MoCCA Sketches

Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman urge you to submit to the second volume of their political anthology, Resist!

 I managed to do some sketches at this year's MoCCA Fest and include them in a blogpost I wrote for the School of Visual Arts' Continuing Education blog.

Speaking of, my summer CE courses begin in June and are enrolling right now: Inking Comics is on Tuesdays this summer, Figure Drawing for Cartoonists is on Wednesdays, and Cartooning Basics, Thursdays. I'll be at the info session May 18th. Come join the fun!

The panel, Teaching Comics Internationally with Ben Katchor, Jessica Abel,  Merav Soloman, and Bill Kartalopolous.

MoCCA Guest of Honor, Blutch, also spoke at the New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium.

Lectures and Classes

This is from a minicomic I used to give my students back in 1989

Cartoonist Sophia Wiedeman, writing for The Rumpus has posted a write up of a lecture I gave at Columbia University a couple of weeks ago on panel composition, as part of the ongoing New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium. It was developed from a lesson I give in my cartooning courses.

Speaking of which, tonight, Sept 4, 6:30-8:30,  I'll be presenting at the SVA continuing ed information session for the Illustration and Cartooning department. Come talk to me about my courses, which are enrolling right now.

Especially, check out
Inking Comics
and
Figure Drawing for Cartoonists

Recent Plugs

I received a couple of nice plugs recently.

Salgood Sam, in his new release, Revolver #2, wrote a piece on comic jams in which he mentions my work and several friends and collaborators. Here's a chunk:

And he includes this sidebar image. Jams are fun.


And the newest podcast on Comics for Grownups gives a nice description of the project and mentions my piece specifically. Listen to it while making a pledge on our Kickstarter.



Addendum: right after posting this, I found a summary on The Rumpus of the workshop I conducted a few weeks back for the New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium.

Come Draw with Me This Monday

The fifty-fifth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposiumwill be held on Monday, August 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in room 1104. Free and open to the public.

Scheduled Presentation:  Panel Sequence Workshop.  Cartooning instructor, Tom Motley, will present a slideshow and discussion on cinematic sequences in comics, followed by a related cartooning worksheet. This will be a fun sequential art exercise to stimulate comics professionals and fans alike. Drawing skills are welcome but not necessary.

Osamu Tezuka, Shintakarajima (New Treasure Island), 1947, revised 1984.

Comic Artists, Publishers, Poets, and others...

Attempting to catch up on sketches of various public speakers...

Here are cartoonists at various venues:

Tom Hart @ SVA

Leela Corman @ Word

Rick Parker @ MoCCA Fest

Gahan Wilson @MoCCA

A couple of panels from the 2012 Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival:

The Narrative Collage: Tim Hensley, Charles Burns, Tom Spurgeon, Anouk Ricard.

Emerging International Comics Networks: Carmela Chergui, Tommi Musturi, Dunja Jankovic, Ines Estrada.

I show up regularly to the New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium, but sketch only rarely:

Jason Little

Matthew Thurber

Leah Wishnia

Keren Katz

Arlen Schumer

Mark Delboy

Jack Feldstein

Steven Kroninger

Kurt Hoss

Mark Lerer

Victoria Roberts

Seymour Chwast

From the Barney Rosset Memorial at Cooper Union, 5/9/12:

Haskell Wexler

David Amram

Fred Jordan

Peter Rosset

A reading at Poet's House in July, 2011:

Albert Mobilio

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Evie Shockley

Jena Osman

Myla Goldberg performing I forget where (sketching in the dark):

 I think that's it for now. Anyone interested in my sketches of anonymous people from cafes, subways, life drawings, etc, please follow this other blog.

Sketches from "Comic New York," a symposium at Columbia University

Let's see if I can catch up on posting my symposium sketches.

Last March, I managed to attend most of Comic New York and managed to sketch most of the participants. I never managed to sit too close and hence may not have managed to achieve many likenesses. Still and all, here's what I did:

 Political New York  Moderator: David Hadju, Denis Kitchen, Sabrina Jones, John Carey


Alternative New York  Moderator: Gene Kannenberg jr, Bill Griffith, R Sikoryak, Charles Brownstein, Julia Wertz


Keynote: a conversation with Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson  Introduced by Eric Wakin





Periodical New York  Moderator: Eddy Portnoy, Irwin Hasen, Emily Flake, Ben Katchor, Lauren Weinstein



 New York as Breeding Ground  Moderator: Danny Fingeroth, Al Jaffee, Miss Lasko-Gross, Tracy White, Dean Haspiel
 
Comic New York and the Academy  Moderator: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University), Jonathan W. Gray (CUNY/John Jay), Paul Levitz (Columbia University), N.C. Christopher Couch (University of Massachusetts/Amherst & the  School of Visual Arts)

 

Some lovely ladies in the audience:

 

Some artifacts in the room: