Busy summer

Ah, hotel beds! Jessica, Aldara, and I are about to embark on a two-week tour, making stops in L.A., Portland OR, where we're teaching a 3-day intensive workshop at PNCA, and Chicago. Then in July we'll be doing an event at Rocketship on the 11th and on the 21st I'll be doing a beginning comics workshop at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus OH.

I'm not sure when or if I'll be able to post more details but you can find the basics about signings, workshops, and other events at the DW&WP website's news section. Read more...

DW&WP website is live!

Whether or not you have picked up Drawing Words & Writing Pictures yet you should go take a look at our website, which just went live a few days ago. You'll find examples of student work with comments from me and Jessica, some extra links and downloadable resources, and an extensive teacher's guide for those of you thinking about using DW&WP in the classroom.

The link is www.dw-wp.com. Read more...

Workshop at MOCCA Art Festival '08

We had a very nice turnout for our first Drawing Words & Writing Pictures workshop Sunday in the very hot MoCCA museum space.

We did a slide show tour of the book and then gave everyone paper and had them draw a comic strip using no pictures, just dialogue, narration, panel borders, sound effects and "emanata" (sweat beads and so forth--see the textbook for details!). We then stuck them all on the wall and talked about them a bit.

(This is basically what we're doing tonight at McNally-Robinson, too.)




Bonus photo: it was Aldara's first con and she had a blast. Here she is hanging out with our table-mate, Nate Doyle, whose minis were going like gangbusters:

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Inkstuds, MoCCA, McNally-Robinson

A quick round-up of recent & upcoming events:


• Jessica and I were just interviewed on the Inkstuds radio program out of Vancouver. You can listen to it here.


• We'll be at MoCCA Art Festival this weekend. We'll have a table in the big room. Sunday we'll be doing a short "workshop" in the afternoon. Plus, I'll have a new minicomic. It's called Minnesota and it's a collection of one-page comics I drew in my sketchbooks.


If you are a cartoonist, remember that Jessica and I will be collecting submissions for the next volume of The Best American Comics. We will have a box at our table and there will probably be one at the Houghton Mifflin table (on the top floor) as well. You'll find submissions guidelines in the BAC link to the right.


• On Wednesday, June 11 at 7 PM we'll be doing a signing at the excellent independent book store McNally-Robinson in Soho. Read more...