My mom yells at me for not updating my blog with stuff. Sorry mom! Here is some recent “press.”
an article in the Forward about Jewish graphic novelists:
http://www.forward.com/articles/14657/
I answered 20 questions for cartoonists for Austin English’s blog, 20 Questions for Cartoonists:
http://20cartoonquestions.blogspot.com/2008/11/sarah-glidden.html
Hey, so SPX was great. Its so much fun to be trapped in a Marriott with a bunch of talented and amazing cartoonists who I dont get to see all that often. Lots of great work to be seen and conversations to be had and its a little depressing when its all over.
I took home an Ignatz award for Promising New Talent. I still cant really believe I was even nominated! Big, huge congratulations go out to Jesse Reklaw, who won for Best Minicomic (for Bluefuzz the Hero) and Laura Park who took home the brick for Outstanding Artist!
I picked up some excellent comics, and I’ve only made it part way through the pile. Highlights include a sweet little book by James McShane, a terrific minicomic by Jesse McManus and four new minis from Kevin Huizenga. Laura Park has a new minicomic…she’s intimidatingly good! I also picked up Trevor Alixopulos’ book, the Hot Breath of War, which is fantastic, as is Jesse Reklaw’s new book, the Night of Your Life, a collection of his Slow Wave comics. I’m running out of adjectives! Last one: Gabby Schultz’s newest issue of Monsters is just great.
We were lucky enough not to see the last of these guys…Jesse, Gabby and Trevor came up to Brooklyn on Wednesday to do a reading and signing at Desert Island along with Dash Shaw. It was the last stop on Jesse’s east coast book tour, and he’s been posting tour diary comics on his Flickr page (here.)
I took a whole lot of photos at SPX (which can be viewed here.)
So, I have a lot of updates, lots of news.
First, the most exciting news: I’ve just signed a contract with Vertigo, who will be publishing my first book, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less! The book will be in color, 200 pages, and I’ll be working on it for the next year or so. I couldn’t be happier!
Because of this, there aren’t going to be any more chapters released as minicomics. I know I told some people at Stumptown and MoCCA that I’d have chapter 3 ready for SPX but well…sorry about that.
To make up for it I do have a new non-Israel mini for SPX. It’s called Eight Days Out, and its a sketchbook travelogue following my brother Dan and I as we drove across the U.S. in January. Its 80 pages long and you can see the first 30 pages in the comics section:
http://www.smallnoises.com/comics/show.php?id=12
In other news, I was nominated for an Ignatz in two categories (best mini and promising new talent)! I’m pretty flabbergasted, and really happy to be nominated amongst such a great list of people, including a lot of friends.
You can see the full list here:
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/16/2008-ignatz-award-nominees/
I think thats all for now. See you at SPX in October!
if i were a pride of lions
I’ll be at the A.W.P. (Artists With Problems) table (A62) this weekend for MoCCA with chapters 1 and 2 of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less.
(someone reading Julia Wertz’s Fartparty at MoCCA 2007)
Coco Wang has made some amazing and moving comics about the earthquake in China and the rescue efforts afterwards. Says Coco:
“The amount of incredibly moving stories of victims, rescuers, volunteers is simply shocking at the moment. I have been collecting newspapers of all the stories, and telling them in the form of comic strips. I hope these stories could show the UK readers the love, warmth and courage of the Chinese people, also the sad and cruel reality of the horrible 5.12 Earthquake.”
You should really read these! You can find them here:
The complete entry from this day can be found by clicking HERE
I’ve been reading Stephen Ambrose’s book on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Fascinating stuff! He refers to the Gary E. Moulton edition of their journals, published by University of Nebraska press. To my surprise, the entire annotated journals are on the University of Nebraska website, free for the looking (and searchable too!) I love skimming through these. I thought it would be fun to make some journal comics out of these as something to keep me busy during slow days at work. I have no idea if I’ll keep up with them, but here’s a journal comic from day one of the journals…
By the way, the links embedded in this post aren’t showing up as a different color so I’ll post them separately here:
Stephen Ambrose’s book, Undaunted Courage:
http://www.amazon.com/Undaunted-Courage-Meriwether-Jefferson-American/dp/0684826976
Journals of Lewis and Clark at the University of Nebraska:
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/index.html
UPDATE: Yeah, life is busy again. I’m shelving this project until further notice. Maybe I’ll wait until the 2008 calendar catches up with the 1803 journal calendar.