Two reports: University of Chicago Comics Conference & Maine Comics Arts Festival

Posted on 21st May 2012 in News

From The Beat, May 21, 2012 “Comics G-17 summit report from Chicago” (content includes references to: Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Francoise Mouly, Daniel Clowes, Seth, Art Spiegelman, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Ivan Brunetti, among others)

 

From mikelynchcartoons.blogspot, May 21, 2012, “Report: Maine Comics Arts Festival May 20, 2012″ (content includes references to John Klossner, Kate Beaton, and Bill Woodman)


 

Pizza Island over; Interview: Pete Holmes

Posted on 26th January 2012 in News

From juliawertz.com., January 23, 2012, “The Disbanding of Pizza Island” — this post on the end of the studio once home to the likes of Karen Sneider and Kate Beaton.

 

From AVClub.com, January 26, 2012, “Interview: Pete Holmes”

Chris Ware speaks; Beaton & Chast at SPX; Golf exhibit includes New Yorker cartoons; Brunetti at Chicago ComicCon

Posted on 11th August 2011 in News

From This is Reno, August 10, 2011, “Writers in the Woods Literary Speaker Series starts September 2011″ — ( Chris Ware to speak and workshop)

 

From Comics Beat, August 11, 2011, “SPX announcing programming with Woodring, Beaton, Telnaes, Chast, Brown”

 

From Access Atlanta, August 11, 2011, “High Museum tees up ‘Art of Golf’ in 2012″ (scroll way down for  mention of New Yorker cartoons).

 

From the Daily Herald, August 10, 2011, “Local artists at Comic Con draw outside superhero realm” (scroll for Ivan Brunetti content two-thirds of the way down)

 

 

New Cat at The Algonquin; Bob Mankoff at Rutgers; Interview: Kate Beaton; Interview: Marcellus Hall; Roz Chast speaks

Posted on 4th April 2011 in News

From The Wall Street Journal, this video profiling Matilda III, the latest of a long line of in-house cats residing at The Algonquin Hotel.


From mycentraljersey.com, April 4, 2011, this article –”Rutgers presents free April 7 program on Yiddish, Jewish Cartooning” (with The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff).


From Sequential Tart, April 4, 2011, this interview with Kate Beaton.

From David-Wasting-Paper’s continuing Cartoonist/Artist survey (#217 in the series), this interview with illustrator/musician Marcellus Hall.

If you’re out on the west coast, you might want to check out this evening’s talk by Roz Chast at Campbell Hall at The University of California,  Santa Barbara.  Info here.

And here’s a related piece from the Santa Barbara Independent, April 1, 2011, “New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast gives Slide Lecture”

Pizza Island

Posted on 14th March 2011 in News

From metro.us, March 13, 2011, “We are women, see us draw” this piece (with Karen Sneider and Kate Beaton content).