Archive for November, 2009
My friend, Carolynn Calabrese, is the current comics editor at the Daily Texan newspaper from the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas has housed many excellent cartoonists over the years including Frank Stack (The Adventures of Jesus) in the late 50s, Jack Jackson (in the UT humor magazine, Texas Ranger), Gilbert Shelton [...]
Last Friday, James Kochalka lead a band of eight cartoonists (students or staff of CCS) into the Integrated Arts school in Burlington, Vermont. We had four hours to teach comics to a class of 4th and 5th graders. First we had a reading of some Johnny Boo magic, Kochalka’s kids books printed by Top Shelf.
Then [...]
Hey Merfans! My two Menstruation Station mini-comics made the latest issue of BITCH’s Bitch List! I’m very happy and proud to be there. A friend of mine, Annie Murphy, was on it a few months ago and everything she touches turns into turquoise! Kjerstin Johnson, BITCH’s web content manager, wrote a rather glowing review and [...]
Friday was great because a)new comic day here at Mermaid Hostel and b)Hillbilly Heaven at the Main Street Museum! We had a patriotic Jell-O cake, sausage and cheeseballs and so many cupcakes. Alec Longstreth made delicious BUTTERBEER and Colleen Frakes brought pocket booze bottles, perfect for nippin’ in church or at work. The real highlight [...]








