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Wanderlost Sketchbook: Digital Drawing Practice

Saturday, March 28th, 2009 by Kevin Moore

Just posted a new item to the Wanderlost sketchbook. It’s not a sample page of an upcoming story, but it could be if I get inspired. Mostly I was just goofing around. I am trying to get more comfortable drawing digitally from scratch. I don’t know why. It just seems like a skill set a webcomicker should have, even if I prefer to draw on paper and get ink on my fingers.

Oh – and that sensation when you accidentally smear ink over your drawing? Awesome. Why would I give all that up?

Originally published at mooreroom.

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Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Keef

*ATTN: PORTLAND AND SEATTLE READERS..

I need some folks to post some posters advertising my signings in Seattle (4/3-4/5 & 4/18) and Portland (4/18-4/19).

Send me an email at keef@knightlifecomic.com with your address and I’ll mail some out. THANKS!!

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About that out-dated Bush-crushing banner…

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Mikhaela Reid

By the way, a couple of folks (actually, mostly just Masheka) have needled me about the out-datedness of the banner on this here website (and the illo on my business card), being that it features an ex-president. I totally plan to change it at some point soon, I swear.

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At WAM! in Cambridge this weekend

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Mikhaela Reid

This weekend I’ll be at the amazing annual Women, Action & the Media! conference hosted by the Center for New Words at MIT’s Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. I don’t have new books to sell, but if you’re going you can always just say hello or buy a signed copy of my first book! Jen Sorensen will also be in attendance. As always it should be good feminist fun (plus lots of strategizing over the catastrophic collapse of print media that seems to be underway).

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Toon: The Florists’ Rights Movement!

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Mikhaela Reid


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“Back off lesbos—you’re getting gay germs on my gardenias!”

Seriously, this story is FOR REAL. There was a more in-depth piece in the Hartford Courant online, but it seems to be unavailable now, all I can still find is this editorial response.

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Toon: Jane Reaction

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Mikhaela Reid


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Toon: Transcendental

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Mikhaela Reid


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Good kitty news!

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Mikhaela Reid


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As I mentioned in an earlier post, the last few months have been very hard pet-wise for Masheka and I, as we saw our little cat Riley wasting away to almost nothing. In a very short time he dropped from a normal 11 pounds to a worrisome 7 pounds, and a few weeks ago, to only 4 pounds. Further, he was diagnosed with FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis), which is incurable and fatal.

BUT! Our vet did some more detailed and fancy tests, and they all came back negative for FIP. AND after a few weeks on antibiotics, little Riley suddenly started eating like an adorable furry little piggy, and running around and causing trouble like his old self. AND he gained a whole half of a pound in just two weeks!

I don’t want to be overly optimistic–he could relapse–but I’m just thrilled to see him behaving like his old trouble-making self again.

By the way, the above photo shows him little Riley at his almost-skinniest, sitting in front of a gorgeous painting that was a wedding gift to us from our amazing painter friend Cindy Procious, based off a photo by our also-amazing photographer friend Márta Fodor.

Thanks again to everyone who commented on my previous kitty post, too!

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Time To Update The References

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Matt Bors

We’ve all heard about Mexican drug cartels smuggling American machine guns across the border. But did you know there is a big demand for antique pistolas?


Jimmy Margulies
The Record
Mar 27, 2009

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Faint praise? We’ll take it!

Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Ruben Bolling

I'm just back from vacation, so I'd missed this nice item:  apparently Eddie Vedder wrote a piece on his website urging readers to complain to alternative newspapers about comics cancelations — of his friend Tom Tomorrow and other cartoonists.

The only way this vital artwork will return is through a sustained outcry from readers. We have to tell editors at our local alternative weeklies that we don’t want them to suspend cartoons; if they already have, we want them brought back.

This is amazing, and I really appreciate this very cool appeal.  So it may seem a bit churlish when I say that I found one phrase he used pretty funny — it not only undermines the position that political cartoonists are cutting edge humorists, it sort of makes the case for the newspapers that dump us:

Many cartoonists were the Jon Stewarts of their day, quickly cutting complex issues to their cores.

Ouch.  Yes, he's making a historical analogy that's intended to be flattering, but it's partly because of the fact that we have a Jon Stewart of today (i.e., Jon Stewart) that certain editors and newspaper executives are deciding the services of political cartoonists have been obviated.

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