Amelia Earhart is not impressed.
Made this s’morning after a warm-up from a photo that I saved some months ago and seem to have lost the source for; several minutes of intense googling did not scare it up so lost it shall remain.
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It’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENT WEEK at Symbolia HQ.
Today, we want you to meet Ben Chabala, Symbolia’s first Digital Fellow. Ben is going to be working with us over the summer on a couple of really exciting projects, including our first-ever fiction issue (more on that soon!). We’re thrilled to have someone with a strong background in comics culture and events organizing on our team. Read more about Ben below, and please join us in giving him a huge welcome!
Ben Chabala is a recent graduate of Michigan State University’s Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing Masters Program and he’s been working with comics since 2009. Ben interned for Marvel Comics right out of college and later took a position as a Marvel.com freelancer, where he writes about awesome Marvel comics and video games.
Ben worked alongside Kelly Roman and Michael DeWeese to help edit and publicize their debut graphic novel, The Art of War, out from HarperPerennial in 2012. He has talked about the Hulk and digital comics at numerous academic conferences and is the panel coordinator for the annual MSU Comics Forum. Ben also has a blog, I Speak Comics, where he interviews digital comics creators, writes about fighting video games, and charts the changing face of comics in digital spaces.
Can’t wait to start working more with Ben!
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Dudes and dudettes, we are so excited: Symbolia is now available on Kindle Fire.
The Kindle Fire editions of Symbolia feature a panel-by-panel reading experience that makes you a part of the story. We think it’s pretty slick.
Don’t delay! Here’s what’s available today:
- How We Survive: Our double-sized preview edition features stories on Zambian rock stars, California’s Salton Sea, theories of evolution from the Lower Congo River, and more. This issue is free and available here.
- We Don’t Belong: Learn firsthand about the impact of deportation from a family torn apart, discover the weird, rebellious, and conspiratorial world of third party politics in the United States, and meet a Dalit Christian pastor fighting for equality in India. Available here.
- The Mating Ritual: What happens when love meets science? Insect organs, love robots and non-traditional relationships populate this issue of Symbolia. Available here.
From here on out, every single issue of Symbolia will be published on iPad, via PDF, and on Kindle Fire. This is part of our long-term expansion strategy, which includes an Android app this summer.
Single issues are available at Amazon.com for $2.99 a pop. Even better: You can still get our preview issue, How We Survive, for free. Get on over there and get downloading. Your support of Symbolia supports a new breed of multimedia storytelling. Thank you for being a part of our community!
Note: If you currently have a PDF subscription and would like to transfer over to Kindle Fire, please email admin@symboliamag.com. We’re happy to make the change.
You can read Symbolia on the Kindle Fire now! We’re getting all up on your devices.
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This is based on a scene in “The Recognitions” by William Gaddis. I got real into the way he described Benny as “leaving the cone of light empty, to east and the city where the flood caught him and the ebb bore him away, as though from an empty beach and no trace on it at the feet of the figure pausing for an instant to look at the tide’s recession and then going on, gathering driftwood.”
There were a lot of experiments in this illustration, which was good! I don’t do much with cock-eyed camera angles or environmental lighting, and it was fun to try. It’s not exactly right, but it’s time to move on.
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cardigan covetry
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I am also in the park.
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Here are some drawings I made at Moxie Con, including some of my favorite sentiments from my favorite speakers. Sometimes it’s easy to get really worked up in the moment and the atmosphere at a conference, but Ann Friedman, Elle Luna, Lisa Congdon, and Susan Betteridge all had a lot of things to say I want to keep thinking about for a long time, and this post is partly a reminder to keep remembering.
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John Cleese - “A Lecture on Creativity”
John Cleese lectures on the topic of creativity.
Per Back to Work #62: Cultural Molasses.
Seriously: this wonderful video has had a huge impact on how I think about creativity. For years.
Unfortunately, the copy I’ve had and repeatedly enjoyed “fell off the back of a truck,” so I had no way to share it.
Now, (via danforth), I can finally share and highly recommend it.
And, I really, really do encourage you to watch. Really. All the way through. It’s just terrific.
OMG this lecture. Everybody go home.
Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating.
I’d only seen this one, which I quoted in STEAL: “We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we don’t get them from our laptops.”
UPDATE: they took this down from Vimeo, but it’s over here for now.
So, so great.
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He’s ready to attack this day.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
