Wednesday, February 27, 2008


Lynda Barry talks here on MN public radio about play and being a writer.
Thank you to Kelly Kilmer!
Oh, and on March 22 & 23 in SAN FRANCISCO, Lynda is teaching a class called Writing the Unthinkable. (Can't make it to SF? An illustrated book all about this very class comes out in May.)

Pink Me


What is Network Neutrality?

What is Net Neutrality (and does learning about it put you to sleep)? This is a photo of seat-fillers at an FCC hearing. They were paid by Comcast so that the public couldn't get in.

If we don't want to live in a bubble like Truman Burbank or my kids (or the Alabama viewers of 60 Minutes?) I guess we should do something about this.

A SCBWI Conference recap from Andrew Mitchell

Winter Conference 2008

If you've checked this website before you know that I sketch the various speakers at SCBWI chidren's book industry events and post them. With a little encouragement from writer/artist Mary Peterson, I did a little bit more this time and...

A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition--

An audio version of the TOON Books reception, January 12, 2008 in Philadelphia. Q&A with Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman.

The Search

A new textbook shows that the Holocaust has come a long way as a topic to be freshly considered by a new generation of German teenagers.
Illustrated by Eric Heuvel. (Pictures from the NY Times and annefrank.org.)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Thursday, February 14, 2008


Reading with Pictures

(illustrated by Agnès Rosenstiehl )

Michael Bitz, who runs the Comic Book Project at the Teachers College at Columbia University, and Francoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker and the editorial director of TOON Books, discuss a new curriculum that uses Comic books as teaching tools.

Plus, Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, weighs in on the merits of the image as instructor
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

The Metropolitan Museum of Art



A special family admission offer is valid between February 15 and February 24. Register with My Met Museum to receive a pass for complimentary admission for you and your family (six people maximum; must include at least one child age 16 or under) to the Museum's Main Building and The Cloisters.