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Jackie Kirby – Rowhouse Residency Report
Comics WorkbookJuly 3, 2017Residency Reports / School UpdatesMy name is Jackie Kirby. I am a poet and comics author. I am twenty-two years old, and live in New York City. Recently, I graduated from The New School with a BA in Cultural Studies. I have been making comics and writing poetry seriously for three years now. As my poetic and comics practices evolved, they became more and more intertwined. Now, the differences between what I publish as "poetry" versus "comics" has more to do with marketing and publishing than it does with genre or form—but then genre is the formal violence of marketing and publishing. But, "whatever." I spent a week in Pittsburgh at the Rowhouse Residency this June 2017. As recent graduate without the privilege of a future in plastics, I was anxious on how to proceed. If I was to call myself a "poet" and a "comics author," what should I do to validate or realize those claims? Additionally, I had a bit of a foothold in the world of poetry, through school and time spent in and around the New York poetry cliques. I didn't, however, have anything of the sort in the world of comics. Poets can often be easily impressed by the integration of visual arts into poetry, and don't know anything of comics. I was excited, albeit nervous, to see how I could enter into the world of comics, and if my work was intelligible or interesting to comics readers in contrast to poetry readers. With the time and space provided by the residency, I was able to develop a routine and work ethic that works for my particular habits and skills. Through my conversations with Frank Santoro, I was able to visualize a path going forward with my work, begin to feel grounded in the world of comics, affirm my beliefs in the value of my own aesthetic project, and gain valuable tools and modes of thought towards the furthering of my craft. Frank's approach to composition in comic books clicked with me as a way of connecting poetry and comics. Without sounding too prescriptive, I think poetics should seek to emancipate possibility and meaning from language, or at least restructure it. Frank and I spoke a lot about meter and geometry, but I think the integration of comics into poetry and vice versa has a greater political value. In comics, "language" as we know it is subverted through its integration with non-alphabetic symbols. The job of a poet is to keep language alive, and if poetry is to be relevant it must be written in the contemporary idiom. The integration of words and images in everyday life is increasing, and pictoral languages are becoming more common. The integration of comics and poetics is only logical considering. Before coming to the residency I had spent the last year working on a set of works called Finding Eurydice. The first is a poetry chapbook subtitled "Transmissions from Orpheus," and the second is a comic "translation" of the chapbook subtitled "A Border Comic." In these works, I used the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a way of expressing the experience of transfeminity, and experimented formally as a way of enacting that experience. At risk of being too pretentious, I'll quote the introduction from my reflection on A Border Comic: Finding Eurydice is a comic. Finding Eurydice is a poem, or book of poems. It's both, but it's not quite one or the other. Words are often only images. Images are abstracted into words. Its "graphic narrative" is mostly formal, and moves associatively. Much of its "text" is illegible. It doesn't fit right. Finding Eurydice is a hybrid work. It is a comic-poem which transgresses forms and signs. This formal transgression produces a new vocabulary for the enactment of transgender subjectivities and experiences historically made impossible to verbalize. Entering the project, I asked: If an artistic production is a body, or an extension of the body, and the body is always already gendered, how can the formal restructuring of and deployment of "trans-" trajectories of movement into a literary or artistic mode of production aide in the revelation of new possibilities of gender embodiments and transgender subjectivities? In Finding Eurydice, the comic, the poem, and Orpheus are all made trans, opening up new space for transness to exist in language. Both works can be read online: Finding Eurydice: Transmissions from Orpheus Finding Eurydice: A Border Comic My conversations with Frank were thoughtful, engaging, and exciting. Among the most interesting aspects of our discussions was comparing analogies of music and poetry to comics. I know very little when it comes to music. Half-kidding – it's one of the few popular art forms I'm not a snob about, and I've tried to keep it like that. Frank, on the other hand, is a total music nerd. I came into his house for espresso one afternoon and he presented me with a piece of scrap paper on which he had written "2/3 3/4 rectangle riff seen from a poet's pov in relation to 'meter' / and relation to 'the Breath' or Dylan's 'long line of spit.' " Frank and I chatted for hours regarding this. He would riff for fifteen minutes or so about music and I would respond with a riff on poetics. Forty five minutes could go by without comics being explicitly mentioned once, but the composition and formal techniques of comics practice underlaid every moment. When I brought this up, Frank brushed it off, saying "Of course we could talk about how Robert Crumb is this or that but we both know that." What's interesting is what we can learn from each other. In conclusion, I will list a few highlights of my time at the residency: – Frank took a class with Kathy Acker and said "She was so mean! In the best way." This is exactly what I want to hear about Kathy Acker. – Kathy Acker chose her pen name from her husband's last name (Acker) and a nickname extracted from her birth-name (Karen) and not because the titular character from the comic-strip Cathy says "Ack!" as her catchphrase, and is therefore a Cathy "Ack!"-er. This is exactly what I don't want to hear about Kathy Acker. – I fell down all the stairs at the residency. In all fairness, however, wearing slippery socks, a maxi-skirt that's hanging too low, and carrying forty things in your arms while descending a steep wooden staircase is the set-up to a punchline involving falling down all the stairs, and Frank provided excellent first-aid. – When Sally picked me up from the train station, we went to a bar for dinner where Anthony Bourdain had recently shot an episode of some show he does where he pretends he's in a scene in Coffee & Cigarettes and I find Anthony Bourdain conceptually hilarious (I believe Hayes Davenport called him "the misanthrope of food television") but realized I don't have any solid jokes to make and ended up asking a lot of questions about the ins and outs of Anthony Bourdain's TV production. ————————————————————————————————————— Check out more work by Jackie on her website, and follow her on Instagram. For more information about the Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency visit this page or email santoroschoolATgmail Share this page:Read More:Rowhouse Residency…04/20/201807/27/2018Rowhouse Residency…...
Simon Hanselmann Bad Gateway Tour with Joe Matt Cameo Appearance
Chris Anthony DiazAugust 14, 2019The Diaz ArchiveSimon Hanselmann Bad Gateway west coast signing tour, Green Apple on the Park, San Francisco, Friday evening, August 2, 2019 and Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Saturday evening, August 3, 2019 Share this page:Read More:02/06/201801/18/2018Comic Arts Brooklyn 201706/22/2018...
Sally IngrahamJuly 28, 2017NewsSally here with Lale Westvind's work at Printed Matter, Ellen Forney's Virtual Memories, Fabulous "Flo" Steinburg, and more. ———————————————————————————————— You have just a few days left to catch the "Something Unusual Is Happening" show at Printer Matter – it is up until July 31st 2017. Featuring work by 15 international comics artists, it delves into experimental comics and the art of visual narrative. More details about the show HERE. Over on the LA Review of Books Megan N. Liberty writes about the show and features the work of some of the specific makers. "Lale Westvind'sJoan the Drone Pilot & Mary the Drone (2017), printed with blue ink on pink pages (except the cover which is red ink on cream), is the story of a world that exists in several dimensions, with those in charge controlling those trapped in the lesser plane for profit, until Mary arrives and attempts to escape. A heavy-handed metaphor for our use of technology, or technology's use of us when in the hands of advertisers, it has a more traditional structure, with spreads divided into panels and text in word bubbles and boxes. But its dense imagery, heavy lines, and block shading, reminiscent of '70s and '80s pulp comics, make it at times visually dizzying and challenging." Read the rest of the report HERE. ———————————————————————————————— Gil Roth of Virtual Memories sat down with another female cartoonist of note recently, inviting Ellen Forney onto the show for Episode 228. "The great Seattle cartoonist Ellen Forney joins the show to talk about comics, civic art, being bipolar, and the challenges of maintaining! We get into her 2012 graphic memoir,Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, finding a graphic representation of her depressive states, the evolution in her drawing style, the letter she stole from Michael Dougan, the process of going from comics panels to enormous murals for a light-rail station in Seattle, the influence of the Moosewood Cookbook, the importance of a psychology stats class she took in college, how she learned to teach comics, the moment when she felt she was using all her artistic tools, and why she needed Kaz to design her back-tattoo!" Listen HERE. I went back through some of the past episodes and bookmarked shows with Posy Simmonds, Leslie Stein, Jennifer Hayden and Summer Pierre, Phoebe Gloeckner, Glynnis Fawkes, and Karen Green. I'm sure there are more good ones to dig up as well! Check out The Virtual Memories Show every Tuesday for a new interview about books and life. ———————————————————————————————— Flo Steinburg, longtime secretary to Marvel's Stan Lee, died this week. She was 78, and still fabulous. At the San Diego Comic Con 2017 there was a panel on "Women of Marvel" which understandably kicked off with a remembrance of Flo. Rachel Maurer reported for The Comics Beat: "Many of the panelists have worked directly with Flo at some point in their Marvel careers, noting that she was more than Stan Lee's assistant – she was the original Woman of Marvel, someone who forged a path for female comics creators and whose legacy will continue to do so. One major indicator of this is the panel itself, a useful benchmark for progress in gender equality. Nine years ago Marvel had zero female-led titles, while this year's panel had nearly 20 on the roster." Read more about how these women are walking in Flo's footprints – HERE. ———————————————————————————————— New page from Iona Fox's Almanac – check out more of her work HERE and keep an eye out for her strips in Burlington, VT's alt paper Seven Days. ———————————————————————————————— Supplemental "A Brief Appreciation" of Leslie Stein – by Ken Perille on The Comics Journal. Also on tcj.com – An Interview with Katie Skelly. Carta Monir on Process Party Episode 42 – HERE. Gabrielle Bell's July Diary is close to concluding – here's Thursday's offering. —————————————————————————————————— Here it is – get ready to comic your socks off – thee Comics Workbook Composition Competition 2017 has been announced! This year it's a riff on the 6-panel grid, in the traditional North American comic book size – but with a twist! Full details HERE. ———————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 7-28-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 7-28-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:09/25/201803/09/201810/05/201807/17/2018...
Sally IngrahamOctober 7, 2016NewsSally here with reviews of Sarah Glidden's new book, some Village Voice features, Clara Jetsmark in The Nib, an odd new Washington Post strip, Anya Davidson, Jessica Campbell, and M. S. Harkness, and a funny Pittsburgh encounter. ————————————————————————————————— Sarah Glidden's Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (Drawn & Quarterly, October 2016) just landed on the bookshelves and is already inspiring discussion and garnering praise. "Part memoir, part ethical inquiry and part travelogue, "Rolling Blackouts" resembles the work of her great hero, Joe Sacco, the author of Palestine and "Safe Area Goražde", at least in the sense that it is about as serious and careful as a comic can possibly be. But it also has a gentleness that is all its own, perhaps because Glidden works mostly in soft watercolour, a medium that seems somehow to reflect her refusal to deal in certainties. Stories, as she writes in her introduction to Rolling Blackouts, are "how we make sense of a chaotic world" and she wants those she tells to be gripping; clearly, her material has to be edited, refined. But that doesn't mean that she isn't aware of her responsibilities or that they don't weigh heavily with her. Just as a person's life is much more to them than a mere story, so true objectivity is all but impossible in narrative journalism." – The Guardian Read the rest of this article HERE. The article that the Huffington Post published on the work features some of Sarah Glidden's sketches and notes from her travels – check it out HERE. Observer also has some thoughts on the book and comics journalism – HERE. ————————————————————————————————— 1st comic for Village Voice! A photo posted by Lauren Weinstein (@vineshtein) on Oct 6, 2016 at 8:39am PDT Lauren Weinstein has a strip in The Village Voice this week (preview above – check the news stands to see the whole thing!) ————————————————————————————————— The Village Voice also ran an article about the new Ms. Marvel series this week – an in-depth look at the character's development, the author (G. Willow Willson), the acclaimed editor of the series – Marvel's Sana Amanat – and the constantly swirling discussion of diversity in comic book stories AND their creators. Ms. Marvel is getting a lot of things right. "Written by Wilson, and inspired by the stories of Marvel editor Sana Amanat, the new "Ms. Marvel" is a study in conversion. Not of a religious sort (though Wilson, who is white, converted to Islam in college), but a creative transfiguration: the small to the large, the honest detail into mass appeal. The series is one of Marvel's most successful, having entered an elite class within months of its debut, when that first issue hit a sixth print, a rare mark achieved by only a few genre classics, like the first issue of Wolverine. Amanat says she and Wilson never dreamed they'd make it to thirty issues, as they did this year. She puts their success down to Khan's believability. "There's that quote," she told me recently, speaking by phone from the Marvel offices. " 'You achieve universality through specificity.' We didn't have a political agenda to prove to the world that Muslims are like this or not like this. You get to know Kamala Khan through the fact that she really wants to eat a BLT and she would really like to have her first kiss. And then you get to know that yeah, she's a Muslim. She goes to mosque." – The Village Voice Read the rest of the article HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Michael Cavna has a story about a new Washington Post "funny" you might have noticed – it stars a USDA worker, and begs the question "how?" Cavan explains how the real life Abbey Powell, public affairs specialist with the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, became an action-adventure comic character in James Allen's new strip – HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Clara Jetsmark and Tom Kaczynski collaborated on a recent comic for The Nib – Clara was interning with Tom for a few months, on loan from Denmark's The Animation Workshop (like her fellow classmates Cathrin Peterslund and Emil Friis Ernst, who are currently spending time in Pittsburgh with Ed Piskor and Frank Santoro, respectively!) Here's a taste of The Nib comic (it tromps through the political nostalgia and nationalism that surround the Trump campaign…): Read the whole thing HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Anya Davidson's Band For Life enjoyed it's book release party last night at Quimby's in Chicago, IL. Get a copy of Band For Life (Fantagraphics, September 2016) HERE. ————————————————————————————————— I've been dipping into Jessica Campbell's Hot or Not: 20th Century Male Artists (Koyama Press, September 2016) and can confirm that it is a hilarious and gratifying guide – a must-have reference for any trip to the art museum. "With the way Campbell reduces Borduas's or Mondrian's abstractions even further, or captures what's cute about Calder's mien, she poo-poos macho ideas of artistic greatness, at the same time she showcases her own slyly unassuming skill." — Sean Rogers, The Globe and Mail Jessica will be on tour this fall – catch her at The Beguiling on Oct. 28th and ask for her further thoughts on Matisse's overall hotness… ————————————————————————————————— The Rowhouse received a package from M. S. Harkness and Peter Faecke the other day, and I immediately stole all of M. S. Harkness' comics. Her stories about wrestling and love are a perfect combination of badassery and humor, and the energy in her drawings is catching. Download some of her comics HERE – and catch her at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus next weekend! ————————————————————————————————— Naomi Nowak is a Comics Workbook sponsor – she is a cartoonist, illustrator, and fashion designer based in Sweden. Give her clothes and jewelry a look at her online shop – Raintower – where you will find some beautiful new items (all the clothing is made to order), and the majority of my Christmas wish list…! ————————————————————————————————— Copacetic Comics had a cool visitor today – David Conrad @crawford_conrad stopped by looking for Bill and left with some books ? @copaceticcomics ❤ #pittsburgh #comics #marvelagentsofshield A photo posted by Sally Ingraham (@sally_ingraham) on Oct 6, 2016 at 6:44pm PDT Here's a funny story – I was working at Copacetic Comics in Pittsburgh, PA, yesterday, and who should walk into the store? It was David Conrad – a Pittsburgh native and the actor who played Jim Clancy on the TV show Ghost Whisperer, and Ian Quinn on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (which is why I recognized him), among other things. He was visiting from L.A. and had been told to look up Bill Boichel at Copacetic Comics. Although he splits time between a number of locations, Pittsburgh is still his hometown, and he recently started writing a column for Pittsburgh Magazine – here is the September "Talk of The Tahn". He grew up very close to where Comics Workbook and the Rowhouse Residency is located, and is still invested in the neighborhood and surrounding city. Keep up with him via Instagram – @crawford_conrad – and you may just bump into him somewhere in the city this weekend! ————————————————————————————————— Comics Workbook is heading to the UK for The Lakes International Comic Art Festival and to Columbus, OH, for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus next week. Hang out with Frank Santoro, Aidan Koch, Connor Willumsen in the UK – more details HERE. The team in Ohio will be doing workshops next weekend, and you can sign up in advance to get a seat – details HERE. Advanced signups will end Friday, October 7th, 2016. ————————————————————————————————— There is still time to get a bid in on the Michael DeForge drawings that we have up for auction – details HERE. Have you seen the recent collaboration between Frank Santoro and master jeweler Airi Maeno? Check out the Pompeii Medallion HERE. Help us get Connor Willumsen to The Lakes International Comic Art Festival – this way please! ————————————————————————————————— I'll be back with you next Friday, reporting live from Ohio and Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. See you there! – Sally Share this page:Read More:07/06/201804/20/201808/17/201802/16/2018...
Sally IngrahamApril 26, 2017NewsSally here with the Kugali database, work from Adam Griffiths and Lawrence "Raw Dog" Hubbard, and your daily dose of comic strips by Comics Workbook creators! ————————————————————————————————— I recently discovered Kugali, a curated database of African comics, games, and animation. The three Nigerian founders – Ziki Nelson, Tolu Olowofoyeku, and Maculay Alvarez – spoke to Konbini recently about why they started the site and their continuing plans for it. Ziki speaking here: "My relationship with comics was love at first sight. I started with Spiderman and for over two decades it's been non-stop. However, at some point I realized that the vast majority of comics consistently overlooked or simply ignored the African experience. At first this was disappointing. I felt like this thing that I loved so much didn't care about me or my culture. I reached out to my co-founders, both of whom had gone through similar experiences, and our goal was simple: find out if there are any African comics and see if they were any good. Not not only did we discover dozens of amazing comics, we also found awesome video games, cartoons and many other cool projects. The only problem I had with this revelation was the whole discovery process. So, we decided to aggregate all of this awesome content so people could discover the best African content." The Kugali blog is an excellent place to start exploring – check it out HERE. The official database can be found HERE. The guys also have a YouTube channel and a Podcast, so take some time to really dig into the comics of Africa and the African diaspora with them! ————————————————————————————————— Adam Griffiths has launched a new webcomic called American Cryo – you can read the rest of the first strip (pictured in part above) HERE. He also released the mini-comic he finished drawing in January during his Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency – The Permanent Night – which you can purchase HERE. ————————————————————————————————— In his weekly roundup of comics-related stuff on VICE, Nick Gazin spoke to Lawrence "Raw Dog" Hubbard, co-creator of the Real Deal comics (with H. P. McElwee, who passed away in 1998). Lawrence has been working on the comic since 1990, and Fantagraphics recently collected the 7 issues. "VICE: What's it like to have this hardcover collection of your comics after all these decades? Lawrence "Raw Dog" Hubbard: "What's it like?" It's a feeling of euphoria, of validation. Thinking of all of the hard work, hours of drawing and creating Real Dealand wondering, Does anybody give a shit about this? All of the times me and H.P. McElwee took Real Deal directly to the people, the fans, they loved it! But at the same time when we went before the gatekeepers of the industry—publishers, distributors, shop owners—they said, "No! Why don't you come up with a new superhero?" The best way to look at this is to never give up! If you love something and have a passion for it, stick with it! And whatever happens will happen! And thanks to Fantagraphics, the word about Real Deal will get out to gobs of comic fans who never heard of it before." Read more HERE. Get a copy of Real Deal from Copacetic Comics! ————————————————————————————————— Extra Innings Keith Knight was featured on Episode 29 of Study Group's Process Party. The Comics Journal shares one last review of Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand – reviewed by Mathias Wivel HERE. David Betancourt, who has joined the Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog team, wrote about Tee Franklin's Bingo Love earlier this month. James Kaplan reviews Space Riders: Galaxy of Brutality #1 by Alexis Ziritt and Fabian Rangel Jr. on Panel Patter – HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 4-27-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 4-27-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 4-27-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:Rowhouse Residency…02/02/201809/07/201804/20/2018...
Juan FernándezMarch 28, 2016NewsJuan Fernandez here today to start your week off with the latest: Comics readings, workshops and expos in Pittsburgh; Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman reflect with Karen Green; HTMLFlowers' sincere and open interview on Inkstuds; Jessica Campbell with the hyucks; OpenToonz in the hands of millions . ————————————————————————————————— BLITZBURGH No beating around the bush here, there's a load of comics happenings this week in Pittsburgh, big and small. Comics readings, free workshops and PIX. Lots of different ways to soak up the comics! More information on PIX. This Friday, the Lili Café in Polish Hill will celebrate PIX by hosting a night of comics readings and performaces by Carl Antonowicz, Juan Fernandez (me), Sophie Goldstein, Cynthia Lee, Jennifer Lisa, Rachel Masilamani and Noah Van Sciver. Copacetic Comics, on the third floor, will be open late for a post-reading hang out. Find out more here. To celebrate PIX 2016 on Saturday, Comics Workbook is offering a full day of hands on comics instruction and training in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – South Side. Come bring work for critique, practice your comics composition, or simply try your hand at comics making for the first time. We have activities to embolden the hearts and enliven the spirits of professional and amateur comics makers alike. 3:30-4:30 PM Legendary Underground comics artist Bill Griffith will be conducting a FREE hour-long drawing workshop (with handouts) as part of this year's PIX activities. That's right, learn how to draw from the creator of Zippy the Pinhead. There will be Comics Workbook workshops all day long at the Carnegie Library on the South Side. Please RSVP. – More workshop schedule updates to come. – ————————————————————————————————— Green, Griffith and Spiegelman Here on the site, John Kelly has brought us some snippets from Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman's latest public talk. Former Arcade magazine editors and Underground Cartooning legends Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman discuss their early days as artists at a talk given March 16, 2016 at Columbia University commemorating Griffith's announcement that he will be bequeathing a large portion of his personal art archives to the University. The talk was moderated by Karen Green, Columbia's Librarian for Ancient & Medieval History and Graphic Novels. Check 'em out here! ————————————————————————————————— Inkstuds: HTMLFLOWERS HTML Flowers aka Grant Gronewold joined Robin over on Inkstuds to talk about his art, comics and music. We also coverchronic health conditions in modern medical bureaucracy, mortality, and the urge to make comics. His series of mini comics, No Visitors, is availabe for order right now,. Grant's also got a book out from Space Face Books called Virtual Candle as well as his collaborations with Simon Hanselmann in Werefolf Jones and Sons. This interview right here, It's a good one, folks. Listen to it over on Inkstuds. ————————————————————————————————— Best Jokes? Jessica Campbell is back with the hyucks. Dig into them all over on her site, bestjokes.tumblr.com. ————————————————————————————————— OpenToonz Last but not least, the robust 2D animation software suite, OpenToonz was made open source through a partnership between Italian developer Digital Video and Japanese company Dwango. Big ups to them. If you hadn't caught wind of this yet, it is a game changer for 2D animation production, the kind that is going to lead to an increase in drawn animation production. For the comics maker and animator in a pinch, this powerful, free alternative to Adobe and Toonboom is a godsend. Go forth and make! Download it here – https://opentoonz.github.io/e/index.html A How to get started tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMskd30Y9Js For more info in case your install doesn't work properly on that check this forum out. https://groups.google.com/forum/… Share this page:Read More:09/21/201803/30/2018The Alabaster Pizzo…Comics Workbook…...
Juan FernándezMarch 7, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el dia con Sol Diaz; Miguel A. Giner y Cristina Durán; Vanesa R. Del Rey; Chicks on Comics;#GRAFBCN2017; Alvaro Ortiz; Fran Meneses and the ugly side; Billar de letras new comics club y los tebeos del dia! ————————————————————————————————— Cómics y noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Sol Diaz – spotlighted over on Es Mi Fiesta y lanza un nuevo libro: La historia ilustrada de un embarazo. Miguel A. Giner and Cristina Durán tell the story of the adoption of their daughter in their latest comic, Una Posibilidad Entre Mil. They talk shop over on RTVE3's La Hora Del Bocadillo + there's a fresh interview with Miguel A. Giner and Cristina Durán on their new book over at Bilbao24Horas. Constantine #3-4 original art by the great Vanesa R. Del Rey available NOW over on Cadence Comics Art Gallery. Don't miss your chance to own some of the action. CHICAS DE COMICS/CHICKS ON COMICS Siete mujeres historietistas de distintas partes del mundo expusieron sus trabajos en la Fundación Proa de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Nice interviews and video documentation of the exhibition over on Argentina's TV Publica. (Start at 34:00) #GRAFBCN2017 took place this weekend and it was a whirlwind in Barcelona. From the ground + el #GRAFBCN2017 en pocas palabras según Pepo Pérez + the fine folks at @underbrain just published a juicy video recap of the fest! You can watch it HERE. @Kikeinfame picks back up with his tradition of interview comics makers – this time around, take a tour of Alvaro Ortiz' tebeoteca y mas! ————————————————————————————————— Billar de Letras esta poniendo en marcha un club de novela gráfica y cómic donde, de la mano de Gerardo Vilches, codirector de CuCo y una de las personas que mejor conoce el mundo del cómic en España, una vez al mes se analizará de manera exhaustiva una obra para descubrir sus mecanismos narrativos y desentrañar los recursos gráficos empleados por su autor. Nuestra intención es mostrar la gran riqueza del lenguaje del cómic y sus posibilidades narrativas, a través de la lectura crítica de obras que ya forman parte del canon de la novela gráfica. En las últimas décadas, el cómic ha experimentado un gran crecimiento como medio artístico, de forma que sus posbilidades narrativas y estéticas se están desarrollando en obras de extraordinaria calidad. En la web de Billar de letras tenéis toda la información para inscribiros. ————————————————————————————————— Fran Meneses, Chilean comics maker and illustrator in England, gets real with the ugly side of freelance life. Really nice, honest lens that invites us to dispel the glorification of work-a-holism in the freelance life. It gets unhealthy fast, if unchecked and the glamour that gets associated with it winds up being destructive and causes a lot of silence and erasure of the honest struggle. ————————————————————————————————— The Spring Semester of the Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers started March 7th! There is a rolling start date for this semester of the course, so we will continue taking applications beyond that date. The course is 8 weeks long – 500 bux – payment plans are available. More details can be found HERE – or email santoroschoolATgmail to apply. ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 3-8-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 3-8-2017 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 3-8-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio ————————————————————————————————— Cozytown – 3-8-2017 – by Juan Fernandez Share this page:Read More:07/25/201806/06/201805/23/201801/31/2018...
Chris Anthony DiazJanuary 25, 2018The Diaz ArchiveComic Arts Brooklyn, Saturday, November 11, 2017, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (clicking image will take you to the cartoonist's link) Share this page:Read More:Comic Arts Brooklyn 201806/19/201811/20/201810/24/2018...
Juan FernándezApril 4, 2018los Cómics / NewsRaquel Echenique, Jim Puk, y un poquito sobre El Fruto Prohibido! —————————————— Los cómics y las noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: ~ en Español y "sometimes in English" ~ Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! Las chicas conversan con Raquel Echenique acerca de sus influencias, el lugar en donde pasó su infancia, su trabajo, muestran sus referentes, hablan de su amor por el cómic y se Echenique confiesa como rabiosa, entre muchas otras cosas. ————————————————————————————————— Entrevista a Ghor Bosch (2015) – dibujado por Pablo Delcielo – publicado en Buenos Aires por Yegua ediciones. Este comic es parte de una serie de entrevistas imaginiarias, que son bastante graciosas y serias con Ghor Bosch aunque. Léanlo AQUI. ————————————————————————————————— Caricaturista colombiano 'Matador' deja de usar redes sociales por amenazas de muerte Julio César González, más conocido como 'Matador' por sus caricaturas en el diario El Tiempo, anunció en la madrugada de este martes su retiro de las redes sociales, después de haber estado en el ojo del huracán durante varias semanas luego de haber personificado al candidato uribista, Iván Duque, como un cerdo en varias de sus publicaciones. Aunque hace menos de dos semanas la Jueza Hilda María Saffon negó una tutela interpuesta contra el caricaturista por el dibujo titulado 'Duque reflexiona', argumentando que "la creatividad e ingenio del caricaturista no debe limitarse por quienes no comparten su opinión", los simpatizantes del Centro Democrático y el expresidente Uribe no han cesado de expresarle su descontento con insultos y agresiones en medio de la contienda electoral. Léanlo todo en El Espectador ————————————————————————————————— Jim Pluk – @jimpluk Estaré publicando en las historias de mi Instagram ( @jimpluk ) algunos cómics de autores contemporáneos que recomiendo personalmente, por si quieren indagar más sobre estos, tanto Colombianos como extranjeros. Estos posts estarán bajo el hashtag #leacomix y #hagacomix ————————————————————————————————— Por qué lo llaman vagina cuando quieren decir vulva – Elizabeth Casillas Puede que sea uno de los tebeos más controvertidos que vayas a leer este año, y no precisamente por decir sandeces. La historietista sueca Liv Strömquist firma El fruto prohibido (Reservoir Books, 2018), un cómic que repasa la historia cultural de la vulva con argumentación teórica pero, sobre todo, mucho humor. Anuncios de compresas o tampones que recurren, en exceso, a las palabras "limpia" y "segura". Señores que se preocupan, en exceso, de lo que suele denominarse «el órgano sexual femenino». Autoridades, organizaciones, periódicos, médicos y demás organismos empeñados, en exceso, de producir (des)información sobre el sexo. Y así sucesivamente, Liv Strömquist termina enumerando una serie de cosas que están mal (muy mal) en nuestra sociedad en lo que a la mujer y su sexo se refiere. Léanlo todo en REVISTA CACTUS ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 4-4-2018 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 4-4-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:04/11/201802/06/2018MoCCA Arts Festival 201809/21/2018...
Juan FernándezOctober 4, 2017los Cómics / NewsEmpezamos el día con Daniel Blanco; José Muñoz y Maria Luque; Inés Estrada; Rodrigo la Hoz; #GRAFMAD2017 y los tebeos de Cómics Workbook! ————————————————————————————————— Juan here: Well, folks, made it through the gauntlet. I had a brilliant time at CXC as Jenn Lisa and Sean Knickerbocker's hype man & dutiful assistant. Comics Workbook held it down and got the good word into the hands of Columbus aplenty through workshops, back issues and conversations. It's great to have a crew like Comics Workbook where we'll have a core crew running programming and officially representing (Frank Santoro, Sally Ingraham, Audra Stang, Caleb Orecchio, and Connor Willumsen) while also having "agents" floating around the festival. It was good to be in the company of folks like Aaron Cockle, Kurt Ankeny, Adam Griffiths, Marina Harkness. All of us doing our thing. A huge thank you to the CXC staff and volunteers for helping establish a show that best honors cartoonists and building a deep city wide infrastructure. Most specifically, I'd like to thank the CXC Executive committee, the people who make this show what it is and tirelessly keep it going–Jeff Smith, Lucy Caswell, Vijaya Iyer, Kathleen Glosan, Tom Spurgeon and Melody Reed. Got to catch up with the great Iona Woolmington. Hearts on fire for her. Picked up fresh Comics School USA #8 from Kevin Huizenga. Can't wait to sink my teeth into his notes. Watched Kat Fajardo receive the CXC emerging talent and felt the waves of excitement. Still running on that energy. Talked autobio comics with Breena Nuñez. Watched Jenn Lisa find kindred spirits at this show talking autobio and DIY and talking about the garbage aspects of the intersection of ego and publishing. This is a big deal for me and her. Good stuff. CXC 2018 is 9/27-9/30. Thursday through Sunday. Mark your calendars and make your pilgrimage to Columbus. Stay tuned for my annual Expanding the Festival Tool Kit post. After bathing in the warmth of CXC and swimming through a year of shows and festivals, I've got lots of thoughts. And I hope you do too, so chime in. Tonight in Pittsburgh we've got our monthly comics salon: If you're in Pittsburgh, be sure to stop by for some drawing exercises, coffee, shop talk, and solidarity. Tonight we'll be riffing off of Connor Willumsen's latest workshops, focusing on distilling action, observation and dialogue into their essential bits across tight but flexible architectures of the page. We'll be guided by the principles he's developed over the past couple of years, most visible in his latest work, Anti-Gone, published by Koyama Press. Anyway here's the usual comics gold I bring you every week from Latin America and Spain. A little lighter a haul than usual, but just as shiny. *Turn on your translation devices* ————————————————————————————————— Los cómics y las noticias que me han llamado la atención esta semana: Sol Díaz Castillo y Marcela Trujillo tienen una nueva edicion de La Polola Podcast! Las chicas conversan con Daniel Blanco sobre sus inicios en el dibujo, su infancia en la religión mormona y su vida en peñalolen rodeado de animales y perros. Les contó acerca de su formación casi autodidacta y su amor por la filosofía y la teoría. Finalmente les habló de su editorial Endorsain y el gusto de hacer libros de autor distintos y originales Lo que va del cómic argentino: Martín Pérez escribe en las #Entreviñetas de El Espectador acerca de la obra de José Muñoz y Maria Luque Inés Estrada sale de gira: AUSTIN, DALLAS, TOKYO, CIUDAD DE MEXICO, LOS ANGELES y les ofrece un nuevo calendario para el 2018 en la tienda Gatosaurio. Rodrigo la Hoz les da tres consejos para contar historias en viñetas en Revista Bacánika. Abierta la convocatoria para participar en #GRAFMAD2017 ¡Hasta el 16 de octubre! ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie -10-04-2017- by Caleb Orecchio ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 10-4-2017 – by Sally Ingraham Share this page:Read More:06/06/201806/13/201805/23/201802/28/2018...
Posted on August 14, 2019 August 15, 2019 by Chris Anthony Diaz
Simon Hanselmann Bad Gateway west coast signing tour, Green Apple on the Park, San Francisco, Friday evening, August 2, 2019 and Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Saturday evening, August 3, 2019
Green Apple on the Park
Simon Hanselmann reading
At the signing, Simon Hanselmann sold DRACULA JUNIOR, OWL and IAN watercolor sketches
Simon Hanselmann read and signed at Skylight Books
Joe Matt and Simon Hanselmann met for the first time
Joe Matt and Simon Hanselmann
On Vermont Avenue, Joe Matt showed Simon Hanselmann around
The Alabaster Pizzo…
San Diego Comic-Con International 2019
Comics Workbook Workshops at SPX 2019
Caleb OrecchioApril 16, 2018NewsCaleb Orecchio here with John Porcellino's recent stop in Pittsburgh, and other news. ————————————————————————————————— He has seen but half the universe who has never been shown the house of Pain. –Ralph Waldo Emerson This past Friday, John Porcellino stopped by Copacetic Comics here in Pittsburgh while on tour for his book, From Lone Mountain, a collection of his King-Cat "comics and stories" from 2003 to 2007, published by Drawn and Quarterly. This was the first signing at Copacetic I've attended since I moved to Pittsburgh this year. It was great. Porcellino did his song and dance at Kaibur Coffee (same building as Copacetic but two floors below) by taking us, via slideshow, through excerpts of his book and giving background details and tangents revolving around the events therein. John laid bare his soul during his presentation as he does with every annual release of King-Cat. Pain and Joy are one, and the audience often found ourselves laughing in hindsight at the misfortunes along with our hero. After the presentation and rather intimate audience Q&A, we hiked up to Copacetic where books were signed and comics were talked about. It was great. Not only could you chat with John Porcellino, but you could also hangout with the Pittsburgh crowd: Sam Ombiri, Sally Ingraham, Juan Fernandez, Jenn Lisa, Audra Stang, Nate McDonough, and many others. I showed Sam my favorite King City gag, while Juan waxed different ways to read and comprehend information with Audra and Sally. I clumsily talked about Pittsburgh roads vs every other American road system with John P as he signed my copy of his book. I asked Bill Boichel (Copacetic proprietor) if he agreed that Red Nails was Barry Windsor-Smith's best work, and I think he did. Then we started talking about Kaluta. Lots of things seemed to be going on. The hours went by quickly. It was a beautiful day. Only several days before, the city was snow-capped, but today it felt like how I imagine California feels on its best days. On the Copacetic Balcony, you could see the beautiful old buildings over the hills that run through the city and the purple dusk. Thanks to John P. for coming to Pittsburgh and thanks to Bill Boichel and Copacetic Comics for hosting. ————————————————————————————————— if you don't know, now you know TCJ.com launched a bi-weekly column called "Retail Therapy." Every other week will evidently feature an interview with a comics retailer. First up, Portland's Floating World Comics. Who, will be publishing Zack Soto's debut The Secret Voice graphic novel. Your Chicken Enemy has the scoop on upcoming Uncivilized Books titles. TCAF 2018 is right around the corner! It will be here before you know it! Eddie Campbells limited weekly strip ended. Did you see it? ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 4-16-2018 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 4-16-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:03/13/2018MoCCA Arts Festival 2018San Diego Comic-Con…05/15/2018...
Sally IngrahamJanuary 5, 2017NewsSally here, with work by Karine Bernadou to share, info on Gert Van Houten, praise for Annie Koyama, plus the spotlight on two local Pittsburgh creators, lots and lots of lists…and your daily dose of Comics Workbook Daily Strips! ————————————————————————————————— Here's a wonderful tribute to Koyama Press and Annie Koyama via the Torontoist – as part of a reflection on the best and worst of 2016, they are voting for the Heroes and Villains of Toronto and Koyama Press has been nominated for "re-defining kickass in the local arts scene". The write up about Annie and Koyama Press is lovely – check it out HERE. The ballots will be counted this morning and we'll know by noon today who Toronto's Superhero and Supervillain of the year will be – of course, the obvious choice for superhero to me is Kickass Annie! (Also, check out more work by Emile Compion – who made the image above of our favorite gal – HERE or via Instagram – @montevarious) ————————————————————————————————— The comic above was made by Gertrude Van Houten, who is considered to be the first known female cartoonist in the nation who made cartoons about a specific locale. She worked for the Grande Rapids Press in the 1920s and '30s and her comics appeared on the front page of the paper every few days. Readers referred to her as "Gert" and as you can see in the piece above, the character "Little Gert" always made an appearance in a corner of her strips. Learn a bit more about her HERE, or get a copy of Drew Damron's booklet Her Pitchers: The Life and Work of Gert Van Houten from Issue Press. ————————————————————————————————— A happy discovery for me this week was French cartoonist Karine Bernadou. I read a copy of Canopy (Retrofit Comics, 2016) while working at Copacetic Comics and laughed and grimaced my way through it. A young woman is abandoned in the woods by her mother and left to discover on her own the means to deal with a strange faceless man, a loving ogre, beautiful sirens, and the frightening/magical forest itself. I enjoyed Karine's pantomime style and the somewhat violent, but hilarious tumble I took through her world. Get a copy of Canopy from Copacetic Comics or Retrofit, where it is also available digitally. ————————————————————————————————— Shout-out to local Pittsburgh cartoonists and creators Hannah Leach and Em DeMarco who attended the Pittsburgh Comics Salon this past week. There is an incredible richness of badass women working in the city these days and I'm always excited to meet, and get to know them better. Check out Em DeMarco's work HERE – she is a comics journalist whose work appears regularly in the Pittsburgh City Paper, as well as a talented photographer who you are almost sure to bump into at more than one punk show on any given weekend. She works relentlessly, and is even turning her hand towards teaching comics this year. She's definitely an inspiration to me! Hannah Leach draws and SEWS too! She recently opened an Etsy store which you should certainly check out – WolfWitchStitch. Also follow her Instagram for more drawings and stitchery in progress – @wolfwitchstitch. ————————————————————————————————— Heidi MacDonald over on The Comics Beat has The Beat Annual Creator Survey 2017. It contains thoughts on what was cool in 2016, what to expect in 2017, and – thankfully, in the face of plenty of negative energy going around – what inspires the creators that Heidi interviewed. Autostraddle has their list of the 10 Best Comics of 2016 – part of their Drawn to Comics series, which focuses on comics by, featuring, and for queer ladies. The Comp Magazine has a nice list of 10 Comics Read Twice in 2016 – including Anya Davidson's Band for Life, Pushwagner's Soft City, and the new Black Panther series which are all books I can totally get on the hype wagon for myself. The rest of the list is solid too, so if your "to be read" list needs rounding out, you'll find some books to add there. Since I'm listing lists here, I may as well add The Comic Journal's The Best Comics of 2016 (According to Some) – and speaking of Anya Davidson, she was one among the "according to some" and had some thoughts on lists like these: "Can I say that I think these kinds of lists are arbitrary, because there is a dizzying number of brilliant books out there that I haven't read, so this is more of a "list of things I read that I greatly enjoyed" than a best of?" Yes, you can say that, and thanks. Last list for today – The Guardian has one that is looking forward to The 20 Comics to Watch Out for in 2017. Lots of good stuff including new books by Eleanor Davis and Jillian Tamaki, and more of the Worlds Of Wakanda and Shade: The Changing Girl series'. ————————————————————————————————— I was just flipping through Zona #1 (above) today, looking for Gabriella Tito's story specifically – which you can read online HERE – but of course I ended up perusing the whole thing since Harry Moyer, Jack Brougham, and Frank Santoro's stories are equally rad. This is one of my favorite Comics Workbook publications and if you don't have a copy I highly recommend it – 60 pages of work in black and white, with screen printed covers made by Frank, out of an edition of only 100. Check it out HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 1-6-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 1-6-2017 – by Sally Ingraham Share this page:Read More:04/20/2018Rowhouse Residency…Digital Ways of Seeing…07/13/2018...
Aaron CockleApril 9, 2018NewsAaron here today with Goblet/Alagbé & Haifisch; Warren Craghead; a Funhouse Recap; Pen America World Voices Festival ————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————— 'The 45th president should be an easy target for political cartoonists, but they've struggled to come up with an image that sticks.' Sarah Boxer profiles a bunch of political cartoonists, including CW favorites Philip Guston and Warren Craghead. Not long after Trump was elected, I went to the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York, to an exhibition of Philip Guston's drawings of Richard M. Nixon, all from the early 1970s. I'd seen them before, but this time the work—featuring Nixon as a walking nose, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a pair of black horn-rimmed glasses, and Vice President Spiro Agnew as a triangle studded with nails—had new resonance. ————————————————————————————————— Robyn Chapman has a photo-recap of the recent Funhouse festival at The Drawing Center. ————————————————————————————————— Comics Carousel at the Pen World Voices Festival It's a little bit of theater and a whole lot of art as comics artists Pénélope Bagieu (Brazen), Mariko Tamaki (Lumberjanes), Iasmin Omar Ata (Mi(s)hadra) and Tony Medina (I Am Alfonso Jones) join in a comics carousel led by Bob Sikoryak to showcase their visual talents and unique perspectives—and perform parts from their books! Original and subversive, they share their singular stories from the frontlines of comics that resist clichéd narratives and reimagine our futures. Q&A with the authors to follow. Check out the rest of the festival line-up, there's some great stuff. ————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 4-10-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:04/17/201803/09/201803/27/2018San Diego Comic-Con…...
Connor Willumsen's LICAF 2016 Workshops
Comics WorkbookOctober 30, 2016ClassesConnor Willumsen teaching a Comics Workbook-hosted workshop at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, 2016 Share this page:Read More:10/01/201809/07/201809/19/201809/11/2018...
Juan FernándezJuly 6, 2016NewsJuan Fernandez here with your Spanish language comics news: Cuadernos de cómic número 6;los consejos de Inés Estrada; Novedades de Fulgencio Pimentel; la historia del cómic Chileno; una reseña del PLAYGROUND de Berliac. ————————————————————————————————— CuCo, Cuadernos de cómic número 6. Junio de 2016 La nueva edicion de la revista de estudio y crítica de la historieta, CuCo, hay sido publicada este fin de semana! Puedes descargar Revista 6 aqui – GRATIS. Entre sus ensayos, debates, y estudios esta edicion incluye entrevistas con Martin Lopez Lam, Mirion Malle, y Sergio Garcia. En CuCo, se toma lo del cómic en serio! ————————————————————————————————— Consejos de Inés Estrada Hot tips and encouragement from Inés Estrada on how to make comics and illustration work for you. Lots more over on her site. *Expensive tools aren't mandatory I draw all my comics with just a mechanical pencil and I have a 10 year old wacom tablet. I only splurge on nice Fabriano paper. This is what I've found that works for me. Find whatever works best for YOU, it doesn't have to be the same as what other people use! *Share your work anywhere you can If you can go to fests or shows, that's great, but if you can't, use the internet! I grew up in Mexico City where there is no "comics scene" but I was still able to make it because I've been consistently posting my work on the internet for years. Commit yourself to posting your work on Tumblr, Twitter or Instagram as often as you can. Try to have a separate account for your professional work that doesn't feature a million photos of your beautiful cat and the delicious breakfast you made today. NEVER STOP DRAWING, NEVER STOP MAKING, DON'T LET ANYTHING DISCOURAGE YOU! STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF! ————————————————————————————————— La historia del cómic Chileno La Biblioteca Nacional de Chile le ofrece una vista cronológica del desarrollamiento del cómic chileno desde 1906 hasta el presente. Aunque no sea exhaustivo, es un buen punto de partida para quienes quieran aprender mas sobre el mundo del cómic Chileno. Edúcate! La historia del cómic en nuestro país se encuentra estrechamente relacionada con el desarrollo de la historieta y el humor gráfico, que iniciaron su recorrido entre el siglo XIX y la primera mitad del siglo XX. Este desarrollo, en sus inicios, estuvo centrado principalmente en la sátira política, y más tarde en publicaciones orientadas al entretenimiento infantil. El primer personaje de historietas nacional, Von Pilsener, fue creado en 1906 por Lustig (Pedro Subercaseaux), y sus aventuras fueron reeditadas en la década de 1990 por el poeta e investigador Jorge Montealegre. De estos años datan gran cantidad de publicaciones con historietas extranjeras y nacionales, entre las que destacaban algunas como El Pibe (1923), Don Fausto (1924), Pulgarcito (1938) y Pobre Diablo (1946), así como otras más conocidas por los lectores de hoy, como Topaze, dedicada al humor político, y El Peneca, dirigido desde la década de 1920 por Elvira Santa Cruz. Nació también antes de 1950 el más famoso de los personajes ilustrados de nuestro país: Condorito. ————————————————————————————————— Reseña de Playground por Berliac " 'Playground' is a fundamental work to understand comics of today. It's a complex, postmodern piece, about the medium and its limitations (…) Berliac breaks through these limits and starts from scratch (…) using, in short, all the posibilities of comics". – Jesús Jádiva, Zona Negativa Y no se pierdan la reseña de Playground que Frank Santoro hizo pare TCJ en 2014. Te dara otra perspectiva en el valor de esta obra de Berliac. ————————————————————————————————— Novedades de Fulgencio Pimentel Editorial Fulgencio Pimentel a lanzado su nueva suscripción, y como mola: 1. Beverly de Nick Drnaso 2. Meeting Jari de José Ja Ja Ja 3. Melancolía de Simon Hanselmann 4. Talco de Amanda Baeza 5. La yaya Meti de Aapo Rapi 6. Mi pequeño (edición integral) de Olivier Schrauwen Suscríbete por 89.00€ hoy! Presentación DMLQL en Barcelona Y si estas en Barcelona, no te pierdas la presentacion de Gabriel Corbera este Sabado en Fatbottom! 9 de julio a las 12:00 horas. Fatbottom C/ Lluna, 10. Barcelona DÍAS MÁS LARGOS QUE LONGANIZAS de Gabriel Corbera es sencillamente uno de nuestros tebeos favoritos ever. Deudor del manga más cinemático tanto como de las novelas de Marcial Lafuente Estefanía, salpicado de referencias a videojuegos, envuelto en una atmósfera ominosa y risible a un tiempo, DMLQL es mayormente una lección acerca de cómo se ordenan los silencios y los blancos de un poema; o para el caso, de un tebeo. Para nosotros, desde la primera lectura, este tebeo es El Rock y El Verano, los dos en uno, y eso a pesar de que DMLQL es un cómic de tormenta. ————————————————————————————————— hasta la proxima! JF Share this page:Read More:Comics Workbook…09/20/201809/06/2018The Niall Breen Interview...
Sally IngrahamApril 13, 2017NewsSally here to wrap up the week with new work by Ulli Lust; an Easter Comix reading at KGB Bar; a conversation with Carel Moiseiwitsch; a look at Saving Grace; plus much more! ————————————————————————————————— Ulli Lust has printed up a small comic that collects the strips she has been making for the magazine EXBERLINER. She will have copies available at TCAF in May! Meanwhile you can read the strip HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Check out the Annual Easter Comix & Graphic Novel Night on April 16th, 7-9PM at the KGB Bar in New York City. Five local cartoonists will offer slideshow readings that are "sure to entertain, bewilder, and amuse." Co-hosted by Robyn Chapman and Robin Enrico, the reading will also feature Lauren Barnett (some of her work is pictured below), Jim Campbell, Ada Price (above), and Kelsey Wroten. ————————————————————————————————— RJ Casey interviewed 76-year old Carel Moiseiwitsch for The Comics Journal this week. Carel was born during the Blitz, and her first memories are of playing in the rubble of London following the war. This is probably why she drew, as RJ Casey puts it, "dangerous comics". Among many interesting stories about hanging out with the Rolling Stones and getting drunk with Francis Bacon, plus the complexities of making art and raising kids, Carel answers a question posed by RJ Casey that I've been thinking about almost constantly for the last year: "I was thinking about your era of comics and how many fantastic artists just drew for a couple years, then got out completely. Or ones that went into fine art and never made comics again. Why do you think that time period of the late '80s to early '90s had so many artists like that? It's not fruitful and it requires such hard work. Also everything became kind of corporate. It's very hard to survive in that kind of atmosphere. Where I came from — London and Paris in the '60s — you could go there and draw, record music, and create art, then shuffle around to the cafes and have a drink, meet up with friends, write poetry, or whatever it is you wanted to do. People took you seriously without you having to be famous or successful. You just had to be true to yourself. But now it's like if you're not famous or successful, you're nothing." Carel has continued to make comics and other artwork, has worked as a teacher, and has spent a lot of time turning her attention to mental health activism. The whole interview is fantastic and it's a real treat to get a look around Carel's head space – she's a powerhouse. Read the whole thing HERE. ————————————————————————————————— A good friend of Comics Workbook and her fellow artists are in need of your signature – Naomi Nowak (painter/jeweler/fashion designer extraordinaire) is in danger of losing her studio space. "sad news! your signature is needed. me and my artist friends/colleagues are being evicted from our beloved studio space in stockholm, pannrummet (the boiler room). it's practically already a done deal and we haven't been given a fair chance to have our say or be part of the proceedings around this. so this petition is our very last, desperate plea to our landlords that they reconsider their decision and let us continue to work and create in the space we have loved and cared for. last year we renovated the place and built a bar + showroom where we have barely had time to show art and host exchanges, something were very much looking forward to. please sign to save studio pannrummet! we've never disturbed our neighbour and all 9 of us are now without a studio #savepannis" Sign the petition HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Saving Grace by Grace Wilson just turned up at Copacetic Comics – it was published late last year in England. The Guardian has a review of it that should spark your interest: "Saving Grace is, first of all, a brilliant commentary on the housing crisis. Its author, Grace Wilson, knows all about the queasy feeling that comes with not knowing where you will soon be sleeping, and the way it affects everything – everything – else in your life, from work to relationships to, ultimately, your self-confidence. But it's so much more than that. It's hilarious, not only about rapacious landlords and their creepy ways, but about friendship, work, holidays and sex, too. It's hard to imagine a funnier scene than the one when Maxine, drunk and having rowed with her boyfriend yet again, makes the mistake of going home with an Iggy Pop-alike who wants to spank her with a bit of precious rock memorabilia ("Did I ever tell you about when I used to roadie for the Who, Max?"). On the tube, where I read it, people looked at me warily, this sniggering woman with a large rainbow-coloured comic book in her hands." – Rachel Cooke Read the rest HERE. Get a copy of the book at Copacetic Comics! ————————————————————————————————— I thought Lauren Weinstein's strip in The Village Voice this week was particularly funny – but maybe that's because I am increasingly of the opinion that cats are the cartoonist's true enemy…! ————————————————————————————————— Scallions or Chives The winners of 2017's Cartoonist Studio Prize are Eleanor Davis for Libby's Dad (Best Print Comic) and Christina Tran for On Beauty (Best Web Comic). A recent New Yorker cover illustration is being reproduced be female surgeons around the world – check it out HERE. Katherine Collins will be inducted into the Giants of the North hall of fame this year – and the nominee list for the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning includes Julie Doucet among others. ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 4-14-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 4-14-2017 – by Gabriella Tito ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 4-14-2017 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:03/09/201803/30/201804/13/201805/04/2018...
Sally IngrahamMarch 29, 2018NewsSally Ingraham here with work and wisdom from Kriota Willberg, Nicole Hollander, Deb Lucke, and many more! ————————————————————————————————— Kriota Willberg calls Draw Stronger (coming out in April 2018) the comic she was "born to make". She addresses a chronic problem she has witnessed among cartoonists and artists and creatives of all sorts – living with pain. Publishers Weekly had a great chat with her recently, and she began by saying: "In the US we have a number of familiar clichés: "No pain, no gain." "You must suffer for your art." "If it doesn't hurt, it's not working." There's a stereotype: artists suffer in literature and film—it's sexy! Who wants to watch a movie about a genius artist who gets enough rest, meets their deadlines, never yells at their spouse or kids, makes incredible pain free art, and dies after a fulfilling happy career? Wrist braces, calluses, poisoning from media (ink/paint), and lack of sleep are interpreted by many to mean that we are suffering in order to make great comics. That's how it's done! This is true for acting, dancing, sports, banking, science, everything. Our culture tells us that you love your discipline more (regardless of talent) if you prove through suffering that you are working harder than anyone else. Obviously, deadlines, day jobs, and life get in the way of healthy work/rest schedules. However, the comics community is beginning to be supportive of injured artists and more aware of healthy drawing practices. Protecting a lifetime of drawing is becoming more important than the next deadline." Kriota Willberg is the champion we need right now, determined to get this point across to legions of struggling (and not in the glamorous way) artists. Read the rest of the interview at Publishers Weekly HERE. Over on The Comics Beat Kriota was a guest columnist recently, and shared a lengthy interview with Nate Piekos. The topic is Nate's life-changing injury to hand/shoulder/neck which was caused by his work as a professional letterer for numerous comics publishers. Kriota calls his experience "nightmarish but hopeful". Read about it HERE. Be smart! Pick up Kriota's book when it comes out, or catch one of her excellent workshops at a comics expo near you. (Pittsburgh cartoonists, Kriota will be here in June offering her workshop – keep an eye out for more details soon!) ————————————————————————————————— Nicole Hollander talks about her new book in the video above – it is called We Ate Wonder Bread, and is a memoir of her childhood in Chicago. Nicole Hollander is the creator of the comic strip Sylvia, which has been in syndication since 1981 (you can read archival strips and an occasional new one HERE). Using Sylvia to speak her mind over the years, Nicole Hollander is an important voice and an interesting cartoonist. There's a short but powerful interview with her on Publishers Weekly where she talks about the difference between creating a political daily comic strip, and a memoir. She also talks about what it meant to be a feminist cartoonist in the 1970's. "I didn't even know my career was impossible. We had features editors who were women but it meant nothing. The approval came from men sitting in an office saying thumbs up or thumbs down. There were what, three or four slots? Early women cartoonists like Brenda Starr were very feminine. Lynda Barry had a strong following, but only in alternative papers. With Sylvia, readers were always writing in complaining, saying they were "disgusted their daughter would have to read about disgusting things like having your period." But I got away with a lot. There was so much independence in what I did." Read the rest of the interview HERE. ————————————————————————————————— The chance to check out Edward Gorey's Art Collection, as depicted by cartoonist Deb Lucke, was pretty much everything I could have asked for today. See the whole thing at The New Yorker – HERE. Deb Lucke is known for her series for kids, The Lunch Witch – but I really like the more incidental comics that she makes. Here's another one about a museum visit, this time to the MOMA, from February of 2018 – check it out on The Rumpus. ————————————————————————————————— Weekend Snacks Just in time for Passover, Liana Finck shares her take on the story of Moses and The Burning Bush, in The Tough Customer – on Tablet. The New York Times Book Review has added two comics and graphic novel columnists – the excellent Hillary Chute and Ed Park. The Book Review will start running their column in April. Read more about it HERE. Kelly Kincaid draws a hilarious webcomic called Jetlagged Comic, which is about her life as a flight attendant. Huffpost shares 25 of her best comics, and the story behind how she started making them. Whit Taylor presents Leslie Stein's Present this week on Illustrated PEN – check it out HERE. SyFy Wire chats with Wendy Pini and her husband Richard on the past and future of Elfquest, which recently came to a close after 40 years. Read the article HERE. Hillary Brown tackles Eleanor Davis' Why Art? over on Paste Magazine, and offers a new interview with her – HERE. Lauren Purje met Neil Gaiman recently and made a comic about it – on Hyperallergic. Tessa Strain reviews Sloane Leong's new Image series, Prism Stalker – on The Comics Journal. ————————————————————————————————— Announcing the Spring Semester of thee Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers 8 weeks! $500 bux! 10 spots available! Rolling start date because of spring break – start as early as March 30th 2018. Deadline to apply is April 12th. Read all about the course HERE and email santoroschool@gmail.com for more details or to apply. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 3-30-2018 – by Sally Ingraham ————————————————————————————————— Joanie and Jordie – 3-30-2018 – by Caleb Orecchio Share this page:Read More:05/18/2018San Diego Comic-Con…Comic Arts Brooklyn 201704/06/2018...
Caleb OrecchioJuly 16, 2018News Caleb Orecchio here with thoughts on "copying," and other news. ————————————————————————————————— WHAT IF comics adopted this attitude that resembled folk music where, particularly during the revival in the fifties and sixties, someone who wrote their own material was an anomaly as oppose to a standard expectation? The majority of folk musicians learned to play songs like "John Henry" and "Old Blue" before they wrote "Blowin' in the Wind" or "Black is the Color" and so on. In fact, I'd argue that the reason folk music from that era remains so listenable to this day(to palated ears) because it was so rooted in tradition. These musicians understood this tradition and fused it with their modern sensibilities which created this new understanding of the past and present. Now, I'm not saying comics could or should mirror musical trends of the fleeting Greenwich Village folk revival, and yet, I am amused at the ideas of comic "covers." Not that this is a new idea. Below is probably my favorite Paul Pope comic, and it is a "cover" (or I guess we can use the word "adaption" since cartoonists make books and not records) of OMAC #1 by Kirby. A reinterpretation, with a 21st Century shake-up. It's a good comic, and I think worth looking at. The idea is more or less excepted (or expected) among the big two. One of my favorite recent comics is Ed Piskor's X-Men comic, and part of my infatuation lies in the idea of Piskor making this elaborate yet condensed adaption of the X-Men saga. On top of that, I can't count the times I've come across the rehashing of a Spider-Man or Batman origin story. These are practically folk tales in and of themselves. Or, for you readers who read exclusively indie comics, Kramers 8 features a story by Kevin Huizenga that he adapts from a comic in the Public Domain. I find that interesting. There are actually many other examples in indie comics, but they always tend to be put in the "apocryphal" category of the comics bible. Which I understand, but I wonder if we could change our attitude about these things? I don't really have an "argument" to convince you, dear reader, that covering or adapting comics into a new comic is a good idea. I just think it's something to consider. I think the idea would bear fruit. Of course, I hope cartoonists don't stop making their own stories, but be honest, how many comics really contain good stories these days? Seriously. I think one should at least consider "covering" comics as an exercise when they start out down this winding road of cartooning. ————————————————————————————————— if you don't know, now you know R.C. Harvey on Eddie Campbell's The Goat Getters over on TCJ.com. See an issue of The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves by Ditko over at Four-Color Shadows blog. Rob Clough on Ben Sear's Ideal Copy. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 7-16-18 – by Sally Ingraham Share this page:Read More:06/14/201803/13/201810/18/2018MoCCA Arts Festival 2018...
Comics WorkbookMay 3, 2018NewsSam Ombiri on Daniel Clowes' Eightball No. 20: The Further Adventures of David Boring! —————————————————————————————————————————— Sam Ombiri here: More often than not, I sense some dishonesty when people talk about their work – as opposed to when their work does the talking. When I say "people's work doing the talking" I'm not commenting on the overall quality, necessarily, but on how much the creator believes in the power of the form with which they are engaging. If they have to talk so much about what they've done with their work, do we really need the work at that point? Is it anything less than a prop for a prepared monologue? I couldn't get a specific statement out of issue #20 of Eightball: The Further Adventures of David Boring – and this was for the better. It was all about characters being pushed in certain directions, and through engaging fully with the characters the story really goes places. The comic doesn't need to convince me of the reality the story is taking place in – the story is so engrossing and captivating. There are turns that seemingly come out of nowhere, but fit in. Are these characters really just "characters"? They seem like humans to me. I'm going to risk navel gazing for a moment and I hope I won't come off as Νάρκισσος falling in love with his own reflection, talking about what I'm about to talk about…but when confronted by a name like Dan Clowes, these days I'm skeptical of my reaction to it, because my reaction might be based on a large number of other people's reaction to it. I feel like I run the risk of attempting to replicate variations of that collective reaction towards his wonderful work. I guess in some ways that can show that I'm not really one to think for myself, but I read comics to feel first and think later, and I personally think it's good to gauge my reaction. I question whether my reaction is sincere, however, under these circumstances. I could just be having a sincere attempt without lucidity, which is the last thing I want to have! Luckily, this didn't happen when I read David Boring. All that happened was I was hit by the story with an unforgiving gravity. David Boring didn't seem to be pandering to a sensibility – it felt like it was doing its own thing, which happened to catch on. There's a whole thing of, "No, duh," with me saying this, but I was really struck with it. This issue of Eightball, like all issues of Eightball, feels like it exists in spite of a trend – and not at the service of a trend. The first time I read something by Clowes, I think I was 13-ish or 14. I could feel a bowling ball form in my gut and sink – there was so much gravity in the work, and I wondered, "Who is this, who has so much contempt for his characters?" Whenever I read Clowes work now, I really feel there's something special about how we're following the characters that we follow. When I opened the comic it's so sudden, and for some reason or another I was really taken with that. At a certain point in the story I'm told, "You've placed yourself above another individual based on your own morality or whatever, so that it is only you who decide who should be dehumanized while pretending it's at the service of humanity." Manfred, possibly the most despicable character, is accused, but the accusation that's made of him isn't dehumanizing – still his actions seem foreign and distant, but not unhuman. The story between David and Pamela; the story between Manfred and Iris; the story of David and his father, told through David reading a comic that his father drew, David trying to savor every panel, not reading more than a panel a night, not knowing what he's looking for – we're suddenly presented with all these things that are equally compelling. I was suddenly presented with the issue, and then just as suddenly I am so involved in these people's lives. This was the realization for me – that when Clowes is remembered and canonized the way he is, it isn't done as a favor to him. It's done as a favor to his readers. Clowes' work cares about your understanding of what it is and what's going on, even if what's going on is supposed be a form of estrangement. From panel to panel, there's plenty to read into. Clowes is putting things on display that are very straightforward. It doesn't feel like dishonest work – even when it's optimistic or pessimistic about humanity and the way that it can be. – Sam Ombiri Share this page:Read More:02/15/201803/29/201803/01/2018Comic Arts Brooklyn 2018...
Addley Walker's Angle
Comics WorkbookJuly 9, 2017EssaysAddley Walker is a comics and pattern maker from Los Angeles, CA. He joined us in Pittsburgh for a Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency in June 2017 (read about his experience HERE). While he was visiting, we realized that Addley was plugged into a different corner of the comics making community, and seeing work that we weren't familiar with. His enthusiasm was catching, so we asked him to share with us some of the comics makers and artists that he follows and enjoys. Below is the "list" he sent. – Sally ————————————————————————————————————— Crow Cillers – Cate Wurtz (http://lamezone.net/) By far the best project of the already impressive body of work of queer webcomics wizard Cate Wurtz, Crow Cillers is an intense story about cute animal critters stuck in an oppressive world of cults and body horror. Presented in a faux-television manner where characters' dialogue appears as closed captioning, stories change channels into others, and "episodes" in an arc are collected into season "box sets" (it, and individual episodes available monthly via her Patreon, are html documents that bring up navigable menus), Wurtz presents us casual talking sitcom characters forced to deal with increasingly violent situations while weaving in a metanarrative dealing with issues such as the absurd and often dark environment of the internet itself. Wurtz's aesthetic and thematic odes to DeviantArt and Hot Topic not only serves as a coherent vehicle for her message, but asks the reader to re-evaluate their relationship with not only the corporate rebellion of Korn (most evident in her chopped 'n screwed electronic music that is the suggested series soundtrack) and Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic with GUNS), but the earnest reaction to these institutions by the fringes of internet art and fetish communities. Download the pilot and first season free on her website. Hail Gay Satan. Music: https://partydog.bandcamp.com/ Past Comic: https://lamezone.net/comics/asscastle https://lamezone.net/comics/punc (not so explicit) ————————————————————————————————————— Angel of a Rope – Adam Buttrick (http://www.adambuttrick.com) There were some very good stories in Kramer's 9, but Adam Buttrick's entry really made the book for me. Adam's making very peculiar and powerful work, with a literary influence that, while escaping my personal understanding, draws me deeper into the situations and characters that feel so familiar after a lifetime of cartoons and video games. His incredibly busy pages have a surprisingly minimal economy of shapes, making everything clear in the mess of action that make up his world. Angel of a Rope is another excellent entry into the ouvre of someone who I find to be one of the most exciting cartoonists working today. Work in question: http://dominobooks.org/angelrope.html ————————————————————————————————————— Now Nowhere – Elevator Teeth (http://elevatorteeth.com/) I'm generally very wary of artists who foster a branded presentation of their work, and Elevator Teeth definitely has that aspect. Scrolling on their website I watch art posts transform into shirts, a part of an image becomes a button or patch, an illustration becomes a record cover which becomes an object that gets waggled on a talk show. It helps that the work is rendered in such a clean and minimal style, which makes it very susceptible to duplication and modification. As such, words and images will come up again, re-arranged and colored differently. This shifting quality of Elevator Teeth's work is part of it's magic, though, and looking at one image after the other becomes very dreamlike and hypnotic. The objects in these images hold an internal charge and react in strange and interesting ways to new compositions. The zine Now Nowhere, which came out early last year, is a great example. With work originally presented as one pagers that work very well as statements by themselves, Elevator Teeth puts them together to reveal that side-by-side they form a coherent story that lasts 28 pages. Slick and fashionable as it looks, Elevator Teeth's work is fundamentally about consciousness, and shows the way in which digital techniques can lend themselves to powerful forms of truth seeking. Work in question: http://elevatorteeth.storenvy.com/products/15662373-now-nowhere-riso-zine ————————————————————————————————————— Warrior Pose – Leon Sadler (http://leonsadler.com/) + Yannick Val Gesto (http://www.yannickvalgesto.com/) Omnipresent anthology contributor Leon Sadler and fellow fine art nerd Yannick Val Gesto are a dynamic duo whose collaborations I wish I knew more about. I do not know how I found this fabulous book in the first place, probably because I am great. Presenting itself as a gentle self help manual, Warrior Pose (which was consigned along with a video of the same name) might not be comics, but those literate to the form should have an entry into some joyful collages of anime, fanart, chan imagery, and other serene weirdness, along with drawings by both. Val Gesto's quest in particular, revealing the beauty of internet ugliness, I find incredibly compelling, much like Cate Wurtz. Leon Sadler is pretty cool, too. Work in question: https://battcoop.org/en/produit/warrior-pose-2/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2zAoe8ShMw ————————————————————————————————————— The Boys Are Back In Town – Mushbuh (http://mushbuh.com/) This entry is a funeral for the self experience that I discovered will be forever unrealized by me not owning this zine of colorful haniwa frolics. Mushbuh is someone who initially caught me with their lively Illustrator art and comics, as well as a demo for their N64 love letter Burrito Galaxy. While Mushbuh seems to be on a more automatic, almost anti-aesthetic track today, evidence is still there of the tightly geometric, bouncy cartoon art I see still around in works of artists such as George Wysesol. Please contact me if you have evidence of rare sightings of these boys… Work in question: http://www.mushbuh.bigcartel.com/product/the-boys-are-back-in-town-ed-of-50 Examples: Musbuh comics George Wysesol https://www.instagram.com/sassybluepanda/ George Wysesol web series(?) https://www.instagram.com/ithinkimintrouble/ ————————————————————————————————————— Check out work by Addley Walker on his website, and follow him on Instagram. Share this page:Read More:03/07/201802/02/201802/05/201803/21/2018...


Street Freeze brought me in to provide professional branding and marketing material for their launch.
Street Freeze is exciting and fun street dance classes operating in the heart of Sutton, London.
Create a simple brochure website that could be easily updated with news articles and provide information for parents. Added to that it needed an online registration form so parents could sign their children up to classes before attending.
Street Freeze also required a logo and flyers for promotion.
As always I bought in my very talented friend and collaborator, Laura from Peanut Designs, to create the Street Freeze logo.
Please note, all content here is copyright Helen Snowden trading as Street Freeze, used with permission.


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Jacob Collier Live A Crazy Performer For All The Right Reasons
Jacob Collier LIVE: A crazy performer... for all the right reasons
Pianist cover star Cate Blanchett nominated for Oscar for leading role in TÁR
Your chance to be a part of the UK's first ever Musicians' Census
WATCH: Ten-year-old Alim Beisembayev performs Tchaikovsky's Nocturne Op 19 No 4
Tbilisi International Piano Competition founder dies aged 75
Feb/Mar issue OUT NOW: Alim Beisembayev, a focus on Rachmaninov, scores to learn and more
WATCH: Yunchan Lim makes his London debut at the Wigmore Hall
By Ellie Palmer
The singer, pianist and all-round musician is currently on a sizeable world tour. We attended his show in Manchester, UK, and were expectedly blown away
'Crazy' would probably be the most accurate term to describe Jacob Collier – the best kind of crazy, may we add.
The English musician has been touring all around the world promoting his Djesse project; a monumental four-volume, 50-song, jazz-funk-soul-blues-and-everything-in-between venture that has been in the works for at least four years. His tour takes him almost everywhere – from Montreal to Sydney, Tokyo to Manchester.
He's already won multiple Grammys for the three volumes of the project that have been released so far, including Best Arrangement, Instrument & Vocals for He Won't Hold You in 2021 from Vol. 3, and for All Night Long in 2020 from Vol. 1, plus Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for Moon River in 2020 from Vol. 2.
With the final volume of the project still to come, he can expect more Grammy nominations to come his way.
Collier spent a few days in the UK touring the project in June, including a night at Manchester's 02 Apollo, famous for previously hosting some of the world's biggest stars including Queen, The Rolling Stones and The Jacksons.
He had a full house, and unsurprisingly so. As he bounced on stage to start his set at around 8.15, one thing was evidently clear from the off: this man is eccentric, flamboyant, and – most of all – a genius.
Collier was backed up by a handful of musicians plus three pitch-perfect vocalists, yet despite the arguably small-ish band his performance was brimming overboard with depth. Indeed, Collier himself was playing five, six, perhaps even seven instruments throughout the night. Some at the same time.
At centre-stage was his glorious grand piano (we couldn't quite make out the manufacturer of it), and evidence of his jazz piano studies at the Royal Academy as a teen shone through consistently.
Using his piano, his impressively wide-ranged vocals, his bongos, synths, guitars, and the rest of his collection of worldly instruments, he showed beyond doubt just how strong a command he has over the music he plays; to a non-musician's ear, it must seem as though he can play any combination of notes and make it sound good. But in reality, each individual note is meticulously planned and thought out.
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Take All I Need from Vol. 3 as an example. Just when you think you've got the hang of the song (a song which already has plenty of harmonic twists and turns), he throws you a spanner in the shape of a half semitone leap. In simpler terms, he's now successfully singing in between two notes.
Other hit songs included on his set list were In Too Deep, Feel, With the Love in My Heart, Hideaway and others; each one all the more elevated when heard live.
He rounded off his impressively lengthy set (longer than the average pop musician's set these days) by conducting the 4,000-strong crowd in a live choir performance. He gave different sections of the crowd a different note to sing, conducting us at his own will, almost as his little play toy. It was mesmerising to watch, and quite possibly the highlight of the show.
Jacob continues his tour all throughout Europe this summer. We would highly recommend you get yourself down to one. Full tour details can be found here.

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No New Trial for Wesley Snipes
By Edward B. Colby
Published Sep 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM | Updated at 4:54 PM CDT on Sep 6, 2011
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Wesley Snipes has to stay in prison.
The federal appeals court in Atlanta rebuffed the action star's attempt to demolish his 2008 conviction on tax evasion charges, saying Tuesday that there wasn't "strong, substantial and incontrovertible evidence" to merit a new trial, The Associated Press reported.
Snipes' lawyers said they received emails from jury members who reported misconduct among the jurors who found Snipes guilty of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income tax returns.
One juror reportedly wrote that three other jurors determined the actor was guilty before the trial began – but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Snipes' request for a new trial, and indicated it doubted the veracity of the allegations made in the emails.
The district court judge who presided over Snipes' 2008 trial previously denied a request by his side to interview jurors because of the alleged presumption of guilt, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Snipes, 49, is probably best known for slashing vampires in the "Blade" trilogy. He also starred in "Demolition Man," "White Men Can't Jump," and "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar."
Snipes last appeared in "Game of Death," an action thriller set in a Detroit hospital, which was released in Japan in November 2010 – the month before he started his three-year prison term in northwest Pennsylvania.
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Daily Post Ghana
Tottenham makes move for Arsenal star after Gunners' board overrule Arteta
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Tottenham Hotspur could make a surprise move for Arsenal's Ainsley Maitland-Niles, the UK Sun reports.
The club has put the 22-year-old up for sale against manager Mikel Arteta's wishes.
Maitland-Niles is eager for more playing time, having just started one Premier League game for the Gunners.
However, the versatile youngster did impress in the FA Cup against Manchester City and Chelsea.
Arteta is keen to keep Maitland-Niles in his squad, but Arsenal's decision-makers feel differently.
The Gunners need to raise funds in order to spend this summer and believe they can get as much as £30million for Maitland-Niles.
Tottenham have now registered their interest in Maitland-Niles and made it known they would be keen to prise him away from their rivals.
The midfielder-turned-right-back is believed to favour staying in London, with Fulham, West Ham and Crystal Palace also interested.
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Former Chelsea manager, Avram Grant, has insisted that he has not received any approach from the club's board about returning to Stamford Bridge to provided support for current coach, Frank Lampard.
Grant has been linked with a return to Chelsea in the past few weeks.
Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, is said to be considering bringing Grant back to the West London club to assist Lampard.
Speaking on the development ahead of Chelsea's Premier League clash with Fulham on Saturday, Grant was quoted by Metro UK as saying, "I read the links in the media connecting me about returning for Chelsea, I have received so many positive messages from Chelsea fans on Instagram, thank you," said Grant. Avram
"I can repeat only about what I said lately about the situation at Chelsea. Be strong, look for solutions and what everybody needs now is time.
"It is good for Frank that I believe he will do the job well and it is good for the club. Good luck to everybody."
Grant guided Chelsea to the UEFA Champions League final in 2008 and Lampard scored twenty goals during in forty appearances in all competitions for the Blues during that season.
Paris Saint-Germain manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has tested positive for COVID-19.
PSG disclosed this in a tweet via their official Twitter handle on Friday.
The 48-year-old Argentine will "respect isolation and is subject to the appropriate health protocols", PSG tweeted.
His assistants Jesus Perez and Miguel D'Agostino will take charge of the team for their Ligue 1 clash against Angers on Saturday.
Pochettino took over from Thomas Tuchel last December and signed a contract with PSG to remain at the French champions until June 30, 2022 with an option for an additional year.
The Argentine won his first trophy at the club when PSG defeated Marseille 2-1 on Wednesday.
Three PSG players, Rafinha, Thilo Kehrer and Colin Dagba had already tested positive for Coronavirus last week.
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LinkedIn and Spotify Team Up On a Holiday Office Party Playlist With Plenty of Bublé
Dec 10,2017 Leave a comment By admin
You can't have a great party without an accompanying playlist. Putting one together is an art form in some circles.
And it's likely you'll be attending or hosting at least one holiday party in the coming weeks. Most employees are actually starting to feel something short of dread when it comes to going to these parties anymore. But how would they feel about a party set to just the right soundtrack?
That's where a collaborative effort between LinkedIn and Spotify comes in.
"When it comes to holiday music in the workplace, the best way to avoid a clash with colleagues is to stick with the tried and true," editorial marketing director Blair Decembrele writes on the LinkedIn blog.
They've got a Christmas music playlist they say will liven even the most awkward office party this season. It's now ready to stream from your Bluetooth device to your office speakers right away.
Decembrele says the LinkedIn picks are the most popular Christmas songs currently included on office playlists available on Spotify.
This list of tunes may require editing based on your acceptable level of Bublé. Michael Bublé appears 7 times on a 20-track list.
And "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" appears three times by three artists — again including Bublé. The other versions on the list are by The Jackson 5 and Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town".
The list also shows a shift in the traditional songs people are used to hearing this time of year. The standards may be on the list but they're not by the original singers. But the list also features some contemporary favorites — at least songs that were popularized in the 1980s and 1990s.
Again, if you're in a jam, the list is ready to play right away. You can also drag this into your Spotify player and tinker with some of the tracks to add your favorites. You can also poll your employees to find out their favorites to add to create and share your own office's playlist.
Top 20 Songs on LinkedIn/Spotify Holiday Office Party Playlist
1. All I Want for Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
2. Last Christmas (Wham!)
3. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (Michael Bublé)
4. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams)
5. Holly Jolly Christmas (Michael Bublé)
6. Feliz Navidad (José Feliciano)
7. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Bruce Springsteen)
8. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (The Jackson 5)
9. Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid)
10. Blue Christmas (Elvis Presley)
11. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays (*NSYNC)
12. Jingle Bells (Michael Bublé, feat. The Puppini Sisters)
13. Step Into Christmas (Elton John)
14.Sleigh Ride (The Ronettes)
15. White Christmas (Michael Bublé, duet With Shania Twain)
16. Fairytale of New York (The Pogues, feat. Kirsty MacColl)
17. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Frank Sinatra)
18. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Michael Bublé)
19. Christmas [Baby Please Come Home] (Michael Bublé)
20. All I Want For Christmas Is You (Michael Bublé)
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This article, "LinkedIn and Spotify Team Up On a Holiday Office Party Playlist With Plenty of Bublé" was first published on Small Business Trends


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