22 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 3

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Yesterday’s Boston Globe praised the approach of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons” online exhibit:...
17 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 2

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With the next set of pictures for “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons,” we got into the political part of his career. And the three cartoonist...
15 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 1

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Here’s commentary on the “Thomas Nast: A Life in Pictures” web exhibit and how the pictures came together. The exhibit starts with a portr...
09 October 2020

Taking Thomas Nast’s Life Online

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It was disappointing to learn, as I described recently , that the cartoon biography of Thomas Nast I’d worked on since this spring would not...
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06 October 2020

Making Space for Thomas Nast

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Early this year, folks at the Massachusetts Historical Society contacted me and colleagues in the Boston Comics Roundtable and invited us ...
30 September 2020

Grown Up with Percy Jackson

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Back in 2006, just a few months after starting this blog, I commented on Rick Riordan’s first Percy Jackson novel. I wasn’t a big fan. I...
27 September 2020

More on Christie and Wodehouse

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After posting about the possible influence of P. G. Wodehouse on Agatha Christie, I got a hold of Christie’s autobiography to see if it h...
22 September 2020

Stillwater Runs 3-D

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I actually made a little noise in my throat when I saw how animators are interpreting Jon J. Muth’s Zen Shorts watercolor art for a telev...
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16 September 2020

Coming Over the Wire

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KidLit411 is featuring an interview with my writing colleague Lisa Robinson about her new picture book Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope D...
15 September 2020

Turning Ojo into Woot

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A recent online discussion about the relative ages of L. Frank Baum’s young male protagonists took me back almost twenty years to when Ozian...