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Greetings from Maui

Posted by hutchowen on July 29, 2009

breakfastsAlright, this is where I gush like everyone else. Nothing original here. Leela and I have just returned from Maui where we taught in Makawao for 10 days and ravenously visited the rest of the island in our free time.

It’s paradise. Maui’s the first place for which I want to drag out that term, throw it around and see if it fits. It does.

The place is so full of life, of green and moisture and ocean and streams and lovely birds and wild-looking delicious fruits. It’s got wild chickens (see right (or is that one some sort of pheasant?)), lovely people, a defunct volcano (2 actually), hundreds of microclimates (including types of desert, tundra, rainforest, etc.), great coffee, silence, color, a love of art, the 4th best observatory on the planet (off-limits to the public), ranching, rodeos, plein-air art festivals, hula, keiki, craters, cattle, sugar cane everywhere, mangoes to die for, dragon fruit, glorious avocados,folk-art, giant trees, zen monks, taiko, pork-in-the-dirt, spam sushi, surfer car rental places, a long and fascinating history and tropical fish that will basically swim up to your cheek and kiss you in your pores, as if you needed one more reason to begin sobbing from the beauty of it all.

And the people are wonderful.

Hello to the fabulous Kelly McHugh, Caroline who runs the Hui, her wild and hugely interesting family, and to Maggie, Nathalie (Yay Nathalie), Keri, Miguel and Miguel, Lana, all the great students and the many others I’ve no doubt forgotten or whose names I can’t spell. I doubt anyone on Maui is so gauche as to google alert their own name, but in case Maggie Sutrov is listening, hello Maggie! Here is a link of her in the act painting her most recent splendid view of the island. (See bottom.)

And Travis Fristoe, if you go to Maui, you have a coffee waiting for you at HAZ BEANZ in Pai’a. They’re only open 7am – 1 pm so go early and then go sit with the sleepy dog next door.

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Review in The Comics Journal 298

Posted by hutchowen on June 26, 2009

I reviewed Ron Rege’s AGAINST PAIN in the latest Comics Journal, #298.

For complicated reasons, what they printed was an unedited draft, as I hadn’t finished writing it. Nonetheless, it has the basics of what I wanted to say. So do the opposite of what Jeff Bridges says in “The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go“, and don’t read it for my style!

(He implores a character to read his Joycean epic “for his style, man!” It’s a charming, stupid moment.)

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How To Say Everything Cartooning Blog

Posted by hutchowen on May 26, 2009

Currently setting up an intensive teaching/cartooning blog at http://www.howtosayeverything.net

It’s currently a mess of scaffolding and attempts at order, but some thoughts are getting in there.

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classes in the summer

Posted by hutchowen on April 28, 2009

HELLO WORLD,

Please see the SVA website for details about TWO continuing education classes I am teaching this summer, and one undergraduate class.

First, a solo class called a bit oddly, The Semiotics of Sequential Art: How Comics Rule. Monday evenings. This class will be about finding your voice, about following, focusing and articulating your idea in comix. I bring in tons of work to pour over, we begin with a number of quick exercises to get us going, then work on longer projects towards the goal of a single large-scale piece. It’s always a good class.
Next is the SUMMER INDEPENDENT STUDY SEMINAR that I am co-teaching with Lauren Weinstein. This class, begun last semester by Matt Madden was a great success, and Lauren and I will continue it this summer, helping self-motivated students develop and finalize their longer projects.

Above- if kids these days really really cared about vampires, there’d be a run on nosferatu dvds…

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ALI’S HOUSE and you

Posted by hutchowen on February 3, 2009

So Margo and I are now gearing up to launch ALI’S HOUSE! Target date: May 3.

We could use your help- write your local daily newspaper editor, tell them you hear there is a new strip that you would like to read, called Ali’s House. Tell them the truth- you’re interested in our work, you’re interested in the project, in the culture of the strip, whatever,  just tell them you want to read it.

Below are a few favorites as teasers.

Thanks!

Tom and Margo

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KGB Comix Reading

Posted by hutchowen on December 4, 2008

Sarah at KGB ReadingWell, this year’s Post-Thanksgiving KGB Reading was a giant success, standing room only, IF THAT. We turned people away, the readers were mere inches from the audience. Here’s two photos, of Sarah Glidden and Matthew Thurber reading. With the depression looming, this will be a night we all remember as one of the best in recent years. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!

Matthew Thurber at KGB

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Tom Hart at Comic Book Club, Nov 18

Posted by hutchowen on November 13, 2008

Tom Hart, Sarah Glidden and John Kirshbaum will be chatting it up at the Comic Book Club at the PIT theater.

Let’s listen to Brian Heater at The Daily Crosshatch:

Hey all, I’ve extremely excited to announce that we’ve been tapped by our pals at the People’s Improv Theater to curate Comic Book Club. Next Tuesday I’ll be joining the show’s hosts, Alex, Pete and Justin, alongside Cross Hatch favorites Tom Hart, Sarah Glidden, and John Kerschbaum.

Hart is best known for his long-running strip, Hutch Owen, which follows the misadventures of the titular knit capped rabble-rouser. The strip is currently syndicated both online through Hart’s site and in the Boston and New York editions of the daily Metro paper. Hart has also been teaching cartooning at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts for more than a half-dozen years.

Sarah Glidden recently picked up a “Promising New Talent” Ignatz Award for her mini, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less. She also runs the site SmallNoises.com, named for her three-issue-long diary mini.

John Kerschbaum’s debut graphic novel, Petey & Pussy was recently released on Fantagraphics. The publisher calls it “Looney Tunes Meets Luis Bunuel,” and really, were at a loss to come up with a more apt description.

And Brian Heater, of course, is probably best known for being the belching champion of his boy scout camp in 6th grade.

The show is Tuesday the 18th at the People’s Improv Theater (154 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001). It starts at 8:00 PM and costs $5. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s easily one of the top five live comedic comic book talk shows currently running in midtown Manhattan. For more info, check out the Comic Book Club site.

Oh, and in addition to the usual Midtown Comics gift certificate, we’ll be tossing in one of those snazzy Daily Cross Hatch shirts for one lucky trivia winner.

Oh, and if it works out this time, maybe they actually let us do it again. See you guys on Tuesday!

–Brian H.

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Show coming up at 92Y Tribeca

Posted by hutchowen on October 3, 2008

The 92Y in New York City is opening a hip, beautiful new space in Tribeca and are christening their space with a show of their three cartooning teachers: Lauren Weinstein, Matthew Thurber and Tom Hart

Opening reception: Saturday October 25, 2008

Click here for more details

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A couple Tom Hart links

Posted by hutchowen on September 30, 2008

Tom Hart links:
From Tom Spurgeon at the Comics Reporter:
“People forget how amazing that burst of early ’90s Tom Hart minis was, and they still hold up as perfect little comic books…”

Read that in his great run-down of what he calls “The 50 Things That Every Comics Collection Truly Needs”

From Seth Kushner, a photograph, cropped and shrunk above. Click through to read and see more.

Lastly, I’ll be moderating a discussion with Matt Madden and Jessica Abel at Housing Works in NYC.
Creating a Graphic Novel: Matt Madden and Jessica Abel discuss their working methods

Wednesday, October 1

7 pm

And what the heck- another sneak peek at Ali’s House by Margo Dabaie and me, coming soon.

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Hutch Owen samples at Flickr

Posted by hutchowen on September 29, 2008

Posted a bunch of Hutch Owen comic strip samples at Flickr. I’m overwhelmed with delight by this image:

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