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...
TCJ Talkies
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...
Occupy Miami
While in Miami for the Miami Book Fair in November of 2011, I headed over to Peace City to see what the local Occupy movement was up to for Cartoon Movement’s Occupy Sketchbook series. http://www.cartoonmovement.com/comic/22
Pierre Feuille Ciseaux
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...
Proximity Talks – A Comic For the Jewish Quarterly
I’m the resident cartoonist for the Jewish Quarterly, a journal published out of London. For my first installment, here’s a first person comic about shuttling back and forth between the West Bank and West Jerusalem and trying to talk about what peace means. http://jewishquarterly.org/2011/09/proximity-talks/
State of Palestine
I have a new comic up on the Cartoon Movement site on Khaled Jarrar, a Palestinian artist working in Ramallah whose stamp project, “Live and work in Palestine”, reaches out to international visitors to the city.
Truthout on Graphic Journalism
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
Back in Israel
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..
Spotlight panel from Stumptown
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
Watching Egypt from 5,000 Miles Away
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...
Pizza Island Field Trip: Figure Drawing
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...
