31 October 2011

How Picture Books (and Life) Used to Be

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Courtesy of the Albert Whitman blog, a page from Time to Eat: A Picture Book of Foods , by Mame Dentler and Frank Fenner, Jr., published in ...
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30 October 2011

Finishing New Teen Titans: Games a Bit Hastily?

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The last few weekly Robin installments have celebrated the art of George Pérez in New Teen Titans: Games . There are many more examples to...
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29 October 2011

Feeling Close to My Remote

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I spent the day at the Southern New England SCBWI ’s ENCORE session, featuring well-reviewed presentations from the past year.  Although I ...
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28 October 2011

Children’s Literature Fellowships from the AAS

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The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester has announced two new short-term fellowships for the study of early American children’s litera...
27 October 2011

Eloise et al.: “They were never children’s books”

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At Graphic Novel Reporter , of all places, illustrator Hilary Knight talked about how he co-created the Eloise books with song-and-dance wo...
26 October 2011

A Peek Inside Minimum Paige

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At Robot 6, local comics super-journalist Brigid Alverson interviewed Ryan Mita about the Minimum Paige comics anthology that he edited f...
25 October 2011

The Nine

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L. Frank Baum created the Nine Tiny Piglets in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz , and they’re now hopping about in the Marvel Comics adaptation...
24 October 2011

Weekly Robin Extra: More Pérez Panels

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Here’s another example of striking design from George Pérez in New Teen Titans: Games . Just before this sequence, the Titans have learned...
23 October 2011

Fight at the Guggenheim Museum

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Here’s a page from New Teen Titans: Games with visuals I found particularly striking. In this scene, George Pérez shows Joey (Jericho) Wil...
22 October 2011

Ruth Berman’s Quest for Bradamant

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I’m pleased to post this interview with Ruth Berman, author of Bradamant’s Quest . This is a new novel about an old character, originally cr...