Friday, August 13, 2010

A preview of The Zabîme Sisters

I'm finally able to share a preview of The Zabîme Sisters, my translation of Aristophane's comic, Les Soeurs Zabîme!

It's a good-sized scene but art and lettering (very faithfully rendered by Nic Breutzman) suffer at such a small screen size (I'm looking into whether they can be re-posted larger). No worries, though: the book is going to be printed at the original European album size (First Second Books is finally able to print books larger than their standard paperback format). Here's a larger jpeg of one of the pages in the preview, introducing Tito and Rodrigues, two incidental characters:



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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The kids are all right: New blog post: SVA's pre-college intensive

Over at the Drawing Words & Writing Pictures blog I just posted about a summer class I co-taught with a bunch of excellent colleagues.

Remember to check dw-wp.com regularly, we've got a lot of cool stuff coming up over there.
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