Austin Kleon – Page 584

ON THE BRAIN: COMICS, UFOs, & MFA PROGRAMS

Saturday, April 8, 2006

A trio of Peter Orner stories available to read online: “On a Bridge Over the Homochito“, “Off the C-34: Stories from Goas Farm“, and “Meyer and Silla.”
Vonnegut on Bookworm.
The latest project from FOUND’s editor Jason Bitner is a collection of 18,000 studio portraits taken of people living in a small town over four decades called LaPorte, Indiana.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, reasons why UT Austin is right at the top of our list for grad schools. (Other than the cool name.)
Too weird: the VU matched with Lawrence Welk footage.
For fun yesterday at work I sat and stared at the poster for National Poetry Month. I think it would make a good format for a comic…
My sketchbook’s new favorite site: Artnatomy.
Say it ain’t so, Martin!

TRACING GIANTS WITH MY FINGER

Friday, April 7, 2006

You never know what you’ll find in Mac’s Backs. Here’s a brand-new lit journal to check out: A PUBLIC SPACE. Stories by Peter Orner and Kelly Link, a comic by Kevin Huizenga, and an interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he talks about translating Carver:

When I read Carver’s stories, I was stunned…You know, in the old days, people would trace the writing in good books. Japanese people used to trace the pages of The Tale of Genji, for example. You can learn so many things from tracing. It’s just like putting your feet into other people’s shoes. Translation is the same thing.

Rad stuff. Really looking forward to Peter Orner’s new book, and re-reading his last one.

And wow: The Gospel of Judas. Can’t you just hear Tuco saying, “Judas! You sold my hide!”

NOSTALGIC THINKING

Thursday, April 6, 2006

I took this in my dad’s barn…

George Saunders, on becoming a prude.
The Dispatch reports on the Demise of Western.
A BBC interview with the cartoonists involved in MOME. I finally ordered #3.
Interesting article about the creative friendship between R Kikuo Johnson and Paolo Rivera.
USA Today always has fun articles on LOST.

WHERE’D HE COME FROM?

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

I was free-drawing, and this guy came to me out of nowhere, but now he really fascinates me. What is he supposed to say? I have no idea….

Until I saw the movie, I had no clue Richard Thompson wrote the Grizzly Man Soundtrack, and Jim O’Rourke played on the session. [MP3]
Jeremy was live and acoustic last night on the BBC.
A few works by Yoshihiro Tatsumi are featured in the new Paris Review. Another lit journal warms to comics…good news.
Check out the First Second Books site, where both Eddie Cambell (From Hell) and Joann Sfar (The Rabbi’s Cat) guest blog.
NPR: Soldiers reading Shakespeare. I’m reading King Lear again, and it’s blowing my mind…