Swamped!!! Muck Men, Movie Art, Cartoonist Studio Contest, & Melanie’s Mountain Trek Amid sketching endless Swamp Thing heads, slinging ink, slapping graphite onto board, writing, teaching, and shipping SpiderBaby Store orders out daily, I’ve been doing interviews for various book projects and introductions, and I’ve been giving interviews of late, too. Rich Handley posted this [...]
Tally Ho! A Few Thoughts on My (Brief) Return to the Convention Trail Time for a little followup on the Cincinnati Comic Expo and my Ohio week away. I just last week finished all my September bookkeeping, and tallying up the month, including Cincinnati Comic Expo and my trip to Ohio, just in terms of [...]
More on CCS Expansion Center for Cartoon Studies Purchase of WRJ 1934 Post Office Building Makes Area Paper Front Page The news went public this week locally about the Center for Cartoon Studies purchasing one of downtown White River Junction, Vermont‘s most historic buildings. We’re all incredibly excited about this major step in CCS‘s life, [...]
Fantasy Epic Basewood Completed At Last! Alec Longstreth Finishes Graphic Novel; Makes the Final Cut! I’m lucky to work with some fantastic, incredibly experienced and talented folks at the Center for Cartoon Studies—faculty, friends, students, and community members, one and all. Among the most amazing of them is Alec Longstreth, who is (along with my [...]
ICAF is HERE! Part 3 The International Comic Arts Forum is at CCS This Week! I’ll be there; will you? *** Here’s what I’ll be directly participating in: Uzumaki artwork ©1999, 2011 Junji Ito Friday, September 30th, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM: GUEST ARTIST: An Evening with Stephen R. Bissette Uncanny Geometries: Junji Ito’s UZUMAKI [...]
