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Famous Graphic Novelists Discuss Inspiration, Education, and Digitization

Apr 30, 2014
8 min

Famous Graphic Novelists Discuss Inspiration, Education, and Digitization

When a panel of four esteemed graphic novelists have only an hour to address an auditorium packed with eager fans, it’s unlikely they can cover very much in very great depth. And thus it was when Ben Katchor, Mimi Pond, Anders Nilsen, and Vanessa Davis gathered at USC for “Illustrating the Point” at the L.A. Times Festival of Books a few weeks ago. Among the top questions they’d lightly touched upon: What other cartoonists have inspired you? What’s the value of higher educati

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Painting with Pablo

Jun 27, 2012
3 min

Painting with Pablo

My fave Pablo's inspiration for the above painting Pablo Medina describes himself as “a designer, artist, teacher, builder, filmmaker, photographer, socializer, lover, traveler, dancer, and cyclist.” Although, with his new-found interest in Buddhism, he realizes those titles are empty, meaningless labels (though I’m certainly intrigued by the dancer label). I met up with Pablo for lunch last fall, as he was preparing for an artist-in-residence semester at California College o

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Wider White Space, Part 3 (with Project Projects)

May 6, 2011
1 min

Wider White Space, Part 3 (with Project Projects)

The third student curated graphic design exhibition from California College of the Arts is Project Projects, a New York-based design studio. We’ve already seen exhibitions from APFEL and The Walker Art Institute. The exhibition, titled “Meta Data,” attempted to show the graphic design work—as well as process—of Project Projects [incidentally Project Projects was the first of the special guest art directors Print magazine worked with in 2011]. The students carefully examined t

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