January 2012
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November 2011
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Jon ≠ Nova - Also, a new comic!
When I was in middle school and first discovering the awesomeness of comics, I used to love backup stories. They were like the easter eggs of comics. You get to the end of the newest issue of Amazing Spider-Man and exclaim “Theres four extra pages in here! There’s a bit about some guy named Nova! I don’t know who the heck Nova is but his helmet kind of reminds me of Magneto and...
“I don’t think we have to worry. If radio goes away, something else will happen,...”
– Ira Glass: ‘Who cares if radio survives? Something else will happen’ » Nieman Journalism Lab
The transformation of a lot of mediums we grew up with is under way. There’s not much that anyone can do to stop that. Change is unavoidable. I choose to be excited about that.
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The future, heh.
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Why everyone and their brother should be making comics right now.
(sisters should be involved too.)
Finishing my recent graphic novel The Chairs’ Hiatus marked the end of a bit of a brake I had taken from drawing comics. It had been nine years since I had drawn a page. In between 2003 when I did a six page short story for the Small Press Expo anthology and a year ago when I started...
October 2011
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Silence. Aak.
I need your guys help to draw my next few comics! I’m looking for suggestions for songs to draw short comics about. I had a good time with this one and I want to do more. You’re my only hope! Any ideas?
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“One of my mentors said, “Never use the card catalog. Get into the stacks and...”
– Bruce Cole (via austinkleon)
This is what tugs on me when I think about bookstores going away someday.
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs
via Daring Fireball
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“I am right that Santa is dying. And I am right to say we need to figure out how...”
– Joe Konrath from a both depressing and exciting (to me at least) post about the doomed future of the print market, and the fantastic future of digital distribution.
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September 2011
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Oh Aristotle, you nerd.
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“It’s important to understand the line between remix and rip-off…”
– Maria Popova (She continues: “it comes down to a rather simple litmus test: If a derivative work changes the original in a creatively meaningful way, or offers cultural commentary or critique on it, then it’s a new original work of its own creative merit; if it merely parrots or mimics the original...
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The Piano Farm: Experiments of awesome. →
This was indeed a good show. I met some nice folks.
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As I was set to do some travel, I tacked on two trips into Portland to visit the gang.The first just passed and while there I finally was able to participate with the reading series of Jamalieh Haley and Donald Dunbar, If Not For Kidnap, which happens the last Tuesday of every month in…
August 2011
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Exclamation Points Abound!
This cover, by my buddy Anis is just awesome. Man.
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The cover I just finished doing for Shanny Jean Maney’s upcoming book I Love Science!
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WatchMy buddy Anis has his poems up on Bandcamp and they are fantastic. Please press play.
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The Chairs' Hiatus - How would that work?
More pages of The Chairs’ Hiatus appeared recently. I’m not sure from where. I think the cat drew them.
July 2011
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"I'll tell you the whole thing." The Chairs'...
There are several new pages up on The Chairs’ Hiatus Part 3 page over on my site matthewbogart.net but you can read them right now right here!
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Notebooks.
I’m thinking about writing a post that has to do with notetaking or sketching, whatever you might call it when you’re jotting down creative ideas.
I’ve come to realize recently that I purchased dozens of sketchbooks and filled the first three or four pages, only to have them sit on the shelf never to be looked at again. However since I’ve started taking notes digitally,...
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The Chairs' Hiatus - Part 3 just started.
I just posted the first few pages of the third and final part of The Chairs’ Hiatus a comic that I’ve been working on. I’m so excited to be in the home stretch of this story. You guys should be too! Just look at these amazing things to come:
find out out what happened between Mary and Nel that caused Mary to be in the state she’s is now.
At least one panel of someone...
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June 2011
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elegy for the future
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I remember tomorrow. Tomorrow was going to be huge. Tomorrow was going to dwarf we who brought it into being. Tomorrow was going to be a monument casting a shadow large enough to shelter us all.
From an elegy for the future by Scott Edelman intertwined with comic bits from Four Color Process.
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So why aren’t DC and Marvel capitalizing on... →
It’s a fine question well explored in this article.
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Here?
Hey, here are two new pages for The Chairs’ Hiatus.
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May 2011
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Hey, two new pages!
Two, count em’ two new pages of The Chairs’ Hiatus showed up here on the main story page.
Here they are:
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