(Above an image from Jay Fosgitt’s Bodie Troll, probably the least known of the comic book nominees. The awards will be presented Saturday, May 24th at the annual NCS meeting, this year held in San Diego. Of some note - the webcomics category, which has been a source of some confusion and controversy but now has a board of advisors and is now divided into short form and long form categories. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Jby Douglas.The rest of the nominees have come out and here they are. Look for me this summer/early fall in Portland, Minneapolis, NYC, Boston, Chicago, Lansing, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and possibly more. Of course, most of the people I was showing it to were comics people, so I had to explain that it wasn’t that Alex Ross.ĥ) LOLTHEORISTS! I particularly like this one.Ħ) Reading Comics World Domination Tour 2007 planning is underway. And the book I’m most psyched to read is Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise–FSG had copies of the first chapter, and I was excitedly showing it around. The highlight of the show, though, would have to be getting to meet a little stuffed bull. is written by Emily Care Boss, author of Breaking the Ice and illustrated by Jennifer Manley Lee, author of the Ignatz Award nominated web comic Dicebox. Working on it.ģ) Best titles of books spotted at Book Expo: An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England Eeeee Eee Eeee I Am America (And So Can You!). Wander, Book One, can be read online in its entirety here and also bought as a printed volume there. What happened to me sixteen years ag… ah, yes–almost to the day: I graduated from college.”Ģ) Yes, comments here are broken right now. Dicebox, an online graphic novel by Jenn Manley Lee, tells the story of an eventful year in the lives of Griffen & Molly who started off as a couple of itinerant factory workers in a space-traveling future. Yesterday, I thought “I wonder if that’s a signal of something? Let’s see: that bit where he sings ‘sixteen years’ at the very beginning of the song is supposed to be a reference to its having been sixteen years since his first record came out. rivers dividedġ) I’ve been waking up the last few mornings with Bob Dylan’s “Changing of the Guards” stuck in my head. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Jby Douglas. Willow Wilson and see Richard Thompson play! Hooray!Īnother sentence worthy of an exclamation point: Today I get to meet G. Oh yes: and getting to hold a copy of the finished book in my hands. No updates recently, because my life has largely consisted of being happily domestic, working on projects that won’t be public for a little while yet, and discovering that getting paid twice for the same thing is sometimes not quite as easy as it looks. DICEBOX by Jenn Manley Lee Book 46 of 2010. A lucky thing, too: the guy who was initially sitting next to me pulled out a gigantic pile of newspaper sections that had pretty clearly been trash-picked–several weeks’ worth of the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Oregonian, USA Today–picked his teeth with his cell phone for a minute, then turned to me and said “You know, a plane is a really good place to get a lot of reading done.” “I’ve got a system.” a distant drumrollįlew out to the East Coast yesterday, on the same plane as my friends Jenn and Kip, who managed to convince the guy scheduled to sit next to them that he should switch with me. We’ll be discussing superheroes and reading briefly from our books I will probably also talk a bit about World War Hulk. Then, Wednesday, my first head-to-head of the summer with the mighty Austin Grossman, at the aforementioned Rain Taxi event in Minneapolis (7:30 PM at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s auditorium, 2501 Stevens Ave.). There’s some official information here! And I can’t resist displaying Jenn’s drawings of five of us with glasses: It should be really, really fun, and I hope to see Portlanders there. The other panelists are Scott McCloud (of Understanding Comics/ Making Comics fame), Colleen Coover ( Banana Sunday), Dylan Meconis ( Family Man), Jenn Manley Lee ( Dicebox) and Gail Simone ( Birds of Prey). It’s happening 6-7:30 PM at the Central Library’s U.S. I mentioned it in the sidebar, but I should say something about it here, too: Kicking off the grand Summer 2007 Reading Comics American Tour, I’ll be moderating a panel this Wednesday, June 27, at Multnomah County Library, called “Appreciating Comics.”
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