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Lewis & Clark Give-Away

In honor of America’s war veterans

Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Gathering around the Flatiron Building and around Madison Square Park, where the Veterans Day Parade begins in NYC are thousands of war veterans, young and old. We honor and salute their service. In tribute to them here is ALAN'S WAR, by Emmanuel Guibert—one veteran's voice, from the [...]

By |2024-03-14T01:55:51-04:00November 11th, 2010|Behind the Scenes|1 Comment

SARDINE FAN MAIL

Jane in California wrote to us, asking us to tell Emmanuel Guibert that she loves the Sardine books and to please hurry up and make her a movie too. We passed on the message. And here's what Emmanuel sent back: And Jane was thrilled: ... and when she found out Emmanuel lived in Paris she [...]

By |2024-03-18T01:27:47-04:00December 4th, 2007|Behind the Scenes|Comments Off on SARDINE FAN MAIL

GENE YANG on STEREOTYPES

Apparently, MySpace has made American Born Chinese a featured book... Not all good news, though, since it seems to come with a rather tasteless ad campaign that uses the Chin-Kee character out of context, and has led to all kinds of discussions among people who haven't read the book. Gene Yang responds. Does acknowledging a [...]

By |2007-05-01T15:15:04-04:00May 1st, 2007|Uncategorized|15 Comments

ON WORD BALLOONS

There are some precious lessons to be gleaned from Eddie Campbell's blog, including an entry called THE LAST WORD IN SPEECH BALLOONS. Several First Second creators have found this valuable in the midst of their thumbnails, so let's add this link to it here, in our TIPS FOR CREATIVE TYPES category (which is filling up [...]

By |2007-04-04T10:40:26-04:00April 4th, 2007|Tips for Creative Types|1 Comment

MUSING ON THE MUSE

(a doodle from the train ride) Been thinking about inspiration. I jotted a few things down on the train ride back from the Center for Cartoon Studies, where I had a most impressive visit. They're doing something amazing up there, Sturm and the gang. The following musing wasn't directly related to the CCS though, rather [...]

By |2024-03-18T01:54:50-04:00April 3rd, 2007|Tips for Creative Types|3 Comments

O, YE BOOKSELLERS OF EVERY ILK

Download onesheets.pdf BOOKSELLERS, BOOKSELLERS! All around America, I've been meeting independent booksellers, large and small. Some of those who've jumped into the Graphic Novel adventure have been very pleasantly surprised! Others aren't sure, or haven't made it work yet, and are wondering what to do. For those, we're putting together a special pamphlet we'll update [...]

By |2007-03-14T17:15:43-04:00March 14th, 2007|News|Comments Off on O, YE BOOKSELLERS OF EVERY ILK
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