Category Archives: Syndicated feeds

Preview: Page 23

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Ampersand

Here’s a preview page from “Hereville.” These preview pages can have spoilers, so don’t look if you’d rather not see!
(Info on buying Hereville is here.) Continue reading →

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Barry Interviewed at “The Author’s Tent”

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Ampersand

The Author’s Tent, a blog specializing in author interviews, was kind enough to interview me about Hereville. Amazingly, Hereville was the first graphic novel the interviewer had ever read, but that didn’t stop her from asking good question… Continue reading →

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Sintel

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Ampersand

A fourteen minute computer-animated short that I enjoyed. Interestingly, the filmmakers used open-source 3D software.
I should warn you that if you only like cute things, with no sad side to the story, then do not watch this video. Continue reading →

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Kirkus Reviews Loves Hereville! “Undoubtedly one of the cleverest graphic novels of the year”

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Ampersand

In a starred review (“A star is assigned to books of unusual merit”), Kirkus Reviews writes: Like all 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls, ebullient Mirka must face a six-armed troll to avoid becoming his dinner and obtain a dragon-slaying sword–wait, what? This utterly ingenious graphic novel spins the darling yarn of Mirka, who finds tasks like […] Continue reading →

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Nothing makes my day more than being mentioned in the same sentence as Eisner

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Ampersand

A brief but extremely kind write-up about “Hereville” at CultureMob.com: One look at the original story (which can be accessed at Hereville.com) reveals the creator’s influence by the late great Will Eisner, with whom he trained during his tenure at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He explores similar themes of Judaism and […] Continue reading →

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This Week’s Cartoon: “The Swing Voter Memory Hole”

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Jen Sorensen

It wasn’t very long ago that Republican candidates were shy about trumpeting their party affiliation. You had to look carefully at the fine print on their mailers to figure it out, if it was there at all. The Bush administration had pretty much flushed America down the cosmic toilet, and most people knew it. But […] Continue reading →

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Barry is Interviewed on Diamond Bookshelf

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Ampersand

Diamond is the single largest (very nearly the only) distributor serving comic book stores in the USA and Canada, so I was very pleased when Diamond Bookshelf interviewed me about Hereville. There don’t seem to be a lot of books out there devoted to troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls. What was the inspiration for Hereville? […] Continue reading →

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Great Short Animated Film — “Out of Sight”

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Ampersand

This short, from three recent graduates of the National Taiwan University of Arts, is lovely. I also like the way the little girl is depicted — she’s a bit frightened at first, but she’s not at all depicted as helpless or incapable. Continue reading →

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“Hereville” sighted in a bookstore! Photographic evidence!

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ampersand

UPDATE 3: Whoops, it’s not The Bookery! My bad — I’ve been to Ithaca only a few times, and I got the names confused. The bookstore that may have been the first in the nation to sell a copy of Hereville (and was certainly the first to sell one to my sister!) is BUFFALO STREET […] Continue reading →

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This Week’s Cartoon: “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the Senate”

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Jen Sorensen

In an unsurprising burst of ineffectiveness, the Senate failed to break a conservative filibuster against ending the ban on gays in the military. The Senator in the last panel is loosely modeled on Republican Susan Collins of Maine, who provided the death blow. Collins said she supported a repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” but […] Continue reading →

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