-26-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 7-26-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page: [...]