In the last frame we see a picture that has shown up before. Why does this little boy have it, and why is he following Liesel anyway? And who is this guy who seems to draw things as they happen?
To see the whole novel as a slideshow go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsystreeter/sets/72157622349374835/ and click SLIDESHOW at the upper right.
I'll be at the Cartoon Art Museum SF, Sat. Dec. 12th!
I'm going to be at this mini comic-con at the Cartoon Art Museum on Saturday, December 12th. I'll be hanging out, I'll have a few copies of my books, and I'll be drawing and signing other things as well. Come out and support the Cartoon Art Museum! It's such a great resource for an art form that serves such an important role in our society. And I say that as a completely neutral party, of course. I look forward to seeing you there!
Here's the press release:
For Immediate Release:
November 11, 2009 Contact
Andrew Farago, 415-227-8666, ext. 313
Images Available on Request
Monsters of Webcomics: Webcomic-Con 2009
Cartoon Art Museum event: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 11:00am-5:00pm, Free with paid admission to the Cartoon Art Museum
The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host Webcomic-Con 2009, a single-day mini-convention dedicated to online comics and their creators. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet local webcartoonists and talk with them about their work. The featured artists will sell and sign copies of their comics, draw sketches for patrons, and conduct writing and drawing workshops throughout the day.
Featured guests include Brian Andersen (So Super Duper, Reignbow & Dee-Va, http://www.sosuperduper.com), Leigh Dragoon (By The Wayside, The Faerie Path Manga, http://www.leighdragoon.com), Shaenon K. Garrity (Skin Horse, Narbonic, http://www.shaenon.com), Karen Luk (Raconteur, http:/www.karenluk.net, http://www.girlamatic.com/raconteur/, Betsy Streeter (Brainwaves, http://www.betsystreeter.com), Jason Thompson (King of RPGs, http://www.kingofrpgs.com) and Chuck Whelon (artist and co-writer of Pewfell, http://www.pewfell.com).
NOTE FOR WEBCARTOONISTS: If you are interested in participating in this event, please contact Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org for more details.
Monsters of Webcomics exhibition: August 8, 2009 January 24, 2010
The Internet has revolutionized all forms of communication, and comics are no exception. The Cartoon Art Museum explores the digital revolution in its latest exhibition, Monsters of Webcomics, a showcase of some of the best and boldest work published on the World Wide Web.
Cartoonists choose to work on the Web for many reasons. For some, it's an opportunity to reach readers directly without going through editors, publishers, or syndicates. For others, it¹s a chance to explore the artistic possibilities of the Web, whether that means working in a format that would be impossible in print, tackling subject matter most comic-book publishers won¹t handle, or taking advantage of the rich palette available with digital coloring. Others simply want to share their comics with as many people as possible.
The comics by the ten artists featured in this exhibition run the gamut from four-panel comic strips to full-length graphic novels and include comedy, drama, history, science fiction, and sociopolitical commentary. As varied as this work is, however, it represents only a very small sample of the comics available on the Web. The Monsters of Webcomics exhibition also includes a virtual gallery that will highlight dozens of additional online comics.
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-CAR-TOON
www.cartoonart.org
Hours: Tues. - Sun. 11:00 - 5:00, Closed Monday
General Admission: $6.00
Student/Senior: $4.00
Children 6-12: $2.00
Members & Children under 6: Free
The Cartoon Art Museum is a tax-exempt, non-profit, educational organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, study and exhibition of original cartoon art in all forms.
Graphic Novel, Page 63
Our Lost Queen is named Liesel, incidentally.
Many pages this time, since we're moving through space which of course requires quite a few drawings. We're about to meet the Illuminator of Manuscripts. But who is that little boy running through the forest?
Many pages this time, since we're moving through space which of course requires quite a few drawings. We're about to meet the Illuminator of Manuscripts. But who is that little boy running through the forest?
Puppet Class - Toasted Marshmallow
In this clip, one of my puppet class students had a wonderful idea to make a prop that is both an uncooked and cooked marshmallow. Then they use the sun (and this character who is made of fire) to do the cooking. The bat and hedgehog provide commentary...
The Puppet Class - Cats Got No Candy!
In our puppet class, we first make the puppets and then we act out scenarios with them.
Along the way we also go through lots of glue, and put together some kind of a stage.
In this clip I had asked the kids to come up with Trick-Or-Treating scenarios, since it was almost Halloween. This is what they did.
One thing that's especially cool here is the fact that the door is also a puppet. Door on a stick.
And, you've gotta love the voices and the random fight that breaks out between the skull and the happy face...
I just love the improvisation and creativity here. Love it.
Arts Education is Arts Education.
In our day of standardized test scores, those of us interested in fostering creativity always need some ammunition in our corner.
We need to justify why kids should spend time drawing and making marks, even though they do this without any prompting at all. Even a kid with nothing but dirt and a stick will make marks.
But, drawing is not math and it's not reading.
Or is it?
If you go out and look around in the InterWebs for articles advocating arts education and touting the benefits of the arts to the growing mind (and by that I mean growing minds of all ages), you get some kind of strange results.
A whole lot of effort has gone into showing that the arts improve math scores, for example.
Now, maybe that is true. And if you find math beautiful, you will most likely find Bach
beautiful. In fact, here is a clip of the Crab Canon by Bach translated upside down and backwards and onto a Mobius strip which is really mathematical and cool.
But the real reason for all this effort is because we've created this hierarchy of subjects, and math and language are at the top. In fact here's Ken Robinson's talk on creativity and schools. He explains this very, very well.
So if you want resources, you want money and time and effort spent toward fostering visual and movement and musical thinking, you've got to hook yourself onto that math and verbal wagon. Right?
Um, maybe not.
See, music is music. It exists precisely because it is not math. Drawing is drawing, which is not reading. It's drawing.
So while I appreciate all the discussion of Multiple Intelligences and the many other multi-faceted approaches to education that incorporate the arts, I have this to say:
The arts are inherently valuable. They are what give us our culture. They are a huge part what we look at when we want to understand an ancient civilization (See: Egypt). They are what we use to comprehend and articulate our place in the world and the universe. They are our highest forms of thought and communication.
They don't need to improve math scores. They are not just for hobbies. They are part of us as people. The need for music and dance and theatre and drawing and all of it are there because they are there, pure and simple.
Yes, all of our various ways of using our brains overlap, all the time. But if you don't nurture all of the various modes of thinking, there's nothing to overlap with. That button doesn't get pushed. That idea doesn't fully form. That story doesn't get told.
So, art is art. Let's now talk about what art does to make us who we are, with or without improvements in test scores.
Where's the cocoa? Where IS IT???
The household ran out of unsweetened cocoa this week. This is not okay.
I just walked downtown and got more. Now things are better.
Whew.
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