Bill Cheng's Blog, page 41
March 9, 2014
Hey all! I’ll be on the Tethered by Letters forum all...
Hey all! I’ll be on the Tethered by Letters forum all next week answering questions. So go ahead, do your worst!
March 8, 2014
wordbookstores:
There were enough folks at the Bound By Chance...
There were enough folks at the Bound By Chance event today at the Ace Hotel that Jenn now has a bruise on the base of her palm from all the stapling. Attendees rolled the dice, collected their stories, and walked away with a one-of-a-kind zine.*
Huge amounts of praise and thanks are owed to the amazing authors who donated their creative powers to this crazy endeavor. Thank you from our literature-loving hearts to: Bill Cheng, Myke Cole, Nick Douglas, Chad Felix, Rachel Fershleiser, Roxane Gay, Chelsea Hodson, Kat Howard, Edan Lepucki, Thomas Page McBee, Sarah McCarry, Dolan Morgan, Travis J Nichols, Raj Parameswaran, Danniel Schoonebeek, and Emma Straub.
*If you missed it, you’ve got ONE MORE CHANCE. We’ve got a special few set aside for the first 7 attendees at our Brooklyn store’s 7th anniversary reading this Friday, 3/14!
wordbookstores:
You could be part of Bound By Chance! Submit a...
You could be part of Bound By Chance! Submit a piece following the below guidelines by 5pm tomorrow, Wednesday March 5, and you could be featured in a zine along with: Bill Cheng, Myke Cole, Rachel Fershleiser, Roxane Gay, Chelsea Hodson, Edan Lepucki, Thomas Page McBee, Sarah McCarry, Dolan Morgan, Travis J Nichols, Rajesh Parameswaran, Danniel Schoonebeek, and Emma Straub.
Pieces should be submitted to jenn at wordbookstores.com, and follow the below guidelines:
No longer than 450 words
Must be written in the second person
Must start with “you” entering a room
Must end with “you” leaving a roomAnd regardless of whether or not you’ve written and submitted anything, you should definitely come out!
See you there!
Hey I have a bunch of stuff on sale on Gumroad
I draw comic books and write novels and just all sorts of things!
I HAVE TAKEN A FLYER INTO THE FUTURE by finally making a bunch of comic books available on Gumroad, y’all! You can get them in cheap, easy-read PDF format, or (in pretty limited quantity for now) via print editions, for some extra bux.
Currently I’ve got the two big MWHF print collections, the first BAD MOTHER book, and Diary of a Ghost Girl. The first MWHF book has new scans of some old strips, including the sometimes elusive watercolor strips from 2005, and the Bad Mother one is in fancy high-res color so you can see all the dumb jokes in the backgrounds finally
Please help to enable my life!
danchaon:
Yesterday in class we talked about Pareidolia and...
Yesterday in class we talked about Pareidolia and Visual Puns.
Then we did a drawing jam.
1. We divided a page into 4 panels.
2. One student drew an object in the first panel and passed the page on.
3. The second student drew an image that “echoed” the first one, then passed it to a third, and then a fourth….
4. The fifth student added captions or word balloons.
5. Some of these were pretty funny/disturbing.
thenearsightedmonkey:
ANNOUNCEMENT!!! BIG HONKING...
ANNOUNCEMENT!!! BIG HONKING ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Do you want to go to France this summer and be in a writing workshop taught by Dan Chaon and Lynda Barry ? They’ve been working together to develop a way of teaching writing that is a BLAST! Lynda Barry says:
"This class is about a kind of writing you may not know you’re good at. It has a lot in common with making visual art. It’s based on seeing, but it’s the mind’s eye kind. The kind that happens during a flood of memory; unwilled, vivid, easily described. A place you’re suddenly ‘in’.
We’ll use handwriting, simple drawings, unexpected imagery and a specific way of keeping a notebook to help us write both fiction and autobiographical stories and to track and identify the images that keep coming up in our work, a kind of writing that helps notice how and when these images show up in our day-to-day lives, gives us an understanding of our history with them and just where they may be trying to take us.
Becoming accustomed to a kind of spontaneous image-based writing can help us tremendously in writing both autobiography and fiction along with other writing tasks like artist statements, response papers, project descriptions, reports, reviews, etc. All you’ll need is a pen, a composition notebook, a pile of candy, and your two bare hands.”
She also says: “I love LOVE teaching with Dan Chaon. He is a genius writer and a genius teacher.”
FOR APPLICATIONS AND MORE INFO: blogs.butler.edu/chamonix
Dan Chaon teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.
Lynda Barry teaches writing and picture-making at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
theparisreview:
“If we as a society and culture are going to...
“If we as a society and culture are going to talk about war seriously, we need a more nuanced discussion. We need to think about how poor foreign policy plays out—how it’s experienced by those who exact it and those who are affected by it.”
An interview with Phil Klay on transcending the archetypes of war.
March 7, 2014
danchaon:
Students in Dan Chaon’s Graphic Narrative class were...
Students in Dan Chaon’s Graphic Narrative class were asked to adapt poems into comics. Here are some of them:
"Living" by Denise Levertov, adapted by Tom Kearney
"Magnolia Basin" by Wang Wei, adapted by Drew Eident
March 6, 2014
danchaon:
Students in Dan Chaon’s Graphic Narrative class were...
Students in Dan Chaon’s Graphic Narrative class were asked to adapt poems into comics. Here are some of them:
"Valediction" by Sherman Alexie, adapted by Jessica Mikenas
