• If you’re a fan of The Amazing Race, check out Batton Lash’s illustration of Mark and Bill, the pair of comic fans on the current season of the show.
• Act-i-vate has a preview of Michel Fiffe’s upcoming graphic novel Cuba.
• Thought Balloonist Craig Fischer interviewed cartoonist Ben Towle for Stay Tooned! magazine, then posted the leftovers that didn’t make it into the interview on his site.
• Brendan Wright reports on a recent appearance by “The Un-understandable Understanding Comics” creator, Art Spiegelman, who is making the rounds to promote his new book Breakdowns.
• Jake Parker, who is working on a new book starring his Missile Mouse character from Flight Explorer, shares a lot of early sketches from the past 15 years or so of the character.
• And finally, SLG Publishing is holding a contest related to their upcoming graphic novel, The War at Ellesmere by Faith Erin Hicks:
Illustrate a moment from school that you find particularly memorable, and email it to me at slgchief@slgpubs.com. Please include your name. Faith will choose three winners of The War at Ellsmere School Memories Contest –
1. An all-around winner, based on artwork and originality
2. An originality award, based on the concept of the illustration
3. An artwork award, based on those fancy drawing skills.
You can read my interview with Faith here.
