Notes from Far Away Lands
Hats off to the tireless Jessica Abel who has a great report on last month’s teaching comics seminar in Helsinki. She’s much better than me at recording what’s going on around her and I’m grateful for...
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Congratulations to all the Eisner Nominees this year. It was especially gratifying to see our old friend Barry Deutsch snag a nomination in the “Best Publication for Teens” category for his wonderful...
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Great little article at UX Magazine applying some ideas from Understanding Comics to icon design and related issues. I’ve given some talks on similar issues during web design workshops; focusing on...
View ArticleThe Influencing Machine
I’ve been dying for an excuse to plug The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld, since I read an advance copy several weeks ago, and this PW article oughtta fit the bill (though I’m...
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Here’s a new comic from the relentlessly strange and consistently intriguing cartoonist Brett Harder. I’ve mentioned Harder on Twitter a few times, but not here on the blog, so time to rectify that....
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“But with individual titles costing between $1 and $3 for about five to 10 minutes of enjoyment, it quickly became a habit too costly to keep up.” This article at GigaOm by Darrell Etherington points...
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Here’s a really lovely 3-pager by David Lasky from yesterday’s Bloomsday commemorations. Also lovely: these people sketches by Lucy Knisley. Can you draw that well? Me neither. The Interwubs are all...
View ArticleWolk at Wired and a Bad, Bad Law
The always-sensible Douglas Wolk offers a solid round-up of issues surrounding comics and tablets for Wired this week. Long time readers may find mostly familiar ground here, but it’s good to have...
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