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One of Israel’s largest business dailies is running a feature piece on the story behind Borderland, the human trafficking comic that Olga Trusova and I put together over the last year. Practice your hebrew with the original piece here, or read the slightly odd-sounding-but-basically-intelligible google translation here.
I’ve downed webtools recently to finally make time to pick up my drawing tools, and am pushing ahead with Hardhats pages for my latest graphic novel project. The first part will be done and ready for release by this time next week – I’ll be posting previews in the Hardhats page of the site over the coming days.
More software jiggerypokery today with my first forray into Processing, a data-viz tool aimed at amateur programmers/artists/designers who haven’t got hours of eyeball-searing coding experience. Check out this example for an interactive version of the image above – opens in a new window and play around with moving your mouse around the rectangle, as well as holding it down and moving it. Download this incredible freeware from: www.processing.org
Once again, another hiatus means another prototype – this time with an all-singing, all-dancing javascript component. I can’t take much credit for building the framework (big thanks to the folks at Imageflow for that), but it’s certainly a step in the right direction for a more user-friendly platform that throws panels into greater relief. Now all I need to do is add a vertical scroll and additional pop-up functionality. Check out the prototype here and leave your comments. More info over at the Knight Project page in the morning for the full skinny of what I’ve been up to.
(Most of) the Stanford Graphic Novel Project (L-R): Chris Bautista, Katie Pyne, Sam Julian, Anna Rosales, Lucas Loredo, Topher Lin, James Lipshaw, Guillermo Huerta
Last night saw the star-studded launch of the SGNP’s latest opus, Pika-Don, from which the above splash page has been artfully cropped (excuse the low res). Veteran readers will know exactly what this is about, but for those of you who don’t it’s the graphic retelling of the story of one of the world’s few double atomic bomb survivors, Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Use the search bar up top to find my original post which has all the details.
Thanks to all of you who came out to support – a video featuring interviews with the students as well as my co-Instructors Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey will be online soon. As will a link to where you can get your hands on a copy.
The other big news is a major breakthrough in my Knight Project – my first working prototype is up and ready for testing. Ladies and Gents, I proudly present…Newspanels. Have at it!
I’m pleased to say that all of you who pledged your support for our Borderland human trafficking comic will be receiving your comics very soon – hopefully by the end of the week (domestic) and sometime next week for the internationals. The comic looks fantastic, even if I do say so myself, and was well received at the Alternative Press Expo last weekend. For more on that, scroll down to read my full report.
Here’s another taster from one of the stories to give those of you who aren’t familiar with it an idea – more online at the Borderland page.
Loads of news to fill you in on today – Honduran Resistance Members’ insights into the situation on the ground and the gathering momentum for the constitutional reform petition; the Dalai Lama’s talk at Stanford this morning (off to the next one this afternoon) and about to go to veteran US intelligence officer Ray McGovern’s talk at the Stanford Law School. Only at Stanford could you go from a CIA officer to the Dalai Lama via a brief stroll across campus. I’ll type it all up this evening in between the gargantuan amount of comics I have to spray paint ahead of APE this weekend.
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You know the drill by now: click here to read the Mountain Top Removal comic in full.
Come and see me at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo (APE) this weekend! I’ll have 2 new comics on sale, and will be doing live drawings (as opposed to dead drawing, which is my preferred method) for Archcomix purchasers. Table 276, listed as the Center for Cartoon Studies.
News headlines for today: a river of toxic sludge sweeps through Hungary (eerily similar to the coal run-off mentioned in today’s panels), and evidence comes to light of US congress members using public funds to back the de facto Honduran “government”.
Speaking of Honduras, I’m delighted to announce that the Honduran coup comic will soon be translated into Norwegian, bringing the total number of versions up to 6, alongside English, Spanish, Danish, Japanese and Greek. French and Portuguese are currently in the works.
TGI Friday bonus: news and storytelling links aplenty over at the Knight Project page.
In case you missed it yesterday, I’ll be at table 276 next weekend for the Alternative Press Expo at the Concourse Exhibition Hall in San Francisco (SoMa area).
