A Helpful Guide For Starving Artists
Head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak shares some free financial advice:
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Photography Mashup
San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover, has been working on a project that compares aftermath photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with pictures he take currently. Unlike other photography projects…
The Last Web Comic I Loved: Forming by Jesse Moynihan
As a fiction writer, I sometimes get jealous of the storytelling freedom in comics. With prose writing, everyone seems determined to fit stories into predefined boxes. A work must be…
Knights of the BART Station
Over at the Bay Citizen, head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak takes us to Oakland’s Rockridge BART station, where a group of local sword fighters — members of The Society for Creative…
The Iliad, Improved
Rumpus head illustrator Jason Novak has another cool panorama over at The Paris Review. Titled “The Iliad, Improved,” Novak puts his own spin on the Greek epic: “I’d originally intended to treat the…
Living in the Memoir Office
The premise of Daniel Nester’s The Memoir Office is simple. Nester sat in a Troy, New York art gallery, wrote and talked to people who inquired about his exhibit, which…
Pen & Ink Love
Storyboard has an awesome interview up featuring the masterminds behind Pen & Ink: Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and SF-based artist and frequent Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton. In case you’re unfamiliar, Pen…
Take the Wiggle
Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton illustrates Robin Sloan’s San Francisco situated New York Times piece. With her signature wit, MacNaughton breaks down arm signals for S.F. bicyclists. Study up…
Wendy MacNaughton Featured in Japanese Mag
Rumpus contributor and artist extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton is profiled in Japanese art and design magazine DPI. Check out the featured drawings — you can find our own Isaac “Motherfucking” Fitzgerald…
Shitty Moments in My Life
Artist Jason Novak opens up about some of the demons that he’s been carrying around for years:
Banksy Versus London
As London goes on an Olympic cleaning binge, vowing to erase any and all graffiti, a stand-off is emerging between city authorities and renowned street artist Banksy, whose new artwork…