A Pratt Fine Art School--Weekend Workshop: Creating Your Own Graphic Novel Taught by Rollin Thomas Bar Code 2739 This is a good introductory course for beginning graphic novelists and for picture book creators. This is a two day intensive weekend workshop offered on Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3 from 10 am to 6 pm. We will break for... Continue Reading →
Graphic Novel Panel with Seattle Graphic Artists Guild/SPGA
Reminder, there's a great event happening this weekend for you comics fans! Taken from their email invite: You're invited to register today. It's more at the door and it's cash or check only. Graphic Novel Panel 2012 for Artists and WritersSaturday, January 28, 2012 1-6 pm Seattle Design Center & Fantagraphics BookstoreTake advantage of the... Continue Reading →
Graphic Novel Panel with Seattle Graphic Artists Guild/SPGA
Tom Skerritt waiting to find out if he can be in SCBWI If you can't make it to the SCBWI International Winter Conference in New York, we hope you'll be there with us in spirit by checking in with the official conference blog–three of SCBWI Team Blog's live bloggers are Western Washingtonians! We promise to... Continue Reading →
A Pre-Pub Party for Dan Santat!
Secret Garden is hosting a Pre-Pub Party for upcoming conference keynote speaker Dan Santat—AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED!You know him from his book-making, hilarious illustrations in Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World (by Mac Barnett, Hyperion Books), Chicken Dance (by Tami Sauer, Sterling), The Secret Life of Walter Kitty (by Barbara Jean... Continue Reading →
Graphic Novel Panel
Seattle Graphic Artists Guild presents:A Graphic Novel Panel Saturday, February 5, from 1-5 p.m., at the Cornish College of the Arts. Learn from a panel of insiders how to develop a graphic novel and get it published. Portfolio reviews available!Learn the ins and outs of Graphic Novels from a stellar panel of experts. These talented... Continue Reading →
Editor/Agent/Art Director panel: what about graphic novels? #scbwiwwa
Edward Necarsulmer: There's going to be a WRINKLE IN TIME graphic novel.Paul Rodeen: jury out on how well they'll do. We're still trying to figure out how to do hardcover and paperback GNs.Elizabeth Law: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Big Nate...heavily illustrated paper-over-board MG fiction that brings the accessibility of graphic novels are the trending... Continue Reading →
Capstone adds graphic novel line
This Publishers Weekly news item should interest illustrators and nonfiction writers alike:Capstone Press, a nonfiction imprint of educational and library publishing house Capstone Publishers, plans to add a new line of kids' nonfiction graphic novels to its fast-growing comics and graphic novel publishing program. This fall the house is launching Graphic Expeditions, a nonfiction line... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on writing graphic novels
Working on a graphic novel? Check out what Mark Fearing has to say:A graphic novel is a daunting task. Writing a story and investing another year (at least) drawing 150 maybe 200 pages is best described as ‘a long slog’. Don’t get me wrong. I love doing it. I can’t imagine a better challenge or... Continue Reading →
Introduction to graphic novels
If you're intrigued about these but don't yet feel comfortable in the genre, the Horn Book has a classic article offering basic info in Q&A format. Her first couple of questions:Q What’s the difference between a comic book and a graphic novel? A Most simply, length. A comic and a graphic novel are told via... Continue Reading →
Amazon, Archaia To Release Kindle Graphic Novel
From Publisher's Weekly: This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week July 21, 2009 Sign up now!by Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 7/20/2009Although Amazon.com has published prose works exclusively on the Kindle before, in a first the online retailer has teamed with graphic novel publisher Archaia to publish Tumor, an original graphic novel by writer... Continue Reading →