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Kickstarter and Comics
According to Publisher’s Weekly ” Kickstarter has become the dominant crowdfunding platform in the comics space, with some 3,414 projects raking in a total of $46.5 million in 2024. That year, more than 67% of comics projects were successfully funded—the highest success rate by category of any type of Kickstarter project.” Over the years I’ve backed 36 Kickstarter projects, some launched by my…
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I tabled next to Tim Fish at the ALA Convention in Chicago. He's working on redrawing his mini-comics from the 1990's
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Sneak Peek: Capybara Book Sketches
Wild About Capybaras! coming May, 2026 will be my 7th TOON book. I want to share my cover sketches. If you are not an illustrator, you may be surprised to see how many sketches I did. This is almost the cover… My editors liked this idea best, but, they didn’t like the cartoon balloon. They didn’t like the fruit on the capybara’s snout! They didn’t like cut paper landscape! They didn’t like the…
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Bologna Children's Book Fair: A Mecca for Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators , NYC, hosted “The Bologna Children’s Book Fair as the Epicenter of International Illustration.” Illustrator Steven Guarnaccia paced the floor and delivered a rousing pep talk about the BCBF (Bologna Children’s Book Fair.) The room was packed to capacity with famous illustrators including Leslie Cober , president of the Society. Much of the crowd seemed to be newly…
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A Little Book Found Me in Italy
Cover: Acqua Alta published by Bebel Books, Brazil © Nik Neves I’d never been to Italy and didn’t expect to visit. Françoise Mouly, the founder of TOON Books, was invited to the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair. As luck would have it, she had a conflict and asked the Book Fair if she could pass the invitation on to me. So, I represented TOON Books in the magnificent city of Bologna as a guest…
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RIP Maestro Marshall Arisman
I’ve told this story before, but one thing Marshall Arisman taught me is that a good story deserves to be retold. In 1984, I was a bartender at the 8th Street Tavern in Hoboken and doing occasional illustrations for The New York Times and The Village Voice. I learned from an ad in the Times that The School of Visual Arts was launching a new MFA program. The chair was Marshall Arisman and the…
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Tara Hannon's 'BIRTLE' Graphic Novel for Kids
Tara Hannon is on a roll! She graduated from Kutztown University’s Communication Design program in 2006. In 2024, she will celebrate the publication of her first graphic novel for kids, Birtle. She shares her journey in this Q. and A. Q. What was your first design-related job after college? My first design related job was a marketing position for a security company. I didn’t love…
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Ivan Brunetti is Himself
In 2019, in Seattle, I shared a table at a library conference with one of my heroes, the great Ivan Brunetti. He was there to promote his TOON book Comics Easy as ABC. I was there to promote Snails Are Just My Speed. Fantagraphics invited Ivan and me to an after party at a taproom miles from the Convention Center. We said we’d never find the place. Tom Kacyzynski of Uncivilized Books offered to…
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Procreate for Comics: My Learning Curve.
The Procreate iPad app is a great bargain. It cost $12.99 in the U.S. It was under $10 when I got it in 2020, half the price of my monthly Photoshop subscription. Procreate is intuitive. It comes with lots of crisp tutorials, but I wasn’t able to teach myself to the point that I would want to share my work. I found a class that helped me a lot. In January, 2022, I enrolled in an online course in…
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The Ducky Mr. McCloskey
The Ducky Mr. McCloskey
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CLOUD TOWN, a Ripping Good Graphic Novel!
CLOUD TOWN, a Ripping Good Graphic Novel!
CLOUD TOWN. available wherever books are sold. Daniel McCloskey, the creator of the new graphic novel Cloud Town, is my son. That’s my full disclosure. So, take what I say with a grain of salt. Daniel is a genius. I write kid’s books for TOON Books, so some might assume Daniel learned to make graphic novels from me. Not so. Dan and me in my Kutztown, PA studio. I taught illustration for 30…
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Little Monarchs @ Artists' Alley
Little Monarchs @ Artists’ Alley
all art © Jonathan Case 2022 I met Jonathan Case and his daughter Dorothy in Artists’ Alley at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Wash D.C. The conference was back in-person. Masks and vaccinations were required, so it it was a different Artists’ Alley. Odd, but felt safe and far better than a virtual conference. Artists can apply for a free Artist’s Alley table if they donate…
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AMAZONA
AMAZONA- a graphic novel, by Canizales Review by Kevin McCloskey 1/23/22 Translation to English by Sofía Huitrón MartínezU.S edition, Graphic Universe, Lerner, pub date: April, 2022 The graphic novel Amazona, like Disney’s animated musical Encanto, takes place in Colombia. Two stories of refugee families forced off their land by violence could not be more different. Encanto‘s giddy Madrigal…
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Albert & Lots of Other Things
Fascinating, sometimes frustrating book about Albrecht Durer.
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare Pegasus Books, NY, 2021, 304 pages. There is some achingly beautiful writing here. I will read anything about Durer and the sections about Durer’s life and work are wonderful. Other parts seem to be very personal digressions. On several occasions the narrative stops so that the author can take a swim in a…
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Omair Ali Makes His Marks
Omair Ali Makes His Marks
Omair, You landed a job as an illustrator. Congrats! Q: What exactly is is your job description? Little Red Riding Hood drawn from a Muslim perspective ©2020 Omair Ali I’m an illustrator/designer with the in-house publishing department at American Reading Company. We create literacy curriculums for K-12 readers. I design and illustrate books about various subjects ranging from non-fiction…
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JOEY STRAIN, Illustrator, still in College.
JOEY STRAIN, Illustrator, still in College.
I bought a copy a new kid’s book illustrated by Kutztown University student Joey Strain. The Little Wolf Who Howled at the Moon is written by Dr. Curtis Herr of the KU English Dept. Not every college student can illustrate a high-quality hardcover children’s book, but Joey pulled it off with distinction. Art © Joey Strain, detail from The Little Wolf Who Crooned at the Moon I wrote to Joey to…
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Queen's Gambit : Season II
Queen’s Gambit : Season II
Totally bogus Photoshop image by Kevin McCloskey
Walter Tevis, the author of the novel, The Queen’s Gambit, was my creative writing teacher at Ohio University in 1970. I don’t know anything about the origin of the Beth Harmon character, alas. I do recall Prof. Tevis spoke about his earlier novel, The Hustler. He insisted that he created the character of Minnesota Fats from many characters he met…
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