AAN News
Robert Newman Highlights Some 'Mind-Blowing' Flagpole Coversnew
Last month, Robert Newman Design took a trip back through the Village Voice's cover archive to highlight some great design work; now he's trained his spotlight on Athens, Ga., alt-weekly Flagpole in a new collection posted to his Facebook page. "The Flagpole cover is a visual hybrid somewhere between the New Yorker and Seattle's The Stranger," Newman writes. "Flagpole's choice of illustrations (and the occasional photo) embrace a wide array of styles, but they are all cool."
Robert Newman Design on Facebook |
10-23-2009 10:30 am |
Industry News
AAN West and Web Publishing Conferences Return This Winter
After a one-year absence, both AAN West and the Web Publishing Conference are slated to return to the Bay Area this winter. The Web Publishing Conference will begin with a social event on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 27, and will end on the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 29. AAN West will begin that afternoon in Berkeley, with programming continuing all day on Saturday, Jan. 30.
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AAN |
10-13-2009 10:07 am |
Association News
Seven Days Redesigns Print Product, Goes With 'Short Tab' Formatnew
"This new, magazine-style iteration is the result of planning that predates the current recession," the paper says in a quick intro to the new design. The new format will be smaller, not folded and has the ability to have color on any page. The paper says that as a result of the switch, they are also saving a little money, which has allowed them to hire a third full-time staff writer. Seven Days also put together the video below to help explain the changes.
Seven Days |
10-09-2009 1:31 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Cartoonists Sound Off About the Changing Industrynew
"This art form that I fell in love with 20 years ago is on its hospital bed," Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, tells Extra! in a piece on how the alt-weekly industry's struggles have affected alt-cartoonists. Other prominent cartoonists, like Lloyd Dangle, Jen Sorensen and Alison Bechdel, weigh in on losing clients, the digital transformation and what comes next. "We're a little like op-ed columnists; people wouldn't expect someone like Paul Krugman to sell T-shirts to survive and pay for his column," Sorensen says. "The idea that content should be free is definitely threatening our entire genre." MORE CARTOONING NEWS: Perkins talks to the New Haven Advocate about his new book, Pearl Jam and the "not so bright" future of his craft.
Extra! |
10-08-2009 2:12 pm |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Unveils Redesigned Print Productnew
"The project has been both the most benign undertaking of the year and the most important," Weekly editor Rachael Daigle writes, "as an industrywide slump forced staffing changes while we simultaneously rolled out a new website, inaugurated first-ever supplements, and then radically changed Best of Boise." She says "the new design represents a maturity" in the nearly-18-year-old alt-weekly.
Boise Weekly |
10-07-2009 10:34 am |
Industry News
Ted Rall Releases New Graphic Memoirnew
Ted Rall has teamed up with Pablo G. Callejo for The Year of Loving Dangerously, which is based on Rall's experience getting arrested, dumped, expelled and evicted in New York City in 1984. It's Rall's first collaborative effort, and it hits stores next month. "Year is an allegory for the economic collapse, showcasing what can happen to anyone, even a white Ivy-educated male, who suffers a run of bad luck," Rall writes. "It's also a shot across the bow of other male graphic artists who wallow in self-pity and alienation." The Washington Post's Michael Cavna says the book is "a little bit Midnight Cowboy in tone, and part The Graduate."
Rall.com |
10-06-2009 10:28 am |
Industry News
Called the 'Worst' by GLAAD, Westword Cartoonist Kenny Be Strikes Backnew
In July, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) placed Be and Westword on the "worst" section of its monthly Best and Worst of National News for a cartoon that used the term "Gear Fags" to describe camping enthusiasts who spend a lot of money on ridiculous gear. Be responds -- in hilarious fashion -- with this week's cover story, which points out that more than one celebrity who has received GLAAD Media Awards has also used the word the group apparently found so offensive. "If GLAAD claims that their mission is to 'prevent defamation' and to 'ensure accuracy and fairness for LGBT people in the media,' then why are they fawning over these fearless funny women, yet censoring me like some backwoods LGBT bigot?," he wonders. "Maybe if I had a vagina and a cable TV sitcom, I too would be a red-carpet-worthy GLAAD icon."
Westword |
10-02-2009 1:37 pm |
Industry News
Nevada Alt-Weeklies Win Big in State Press Contestnew
Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Weekly and the Reno News & Review took home a total of 74 awards at the annual Better Newspaper Contest put on by the Nevada Press Association. CityLife won 34 awards, with 16 first-place finishes; the News & Review won 28 awards, including 11 firsts; and the Weekly won 12 awards, four of which were first-place.
Nevada Press Association |
09-25-2009 9:42 am |
Honors & Achievements
What I've Been Tweeting [members only]
Jon Whiten |
09-24-2009 2:23 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
Mikhaela Reid Elected VP of Editorial Cartoonists' Associationnew
Reid, whose "The Boiling Point" comic appears in Metro Times and other AAN member papers, has been elected Vice President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Board of Directors. Ted Rall, who was elected president last year, will move into the Immediate Past President role, while V.C. Rogers, the cartoonist at North Carolina's Independent Weekly, remains the group's Secretary-Treasurer.
American Association of Editorial Cartoonists |
09-23-2009 1:01 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Design & Production
Robert Newman Goes a Little Deeper into Village Voice Cover Archivenew
Last week, we told you about the collection of Village Voice covers posted in Facebook galleries by Robert Newman Design. Over the weekend, he added some even older covers from the 70s and 80s, featuring the work of design luminaries like Milton Glaser, George Delmerico and Michael Grossman. The New York Times' David Carr says "it's a walk down memory lane for people who otherwise might have some trouble remembering those good old days."
The New York Times |
09-22-2009 9:59 am |
Industry News
Tom Tomorrow Pens His First Children's Book
Promo materials say The Very Silly Mayor uses "humor and social commentary to teach children to trust their own judgment, even if other people might disagree with their views or make fun of them." The book, which is currently available in stores and at web retailers, is the product of Tom Tomorrow's own experience as a parent. "As the parent of a small child, you end up reading a lot of fairly awful story books at bedtime, and as someone whose livelihood is derived from a certain facility at combining words and pictures, the lure of trying to do better was eventually too strong to resist," he explained on his blog earlier this year. You can read more about the book at the Very Silly Mayor website.
AAN News |
09-21-2009 11:35 am |
Industry News
Robert Newman Design Showcases Years of Village Voice Covers
In a three-part Facebook photo album series, Robert Newman Design has posted a whole bunch of Voice covers and inside design pieces dating back to when Newman himself was at the paper in the early 90s. In addition to Newman, the photosets also feature design work from Florian Bachleda, Jennifer Gilman, Ted Keller and IvyLise Simones, as well as illustration work from a number of artists. Check them out here, here and here.
AAN News |
09-17-2009 11:47 am |
Industry News
Tom Tomorrow Designs Pearl Jam Album Covernew
The band's latest album, Backspacer, will be released on Sept. 20 with a nine-panel cover concept created and executed by Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins). The New York Times reports that the band's partnership with the alt-cartoonist came about "partly as a result of the transformations of their fields by new media, since the internet has wreaked the same havoc on newspapers as it has on the music industry," a point Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder expands on. "It used to be real simple," Vedder says. "Dan writes a strip, it gets in the paper, people read it, Dan gets paid. That's how we felt too: make records, people buy them at a record store, we tour, there you go. It's not that simple anymore." MORE: On his blog, Perkins has one small correction to the piece.
The New York Times |
09-09-2009 10:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Design & Production, Management
Tom Tomorrow is Back in The Village Voicenew
Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" returns to the Village Voice this week after a seven month absence. Tomorrow's comic was cut from all Village Voice Media papers -- along with all syndicated comics -- back in January. The strip is only returning to the Voice for now, but that may change in the coming months. "Altweekly cartooning overall has kind of been on the ropes for the past year or two, and any editor who takes a stand in support of the art form deserves profound thanks," Tom Tomorrow writes on his blog. "This is a first step, but it's a huge one in the right direction -- for me personally, of course, but with any luck, for other cartoonists as well."
The Village Voice |
09-02-2009 3:51 pm |
Industry News
