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Kickstarted: SP7 and The Manga-Influenced Generation
Kickstarted: SP7 and The Manga-Influenced Generation
Kickstarted: SP7 and The Manga-Influenced Generation
I like Kickstarter a lot. It's an efficient way to directly connect with artists while also making sure that a project that interests you gets funded. There are still a few hitches that need to be worked out, but my experience with Kickstarter has been largely positive...
‘Where They Draw’ Takes You Inside Cartoonists’ Workspaces
‘Where They Draw’ Takes You Inside Cartoonists’ Workspaces
‘Where They Draw’ Takes You Inside Cartoonists’ Workspaces
I've never thought the eyes were the window to the soul so much as the desk is. After all, the way a person treats their workspace says a lot about them. Do they work in a cheerful, brightly lit space filled with plants and knick-knacks? Or have they carved out chaotic office spaces amid collapsing towers of paper...
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
What does it take to get your cartoon published in the New Yorker? Box Brown, creator of the webcomics Bellen! and Everything Dies, has been trying to crack the code. Last summer, after Hark! A Vagrant cartoonist Kate Beaton became the first webcomics creator to have a cartoon published in the New Yorker, webcartoonist Brown posted a Bellen... Read More ...
The 12 Days of Comic Book Christmas, Day 5: Box Brown
The 12 Days of Comic Book Christmas, Day 5: Box Brown
The 12 Days of Comic Book Christmas, Day 5: Box Brown
Because we're feeling the pull of the yuletide (whatever the heck that is), we decided to start a countdown to Christmas in the tradition of that old holiday standard, The 12 Days of Christmas. Except we shook it up, tossed it over to some of the craziest and most talented comics creators we know, and made our own version: The Twelve Days of Comic Book Christmas...
‘Law and Order’ Lives On in the Art of Cartoonists
‘Law and Order’ Lives On in the Art of Cartoonists
‘Law and Order’ Lives On in the Art of Cartoonists
"Law and Order" tied "Gunsmoke" for the longest-running drama in television history before NBC canceled it earlier this year, but the series' legacy has now been immortalized in artwork, thanks to the unique stylings of creators like Kate Beaton of "Hark...