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Process: Drawing a Panel of Hereville

I drew Hereville on my computer, using a Cintiq tablet, which is a kind of interactive pen-on-screen tool that I couldn’t possibly live without. The software I use is Photoshop CS4. I used to draw with CS2, but I upgraded to CS4 because it lets you rotate an image while you work on it. Okay, […] Continue reading

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Since Dr. Laura Can’t Give Advice To Black People Without Being A Racist Twit, We’ll Give It A Shot

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I would have written an angry rant about Dr. Laura’s crazypants meltdown on air in which she just enjoyed saying the word nigger so much she had to say it about a dozen times while telling a black, female caller that she was hypersensitive, except I keep getting the feeling that a lot of this […]

Since Dr. Laura Can’t Give Advice To Black People Without Being A Racist Twit, We’ll Give It A Shot — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman

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Jane Yolen Praises Hereville!

A very nice recommendation from a very admired writer. Thank you, Ms. Yolen! “An unusual eleven-year-old orthodox Jewish girl with more chutzpa than Yentl seeks a magic sword, and has an epic battle with a troll, as author/illustrator Barry Deutsch offers up a mitzvah–a graphic novel which has joy, style, lots of Yiddishkeit, adventure, and […] Continue reading

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A couple more Hereville sketches

Back when I was selling the self-published comic book of Hereville, folks sometimes paid extra for their comic in order to have me do a drawing on their title page. (A similar offer is now available for folks who preorder the hardcover book). Sometimes these sketches would be requests, other times I’d just choose a […] Continue reading

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Hereville Flip-Though Video

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Remember, Hereville is now available for pre-order. (Yes, you’ll be hearing me say that a lot in the next two months. :-P )
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Hereville Gets Starred Review In Publishers Weekly!

Woo-hoo! Publishers Weekly, August 2, 2010 Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword Spunky Mirka wants to be a dragon-slayer, but everyone in the small Orthodox Jewish community of Hereville is against it. When a witch and a talking pig turn up in the woods near home, Mirka can’t help getting involved, much to the dismay […] Continue reading

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On Being A Considerate Parent

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So there’s this post on Feministe about “shorter, cuter, more honest people”. I have a lot of issues with this post. A lot. Starting with the fact that the author wants to make this a childfree vs. parent issue. Then there’s a little jab at American cultural values, and we round it out with this […]

On Being A Considerate Parent — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman

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Whitewashing: Stealing our stories from real life to fiction.

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Just to build on that lovely post below by the original Angry Black Woman: Can the less knowledgeable among us netizens FINALLY get it through their skulls that the argument that anime characters are white is WRONG like a very wrong thing now? Please? I mean, seriously?
via: racebending:
Are anime characters caucasian or japanese

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Whitewashing: Stealing our stories from real life to fiction. — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman

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Why you should not see “The Last Airbender” movie, but watch the cartoon instead.

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Almost a year ago, I did this post The People and their cultures: POC and the movies And now, on the eve of the gut-churning insult in every way that is the movie adaptation of The Last Airbender, I come again. Doubtless, you have seen the commercials. Aren’t the CGI effects pretty? And its […]

Why you should not see “The Last Airbender” movie, but watch the cartoon instead. — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman

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Constructive Ways Of Administering The Cluebat

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The next time you’re in a situation where a person says something racist and then says “But I’m not racist why would you say I’m racist?” don’t even bother trying to talk them down from the failtree. Just point them at this clip from VH1′s Bad Girl’s Club and walk away for a little while. If they […]

Constructive Ways Of Administering The Cluebat — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman

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