Here’s a comic I did for Ohio Schools Magazine this month. It’s a slight reworking of a comic I did a few years ago.
Comics and Christmas have always gone together in my mind ever since I received The Essential Calvin & Hobbes as a gift many moons ago. I was so excited to be able to something in this vein.
Hello everyone. Sorry updates have been sporadic of late… but here’s a little comic about Christmas.
I will be finishing up the Minneapolis comics sometime next week, promise!
So what you see here is a comic I drew for a co-worker as a surprise for her fiancé. A fun little one-off and a nice way to get to know a little bit about her!
Hell’s Kitchen is an American-style restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. We left before the live music started but it was good eats.
Elizabeth Wein is an author I occasionally wax rhapsodic about here. You should read her books.
Day 2 of my trip to Minneapolis to the NCTE convention… even though this is the third comic page.
Richard McGuire’s Here truly is mind-blowing. He’s been working on it for a long time but I had never heard of it before this weekend.
Craig Thompson on the other hand is one of my favorite cartoonists. If you haven’t read Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Habibi, or most recently, Space Dumplins, get on that. Also you can check out some of the cool doodles he did in our books at CXC this past fall.
Cece Bell wrote the tremendous graphic novel El Deafo.
Ms. Clinton was at the NCTE convention to talk about her new book It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! and like I said, she’s a great public speaker… especially through the dreaded “Q&A” portion of the event which is often the kiss of death for even the most informed and literate of people. I suppose it helped that the assembled crowd was composed mostly of English teachers, which seemed to smarten the average Q&A question up by about 40%.
Burch, the restaurant where we had dinner was amazing. Highly recommended.
For the next few days, I’m going to be doing some comics about my trip to Minneapolis, visiting the National Council of Teachers of English convention, and winning one of Penguin Random House’s Teacher Awards for Literacy.
I know these aren’t exactly the kinds of comics I normally do about being a teacher – think about them as being “teacher adjacent” if it makes you feel better.
Also, these comics are taking a HUGE amount of time to produce so I might miss a day or two. I hope they’ll be worth it in the long run!
Teachable Moments 