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Nerdette Shout Out!

Posted on July 8, 2014

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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Photo of the Week: Chew

Posted on July 8, 2014

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Photo of the Week: Peonies

Posted on June 12, 2014

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Photos of the Week

Posted on May 29, 2014

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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Travel Update: The Crayon Revolution Begins

Posted on May 13, 2014

  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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Writing & Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Weeks 12 & 13

Posted on May 5, 2014

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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Photo of the Week: Mission Inn

Posted on April 26, 2014

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Photo of the Week: Cormorants

Posted on April 20, 2014

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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Writing & Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Eleven

Posted on April 18, 2014

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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Photo of the Week: Frog Season

Posted on April 15, 2014

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Writing & Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Ten

Posted on April 15, 2014

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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Writing & Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Nine

Posted on April 15, 2014

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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Out of the Frame: A Graphic Exploration of Narrative, Health, & Social Justice

Posted on April 7, 2014

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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Photo of the Week: Sweet Evie

Posted on March 31, 2014

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Photo of the Week: Garden Show

Posted on March 24, 2014

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Writing and Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Eight

Posted on March 20, 2014

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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Writing and Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Seven

Posted on March 20, 2014

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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Photo of the Week: March Madness

Posted on March 8, 2014

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Writing & Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Six

Posted on March 5, 2014

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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Writing & Drawing the Graphic Memoir: Week Five

Posted on February 24, 2014

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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