3:32 pm Well, its over! And I finished 19 pages so far, which you can see here: http://www.24hdelabandedessinee.com/public/auteurs2012.php?id=11048 It may not be 24 pages but it doesnt feel like a failure. I have to admit that I didn’t really WANT to participate in 24 hour comics day. I thought “that’s not how I work and...
In the year leading up to coming here, I would tell people that I was moving to Angoulême for 7 months and would get different reactions depending on where the person I was talking to was from. If they were American, they would usually sigh and say “oh how wonderful to live in France for...
Tonight I’ll be leaving New York and headed to Angoulême, France, where I’ll be an artist in residence at the Maison des Auteurs. The plan is to stay there for about 7 months while I work on the next book and various short pieces. I’ve lived in Brooklyn for 9 years and now I am...
Well, all good things must come to an end. After two years of blissful workspace sharing, our studio, Pizza Island, has decided not to renew its lease. Of course, it was going to be over for me anyway because I’m leaving for Angoulême today and had already given up my desk months ago. With Kate also...
Welcome to my new website. It’s still under construction. I want to add things, change the image viewers, etc etc. But for now, this is it, just in time for my move to Angoulême. I weeded through my old blog posts and took most of them down. I added a new category called “picto-essays” which...
Mike Dawson and I chatted about process, comics journalism and other things in the “talkie hut” over at the Comics Journal. Here’s the link: http://www.tcj.com/sarah-glidden/ This time around I wanted to stay away from talking about “How to Understand…”, having just come off of a two month tour promoting the thing, which has already been...
From October 2 until the 9th I was here in Arc-et-Senans, France, for the 3rd installment of Pierre Feuille Ciseaux. Its a little hard to describe what exactly PFC is…its a residency, an art retreat, an OuBaPo (comics either done alone or in small groups based on constraints) workshop, and a festival. I came in 2009...
If you’re wondering just what the deal with graphic journalism (or coimcs journalism or journalism comics) is, this article by Adam Bessie would be a great place to start! http://www.truth-out.org/warning-article-contains-graphic-journalism/1312827588
I’m back for the first time since doing the trip four years ago…this time for a conference and then for some reporting out of the West Bank. Here’s a little quick comic about getting through passport control which I was a bit nervous about..
Robin McConnel–host of the Candaian radio comics podcast Inkstuds–and I had a very nice chat at the Stumptown comics fest about journalism comics and other such things. He has posted the audio on his site. You can listen to it here: http://www.inkstuds.org/?p=3590
Today Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Domitille and I have been watching the news coming out of Egypt for 18 days, totally ignorning things we were supposed to be doing. Today, since we arent Egyptian and couldnt be at the World’s Biggest Party in Tahir square, we made a comic about the events in Egypt. Or...
So last Friday a bunch of us headed over to 3rd Ward in Brooklyn to check out their “Drink n Draw Overdrive” event. Apparently they have live figure drawing there every Wednesday and this was a special promo event. The Wednesday sessions are two and a half hours long…but this one was from 8pm to 2am for...
