JULES' KID STUFF SHOWS
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Golda Meir Library shows "The Time of My Life: A Retrospective of the Creative Work in Children's Literature of Jules Feiffer," running April 2 through June 30. The exhibit is "one of the first to focus on Feiffer's children's books;" Feiffer will speak at the April 2 opening reception.
INFO: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
posted by Egon on Friday, March 28, 2003

PAUL ON THE HOT SEAT
Canada's Exclaim! music magazine speaks with Michel Rabagliati about his second career as a cartoonist, his process and his particular concerns as a Quebecois memoirist: "I want the reader to take a trip," says Rabagliati. "I want to point out little things that are Quebecois and charming and poetic, the different undulations of accents, the expressions and imagination. I don't know if Quebecois culture is going to survive; I want it to be printed somewhere."
INFO: Exclaim!
posted by Egon on Friday, March 28, 2003

OSAMU TEZUKA'S WORLDS
Dark Horse will publish three new English-language volumes of Osamu Tezuka's work, the ICv2 pop-retail website reports. "Lost World," due in July, "tells the story of team of scientists voyaging to visit a rogue planet approaching earth." "Future World" will be published in two volumes later this year and satirizes Cold War politics in stories that see mankind confronted by various supernatural creatures.
INFO: ICv2
posted by Egon on Wednesday, March 26, 2003

TORONTO STAR BEGUILED
The Toronto Star profiles the Beguiling in anticipation of the upcoming Toronto Comic Arts Festival, speaking at length with store co-owner and Festival co-ordinator Peter Birkmoe. The piece also garners commentary from local artists Chester Brown and Catherine Doherty.
INFO: Toronto Star
posted by Egon on Wednesday, March 26, 2003

TCAF: CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival issues a call for volunteers to work the event on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29. Festival organizers announce: "There is a Volunteer Meeting for anyone and everyone interested in helping out at TCAF this Wednesday (March 26th) at 7pm at The Beguiling (601 Markham Street)... If you can spare a few hours Saturday, we could really use your help (and hey, you'd get into the show for free!)"
INFO: Toronto Comic Arts Festival
posted by Egon on Tuesday, March 25, 2003

MOORE ON CRAFT
Avatar Press announces "Alan Moore's Writing for Comics," a 48-page squarebound volume on the craft of writing comics. The bulk of the illustrated book's text is drawn from a series of essays Moore contributed to a British fanzine in 1985; the volume will also include "a new essay by Moore on how his approach has evolved in the meantime."
INFO: Avatar Press
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003

HORROCKS SHOULDERS BURDEN
Comicon.com's "Pulse" website interviews Dylan Horrocks in a piece primarily concerned with the end of his tenure writing DC Comics' "Hunter: the Age of Magic." Horrocks responds as well to a question about the status of Atlas and other gestating projects. "I am determined to get two issues of ATLAS out this year (plus a few other things)," says Horrocks, implicating a difficult "cartoonist's block" for delays in Atlas and Dirty Comics. "It was the biggest crisis I've been through as a cartoonist since the 'Fear of Comics' incident described in 'The Last Fox Story' (Pickle #3)." Horrocks happily reports that he is drawing again, in a more "clear line" style. "This might mean doing some redrawing of the first chapter of Atlas before it's collected in a book, but them's the breaks... And now that I'm down to one monthly book for DC again, there's a bit more time to focus on my own stuff. So be patient, grasshopper - after a long drought, the downpour is coming..."
INFO: Comicon.com
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003

GROTH MEETS ROTH
The latest installment of the Comics Journal's online Audio Archives has been posted, featuring an hour of excerpts from Gary Groth's 1991 conversation with cartoonist Arnold Roth.
INFO: The Comics Journal
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003

ROBOTICS AND COMICS
Ohio State University's Cartoon Research Library presents a series of lectures and seminars in conjunction with its current "Happy Birthday, Atom! Celebrating Tezuka's Astro Boy" exhibit. Events include "Approaches to Manga," an April 14 seminar; "Manga as an Extension of the Senses," a lecture on April 22; and "You Are Here -- Reader Engagement in Japanese Comics," a talk by Scott McCloud on May 5. The Astro Boy exhibit runs through May 30 and broadly highlights the library's collection of manga, with an emphasis on robotics. The library also announces "The Art of the Sequence: Telling the Visual Narrative," a full-day course planned for April 5 and featuring six Ohio cartoonists and picture book artists, including Ohio State alumnus Jeff Smith.
INFO: Cartoon Research Library: Happy Birthday, Atom
INFO: Cartoon Research Library: The Art of the Sequence
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003

MATT MADDEN GETS LIT
The newest issue of Lit, New School University's literary journal, excerpts "Exercises in Style," Matt Madden's series of one-page comic strips based on the work of Raymond Queneau. Madden will present a slide show about the series at the Lit 7 launch party on April 4. The free event will be held from 6:30 to 10:00 at the New School's Wollman Hall.
LINK: New School University
LINK: Exercises in Style
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003

BETTER HOMES HAVE COMICS
Gemstone Publishing's "Scoop" electronic newsletter reports that the June issue of "Better Homes and Gardens" magazine "will feature an extensive story regarding the use of comics as a learning tool. The working title for the article is 'Comics with Class.'"
INFO: Scoop
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003

ON THE STRIP
New York's Journal News chats with a group of cartoonists including Jules Feiffer, Wiley Miller, Ted Rall and Tom Tomorrow about the status of dissent in American comic strips, noting specifically the trend towards running politically pointed comic strips on the editorial page rather than the comics page.
INFO: Journal News
posted by Egon on Monday, March 24, 2003