Monthly Archives: April 2010
Interview: Austin Kleon
A couple of years ago, while staring at my magic glow screen, I stumbled upon a cartoonist who was creating experimental poetry by attacking a page of the New York Times with a Sharpie and blacking out all but a … Continue reading
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How it Works
I’ve got a cartoon in this week’s issue of the New Yorker. It never gets old, seeing things of yours get published. In fact, getting things published is an interesting process, from start to finish. Sometimes people want to know … Continue reading
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James Cameron’s $100 Bill Design
James Cameron has been printing money out there in Hollywood for the last dozen years, and now he is doing the next logical thing: designing it. That’s right. Cameron’s first post-Avatar project isn’t a movie, but something a lot bigger: … Continue reading
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MoCCA 2010
Thanks to Liza Donnelly for these pics from MoCCA – that’s me with Liza and Michael Kupperman, and below, with Ward Sutton.
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Simple Visual Storytelling
You often hear people say, defensively, that they can’t draw a straight line, as an excuse for not drawing at all. I usually reply that I can’t either: that’s what rulers, or the sides of cereal boxes, are for. Drawing … Continue reading
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Showerhead 2.0
If you are a multitasker, you are living in a Golden Age, even though you are probably playing foursquare to notice. You can watch video on your phone and you can Tweet while you’re playing baseball and you can text … Continue reading
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MoCCA 2010
I had a great time at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s 2010 festival at the Lexington Armory this past weekend. Especially fun was the segment in which actors and comedians read aloud stories and strips by Michael Kupperman, … Continue reading
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Friday Fluffernutter
It’s not exactly ice cream weather, but according to The Shake Shack’s “Custard Calendar,” today is Fluffernutter day. Upon discovering this, my first thought was: isn’t every day Fluffernutter Day? And then my second thought was: can you imagine chasing … Continue reading
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Today’s Tubtimes
Maybe if the theatre allowed room to complete the entire movie title, it wouldn’t be so confusing/disturbing.
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Cartoon R.I.P. #1
Naturally, it begins with a death. When the New Yorker doesn’t want to publish a cartoon, it gets rejected. However, on the rare occasion when they buy a cartoon with the intention of publishing it, and then change their mind, … Continue reading
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