Letting it go… literally.
Saving on postage I took the art down to the D&Q table at MOCCA. In a few months it will become a book that will be in your hands.
May 18, 2012
Round table at the Leon Levy Center for Biography
I have been invited to a round table discussion on Biographical Comic and Graphic Arts at the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave.
March 29th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
I will be in the company of Matt Madden, Kim Deitch, Lauren Redniss and Ariel Schrag.
For further information see their website.
March 18, 2012
Working in flight
Last week I had to go to California. I really could not afford taking time for travel and I decided to
try and work during the flight.
A great discovery! There were five uninterrupted hours of work, little food, just enough.
So, henceforth I am transferring my activities to Jet Blue cross country flights 5-6 hours minimum.
December 25, 2011
Close and Personal
Panel discussion at Yeshiva University as part of the exhibition “Graphic Details – Confessional Comics by Jewish Women” including:
Ariel Schrag
Miriam Katin
Miss Lasko-Gross
Lauren Weinstein
Moderated by Roben Cembalest, executive editor of ARTnews and contributing editor of Tablet
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Exhibition viewing at 6:00 pm
Program begins at 6:30 pm
Free. Reservations required. For reservations, go to: www.smarttix.com or call 212-686-4444
October 22, 2011
Graphic Details show in New York
The much traveled show ‘Graphic Details, Confessional Comics by Jewish Women’ makes it to the home front.
Where: Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, 15 W.16th Street, NYC.
When: September 25th, 2011 through April 8th, 2012
For further information please see the page on the Forward website.
September 12, 2011
Amongst the gods
Last week I received a book in the mail. It was a total surprise. The title is “spark, how creativity works.” It is Julie Burstein’s first book with a foreword by Kurt Andersen. Julie Burstein and Kurt Andersen are the creators of Studio 360 for PRI radio. In “spark” Julie asked questions from a number of artists and performers she interviewed through the years about their work habits. She is “fascinated by the roots of creativity.”
I knew about the book but I never expected to be included.
Well, I am. And as I go over the list of the names of these artists I feel like a mere mortal who stumbled onto Olympus and finds herself surrounded by the gods.
My five minute interview can be found on the Studio 360 website.
“Spark” is published by Harper Collins.
July 6, 2011
Swedish edition published by EPIX, compilation in Hungarian
To be officially released during SPX 2011 in Stockholm, the publisher too the liberty of making contact to change the cover and the title, ‘When Mommy Burned God.’ EPIX has a long and large history in the Swedish comics scene.
Last weekend was the release of the Hungarian edition of a compilation of works preceding ‘We Are On Our Own.’ Interesting that some of the stories in this book were experienced in Hungarian, written in English and then translated back into Hungarian.
Ilan flew over from Berlin for the comics festival in Budapest to do a presentation and in attendance as Monger Hajnalka, a student of the University in Pecs Hungary. She got in touch a year ago, asking for some info about the book as she decided to base her BA on the subject of “We Are On Our Own”. She did the work from the German translation while her supervisor knew only English and she had trouble getting the English version. This led to a year of communication, questions, answers. Little did I realize the high demands of the “Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem Bolcseszeti Kar”. So, I was totally balled over receiving this 62 page 12/8 1/2 hard cover book with pictures, illustrations (colored too) references etc, he result of her thorough and brilliant study.
May 4, 2011
