–Grady Klein tells you how to survive writing a graphic novel.
–Sean Phillips shares a painted cover he’s working on for Criminal.
–Dan Dare is coming to CD in May.
–Congrats to Midnight Sun’s Ben Towle, who welcomed a new member to the family on the last day of 2007.
–Apropos of the Ted Rall’s recent article, check out this NY Times review of the Chris Ware-edited Best American Comics 2007:
It would be wrong to expect comics to provide the highly constructed, didactic narratives that are supplied in abundance by other art forms, like, say, television. But reading through this book, you see how autobiography becomes a trap, a limit on creativity. Readers have their own existential torpor to sort through; they don’t necessarily need someone else’s.
–Mike Manley has a new comic strip, the Creepertins, in the Delaware County Times starting this month.
Compiled by Chris Mautner, Kevin Melrose and JK Parkin.
