Interview up on Bad at Sports
Sara Drake asked me some questions about my work and comics journalism for the contemporary art website Bad at Sports. Check it out here: http://badatsports.com/2013/meanwhile-on-comics-journalism-and-an-interview-with-sarah-glidden/
Rolling Blackouts: Coming in Fall 2014 from Drawn & Quarterly
So this is the big news I’ve been sitting on for over a month: awesome Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly will be putting out Rolling Blackouts next year! Drawn and Quarterly is the publisher I didn’t even dare dream of working with when I started making comics, so I couldn’t be more excited to work...
The Warm Welcoming Sky, a 24 hour comic
This comic was done for Grand Papier’s 24 hour comics day, from 9am on October 13th until 6am on October 14th in Buenos Aires. If you haven’t heard of 24 hour comics events before, this is how it works: cartoonists who choose to participate have 24 hours to complete 24 pages of comics (including a...
Colombia Sketchbook (part one)
I’m currently in Colombia for the Entreviñetas comics festival, which has me going from Medellin to Armenia to Bogota with a bunch of other cartoonists from all over Latin America, North America and Europe. I’m taking a break from festival activities in Salento with Argentine cartoonist Fran López and fellow American, Anders Nilsen, who just...
version castellano
My Spanish publisher, Norma Editorial, has translated two of the comics journalism pieces I’ve done for Cartoon Movement into castellano (aka spanish) and they are now available as a free digital download on Cimoc.com. Here’s the link to the Waiting Room, or “Sala de Espera” http://www.cimoc.com/issue.asp?G000000004/sala_de_espera And here is the link to the State of...
Why The French Elections Are Better Than Yours
This is a piece that I started working on a wee bit too late, as it will be completely obsolete as soon as Sunday hits. But I wanted to share it with you in its half-finished form because, well, you ought to know about all the awesome French election coverage you’re missing.
Version Française
As I’ve mentioned here before, I am currently living in Angoulême as an artist in residence at the Maison des Auteurs. The MdA is part of the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image, and it welcomes cartoonists and animators from France and abroad to come to Angoulême and have a place to...
the Perfect Pen
For the longest time, visiting an art supply store or a stationary shop was always a dangerous game for me. I would often just tell myself I was going to take a peek and then I would be hypnotized by all the sketchbooks and pens and would end up spending hours testing pens and paper...
“Angoulême: Love It or Shove It” An open letter by Lewis Trondheim
I have very little skin in the game when it comes to the politics and proceedings surrounding the Angoulême Festival. I’ve been only once (and I thoroughly enjoyed myself) and I’m not French, so I don’t really have an opinion on the matter, nor do I have any deep understanding of the festival’s history or inner workings....
London Sketchbook
Last week I went to London for an assignment for the Jewish Quarterly, a cultural journal based there who I do comics for. It was Jewish Book Week and they asked me to come to make a piece about it. The illustrated essay I’m making from it will be coming soon, but for now, here’s...
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...
