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You Can Draw with Katie Cook 014 … A Dinosaur with a Balloon!
WHO DOESN’T LIKE DINOSAURS?! You Can Draw with Katie Cook 014 … A Dinosaur with a Balloon! This time around, we’re going back in time to visit everyone’s favorite extinct…
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Devourer of Words 015: Convention Season
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 015: Convention Season We are, this very week, kicking Convention Season into high gear. WonderCon Anaheim, then San Diego Comic-Con in July,…
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Dilettante 016: From One Artist to Another: Convention Advice
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 016: From One Artist to Another: Convention Advice I’ve been asked for this month’s column to write some more about conventions. It’s become traditional in essays…
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Kiera Cass: A Natural Selection
THE TOUCAN INTERVIEW Kiera Cass: A Natural Selection Glittering gowns, gorgeous jewels, life in a palace—you would be crazy not to love a chance at such things, right? Well, America…
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Maggie’s World 016: From National Disgrace to National Treasure
MAGGIE’S WORLD Maggie’s World 016: From National Disgrace to National Treasure May 8, 1940, Sterling North (eventually to write the children’s Newbery Honor Book Rascal) wrote in the Chicago Daily News that “color…
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Cliff Chiang: It’s a Wonder-ful Life, Part 2
Toucan Interviews Cliff Chiang: It’s a Wonder-ful Life, Part 2 “WHAT YOU CAN DO IN COMICS IS MORE OPEN THAN EVER. THE READERS … ARE RESPONDING TO ALL THESE DIFFERENT…
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You Can Draw with Katie Cook 013 … The Perfect Pear!
GET FRUITY WITH OUR MARCH DRAWING TUTORIAL! You Can Draw with Katie Cook 013 … The Perfect Pear! Time to get your pencils out again! This time around we’re going…
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Cliff Chiang: It’s a Wonder-ful Life, Part 1
Toucan Interviews Cliff Chiang: It’s a Wonder-ful Life, Part 1 “WHEN BRIAN AND I FIRST TALKED ABOUT WONDER WOMAN, WE WERE COMMITTED TO IT FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS.” Cliff…
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Devourer of Words 014: Building Character
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 014: Building Character There’s a great saying, popularized back in 1983 by screenwriter William Goldman in his Hollywood memoir, Adventures in the Screen…
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Dilettante 015: Analyzing Eisner
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 015: Analyzing Eisner When I was in art school in the 1980s there were very few texts on how to tell stories in comics. My instructors…
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Maggie’s World 015: Girls Allowed
MAGGIE’S WORLD Maggie’s World 015: Girls Allowed Even seven decades ago, comic books were a storytelling art form like other storytelling art forms. Comic books encouraged the girls in their…
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You Can Draw with Katie Cook 012: Snail Mail!
SLOW WAY DOWN AND DRAW THIS ADORABLE MAIL-SNAIL! You Can Draw with Katie Cook 012: Snail Mail! Time to get your pencils out again! We’re going to draw an OH-SO-ADORABLE…