Longform writing 2015: Like many people, I spent a lot of time reading long articles last year.
Author: Dominic
Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, New York.
My Year in Writing: 2015
My writing on comics in 2015 appeared at Hyperallergic, in the Chicago Reader, the Washington City Paper, and here at my site. Get in touch with me at dominic.umile@gmail, and see more clips here.
Will Eisner’s graphic novel and City of Clowns
In a popular excerpt of a new book called Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel (Abrams ComicArts) from former DC Comics president and writer Paul Levitz, a lengthy discussion of the roots of graphic novels yields mentions of various watershed works and “titles that helped define the form,” including the woodcut novels of Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel.
Jenny Goldstick, Tillie Walden, Rich Tommaso
For her masters thesis in the visual narrative program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, Brooklyn-based infographics artist and comics creator Jenny Goldstick explored the memory of her earliest heartbreak.
Sold out in like, 30 seconds (?). Seems fair
Hello. I woke up this morning and just like that, ‘The Unseen In Between’ is out today. Please have a listen. See you out in the world. 💜@matadorrecords https://t.co/3UXKvMNcqu
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