the Roller-Bladers of Suleimaniya
As I wrote in a previous post, the 24 hours of bande dessinée occurred last week. I failed to finish a 24 page comic in 24 hours…but I DID manage to finish a 20 page comic in about 30 hours? I finally finished the thing and am posting it now. This story is a true...
The festival that was: Angoulême 2012
Well, THAT was something. Bear with me; I’ve never done a “con report” or a “festival recap” before. I think they often involve the blogger talking about the convention day by day, being very thorough about covering everything important that happened, the most buzzed about books and news and who’s...
The Waiting Room
THE WAITING ROOM Published April 2011 on Cartoon Movement 20 pages Syria is a temporary refuge to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their own country following the 2003 invasion by US coalition forces. While some have been resettled to third countries, many are waiting as refugees without access to work or higher education....
24 h BD
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...
A Walk Around Angoulême
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...
Leaving Brooklyn
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...
RIP Pizza Island
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...
new website
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...
