NYTimes Graphic Radicals Review

Holland Cotter at the New York Times gave the WW3 show at Exit a fine write up. Here's an excerpt: "Best of all, World War 3 Illustrated, like Exit Art, is still alive and well. A new issue, called “The Food Chain,” is out. As always it mixes newcomers and veterans, emphasizes content over style (but has plenty of style), keeps that content accessible and critical, and pays its printers and distributors but no one else.

If it had nothing more than that kind of dedication to recommend it, it would be invaluable. But it has much, much more."
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"A Secret Mercy" to be in color

My next book, "A Secret Mercy," is turned in to Henry Holt for Young Readers. It has two interlocking stories that take place in two different time periods. I'm excited that they decided to go for color so I could use it as a storytelling tool.

WW3 illustrated Thirty Years Old!

And there's an exhibit and celebration:
opening: Tuesday, December 7th, 7 to 9pm
Exit Art
475 10th Avenue
New York, NY
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WW3 in B.C.

Fellow WW3 co-editors Seth Tobocman and Rebecca Migdal and I will be in Victoria, B.C. this weekend doing performances and panels in conjunction with "Graphic Radicals" at Legacy Gallery at UVic.

Graphic Radicals is a themed presentation of the work of World War 3 Illustrated, a New York artist collective, from the 1980s to the present day. The art confronts issues such as anti-war protests, squatting in New York, the tragedies of 9-11, racism, prisons and anarchism. “This is some of the most hard-hitting, socially-engaged art of the last thirty years,’ explains Allan Antliff, Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at UVic. “Simply put, this artists’ collective took illustration to a new level by confronting the important issues of our time in uncompromising terms.

Graphic Radicals includes dozens of works in the form of posters, graphic illustrations, paintings, banners and other media.
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While There's Still Some Left.

It seems my summer was spent in primarily two places: Either in a classroom, teaching comics, or in my studio, drawing comics. Classes ended two weeks ago and I just finished all the tones on my next graphic novel for Henry Holt for Young Readers. It's entitled "A Secret Mercy." and will be out in winter 2012. Here's a peek. Now off to a beach somewhere...

Lab U.S.A. Review

I have to link to this just-published review on the Graphic Novel Reporter of my nearly ten-year-old "docucomic "Lab U.S.A." The reviewer really understood was I was trying to do and, much to my pleasure, refers to it as a "horror" comic. (LINK)

Marginalia

I've been rather absent from this blog (and many other things) as I've been drawing and scanning the 170 pages of my next book, "A Secret Mercy." When my enthusiasm for inking the particular page I'm working on wanes, I often do a little drawing in the margin to satisfy the desire to be doing something without preconceptions or definable purpose. As I scanned my pages, I saved a few of these. So here's a collection: