What to Read When You Grew Up with the Baby-Sitters Club
Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks share a reading list to celebrate WE ARE THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB.
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Posts Tagged: Yumi Sakugawa
Notable Los Angeles: 10/28–11/3
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/4–2/10
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/17–9/23
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Portland: 7/26–8/1
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 5/8–5/14
Monday 5/8: Write Club Chapter 63: Better Off Fed. Featuring Moramarco, Brian Sonia Wallace, Rachel Kann, Tanya White, Amy Gonzales, and Yelena Litvak. Co-hosted by Justin Welborn, Paula Killen, and Jeff Dorchen. 7 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater. $10+ Pay What You Can (it goes to charity). Stephen Sylvester, Mary Mallory, and Donovan Brandt present and […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Yumi Sakugawa
Yumi Sakugawa discusses her latest book, Ikebana, discovering meditation, exploring blank spaces, and drawing a world of sentient oranges and one-eyed monsters.
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Mirror on the Wall
We have found that it takes a lot of time to practice walking slowly…
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Bell Tower
Inside the valley, a small village where all the villagers are invisible.
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We Used to Be So Close
We used to share so much of ourselves with each other, so much so that our exchanged thoughts and dreams became an energy field of their own.
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Sharp Teeth
An invisible tiger containing an invisible jungle where invisible tigers roam…
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Ice Statue
Once upon a time, someone left an ice statue version of me on my door step.
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Our Brother
This is how we have always known him.
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Space Exploration
These days I don’t remember…
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Bird Girl and Fox Girl
After a long and bitter argument, Bird Girl and Fox Girl parted ways to start new lives elsewhere.
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Black-Eyed Susan
If I can see them, I can name them.
...moreNotable Los Angeles 1/20–1/26
Monday 1/20: It’s MLK day. Help inspire the next generation of great minds, sign up to volunteer through 826LA. Tuesday 1/21: Joe Nelms discusses and signs The Last Time I Died. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup. Wednesday 1/22: Poetry reading by Michael Palmer and Joyelle McSweeney. 7:30 p.m. at Otis College of Art and Design.
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Yumi Sakugawa on NPR Blog
We’re absolutely thrilled to see NPR’s Code Switch blog highlight Rumpus cartoonist Yumi Sakugawa and her new book, I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. Here’s a small glimpse of her conversation with Code Switch’s Kat Chow, this bit on a recent comic she drew for the Rumpus: …with “Moon Between The Mountains,” it honestly started […]
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New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Resolutions from Yumi Sakugawa include finding the bear in the stars and the lotus in the fire. What are your resolutions?
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Blitzkrieg by John Gosslee
Christopher Linforth reviews John Gosslee’s Blitzkrieg today in Rumpus Poetry.
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New MariNaomi Book Announced!
Hot on the heels of Yumi Sakugawa’s book announcement comes this one from another fabulous Rumpus cartoonist, MariNaomi. Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories, which is due out in spring 2014, will feature comics from MariNaomi’s Rumpus strip Smoke In Your Eyes plus a bunch of work you haven’t seen before. Check out the cover here!
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White Elephant
I keep seeing the same scene play itself over and over in my head.
...moreYumi Sakugawa Goodness
Our resident cartoonist extraordinaire Yumi Sakugawa has some very exciting stuff coming up. 1. She’s the author of our next Letter in the Mail, going out December 4. For more information about Letters in the Mail, click here. 2. She has a book coming out called I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. It’s full of comics […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
See Yumi Sakugawa about the redemptive features of mind-entering snakes in Saturday’s comic. Speaking of mind-entering, in Sunday’s essay, Mag Gabbert catapults us into the head of a panicked teenage girl who has just discovered that she’s pregnant. This is very intimate, very honest.
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Saturday Rumpus Comic: Unpeeling
I placed my nose on your left shoulder and my eyes instantly welled up with tears.
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