tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19582919827660200202024-03-18T23:23:31.041-04:00Sophie GoldsteinSophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-72618348283470459602022-05-09T13:57:00.000-04:002022-05-09T13:57:09.900-04:00My "Top 5" list is up at Shepard.com!<p>The good folks at Shepherd Books asked me to put together a "Top Five" list, so I picked <a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/for-speculative-fiction-lovers">my absolute favorite speculative fiction graphic novels. </a></p><p>Happy reading!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/for-speculative-fiction-lovers" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5iOyKpN4c2pAKQ3AtUvWlx1Upt94CJmYEgRT7taBKiNSBFK0KdgQfvg2lkq_XaLP829S8LsdPe1N8asz1Uq-XJsyxJUOj5GMOa81RZzhGAt2Td7EAkkqfT1Mo9KRfYyfPlDYzDPSSfwn-W15RuXOiZduab6IuiLZ8CmF_xyxNN2JcG_uXJ4NiUzCR/s16000/Sheperd.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-18533831943855301062020-03-11T18:11:00.002-04:002020-03-11T18:11:50.431-04:00The Reviews Are InHey Folks,<br />
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<i>An Embarrassment of Witches </i>has received a slew of reviews since its release last week and they've all been glowing!<br />
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Here are a couple highlights:<br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">-The Nerd Daily <a href="https://www.thenerddaily.com/an-embarrassment-of-witches-review/">(full review here)</a></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">"A fun little book and one that will appeal to the inner magical teenager in us all." </span></span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">-Starburst Magazine <a href="https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/an-embarrassment-of-witches">(full review here)</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">"As if often the case with comics of the highest caliber, much of the fun is simply going along the journey. [...] The reader is hooked and is rooting for Rory, in the same spirit as we all root for Sabrina and for Buffy."</span></span></span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">-Comics Grinder <a href="https://comicsgrinder.com/2020/03/05/review-an-embarrassment-of-witches-by-sophie-goldstein-and-jenn-jordan/">(full review here) </a></span><a href="https://comicsgrinder.com/2020/03/05/review-an-embarrassment-of-witches-by-sophie-goldstein-and-jenn-jordan/"> </a></span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">More reviews over on the <a href="http://www.redinkradio.com/p/press.html">Awards & Press</a> page, if you're curious.</span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">If you have also read & enjoyed <i>An Embarrassment of Witches</i> you can really help us out by going on Amazon and/or Goodreads and leaving a book review. And if you didn't enjoy the book, well, please don't?</span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Yours in comics,</span></span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Sophie </span> </span>Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-47465532920500508252019-12-09T17:26:00.003-05:002019-12-09T17:26:51.468-05:00Our First Review for AEoW!Publishers Weekly has given us our first review! And it's good!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"This affable coming-of-age fantasy... add[s] a touch of magic to familiar human comedy."</span></span></h2>
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Check out the full review here:<br />
<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781603094627?fbclid=IwAR0MKZxEEIyS_WSMcNRQdDxS2Wqtu_DRSHB2dspyb_OiayjQrI2CHYNd9gE">https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781603094627?fbclid=IwAR0MKZxEEIyS_WSMcNRQdDxS2Wqtu_DRSHB2dspyb_OiayjQrI2CHYNd9gE</a><br />
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Or, if you're already sold, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Embarrassment-Witches-Sophie-Goldstein/dp/1603094628">pre-order the book on Amazon.</a><br />
<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-75466865438101945432019-02-13T13:39:00.004-05:002019-02-13T13:39:59.596-05:00Sunday Funday at the Gilcrease!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My husband <a href="https://www.cantocomics.com/">Carl Antonowicz</a> and I will be performing some of my children's comics at the <a href="https://gilcrease.org/">Gilcrease Museum</a> in Tulsa, OK this Sunday, February 17!</div>
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Showtimes are 1:15 pm, 2:30pm and 3:15 pm and each performance is approximately 15 minutes.</div>
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Also hosting comics-related activities are <a href="http://www.melaniegillman.com/">Melanie Gillman</a> and <span style="color: #365899; font-family: inherit;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://olivia-stephens.com/">Olivia Stephens</a></span></span>. Plus, there will be roping demonstrations (not by cartoonists, mercifully)!! It's going to be a lot of fun so come check it out if you're in the vicinity.</div>
Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-84239544723117983972019-01-31T19:39:00.001-05:002019-01-31T19:42:00.643-05:00Read "An Embarrassment of Witches" on Patreon!I'm serializing my current book project with Jenn Jordan <a href="https://www.patreon.com/sophiegoldstein">on my Patreon.</a> As of today there are 59 pages posted so there's a lot to read and more comics in the archives! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/sophiegoldstein">Check it out</a>, if you haven't already.<br />
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$3 a month gives you access to <i>everything </i>and really helps me out a lot. For reals.<br />
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Here's the first few pages of <i>An Embarrassment of Witches</i>, to give you a taste of the goods available.<br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-14108359259802847212018-10-12T16:19:00.002-04:002018-10-12T16:19:24.496-04:00Do you like science fiction?Hey Friends,<br />
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Just a quick update to let you know I'll be tabling at the <a href="http://www.micexpo.org/">Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE)</a> next weekend, October 20-21st. <div>
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I'll also be giving a free one-hour lecture on how to craft your own science-fiction narratives to promote Lesley University's new <a href="https://lesley.edu/events/inside-the-graduate-creative-writing-program-poetry-stage-screen-or-graphic-novels-comic">Graphic Novels & Comics Low-Residency MFA program</a>.<br /><br /><b>Register here if you want to attend:</b> <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flesley.edu%2Fevents%2Finside-the-graduate-creative-writing-program-poetry-stage-screen-or-graphic-novels-comic&h=AT2k5LmyTUQXwBn6hP2KIPzLLS5YNtF8CDHLYPqPpMjz2_-Ou00VyjdKgOFlkY0Pj4cAqC4L-YNUBUDv5zOqcvi6kryySS8_3XGWmbaWuVeR4ZFjg-7LIYKx038efX5T0bAw5seTSEs6q_sOQ6shvdQZgO1FOLO1Fis8oQ5la1Nf5fvlUtew88B9ziJ0VnRXuqpORacV9OP9kcGloJq5lxs-di6YLL5cLcMfstO4SYeE3k69LVopKJBhUGUUMsxJ3Spw332QNx9p0EllAConnQ4L9cyW2ZacfQ0J4pwWjBQfyEQWb4SG_j6NAzj3n4DQ__81H6GER-QgXVO957xUlpH_jfr941vA_Lgv-1C63ytPvZmckHv39r1DQvrKxUcpys0j4l4wJ8CuObTmTfOPDWHn--rX2uCP-gOn">https://lesley.edu/…/inside-the-graduate-creative-writing-p…</a><br /><br />Saturday, October 20th 10am-11am. Here's a full lecture topic description:<br /><br />WORLDBUILDING & NARRATIVE<br />Faculty: Sophie Goldstein<br /><br />The best fictional universes are compelling because they are based on an iron structure of internal logic that not only feels as real as the laws of our own universe but also helps fuel the engine of the story. Through the examination of several fictional universes we will see how other artists and storytellers construct compelling narratives and use these frameworks to examine contemporary social and moral issues.<div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-55973573937270544592018-09-13T14:59:00.003-04:002018-09-13T14:59:48.709-04:00Small Press Expo (SPX) This Weekend!Hey friends—I will be at the <a href="http://smallpressexpo.com/">Small Press Expo</a> this weekend with copies of <i>House of Women</i> and a new 25+ page preview mini of <i>An Embarrassment of Witches</i>!<br />
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Yrs in comics,<br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-8584948697222384592018-04-06T14:11:00.003-04:002018-04-06T14:13:07.176-04:00April Showers Bring Fresh Newsletters For You To EnjoyHey Friends,<br />
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If you would like to read my April newsletter about Edward Gorey, Netflix documentaries and makin' books <a href="https://mailchi.mp/eb11f4ed3625/april-will-spring-ever-come-an-odyssey-in-patience">you can do so here</a>.<br />
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PS: Want to sign up for my newsletter? <a href="http://eepurl.com/dpF29T">Go ahead. I dare you.</a> Subscribers get a free PDF preview of my new book-in-progress, <i>An Embarrassment of Witches.</i>Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-27839735810264738622018-03-02T13:50:00.000-05:002018-03-02T14:42:30.268-05:00Faerie Travel Poster ProcessHello Friends!<br />
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<i>An Embarrassment of Witches </i>is now being serialized <a href="https://www.patreon.com/sophiegoldstein">on my Patreon page! </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/16940421">Check out the first page with all the trimmings here!</a><br />
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While finished pages are reserved for my patrons, I thought it would be fun to share my process for this stand-alone piece, a promotional travel poster for the Land of Faerie that I created to put on Rory's bedroom wall in <i>An Embarrassment of Witches</i>.<br />
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I looked at a ton of travel posters for ideas, and then scoured the interwebs for some additional visual inspiration. If you're at all curious, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/estrangingsea/aeow/faerie-poster-inspiration/">I've collected all the images on this oh-so-convenient Pinterest board for you.</a><br />
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Here's the thumbnail I drew, somewhat larger then life-size:<br />
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Then I printed that up larger and pencilled over it, referencing the Pinterest page again for details.<br />
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<i>An Embarrassment of Witches</i> only has black, white, and a 30% grey tone but for the poster I wanted a little bit more to work with so I added a 60% grey, resulting in the finished image at top. That image will probably never appear in the book though, unless perhaps as supplementary material, because it's far too detailed to shrink down and put into a panel as a background element without appearing entirely out of place. Thus, I was forced to create a simplified image of the poster suitable for actual placement in the comic:<br />
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Mostly I just converted all the 60% greys to 30% greys and removed the lineart over the tones. It's still a little too detailed but... ah well.<br />
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In retrospect it does seem a bit silly to have spent two days on a background element that virtually no one will notice but I justify it to myself that:<br />
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c) I can color the poster later and turn it into a print or something!?!?<br />
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Anyway, that's the process! Now I feel totally ridiculous but hopefully you, dear reader, feel better informed and not at all doubtful of my sanity.<br />
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Yrs in comics,<br />
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PS: If you enjoyed this post, every page of <i>An Embarrassment of Witches</i> that goes up on my Patreon page also includes the script, thumbs, pencils and inks for that page. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/16940421">Check out the first page with all the trimmings here!</a><br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-81825542385863220852017-11-28T14:12:00.002-05:002017-11-28T14:16:01.732-05:00Holiday Sale to Benefit Puerto Rico<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey Friends,<br />
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Perhaps you are starting your search for holiday presents, so I wanted to let you know Jenn Jordan and I are selling copies of our graphic novel <i>Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell</i> to benefit Puerto Rico.<br />
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<a href="http://dcisgoingtohell.bigcartel.com/">Buy it on our <i>Darwin Carmichael</i> store page!</a><br />
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In 2013 Jenn and I crowdfunded <i>DCiGTH</i> on Kickstarter so the printing is 100% paid for and the only expense will be shipping, which in America comes out to $3.61 a book. That means that for every $25 book sold, $21.39 will go to <a href="https://www.worldcentralkitchen.org/">World Central Kitchen</a>!<br />
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Please consider checking out their website and donating directly if you don't feel like grabbing a book. Thanks for being generous, wonderful people!<br />
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Hugs,<br />
SophieSophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-74799948611787981612017-10-13T17:33:00.001-04:002017-10-13T17:33:43.855-04:00"House of Women" in Pittsburgh... TOMORROW<div>
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Book signing @ Copacetic Comics, 7-9pm<br />3138 Dobson St. - third floor</div>
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Book Talk & Art Show @ Toonseum, 7pm:<br />945 Liberty Ave.<br /></div>
I will be giving a slideshow/talk on the development of <i>House of Women</i> and there will be some original art up on the walls and drinks and snacks.<br /></div>
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Quickly following on the heels of that event I will be in NYC for <a href="http://fantagraphics.com/flog/events/brooklyn-ny-sophie-goldstein-desert-island-comics/">a book signing party at Desert Island Comics</a> from 7-9pm. Please join me!<br />
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Carnegie Library-Downtown<br />
612 Smithfield Street<br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-53856191403682700152017-06-23T16:56:00.001-04:002017-06-23T16:56:24.554-04:00New Comic Up on The Nib!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made a new comic! It's about freedom, stress, materialism, guilt...
you know, just a few of the highlights of modernity. Also, it has cute
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Go read that comic, and then if you're interested read my short
accompanying piece on the making-of on my Patreon (but really, read the
comic first):<br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-28471960481399076472017-03-22T10:30:00.002-04:002017-03-22T10:30:42.877-04:00Sophie Goldstein, Cartoonist and Birthday Girl, Now On Patreon!<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hey friends—</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last year on my birthday I gave myself the gift of paying rent by selling some original art from my graphic novel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Oven</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and my mini-comic “The Good Wife.” This year, I’m one-upping myself and going all-out to create a sustainable artistic practice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I made a Patreon account! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the help of Patreon, I hope to make writing and drawing graphic novels my full-time job. Like many creators I’ve had trouble stitching together a steady income from my work. Currently, I work part-time at a rock climbing facility and take on occasional freelance to make ends meet. However, long-form storytelling is what I love to do, and with the help of my patrons I can focus on the big projects closest to my heart and and get them out in the world as soon as humanly possible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$3 a month: Access to my patreon blog, with exclusive previews of new work, process material from current and previous projects, and unprecedented access to my innermost thoughts and creative turmoil. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$5 a month: A monthly PDF of sketchbook drawings, mad scribblings, and assorted juvenilia for you to treasure always—plus all the benefits listed above.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$10 a month: PDFs of all my graphic novels, including "House of Women," “Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell” and “The Oven”—plus all the benefits listed above.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$25 a month: Hard copies of my work as it is published, personalized and mailed to you, as long as your subscription is current—plus all the benefits listed above, of course</span></div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-62645553169672899622017-03-06T14:32:00.003-05:002017-03-06T14:47:53.568-05:00Denmark Trip Report: Teaching at The Animation Workshop<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-54ff14b6-a4d5-3a25-9880-0625504499c3" style="line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-right: 7pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On February 18th I began a 2-week stint supervising seniors in Graphic Storytelling program at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. I was not presenting or lecturing in the usual pedagogic manner but spent my days in one-on-one meetings with students helping them at whatever stage they were at in their senior project: anything from batting around concept and worldbuilding ideas to reading scripts and thumbnails and providing feedback and guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was an intense, fascinating and magical experience working with so many students at such a delicate stage of the process of creation—when everything can be created or unmade in an instant and entire story ideas would shift overnight like sand dunes in the wind. I woke up early every morning to read scripts and I went to bed every night turning their stories over in my head like they were my own. It was my most rewarding teaching experience to date, and I can only hope the students benefited half as much as I did.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During my time in Viborg I sent semi-daily missives back to my family. I offer to you an edited view of those accounts, for the curious:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here I am. In Viborg, Denmark. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I gave my big artist talk this morning and now I'm meeting with students to have them go over their projects with me. They are all, like, waaaaay better drawers then I am. Hopefully they don't know enough to question my qualifications.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was worried, before my initial meetings, how I would be able to help the students with their senior projects (such an amorphous task) but I've already made some inroads with a few students and I think I'll have plenty to do. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also it's very green & clean here. I don't think I've seen a piece of trash on the ground all day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I met with all the available students (some are out of town), and I think I have a game plan for most of them. Some have a clear idea of what they need from me but others don't even know enough to know what they need. Anyway, I have a schedule of meetings for tomorrow so I think I can proceed on a day-to-day basis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 2 was no less deliriously busy than day 1, though mercifully I didn't have to make any presentations. I'm having a rough time getting over my jet-lag so I was asleep by 8:30pm last night and up again by 2am, but it did allow me to read 130 pages of the new Neil Gaiman book I brought so... not a total loss?</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimagmYQPpirJ3LZhTuxXilgWTPUgHbkcEFt09YScr3483XARAVYRi-_JwG5L-1YIBZ5pXdY8qd6INgXbUONEe37hgYjbN3E_PsFyKKsMPgBZ1TFsnUG8K-yhQQTU9praQzHNKOPmUWkiY/s1600/IMG_4744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimagmYQPpirJ3LZhTuxXilgWTPUgHbkcEFt09YScr3483XARAVYRi-_JwG5L-1YIBZ5pXdY8qd6INgXbUONEe37hgYjbN3E_PsFyKKsMPgBZ1TFsnUG8K-yhQQTU9praQzHNKOPmUWkiY/s320/IMG_4744.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Animation Workshop is located in an old converted army barracks which, while surprisingly attractive, has the unfortunate aspect of being maze-like both inside and out. Luckily, students seem to be used to hapless foreigners wandering their halls in a daze, so I had some help finding the coffee machine, finding my office, finding reception so I could get someone to unlock my office... &c &c.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The work day from 9am on was full of meetings with students and talking through their projects. There are only 18 students but it's a lot to stay on top of. Having back-to-back hour-long conversations about themes, story structure, character, and so on is pretty draining, so by 6pm I was really ready to go back to the apartment—which is what I did.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dinner was a less formal affair than last night’s school-funded steak dinner (yum) but I picked up some leverpostej, aka: liver paté, which is a traditional danish food, and had it on a baguette with arugula and felt very satisfied indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hopefully soon I'll get on top of my duties and finish my day early enough to get out and take some photos while the sun still shines. Sunrise is at 7:30am and sunset is at 6pm so the window of opportunity is pretty narrow. Most of the museums, castles, cathedrals and general "sights" here close at 5pm and my workday ends at 4pm so I'm going to have to hustle if I want to see anything. As of today though, I am all out of hustle. Maybe when I sleep schedule evens out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So, I don't have anything new to report other than that I am still very tired. Today was more meeting with students and a mid-afternoon trip with Peter to the Danish version of a Staples to buy art supplies for next Wednesday, when I'm doing my bookbinding workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actually, I'm feeling pretty stressed out. 18 student projects is a lot and I have a lot of reading to do for tomorrow, which unfortunately I have to go back to the school later to print out because the 2nd-year students were busy hogging the printer (durn kids). I have 5 back-to-back meetings tomorrow so that's a lot to prepare for.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I also feel guilty that I'm not "experiencing Denmark" and making more of my time as a tourist here but I keep trying to remind myself that I was brought here to do a job, dammit, not to eat pickled eel and visit viking graveyards or whatever.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm very much looking forward to the weekend in Copenhagen at the Copenhagen Comics Festival, although I expect it will also be overwhelming and stressful in an altogether different way. However, I only have one event I'm expected to attend—an on-stage interview with a signing—so I'm hoping I can do most of my con-stuff (networking, looking at the other tables, &c.) on Saturday and spend some time Sunday being a tourist... I may run that idea by my Danish contacts here though—the festival is paying a per diem and for a hotel room for me so it might be super rude to skip any of the show.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yesterday was the first day I felt on top of things. One of my morning meetings cancelled, which was kind of a blessing because it gave me time to catch up on reading all the student scripts. That, and going to bed at 10pm the evening before provided the kick I needed to get a handle on everything. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I've learned that with so many students, meetings and projects to keep track of I need to stay highly organized and so I've devised a kind of pin-up board with all the student's names and the location of their desks where I can put updates about their projects and the day and time of our next meeting. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think it's going well. The students seem happy with my feedback, although depending on the student it can be hard to judge their response. Giving advice and constructive criticism is something of an art, especially when you don't know the person and how they're going to react. I've had a couple students spiral into melt-downs or existential crises, sometimes aided by my well-intentioned advice, but in both cases we were able to re-meet and talk it through and figure out another solution. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After hours yesterday I went out with fellow North American cartoonist (from Canada) Joe Ollmann and a couple of his students who are a few years behind my group. We had some beers at an extremely smokey local bar and were accosted, with friendliness, by a drunk local pizza-maker with a very limited grasp of English but a love of hand-shaking and high-fives. It was fun and good to get out in the evening after a few nights sitting alone in my room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After lunch I'm driving with Erik, the lead coordinator of the second-year class, to Copenhagen for the Copenhagen Comics Festival. They're putting me up in a hotel right next to the convention venue. There's also some sort of dinner being thrown for the guests of the show (that's me!) so that's my only plan for tonight aside from maybe exploring some of the area surrounding the hotel. I asked Peter if he thought I needed to be at the show the whole two days or if it was more loose and he said the latter, so it may be possible I'll have more time for exploring the city then I thought. In any case, I hope to take LOTS of photos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So,
as you may have inferred from my radio silence, my weekend in
Copenhagen was quite busy. I got in at 5:30pm-ish on Friday eve after a
long car-ride with Erik and a few of his second-year students and after
checking in at the hotel I headed out for a quick walk around town—I was
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately,
all the museums and sights close early and the sun had already set so
mostly what I saw was cobbled streets and cute shops, which was still
kind of fun. I also saw the outside of a few sights, like one of the
many royal palaces and the "round tower," a look-out tower built in the
17th-century so the Danes could keep an eye on the Swedish ships.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That night after my walk, I attended a dinner for the various guests, employees, and volunteer staff of Copenhagen Comics. I ended up having a long and illuminating conversation with a Danish woman, Marianne, who sits on the Danish Council of Comics (or something like that) and she filled me in on some of the details of the local comics scene. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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morning I had an on-stage interview at 12:30pm that went really well
and was surprisingly well attended, despite being scheduled at the same
time as another presentation with the internationally acclaimed
cartoonist Dave McKean. Charlotte, my interviewer, was well-prepared and
the conversation had a nice flow to it; afterwards at my signing table I
had a good line of people who said they'd never heard of me before but
now they felt they had to read my book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> That evening the convention took the international guests out to dinner to a very fancy restaurant with multiple tiny courses spaced too far apart with too much wine in-between. I had great talks with a bunch of folks, including a very nice woman publishing Danish comics and several other guests. The evening ended with a visit to a smoky bar with some some comics luminaries, including french cartoonists Boulet and Sébastien Cosse, Scottish cartoonist Tom Gauld, and a few other cartoonists whose faces and work were new to me. It was really great to have a chance to hang out with some of my idols, who were all very funny, gracious and kind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the museum we went to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, which is a museum of mostly classical statuary but is also famous for its "winter garden", a glassed-in tropical sanctuary built in 1882 as a poor-weather refuge for damp and depressed Danish people. We had lunch at the cafe and sat on the benches for a bit around the central fountain before we had to head back to make Tom's signing at his publisher's booth.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Back at the show, I spent a few hours walking around and glad-handing Danish publishers and trading books and that was pretty much that. Erik and I drove back to the town where he lives, which is about an hour away from the school, and he put me on a train to Viborg. I arrived at around midnight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This week I'm meeting with students just like last week except for Wednesday, when I'll be doing my bookbinding workshop. Tonight I'm taking it easy—doing laundry and relaxing after such a hectic weekend. Feels good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorry for not writing the last few days but TBH, there hasn't been much to report. Sitting down with students to go over their stories pales in comparison to the many wonders of Copenhagen and hanging out with world-famous cartoonists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yesterday I led a bookbinding workshop for some of the students (it was up to them if they wanted to participate and about half the class did). We did case binding, a somewhat laborious and time-consuming method that produces a very professional-looking book... when done correctly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It mostly went well and we had a good time, but when it came time to glue their books together there was a lot of trepidation and disappointment. Some of the books came out crooked, and even though I warned students repeatedly that their first books wouldn't be perfect they still had very high expectations of themselves. The day ended on a bit of a down-note, with me wondering how I could have done better and them feeling like their efforts were wasted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How different today has been! It's unusually sunny, which has put everyone in a good mood, and after sitting under heavy books (a kind of ad-hoc book press) all night the students books look much better then when they initially glued them! They seem really pleased with what they've made and much more positive about the idea of bookmaking in the future. Some students were already brimming with ideas for future bookbinding projects, which I took as a very good sign.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instagram photo: Simone's blueprints for her final project.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instagram photo: Students hard at work in the bookbind workshop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instagram photo: Students showing the products of their labor. So proud.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of Nilas's book from the bookbinding workshop with some of his charming concept art for his story.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This evening should be fairly busy. There's a dinner for teachers tonight that appears to be some sort of pot-luck thing. Then at 9pm I'm meeting up with some of my students at a bar in the area. It seems a bit odd to me, as an American, to go out drinking with students but apparently it's appropriate and even expected in Denmark—though of course not required. Anyway, I hope it'll be fun to chat in a more casual environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tomorrow is my last day, and every hour of it is packed with student meetings. At the end of the day I've arranged to have a tea in one of the lecture rooms so any students who wants to can come say goodbye. I've promised sweets, so hopefully I'll be very popular.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's been a great trip but at this point I'm pretty eager to go home. My two weeks here has really sped by but, paradoxically, I feel as though I've been here much longer. Ain't it always the way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last day done! That's all she wrote!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Much like the former few, most of the day was taken up with meetings with students. It was sad to be concluding these final story talks, knowing I wouldn't be going any further with the student projects. Over the past few weeks I've gotten to feel invested and it's a little hard to let go. It must be weird being a student at the school and continually experiencing this coming-and-going of teachers, but they seem to take it in stride.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last night was the teacher dinner and drinks out with students. The dinner was a lentil soup with home-made bread and rice, with a side salad and cheese and wine. The food was good and I had a nice long conversation with an older gentleman, Leigh, a British ex-pat from Birmingham who is now a permanent resident in Denmark. If I've learned anything on my trip it's that the common rule against talking politics with strangers is complete hogwash—bashing Trump has been a great ice-breaker here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After I went to a smoky bar and met up with about six or so of my students and we had a few beers and chatted. It was pretty "hugge", a Danish word that is sometimes translated as "cozy" but also encompasses many more subtle attributes—the most important of which being the absence of anything negative or upsetting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was nice to get to know my students outside of a discussion of their stories and we got to talk comics, traveling in the USA (which many of them have), and delve into the seemingly bottomless topic of cultural differences. Then, today, I got to do a round two when I hosted a farewell party in one of the lecture rooms with tea and cookies (provided by me, of course). That was well attended—as one might expect from an event offering free food at a college—and four boxes of cookies were swiftly inhaled. Several of the students went out of their way to tell me how grateful they were for my help, which was truly gratifying.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tonight I'm spending a quiet night in the apartment, packing and watching movies. Despite having sold and/or given away so many copies of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Oven</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I have somehow ended up with more comics then I left with. It's like some sort of very benign curse.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #263238; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tomorrow at 11:05am I'm being picked up from the apartment, driven to the airport, and from there I begin the long exhausting voyage back to America.</span></div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-40466415250030717752017-02-17T13:15:00.002-05:002017-02-17T13:15:57.743-05:00Fantagraphics to Publish "House of Women" Collection!<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_7">
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chuffed beyond measure to announce that the collected edition of <i>House
of Women</i> will be coming out this fall from Fantagraphics!<br />
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I
have been an avid fan of Fanta and their dream team of authors since I
first discovered there was life beyond Vertigo titles and now I am so
incredibly excited that my weird psycho-sexual sci-fi horror
insta-classic (<span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">dare2dream</span></span>) will one day soon be counted among their number.<br />
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Thanks, Eric Reynolds & Team Fanta, and thanks to everyone who helped me make this book—especially my supernaturally supportive mother Sheri Myers and my disturbingly forbearing boyfriend Carl Antonowicz.<br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-73138091215187602882016-11-15T16:01:00.000-05:002016-11-15T16:01:40.169-05:00Holiday Book Sale to Benefit the ACLUBack in October, Jenn and I decided to put up a <a href="http://dcisgoingtohell.bigcartel.com/product/darwin-carmichael-is-going-to-hell-the-book">holiday book sale</a> for the collected edition of <i>Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell. </i>It's been three years since the webcomic finished and the book was printed and, frankly, when I decided to print 2,000 instead of 1,000 books because "it only costs a little more, it would be crazy not to" I had no idea what I was getting myself into.<br />
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Hence, the annual holiday book sale. Most artists I know have difficulty promoting themselves, and I'm no different in this regard. I'm uncomfortable asking people to give me money for my work, but it's part of my job to overcome that discomfort in order to make my creative life sustainable.<br />
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Since the election, I've found that discomfort insurmountable. I've had difficulty saying anything at all, let alone anything as crass as commercial self-promotion. It doesn't feel right, when so many are full of fear and suffering. When I am full of fear.<br />
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I wish I had money to give directly, or more time to volunteer, or even more of a clear understanding of what I can do to help. Right now I am educating myself so that when I do take action, it will be considered and effective.<br />
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In the meantime, <a href="http://dcisgoingtohell.bigcartel.com/product/darwin-carmichael-is-going-to-hell-the-book">I have a shitload of books</a>.<br />
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Please consider buying a volume of <i>Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell</i> for yourself or as a present for someone you love this holiday season. I'm selling the books for $20 with free shipping, and all profits will go to the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)</a>. Since the book printing was covered by the initial Kickstarter campaign
that means that the only money taken out will be for shipping, which is <$4 in the USA. That means roughly $16 will be donated for each book sold.<br />
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It's not enough, but it's something that is within my power to do right now. Thanks for taking the time to read this and please feel free to share this post and/or the store link: <a href="http://dcisgoingtohell.bigcartel.com/product/darwin-carmichael-is-going-to-hell-the-book">http://dcisgoingtohell.bigcartel.com/product/darwin-carmichael-is-going-to-hell-the-book</a>Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-81721837712830975242016-10-13T11:40:00.000-04:002016-10-13T11:44:23.818-04:00Art of ZinesMy book, <i>House of Women, Part I</i> is part of the Anno Domini
Gallery's new show, "The Art of Zines" in San Jose, California. If
you're in the area then I urge you to check it out. The show includes
hundreds of zines, some of which are for sale (including mine).<a href="http://www.galleryad.com/#gAD2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://www.galleryad.com/#gAD2</a><br />
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If a visit to San Jose is not in the cards, Anno Domini is posting lots of photos on Instagram:<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/annodominigallery/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/annodominigallery/</a></span><br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-5160211304777334332016-09-14T14:08:00.003-04:002016-09-14T14:22:02.660-04:00SPX 2016 OR BUST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey folks—in addition to being at my table, attending all party-type functions, and generally throwing my weight around as an Official Special Guest Person, I will be doing a live reading of one of my comics as part of R. Sikoryak's "Comics Carousel" event happening Sunday @ 4pm in the White Oak Room.<br />
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See you there, nerds.Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-53378653098594034852016-08-24T21:50:00.000-04:002016-08-24T21:50:03.751-04:00House of Women, Part III Preview & Pre-Sale!After much labor and loss of blood I have delivered <i>House of Women, Part III</i> to the printer! If you're interested in reading a 14-page preview <a href="http://www.redinkradio.com/p/house-of-women-part-iii-preview.html">you can do that here</a>. I'll have copies for sale at the <a href="http://www.smallpressexpo.com/">Small Press Expo</a>, September 17-18th but if you're not going the book is<a href="http://redinkradio.bigcartel.com/product/house-of-women-part-iii"> available for pre-sale in my online store</a>. Pre-sales help me fund the book printing itself so they are VERY APPRECIATED!!!<br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-80827561026824461712016-04-17T18:55:00.002-04:002016-04-17T18:55:52.995-04:00Original Art Sale Ends Wednesday!My original art sale, featuring all the art for <i>The Oven</i>, ends this Wednesday! So if you've been waffling about buying a piece, <a href="http://redinkradio.bigcartel.com/">go get it now.</a><br />
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Also, to keep things fresh I've added <a href="http://redinkradio.bigcartel.com/">all the original art</a> for my minicomic "The Good Wife", as seen in <i>Best American Comics 2013</i>.<br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05439821784652109012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958291982766020020.post-57549554280511261272016-04-14T11:17:00.000-04:002016-04-14T11:17:18.499-04:00Interview on Sequential State!It was my pleasure to be interviewed by Alex Hoffman of <a href="http://www.sequentialstate.com/post/142756418588/i-think-im-fighting-my-natural-tendency-towards">Sequential State</a>. We talked <i>House of Women, Part II</i>, science fiction, horror, and storytelling.<div>
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