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In case you missed it, part two of my comic on education reform went line on Truthout on Friday. Check out the first episode here and click here for the latest instalment.
Like a latter day Jimi Hendrix (swapping a laptop for a left-handed guitar), I had a great being part of the panel and keynote events over the weekend at the Woodstock Digital Media Festival. Saturday morning’s panel, Telling [TRUE] Stories, saw myself and Annie Correal, Community Manager at Cowbird, talk about our work and the different perspectives of single author/crowdsourced authoring online frameworks, moderated by Emily Bell, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia. The conversation really got going after our mini presentations, and the audience asked some great questions about monetizing (of course), audience demographics and the software behind it all.
During the afternoon I had the chance to talk to some of the other participants and discuss the pros/cons of mobile location apps, apple’s penchant for deliberate obsolescence and the future of long form storytelling, all against the verdant background of Vermont’s premier picture-perfect little sleepy town. Then that evening myself and three others (the digital media curator at NYC’s MoMA, the founder of Artfagcity art blog, and a technophile champion of the local fisheries) had the opportunity to wax lyrical about our respective fields for 20 mins before fielding questions over booze at Billings Farm afterwards. A wonderful chance to chat with like-minded new media folk and swap anecdotes about working with GIFs, the future of visual storytelling, and why latin america just cannot make it into the news these days (bar Mexico’s cartel war).
image courtesy of sukdith punjasthitkul
Here’s a preview from my latest comic on trafficking in the South Bay, out now in the latest edition of the San Francisco Public Press. I’ll post a link when it’s up online. Read their excellent coverage of bay area human trafficking here. In the meantime, ink and colour is being slung on the second part of the Education Reform Comic for Truthout. Here’s the first part in case you missed it.
This weekend I’m back in Vermont for the Woodstock Digital Media Festival, where I’ll be part of the “Telling [TRUE] Stories” panel tomorrow at 11:45. For a full list of my fellow new mediaphile participants, go here.
Last week saw the launch of the 4th incarnation of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project, which I’ve had the fantastic opportunity to work on for 3 years. The latest book, From Busan to San Francisco, is based on the true story of a young south korean girl who is trafficked to Los Angeles before ending up in an asian massage parlour in San Francisco. It’s a testament to the determination, hard work and enthusiasm of the talented students we had on board that the final product looks so professional! (Even if I do say so myself). All this in just two semesters! Ok, so 2.5 really – and a ton of elbow grease/hours staring into an assortment of Macs around campus. The usual graphic novel glamour. If you’re an educator, publisher or book critic then drop me a line for a review copy.
From Busan to San Francisco from Dan Archer on Vimeo.
You at the back! Close that book and pay attention. My latest comic on education reform in the US and beyond is out now: click here to read it.
A sneak preview from my latest comic on education reform, out next week on Truthout.org featuring Milton Friedman. I’m currently in Moscow at an independent media conference run by the Eurasia foundation – follow my live tweets/sketches below or directly on twitter.
At least it is for my current assignment for the Stanford Medical School on the minutiae of cholesterol and heart-attack-related chicanery.
Check out the cover to Hard Hats, covering the 1970 riots of the same name in downtown manhattan, here: www.archcomix.com
After finally reaching a breathing point after months-worth of deadlines (could be the eye of the storm, mind you) I finally took the chance to get back to some illustration work. Here’s the new cover of my soon-to-be-launched comic (co-written with Nikil Saval), Hard Hats. For more info, go to the Hard Hats page.
The past few weeks have been a veritable mini-golden age for comics journalism, as the slumbering behemoth that is the mainstream media slowly but surely wakes up to the storytelling potential that illustrated reportage affords. First up is the editorial cartoonist machine that is Matt Bors, who in addition to being the comics journalism editor over at Cartoon Movement, cranks out an inordinate number of editorial cartoons for the syndicates every week. This week he was honoured as a finalist for the Pullitzer, hot on the heels of his Herb Lock Prize. Next is another comics journalism standard bearer, Erin Polgreen, who in addition to being a keystone at the Media Consortium has recently been awarded a Women Entrepreneurs in Digital News Frontier Grant from the International Women’s Media Foundation to kick off her latest project, Symbolia – a soon-to-be-launched tablet magazine focusing on showcasing illustrated journalism. Susie Cagle, another member of the Graphic Journos collective, was honoured by the Society of Professional Journalists for her coverage of Occupy Oakland, and Josh Neufeld got a well-deserved Eisner nomination for his piece on the protests in Bahrain, Lines in the Sand. Editors, take note!
