Nerdette Shout Out!
Chicago Public radio’s “Nerdette” podcast has become my absolute new favorite. It’s smart, funny, and affirming of all things big nerd. Just like me! The podcast’s conceit, according to their website:…
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Chicago Public radio’s “Nerdette” podcast has become my absolute new favorite. It’s smart, funny, and affirming of all things big nerd. Just like me! The podcast’s conceit, according to their website:…
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Spent a few hours siting in Paris’ Place de Voges last week. What a pleasure to be able to write that. There’s something to be said for staying in one…
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Last week’s class was cancelled as I was traveling to St. Paul, Minnesota to be the closing speaker at the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Colloquium. In the middle…
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Our workshop marathon continued with time spent creating pages three and four of memoir comics. I’m noticing that for some (most) students, this is super productive time. Many stay for…
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I’m pretty sure they are cormorants, anyway. Feel free to correct me. I was pleased to see them since contemplating this quote about writing memoir: More photos from an outing…
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Blogging from lovely Anaheim, California today. Flew out the morning after class to speak with my colleague Michael Green at WonderCon and then at University of California at Riverside Medical…
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After the last few book reports were presented, we began our workshop process. Based on the last assignment in Ivan Brunetti’s Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice, we are all working during…
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Week nine featured the long-awaited student book reports! Each student chose a graphic memoir on their own or from a pile I brought into class. Reported titles included: …
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Just back from New York. and an inspiring symposium sponsored by Columbia University. The goal of the half-day event, Out of the Frame, was to explore, according to co-organizer Marsha…
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This week was the greatly anticipated Tool Workshop Day. The goal of the class was for the students to go from station to station, trying out the tools of the…
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In Week Seven we covered a chapter each from Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Are You My Mother. We watched Alison discuss her work with Hillary Chute whilst we were…
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First a word about my students. They are knocking it out of the park, every one of them. This is a group of undergrads who claim to have never created…
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This week in class we’ll be discussing David Small’s graphic memoir, Stitches. We’ll discuss Small’s rationale for creating Stitches, the approach he took to doing so, and his advice to…
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