Do you experience "book guilt" if you haven't read a book that everyone else seems to have read?
October 23, 2009, 565 voters
October 23, 2009
I love Halloween. On tap this weekend, I am in search of tiger stripe fabric so I can create a Hobbes costume for Cory as he and his friend Stephen want to be Calvin and Hobbes for Halloween. Of course, I have combed the Internet trying to FIND a Hobbes costume, or a tiger costume. I found one in kids’ size 2. Where is a Tony the Tiger costume when I need it? Oh well, what would Halloween be without costume drama. Am I a bad mother if I suggest to him that he reprise the really cool retro ghost costume from a few years ago? Seriously, the year he only wanted a white cotton sheet was really quite lovely.
Name up to three books published in the last decade that you have not yet read that you have “book guilt” about not reading.
October 23, 2009
October 23, 2009
This past week, I got to talk to one of my childhood heroes: Berkeley Breathed, the man who created Opus, Bill the Cat, Milo, Oliver Wendell Jones, and the rest of the cast of Bloom County(which debuts on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list at number one). Each morning in the 1980s entailed my reading this strip, along with Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side
Carol sent me this story, and it moved me beyond words. It shows what the power of comics really is: The ever-inspiring belief in the best in yourself and the ability of that part of you to overcome whatever is thrown at you.
How often do your teachers assign new books (published in the last three years or so) to read for class?
October 21, 2009, 502 voters
The Harvey Awards were held last night, and it looks like it was quite a star-studded event! I wish I could have attended, but alas... However, I was so happy to hear that Alex Robinson's Too Cool to Be Forgotten won Best Original Graphic Album last night. Robinson's book, about a late-30s guy who gets hypnotized to quit smoking and then suddenly finds himself transported back to high school (which is when he started smoking), is one of my recent favorites.
Quite often in the creating comics workshops that I teach, my students will hear me proclaim, “An artist reflects what they experience, see, or learn in life.” In other words, our views and feelings are what we bring to the table on any project.
