Monday, November 30, 2009

This week's strip: "Pickypocket"


Just in time for Black Friday!

I’d never heard of Buy Nothing Day ‘til now, reading an old punk-anarchist friend’s online argument that it’s “ill-conceived, privileged, and useless.” He’s got a point – and I’d add “undersold”, no pun intended, given it’s been around for 17 years and still makes barely a ripple annually.

Still, there’s something to it. For ten of those years at least, we’ve been buying instead of building, with increasingly little to show for it. We aren’t a manufacturing economy anymore, but pretty soon we won’t be a consumer economy anymore, either. With our vast land and resources we’re capable, somehow, of the next big thing, but nobody knows what it is.

 

Sunday, November 22, 2009

This wk's strips: "Low Pitch"/"Ideal-O-Logue"



Most of the NYC subway's remaining elevated lines are along the Brooklyn/Queens waterfront and do have beautiful views, sometimes on the platforms themselves, as with the Marcy Avenue stop pictured in both "Ideal-O-Logue" and this article, though I was insane to fixate on that as a backdrop with just hours to go before deadline...

I've enlarged the thumbnail strip having been made aware, by myself and others, that the blog can be a little hard to read. Remember that you can still click on the strips to get a larger image still. But I'm curious, anyone else finding the site hard to read in general? Think I need to bring up the point size?

 

Monday, November 9, 2009

Miami Book Fair



I'll have two strips in the Color of Comics exhibit at this weekend's Miami Book Fair, which seems to have taken rapidly to comics and graphic novels. Hear hear.

Does the Color of Comics Matter?
Friday, November 13, 6:30 p.m., Centre Gallery, Third Floor, Bldg. 1

Is there a need for race and multicultural representation in comics? Does the presence or absence of certain people in an entertainment medium affect the way they are perceived in the real world? Is “looking for a face like mine” relevant at a time when this nation has a black president?

These and other questions will be explored when artists featured in the Color of Comics art exhibit sit down with moderator and show curator Alex Simmons, writer for Archie Comics. Panelists include syndicated cartoonist Jerry Kraft, Mama’s Boyz; Ray Felix, Runaway Slave; Dawud Anyabwile, Brotherman; Fernando Ruiz, Archie Comics; and Anne Sibley O’Brien, The Legend of Hong Kil Dong.

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

This week's strip: "Radio Tires"