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Overheard in New York: Hallowe'en

Overheard in New York: Hallowe’en

Q: “What are you dressing up as?”

A: “My next door neighbor; some creepy guy.”

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Great Instagram follow: williambutlerms (William H.G. Butler Middle School)

My good friends at Literary Safari are producing an ongoing Instagram graphic narrative that you need to check out. It’s at instagram.com/williambutlerms and it’s a serial work of dystopian fiction about… school shootings.

The premise of the narrative is that williambutlermsis the official Instagram of the the fictional William H.G. Butler Middle School, a school that has suffered a horrible…

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Coming soon: The Beautiful Book of Exquisite Corpses

Writer Gavin Edwards has produced a cool new book called The Beautiful Book of Exquisite Corpses: A Creative Game of Limitless Possibilities (due out August 28), and I’m one of the contributors.

You can be a contributor too, because the premise of the book is based on the old surrealist game cadavre exquis, in which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Much of the book works…

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#collaboration

THE VAGABONDS #6 debuting this weekend at MoCCA Fest

My homage to Captain America Comics #1 (with apologies to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon)

I’ll be tabling at MoCCAFest this weekend (table I 270 A) with the latest issue of THE VAGABONDS. 24 thrilling pages of COMICS JOURNALISM and other great features!

A lot has changed in this country—and the world—since the last issue of The Vagabonds, so it’s only fitting that this issue features a Donald Trump…

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#journalism #politics #the vagabonds #Trump

Process: A.D.-"Dining with Strangers" crossover

Process: A.D.-“Dining with Strangers” crossover

Last year Anthony Lacey of the fabulous blog Dining with Strangers approached me for an original illustration of himself and Brobson Lutz, the esteemed “Doctor” character from A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge. (Anthony had met the Doctor in New Orleans—sharing a meal with him at Dr. Lutz’s favorite restaurant, Galatoire’s—and profiled him for his blog; and they have stayed friends every since.)…

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#food #new orleans #process

Fake News? My comics piece for COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW on the Trump-Russia Dossier

Remember the Donald Trump-Russia “dossier”? Released by BuzzFeed in January (shortly before Trump was sworn in as U.S. President), the 17 short memos (compiled over seven months) featured some pretty wild claims—sex parties, etc. But the main takeaway was that Trump and his cronies were in the pockets of the Russians.

Amidst the furor over the memos’ contents was an equally strong uproar in the…

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#journalism #politics #Russia #Trump

PROJECT:OBJECTS Lost Objects: "Cologne"

PROJECT:OBJECTS Lost Objects: “Cologne”

The brilliant creative souls Rob Walker and Josh Glenn have a new ongoing PROJECT:OBJECT. Lost Objects is a 25-part series of nonfiction stories about… lost objects. It’s the fifth P:O series, which started with Significant Objects (featuring, among others, a great piece by our very own Sari Wilson), then Political Objects, followed by Talismanic Objects, and then Illicit Objects. (That last one

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Irma, Harvey, Katrina---when it comes to hurricanes, what goes around, comes around

Irma, Harvey, Katrina—when it comes to hurricanes, what goes around, comes around

The A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge website on SMITH was down for a while, but recent events with hurricanes Harvey & Irma made it imperative to get it working again—and so it is: smithmag.net/afterthedeluge. This terrible 2017 hurricane season obviously brings back memories of 2005 (and for older folks, previous big hurricanes that hit big cities). As I wrote in the book’s afterword, the…

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#florida #houston #hurricane katrina #new orleans #smith

“Street-Smart Spider,” by Scott McKinnon, Ashley Bles, and Houston Fryer, three Henderson State University students who attended the College Media Association conference back in 2015 and later did a piece about the costumed characters of Times Square. It was at that same conference that I got the idea of doing a piece on the same topic, “Costumed Chaos in Times Square,” which was published last fall on The Nib: https://thenib.com/costumed-chaos-in-times-square? Thanks, Scott, Ashley, and Houston, for sharing your awesome work of comics journalism!

#comics #journalism #spider-man #times square #new york city #elmo #joshneufeld

This June I'll be teaching an intensive comics workshop at the Yale Writers Conference

This June I’ll be teaching an intensive comics workshop at the Yale Writers Conference

I’m proud to announce that this June 15-18 I’ll be teaching an intensive, immersive comics-making workshop at the Yale Writers Conference (part of the Yale Summer Session), held in New Haven, Connecticut.

This marks the first time I’ll be doing a comics workshop with YWC—it’s the first time they’ve done one—but it’ll be closely modeled on programs I’ve run a number of previous summers with the Fi…

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#education #teaching

The Pendulum Swings

I drew this back in 2015 for a French comics magazine. The concept was to illustrate some of the “weirdest” news stories of the year—you know, like the idea that Donald Trump was running for U.S. president..

One of the things I’ll never forget about the 2008 election was watching the returns on TV and also tracking it on my Facebook feed. Facebook was a relatively new phenomenon at that point,…

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#politics #race

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Elmo and pals: the costumed characters of Times Square

As a native New Yorker, I don’t visit Times Square very often—too noisy, too bright, too many tourists. Of course I was aware how much the area has changed over the years, with the banishment of the porn palaces and prostitution, and the Disneyfication that began during the late 1990s. Back in the day, if you walked around the area, you’d get “asked for a date” ten times per block. Now,…

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#journalism #new york #process

FLASHed & Girl Through Glass at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Sari and I will be ALL OVER the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday (Sept. 18), with two panels and a workshop. In addition, we will be promoting and signing FLASHed at our publisher’s booth. Here’s how it will go down:

At noon, Sari will be on the panel, “Remember All That? A Look Back at New York City,” along with Tim Murphy (Christodora) and Pia Padukone (The Faces of Strangers); moderated by…

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#brooklyn #conventions #Flashed #sari

Josh & Sari on Publishers Weekly podcast "More to Come"

Josh & Sari on Publishers Weekly podcast “More to Come”

Sari and I recently had the honor of being guests on the Publishers Weekly podcast “More to Come,” hosted by PW editor Calvin Reid. We sat down with Calvin at the PW offices and talked about Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose, as well as collaboration in general, and our own work.

Topics we cover in the podcast include my autobiographical travel comics collection A Few Perfect Hours(whic…

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#act-i-vate #collaboration #Flashed #podcast #process #sari

1 Year Later: Thinking about Seth Kushner

Seth Kushner—photographer, comic book writer, pop culture maven, husband, father—passed away one year ago today. This is what I wrote about him at the time:

I wish I had something poetic or original to say about Seth, but what impresses me the most is just how many people whose lives he touched—and how consistent their feelings are: that he was a super-talented photographer, that he was a…

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#brooklyn #seth kushner

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