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A daily comic from the Archcomix archives (circa 2006) featuring that day's new stories, a la Steve Bell
Last night was my backstory chez Jim Bettinger, our program director, a now time-honoured tradition amongst the Knights when we each take center-stage for an evening to explain how we got into journalism. My talk went well, and led to some good questions about collaboration, multimedia and legal issues around comics journalism. It was also surprisingly satisfying to wade through the murky depths of my early cartooning career to pull out single panel op-ed pieces and chart how I got from there to the longer form work I do today. See attached for some examples from back in the day.
As I tap I’m putting together the final edits on the Bhutanese Refugee story I mentioned last post, which I’m hoping to then import into a flash template ahead of tomorrow’s multimedia class. That’s the plan, anyway. Aside from learning a ton about editing and Final Cut file (mis)management, doing this project has also schooled me in the pain of subtitles, or rather, overdubs. Something that will no doubt become essential training for my future work, which often does feature english as the primary language of interviewees.
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