Art
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES
With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world’s newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method:…
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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 that present pictures from the past and the present side…
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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 “literary” or it must be “genre,” it must be “science…
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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 Anachronism — meet to duel every Thursday. Check out Novak’s…
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Have Pen, Will Art-Blog
Well this is just excellent: over at The Nation, artist Steve Brodner live-blogged the Republican National Convention—through illustrations. A sneak preview of what you’ll find, after the jump:
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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 story without embellishment but just couldn’t allow poor Ajax to…
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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 was the sitting and writing he was doing there.
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“Pier 70: In Its Own Words”
If you’re in San Francisco and at a loss for something to do tonight—or want to revise your plans and do something much cooler—head over to Dogpatch Wineworks for the opening of “Pier 70: In Its Own Words.” A collaboration…
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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 & Ink is a mixed-media project that combines the personal…
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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 after the jump:
